Now here’s one we hadn’t heard before, which hardly means it’s never been said: The AIG bailout was a means of conning the American taxpayer into supporting Sharia! Go ahead and laugh, this was only said by some random nutball — namely Jerry Boykin, a former high-ranking military and Defense Department intelligence division official.
Here’s Boykin, layin’ it all out on some dumb webcam show. Via Right Wing Watch:
On yesterday’s program, Boykin declared that the Muslim Brotherhood is running an “insurgency” in America to establish Sharia and stated that the government bailout of insurance giant AIG means that the government is now practicing Sharia because AIG offers some Sharia-compliant insurance policies.
Therefore, according to Boykin, the bailout meant that all of us Americans are “practicin’ Sharia.” It’s true!
Another minor problem with the AIG bailout was that the American taxpayer was forced to resurrect a reckless, bankrupt company that backstopped most of the shitty mortgage-backed securities that ended up destroying the global economy, and that bailout money was mostly used to pay back AIG’s counterparties, such as Goldman Sachs, 100 cents on the dollar. But Sharia was the bigger problem, of course.
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AIG = Anti Israeli G-had. So obvious!
Tell me this guy doesn't do a lot of Boikin'
Ali G what, now?
Booyakasha!
Am I practicing mechanics because we bailed out GM?
I always knew Bush was a secret Muslim.
Not so secret.
See you're not suppose to remember that it was bush and not the Kenyan that started the Wall St bail out. Obviously, your mind had not been totally wiped.
Al-IGnatius?
Jerry Boykin, new poster boy for the racist Dumbkins.
Can I spread Shania instead?
Please? I promise not to break her!
"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the Twain shall meet."
- Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West, from the anthology The Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses
But *meat*, oh yes….
My grandfather once told me a joke, the punchline of which was:
So xx said: "Yeast is yeast, and nest is nest, and never the mane shall tweet".
Can't for the life of me remember what the joke was. (Reverse engineering suggests it was something about a lion keeping chirping birds out of his hair with yeast.) But I thought this thread wouldn't be complete without sharing this treasured childhood memory.
You're all welcome.
I'd heard it about a mother bird, her two chicks and the line is "Oh, beast is beast and nest is nest and never the mane shall tweet"
You're about a decade too late, buddy. Shit and Shania have been spread sea to shining sea.
Is there really a difference between Sharia and the craziest wingnut Christianity that we have now???
The Sharia guys are more into removing body parts from miscreants. Other than that, not much difference.
The reason the Sharia guys remove body parts is because they don't have a cross to hang themselves on.
Or ultrasound equipment.
Yes, Sharia law has absolutely no effect on my life, but Christian law says I cannot play poker for money, or buy beer before noon on Sundays.
Sounds just like Paramus, NJ.
At least you can buy it somewhere on Sundays. Southern hellholes for the win.
Christian law in Utah makes it so you can't buy a car on Sunday.
I just wish beer wasn't the only alcohol I could buy on Sundays.
If there is any difference, I believe it has to do largely with pork.
Talmudic Law Rules!!1!
And we've reached a new low….
We seem to be doing that daily of late
Needs more santorum.
Boykin? Sounds like one of Rush's Dominican kids.
Boykin added, "have you ever wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure-grain alcohol?"
THE FLUORIDATION IS POISONING OUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!!!111
Col. Ripper has nothing on these fucking loons.
Noth. Ing.
Except that Ripper had at least once participated in "the physical act of love" with a woman. I'm thinking Boykin is more of a right-hand man.
Damm you all and your faster-than-me Dr. Strangelove references!
Harumph!
I thought conservatives loved the Sharia law because Sharia law requires women to be subservient breeder cows for their husbands.
No, they hate Sharia law because it requires women to be subservient breeder cows for their husbands.
They love fundamentalist Christianity because it requires women to be subservient breeder cows for their husbands.
Sometimes it's so hard explaining this very simple, easy to understand point.
That's why they both hate Hindus. Too nice to the cows.
And they insist upon payment in kine.
Cud that really be true?
"Sharia-compliant insurance policies" sounds like something the religious freedom concern trolls would support, if they thought Islam was a religion.
well of course. This is both a totally sane and rational thing to say.
By teabagger standards, it's positively brilliant.
What is this, an audition tape for Breitbart's replacement already?
Hate abhors a vacuum.
Boykin,Bailout, Brotherhood,Brietbart Blount,killer "B"s today!
I'd give it a B+.
Also – Soros owns 92% of AIG
Or as Billy Sunday once put it: "Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile."
Am I an oil sheik because we give corporate welfare to Exxon?
I got a falafel sandwich from the halal street cart last week. It's impossible to evade this devious Muslin plot!!!!!!
And I shall drink al-cohol tonight! Fiends, all!
Omigod – just yesterday some students asked me questions about al-gebra. And I answered their questions. I even mentioned zero.
I'm part of the conspiracy and I didn't even realize it. Those perfidious scoundrels.
Proves what we've known all along: you're part of the great socialeftist plot to seculareducate young people away from Jeebus.
Well, I'd better go underground. I will not mention numbers any more. Except, of course, for the Old Testament Book of Numbers.—
You'd think he'd be more concerned about the Pastafarians. You ever notice how just about every town has an Olive Garden?
"It's impossible to evade this devious Muslin plot!!!!!!"
Also, devious is very similar to delicious. Coincidence… or SHARIA???
Why would the Muslim Brotherhood do any work at all when candidates like Santorum are doing much of the heavy lifting to turn us into an Old Testament theocracy.
Dude must have left his tinfoil hat in the Green Room.
Tinfoil Beret!
Wasn't John Wayne in that movie?
I thought that was She Wore A Yellow Burqa?
The Flying Ali-Babas!
A classic. I like the part where he swaggers up to a local villager and says, "Well doesn't he speak any English?"
Soundtrack album by Prince, if I rightly recollect.
OK, you and actor212 beat me to that one.
Oh, sure — when he wasn't playing notorious muslin GENGHIS KHAN!!
Worst. Prince. Song. Ever.
The kind you'd find in a right-wingnut store!
The conspiracy is even worse than Boykin thinks. Just yesterday in Trader Joe's I bought some kosher pickles.
The scary thing is that guys like him are running our military.
The scary thing is that guys like him are allowed near anything sharper than boiled eggs.
Can't we just blame the Free Masons like the olden days?
BLOOD LIBEL!
How did this guanopsychotic EVER get into a position of responsibility? Yeesh…
Sharia…
I'll never stop saying SHARIA!
Who knew Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim were involved in the Mooselum indoctrination conspiracy!!!one!11II!!
(To quote myself a year or two ago…)
Sharia! Say it loud and there's Muslims praying!
Say it soft, and they're all ululating!
Sharia, I'll never stop hating
Sharia!
The most frightening sound I've ever heard…
Sha-ri-a!!
OK, I doff my keffiyeh in recognition of your primacy.
In my defense, I'd note the judge found that George Harrison had unintentionally plagiarized "He's So Fine."
But they threw the book at Vanilla Ice. Where's the justice?
Well, there, for example.
Say it soft and it's almost like praying…
I remember Boykin. He was the fellow who maintained that among gods, Yahwe had the biggest and longest pecker. He'd researched it.
On Google?
Someone should tell Gen. Boykin that math (al-Gebra, in fact), engineering, numbers, most of the Greek literature that's survived, architecture and many other aspects of civilization are also a foot in the door for sharia law. So the only credible defense is to be as ignorant as humanly possible — but then he's already completely safe.
Need to go back to Roman Numerals. To hell with these Arabic Numbers.
So it was all a dirty trick to spread santorum. I suspected as much.
And the New York Yankees are part of a vast worldwide Zionist conspiracy, because they serve Hebrew National hot dogs.
Heck, just being based in Jew York City is proof enough.
I used to have AIG and they were always sending me head scarves.
That must be why AIG got rid of Maurice Greenberg, the long-time CEO. Someone get me a blackboard.
This is the same genius that was the operations manager for Carter's failed mission to rescue the American hostages in the Iranian embassy, was in charge during what became the "Battle of Mogadishu", and gave some helpful advise to Janet Reno during the Waco siege. One might almost notice a pattern.
Kind of like DICK Bissell. Assured Ike that the pilot wouldn't survive being shot down from a U-2 and then helped JFK into the Bay of Pigs. Apparently "intelligence" is not a requirement to work in that field.
I just find it odd that a Republican that hates Democrats just happened to screw up in so many "happy coincidences".
Unbelievable – I just read his Wikipedia page. I recommend you all do the same. This is someone who should be institutionalized, not put in charge of men with guns. For example, here is is take-home lesson after the Iran rescue fiasco:
"Despite this, his "faith was strengthened" believing he had witnessed "a miracle": "Not one man who stood with us in the desert and pleaded for God to go with us was killed or even injured that night."
Got that? Men died on that mission that he was running. But none of the ones who pleaded to God for help. (Normally military men are more touchy about people going over their heads in the chain of command.)
God save us from Your followers.
Health insurance plans that cater to the Catholic church, on the other hand, are perfectly OK.
government bailout of insurance giant AIG
Um, http://islam.about.com/od/business/f/insurancefaq…
Muzlinz are against insurance. They view it as a form of gambling. Which, they are kind of right about. AL-so.
I'd comment on this story, but Sharia forbids me from showing any interest.
I also like the burqa over your avatard.
Having the blessing of a miraculous asshole such as yourself really means a lot, dawg.
Don't get too attached, though — I'm still wriggling around in excrement in search of a truly fulfilling long term relationship. After I fucking finally just cold murdered to death ol' Pedobear, I briefly took a big downfist icon (sooo clever!) for a spin before realizing that 1) it looked like pale, pixelated poop and was near impossible for me to pick out in a quick scan of comments, and 2) it seemed to serve as a subliminal deterrent against the justfiably abundant upfisting to which I had rightfully become accustomed. (I can assure you that the subpar quality of my recently infrequent comments had absolutely nothing to do with it.)
Anyhoohaw, I'm kinda diggin' the nondescript shitty-ness of my current avatard; however, I do have a couple more up my anus that I might pull out if the bad mood strikes me.
(By the way, as soon as I heard the Big News that Big Prick had kicked the Big Bucket, I just knew that you'd mark the Big Occasion accordingly, and you came through Big Time, Big Radio!)
The Biblically-based (sue me) lawyers at the Thomas More "Law School" brought suit on this theory. Dismissed. Just like the "birthers" nonsense. You hopeless nerds can look it up at:
763 F.Supp.2d 860
WWJD with zero interest loans?
Um…needs more heart attacks?
what with running egypt, tunisia and probably libya the muslim brotherhood is maybe too busy to run america.
we should ask hamas or boko haram or Jamaat-e-Islami or something.
Or Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
Hamas *is* the Muslim Brotherhood-so they're running Gaza, too (if by running, you mean spending money on Qassam rockets instead of infrastructure for their people).
When they cut to the wide shot, it looks like they're re-enacting a "Three Men in a Tub" skit with suitcoats on.
On the other hand, it didn't sound like Mr. Boykin was intellectually equipped to handle either butchering, baking, or candlestick-making.
On the other hand, those Geico Insurance commercials with the pig on the terrorist-training obstacle course are an affront to Allah!
He's also organized a PAC aimed at American youth called "Boykin Kids For Freedom".
Isn't that what Jerry Sandusky is accused of doing?
Catholic priests, oddly, are big contributors too. Priests are people.
You know what they call the dumbest person in General School, Right?
Boykin, presumably.
So wait; it's a violation of religious freedom to prevent employers from forcing employees onto health care plans that provide for women's health needs against the employers' religious beliefs, regardless of the beliefs of the employee, and yet if the employer offers plans designed to accommodate the employees' own religious beliefs, that's anti-American. I guess the First Amendment now only applies to corporations, not real people?
I guess so. You pick up the pieces of your 'sploded head and I'll pick up mine, and we'll slap them back together, and let's try not to get them mixed up much this time, okay?
somehow, someway, I'm going to figure out how to make peyote the legit head-sploder during this argument. It'll be much more interesting; think of Boykin in the tub with his pals, his shirt stained with vomit, splaining Sharia law while tripping.
Maybe if we're very lucky, this birth control – religious freedom debacle will end up in the SCOTUS and the wingnuts will larn sumpin about what a law of general application is. But I doubt it.
George Bush was a high-ranking official, too, so I guess that ain't worth much for creds.
Boykin is/was in military intelligence, a misnomer in his case
Do the Sharia compliant policies cover birf-control? If not, there are a bunch of priests who would like to get in on that. (That and an altar boy, if you know what I mean.)
AIG = Allah is God? Hmmm, there may be something to this…
I'd take spreading Sharia over spreading Santorum any day. For $500, Alex.
Back in the early 1970's, I was an Army Infantry Captain in the 101st Airborne Division, having served a couple of tours in Vietnam. Boykin was a brand-new Second Lieutenant, West Point graduate.
When we performed parachute jumps, Boykin had a habit of landing on his head. His brains are completely scrambled.
"Sharia-compliant insurance policies"
Because restricting health care according to religious beliefs is fucking ridiculous.
As a Ranger, Airborne, Recondo qualified veteran, I can testify as to what goes on in the sawdust pit during Hand-to-Hand Combat Training: the kicks and punches continue at will until the whistle blows, well after the maneuver being taught is executed. Combat Boots, not sneakers or gym shoes. All I can surmise is that this decorated Special Operations Veteran has simply taken one too many to the brain-pan, either in training or combat. He has not made sense for several years now, in my opinion; and I'm not alone there.
Dale Gribble is not aging well.
Whoever said military intelligence was a contradiction in terms may have known what he was talking about.
O'Reilly's in on the conspiracy, too… him and his felafel… dirty rotten stinkin' mumble…
Looks like the alien reptile from Obama's brain has found a new home.
I can't up all of the conspiracy theories, anymore. What happened to "the Jews did the financial collapse and subsequent bailout?"
Sharia Compliant… isn't she a pole dancer in Houston?
If ignorant conservatives didn't have something inane to be afraid of, they might use their time to research the issues that are actually important. Or not.
What a stoopid fek.
So, Jerry, if the government bailed out Coca-Cola, which makes a kosher version for passover = Talmudic law takeover of the government by crafty Jewz??
Stoopid stoopid stoopid fekkeity fek Jerry Boykin fek!
Tired of listening to the right wing nutz' lies, I purchased a book on Islam and it is fascinating.
For example, there simply is no such thing as "Sharia Law." Any more than the laws of Canada, the United States and Mexico are identical just because all three nations are in North America.
The Koran is absolute, finished, final. Of course, so is the Bible, although publishers keep re-writing it to sell more copies. Sharia is simply a law according to the precepts and traditions of both the Koran and the Prophet. It is constantly changing, and varies from country to country.
These idiots can generalize all they want with their mis- and dis-information. It won't change it into facts. Anymore than calling cat pee champagne will improve the taste.
Name of book, plz~
Mumblety – your link is borked. Worse – it has some email addresses in it. You might want to delete.
MPG:
"Understanding Islam; An Introduction to the Moslem World," by Thomas Lippman (1982). Obviously, it's an older book. I figured anything post 2001 would have some extra political stuff that reflects the current world, but probably not the real religion.
Bernard Lewis has written quite a bit, and he's quoted in this book, but he comes from too strong a point-of-view for me.
Wonkette really, reallly needs a Books Page!
AIG owns the Stowe ski resort:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles…
This proves what I've always suspected:
SNOWBOARDERS 'R' TERRORISTS
The Sands of Al-Qaeda
Man – that's a good one! I'm so totally reusing that.
That's enough! MOOOOOve along now!
This entire story is an udder distraction.
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