In any relationship, from the personal all the way up to the national, it takes two to coexist. It only takes one to conflict.

Because Magical Thinking. . .

My 70 year old mother, who is a peacable hippie, who voted for Obama TWICE (yeah, holidays are fun around here) is on her way to the gun shop to buy a gun to carry. Because "if they'd HAD guns, they could have tried to defend themselves!". She is also very, very opposed to bringing the refugees to the US. So if SHE can wake up to reality, maybe there's hope for the US. Maybe.

LAPD is idiotic.

Why, I'm sure the #Muslim community in LA would never lie to LAPD.

momof4, make sure your mom takes her piece to the gun range and gets used to it. It does take some skill to be able to put ordinance down range and to hit what you aim at.

Or, to put it another way, gun control is using both hands.

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/11/18/suspected-paris-attacks-leader-boasted-of-crossing-borders/21268327/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cbon2-c%7Cdl2%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D-1549512637

"The kuffar raided the place with more than 150 soldiers from both French and Belgian special forces units. After a gun battle that lasted about 10 minutes, both brothers were blessed with shahadah (martyrdom), which is what they had desired."

Hard to "co-exist" when your goal is to live in peace and their goal is to exterminate you.

Is this the same LAPD whose efforts at minority outreach gave us the Zoot Suit riots, the Watts riots, and the Rodney King riots?

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Putting on my Southern grammarian hat to pick a minor nit: It's "y'all." It's a contraction for you all. I don't know what "ya'll" is.

Southernisms escape most non-Southerners, especially Northern writers (and sometimes Southern writers). Because Southerners sometimes speak in exaggerated syllable counts and words that seem made up, it can be tough to render their dialogue in written form.

Gregory McDonald wrote a sequel to his popular Fletch series and set it in rural Tennessee. His characters kept greeting each other with "ha." It took me a few chapters to figure out he meant "hey." I didn't understand why his characters were greeting each other with a grunt.

Hard to "co-exist" when your goal is to live in peace and their goal is to exterminate you. ~ Posted by: Jay at November 18, 2015 9:14 AM

Martin Luther King, Jr. said "I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law" to assure white folks that his intentions were honorable and the he wanted coexistence.

Funny how you don't see those COEXIST bumper stickers on cars in downtown Damascus or Baghdad.

From The Talking Mirror blog:

These stickers carry the same intellectual legitimacy as a sticker saying “Abolish Mondays” or “Give Dinosaurs a Chance”. It sounds nice. It seems like something we could all get behind. But it means nothing. It’s like a Li'l Wayne album or the Matrix trilogy, it sounds pretty good and it looks compelling, but, upon closer inspection, it doesn’t make any damn sense. These stickers are pie-in-the-sky liberalism at its worst. They give liberals a chance to engage in their favorite pastimes like raising awareness, hoping, and holding signs but they are have no grounding in the world most of us call home.

Let’s take a look at the groups depicted in the Coexist sticker. One (Islam) is unwaveringly committed to the destruction of one of the others (Judaism). Another (Wicca/Paganism) celebrates and worships all that one of the others (Christianity) considers evil. A third one (female sign) is biologically wired to destroy all that another (male sign) holds dear. It’s Ohio State vs. Michigan but with 3,000 years of bad blood behind it. And now what? Leaders of these mutually-exclusive congregations are supposed to set aside their dogmas, join hands, and dance around the mosquechurchogogue together because an REI employee from Seattle thought it was a good idea? Give me a break.

Apparently a black market for real assault rifles is developing in gun free Europe.

https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2015/11/18/the-silent-crisis

I said it before; if the Muslims were really concerned and really cared about their proper place in the civilized world THEY would reach out BEFORE shit happens; not make excuses about "religion of peace" afterwards.

In the meantime, a friendly game between Greece and Turkey where some Turkish fans booed during the moment of silence for those murdered in Paris:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/17/us-soccer-friendly-turkey-idUSKCN0T62LY20151117

So much for the "peaceful majority."

I wouldn't mind it if we buried the dead terrorists with pig's blood; those that object, we know to be our enemy and not the "peaceful" Muslims who believe that the terrorist are NOT of the same religion. (I mean, if they truly believe that the terrorist are NOT the same religion then they should not object to they way we dispose of the dead terrorist, no?)

And while we are at it; let's take back the Hagia Sophia and make it once again a Christian place of worship. Again, those that object we know to be our enemy. Fuck 'em.

Has the " be nice and they'll turn in the bad ones" ever worked with a community? Cops whose sworn duty is to turn in bad cops rarely do let alone any other group

If I buy a "Coexist" bumper sticker from Amazon using Amy's link, does the Internet melt or something? :)

Has any country in Europe been more hospitable to Muslim immigrants than France?

Is any country in Europe doing more to help Muslim refugees than Germany?

Snakes bite.