They’re worried about noise and traffic for a mosque, and yet the noise and traffic associated with the Katy Mills outlet mall is no problem?
Anyway, please don’t tell those folks in over there that we’ve got a whole bunch of muslims working for us over here near Greenspoint. And I just hired another one yesterday.
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They’re worried about noise and traffic for a mosque, and yet the noise and traffic associated with the Katy Mills outlet mall is no problem?
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No, they just don’t like Muslims, and they’re afraid of terrorists, because they believe that all Muslims are terrorists.
It is entirely possible that they are not thinking clearly, or are not properly educated.
Ya think?
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I could handle that easier than I could handle this: Touchdown Jesus (Gone), Monroe, Ohio
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Further evidence that God died with Michelangelo 
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No, they just don’t like Muslims, and they’re afraid of terrorists, because they believe that all Muslims are terrorists.
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Whaaat? Who doesn’t like muslims?
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Whaaat? Who doesn’t like muslims?
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Quite right… they feel soooo good next to the skin, yet don’t have the same weight as thicker cloths.
Oh wait…
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Quite right… they feel soooo good next to the skin, yet don’t have the same weight as thicker cloths.
Oh wait…
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No no, you’re thinking of Afgans.
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IANAM, but would a Muslim object to pig racing? The prohibition is against eating them, not watching them run around a field.
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Then why not have a pig roast?
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM pig roast!
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No no, you’re thinking of Afgans.
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Afghan Whigs, maybe.
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Then why not have a pig roast?
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Watching a bunch of has-been comedians take the podium to insult hogs does not exactly make for compelling television, if you ask me.
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I could handle that easier than I could handle this: Touchdown Jesus (Gone), Monroe, Ohio
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Someone needs to steal this and put it in front of and facing the giant statue of Sam Houston in Huntsville.
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I could handle that easier than I could handle this: Touchdown Jesus (Gone), Monroe, Ohio
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Oh, hey, I drove past that once. I don’t understand how anyone sees anything other than “Oh god GIANT ZOMBIE JESUS! Run!”
Then again I’m one of those sinful, godless heathens. Even have a coupla Muslim friends, so obviously my perception is warped.
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Watching a bunch of has-been comedians take the podium to insult hogs does not exactly make for compelling television, if you ask me.
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What?!? Ruth Buzzi repeatedly beating a pig with her purse? Dean Martin and Orson Welles slurring their way through some ad libs at its expense? How could that be anything but the height of comedy? 
The Web site with the counter: katyislamicassociation dot net. No link because I don’t want them to have the benefit of one here. The standard disclaimers against site invasion apply; let them make fools of themselves in peace.
Newspaper article from the Katy Times: http://www.katytimes.com/articles/2006/12/04/news/01news.txt . Photos included.
“After the sign went up, businessman Craig Baker put up a sign advocating “Friday Night Pig Racin’” and built a pig pen at the edge of his property closest to the proposed KIA site.”
Replace “Muslim” with “Jew”, and … sigh.
A post from their forum:
That poster’s signature: “Beware of liberalism for it is the enemy of American’s foundation.” I don’t think this guy’s trolling.
This post gives me hope.
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I could handle that easier than I could handle this: Touchdown Jesus (Gone), Monroe, Ohio
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Is anyone else reminded of the Giant Triumphhal Archways and Statues that Saddam Hussein had installed all over Iraq?
Yeah, weekly pig races that are enough of a spectacle to annoy at least one neighbor are gonna do fucking wonders for the property values, I tell ya.
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That poster’s signature: “Beware of liberalism for it is the enemy of American’s foundation.” I don’t think this guy’s trolling.
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At least he didn’t specify which American’s foundation he was talking about. I’m going to assume he meant his own. 
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Sigh. Dumbassery abounds.
Good rant, lizardling. But I have to take a point off. McCarthy’s hearings were in the fifties, not the sixties.
But a good rant.
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Oops-another 1/2 point off–Commies didn’t come thru the window–they lurked under beds…
I heard this story briefly on NPR a few days ago. It boggles my mind. I am afraid I don’t see the connection between pig races and protesting the mosque…these folks think kinda tangentially.
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Yeah, I read about this in Sunday’s paper. The land is within a minute or two of my office. It’ll be interesting to watch this one develop. However, my sense is that most folks in the area are pretty normal and reasoned but that a couple of loud bigots are pushing their own ignorant agenda.
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So, lieu, just where is this land at? I’m fairly familiar with Katy- grew up in Alief, and worked roughly at I-10 @ Barker Cypress for several years, as well as surveyed parts of several subdivisions out there.
Is it in the more suburban parts of Katy, or the more rednecky parts?