[Still catching up on my reading]
Matoko Kusanagi responds to Captain Ed:
capn ed: "I'm angry about the fact that a speech given by you has been manipulated by Muslims into rationales for their violence."Um, okay. But a little further west, in my neck of the woods, we don't poke the snake either. We use a shotgun. It works.me: I'm angry because his excellency (excellent at what? speechmaking? lol.) wasn't bright enough to see that his remarks are very easily manipulated into memetic weapons by the hardliner imams and shayks and local tyrants intent on deflecting criticism of their own regimes who are the real adversary.
We have a very profound saying out here in the West.
Don't poke the snake.
There's a lesson here.
Posted by Ken S at September 21, 2006 12:39 PM | TrackBack (0) |See, I've always preferred a sharp shovel. Saves more meat - and maybe sink for shoes (not boots, but shoes).
Posted by: KG at September 21, 2006 01:03 PMDoesn't have to be a long-gun!
Posted by: DirtCrashr at September 21, 2006 01:48 PMShovel, shot shells, .22s, it's really not critical to the main point.
I have, however, found that deer rifles are a tad overmuch.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at September 21, 2006 02:14 PMJust remember to decapitate it and bury the head. It's still venemous.
Posted by: Brian B at September 21, 2006 02:30 PMWell, you don't poke the snake if you happen to see it out in the wild. This one's in the house, though, and I'm not about to let it slither around the kids unmolested.
Posted by: John at September 21, 2006 04:34 PMAs a kid in India I saw snake charmers poke them all the time. Their usual MO was to them lose in the back yard and then came around the front door to gather them up again for a small "pest-control" fee.
Plus they're (the charmers) good luck (charmed, see?) so you just gotta. "Hey lady, ya got SNAKES!"
It's a bit discouraging how many people are running around with the "Don't say anything that will upset them" attitude.
Screw that noise, the muslim world needs to figure out that everybody else isn't going to roll over for them. And tip-toeing around their tender feelings isn't going to get the message across.
And a hoe works, too.
Posted by: Firehand at September 21, 2006 08:45 PM"We have a very profound saying out here in the West.
Don't poke the snake. "
Inference: Islam can be likened to a snake. Poisonous? Slippery? Caused the fall of man from his state of innocence?
Hmmm... I'm not sure that's quite what he wanted us to take away.
I prefer to use a landrover. The trick is to slam on the brakes and the opportune moment so that you lock the front wheels. Otherwise you can tend to roll right over it.
Posted by: The Pedant-General at September 22, 2006 01:56 AMHmmm... I'm not sure that's quite what he wanted us to take away.
I think he's a she, and she doesn't seem very bright.
Posted by: Angie Schultz at September 22, 2006 07:47 AMFrom a purely non-political view, I HATE snakes. I lived on Guam where there were 10,000 poisonous brown tree snakes per acre and there were NO birds. You can't count the bats because they are mammals. Did you also know they were not indiginous to Guam, them came in on the planes.
On the other hand, this does have some political coralaries, huh?
Posted by: Lemon Stand at September 22, 2006 09:25 AMIIRC, "Matoko Kusanagi" is the name of the main character from Ghost in the Shell (the website addy, "quantumghosts," is another big hint) - and Major Kusanagi is a she.
"Don't poke the snake" is good advice - but in this case, all His Holiness did is call it a snake. If the snake takes that ill, well, tough. (Besides, most snakes try to avoid being poked and will slither away.)
Personally, I'm tired of these mf'n snakes on this mf'n war...
Posted by: Nightfly at September 22, 2006 10:08 AM