Who said that being a multimillionaire defence contractor doesn't make good business sense? David H. Brooks' daughter had her bat-mitzvah last weekend in the US, so naturally enough daddy wanted to show how much he cared - while ignoring the misery his job actually creates - and hired a plethora of A-list musicians to entertain the audience/kid's party.
A worthwhile lesson in how dirty money can be used for good...instead of evil.
A worthwhile lesson in how dirty money can be used for good...instead of evil.
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Oh Shab
Even body armour in Iraq is a weapon of war.
Just lets soldiers live to fight n kill more "A-rabs" another day.
(Ad time) However see my blog story on how Martin Luther King Jr fended off the FBI.
Of course, let's blame the racism on this site on its victims. AL the antisemite innocently brought up 'bat-matzvah', never realizing that it was something Jewish and that it might be interprited as a slam about Jews profiting off of war as a reason why they encourage nations to have wars.
Is that smith hanging out of AL's ass or is just an optical illusion?
I had no idea a bat-mitzvah was Jewish? I had a bloody bar-mitzvah myself in the good old days...
As I say, making money by military means is morally wrong. Of course, some little capitalists are proud of anyone who makes a buck, no matter the means.
All Australian military personnel are immoral?
To some, making money by any means is exploitive. That you object to some making money off manufacturing body armer is a reasonable objection.
Your interjection that the money was used for a party celebrating a religious event is a little off topic. To suggest it was jewish is antisemitc.
jf
I'm sure Manuel in Fawlty Towers would have queried "keh?" to your quixotic question.
uphillsprinter
Re "A-rab" - yes its the hard "A" many Americans use (particularly from the South).
smiths
Sometimes the anti-blog dissenters to which you refer are sound intellectual sparring partners and this should be appreciated.
Though I wonder whether Shaboo has dedicated his existence to keeping AL "honest". If so a noble, but, at times, tedious sacrific.
Keeping me honest? Jeez, I think I'll be looking elsewhere for moral guidance. A man who celebrates hangings and advocates torture exudes such bravery...
'Your interjection that the money was used for a party celebrating a religious event is a little off topic.'
Horseshit as usual. The thing is, a man who has made shitloads of cash from a business profiting from the deaths of innocent people in an illegal war, decides he'll spend ten million of it on his daughter's party. That is a disgrace.
'To suggest it was jewish is antisemitc.'
Err, it was a Jewish celebration wasn't it? Isn't bat-mitzvah a Jewish ritual? AL didn't 'suggest' it, the report did, and it's not a 'suggestion' it's a plain fact that needs no 'suggestion'. How do you live in such a paranoiac fug? Do you feel the ethnicity of the principals should have been suppressed? You're all for freedom of the press except when it reveals facts that don't comport with your ugly world view.
Had the daughter's party been a whitebread Christian birthday celebration, it still would have been news. Still, it's not a good look is it, to have US Jews flaunting wealth generated via the misery of their ancient enemies.
Smith, AL was deliberately linking a rite of passage in the Jewish religion with profiteering on war.
But you're still hanging out of his ass, aren't you? Like being a shill? Does it pay well?
Seems AL is still pissed at the accident of his birth.
Actually, I wasn't, but why let facts get in the way of a good yarn?
I would have linked to the story if the family were Christian, Muslim, whatever. The point was simply about a man profiteering from war. His religion was secondary, at best.
AL wrote:
As I say, making money by military means is morally wrong.
So, you deem all Australian military personnel to be immoral, right?
There endeth the lesson on evasion. We shouldn't have to assume anything: Mr Loewenstein should clarify.
It is Australia's military personnel – all of whom are volunteers – who employ the instruments of death.
For the third time AL, are Australia's military personnel immoral or not?
Eddie gave a lesson in ethics? That's a laugh. But now we have an insight on his lack of educational credentials.
Making money from war is immoral, as the sweet David H. Brooks can testify. I have never said all soldiers are immoral, or anything of the sort.
As usual, please don't let the facts get in the way, you brave truth tellers!
And tell me, how is that liberation coming along?
To most ultra-liberals, making money by anything but your own sweat is immoral.
No confusion. His point was to highlight a Jew he considered immoral. We all got his point.
If AL answered honestly without all the layers of his screwed up life, I would perfer his answer too.
Most sites degenerate when you start throwing in subtle antisemitic reasoning for the troubles in any particular region.
The same reason why any site degenerates when ever hints of racism is used to explain things.
Wow - what a thread. If Arabs are Semites, isn't it anti-Semitic to kill 100,000 of them in an illegal immoral war based on lies and "fixed" intelligence?" How about digging up Muslim graves in a 1,000-year-old Jerusalem cemetary to make room for a Museum of "Tolerance" underwritten by the Simon Wiesenthal Center? If those actions are not anti-Semitic, nothing is.
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