tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post4973768330048971496..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: Buy Lowe's!Always On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-46385745612737904372011-12-22T13:19:32.937-06:002011-12-22T13:19:32.937-06:00Doodiepants,
I'll take a look.Doodiepants,<br />I'll take a look.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-63049633477372938792011-12-22T04:40:24.547-06:002011-12-22T04:40:24.547-06:00I collected some pretty ridiculous question and an...I collected some pretty ridiculous question and answers from Islam-QA, a sunni fundie site. No exaggerations......real answers from the Islamic Scholars. http://doodiepants.com/2010/06/22/questions-and-answers-from-islam-qa-com-part-1/<br /><br />Search for part 2 on the site if you're interested in more ridiculousness.Doodiepanstshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07071113432715615324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-35454350608899634092011-12-16T04:57:13.500-06:002011-12-16T04:57:13.500-06:00Blogginator,
The group in Florida is free to compl...Blogginator,<br /><i>The group in Florida is free to complain. The folks who made the show are free to do so. Lowes is free to advertise on the show or not. And we are free to shop at Lowes or not.</i><br /><br />Exactly.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-21332324668925956992011-12-16T04:18:55.350-06:002011-12-16T04:18:55.350-06:00The beauty of America is this...
Folks its called...The beauty of America is this...<br /><br />Folks its called freedom.<br /><br />The group in Florida is free to complain. The folks who made the show are free to do so. Lowes is free to advertise on the show or not. And we are free to shop at Lowes or not.<br /><br />Personally, I can not support a form of governance that treats women and non-believers as second class citizens.blogginatornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-53924399632664721442011-12-15T20:31:43.176-06:002011-12-15T20:31:43.176-06:00Duly noted, Prince Charles.
Now physician, go hea...Duly noted, Prince Charles.<br /><br />Now physician, go heal thyself. <br /><br />Maybe someday Europe can successfully assimilate immigrants the way we vulgar cowboys here in the US have done.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-44733943855562293852011-12-15T09:20:17.456-06:002011-12-15T09:20:17.456-06:00Kayak.com have now also dropped the add. They say...Kayak.com have now also dropped the add. They say the complaints against the show made them think a bit more about what TLC said the show was about and what actually it produced.<br /><br />....<br /><br />Birge admitted that the "decision comes across as bending to bigotry," and "it also appears that we did not support people who deserve support as people and as Americans."<br /><br />The boss of Kayak wrote the following in an apology on facebook. I think it says much.<br /> <br />"For that," he wrote, "I am profoundly sorry."<br /> <br />Birge added: "Mostly, I just thought the show sucked. Based on our dealings with TLC and the simple assessment of the show, I decided we should put our money elsewhere. Apologies again."<br /><br />Note in contrast to comments here that it was for particular reasons.<br /><br />For my part I do agree that companies have the right to sponsor and pull-out in any way they like. What I do not like is the double-standards that exist here and if the opposite was the case - ie companies pulling out because of unacceptable potrayals by an anti-Islam Christian group due to protests by Muslims - I am sure there would be miles of condemnations here. Right?<br /><br />In the end, this still was caused by a fringe-Evangelical pressure group known for such pressure in the past. That should be not forgotten and noted.D Charles QChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805304737361014277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-22996438792412146502011-12-15T03:43:42.901-06:002011-12-15T03:43:42.901-06:00Teresa,
Progressive politicians need to get the he...Teresa,<br /><i>Progressive politicians need to get the heck out of businesses business.</i><br /><br />The government isn't going to do that unless WE THE PEOPLE <b>force</b> the government to back off.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-72595335237048049422011-12-15T03:41:08.524-06:002011-12-15T03:41:08.524-06:00And here's another thing....
Is the governmen...And here's another thing....<br /><br />Is the government going to start telling us which shows we can and cannot watch on television?Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-42595390117175053112011-12-15T03:40:24.727-06:002011-12-15T03:40:24.727-06:00Leticia said:
No one has the right to tell any co...Leticia said:<br /><br /><i><b>No one has the right to tell any company to put money into a failing product...</b></i><br /><br />You said that so well! <br /><br />The government has no business interfering in a business's decisions with regard advertising. And I'm sure that Lieu wouldn't lift a finger to force a sponsor for CBN or any other similar network. <br /><br />In fact, as I think about this Lowe's issue, it comes to my mind that our government would never consider forcing a mosque or a halal market to sponsor CBN or Honey Baked Ham.<br /><br />Businesses should have the freedom to sponsor any licensed business when they want to do so and which business they want to support.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-36047403161040904362011-12-15T03:29:52.198-06:002011-12-15T03:29:52.198-06:00D Charles,
You are free not to like Pamela, but th...D Charles,<br />You are free not to like Pamela, but that link does have embedded links of merit.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-26556917235652442452011-12-14T22:04:30.848-06:002011-12-14T22:04:30.848-06:00I think I will have to frequent Lowes more often. ...I think I will have to frequent Lowes more often. <br /><br />Progressive politicians need to get the heck out of businesses business.Teresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16040553825059591114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-12425580048360773332011-12-14T21:27:17.525-06:002011-12-14T21:27:17.525-06:00Once again Jon Stewart skewers the loony right and...Once again Jon Stewart skewers the loony right and their hate filled hypocrisy (and it's funny too!):<br /><br />http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-stewart-lowes-american-muslim-273664Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-89759300590679453902011-12-14T18:23:34.984-06:002011-12-14T18:23:34.984-06:00I will continue to shop and support Lowe's.
...I will continue to shop and support Lowe's. <br /><br />From what I have gathered the reason they pulled their ad was because the show was plummeting in the ratings and they didn't want to put their money into a dying product.<br /><br />CAIR and the Muslims are the one's who are blowing this way out of proportion. <br /><br />No one has the right to tell any company to put money into a failing product just to appease a whiny group of people who can't seem to be happy with anything.Trekkie4Everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03226981394122557804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-30863080673611799582011-12-14T16:27:32.904-06:002011-12-14T16:27:32.904-06:00AOW, point taken with the language. I get pretty t...AOW, point taken with the language. I get pretty tired of complete jerks repeating garbage as if it has substance.<br /><br />As for the Pamela Gellar rant, anything from her is tainted with the poisons of bigotry and narcism.D Charles QChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805304737361014277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-2259281915990094192011-12-14T14:55:32.569-06:002011-12-14T14:55:32.569-06:00Wow!
"Hamas-tied Group CAIR Threatens Lowes&...<a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/12/hamas-tied-group-cair-threatens-lowes.html" rel="nofollow">Wow!</a><br /><br /><b><i>"Hamas-tied Group CAIR Threatens Lowes"</i></b>Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-6628313750524627312011-12-14T14:18:55.610-06:002011-12-14T14:18:55.610-06:00Addendum: And parents of my students as well.Addendum: And parents of my students as well.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-82219391281344747762011-12-14T14:05:50.340-06:002011-12-14T14:05:50.340-06:00Stogie, you can pretend from your desktop to know ...Stogie, you can pretend from your desktop to know something about Muslims and Islam but frankly it is not convincing anyone except perhaps yourself.<br /><br />Yes there is a refernce to beating your wives in the Koran but it also is in the Old Testiment - does that make a difference coming from the hate-feast in your blog that proclaims Israel can do no wrong?<br /><br />As for honor killings - go to any official honor-killing website and read the stats yourself. It is cultural not religious plain and simple and to deny it is a slap-in-the-face of all the thousands of victims whom happen to be not Muslim but most be fine according to your arguments. The same goes with FGM which to you must obviously not exist in the non-Muslim world - try again. That disgusting practice occurs regularly from Zimbabwe up the East Coast of Africa in Animist and suposively Christian Africa equally. Because Jihad-Watch and other hate-sites like to publish otherwise only reflects on your abilities to chose a real source.<br /><br />Your self-deluding naivity about what consitutes "the most violent" in the recent past (and equating it to some form of totality) again shows that you sit at your desktop wanting and wishing what was true - rather than actually bothering.<br /><br />So somehow the two-world wars, the holocaust, the Russian and Chinese Purges, Korea, Vietnam, Rawanda, Bosnia and Sri-Lanka are all acts of Islam. That somehow the two million Cambodians were victims of jihad? I think you Americans have the best expression in this case - Stogie - "your a complete dick."<br /><br />It is mindless and baseless ranting, pointless finger pointing and mob-like condemnation that frankly strung up the "negroes", based "gooks" and now simply picks on anybody "arab looking" so that they give the "towel-head" a bashing.<br /><br />I suggest before you actually read something other than a hate-blog as a reference that you first look at a dictionary at the word context.<br /><br />ps, just to be civil - I have smoked Padrón and Partagás cigars since 1970, Partagás is hard to come by here and there is a Dominican version which is not bad. What about yourself?D Charles QChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805304737361014277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-37280115892944167272011-12-14T12:11:51.165-06:002011-12-14T12:11:51.165-06:00QC Charles: Your entire approach, to be frank, is...QC Charles: Your entire approach, to be frank, is superficial and smells of "I want to engage in abhorrent behavior apologetics for the pure lawyerly fun of it."Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-65710307976209830682011-12-14T12:06:08.035-06:002011-12-14T12:06:08.035-06:00Sir Charles QC, OFM:
Always nice to hear the stu...Sir Charles QC, OFM: <br />Always nice to hear the stuffy lectures from the sagging continent. This has nothing to do with "hypocrisy" or "double-standards," and everything to do with free speech. Lowe's exercised it, just like the tv producers did, and the usual professional victim industry cranked up it's predictable howls of indignation.<br /><br />We have freedom here. Get over it. <br /><br />And while your at it, point your bigoted fellow Euros our way to see how a free society assimilates immigrants. You narrow-minded, chauvinistic Euro-prigs are utter failures at it, so save your lectures.<br /><br />And just where is "Central South America?" Your comment on honor killings in Latin America is ignorant. I've lived there and I know a lot about the place.<br /><br />I'm sure someone could dig up an instance of two of a father killing a daughter (I'm sure we could also find instances of Brits killing the prostitute that just serviced them), but to equate it to the muslim practice is disingenuous at best. <br /><br />Also disingenuous is how the UN Grand High Rapporteur Poobah groups in husbands killing their wives over suspected infidelities. While abhorrent and certainly murder, it is not an honor killing.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-27676628628762335922011-12-14T11:56:59.100-06:002011-12-14T11:56:59.100-06:00@Ducky "What galls me is that the evangelical...@Ducky <i>"What galls me is that the evangelical right doesn't have the balls to just come out and admit their hatreds."</i> <br /><br />Yeah! All those burnings and bombings of "the infidels'" houses of worship, the charges of blasphemy, chasing out people who don't think like they do...<br /><br />That's hatred, and it ain't coming from evangelical Christians in America, so get your facts straight Ducky.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-26296690490791525192011-12-14T11:53:57.348-06:002011-12-14T11:53:57.348-06:00Oh, DC, and as for your statistics, where did you ...Oh, DC, and as for your statistics, where did you get them? Did you make them up? I feel so reassured now. Because the next times Muslims bomb a train in India or machine gun strangers at an airport, all they need to do is hold up your so-called statistics.<br /><br />Have you ever read a SINGLE book on Islam? If so, name it.Stogiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05852841950131130696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-60064347045971060232011-12-14T11:32:09.365-06:002011-12-14T11:32:09.365-06:00I don't shop in this kinds of establishments, ...I don't shop in this kinds of establishments, but per DH, Lowe's beats Home Depot in selection and customer service.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-66937246547036750782011-12-14T07:43:53.379-06:002011-12-14T07:43:53.379-06:00Brilliant news AOW! That effort, though as diffic...Brilliant news AOW! That effort, though as difficult as it may be for him, is exactly what he needs. Stroke victims, according to what I understand, need most of all to return to the natural motions and physical movements they had before.<br /><br />My prayers are with you both.D Charles QChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805304737361014277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-56472033910639417762011-12-14T07:36:05.079-06:002011-12-14T07:36:05.079-06:00Stoges, another simple point. I am not a liberal....Stoges, another simple point. I am not a liberal. I am a centre-right active member and financial supporter of the British Conservative Party. Trying to hide your own bigotry by classic ad hominims fall flat.D Charles QChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805304737361014277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-40595080560016621382011-12-14T07:34:09.800-06:002011-12-14T07:34:09.800-06:00Stogie,
superficial examples like Beslan 9/11 are...Stogie,<br /><br />superficial examples like Beslan 9/11 are just that, examples of events done in the name of a faith for political or radical reasons, nothing more or less. <br /><br />Your entire approach, to be frank, is superficial and smells of "I want to sound tough" whilst attempting to grasp at something you have no comprehension of and thus have to go the easy route.<br /><br />I noticed, of course, you have not bothered to respond to the errors that I have pointed out but thrown in more. I will not bother to repeat them, they are there to remind you of the big holes in your arguments. Filling it in with the examples of the horrors of militant Islamists (though disgusting and repugnant as they are) remains only superficial.<br /><br />A Jewish-Spanish proverb would be perfect for your examples - <br /><br />"stop counting the sand and start looking for a bucket."<br /><br />You may wish to consider some very simple facts that I am sure the sites you hang around carefully avoid.<br /><br />How many Muslim nations supported events like 9/11 and Beslan? None. <br />How many Muslim nations support the goals of becoming a single large Caliphate? None.<br />How many countries officially support Al Qaeda? None.<br />What percentage of Muslim countries are an active participant in fighting militant Islamist terrorism? 51 out of 56.<br />Of the five Islamic schools of Jurispudence (the ones that can declare a global jihad and right the theological rule books etc), how many support terror and Islamists? None, in fact all five condemned it even through fatwas.D Charles QChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805304737361014277noreply@blogger.com