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Mail Call: Got a couple

by John Cole|  March 2, 20024:58 pm| Leave a Comment

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Mail Call:

Got a couple of them that were pretty much hate mail, which is always fun. I will go through some of the issues addressed:

1.) To the reader who said I was a bigot because I said that we should throw very religious people to the lions, I would like to direct you to this sight. You will find a full discussion of what quotations are, and when they are used. After you check up on that, please re-read the offending piece here. You should note that I was quoting P.J. O’Rourke, and those were not my words. True, I may have tricked you by using italics instead of quotation marks, and for that I am sorry.

2.) To the drooling idiot who thinks I have ‘no f*****g compassion’ because I want the terrorists to starve themselves to death and then be thrown to the sharks, I would like to point out that what I do not have in compassion, I make up for in my sense of humor. What is funny, you say? These thugs spend five years beating, torturing, and starving the population in Afghanistan, and then when captured and treated like royalty by our servicemen, they decide to starve themselves to death. That is funny, and at least they are consistent. And, I might add, so our European friends don’t become all agitated, it is their right to kill themselves. We wouldn’t want to abuse their rights.

3.) My favorite reader comment to date: “Go polish your jackboots swastika-boy.”

Regular posting will resume when I finish laughing.

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