Jan 17, 2010: Free Country
 

It's a wonderful thing, living in a free country.
Sadly, something much of the World's population can't experience.
There is one minor drawback though...

http://cellar.org/2010/store_closed_for_martyrdom.jpg

I borrowed this from Orsm.net, a very NSFW website in Australia, where it apparently was contributed by a Texan.

I think that if someone were to put a sign up that stated that this store closed for a day in respect for that religious nutbar....sales could suffer.

*cough*http://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.c...ical-thinking/
Fear mongering ftw.

burn them anyway!


THEY TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!





....I got better....

Excellent Bullitt, thanks for the link. :thumbsup:
So this originated in an email, huh. Shows what can circulate when explanations are neither proffered of requested. I wonder if this made the local papers in Huston at the time? Obviously it upset some people, and someone, maybe a reporter, questioned the owner and got an explanation.

This is one of the more scary aspects of the power of the Internet. It's like shouting "Fire" from the balcony of a theater just to see what happens. I have a few relatives who constantly send me crappy hoax shit like this or how Obama is going to give Social Security benefits to illegal aliens or how Congress voted themselves a pay raise while cutting the amount in senior's SS checks. I used to try to respond with a link to the Snopes or other hoax website but now I just delete it and move on. :sniff:

By the way, I forgot to mention that I know that area of Houston and it has a fairly large Muslim population, there is a big mosque on Harwin if I am not mistaken. And right next to this area is what Houstonians refer to as Chinatown because of the large Asian population. When I moved here in 1980 I lived and worked my first job not far from this area and it was totally white suburbia then.

I too, get those constantly, Chris. The most blatant/vicious, I still send back with Snope's-ish links, but like you say, nobody has time to fight them all.

The Snopes link to be specific
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/photos/martyr.asp

Welcome to the Cellar, nachoha. :D

We had a recent spate of attacks on taxi drivers (mainly Moslem) in our town, because someone spread a rumour that the black ribbons many of them have on their cabs (hanging off the rear bumper) were to show support for the Taliban and Al Qaeda. In the end the police had to print statements in the local newspaper, explaining that they were actualy charms to ward off evil whilst driving. Basically their version of a St Christopher.

In the letters page of the paper, people were still pissed off. They shouldn;t be allowed to have those charms on their cars, they said; this is a Christian country and they should do more to fit in.

And even if it was:

"You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free".

Yep in the U.S. you are allowed to believe anything.

Great one Petedar from The American President, I believe.

Something wrong with shopping for rhinestones? :confused: