Comments on: It’s OK to be Scared. Just Tell Us. http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/its-ok-to-be-sc.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: BobH http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/its-ok-to-be-sc.html/comment-page-1#comment-6910 BobH Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:17:11 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/08/its-ok-to-be-sc.html#comment-6910 <p>It's also offensive to give their kids soccer balls:</p> <p>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6964564.stm</p> <p>The US Army gave away soccer balls decorated with various national flags. One of the flags was Saudi Arabia. The Saudi flag includes a verse of the Koran, containing the word "Allah". </p> <p>They are offended.</p> <p>I agree that decent people should make reasonable efforts not to offend others. But a point is reached with people who choose to be offended by everything, that the only reasonable thing to do is to say, "Screw 'em" and make no further efforts. The screw-em point has long been passed, in my opinion. <br /> </p> It’s also offensive to give their kids soccer balls:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6964564.stm

The US Army gave away soccer balls decorated with various national flags. One of the flags was Saudi Arabia. The Saudi flag includes a verse of the Koran, containing the word “Allah”.

They are offended.

I agree that decent people should make reasonable efforts not to offend others. But a point is reached with people who choose to be offended by everything, that the only reasonable thing to do is to say, “Screw ‘em” and make no further efforts. The screw-em point has long been passed, in my opinion.

]]> By: markm http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/its-ok-to-be-sc.html/comment-page-1#comment-6909 markm Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:16:41 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/08/its-ok-to-be-sc.html#comment-6909 <p>But admitting that you're scared of insanely murderous radical Islamics is in itself offensive to them.</p> But admitting that you’re scared of insanely murderous radical Islamics is in itself offensive to them.

]]> By: TCO http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/its-ok-to-be-sc.html/comment-page-1#comment-6908 TCO Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:37:59 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/08/its-ok-to-be-sc.html#comment-6908 <p>They're pussies. They got scared after 9-11. So now they want to smoke some Muslim pole. I hope they do get beheaded.</p> They’re pussies. They got scared after 9-11. So now they want to smoke some Muslim pole. I hope they do get beheaded.

]]> By: Craig http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/its-ok-to-be-sc.html/comment-page-1#comment-6907 Craig Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:27:50 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/08/its-ok-to-be-sc.html#comment-6907 <p>It's amazing how journalists, who claim to be so passionate about the first amendment, so readily renounce it when the subject is radical Islam. How much of this is a fear of being beheaded, and how much is political correctness?</p> It’s amazing how journalists, who claim to be so passionate about the first amendment, so readily renounce it when the subject is radical Islam. How much of this is a fear of being beheaded, and how much is political correctness?

]]> By: Walter E. Wallis, P.E. http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/its-ok-to-be-sc.html/comment-page-1#comment-6906 Walter E. Wallis, P.E. Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:13:29 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/08/its-ok-to-be-sc.html#comment-6906 <p>The week prior, the jab at fundamentlists is rather direct, and Southern Baptists didn't burn Opus in effigy. Why ia that?</p> The week prior, the jab at fundamentlists is rather direct, and Southern Baptists didn’t burn Opus in effigy. Why ia that?

]]> By: TCO http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/its-ok-to-be-sc.html/comment-page-1#comment-6905 TCO Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:10:55 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/08/its-ok-to-be-sc.html#comment-6905 <p>Maybe they should have said after 9-11, that they had been pussified. </p> Maybe they should have said after 9-11, that they had been pussified.

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