Maybe the League of Women Voters (still around?) could sponsor a Horowitz (they mean it when they say "world domination" vs Ahmadinejad (what I really maant when I said-- "there is no way for salvation of mankind but the rule of Islam over mnkind"--Islamic Republic News Agency, Kabul, 8-14-07).
What did he mean? Where is Juan Cole?
Better debate than Dems or Republicans.
If no debate:
a) Jello Wrestling
b) Singing Schubert Lieder
c) Summarizing Spengler Contest

Winner gets to decide who dominates the world. Loser has to listen to Susan Estrich for eternity.

oops- "meant"
"mankind"

s, a, e don't show anymore when I hit keys on ThinkPad. Wazzit mean?

In the first place, jihad means "holy war." And we aren't fighting a holy war. No, we are much better. We are fighting an unholy war.

Secondly, how can this be used as a training film? What would you learn? Because these are Islamic holy warriors, they are sure to win unless we kill lots and lots of people?

Terrorism is bad, m'kay?

Certainly backing it up with Carmina Burana makes it even more of a crime against humanity.

Mein Kampf, indeed.

how can this be used as a training film? What would you learn?

Well, you would learn that people engaged in peaceful protest (e.g. pro-Palestine protesters in Chicago) are terrorists. A very useful lesson for the California Highway Patrol, or your local police department.

How to get in touch with your inner terrorist.

I'm sure that it's purely coincidental that all of those attacks, with the exception of the Iran hostage crisis, happened after the US and its allies began funding the Afghan jihadists ... er, anti-Communist freedom fighters ... and transfered massive amounts of logistical knowledge from state intelligence services to private ideologues and helped set up major infrastructure like banks.

Wait....are Christian monks Islamic terrorists now too. Is Conan?

Ah yes, Carl Orff's "O Fortuna" from "Carmina Burana", man, I remember that music from "Excalibur"...

Frankly, they should just have played the clip of Herbert Lom in "El Cid", anyone remember that film too?

Good grief. Given what a piss-poor job we've done at achieving what we've claimed is our goal (bringing stability to Iraq, and apprehending bin Ladin) with all the troops and hundreds of billions of dollars that we have spent, why should we think that a few thousand extremist wackos have a prayer of achieving their goals, no matter how much they claim to oppose us? Sure, they can blow shit up, but what's a few thousand people in the grand scheme of things? We kill ten times that many every year in auto accidents alone. Heck, our excess infant mortality rate (over, say, Canada) kills about 8000 babies each year. In a rational world, we would be much more worried about highway safety and healthcare than terrorism.

Horowitz sounds like a very timid and fearful girly-man, who can't count.

I never really took much time before to listen to David Horowitz.

Not a big deal...this video tells me everything I need to know.

Was Horowitz this much of an intellectually dishonest and impaired douchebag back when he was a lefty editor of Ramparts? I was only a wee wee one in that era and don't know.

Not just "O Fortuna", but "O Fortuna" mangled -- they play the first bit, then jump forward to the loud bit, then instead of ending the loud bit they splice in the first bit again...repeat about four times over before they finally let the loud bit end. Carl Orff is spinning in his grave.

Forgot to sign that last comment. Oops.

Yes, Horowitz has always been a whack-job. He went from the waaaaaay left to the waaaaay right virtually overnight, and then wondered why no one wanted to hang with him anymore. Boo hoo, there's a bias against conservatives. Um, actually Dave, they barely tolerated your lunatic ravings from the left and abrupt radical personality changes are symptomatic of server personality disorders, and no one wants to be best pals with the local nut-job.

If you really want to know everything about the jihad, I recommend:
www.jihad-the-musical.com

Especially the "I want to be like Osama" song.

hugo chavez is a muslim? do his constituents know that?

Hahaha, jesus christ. Horowitz is always good for a laugh. What a total clowndoctor.

wait, no, i see it all now. it wasn't that the commies were behind every act of terror. it was the terrorists, the jihadis, behind the evil empire! it was iranian technology building the soviet superweapons of the '80s! tito was a palestinian front! mao was a uyghur! stalin was only trained in georgia! marx -- marx's so-called rejection of religion -- it's all there if you know where to look.

there never was such a thing as state socialism. the red of the flags represented nothing but BLOOD! and beneath the BLOOD more BLOOD! and beneath that BLOOD there lay a secret so horrifying, only a commando team of american crackpots could learn the truth -- and face it.

I tried, but not knowing when it would end was unsettling, and the third time they restarted "O Fortuna," I just gave up.

Don't these guys know there is other music out there? Some of Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky" cantata would be good, or maybe the "Confutatis" from Mozart's Requiem would be a change. If they don't mind paying more for something more recent, John Williams wrote some fairly convincing fake Orff for the "Star Wars Lite" trilogy. (What am I saying? They probably didn't even pay for Orff, who's still in copyright.)

The phrase "Deeper than whale shit" comes to mind.