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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/05/know-thy-enemy/#comment-24511</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Look, you didn&#039;t like the joke. That&#039;s fine.&lt;/p&gt;

I didn&#039;t laugh my ass off either, but neither did I inflate like an indignant puffer fish.

I spent some time looking around &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imao.us/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;that site,&lt;/a&gt; and I suspect you &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thoseshirts.com/images/imaogun600.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wouldn&#039;t like much of it.&lt;/a&gt; Political &quot;dead baby&quot; jokes.

From IMAO&#039;s &quot;About&quot; page:

&lt;blockquote&gt;IMAO (In My Arrogant Opinion) is a humorous blog started by me, Frank J., back on July 9th, 2002. It is a funny website that is mainly about politics because politics is funny. If you do not find this blog funny, then obviously you are reading it wrong because many other people find it funny. There may, in fact, be something wrong with you. You should have a doctor look at you to make sure it’s not fatal.

If you are not dying of a humor-inhibiting disease, then you should find much happiness from reading IMAO. A good place to start is the essay &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imao.us/docs/NukeTheMoon.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nuke the Moon&lt;/a&gt; which is one of IMAO’s most popular pieces. Then you can check out what’s on the front page which is updated multiple times daily by me or the other IMAO bloggers. You can also have fun looking through the archives (listed on the right sidebar) or Google search (left sidebar) for a particular topic. There’s so much humor on IMAO that it seems extremely stupid to offer it all for free, but lucky for you we are very stupid.
 
Have fun!&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Frank J. Fleming is listed in Wikipedia as an &quot;American columnist, author, and satirist.&quot; I suspect &lt;a href=&quot;http://pjmedia.com/blog/an-faq-on-christianity-for-the-unbeliever/?singlepage=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;from some of his writings&lt;/a&gt; that he has committed Christianity.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look, you didn&#8217;t like the joke. That&#8217;s fine.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t laugh my ass off either, but neither did I inflate like an indignant puffer fish.</p>
<p>I spent some time looking around <a href="http://www.imao.us/" rel="nofollow">that site,</a> and I suspect you <a href="http://www.thoseshirts.com/images/imaogun600.jpg" rel="nofollow">wouldn&#8217;t like much of it.</a> Political &#8220;dead baby&#8221; jokes.</p>
<p>From IMAO&#8217;s &#8220;About&#8221; page:</p>
<blockquote><p>IMAO (In My Arrogant Opinion) is a humorous blog started by me, Frank J., back on July 9th, 2002. It is a funny website that is mainly about politics because politics is funny. If you do not find this blog funny, then obviously you are reading it wrong because many other people find it funny. There may, in fact, be something wrong with you. You should have a doctor look at you to make sure it’s not fatal.</p>
<p>If you are not dying of a humor-inhibiting disease, then you should find much happiness from reading IMAO. A good place to start is the essay <a href="http://www.imao.us/docs/NukeTheMoon.htm" rel="nofollow">Nuke the Moon</a> which is one of IMAO’s most popular pieces. Then you can check out what’s on the front page which is updated multiple times daily by me or the other IMAO bloggers. You can also have fun looking through the archives (listed on the right sidebar) or Google search (left sidebar) for a particular topic. There’s so much humor on IMAO that it seems extremely stupid to offer it all for free, but lucky for you we are very stupid.</p>
<p>Have fun!</p></blockquote>
<p>Frank J. Fleming is listed in Wikipedia as an &#8220;American columnist, author, and satirist.&#8221; I suspect <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/an-faq-on-christianity-for-the-unbeliever/?singlepage=true" rel="nofollow">from some of his writings</a> that he has committed Christianity.</p>
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		<title>By: podrock</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/05/know-thy-enemy/#comment-24506</link>
		<dc:creator>podrock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 05:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The primary post, satire or not, was about violence towards a specific group of people for their political beliefs.

I pointed out the disconnect between a religion of love and that hate filled &quot;satire.&quot;

The ice is thin on both sides, Tom. Atlanta Olympics, Oklahoma City, Abortion clinic bombs, westboro church harassment, patriot movement, McCarthy&#039;s path of destruction....when was the last time a democrat dragged someone behind a truck because they were a different race?

We could go on all night, &#039;till the thread compromised the window in unsightly and unreadable ways, trading evidence of evil.

Python is funny. This was offensive.

It&#039;s too late in the day, and the thread perhaps, to keep explaining why. 

See you tomorrow.

Or maybe not. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The primary post, satire or not, was about violence towards a specific group of people for their political beliefs.</p>
<p>I pointed out the disconnect between a religion of love and that hate filled &#8220;satire.&#8221;</p>
<p>The ice is thin on both sides, Tom. Atlanta Olympics, Oklahoma City, Abortion clinic bombs, westboro church harassment, patriot movement, McCarthy&#8217;s path of destruction&#8230;.when was the last time a democrat dragged someone behind a truck because they were a different race?</p>
<p>We could go on all night, &#8217;till the thread compromised the window in unsightly and unreadable ways, trading evidence of evil.</p>
<p>Python is funny. This was offensive.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s too late in the day, and the thread perhaps, to keep explaining why. </p>
<p>See you tomorrow.</p>
<p>Or maybe not.</p>
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		<title>By: FrankC</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/05/know-thy-enemy/#comment-24505</link>
		<dc:creator>FrankC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 05:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon.&lt;/i&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon.</i></p>
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		<title>By: FrankC</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/05/know-thy-enemy/#comment-24504</link>
		<dc:creator>FrankC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>for a perfect prig</description>
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		<title>By: podrock</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/05/know-thy-enemy/#comment-24503</link>
		<dc:creator>podrock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe it was satire.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe it was satire.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/05/know-thy-enemy/#comment-24502</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&quot;It wasn&#039;t funny&quot; is a perfectly fair comment.&lt;/p&gt;

A lot of people don&#039;t think the Black Knight skit is funny either, or the Three Stooges.

But when you start to riff on Christians/conservatives and violence, the ice is a bit thin to say the least. I picked out two groups. You&#039;re welcome to add as many as you want. Want to do &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygy7UDADXDg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;street gangs?&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;iframe width=&quot;420&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ygy7UDADXDg?rel=0&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t funny&#8221; is a perfectly fair comment.</p>
<p>A lot of people don&#8217;t think the Black Knight skit is funny either, or the Three Stooges.</p>
<p>But when you start to riff on Christians/conservatives and violence, the ice is a bit thin to say the least. I picked out two groups. You&#8217;re welcome to add as many as you want. Want to do <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygy7UDADXDg" rel="nofollow">street gangs?</a></p>
<p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ygy7UDADXDg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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		<title>By: FrankC (non-Christian)</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/05/know-thy-enemy/#comment-24501</link>
		<dc:creator>FrankC (non-Christian)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In this country, most conservatives are Christians and most Liberals are Christians.

The percentage of fundamentalist Christians and militia types is  between 5-10%. The rest are the same kind of Christian that call themselves Liberals. The conservative extremists are offset by an equal number of liberal extremist of various types including communists, anarchists, druggies and other unsavory types.

I have no doubt that there are a fair number of  liberal fundys. Union members usually vote liberal and a good few of them are fundamentalists.

&lt;i&gt;First cast out the beam from thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother&#039;s eye.&lt;/i&gt;

By the way, Christians are expected to love their neighbor but until the status of neighbor is attained, a lot of smiting goes on

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this country, most conservatives are Christians and most Liberals are Christians.</p>
<p>The percentage of fundamentalist Christians and militia types is  between 5-10%. The rest are the same kind of Christian that call themselves Liberals. The conservative extremists are offset by an equal number of liberal extremist of various types including communists, anarchists, druggies and other unsavory types.</p>
<p>I have no doubt that there are a fair number of  liberal fundys. Union members usually vote liberal and a good few of them are fundamentalists.</p>
<p><i>First cast out the beam from thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother&#8217;s eye.</i></p>
<p>By the way, Christians are expected to love their neighbor but until the status of neighbor is attained, a lot of smiting goes on</p>
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		<title>By: podrock</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/05/know-thy-enemy/#comment-24500</link>
		<dc:creator>podrock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The whole thing starts off as &quot;know your enemy.&quot;

We are not enemies. We are all Americans trying to figure this shit out.

I don&#039;t deny your list, on the right column, anyway. But include other groups, from both sides, and documenting the violent stupidity would overwhelm the server again. 

Let me make it clearer:

We can do better.

But we won&#039;t.

And that makes me cynical; and, sometimes, like today, a bit angry.

But not enough to punch you in the face for your twisted logic.

Peace be with you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The whole thing starts off as &#8220;know your enemy.&#8221;</p>
<p>We are not enemies. We are all Americans trying to figure this shit out.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t deny your list, on the right column, anyway. But include other groups, from both sides, and documenting the violent stupidity would overwhelm the server again. </p>
<p>Let me make it clearer:</p>
<p>We can do better.</p>
<p>But we won&#8217;t.</p>
<p>And that makes me cynical; and, sometimes, like today, a bit angry.</p>
<p>But not enough to punch you in the face for your twisted logic.</p>
<p>Peace be with you.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/05/know-thy-enemy/#comment-24499</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Let me make it a little clearer.&lt;/p&gt;

One of these was a joke. Along the lines of a Monty Python skit where everybody gets blown up or somebody&#039;s arms and legs get chopped off. Or Sarah Palin is depicted in cartoons getting punched in the face or shot.

The other involves a long list of real damages to real live people and property.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me make it a little clearer.</p>
<p>One of these was a joke. Along the lines of a Monty Python skit where everybody gets blown up or somebody&#8217;s arms and legs get chopped off. Or Sarah Palin is depicted in cartoons getting punched in the face or shot.</p>
<p>The other involves a long list of real damages to real live people and property.</p>
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		<title>By: podrock</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/06/05/know-thy-enemy/#comment-24498</link>
		<dc:creator>podrock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I especially don&#039;t like it here on the Zone. I&#039;d object the same way if it were a liberal post here that recommended violence, even in jest. 

Its just wrong.

I&#039;ll stay in the saddle, thanks all the same.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I especially don&#8217;t like it here on the Zone. I&#8217;d object the same way if it were a liberal post here that recommended violence, even in jest. </p>
<p>Its just wrong.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll stay in the saddle, thanks all the same.</p>
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