"A bombing in Kenya on Tuesday killed 14 people including one American."

The religion of peace strikes again.

But.....but....but..... the Crusades!

That NYT article that was linked is inaccurate. "Note: Unpaid wages were estimated by taking annual federal salary data at each agency affected by the shutdown, and computing an average based on the number of business days since the shutdown began on Dec. 22, 2018"

Federal Employees get paid bi-weekly or semi-monthly. Pay is distributed a week prior to payday then sent to bank accounts a week later. Pay was distributed on 12/21/18 (prior to the shutdown) and all employees were paid on the 12/28/18.

@1 There were several centuries of colonialism and imperialism since the crusades

Your knowledge of history appears to be as current as your mode of thinking, i.e. fit for the middle ages

@2 Agreed!

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what has the West ever done for us?

(PS. Just don't mention the Almohad Caliphate, the Ottoman Caliphate, the Sokoto Caliphate, Sharifian Caliphate.)

I passed the challenge- I didn't laugh. However I teared up, mostly at the mom's reaction.

@1 Whataboutism champ.

"A shooting in Torrance, CA on January 4th killed 3 people, wounding 4 - all Americans."

"A shooting in Hurt, VA on January 4th killed 1 people, wounding 4 - all Americans."

"A shooting in Roswell, NM on January 6th wounds 4 - all Americans."

"A shooting in Phoenix, AZ on January 13th killed 3 people, wounding 2 - all Americans."

"A shooting in Jacksonville, FLA on January 16th killed 1, wounding 5 - all Americans."

The religion of Guns strikes again.

But.....but....but..... Muh Rights!

7

Why do you hate the constitution?

@4 HAHAHA The Islamic Caliphates had algebra, the triangular sail, the compass, indoor plumping, advanced medicine and education when most europeans still believed there were dwarves living in your stomach. We imported all that from the Arabs, dumbshit.

@8 Why are you a pedophile?

7

And seriously, comparing a terrorist attack to domestic criminal violence here? I suppose next you will compare the USS Cole bombing to a liquor store robbery in Watts?

10

I am not Ed Murray.

@11 And seriously, using a terrorist attack to foment religious bigotry? I suppose next you will compare the the crucifixion of christ to a Jewish banking conspiracy?

@12 You are still a pedophile. Clearly. I base this on exactly same sort of "reasoning" you utilized in your typical trolling straw man. So. Say what you want about my hatred for the constitution at least I'm not out raping children for kicks.

@15,
For one example, Iranian science is some of the most advanced in the world. They still make major breakthroughs despite the sanctions against them.

Mini-slumlord Bernie (who owns numerous cheap rental houses) only released one partial tax return - basically using the same logic as Trump: people wouldn't understand them. But like Trumps cult, Bernies cult simply wouldn't care that he also pays almost no taxes. True believers are like that.

@15,
From wikipedia's list of modern science contributions by Iranians:

Siavash Alamouti and Vahid Tarokh: invention of space–time block code
Moslem Bahadori: reported the first case of plasma cell granuloma of the lung.
Nader Engheta, inventor of "invisibility shield" (plasmonic cover) and research leader of the year 2006, Scientific American magazine, and winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1999) for "Fractional paradigm of classical electrodynamics"
Reza Ghadiri: invention of a self-organized replicating molecular system, for which he received 1998 Feynman prize
Maysam Ghovanloo: inventor of Tongue-Drive Wheelchair.
Alireza Mashaghi: made the first single-molecule observation of protein folding, for which he was named the Discoverer of the Year in 2017.
Karim Nayernia: discovery of spermatagonial stem cells
Afsaneh Rabiei: inventor of an ultra-strong and lightweight material, known as Composite metal foam|Composite Metal Foam (CMF).
Mohammad-Nabi Sarbolouki, invention of dendrosome
Ali Safaeinili: co-inventor of Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS)
Mehdi Vaez-Iravani: invention of shear force microscopy
Rouzbeh Yassini: inventor of the cable modem

"The Islamic Caliphates had algebra, the triangular sail, the compass,"

Hey, I didn't say civilization didn't start in the Mideast, it most certainly did. But it also stopped there first.

@15

Maybe we can start a GoFundMe to send some Seattle woman an anon-binaries to throw Slut Walk in Tahrir Square and enjoy the pleasures of one of the Mideast's more liberal societies?

Just for shits and giggles.

14

You are the one who mocked the 2nd Amendment. So now you wanna throw a tantrum for getting called on it.

Your name calling = teh faylz.

Somehow, I expected more from someone who calls themself professor.

Move along now, nothing to see here

Why is it always such a big deal that a few Americans were killed in some dangerous spot overseas? Who cares. A shitload of non-Americans died too. There is nothing special about Americans as opposed to other humans. How about reporting on how many people were killed by Americans instead?

@23 Excellent moral preening there.

@14. You accuse others of being trolls but does it make you the better person by spewing hateful insults?

@26: Back in those days, In those god-awful hot, sweaty, drunk, days in Philadelphia, the framers had no conception of such mass killings of Americas by Americans. So to say that it is inshrined by their words implies such a forethought, and is therefore not historically accurate.

“You people”

Where have I heard that before? Your racism is showing LimpSausage

You must be a tDump voter too!

Iran is generally Persian rather than Arab, Urgutha.

Not to take away from the achievement of the individual, but honestly not the fanciest people out there.

@29: Does it ever concern you that your retorts are too predicable?

@33 - so noted - I believe they were muskets.

@31,
The UAE is pretty fancy. Do a Google image search of it, they're drowning in wealth (and by "they" I of course mean the 1% there. Same as in the US).

Every country and people have their highlights and lowlights. Same in the US. For every Bill Gates or Carl Sagan, there's a whole slew of Joe six-pack and Cleetus the slack jawed yokel.

Yes Urgutha, I’m aware.

You were countering a comment regarding Arabs with remarks on the achievement of Iranian scientists, belying your lack of Orientalist study.

I’ve merely transferred at Dubai, before the new airport came in. I suppose I’ll spend time there one day, but for now getting a cup of SBC and wandering about for three hours will have to suffice.

Interesting tidbit - the “Persian Gulf” is referred to as the “Arabian Gulf” from the other side.

It’s hot.

@39,
I'm aware of Arabian and Persian history and although Iran is not technically an "Arab" country, its culture, ethnicity, religion, and values have a lot more in common with its Arabian neighbors than it does with the United States or any other "Western" country.

@15 was not-so-subtly saying that islamic countries (of which Iran is definitely one) are more concerned with "pederasty and violence" than innovation than "christian" countries, which is untrue.

But yes, I'd agree with you that my comment was clumsy and odd in using Iran as a proxy for an Arabian country.