Islam, Slavery and Rape

[Xavier_Onassis]

You could if you wanted to, but based on your resistance to anything being done to protect us from these people you could stand on your head and it wouldn't make any difference.

And how, pray tell would I do that, supposing that I wanted to? Would I send flowers to Dick Cheney with the note "Keep it up, Dicky", or should I cuss out Fuad, Faisel and Farouk, down a the Kwik-E-Mart?

I could leave threatening notes on the windshields of cars in the lot of the Masjid down on NW 119th Street. I know an Iranian that is sort of a smarty pants. I could cuss him out, perhaps, but I think Homeland Security has checked him out rather thoroughly He  flies to Teheran once a year to see his parents.

The truth is, tThe odds are far greater of me being killed in traffic than in any terrorist attack.

I would rank being killed in a terrist attack about as likely as ebing hit by a chunk of "blue ice" from an airplane lavatory. It would be a more humiliating way to go, but my daughter could sue the airline's insurance co., which is probably more flush than any terrorist's carrier.

What I have done is to not work in tall and notorious buildings, I have stayed off the London Tube since 1982 and the Madrid Metro since 2000, and not serving in the military kept me out of the Pentagon. I don't thi9nk terrists actually are likely to harm anything where I might be in Miami.

I have never believed that standing on my head would make anyone safer. Perhaps you know something about this that I don't.

[Plane]

You could if you wanted to, but based on your resistance to anything being done to protect us from these people you could stand on your head and it wouldn't make any difference.



What I have done is to not work in tall and notorious buildings, I have stayed off the London Tube since 1982 and the Madrid Metro since 2000, and not serving in the military kept me out of the Pentagon. I don't thi9nk terrists actually are likely to harm anything where I might be in Miami.

So you are allowing this to shape your life?

[The_Professor]

Aren't you then living in Fear?

[Richpo64]

>>The truth is, tThe odds are far greater of me being killed in traffic than in any terrorist attack.<<

How typically liberal of you. Nothing matters unless it effects you directly. As for me, I consider the safety of ALL my fellow Americans. Even you.

[Xavier_Onassis]

How typically liberal of you. Nothing matters unless it effects you directly. As for me, I consider the safety of ALL my fellow Americans. Even you.

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I hardly think that saying that I , like all of my fellow Americans are more threatened by idiots on the highway than Muslin nutjobs is liberal or conservative. It is simply true. I try very hard to drive safely. I yield to dolts who cut in front of me, I follow at a good distance behind others, and I never blow my horn or flip the bird at others, as I think that this would trend to be unsafe.

I also stay out of really tall buildings, which is really easy to do here in So. Florida, otther than on the Beach.

I have noticed that after 9-11, the number of passenger deaths due to commercial airline accidents has plummetted to zero. This pretty much makes up for the 3000 lost in the WTC attacks, as in a normal year, we used to have several hundred die in commercial aviation accidents annually.

What are you doing to improve traffic safety? What was it again that I was supposed to do to prevent Muslim terrrorism? I reject the idea that standing on my head, or indeed, anyone standing on his/her head would make any difference. I doubt that even if I were to stand on YOUR head it would change a thing.

I was hoping you would say something worthwhile or constructive, but alas, all you seem to want to do is condemn "liberals".
Rush is turning you into a fool.

[Amianthus]

I have noticed that after 9-11, the number of passenger deaths due to commercial airline accidents has plummetted to zero. This pretty much makes up for the 3000 lost in the WTC attacks, as in a normal year, we used to have several hundred die in commercial aviation accidents annually.

They went up in 2003 and 2004.

And, BTW, there a number of years in the '90s where it was 0 or less than 10. And there was no group of 6 years which had a death toll in commercial accidents totaling 3,000.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Eventually, I believe that improved commercial airline safety will result in 3000 fewer people dying. True, they will not be the same people as died inthe WTC.  We could easily prevent 3000 in five years or fewer with improved traffic safety.

3000 is not a lot of people in a population of 300,000,000. I don't think there will likely be another attack that would kill so many here in the US, anyway.

[Amianthus]

Eventually, I believe that improved commercial airline safety will result in 3000 fewer people dying.

Yeah, but it's gonna take a while.

In the 4 years prior to 2001, there were 95 fatalities on commercial airline carriers. In the 4 years after 2001, there were 48 fatalities on commercial airline carriers. So, the savings would seem to be about 45 every 4 years, at the current time. 2006 seems to be a fluke, there were 47 in that year alone.

Basically, any years where there are 100+ fatalities on commercial airline carriers there was a major incident, such as 9/11.

[Richpo64]

>>I hardly think that saying that I , like all of my fellow Americans are more threatened by idiots on the highway than Muslin nutjobs is liberal or conservative.<<

I realize you hardly think, but that doesn't excuse you.

What XO is exibiting here is one of the classic selfdelusions of the left. We don't have to worry about terrorism because nothing has happened since September 11, 2001. Because of this they want to dilute, or do away with the Patriot Act, wire tapping,  the FBI, and the CIA because they are no longer needed, when in fact these are the very reason XO and the far left believe there is no threat.

Hardly thinking is dangerous XO.