This comment was deleted because it pertained to the thread below. -- Lorie

The CNN "correspondent" knows perfectly well what a terrorist is, he is one.

My sentiments exactly, Uncle Mikey.

Ok. Ace and Paul start tearing at each other like Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore fighting over the last low-fat muffin. Polipundit explodes like an overstuff pinata. What is the common thread?? LORI BYRD. She is obviously the source of all this anger. If Lori started writing for a Quaker website, blood soaked Birkenstocks would be littering the street. Lori, you need to rein in your evil-osity or be less obvious. We know what you are up to.

;-)

Seems pretty simple to me, which must mean that I'm wrong, but terrorists are those who practice terrorism - as Hezzbollah does -- regardless of the fact that they perform non-terrorist acts as well, such as building hopsitals, schools, etc.

What muddies the definition waters is that governments which practice terrorism fit under that same defintion -- and if Israel were (or has) fought "fire with fire" and has acted like terrorists with tactics such as deliberately targeting citizens in Lebannon, then the Israelis, by definition, are terrorists too.

Yes, this requires using logic (CNN) instead of unthinking flag-waving jingoism (Fox News), but then CNN's target audience is people who think... whch explains the confusion on the part of people who don't (insert smilie face here).

Lee, an oversight in your post: "but then CNN's target audience is people who think...." Think what?

"CNN's target audience is people who think..."Lee

ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha

As he does of course!

Now we know where Lee gets his talking points.

Thanks Lee for the oxymoronic thought of the day.

Lee,

You're confused beyond redemption and it appears that Wizbang is not amused. You advocated nuking Islam to take out Osama and then inexplicably said that 'option' is too late.

Lee, you couldn't puzzle your way through the definition of 'terrorism' because you're a concrete-operational thinker with penis envy.

quit trolling, Red Froggie - I answered your question on another thread.

Lee,

You did no such thing, uber 'tard.

Lorie:

That story about Jesse James helping a woman keep her property has been floating around for along time and and could very well be a myth.

I suspect that the story is a myth because the person who sent you the story claims that the woman in the story was an aunt of hers/his.

Well, Jesse James was killed during the Spring of 1882. So, in order for the story to be true, the person who sent it to you would have to be over 120 years old.

Private to Froggie - I answered your troll here.

Lee, you nailed it.

You hit the nail in the nuts again.

For discussion:

Terrorists: an organization of like-minded individuals that use violence against civilians to promote any ideaology other than freedom and liberty for those civilians.

Dodo David,
I sent the comment to Lorie. This event happened with an aunt of mine on my fathers side of the family in late 1879. The incident was documented by her in the family bible which was passed down through the generations and is with my parents currently. I've read variations of the story, and it doesn't surprise me that it would have happened with other families.

Sith Happens.

Let me speak up for Big Al.

Capone's sin was that he competed with the government. The police fight crime with elaborate costly and ineffective procedures. Al just killed criminals in other gangs. He probably put more away than the police did.

He didn't tax anyone and imposed no theology. Free elections were held - then Al bribed the electees as needed. The bribes ensured that office holders didn't deny the public access to what they wanted - booze, gambling, prostitution, and night clubs.

Exactly what is in platform of the Democrats that Al wasn't for? OK, he may not have liked income taxes on the rich or inheritance taxes. Gee, maybe he was a Republican after all. Never mind!

"pucker puss" (lee lee) couldn't hit a nail. His "lips" would get in the way.

Darth Dilbert: Here is a somewhat similar story involving Jesse James's brother Frank (who outlived Jesse), and this one is well documented. Several years after the Civil War, Frank's gang robbed a U.S. Army payroll train in central Tennessee. Frank was brought to trial in Huntsville, AL. The evidence of guilt was strong: eyewitnesses placed James at the scene, and they had a confession from a gang member. James made no attempt to defend himself against the charges; rather, he emphasized to the Southern jury his services to the Confederacy during the war.

He was aquitted. And he spent the evening buying rounds for the jurors.

Frank James just dodged the bullet by cleverly playing the Confederate-sympathy card to the jury. But what about poor Jesse or, for example, the ever popular Bonnie & Clide?

To me, a terrorist is simply a mass murderer participating in a popularity contest. The MSM merely enhances the 'terrorist' status by invoking the killer's 'cause'. Hence, the CNN correspondent takes the Hezbollah cause hook, line, and sinker and gives this 'terrorist' group popular status.

Mike,

I will have to admit that I had the same thought myself. I am beginning to get a complex. Controversy just seems to follow me.:-)

Lorie