Investigation of Australia's Home-Grown IS Fighters Reveals That 96% Were On Welfare Before Joining the Jihad

Work breeds virtue and wisdom, by focusing people on, get this, reality.

Work doesn't permit grandiose heroic conspiracy theories. Either the job gets done or it does not; either you perform or you do not; either you can manage to show up on time occasionally or you can't.

The adolescent dreamers do not like work. It cuts into their daydreaming time and frequently contradicts their absurd personal heroic narratives.

The Jihadi-oriented adolescent dreamers therefore stop working so they can rant about Jews full-time.

We really ought to deny them the ability to do this.

Most had continued to collect payments from Australian taxpayers while training with Islamic State to become terrorists intent on wanting to kill Australians.

Get a job you silly demented manboy weaklings.

Posted by: Ace at 12:09 PM

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1 foist

Posted by: tfox72 at February 23, 2015 12:10 PM (DVC2D)

2 Barack Obama is a SCOAMT.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 23, 2015 12:10 PM (M1uf/)

3 Mohammedanism is an evil death cult.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 23, 2015 12:10 PM (M1uf/)

4 Australia should have offered them Yazidi Slave Girls to assuage their problems with the West. I don't think they are all that interested in jobs.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at February 23, 2015 12:10 PM (oDCMR)

5 What a World, What a World...

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at February 23, 2015 12:10 PM (Bn6aD)

6 Just walk away....

BTW, where is aussie? Anyone heard from her lately?

Posted by: EC at February 23, 2015 12:11 PM (GQ8sn)

7 See Marie was pright

Posted by: Jen Psaki's PMom at February 23, 2015 12:11 PM (1xtIS)

8 pretty sure you'd find a similar statistic w/ EuroJihadi

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 23, 2015 12:12 PM (7RXcs)

9 Actually, many Mohammedans view welfare as the Jizya- a tax paid by Christians and Jews for the honor of living under the oppressive thumb of Mohammedans.

That is to say: many Mohammedans believe that it is their religious duty to be on welfare.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 23, 2015 12:12 PM (M1uf/)

10 yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip boom boom boom boom get a job

Posted by: sha na na at February 23, 2015 12:13 PM (B+p2p)

11 Sawing of the heads of adults, children, & even babies is so much more fun!

Posted by: Bruce J. at February 23, 2015 12:13 PM (iQIUe)

12 Sort of on topic, Robert Spencer or someone once posted a series of posts that led one through reading the Koran in thirty days or so. Does anyone have a link to that?

The Koran should be read in the order Mo wrote it or it's just jibberish. I'd like to wade through it, if I can.

Posted by: adolfo_velasquez at February 23, 2015 12:13 PM (ZufZo)

13 Idle hands are the Devil's workshop.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2015 12:13 PM (hlbmD)

14 Glad I'm learning Arabic. At least I'll be able to talk to our masters.

Posted by: wrg500 at February 23, 2015 12:13 PM (sgrzZ)

15 That is to say: many Mohammedans believe that it is their religious duty to be on welfare.

Working for a living takes time away from killing people for Allah.

Posted by: Comrade Moron ZKzrr at February 23, 2015 12:13 PM (/kI1Q)

16 "We really ought to deny them the ability to do this.

You know, that same approach would solve the problem of Occupy Wherevers, Ferguson protestors, and pajamabois in general. That's killing three or four birds with one stone.

"Get a job you silly demented manboy weaklings."

And that one would put an end to the problem of community organizers, too.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at February 23, 2015 12:13 PM (iIzG7)

17 Wait....Harf was right when she said the jihadists needed a jobs program?!?!?

Posted by: cthulhu at February 23, 2015 12:14 PM (T1005)

18 Most had continued to collect payments from Australian taxpayers while training with Islamic State to become terrorists intent on wanting to kill Australians.

Hmm, I guess that's not a conflict of interest these days.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at February 23, 2015 12:14 PM (0HooB)

19 Seriously, Mohammedanism has a whole lot to sell it.

Beyond the "other Mohammedans are at least somewhat less likely to kill you," there's the whole "it's a religious duty to mooch of others," the whole, "nothing is your fault, it's all those dirty JOOOZ!" and so forth.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 23, 2015 12:14 PM (M1uf/)

20 So what you're saying, ace, is that we need a jobs program to combat terrorism? /sarc

Posted by: Insomniac at February 23, 2015 12:14 PM (2Ojst)

21 Well, that's great, but how many home-grown Muslims are on welfare? 95%?

This isn't much of a statistic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 23, 2015 12:14 PM (Zu3d9)

22 Uh oh, I hope the gov't doesn't start thinking the same thing about eeevil right wing homeschoolers.

Posted by: Mama AJ, Evil Homeschooler Tactical Squad at February 23, 2015 12:14 PM (0xTsz)

23
That is to say: many Mohammedans believe that it is their religious duty to be on welfare.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 23, 2015 12:12 PM (M1uf/)

Religious Entitlement.

Posted by: Imam Obama at February 23, 2015 12:15 PM (B+p2p)

24 I'm shocked! Shocked that Welfare recipients would bite the hand that feeds them.

Posted by: Iblis at February 23, 2015 12:15 PM (9221z)

25 Pay the muzzies a tax? Sure. Paid in precious metals, i.e; Copper n' lead, +3000 fps.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 23, 2015 12:15 PM (RzZOc)

26 It's as if inviting millions of muslims into our midst was a bad idea. I'm shocked.

Posted by: ToursLepantoVienna at February 23, 2015 12:15 PM (UlI/7)

27 21 Well, that's great, but how many home-grown Muslims are on welfare? 95%?

This isn't much of a statistic.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 23, 2015 12:14 PM (Zu3d9)

You're employed and still manage to find time to rant about the Joooz. How do you do it?

Posted by: Insomniac at February 23, 2015 12:15 PM (2Ojst)

28 I gets benefits for my goats too!

Posted by: Husain Husain Husain at February 23, 2015 12:15 PM (q+zA9)

29 Australia is no longer a serious English speaking country, just like Britain and the US.

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 23, 2015 12:15 PM (ftVQq)

30 Australia has been bringing these SOBs in for a long time and giving them welfare. But we can't condemn them because for the past 7 years we have been doing the same damn thing.

But impeachment is off the table.

Posted by: Vic at February 23, 2015 12:15 PM (wlDny)

31 I assume Ace is referencing home-grown (1st world nation) terrorists. And I agree, but that doesn't mean I buy into the State Department's asinine viewpoint that the same would be true in Syria. Self-radicalization is a lot easier when you can get the taxpayer to pick up the tab.

Posted by: Meric1837 at February 23, 2015 12:16 PM (yrsus)

32
What difference, at this point, does it make?1/1/1!!?!!??/?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 23, 2015 12:16 PM (HSmrB)

33 *Some* of us had these MFers pegged centuries ago.

Posted by: Vlad Tepes at February 23, 2015 12:16 PM (M1uf/)

34 The world is committing slow motion suicide by allowing Mohammedans to immigrate.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at February 23, 2015 12:17 PM (nUZNl)

35 Head start programs are our only hope.

Posted by: Garrett at February 23, 2015 12:17 PM (DnIZ2)

36 *Some* of us had these MFers pegged centuries ago.

Posted by: Vlad Tepes at February 23, 2015 12:16 PM (M1uf/)

ISWYDT.

Posted by: EC at February 23, 2015 12:17 PM (GQ8sn)

37 I gets benefits for my goats too!
Posted by: Husain Husain Husain

Why not, they're just like family!

Posted by: Bruce at February 23, 2015 12:17 PM (8ikIW)

38 The Koran should be read in the order Mo wrote it or it's just jibberish. I'd like to wade through it, if I can.

Read the Quran then the Haddith. One supports the other.

Posted by: wrg500 at February 23, 2015 12:17 PM (sgrzZ)

39 No, there's a huge difference between "a jobs program" (that is: "making jobs available") and saying "He who won't work shouldn't eat."

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 23, 2015 12:17 PM (M1uf/)

40 Sort of on topic, Robert Spencer or someone once posted a series of posts that led one through reading the Koran in thirty days or so. Does anyone have a link to that? The Koran should be read in the order Mo wrote it or it's just jibberish. I'd like to wade through it, if I can.
Posted by: adolfo_velasquez at February 23, 2015 12:13 PM (ZufZo)

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It's not so much the koran (it's bad enough), but the hadiths that have been written in an attempt to define it. Read the hadiths. That's what's driving the lunacy.

Posted by: Soona at February 23, 2015 12:17 PM (/HX7u)

41 As I said on Fox on Sunday:

We need to be involved in the relevant communities in this country to thwart their recruitment efforts and to help build the counter-narrative to the one that is being put out by ISIL right now," Johnson said. ... "It does involve a whole of government approach.

That means job programs, welfare, open borders and everything else we can do for those poor bunny rabbits.

Posted by: Jeh Johnson at February 23, 2015 12:17 PM (LISuA)

42 This supports what I have long suspected. It's what I call the "Cafe Class", those who spend their time in coffee houses re-enforcing each other's supposed grievances and bigotry, who turn to whipping up mobs.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2015 12:17 PM (GDulk)

43 Why let useless pieces of shit like this immigrate into your country?
If immigrants don't contribute to the nation, boot them out.

Posted by: TexasJew at February 23, 2015 12:18 PM (TAu/7)

44 43 Why let useless pieces of shit like this immigrate into your country?
If immigrants don't contribute to the nation, boot them out.

Because "fairness" those pooooooor people...

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at February 23, 2015 12:19 PM (Bn6aD)

45 43 The same goes for Congressmen.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2015 12:19 PM (hlbmD)

46 40
Yep, the Haddith is the ranting's of a Warlord (Muhammad).

Posted by: wrg500 at February 23, 2015 12:19 PM (sgrzZ)

47 The Koran should be read in the order Mo wrote it or it's just jibberish. I'd like to wade through it, if I can.

Posted by: adolfo_velasquez at February 23, 2015 12:13 PM (ZufZo)

It's jibberish no matter what order you read it in, but it should be read in order so you see how mo, like all politicians, evolved over time as he accrued more and more power.

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 23, 2015 12:19 PM (ftVQq)

48 But Ochoom will not call them islamic or mention islam because the jihadies told him not to. See morning thread.

Posted by: Vic at February 23, 2015 12:19 PM (wlDny)

49 Three letters.

J-O-B-S

You're welcome.

Posted by: Joey Choo Choo at February 23, 2015 12:19 PM (LA7Cm)

50 Somebody would have benefitted from a hug and some quality mentoring.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 23, 2015 12:19 PM (NeFrd)

51 Work doesn't permit grandiose heroic conspiracy theories. Either the job
gets done or it does not; either you perform or you do not; either you
can manage to show up on time occasionally or you can't.

Chief Judge: As I said, her final score was only three points below a pass. It's marginal.

Dredd: It's not marginal. She failed.

Posted by: Heralder at February 23, 2015 12:20 PM (/Mxso)

52 If I am not mistaken all the Black separatist in Philly that got bombed a few years ago were on welfare.

http://tinyurl.com/97r62

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 23, 2015 12:20 PM (0FSuD)

53 Head start programs are our only hope.
Posted by: Garrett at February 23, 2015 12:17 PM (DnIZ2)
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OT and Relatedly, it seems nearly every politician in the country is eager to pour more money down the drain for more pre-pre-pre-pre-K-1st grade programs. And none of the programs have any sustained benefit!

Posted by: RioBravo at February 23, 2015 12:20 PM (z27Ny)

54
At the same time, some of these ideologies (radical Islam, Nazism, Communism), do appeal to otherwise hard-working individuals. I guess part of the question is what we mean by "reality" that work focuses people on? Could an otherwise hard-working, gainfully employed person hold an ideology that is morally bankrupt and act on it? I'd say yes, they could, and the history of the totalitarian regimes of the past and current century seems to suggest it.

Certainly, the people who formulate such ideas typically are not hard workers (see Marx and Hitler, with the caveat that Hitler was a decorated veteran of the first world war and would have had at least some courageto be considered for such honors. That he at some point had some courage didn't make him any less evil, though).

It is certainly true that the SS, Gestapo, NKVD, and other portions of the Chinese and Vietnamese Communist secret police were very hard workers in their own way, though their work and end goals were horrific.

In the case of these terrorists, their lack of work made them susceptible to a heroic jihadist narrative, but gainful, meaningful employment is merely a minor inoculation against moral rot.

Posted by: lurkingestlurker at February 23, 2015 12:21 PM (k8xvx)

55 Can't we break every window and level every building in the Middle East? That would create jobs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2015 12:21 PM (hlbmD)

56 *Some* of us had these MFers pegged centuries ago.

Posted by: Vlad Tepes at February 23, 2015 12:16 PM (M1uf/)

Yeah man, if you want to keep mussies out of your back yard, impale some in your front yard.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2015 12:21 PM (FMbng)

57 "The Religion of Handouts"
"The Religion of Rent-seeking"
"The Religion of Sloth"
"The Religion of Idleness"
"The Religion of Stagnation"
etc.

Posted by: fb at February 23, 2015 12:21 PM (JVEmw)

58 It's jobs. Don't you people listen?

Posted by: Marie Harf at February 23, 2015 12:22 PM (/HX7u)

59 Why let useless pieces of shit like this immigrate into your country?

If immigrants don't contribute to the nation, boot them out.

Posted by: TexasJew at February 23, 2015 12:18 PM (TAu/7)
How else are these useless pieces of shit going to turn their lives around unless they get free community college, free cell phone, job preferences, EBT cards, and the right to vote?

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 23, 2015 12:22 PM (ftVQq)

60 55 Can't we break every window and level every building in the Middle East? That would create jobs.

I think the most lucrative job in the Middle East right now is the "funeral" trade...

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at February 23, 2015 12:22 PM (Bn6aD)

61 Just remind me: In all the ground ISIS and all the other MUSLIM terrorist control how are their yob programs going? Any Microsofts or Apples yet? Any Starbucks being created? Hey how many great scientific inventions or discoveries have the money rich gulf MUSLIM States produced?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 23, 2015 12:22 PM (rDqRv)

62 All these Jihadis think they are male lions.

Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 23, 2015 12:22 PM (BBBoi)

63 Mu didn't write the Koran, he recited it.

Posted by: RioBravo at February 23, 2015 12:22 PM (z27Ny)

64 silly demented manboy weaklings.

That hurts, Ace. It really cuts me deep.

Posted by: FDR's Television at February 23, 2015 12:23 PM (ne2fm)

65 All these Jihadis think they are male lions.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 23, 2015 12:22 PM (BBBoi)

Bullets kill lions

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 23, 2015 12:23 PM (rDqRv)

66 "I think the most lucrative job in the Middle East right now is the "funeral" trade..."

Shovel-ready jobs.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at February 23, 2015 12:23 PM (iIzG7)

67 Wondering the same thing, EC - haven't seen her since sometime around Christmas...

Posted by: shredded chi at February 23, 2015 12:23 PM (zTcYS)

68 >> Get a job you silly demented manboy weaklings.

See, you guys. I was totes right.

Posted by: Marie Larf at February 23, 2015 12:23 PM (NpxRm)

69 That is to say: many Mohammedans believe that it is their religious duty to be on welfare.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 23, 2015 12:12 PM (M1uf/)

Sounds like one of those rationalizations, like the imams who say the Quran is OK w/ men taking it up the poop chute in order to loosen it up to put a bomb up there to kill the infidels.

you know, for the cause {wink}

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 23, 2015 12:24 PM (7RXcs)

70 "The Quran should be read in the order Mo wrote it or it is gibberish"

If it's read in the order by which it quotes itself, it reads like a collection of sectarian material with next to no reference to Mo's life.

It's like trying to piece together a Gospel based on rants for and against the heresy of Arius.

Posted by: boulder terlet hobo at February 23, 2015 12:24 PM (5qrli)

71 63
According to Muslim tradition he received them from the angel Gabriel if I remember right.

Posted by: wrg500 at February 23, 2015 12:24 PM (sgrzZ)

72 Why let useless pieces of shit like this immigrate into your country?
If immigrants don't contribute to the nation, boot them out.
Posted by: TexasJew at February 23, 2015 12:18 PM (TAu/7)

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.....youd think in this day and age we'd be more accepting of the Irish......

Posted by: fixerupper at February 23, 2015 12:24 PM (NaV4z)

73 Can "target" be considered a job?

Posted by: Jean at February 23, 2015 12:24 PM (ztOda)

74 Stop providing welfare. Period. Do a WPA type program, at most.

Posted by: kathysaysso at February 23, 2015 12:24 PM (fMQoG)

75 How do you do it?

Posted by: Insomniac at February 23, 2015 12:15 PM (2Ojst)

Ranting about the shape-shifters is a hobby.....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at February 23, 2015 12:25 PM (Zu3d9)

76 A jihadi walks into an Ali Akbar .

Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 23, 2015 12:25 PM (BBBoi)

77 Idle hands = Devil's workshop.

That is all.

Posted by: theduchessofkitty at February 23, 2015 12:25 PM (NtsQB)

78 We should bomb the cities, airports, harbors and paved roads in the ME to dust. It would take decades to recover.

Then bomb them again.

Posted by: Marie Harf at February 23, 2015 12:25 PM (/HX7u)

79 "Can "target" be considered a job?'

Only if you count temping as a job. "Target" isn't long-term employment if done correctly.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at February 23, 2015 12:25 PM (iIzG7)

80 Better look out. They got Cosby for saying "pull up your pants and get a job".

Posted by: theTruth at February 23, 2015 12:26 PM (PGh+Q)

81 - I mean, from purely sectarian literature, you could figure out that Jesus was mostly divine, and that he was crucified; but you'd not get any picture of who Jesus was

Posted by: boulder terlet hobo at February 23, 2015 12:26 PM (5qrli)

82 Becoming a bat shiet jihadist is the only easy way to own a gun in Australia.

Posted by: Buffalobob at February 23, 2015 12:26 PM (w+5ie)

83 Dirty little secret about the Muslim world, they are some of the laziest mofos you will ever meet.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 23, 2015 12:26 PM (g1DWB)

84 barf sock off

Posted by: Soona at February 23, 2015 12:26 PM (/HX7u)

85 Maybe they could get jobs working for communications at the State Department.

Posted by: Yes means Maybe at February 23, 2015 12:26 PM (7wyDO)

86 Yet another reason the "social welfare state" is a complete and abject failure. Worse, it actually MAKES THINGS WORSE.

Which is why Lord Obama and his minions just love them some social welfare state.

Posted by: Feh at February 23, 2015 12:27 PM (q9mLf)

87 Hasn't the last week been spent making fun of Harf and Psaki for saying the essentially same thing?

Really, the problem is that you have a bunch of 16-35 year old males who not only haven't worked at all, but ALSO that they time they would have spent working as been spent being radicalized.

So yes, employment is an issue but it's the indoctrination that turns them away from being shiftless drunks into head chopping fanatics.

Posted by: taylork at February 23, 2015 12:27 PM (7W3uU)

88 With a job you can also post here during the day.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 23, 2015 12:27 PM (vPh3W)

89 83
Too true.

Posted by: wrg500 at February 23, 2015 12:27 PM (sgrzZ)

90 I read sommers on the 'net that the Koran has to be read aloud, recited, spoken, because of the rhythm of the words, and the rhymes.

So the Profit Mo, invented rap because he was illiterate, his followers couldn't read or write, and the only way they could remember the words was if the words rhymed.

Yo! Inshallah !

Posted by: Juston Leesun at February 23, 2015 12:27 PM (+uSF7)

91 Eliminate welfare. All of it. If you don't work, you don't eat. The Jamestown approach. We'll either convert layabouts into productive workers, or into corpses. Either way works. No pun intended.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 23, 2015 12:27 PM (oKE6c)

92 Posted by: kathysaysso at February 23, 2015 12:24 PM (fMQoG)

All the pictures pf minorities in "government servitude' (it wouldn't just be minorities, but you can bet that's who the pictures would be of) would put an end to that pretty quick.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2015 12:27 PM (GDulk)

93 83
Dirty little secret about the Muslim world, they are some of the laziest mofos you will ever meet.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 23, 2015 12:26 PM (g1DWB)

You misspelled sexually frustrated faggots.

Posted by: kathysaysso at February 23, 2015 12:28 PM (fMQoG)

94 Thank you for all of the explanation of the Koran, but does anyone know how to find that series on what order to read it? My memory is faulty, or it's been deleted, because I can't find it by googling Robert Spencer. I remember it was widely linked on conservative blogs about 8-10 years ago.

Posted by: adolfo_velasquez at February 23, 2015 12:28 PM (ZufZo)

95 Idle hands are something something workshop.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet sponsors Iraq Capades with Brian Williams! at February 23, 2015 12:28 PM (hLRSq)

96 Maybe they could get jobs working for communications at the State Department.

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Why would we work at State when all the really good gigs we are are getting are in DoD and Intelligence Services???

Posted by: Achmed The Immigrant at February 23, 2015 12:28 PM (NaV4z)

97 78 We should bomb the cities, airports, harbors and paved roads in the ME to dust. It would take decades to recover.

Then bomb them again.
Posted by: Marie Harf at February 23, 2015 12:25 PM (/HX7u)

Marie, by Jove you've found the perfect jobs program for them silly goat f*ckers.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 23, 2015 12:28 PM (vPh3W)

98 You know who else has this problem? Israel.

The ultra orthodox Jews don't work, they pray, have kids and they don't serve in the military.'

The rest of the nation is getting tired of it.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 23, 2015 12:28 PM (0FSuD)

99 You guys can't kill your way to victory over ISIwhatevs, but you can die your way into a global caliphate.

serious guys. #jobsforjihadis

Posted by: Marie Harf at February 23, 2015 12:28 PM (7RXcs)

100 All of us down at the Brattleboro Women's Reproductive Health Choice
Clinic think President Obama should pay these youngs girls not to join that group caused by Bush policies because they have a better chance to protest here and get paid rather then there. Again because Bush lied another problem arises for our President of Color to repair.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstoen from Brattleboro, VT at February 23, 2015 12:28 PM (Sd++4)

101 Posted by: JackStraw at February 23, 2015 12:26 PM (g1DWB)

"Either the job gets done or it does not; either you perform or you do
not; either you can manage to show up on time occasionally or you can't."

Inshallah!

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 23, 2015 12:28 PM (ftVQq)

102 My idle hands usually end up fapping or playing video games, not chopping peoples' heads off.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 23, 2015 12:28 PM (2Ojst)

103 Work breeds virtue and wisdom

Last Sunday I finally figured it out: the left defines the word "virtue" differently than we do.

For a long time they acknowledged that hard work and self-reliance are virtues but that we shouldn't be overly critical of those who didn't work and instead rely on public assistance.

No, that view has been transformed, and receiving welfare is itself become virtuous! Julia lives a virtuous life in the opinion of the left! It's incredible but that's really what they think, as does Obama and his administration.

Posted by: MTF, Fan of the Crusades at February 23, 2015 12:29 PM (LISuA)

104 74 Stop providing welfare. Period. Do a WPA type program, at most.

Posted by: kathysaysso at February 23, 2015 12:24 PM (fMQoG)

This.

And if you don't show up reliably for the WPA type program, boom! You're out on your ass, and go hungry.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 23, 2015 12:29 PM (oKE6c)

105 ""I think the most lucrative job in the Middle East right now is the "funeral" trade..."

And business is booming!

Posted by: Ali's Casket Emporium at February 23, 2015 12:29 PM (LA7Cm)

106 So Harf was right?

Posted by: blaster at February 23, 2015 12:29 PM (Rx8ML)

107 Wait, so Marie Harf was right?

Posted by: Citizen X at February 23, 2015 12:29 PM (7ObY1)

108 No auto correct may have made the joke less non funny.

Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 23, 2015 12:29 PM (BBBoi)

109 Wait....Harf was right when she said the jihadists needed a jobs program?!?!?

Posted by: cthulhu at February 23, 2015 12:14 PM (T1005)

No. They need to be at actual jobs. A jobs program isn't anything like an actual job.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet sponsors Iraq Capades with Brian Williams! at February 23, 2015 12:29 PM (hLRSq)

110 Really, the problem is that you have a bunch of
16-35 year old males who not only haven't worked at all, but ALSO that
they time they would have spent working as been spent being radicalized.

So yes, employment is an issue but it's the indoctrination that
turns them away from being shiftless drunks into head chopping fanatics.

Posted by: taylork at February 23, 2015 12:27 PM (7W3uU)

Do you think if those people could work they would? I'm doubtful.

Posted by: Heralder at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (/Mxso)

111 Posted by: blaster at February 23, 2015 12:29 PM (Rx8ML)

Heh. Great minds and all that.

Posted by: Citizen X at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (7ObY1)

112
Wow, Ace writes about the virtues of work.

I shall now prepare a treatise on the benefits of not fapping.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (JtwS4)

113 I guess my idle hands are typing here.

Slow day here mainly because half the office stayed home from Snowmaggedon.

Posted by: boulder terlet hobo at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (5qrli)

114 Hillary must have gone for the full monty in plastic surgery...

The soon-to-be tan, rested and 'youthful' ready Hillary will be sparkling for '16...

Explains her absence from the public!

and for Bill, Hillsry will be moving from her old 4 car garage to a 1 car garage tight vajay ; )

Posted by: Hannibal at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (SNqwm)

115 @83

The Paki's will work pretty hard.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (0FSuD)

116
According to Muslim tradition he received them from the angel Gabriel if I remember right

=======

Gabriel is also the one that'll blow the horn what destroys everything, so I kinda think of him as a schemer.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (Cq0oW)

117 Sure, we'd all love to see the WPA murals done by jihadi wannabes.

Abolish welfare. Abolish teacher unions. Pump more money into voucher programs. Start more charter schools. Incentivize marriage. And so on.

Posted by: Feh at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (q9mLf)

118 112

Ahh, a short story.

Posted by: wrg500 at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (sgrzZ)

119 112
Wow, Ace writes about the virtues of work.

I shall now prepare a treatise on the benefits of not fapping.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (JtwS4)

OK, now that you're finished, let's see it.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (2Ojst)

120 Hasn't the last week been spent making fun of Harf and Psaki for saying the essentially same thing?

As I said above, there's a huge difference between "we need a jobs program" and "he who won't work shouldn't eat."

The Administration (and, frankly, that came from Jarret and/or TFG, Harf and Psaki were just parrots), is saying "oh, they don't have enough opportunity for work!"

That, indeed, is laughable. Their evil death cult will not be stopped by offering them jobs.

What is true, however, is that if they had jobs (because they had to have them) they would not have time for the evil death cult.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (M1uf/)

121 92 Posted by: kathysaysso at February 23, 2015 12:24 PM (fMQoG)

All the pictures pf minorities in "government servitude' (it wouldn't just be minorities, but you can bet that's who the pictures would be of) would put an end to that pretty quick.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2015 12:27 PM (GDulk)

OK, no PWA type program, so we're back to my plan: you don't work, you don't eat.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (oKE6c)

122 Why would we work at State when all the really good gigs we are are getting are in DoD and Intelligence Services???

Posted by: Achmed The Immigrant at February 23, 2015 12:28 PM (NaV4z)
Oh how I wish I could laugh at that!

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 23, 2015 12:31 PM (ftVQq)

123 I'm always right. Look at my fcuking glasses!

Posted by: Marie Harf at February 23, 2015 12:31 PM (7RXcs)

124 I shall now prepare a treatise on the benefits of not fapping.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (JtwS4)

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Well..... that shouldnt take long.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 23, 2015 12:31 PM (NaV4z)

125 And none of the programs have any sustained benefit!

Sure they do: They reliably funnel government money into the pockets of people who vote for Democrats.

Posted by: Comrade Moron ZKzrr at February 23, 2015 12:31 PM (/kI1Q)

126 Excellent statistic. Now we know that only five percent of the Mahometans in Australia can be considered to be "moderate".

Posted by: Furious George at February 23, 2015 12:31 PM (UlJ3l)

127 Harf rhymes with Barf.

Posted by: theTruth at February 23, 2015 12:32 PM (PGh+Q)

128 Muslim countries are so totally known for their vibrant economies

like totally

Posted by: the artichoke at February 23, 2015 12:32 PM (q+zA9)

129 Dirty little secret about the Muslim world, they are some of the laziest mofos you will ever meet.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 23, 2015 12:26 PM (g1DWB)

You misspelled sexually frustrated faggots.

Posted by: kathysaysso at February 23, 2015 12:28 PM (fMQoG)

That's some funny shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2015 12:32 PM (FMbng)

130 "Excellent statistic. Now we know that only five percent of the Mahometans in Australia can be considered to be "moderate".'

Those five percent work in mosques and call themselves clergy. They're not all that helpful, and not all that moderate.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at February 23, 2015 12:33 PM (iIzG7)

131 127 Harf rhymes with Barf.

Psaki rhymes with...man, that's a tough one.

George Pataki?

Posted by: Citizen X at February 23, 2015 12:33 PM (7ObY1)

132 chronological order of Koran:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/newwvlt

Posted by: RioBravo at February 23, 2015 12:33 PM (z27Ny)

133 So old Mo had to make everything rhyme because His followers couldn't read? He must have been the inspiration for Dr. Seuss...

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at February 23, 2015 12:33 PM (Bn6aD)

134 What are the results for the UK? 100%?

Posted by: Fourth Virginia at February 23, 2015 12:33 PM (VcOqI)

135 Thank you for all of the explanation of the Koran, but does anyone know how to find that series on what order to read it? My memory is faulty, or it's been deleted, because I can't find it by googling Robert Spencer. I remember it was widely linked on conservative blogs about 8-10 years ago.

Let me save you some time: take everything in the Bible about becoming a better person and invert it. Love for your fellow human becomes hatred. Freedom to follow your conscience becomes slavery to some idiot imam. Forgiveness becomes revenge.

I refuse to read that POS.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at February 23, 2015 12:33 PM (0HooB)

136 I saw Sexually Frustrated Faggots open for The Smiths...

waitaminnit...The Smiths WERE the sexually frustrated faggots.

Never mind.

Posted by: Citizen X at February 23, 2015 12:34 PM (7ObY1)

137 Do you think if those people could work they would? I'm doubtful.

>>>Not at this point they wouldn't, but there is something to be said about making sure that the up and coming (i.e., under 14 age group) have something to do other than sit around and listen to the latest sermon about how Jews are bad.

Jobs don't fix 15+ years of being radicalized by Islam, but they may prevent new radicals by at least taking away 20+ hours a week of seat time.

Posted by: taylork at February 23, 2015 12:34 PM (7W3uU)

138 Isn't this what Wilma and Betty were saying just last week? Give the terrorists jobs, and they won't have time to blow shit up.

So I got to thinking, where do we really need help?

Well, duh, we obviously don't have enough daycare, and we're told only 1,000 times a day that our roads are a catastrophe.

Thus I propose that we take all of these unemployed ISIS-wannabes and deploy them into daycares and road-work construction gangs.

It's a perfect fit. I want them raising our kids and fixing our bridges...

Posted by: RobM1981 at February 23, 2015 12:34 PM (zurJC)

139 Hasn't the last week been spent making fun of Harf and Psaki for saying the essentially same thing?

No.

Let's put it in algebraic form:

The dole + recipient = Welfare state dependent
The dole + recipient + X = ISIS recruit

What, oh what, could X be??????

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 23, 2015 12:35 PM (659DL)

140 133 So old Mo had to make everything rhyme because His followers couldn't read? He must have been the inspiration for Dr. Seuss...

And every infomercial on TV these days.

Posted by: Citizen X at February 23, 2015 12:35 PM (7ObY1)

141 A jihadi walks into an Ali Akbar .

****

Bartender gives him two shots.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 23, 2015 12:35 PM (NeFrd)

142
This is what I mean when I say we've become our own worst enemy -- we've been trained by the Left to tolerate and enable bad behavior.

I'd like to return to a time when bad actors were shamed and shunned by the community not ignored, celebrated or otherwise supported by the people.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Knower Of All Approximate Knowledge Now and In The Future at February 23, 2015 12:35 PM (HkNlg)

143 Hasn't the last week been spent making fun of Harf and Psaki for saying the essentially same thing?

Left unsaid is "self-reliance", as in "I got myself a job", versus "the government sent me a check or provided make-work".

Also (and this is nuanced, as Marie the Milkmaid would acknowledge), the U.S. government is not and cannot ever be responsible for job programs in Somalia/Yemen/Iraq/Syria or whatever.

Posted by: MTF, Fan of the Crusades at February 23, 2015 12:35 PM (LISuA)

144 >>The Paki's will work pretty hard.

It's all relative. For the Muslim world they are fairly high up on the ladder but the majority of the Muslim world is not into hard work.

In the UAE, an ex-pat must get a local UAE citizen partner to open a business, for example. The UAE citizen doesn't do squat, all the work is done by the ex-pats (mostly Indians) but they get a check every month. Lots of guys have multiple businesses on top of the incredible benefits they get from the government.

They may not be on welfare as we know it but they don't work at all in any normal sense of the word.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 23, 2015 12:35 PM (g1DWB)

145 I say Bam Bam.

Posted by: Fourth Virginia at February 23, 2015 12:35 PM (VcOqI)

146 The Profit Mo re-incarnate is The REVrund Jessie JACK sun.

Posted by: Juston Leesun at February 23, 2015 12:36 PM (+uSF7)

147 "So old Mo had to make everything rhyme because His followers couldn't read? He must have been the inspiration for Dr. Seuss..."

I will behead them on a train,
I will crash them in a plan,
I will burn them in a cage,
I will stone them in a rage,
With 'Allahu Akbar' on my lips,
I will start the Apocalypse.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at February 23, 2015 12:36 PM (iIzG7)

148 The koran was plainly written by an illiterate retard. This is why they had an oral tradition. They couldn't read. You could probably write a better koran then the child molester mohamed.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2015 12:36 PM (hlbmD)

149 78 We should bomb the cities, airports, harbors and paved roads in the ME to dust. It would take decades to recover.

Then bomb them again.

Posted by: Marie Harf at February 23, 2015 12:25 PM (/HX7u)/i]

I knew you'd come around eventually, Marie.

Posted by: rickl at February 23, 2015 12:36 PM (zoehZ)

150

Posted by: rickl at February 23, 2015 12:36 PM (zoehZ)

151 OK, now that you're finished, let's see it.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (2Ojst)

You won't go blind?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 23, 2015 12:36 PM (0FSuD)

152 Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (oKE6c)

Simpler to be sure. Also, the government already messes up the labor market terribly. Just think what would happen if they were the guaranteed employer of all unskilled workers. *Not* paying welfare in any form is altogether better (and I say that as a widow whose 4 kids are all receiving AtDC) I would rather people had the freed up money to *voluntarily* by what I make.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2015 12:37 PM (GDulk)

153 So we have that one idiot talking about getting terrorists jobs and this mentioning so many are on welfare. Solution? Kick them off welfare so they have to get a job!

Posted by: Lea at February 23, 2015 12:37 PM (vmMMi)

154 Shortly after 9-11 on the free republic site somebody had posted theee most comical history of islam I ever read, complete with pictures. I wish I could find it. I laughed for days. I remember the person kept referring to Mohamed as holy mo. I wish I could find it, it was frigging hysterical.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2015 12:37 PM (FMbng)

155 I'd like to return to a time when bad actors were shamed and shunned by the community not ignored, celebrated or otherwise supported by the people.

So you didn't like the Oscars?

Posted by: wrg500 at February 23, 2015 12:37 PM (sgrzZ)

156 151 OK, now that you're finished, let's see it.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (2Ojst)

You won't go blind?
Posted by: Nip Sip at February 23, 2015 12:36 PM (0FSuD)

That's a myth. *shaves palms*

Posted by: Insomniac at February 23, 2015 12:37 PM (2Ojst)

157 I will behead them on a train,
I will crash them in a plan,
I will burn them in a cage,
I will stone them in a rage,
With 'Allahu Akbar' on my lips,
I will start the Apocalypse.
Posted by: Keith Arnold at February 23, 2015 12:36 PM (iIzG7)

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**holds lighter in the air

Posted by: fixerupper at February 23, 2015 12:37 PM (NaV4z)

158 Jen Psaki? Marie Harf? Who ARE these people?

Now, Ann-Margrock...THERE was an entertainer.

Posted by: Wilma and Betty at February 23, 2015 12:37 PM (7ObY1)

159 but there is something to be said about making sure that the up and
coming (i.e., under 14 age group) have something to do other than sit
around and listen to the latest sermon about how Jews are bad.

If only the Rethuglikkkans hadn't defunded midnight basketball, or something.

Posted by: Comrade Moron ZKzrr at February 23, 2015 12:37 PM (/kI1Q)

160 OK, no PWA type program, so we're back to my plan: you don't work, you don't eat.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (oKE6c)

Nope. Push back. When the heart-wrenching pix of the poor downtrodden minorities slaving away in "servitude to government" are published, point out to anyone who will listen that building a road is better than being a brood mare. Learning a craft is better than learning to smoke crack. Having some pride and self-respect is preferable to ignorance and self-destruction. We've let the lefties frame the narrative for far too long.

Posted by: kathysaysso at February 23, 2015 12:37 PM (fMQoG)

161 Hillary and Bill have collected so many Muslim millions that they might just regard a jobs program for jihadists as "loan repayment".

Posted by: MTF, Fan of the Crusades at February 23, 2015 12:37 PM (LISuA)

162 It's as if inviting millions of muslims into our midst was a bad idea. I'm shocked.
Posted by: ToursLepantoVienna at February 23, 2015 12:15 PM (UlI/7)
__________________________

This is what pisses me off: anybody who even questions the wisdom of Muslim immigration is immediately dismissed as a "hater," "bigot," "Islamophobe," "xenophobe," or some similar insult. And Obama is the biggest name caller. Just the other day he gave a speech saying the real problem isn't "violent extremism" (his euphemism for Islamic terrorist); no, the real problem is anti-Muslim bigotry.

An American doesn't have to "hate" Muslims to think that it might not be a great idea to allow millions of them to immigrate to this country. Especially since Muslims do not share our values, do not respect us, and do not intend to assimilate to our culture.

Muslims do not believe in freedom of religion. They do not believe in freedom of speech. They do not believe in the separation of church and state. They do not believe in free markets. They do not believe in equal civil rights for women, or for homosexuals, etc. In other words, Muslims do not believe in fundamental American values. And yet, our government continues to allow millions of Muslims to immigrate here -- setting up an inevitable clash of civilizations in our own land.

Why are we tolerating this? And why do we allow leftist politicians, and their handmaidens in the media, to shut us down if we dare even question the wisdom of this lunacy?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 23, 2015 12:38 PM (Fnyc2)

163 So old Mo had to make everything rhyme because His followers couldn't read?

In the desert areas of the ME in the 600s? That's not actually that surprising.

A of passages in the Bible (particularly the Gospels and Paul's letters) have signs that they were originally verbal creeds- short pieces used to memorize doctrine- precisely because they were being communicated in a predominately illiterate world.

One of the reasons that the Gospels may not have been put to paper earlier than they were (and the earliest we can verify is put prior to 70 AD, which is important for historicity) was that there largely wasn't a need- the people of the day were used to oral tradition and many (most) were able to memorize long pieces.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 23, 2015 12:38 PM (M1uf/)

164 I shall now prepare a treatise on the benefits of not fapping.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (JtwS4)

Better eyesight? Less hairy palms? Hmm. Seems like a rather short treatise.

Posted by: physics geek at February 23, 2015 12:38 PM (MT22W)

165 In most people, I think, lies a basic understanding that taking the fruits of someone else's labor, without the laborer's uncoerced consent, is a shitty thing to do.

Hence, all the justifications for the endeavor that eventually lead up to the most interesting parts of human history. Unless you're the laborer. Then interesting is the wrong word.

Man is a shitty entity, by and large. Much more greedy than smart.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 23, 2015 12:38 PM (cBvzT)

166 Work? Absolutely! Give those jihadists something to do. Please.

Posted by: Goats of Syria at February 23, 2015 12:39 PM (LISuA)

167 Funny it's the Jihadis that are craving jobs according to the WH.

But Americans should be content to live on the dole and have illegals do the work they don't want to.

This was obvious, as it's obvious the car-b-q center of the world in france is also living on the dole. And Great Britain. And...

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at February 23, 2015 12:39 PM (sH832)

168 The dole + recipient + X = ISIS recruit

What, oh what, could X be??????

Uh oh.

Posted by: The Goat at February 23, 2015 12:39 PM (BrQrN)

169 I do not like them Imam Assam,
I do not like infidel ham.
I would not eat them on a boat,
I would not eat them with my goat.
I would not rub them on my body
I would not eat them with a jihadi.

I would not eat them while I salaam
I would not eat them for Islam.
I do not like infidel ham
I do not like them Imam Assam.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 23, 2015 12:39 PM (NeFrd)

170 164 I shall now prepare a treatise on the benefits of not fapping.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (JtwS4)

Better eyesight? Less hairy palms? Hmm. Seems like a rather short treatise.
Posted by: physics geek at February 23, 2015 12:38 PM (MT22W)

Reminds me of a Supernatural episode where a psychic kid's beliefs in urban legends cause them to come true. Dean gets hairy palms.

"I was bored. That nurse was HOT!"

Posted by: Insomniac at February 23, 2015 12:39 PM (2Ojst)

171
What a joke. We are a big joke.

We talk about all the ways we'd destroy ISIS over there, but the truth is we'll do NOTHING about the myriad of Hate-Hives [mosques] right in our own neighborhoods.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Knower Of All Approximate Knowledge Now and In The Future at February 23, 2015 12:39 PM (HkNlg)

172 @144

The new king of SA just gave out $14 BILLION to his subjects. One said the state is basically a welfare state. Some towns 80% of the population works for the government.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 23, 2015 12:39 PM (0FSuD)

173 Enslave them all. That should keep them busy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2015 12:39 PM (hlbmD)

174 Too much frapping will not make you go blind. I know, I tried. The best I could do was nearsighted.

Posted by: Juston Leesun at February 23, 2015 12:39 PM (+uSF7)

175 160

Excellent, excellent. We KNOW what the Extreme Left will do with stories of the downtrodden (sic). It's way, way, WAY past time that their victim classes understand that they're being ENSLAVED to the Democrat Plantation.

Same as it ever was, and with the SAME "best intentions."

Posted by: Feh at February 23, 2015 12:40 PM (q9mLf)

176 Jobs don't fix 15+ years of being radicalized by
Islam, but they may prevent new radicals by at least taking away 20+
hours a week of seat time.

Posted by: taylork at February 23, 2015 12:34 PM (7W3uU)

The problem is welfare is an option. If they have a job available, but can sit on welfare instead which do you think people will choose? It's not helping that in some of these people's home countries, men not working is part of the culture and their kids are raised in Western countries with the same idea.

Posted by: Heralder at February 23, 2015 12:40 PM (/Mxso)

177 @63 Mu didn't write the Koran, he recited it.
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From what I understand, he didn't really even do that. It's just a collection of comments he made or stories he told during his life that people happened to remember (or claim to remember) much, much later when someone decided that they ought to record all this stuff.

Posted by: junior at February 23, 2015 12:40 PM (UWFpX)

178 Most of those Australian 'immigrants' had no intention of working in the first place, they chose Australia because they knew the state would be on the hook to pay them.

Posted by: JEM at February 23, 2015 12:40 PM (o+SC1)

179 Is your jihadi snoring?
That's 'cause his life is boring!

He wants to play and play all day, but with those old jihadi toys, there's no way!

Until now. The new Bell and Howell Jihadi Play Toys will get your jihadist jumping and his blood pumping!

Call within the next 20 minutes and ask about our free shipping!

Posted by: Every Infomercial on TV at February 23, 2015 12:40 PM (7ObY1)

180 Get those jihadists off the streets and out of our barnyards.

Posted by: Association of Iraqi Donkeys at February 23, 2015 12:41 PM (LISuA)

181
Before you go getting on your high horse remember hillbillies and rednecks like welfare too.

Posted by: Barack Equivalency at February 23, 2015 12:41 PM (Xv7f/)

182 In most people, I think, lies a basic understanding that taking the
fruits of someone else's labor, without the laborer's uncoerced consent,
is a shitty thing to do.

Not in 21st century America.

Posted by: Comrade Moron ZKzrr at February 23, 2015 12:41 PM (/kI1Q)

183 181
Before you go getting on your high horse remember hillbillies and rednecks like welfare too.
Posted by: Barack Equivalency at February 23, 2015 12:41 PM (Xv7f/)

If you hadn't killed the coal industry, we wouldn't have to, ya bastard.

Posted by: Appalachia resident at February 23, 2015 12:42 PM (2Ojst)

184
One of the reasons that the Gospels may not have been put to paper earlier than they were (and the earliest we can verify is put prior to 70 AD, which is important for historicity) was that there largely wasn't a need- the people of the day were used to oral tradition and many (most) were able to memorize long pieces.

You sure about that? It's been a while since I read up on it but IIRC 70 AD is the presumed first writing of a Gospel, but the earliest scraps of physical text are like 200 AD.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 23, 2015 12:42 PM (JtwS4)

185 You didn't earn that.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 23, 2015 12:42 PM (hlbmD)

186 181

Before you go getting on your high horse remember hillbillies and rednecks like welfare too.

Posted by: Barack Equivalency at February 23, 2015 12:41 PM (Xv7f/)

As, apparently, does our President. Has he ever earned a dollar in the private sector?

Posted by: kathysaysso at February 23, 2015 12:42 PM (fMQoG)

187 ISIS pays it's soldiers more than Iraq does. Oil money

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 23, 2015 12:42 PM (0FSuD)

188 In most people, I think, lies a basic understanding that taking the
fruits of someone else's labor, without the laborer's uncoerced consent,
is a shitty thing to do.

You've never had to make alimony payments, I take it.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 23, 2015 12:42 PM (2Ojst)

189 "I shall now prepare a treatise on the benefits of not fapping."

You could probably could get a sweet grant for that - either NEA or NIH, maybe body, and that would pay even better than a job.

Let's stop the hating; our fellow moron may be onto something...

Posted by: Keith Arnold at February 23, 2015 12:42 PM (iIzG7)

190 True Story. My nic in college was Rock. Short for schlep rock, the Flintstone character that had the black cloud follow him. I had some of the most ridiculous bad luck that it was laughable.

Posted by: Bob Belcher at February 23, 2015 12:42 PM (BBBoi)

191 I shall now prepare a treatise on the benefits of not fapping.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (JtwS4)

I don't understand those words in that order.

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah there's no frustration here at February 23, 2015 12:42 PM (mf5HN)

192 We talk about all the ways we'd destroy ISIS over there, but the truth is we'll do NOTHING about the myriad of Hate-Hives [mosques] right in our own neighborhoods.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Knower Of All Approximate Knowledge Now and In The Future at February 23, 2015 12:39 PM (HkNlg)

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..... pssssst..... over here....

... we have a plan for that....

Posted by: KINGSFORD at February 23, 2015 12:43 PM (NaV4z)

193 191 I shall now prepare a treatise on the benefits of not fapping.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 23, 2015 12:30 PM (JtwS4)

I don't understand those words in that order.
Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah there's no frustration here at February 23, 2015 12:42 PM (mf5HN)

Your power bill would be lower. Fewer coastal brownouts.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 23, 2015 12:43 PM (2Ojst)

194 Oh ... I disagree Comrade Moron.

Those people HATE themselves. Hence their actions.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 23, 2015 12:44 PM (cBvzT)

195 Horton Hears an Allahu!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 23, 2015 12:44 PM (NeFrd)

196 One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Jooooo Fish

Posted by: Every Infomercial on TV at February 23, 2015 12:45 PM (7ObY1)

197 I don't understand those words in that order.

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah there's no frustration here at February 23, 2015 12:42 PM (mf5HN)

I would be raptor'ed if I said what I'm thinking.

Posted by: wrg500 at February 23, 2015 12:45 PM (sgrzZ)

198 @172 - if we didn't get our government money we wouldn't have enough time to rape all our Filipino maids.

Posted by: The Males Of Saudi Arabia at February 23, 2015 12:45 PM (o+SC1)

199
"I shall now prepare a treatise on the benefits of not fapping."

You could probably could get a sweet grant for that - either NEA or NIH, maybe body, and that would pay even better than a job.

Brilliant! We'll get a grant. I'll be in the keeps-fapping control group.

For science.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 23, 2015 12:45 PM (JtwS4)

200 Your power bill would be lower. Fewer coastal brownouts.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 23, 2015 12:43 PM (2Ojst)

fewer batteries in the landfill

Posted by: wrg500 at February 23, 2015 12:46 PM (sgrzZ)

201 Nope. Push back. When the heart-wrenching pix of the
poor downtrodden minorities slaving away in "servitude to government"
are published, point out to anyone who will listen that building a road
is better than being a brood mare. Learning a craft is better than
learning to smoke crack. Having some pride and self-respect is
preferable to ignorance and self-destruction. We've let the lefties
frame the narrative for far too long.

Posted by: kathysaysso at February 23, 2015 12:37 PM (fMQoG)

Me likey. I've burned leftists in debates by provoking them to deprecate "parasites," then asking them if they agree that "parasites" are those who live off the work of others. YES! they usually resoundingly respond (obviously thinking, as I intended that they should, of robber barons in top hats smoking cigars).
Then I turn it on them: "So you mean like ... welfare recipients, then?"

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 23, 2015 12:46 PM (oKE6c)

202 #171 Killed it.

Posted by: Fourth Virginia at February 23, 2015 12:46 PM (VcOqI)

203 This is why I say that it would be an improvement if the government continued to collect all of the revenue that it does, but simply burned the money, instead of doing something destructive with it.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at February 23, 2015 12:47 PM (zauWW)

204 The 500 Beheadings of Bartholomew Cubbins.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 23, 2015 12:47 PM (NeFrd)

205 Your power bill would be lower. Fewer coastal brownouts.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 23, 2015 12:43 PM (2Ojst)

fewer batteries in the landfill

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Careful with your assumptions....... mmmkaay??

Posted by: BRIGGS AND STRATTON at February 23, 2015 12:47 PM (NaV4z)

206 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 23, 2015 12:38 PM (M1uf/)

Allen, whatever could you be talking about?

Posted by: Homer, but not SImpson at February 23, 2015 12:47 PM (ftVQq)

207
btw, why wasn't this tweeted back to obama's spokesgirls?:

JOBS? THEN WHAT WAS obama's PAL, BILL AYERS', EXCUSE FOR HIS TERRORISM?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Knower Of All Approximate Knowledge Now and In The Future at February 23, 2015 12:47 PM (HkNlg)

208 This supports what I have long suspected. It's what I call the "Cafe Class", those who spend their time in coffee houses re-enforcing each other's supposed grievances and bigotry, who turn to whipping up mobs.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2015 12:17 PM (GDulk)

If that were true, shouldn't I have a small militia by now

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) and his daughter at February 23, 2015 12:47 PM (HDwDg)

209 Brilliant! We'll get a grant. I'll be in the keeps-fapping control group.

For science.

Fapping contributes to climate change. CO2 emissions, etc.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 23, 2015 12:47 PM (659DL)

210 You folks may not believe it but Ace has another post up already.

Posted by: JEM at February 23, 2015 12:48 PM (o+SC1)

211
If socio-economic status is the root cause of terrorism, what was Bill Ayer's excuse?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Knower Of All Approximate Knowledge Now and In The Future at February 23, 2015 12:48 PM (HkNlg)

212 Why are we tolerating this? And why do we allow leftist politicians, and their handmaidens in the media, to shut us down if we dare even question the wisdom of this lunacy?
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 23, 2015 12:38 PM (Fnyc2)

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Why? Because the majority of the American people have no power with the governing class. We have no representation in DC. And we're unwilling and too fearful to exert the power that we do have (2d Amendment).

Posted by: Soona at February 23, 2015 12:48 PM (/HX7u)

213 Your power bill would be lower. Fewer coastal brownouts.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 23, 2015 12:43 PM (2Ojst)

fewer batteries in the landfill

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Careful with your assumptions....... mmmkaay??

Posted by: BRIGGS AND STRATTON at February 23, 2015 12:47 PM (NaV4z)

Not to mention the cost of turbo charging and tune ups.

Posted by: wrg500 at February 23, 2015 12:48 PM (sgrzZ)

214 >>>>Before you go getting on your high horse remember hillbillies and rednecks like welfare too.

Posted by: Barack Equivalency at February 23, 2015 12:41 PM (Xv7f/)
.
.
.
.And that is an outstanding point to make. Here in Kentucky some Counties have a Government cheese/check handout rate in excess of 80% of their populations. Heck the Lexington newspaper has been running a series of articles on just that. Welfare and Disability handouts.

And for some strange reason they don't go around blowing people up and cutting off the heads of non-Hillbillies. I wonder why.......Hmmmm.......

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 23, 2015 12:48 PM (4oSLk)

215 Fapping contributes to climate change. CO2 emissions, etc.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 23, 2015 12:47 PM (659DL)

Wrong kind of emissions.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 23, 2015 12:48 PM (oKE6c)

216 My house is heated by Fapping Power.

I just hook the power converter up to my arm and fap away. While I'm fapping, energy is being stored in the Fap Power Storage Unit so if I over-fap, the extra fapping power will be available next time I need it. Genius!

Posted by: Citizen X at February 23, 2015 12:49 PM (7ObY1)

217 Brilliant! We'll get a grant. I'll be in the keeps-fapping control group.

For science.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 23, 2015 12:45 PM (JtwS4)

Speaking of loving Science sexually . . . .

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah there's no frustration here at February 23, 2015 12:49 PM (mf5HN)

218 211
If socio-economic status is the root cause of terrorism, what was Bill Ayer's excuse?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Knower Of All Approximate Knowledge Now and In The Future at February 23, 2015 12:48 PM (HkNlg)

Yeah!

Posted by: Osama bin Laden at February 23, 2015 12:49 PM (oKE6c)

219 JOBS? THEN WHAT WAS obama's PAL, BILL AYERS', EXCUSE FOR HIS TERRORISM?

The equally noxious Marxist ideology.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 23, 2015 12:50 PM (659DL)

220 Too much frapping will not make you go blind. I know, I tried. The best I could do was nearsighted.

Posted by: Juston Leesun at February 23, 2015 12:39 PM (+uSF7)

Quitter!

Posted by: Homer, but not SImpson at February 23, 2015 12:50 PM (ftVQq)

221 Bandersnatch, there's copies of John from 130ish, and other Christian texts are quoting the Gospels before that. Starting with the, er, Gospels: Matthew rewriting Mark and Luke using Mark heavily. Justin Martyr and 2 Clement quoted a gospel harmony, which implies, what, three? four? textual generations after Mark.

(Leaving aside the recent cartonnage controversy)

So we might not have Mark directly until 200ish but there are many many early witnesses to Mark's text

Posted by: boulder terlet hobo at February 23, 2015 12:50 PM (5qrli)

222 Someone 'beat' you to it.

"Prevalence of masturbation and associated factors..."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17333329

Posted by: scottst at February 23, 2015 12:50 PM (Ltygl)

223 Head start programs are our only hope.

Posted by: Garrett at February 23, 2015 12:17 PM (DnIZ2)

Well, we have the "head off" part nailed.

Posted by: ISIS at February 23, 2015 12:50 PM (sx1z1)

224 Those people HATE themselves. Hence their actions.

I would disagree. All those folks demanding "my benefits!" think quite highly of themselves.

Posted by: Comrade Moron ZKzrr at February 23, 2015 12:50 PM (/kI1Q)

225 I've often wondered if the comic book hero world doesn't build false hopes in kids/adults, feeling they will wait for a superhero to take care of our woes (Obamassiah?), rather than realizing success is mostly a lot of hard work, physical and/or mental, not reserved for those with special powers.

So if they don't wait for a hero and want to be one, they join the isis urban justice league, fighting the world's evils, of which there are plenty ... just ask Obama. The evil is US.

Christians sort of have superhero JC, but they are taught to be more like Jesus, and that JC will come back later in power. But Muhammad had the thrill of conquering with the sword, and his victims were his to rape and plunder with divine approval.

Welfare gives people more room for fantasy results, and breaking store windows and cursing police is an Obama approved activity. When the bad police take back the stolen cigars, hero Obama intervenes.

Lines are blurred ...

Posted by: Illiniwek at February 23, 2015 12:51 PM (K6DMc)

226 I tried to read the Koran, but it reads like a transcript of some schizophrenic's ravings (I'm not kidding), a genre with which I'm all too familiar from having lived in Berkeley for many years. Miss me with that.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 23, 2015 12:52 PM (oKE6c)

227 "Prevalence of masturbation and associated factors..."

This, in many ways, is the the story of AOSHQ.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 23, 2015 12:52 PM (659DL)

228 And for some strange reason they don't go around blowing people up and
cutting off the heads of non-Hillbillies. I wonder
why.......Hmmmm.......>>>

Moonshine

Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 23, 2015 12:52 PM (Mxs5H)

229
I just hook the power converter up to my arm and fap away. While I'm fapping, energy is being stored in the Fap Power Storage Unit so if I over-fap, the extra fapping power will be available next time I need it. Genius!

Posted by: Citizen X at February 23, 2015 12:49 PM (7ObY1)

****

And they told me in high school physics that a Perpetual Motion Engine was impossible.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 23, 2015 12:52 PM (NeFrd)

230 Ha, amazing! To weaponize the conservative Islam-paranoia and channel it into rage against the welfare state. Quite ingenious, really!

Posted by: Mama Revolution at February 23, 2015 12:52 PM (qArZh)

231 I would disagree. All those folks demanding "my benefits!" think quite highly of themselves.
Posted by: Comrade Moron ZKzrr at February 23, 2015 12:50 PM (/kI1Q)

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Yup. Just ask them. They're quite fluent at their justification. They've been well-indoctrinated by our public education centers.

Posted by: Soona at February 23, 2015 12:53 PM (/HX7u)

232 Oh good, Hector's here.

Said no one, ever.

Posted by: Citizen X at February 23, 2015 12:53 PM (7ObY1)

233 All those folks demanding "my benefits!" think quite highly of themselves.

Posted by: Comrade Moron ZKzrr at February 23, 2015 12:50 PM (/kI1Q)

Apparently ghetto speak now refers to getting benefits as "getting paid."

No, a-holes. You get paid for working, not for being a useless layabout who just turns food into shit and babies. You're just getting a handout.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 23, 2015 12:53 PM (oKE6c)

234 Posted by: Mama Revolution at February 23, 2015 12:52 PM (qArZh)

Shut up and swallow. Bitch.

Posted by: Citizen X at February 23, 2015 12:54 PM (7ObY1)

235 Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) and his daughter at February 23, 2015 12:47 PM (HDwDg)

? I guess I would call it the "Les Miz Rule". Those working for a living are too busy to start mobs (or generally join them) while those in true poverty are too busy trying to survive to start mobs (although they are generally happy to join one). It is those who can survive without work who have time to "fix" society and when society doesn't think it needs fixed they turn to whipping up mobs.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2015 12:54 PM (GDulk)

236 I'm just going to leave this here:

http://bit.ly/1D3WMMb

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah there's no frustration here at February 23, 2015 12:54 PM (mf5HN)

237 You sure about that? It's been a while since I read up on it but IIRC 70 AD is the presumed first writing of a Gospel, but the earliest scraps of physical text are like 200 AD.

Yes, I was referring to verified first authorship.

Though actually the first possible (but not verified) scrap of a gospel comes from c. 50 AD (part of the dead sea scrolls, IIRC, seems to be a part of a passage from Mark).

But we know (as much as such things can be "known"), based on forensic historic investigation that Acts had to have been written before the death of Paul in AD 68. Which makes the Gospel of Luke even earlier (at least a year or two, in all likelihood). And Luke refers to other written sources (quite possibly the book of Mark) in his introduction to Theophilous in the gospel which bares his name.

And then there's the fact that the Paulian letters *also* had to be written prior to AD 68 (what with him being martyred that year).

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 23, 2015 12:54 PM (M1uf/)

238 Posted by: Mama Revolution at February 23, 2015 12:52 PM (qArZh)

****

Speaking of repetitive and unending (mental) masturbation...

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 23, 2015 12:56 PM (NeFrd)

239 53 Head start programs are our only hope.
Posted by: Garrett at February 23, 2015 12:17 PM (DnIZ2)
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OT and Relatedly, it seems nearly every politician in the country is eager to pour more money down the drain for more pre-pre-pre-pre-K-1st grade programs. And none of the programs have any sustained benefit!

Posted by: RioBravo at February 23, 2015 12:20 PM (z27Ny)

Actually, what little benefit they have had has accrued to ... the white and Asian middle and upper classes, so Head Start has actually increased the performance gap between them and the ghetto denizens.

It's almost as if there's some underlying, fundamental factor affecting their performance.

Must think ... must think ...

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 23, 2015 12:56 PM (oKE6c)

240 Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah there's no frustration here at February 23, 2015 12:54 PM (mf5HN)

I...

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err...

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We're going to need a shitload more cabbage.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 23, 2015 12:56 PM (659DL)

241
So we might not have Mark directly until 200ish but there are many many early witnesses to Mark's text

We don't have the presumed Gospel Q ("Quelle", the krautish word for source) which many believe Matthew, Mark and John drew from, hence the relative consistencies.

I'm not saying that the stories weren't written down early, just that we don't have them.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 23, 2015 12:57 PM (JtwS4)

242 We don't have the presumed Gospel Q ("Quelle", the krautish word for source) which many believe Matthew, Mark and John drew from, hence the relative consistencies.

Or they could be consistent because they were first-hand (and second-hand, but well researched in the case of Luke) accounts of events actually seen.

That's possible, too.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 23, 2015 12:58 PM (M1uf/)

243 Hey, you know what feeds violent extremism? Anti-immigrant sentiments!

Posted by: Barack Obama at February 23, 2015 01:00 PM (Dg1cR)

244 We're going to need a shitload more cabbage.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 23, 2015 12:56 PM (659DL)

Google translate ftw!

For certain values of win.

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah there's no frustration here at February 23, 2015 01:01 PM (mf5HN)

245 NSFW language in the image but this is completely hilarious.

http://bit.ly/1Fkjy4Q

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah there's no frustration here at February 23, 2015 01:03 PM (mf5HN)

246 "Work breeds virtue and wisdom, by focusing people on, get this, reality."

Truer words were never spoken.

My niece's depression and anxiety disappeared after she graduated from a liberal arts college and got a job. She found out there are tons of people in worse predicaments than hers.

Posted by: PJ at February 23, 2015 01:03 PM (cHuNI)

247
NSFW language in the image but this is completely hilarious.

LOL

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 23, 2015 01:04 PM (JtwS4)

248 *Some* of us had these MFers pegged centuries ago.
Posted by: Vlad Tepes at February 23, 2015 12:16 PM (M1uf/)

ISWYDT

Seriously, though, you had a much bigger stake in the conflict.

Posted by: jwpaine at February 23, 2015 01:07 PM (a3NCX)

249 So that ditzy blonde chick at State was right after all?

Posted by: FredB at February 23, 2015 01:07 PM (Ygm9Z)

250 What I'm sayin'

Posted by: Marie Shart, Jihadist Tool at February 23, 2015 01:08 PM (hKyl0)

251
Get a job you silly demented manboy weaklings.

They did. Jordanian pilots don't immolate themselves, and Copts don't behead themselves. That's like actual work, man.

You know who has the cushy job? the idiot with the camera, that's who. Gets to sit in air conditioned comfort while he slices and dices video, and then posts the results to the interwebs.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at February 23, 2015 01:11 PM (1hM1d)

252 Exactly the type of poets that everyone else should support. There is a certain poetry in the way ISIS hates on Jews.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at February 23, 2015 01:11 PM (g1MTt)

253 I once missed a fight out of LGA because of fcuking Carter was landing there.

Why? Fundraiser.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 23, 2015 01:13 PM (0FSuD)

254 Seriously, though, you had a much bigger stake in the conflict.

Posted by: jwpaine at February 23, 2015 01:07 PM (a3NCX)

***

Now that's a penetrating analysis!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 23, 2015 01:15 PM (NeFrd)

255
"43 Why let useless pieces of shit like this immigrate into your country? "

The Dems and their welfare state depend on poor people. What would happen to the Demsif everyone was industrious and prosperous?
And if there aren't enough poor people, well then import them.

Posted by: Speller at February 23, 2015 01:26 PM (PsEVn)

256 Great, you just validated the state dept bimbo that said terrorists need jobs.

Posted by: anon2020 at February 23, 2015 01:57 PM (DEsFp)

257 Jobs for jokers that have their asses up in the air 5 times a day. High productivity goat lovers.

Posted by: JHW at February 23, 2015 02:16 PM (w+zdY)

258 Ace and Marie Harf, sitting in a tree,
K-I-S-S-I-N-G... Well, she is kinda cute, but you sure you wanna do the whole Matalin-Carville thing?

Posted by: Big Mo at February 23, 2015 03:01 PM (IdVIO)

259 So Harf was right?

Posted by: SGT York at February 23, 2015 03:54 PM (IQP/f)

260 Islamic "economics", like fascism or diluted communism, is based on a predator/parasitical model, wherein the most violent allow the peaceful/productive to exist so long as they transfer a generous share to the violent. Under Islam, these may even be non-Muslims, so long as they make very overt bows to the supremacy of the most violent. These are the dhimmi.

Note that Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaign against the Kurds in the 1980s was titled "Anfal"--"Spoils." You resist the most violent, your property will become the bounty, to reward the lynch mob who now surrounds you.

To allow these predators to suckle off the Western welfare-state teat is to indeed encourage them in their delusions that they are supreme over the productive dhimmi--even in a non-Islamic (not yet, anyway) state like Australia.

Of course, this historical continuity between the 7th and 21st centuries is lost on buffoons like Obama Harf, who insist that history and the Koran is no guide at all to people who freely admit that it is their ONLY guide.

Posted by: JewishOdysseus (@JewishOdysseus) at February 23, 2015 04:10 PM (FWwQD)

261 Not sure I'd say it was the poverty or lack of ambition/opportunity that "drove" them into being terrorists but just as likely the desire to suck every last nickle out of the stupid bastards they want to kill.

What say you community organizers and compassionate conservatives?

Posted by: dogfish at February 23, 2015 04:14 PM (1vYi0)

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