Adjusted for inflation, Kodak cameras' price range in 1900 (smack in the middle of the Gibson Girl period) would have been approximately $135-$2,500. However, even a model at the lower end of that range would have been a luxury for the average Joe, because the average annual salary at that time was $449.80. Moreover, who had time for vacation? Most people worked 9 hours a day for 6 days a week, and most folks of that period would have been in church or temple on the 7th day.
So, the fellow with the camera above is definitely a capitalist running dog.
If terrorists make racist comments about Obama, and stupid Americans make racist comments about Obama, then doesn't it follow that stupid Americans are terrorists?
@screwy: my favorite part of this whole snake-eating-its-tail is the commenters around here who spend an...interesting amount of time making rather racist blanket statements about the sanity of all arabs etc are some of the ones who are being super offended by this! racism: it's completely irrational, and probably a sign of terrorism.
NEGRO???? This asshole needs to get his head out of his ass and learn something. You have Obama mixed up with all those NEGROES you're murdering in Sudan. Big mistake? Try and mess with Obama; he doesn't have the same ties to the oil industry that Bush did, so if you attack the US your families won't be flown to safety.
I'm beginning to suspect that Al Qaeda may have borderline personality disorder, what with all this 'I hate you, don't leave me!' business they got going on...
the ideas you promote are, as usual, worthy, Pareene, but why do y'all automatically assume that this video has in fact been released by the amorphous hobgoblin (to borrow from Mencken) "Al Qaeda"? because somebody (the media) told you so? ever occur to you that there are many people who might have an agenda, like a manipulative one, in "releasing" these tapes at provocative moments? sorry, but it strikes me as terribly naive. I don't understand the insistence on accepting spoonfed information without questioning it. do you need to preserve these myths for yourselves for some reason? why? I'm not saying I'm certain this did not come from "Al Qaeda," I'm just reiterating that old chestnut: Question Authority.
They're so vile it's almost comedic. It's not surprising that it's taken them about 14 days to come up with a response. I can just imagine them in a school room setting, with fat kindergarten pencils, taking notes from a Malcom X coloring book.
Al-Qaeda is a fucking joke. These guys couldn't bomb at a comedy club. Yes, we should kill every one that we can find, but the thing that really irritates them is laughing at them. They want so much to be a serious and threatening force in world politics, but they're just a bunch of idiots playing soldier in the sand. Want to really get under their skins? Obama should mock them mercilessly.
This is something Bush was far too dumb to understand. He built them up into something scary, which legitimized them in certain parts of the world and helped them recruit more fanatics. The answer is to turn them into a laughingstock, to mock them unceasingly, which will delegitimize them, decrease their ability to recruit new blood, and hopefully make them antsy enough to come out of their caves for some attention. At which point, hello Hellfire missile in the face!
Jesus, I sound like a Republican. But seriously, it's time to change the way we deal with these jackasses. Ignoring them is good, but mocking them is way better.
@Mr. Kim Gordons Panties: I never understood why more people didn't get that. Mocking them, taking away their (self-appointed) dignity as a "legitimate" political group, and you've won half the war right there.
People don't sign up to be suicide bombers with groups people think are silly and ridiculous.
@Mr. Kim Gordons Panties: thank god someone around here isn't a militant, racist right-winger. jesus i was starting to feel like i fell down the rabbit hole. they're criminals, need to be treated as much, but seriously wtf can we all stop pretending they're serious threats just because once, in 35 years, they managed to pull something off?
@crotchety: Well, no. It was a golden pocket liner for them, really. But I am speaking of a hypothetical world in which our president has more important things to do than try to keep the country frozen in terror so they don't realize what he's up to, you know?
@Mr. Kim Gordons Panties: "Al-Qaeda is a fucking joke. These guys couldn't bomb at a comedy club."
I seem to remember them destroying the World Trade Center, part of the Pentagon and crashing a plane into a field. Am I thinking of a different al Qaeda?
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So, the fellow with the camera above is definitely a capitalist running dog.
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That is all, carry on.
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Finally the world makes sense.
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This is something Bush was far too dumb to understand. He built them up into something scary, which legitimized them in certain parts of the world and helped them recruit more fanatics. The answer is to turn them into a laughingstock, to mock them unceasingly, which will delegitimize them, decrease their ability to recruit new blood, and hopefully make them antsy enough to come out of their caves for some attention. At which point, hello Hellfire missile in the face!
Jesus, I sound like a Republican. But seriously, it's time to change the way we deal with these jackasses. Ignoring them is good, but mocking them is way better.
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People don't sign up to be suicide bombers with groups people think are silly and ridiculous.
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Maybe now he could turn that talent on the neo nazi groups of the world.
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Say, you weren't thinking that Bush & Co. were interested in winning the war, were you?
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I seem to remember them destroying the World Trade Center, part of the Pentagon and crashing a plane into a field. Am I thinking of a different al Qaeda?
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