If terrorists played the Baltimore Ravens, who would you want to win?
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Compare your answer with the results from this quiz. I predict that many will, like me, score 100% both times.
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If terrorists played the Baltimore Ravens, who would you want to win?
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Compare your answer with the results from this quiz. I predict that many will, like me, score 100% both times.
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Ryan S.
The Terrorists geez do you even have to ask.
Ugh
If terrorists played the Baltimore Ravens, who would you want to win?
Ditka.
Jon
Tough call. However, if Saddam Hussein played the Cowboys, I would be on the sideline waving an Iraqi flag and yelling “SIC ‘EM SADDAM!!”
That goes double for the Tennessee Vols.
Punchy
Fixed. And the answer is….ACL tears and collapsed lungs.
ThymeZone
I took the quiz. What do I get? Is there a gift card, or something?
Zifnab
Perhaps they’d just kill each other in a violent blood bath so epic that it would horrify old men, scanalize young women, tramatize small children, and top the nelson ratings even in reruns for the next three years.
Jake
Exactly the sort of question real Americans don’t waste their time on. The important question is: Will there wardrobe malfunction during half-time?
Salty Party Snax
Looks like the Taliban Wing of the GOP is starting to pule bitterly about their 2008 presidential choices. Seems that Stem Cell McCain, Gay Rights Rudy and Abortion Boy “Pass the Tongs” Romney just ain’t sending the Christian Soldiers onward.
Anybody here giving odds on Sam Brownback waltzing in and grabbing the GOP crown?
demimondian
Oh, Lord. Would he be another Goldwater for his party, or another Mondale, I wonder?
Zifnab
I’ve honestly got it between McSellout and “You can’t get an eagle if you break an egg” Brownback. Cain’s been doing an epic job of sucking up to the wingers while playing nice with the uninformed. Sam’s got the base by the balls – you don’t get meat much Redder than he.
Both are horribly choices, but then what’s new in the Republican party?
ThymeZone
Okay, my newspaper over here has a headline:
“Bush plans new Iraq course”
Now, in the dim light and with the tail of a cat across the page, at an angle and upside down, it almost looks like:
“Bush plans new golf course”
Discuss.
The Other Steve
GOP nominee in 2008 will be Huckabee. Slogan will be “We [Heart] Huckabee”.
The Other Steve
I’m typing this off my now Vista-powered laptop.
Zifnab
At least he’ll be tackling something he has experience in. Then he can run that out of business too.
Aaron
I only got a 98% on the quiz. whats up with that?
Zifnab
Faith Based Firewalls
ThymeZone
Okay Zif, we laugh, but many times I have sat confounded before my hosed-up monitor, saying, “Jesus H. Christ.”
I think those guys might be onto something.
CaseyL
Boy, what’d the Ravens do to you, Tim?
Just because I loathe Bush & Co. with the passion of a thousand fiery suns doesn’t mean I want some poor little football squad to get IED’d and power-drilled.
Mind you, if someone could stuff Bush & Co and their lickspittle allies in the punditariat into Raven uniforms and then field them against AQ or Sadr’s militia or, hell, the likely lads from Hezbollah and Hamas – man, I’d pay scalper prices to see that.
And, as befits one who totally aced the Terrorist Sympathizer Quiz, I’d be root, root, rooting for the visiting team.
canuckistani
I got a 96%, but only because Canadians can’t vote for Kerry. We sure do hate America though!
Elvis Elvisberg
An age-old question, Tim, with roots in discussions about Notre Dame-Florida State games, Cowboys vs any team with Glanville or Buddy Ryan involved, and the Iran-Iraq War. The question is rhetorical, the answer is horrible.
Oh, wait, we actually found a way to take sides in the Iran-Iraq War, didn’t we? How did that work out?
pie
I like me. I scored 91% on that quiz. Apparently, I hate America less than the rest of you.
Kirk Spencer
The Republican nominee, whomever it might be, will have to be at least tolerable to all three of the subgroups of today’s GOP, and will have to be a near-champion of at least one. Regardless of who the nominee will be, we can be certain he’ll be presented as a “true conservative.” He’ll be someone who shows a strong case for having no “liberal” tendencies.
Of the three groups to be satisfied, the most rabid is the dominionists. While the eventual nominee doesn’t have to be their favorite choice, this group will be the easiest to offend – to be someone this group will not tolerate. For this reason I expect all the candidates to preach about what good Christians they are. Yes, even Romney, though his battle will be convincing the majority of the dominionists that Mormons are one of them. (I don’t expect him to succeed). But the other two groups can’t be ignored.
The corporatists are probably the second largest group. Big Bidness, for which profit is the primary motivator. Stopping regulation and competition are winners, as are reducing expenses from wages and taxes. (Club for Growth fits this group.) The candidates will have to tiptoe through a minefield here, but expect most if not all to demand lower (or ‘simplified’) taxes. And several will speak of how business is more efficient than government and so services should be pushed to the private sector.
The final group is the isolationists. Smaller than either of the other two, the fact it’s almost as rabid as the dominionists makes it less likely the winner will be THEIR candidate, but it’s certain the nominee must at least placate them. The isolationists strongly believe that the nation they love is being ruined by immigrants, and excessive foreign contact is pretty bad as well. Paradoxically, they’re the strongest supporters of Bush’s adventure in Iraq. The reason is that “those foreigners came here and hurt us.” There is a broad streak of vengefulness in them – the sort of thing that drove the Hatfields and McCoys (for one example) to its tragic conclusion. Again, the eventual nominee doesn’t have to be the darling of this group, but he (or, doubtfully, she) must satisfy them that their walls will be rebuilt and anything that threatens those walls will be dealt with in as close to permanent fashion as possible.
For what it’s worth, every time a candidate announces I try to estimate what sort of grade they get from each of the constituencies. A “D” or “F” from any of the three tells me the candidate is at best a spoiler. A 3.0 or better is worth watching.
FWIW, Romney is borderline D for both dominionists and isolationists. Barring a satisfactory demonstration of conversion to the ‘one true way’, he’s noise. McCain is pretty much a C across the board. Huckabee and Brownback are above the 3.0 line, both getting at least two As. (Brownback might get a B from the corporatists, while Huck gets a B from the isolationists.)
Krista
Is that what you weird Arizona folk use for bookmarks? That’s macabre…
The Other Steve
Scarey how accurate spoofs can be. When I first saw the title, I thought Bush was going to start installing Macintoshes and Linux. :-)
demimondian
Actually, Macs and Linux boxes desperately need firewalls to protect the Windows clients around them. Otherwise, they can function as Typhoid Mary machines, carrying an infection to which they, themselves, are immune.
(Stanford had a terrible computer virus outbreak a couple of years ago, btw. Seems that somebody infected on of their Linux servers. The infection spread like wildfire.)
Andrew
I got a 100%, but only because I saw a brown cab driver wearing a turban and I threw my laptop at him while yelling “Go home Osama!” and all of the right keys must have been pressed to make me a terrorist lover.
demimondian
I’m ashamed to admit that I only got an 83%, because there were a bunch of questions I left blank. For instance, on the warrantless wiretap question, they didn’t include an answer like “If they have immediate need, and go to the FISC within the legislatively mandated time, then, no, I don’t like it, but I can put up with it.”
Funny thing, that.
Pb
Kirk Spencer,
Not a bad look at the various groups there, although I think of them a bit differently. Using Pew’s categories for a moment (although they correspond to yours somewhat), it seems that each major group in one party has a semi-parallel group in the other party, although there are some leaners to pander to as well:
Enterprisers vs. Liberals — political opposites, but demographically similar, they are largely white, well-educated, well-off, not as religious as the other groups, and very partisan.
Social Conservatives vs. Conservative Democrats — they’re more religious than the first two groups, and more in favor or perhaps more serious about ‘personal responsibility’ or ‘traditional values’ as it were–i.e., not paying for welfare or being opposed to gay marriage, etc., etc.
Pro-Government Conservatives vs. Disadvantaged Democrats — both of these groups think the government should help the poor, in part perhaps because many of them *are* poor, and therefore have seen how it works from the other side.
ThymeZone
Been listening to the Gates confirmation hearing today?
I will say this for Gates, he seems to be rather forthright about the long, deep, and appalling list of failures and ommissions and stupidities that have characterized the Iraq war for four years.
Listening to this list, one is reminded of what an NTSB hearing on a transportation accident sounds like.
Gates is literally describing a train wreck. A four year, ongoing, no-end-in-sight train wreck that kills every hour of every day, day and night, seven days a week.
And yet, the architects of this breathtaking disaster remain in their jobs and continue to repeat their own lies and bullshit, every hour of every day, day and night, seven days a week.
These are interesting times.
Jake
And the cheerleaders will begin calling for his head in 5, 4, 3…
ThymeZone
Hey, whatever happened to “The world is better off without Saddam?”
That was a cool slogan. Why don’t they bring it back?
Jake
Translation: Please validate my opinion so I can dance about shouting “Ha, I told you!”
Putz.
ThymeZone
MCCain is taking a huge gamble with his “more troops” ploy.
He’s gambling that his “I told you so” strategy will pay off in two years, and override the general American disgust with the war. He’s gambling that the situation will be better in two years, too. If it’s worse, how does his strategy work? Support for the war will be in the teens by then.
ThymeZone
You can’t make these people up.
“Jeb would be a great president.”
My suggestion would be to put the whole bunch of them on a plane to Saudi Arabia and tell ’em buh-bye.
Andrew
McCain isn’t making any gamble whatsoever. It is the bullshittiest of bullshit positions. There are no more troops to deploy. Therefore, he can call for more troops, and when they are not deployed and Iraq fails, he can say “If you had only listened to me!”
george hoffman
I took the quiz and found out I am a terrorist-loving liberal, who feels he is living in the Third Reich.
To quote from the lyrics of an REM song: “It’s the end of the world as we know it/ I feel fine.”
I survived the Tet Offensive of 1968 and will undoubtedly survive the results of this quiz.
Yes, news flash, Gates said we were losing the Iraq War, then later backtracked and said we were neither winnning or losing. Thank you for your clarity and candor. You’ll fit right in with the Bush administration.
As the wounded grunts used to say on the hospital ward where I served as a medical corpsman: Would the last soldier leaving the country, please remember to turn off the lights?
ThymeZone
No, you are not watching a Stanley Kubrick movie.
Or, are you?
Andrew
I like Gates’ comments on subsidizing crop replacement in Afghanistan.
I think that subsidizing switchgrass or other ethanol crops in Afghanistan is a semi-magic bullet for a number of problems.
ThymeZone
If Clinton hadn’t weakened our military, we’d have more troops to send in there.
LLeo
Well didn’t Clinton reduce the size of the military? Weakened atleast in terms of numbers, right?
Kirk Spencer
Lleo, yes but…
Yes, Clinton reduced the size of the military. But Bush 41 reduced it before him.
I still remember the look of shock on faces of LTs returning from DSI and getting handed in quick succession a medal for a job well done followed by a pink slip to reduce the force’s size.
And Bush didn’t bow to Congressional pressure to make it happen – he did it on the recommendation of his cabinet.
The Other Steve
At least as good as GW, right Georgey old boy?
Sounds good. I’m in favor of a deBushification program, where by we eliminate the Bush name from all buildings, airports, highways, naval ships, and the english language.
We have plenty of substitute words for Bush, so why soil our language?
The Other Steve
Only Congress can do that.
Jake
Compared to the Dry Drunk in the Oval Office many people would be a great president. And not a few domesticated animals.
BTW, your link goes to a story about Elder(berry) Bush breaking up while talking about Jeb. But in the first linked story, what the hell is that on Krazee Kat Harris’ arm? A palmetto bug? A stain from a hastily-swigged cup of Starbucks? (I said non-fat, no foam, no whip eight pump carmel machiatto god damn it!!!!) Gads what a demented harpy, I’m surprised the S.S. lets her within ten miles of the President.
Zifnab
Why we cut a dime from our soldiers when we still have billion dollar tanks and planes being built every fucking day is totally beyond me. Let’s spend a year not building more stealth bombers and see how much money we save. Just a year. Lets take a year off of researching the Ospray or the new line of M-1 Abrahams. Scale back our military satelite program, just for one year. Then we can see how much money we have left over for troop retension.
Kirk Spencer
Pb, my problem with Pew’s labels is that they overlap on critical characteristics. In my opinion, when subdividing groups the attempt should be made to make each critical characteristic a unique label.
As an example, all of Pew’s groups are strongly religious, just “some are less so than others”. (My daughter just had to read Animal House – the irony needed shared.) To me, the fact that religion is a political characteristic for a significant number is a critical characteristic. Recalling the messy arguments about “Christianists”, I chose the earlier label for the same group – dominionists. The rest of the labels used the same reasoning.
LLeo
The only things I can fault either Bush the First, or Clinton the First, is getting to giddy about the end of the Cold War and the lack of Vision to see that we may need more troups not less.
But what do you guys think? Do we need more troups under arms full time?
I think that one of the things Rummey was trying to do was actually quite right. He wanted to restructure the Army towards having more combat personel and less administrative personel. In the Army there is a person who’s job it is to take pictures and make ID badges; couldn’t that be done by a civilian. I’ve heard the phrase is the ration of “tooth to tail”.
The QDR (quadrenial review thingy) suggested that we cut 5 thousand Marines from the 180 thousand we have now. The QDR was recent. Who the fuck is suggesting we reduce our troups while active in to military engagements of over 165 thousand troups?
I was disappointed in this last campaign. We didn’t discuss the need for a larger Active Duty force. We didn’t discuss the incredible amount of money we will have reinvest in rebuilding our Military infrastructure. One MilBlog I read was about a fellow scrounging at these humongous Junk Yards in Iraq. It was sever sqare miles of trashed equipment.
What do you folk think?
t. jasper parnell
Nothing to do with nothing, but the thuggishness of the War on Drugs boggles the mind.
ThymeZone
That’s it! Bingo.
“Bush Redeployment Plan.”
It’s been right there on the tip of our tongues all this time ….
J. Michael Neal
If terrorists played the Baltimore Ravens, who would you want to win?
Do they keep score in intrasquad scrimmages?
Kirk Spencer
Lleo,
Frankly, my opinion of the tooth to tail ratios is that it’s a bad statistic.
See, you need the tail, whether it’s civilian or it’s military. Making it civilian just lets you play semantic and monetary games.
Oh, and it increases practical difficulties. A civilian does his best to stay out of two-way shooting galleries. Today that absolutely means anything less than division, and possibly as high as corps, is a “legitimate refusal” zone. And if the two guys who know the right way to move supply X are civilians and exercise their right to legitimate refusal, well, you still have to pull some soldiers to get supply X where it’s needed – but it’s soldiers without the knowledge of the ‘right’ way to move it.
Reducing tooth to tail is legit to a point. But after that point – which is far too often most of the time – it’s a false economy.
Aaron
LLEo-
It was a bipartisan consensus at the end of the cold war to reduce the size of US forces. included in this effort was none other then former senator Dick Cheney.
As for your disapointment with this last election- I seem to recall Kerry supporting a larger force.
The Other Steve
How so? I don’t recall us needing any more troops between 1991 and 2001.
The only reason to have a standing army is for rapid response to a defense threat. If the defense is great, this rapid response is followed up with a call for a Draft, and training of new soldiers begins.
Americans have become lazy and stupid as a result of Republican propaganda and lies.
I don’t believe civilians should be used for any war critical operations. Mess hall at the Pentagon, sure… Mess hall at the forward base in Iraq, are you nuts?
Jake
No ponies. No saddles.
Faux News
I got 100 on the quiz! Where do I report for deportation and/or deprogramming?
skip
Here are my favorite quizzes–but make sure you read the second open too:
1. In 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:
(a) A salesman from Utah
(b) An construction worker
(c) A college student on Spring Break
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
2. In 1972, 11 Israeli athletes were killed at the Munich Olympics by:
(a) Your grandmother
(b) A Midwest auto-parts dealer
(c) A mom and her 6-year-old son visiting from Indiana
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
3. In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
(a) A bluegrass band
(b) Dallas Cowboy fans
(c) A tour group of 80-year-old women
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
4. During the 1980’s numerous Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
(a) A family on their way to Disney World
(b) Jesse Ventura
(c) A Boy Scout Troop
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
5. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
(a) A pizza delivery boy
(b) The UPS guy
(c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked, and a 70-year-old disabled American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard by:
(a) A girls’ choir
(b) A hardware store owner
(c) A secretary
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by:
(a) A Marine officer with two weeks leave
(b) A plumber going to visit his mom
(c) A Catholic nun
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
(a) A college-bound freshman
(b) A cardiac surgeon on his way to Houston
(c) A waitress
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
9. In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed by:
(a) A starving actress
(b) A mom with a newborn
(c) Twin six-year-old boys
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
10. In 1995, a plot to blow up U.S.-bound international flights over the Pacific was attempted by:
(a) Hawaiian school kids
(b) A decorated Vietnam veteran
(c) Twin sisters on their way to Paducah
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
11. In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
(a) A local TV weatherman
(b) A dad and his two sons on a ski trip
(c) A widower going to visit his grandchildren
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
12. In 2000, 17 sailors died in an attack on the USS Cole (DDG 67) in Yemen by:
(a) A child in a stroller
(b) A high school class on their way to visit Washington, DC
(c) Newlyweds on their way to Miami
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
13. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked—two flown into the World Trade Centers, one into the Pentagon and one into the ground in rural Pennsylvania. They were hijacked by:
(a) A retired police officer on a mission trip to Haiti
(b) A firefighter going to Maryland for training
(c) A paramedic on his way to vacation in Hawaii
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
14. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl and other Westerners were kidnapped and beheaded by:
(a) The Peace Corps
(b) Scottish clansmen
(c) Cuban refugees
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
15. In 2002, more than 330 hostages in Beslan and 130 hostages in Moscow were murdered in sieges by:
(a) American exchange students
(b) The Red Guard
(c) Church planters
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
16. In 2003 the United States liberated Iraq from “The Butcher of Baghdad,” but most American military personnel were killed by:
(a) Iraqi school-girls
(b) Street vegetable vendors
(c) Women without burkas
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
17. In 2004, more than 200 Spanish civilians were murdered on trains by bombs in Madrid, detonated by:
(a) Morning commuters
(b) A three-year-old Chinese girl
(c) Flamenco dancers
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
18. In 2005 more than 50 UK citizens were killed by bombs on trains in London, detonated by:
(a) Rail workers
(b) Those unable to hail taxis
(c) Wheelchair-bound grandmothers
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
19. In 2005, there were hundreds of casualties, men, women and children, killed by bombs in Jerusalem, Riyadh and Amman. These innocent civilians were murdered by:
(a) Construction workers
(b) Farmers
(c) Christian missionaries
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
20. In 2005, the city of Paris, and other European cities experienced an extended period of riots and destruction. The unrest was led by:
(a) “Youth”
(b) Soccer fans
(c) Catholic nuns
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
21. Since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, more than 2,500 Americans have been murdered by terrorists. 35,000 Iraqi men, women and children have also been murdered by terrorists. Most of the combat and civilians casualties were the result of bombs detonated in civilian population centers by:
(a) Portuguese fruit vendors
(b) Disgruntled transit union workers
(c) Nebraska schoolteachers
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
22. In 2006, hundreds of Israeli civilians have been killed by rockets launched by:
(a) the Salvation Army
(b) remnants of the ‘Jackson Five’
(c) the cast of ‘Friends’
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
23. In 2006, a plot to blow up 10 U.S.-bound planes from the U.K. was attempted by:
(a) members of the Royal Family
(b) Japanese tourists
(c) Metallica groupies
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
24. Since 2001, the FBI has reported that there are major terrorist cells still in U.S. urban centers. Several of these cells have been uncovered and cell members arrested. In every case, the terrorists cell members were:
(a) elderly Southern Baptists
(b) Lutheran Youth Groups
(c) Presbyterian ministers
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.
President George Bush said this week, ”America is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation.“
The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued an immediate objection to the President’s reference to “Islamic fascists”. Nihad Awad, executive director of CAIR protested, “We have to isolate these individuals because there is nothing in the Koran or the Islamic faith that encourages people to be cruel or to be vicious or to be criminal. Muslims worldwide know that for sure.”
In light of this objection, we are left to ponder why every Islamic leader in the U.S., and the world, does not publicly condemn every terror action being undertaken in the name of the god of Islam. Their silence is deafening… Between 1970 and present, there were more than 60 other notable examples of terrorism perpetrated by Middle Eastern male Islamists between the ages 17 and 40, but you get the point.
Turnabout is fair play
QUIZ II
A PARALLEL QUIZ
1) The ethnicity of the couple executed for passing A-Bomb secrets to the USSR were:
a) Arabic
b) North Korean
c) German
d) Jewish
2) Lenin, Marx and Trotsky were all:
a) Persian
b) French
c) Slovenian
d) Jewish
3) The nationality of the people selling US nuclear secrets and fissionable material to apartheid South Africa was:
a) Roma
b) Dutch
c) Bulgarian
d) Israeli
4) Jonathan J. Pollard gave all US intel on most USSR missile location secrets to these nationals who, in turn, sold the information to the Soviets:
a) Japanese
b) Samoans
c) Irish
d) Israelis
5) Pollard himself was ethnically :
a) Arabic
b) Sicilian
c) Serbian
d) Jewish
6) The Stern Gang, who wanted to fight with the Nazis against the British in exchange for a nation state in Palestine, produced what leader who later was PM of what country:
a) Juan Peron/ Argentina
b) Augusto Pinochet/Chile
c) Mahatma Ghandi/ India
d) Yizak Shamir/ Israel
7) What ethnic group has a living mystical religious tradition, now trendy, whereby other peoples are considered “not human.”
a) India’s Thugees
b) Mexico’s Mayans
c) Boston’s Red Sox
d) Israeli Kabbalists
8) What nation promised Eisenhower and Kennedy never to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East:
a) Iran
b) Syria
c) Lebanon
d) Israel
9) What nation introduced nuclear weapons into the Middle East:
a) Iran
b) Syria
c) Lebanon
d) Israel
10) What nation perpetrated an attack that cost the US the largest loss of intelligence personnel in its history:
a) Great Britain at Breed’s Hill
b) Germany at Armagen
c) N. Vietnam at Hue
d) Israel/ the Liberty
11) What is the only democracy whose Supreme Court has legally sanctioned torture:
a) Uzbeckistan
b) India
c) Canada
d) Israel
12) What is the only nation to have used cluster bombs against civilians?
a) Pakistan
b) Turkey
c) China
d) Israel
13) What nation was voted the greatest danger to world peace in the 2006 worldwide Pew poll:
a) North Korea
b) Russia
c) Iran
d) Israel
14) What nation get the most US foreign aid, and who is second:
a) Mexico/ Guatemala
b) Mexico/ Honduras
c) Mexico/ El Salvador
d) Israel/ Egypt (to leave Israel alone)
15) What nation’s lobbies have been charged with repeatedly spying on the US— as recently as this year:
a) Iran
b) Saudi Arabia
c) Iraq
d) Israel
16) What is the only nation allowed to sell savings/war bonds in New York and other states:
a) UK
b) Australia
c) Canada
d) Israel
17) Hundreds of phony art students of this nationality were detained and deported when observed snooping around US military facilities in 2001:
a) Russian
b) Iranian
c) Arab
d) Israeli
18) What nation’s mob controls the majority of the US Crystal Meth trade through Key West:
a) Italy
b) Syria
c) Lebanon
d) Israel
18) What is the ethnic background of three-quarters of the Russian Oligarchs and where do they hold dual citizenship:
a) Ukrainian/ Ukraine
b) Gypsy/Roma
c) Irish/ Ireland
d) Jewish/ Israel
19) What was the ethnicity of the US Navy submarine officer arrested recently for spying:
a) Iranian
b) Syrian
c) Russian
d) Jewish
20) What nation is currently working in secret, against US interests, to split Kurdistan from Iraq:
a) Iran
b) Syria
c) Turkey
d) Israel
21) What US ethnic organizations have received an estimated 50% of Home Security funding:
a) Black
b) Hispanic
c) Irish
d) Jewish
22) What was the ethnic makeup of 9 of the 12 US delegates to the deliberations at Wye River
a) Arab-American
b) Anglo-European
c) Black Muslim
d) Jewish
23) Who said this, “I want to tell you something very clear, don’t worry about American pressure on Israel, . . . the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it.”
a) Mel Gibson to LA cop
b) David Duke to Abe Foxman
c) Ted Koepel to Andrea Koeppel
d) Ariel Sharon to Shimon Peres, October 3rd, 2001, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.
e) 23. What is the ethnic background of 100% of these figures who comment extensively on US policies in the Middle East: Ted Koeppel, Wolf Blitzer, Ken Adelman, Cliff May, Ken Pollack, Reul Marc Gerecht, William Safire, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Cohen, David Horowitz, William Crystal, David Frum, David Brooks, Abe Foxman. And what is the ethnic background of 100% of these figures who have shaped US policies in the Middle East: Casper Weinberger, Dennis Ross, Michael Rubin, Eliott Abrams. Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Abe Shulksy, David Wurmser, Michael Ledeen, Tom Lantos. Steven Bryen, Elliot Cohen. And, despite all this, what ethnic group makes up less than 2% of the US population:
a) Arab-American
b) Hispanic
c) Black
d) Jewish
Fïinally, in response to the destruction of the war in Lebanon, Hollywood stepped up as:
a) Vanessa Redgrave sent 40 cases of baby formula to children in south Beirut
b) Mel Gibson sent two truckloads of M16s to teens inTyre
c) Ed Asner sent purified water units to destroyed villages north of the border
d) Adam Sandler sent 400 Play Stations to damaged oceanside condos in Haifa
* The correct answer in all cases was (d.).
THE MORAL: Quizzes, like statistics, can made to prove anything.
Pb
Kirk Spencer,
Yes, it is a bit messy in that respect, surely a compromise they made in favor of other desirable characteristics.
That probably works a lot better when you’re only talking about one or maybe two characteristics, though.
Yes, and that is America, more or less, we are a majority Christian country–by a large majority, in fact.
Although I haven’t read it, I’m going to assume you meant to say “Animal Farm”. But just in case… Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Yes, but cleanly dividing along religious lines won’t necessarily get you clean divisions along political lines. Also, you’ll end up with some very tiny subgroups. As a non-religious example, one thing Pew doesn’t do well is categorize Libertarians–however, because they’re a tiny subgroup in the political realm, with ten or so categories of roughly equal size, they don’t cleanly fit anywhere. However, there are probably a lot of Glibertarians in with the Enterprisers and the Upbeats…
Now that’s probably a pretty good subgroup to identify, and I’m guessing a lot of them would fall into Pew’s “Social Conservatives” category (“Most (53%) attend church weekly; 43% are white evangelical Protestants (double the national average of 21%)”). Of course, the really nice thing about Pew’s study is that all the data is available, so you actually could identify only, say, evangelical Christian Republicans, and see how that looks as a subgroup.