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FANTASY MATCH: Cyrano de Bergerac vs Inigo Montoya

Muhammad Rasheed - Both Cyrano and Inigo are the greatest swordsmen in their storyverses.  As usual when we have these kind of battles, we'll assume that they fight while each are at their best, which means Cyrano isn't old, and Inigo hasn't started drinking himself to sleep.

INIGO
Background of Skills - Raw vengeance motivated a young Inigo to master the sword so he could avenge his father's death at the hands of the sadistically evil Count Rugen, the six-fingered man.  An initial failed attempt at the time of the murder left the 11 year old with a deep wound in each side of his face, requiring a certain amount of healing time.  He then spends roughly ten years studying fencing under the greatest masters of his day, combined with an intensive self-imposed physical regimen designed to strengthen all of the parts of the human body used to grip, control, and use a sword.  His efforts yielded him the rank of "wizard," the next level up from 'master' in William Goldman's story The Princess Bride, making Inigo the greatest fencer in the world. He earned his living during his vengeance quest by challenging local fencing champions in a one-on-one duel, defeating them easily (usually by fighting with his weaker left hand so as not to be TOO bored) and collecting the agreed upon wager funds.

When Indigo found out there were 30 guards between his sword blade and the vile Count he had sought for so long, he asked the brute Fezzik how many could he take, who answered, "Not more than ten."  Inigo responded, "Leaving twenty for me. Even at my best I could not hope to defeat so many."

CYRANO
Background of Skills - Cyrano de Bergerac is a captain in the French army.  The origins of his phenomenal fencing skills are never mentioned, but I speculate thusly: Since he is extremely intelligent, proud of his stubborn insistence on being his own man who is uncompromising in his independence, and a razor sharp, undiscriminating wit who channels his creative talents into biting plays, essays, articles, etc., making him enemies among the high and low born alike, his motivation for learning the sword so well may be as simple as always needing to fight in order to get him out of the ferocious jams his tongue and pen get him into!  Cyrano was always dueling, and he made the quick dispatch of his opponents look embarrassingly easy, but he also used his sword to great affect as a soldier on the battlefields of his day (France was at war with Spain during Cyrano's tale).

The foppish, vain and over-sensitive Comte De Guiche hired a bunch of murderous ruffians to punish the pastry chef and poet Ragueneau, who stung the nobleman with his verses.   Ragueneau ran to his friend and fellow poet Cyrano for help, proclaiming that there were "a hundred ruffians!"  Cyrano immediately drew his sword and rushed to confront the fiends, where he discovered the true number was closer to about a dozen.  "I've been robbed.  This is no 'hundred,'" he muttered.  In the dark alleyways of 17th century Paris, he killed eight of them easily, grinning all the while, and chased off the rest of the remaining awed group with a stamp of his foot.  

THE WINNER :    Cyrano would win a duel against Inigo, proving himself more versatile in his skills, and stronger in mind and will.

See Also:

FANTASY MATCH: George Foreman vs Larry Holmes

FANTASY MATCH: Iron Mike Tyson vs Sonny Liston

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Reagan versus Obama

Muhammad Rasheed -  1.) It was under the Reagan Administration when America's manufacturing jobs first started being sent to other countries. The first massive wave of layoffs that started the trend of collapsing our middle class happened under his watch.

2.) It was Reagan's Vice President, George H. W. Bush who built NAFTA during his own presidency, which would have Mexico do all the American manufacturing at our middle class' expense. Bush wasn't able to get NAFTA to pass during his term as he had hoped, so instead he tricked a green President Elect Bill Clinton into doing it for him.

3.) The very pro-middle class President Obama was determined to amend NAFTA with his TPP agreement, building a new relationship with the Asian world to offset, and even overrun, the problems NAFTA created.

Because of these three items alone, it's pretty clear that anyone who claims Reagan was the best president and Obama was the worst, is actually an enemy of the United States of America.

Marc Keelan-Bishop - While I agree that we should vilify NAFTA and the Republicans, TPP is just as bad if not worse than NAFTA.

Muhammad Rasheed - Based on what?

Michael Daniels - Is this intentionally meant as comedy?

Muhammad Rasheed - I can't wait for you and Marc to actually counter this post with facts, so the real discussion can begin.

Muhammad Rasheed - Posting opinionated snark isn't a real challenge.

Michael Daniels - I have no facts to counter your comedy . I don't even disagree with your assertion that Ronald Reagan was not the best president and Obama was not the worst president. I just find your jumble of chop logic and biased personal opinions incredibly amusing.

Muhammad Rasheed - I think my own biased personal opinion expressed in my final line have a lot more support than the "Poll Finds Obama the Worst President Ever!" I originally wrote this in response to.

The American manufacturing jobs being sent overseas, causing the first wave of massive layoffs in are big cities happening under Reagan's watch, as well as the origins, content and effects of NAFTA are all of public record. That Obama has also championed the middle class as a Moderate is also a matter of public record.

Which part do you find the funniest?

Marc Keelan-Bishop - First, TPP provides even more preferential access to the American market than before. For example, under NAFTA, 62.5% of a car sold in the US without duty must be sourced within the NAFTA countries. Under TPP it'll be 42.5%

TPP also allows foreign corporations even more leave to sue if American regulations cut into their profits.

TPP allows more access to foreign markets, but mostly for multinationals like Apple which keep most of their international profits in foreign banks, safe from the American taxpayer.

Marc Keelan-Bishop - I'm curious, Muhammad, what do you think TPP will do to help America?

Muhammad Rasheed - The TTP will enable technologists to come from the participating Asian countries to setup manufacturing centers in America. The fruit of Obama's educational reform, and college loan reform, the 100,000 technology jobs he championed will enable the next generations to take advantage of these new opportunities to help build up the middle class.

Access to foreign markets is a win for everyone. That's something that everyone will be able to take advantage of. It's a good thing.

Since this was a compromise effort between the 2 parties, I would reasonable expect there to be items in it that would make me frown. But to think the whole thing is garbage... like NAFTA was... isn't reasonable, since Obama wasn't that kind of guy.

Marc Keelan-Bishop - Why would any Asian technologists want to open a manufacturing Center in America where it's much more expensive?

Muhammad Rasheed - With incentives specifically designed to make the deal attractive.

Marc Keelan-Bishop - We'll see. Seems like the Asian countries got a lot more than the US and Canada.

Muhammad Rasheed - It'll be okay. We won't see the full benefits of it until the education/college loan reform and pro-science/tech measures start bearing fruit further up the road. Obama's was a long-term strategy to build up America and make her competitive again.

Marc Keelan-Bishop - TPP worsens aspects of other free trade agreements, which allow foreign corporations to sue a government for lost potential revenue of a law interferes with their business plans. It's a corporate rights bill.

Muhammad Rasheed -Nothing was worse than NAFTA. With the TPP efforts to amend NAFTA, naturally the people who most benefited from it would still insist they get SOMETHING. With a compromise bill this is to be expected. Either both parties get something, or nothing gets done at all.

See Also:  Obama's Game: Secrets of the Trans Pacific Partnership

A Religious Discussion - Soliciting a Believer's Opinion

Ali Rashada - I have a question for my friend, Muhammad Rasheed. Since you are a Muslim and have spent time in a predominately Muslim country, are you able to explain the mindset and conversations that take place between people you know and meet, when supposed Muslims kill other Muslims in what we call terrorist attacks? Is there a call for Muslim governments to join the fight for what is 'right'? Why does it seem that Muslim countries aren't helping each other to eradicate what we in the west see as terrorism?

Muhammad Rasheed - The 'terrorist attacks' come from outside infiltrators, designed to keep the Muslim world from pooling their resources and becoming an effective rival power to Western European Global Supremacy. So that the Euro-ethnic groups & allies may maintain their cartel of dominance, an elaborate plan of keeping the Muslim nations in a continuous state of war torn strife & confusion has been unleashed upon them, starting after a detailed analysis of The Six-Day War (1967) was conducted.

Prior to The Six-Day War, the western powers assumed that they would be able to run over those nations relatively easily, using the hi-tech might at their command. Even though western allies technically won the war, the allies received far more casualties and damage than they expected, with the Arab nations proving far more canny on the battle field. Consequently, they decided to use a tactic that would keep the Muslim world battling itself, as opposed to directing that energy towards their true enemies. What you see going on over their today -- unprecedented in history -- is in fact the culmination of decades of manipulation from the western world's intelligence agencies and allied powers.

Me being a Muslim, having spent time in a Muslim country, and having had discussions with the locals, I find that any "terrorist" leaning talks are very political and are completely divorced from the religious tenants in any way. Under the background described above, there can be no governmental call for what is 'right,' since the governments have been infiltrated by outsiders interested in only what is 'wrong.' This has been going on for generations now, and the people are becoming more and more indoctrinated into what their sophisticated enemy wants them to be. As a Muslim, it's very sad to watch them being yanked to & fro by their puppet master enemies in this way, especially since they are not inclined to listen to yet another westerner telling them what they should do.

Ali Rashada - So in the Six-Day War, you are talking about the Arabic countries in a war against Israel, funded and armed by the US, and the European nations who supported the creation of Israel. Does this mean you believe the attackers are foreign nationals in most cases, or brainwashed Muslims, or European or American citizens employed by the intelligence agencies, or D all of the above?

Muhammad Rasheed - Brainwashed Muslims.

The western intelligence agencies trained up generations of Muslim kids in terrorist tactics & mindsets -- from a playbook that has a foundation in tactics developed by the secular Tamil Tigers group -- through aggressive recruiting efforts that in the beginning, was done by foreign agents in disguise.

Ali Rashada - I could ask almost any question about Muslim choices and the result upon the country, as most Americans would; but currently residing in Australia, I am also able to see almost the exact same result in America (see popularity of Donald Trump, and mass shootings) which is just as Christian as North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula are Muslim, and think we could agree, if we were open minded, religion in itself cannot be the answer. I mean "zealots" of all faiths seem empowered to deny the rights of others, when obeying the will of God. I see the same atrocities Americans perpetrate, and worse, by the wealthy Muslim princes, and there is a falseness among the wealthy, and their feigned devotion to religion over the pleasures and excess of life.

Muhammad Rasheed - In order to jump on board that train, you would first have to show me the verses in the source texts that support these items you insist are the fault of religion. If you cannot, and assuredly ye cannot, then the fault is ever only with the people who wanted to commit this mischief in the earth.

In other words, if they were actually obeying the will of God, then none of these problems would exist. That was my point in explaining that the 'terrorist' speak of the locals is always 100% political, and divorced from the tenants of any faith they claim to subscribe to in that conspicuously compartmentalized part of their lives.

Ali Rashada - I guess then it boils down to, the compulsion provided by the Abrahamic religions do not have the full effects one would hope for, in modifying the behavior of its adherents towards peaceful ends, nor do they seem to protect society by restraining those who seem to be in position of authority and operational wisdom.

Muhammad Rasheed - From that same logic you could just as seriously make the claim that, because there is a criminal element present in modern society, civilization itself has proven to be a failure and should be discarded.

The message of God lets every individual know that his/her actions will have ultimate consequences and that there will be a Final Accounting on the day of resurrection. Reward & Punishment will be issued out accordingly. Whether people personally decide to heed this information is up to them, and whether they do or not... in whatever numbers... has nothing to do with the validity of the religion that holds this message. Honestly I don't understand the logic of you all's thinking on this topic.

Ali Rashada - Yes but the Supreme Creator would exhibit traits contrary to the scenario you describe, if that is true.

Muhammad Rasheed - I find it impossible to take seriously a human telling me what an Omnipotent, Omniscient Superior Being would or would not do, as if he had been given some special divine insight into how the only truly unique being in all of reality would/should behave.

He told you how He behaves in His scripture.

Ali Rashada - Ah ha! Now I see the problem. You read a book, printed by a company, dictated by a man, over a thousand years ago, and believe it is the most recent, and authoritative communication from the creator of all life, to all humans for all of time.... excluding the other "scriptures" that other groups of human believe the same thing about. Yeah, I don't do that.

Muhammad Rasheed - He was kind enough to explain that the other scriptures were also from Him, and He is the only God. There is only one message: Believe in Him, do good, reject evil.

You SHOULD do this. If you choose to continue not believing, that is your Free Will in action. Enjoy it as you like, for as long as it lasts.

Ali Rashada - Just so I understand your viewpoint on this, can I communicate directly with my creator, or do I have to rely on books written more than 1300 years ago? And you think that creating a being with free will and decision, and punishing it infinitely if its operation does not conform to the creators ideals, shows more " scope, force, insight, awareness, knowledge, plans, foresight," than just creating being that just does what it is told...really? What is the need for punishment? If your creation doesn't do what you intend, why not just un-create and try again, although being perfect, the creator should be able to create anything it wants. Following that logic, at some level, the creator you describe must want to punish some living being, because his omnipotence would tell him upon their creation that they would not suffice, yet they are forced to play their role and take their due punishment at the end? Wow, that's depressing

Muhammad Rasheed –

The Holy Qur'an 42:51
“It is not fitting for a man that Allah should speak to him except by inspiration, or from behind a veil, or by the sending of a messenger to reveal, with Allah's permission, what Allah wills: for He is Most High, Most Wise.”

Muhammad Rasheed - God said it is "not fitting" to speak directly to humans, and that He only does so by inspiration, from "behind a veil," or by sending an angel to reveal. The canon of His message is closed now; He's revealed everything that He needs us to know about our existence. Under what justification would He need to send you a special inspiration? For what?

Ali Rashada - Yeah, I'm just a servant to the will of the creator, why would he care what I have to say, think or feel? Its funny, when I speak to people like you (of many different religions) I feel like that strange kid in the movies. You know the one where there is some old creepy house on the corner, and everybody says the owner is some old, crazy guy who eats kids. Then one day, the loner meets the guy in the house and he is actually a cool, and funny guy who would do anything to help his friends and loved ones, but nobody believes it. Well, I'm that kid, God is the old man, and you are a neighborhood kid who has been too scared to meet the old man and see what he's really like, because you believe the stories of others.

Muhammad Rasheed - 1.) Why do you think you have any special insight to offer God? It would be like talking to a one year old; it's adorable because they think they are really saying stuff. I'm just going to toss that into your arrogant "Why would God...?" line of questioning bag.

2.) You may feel that way all you wish, but you actually come across like a hellbound pagan, who somehow believes he is the peer to The One. I advise you to repent. This path will not turn out the way you think. At this point in the discussion, there is no way I would believe you actually talk to God on any kind of level ever. Everything you've written sounds quite removed.

3.) God is ONE. He's not an 'old man.' The comparison is offensive.

Ali Rashada - Yeah, but I'm saying I have a personal relationship with my creator, and you're saying its not possible...because some 1300 year old book told you so, so you are even afraid to try. At this point, you have nothing useful to teach because you can only prove how much of another man's words you have memorized. You don't speak from experience, but fear, and belief in what you read. in my experience I have met many people who have tried to tell me what my relationship with another will be like... yeah, whatever.

Muhammad Rasheed - I'm open-minded enough to be willing to believe you've tapped into a relationship with SOMETHING. Is it the Lord of the worlds, the Supreme Creator of the heavens and the earth? No, or you would not talk this way. You sound exactly like those who will earn His wrath and there's no truth or spiritual insight in your words.

Have a good night, Ali. I hope I've managed to quench the thirst of all the questions you had for me in this shout-out post. Thanks for reaching out. Peace.

Ali Rashada - I call my creator - Father, Daddy, and my source and center, your belief changes nothing in our relationship. Thanks for very much for an enjoyable session    :)

Muhammad Rasheed - It wasn't lost on me that "daddy" was conspicuously absent from the 99 Attributes of God that He used to describe Himself in the Qur'an. I think He took that one off of the table because the Christians overstepped their bounds in the worst way by taking the term literally. God was obviously offended by the blatant insolence.

That Old Skin-Deep Critique

Andre Roberts - Joseph Fiennes cast to play Michael Jackson in upcoming 9/11 drama

I honestly think Michael will be happy with this. He achieved his lifelong wish looking down from Heaven lol

Riley Freeman - Do you really expect anything that makes sense from the BBC? Hell, I'm still wondering why people watch Downton Abbey. Lol

Jolie Du Pre - Ha Ha!

Taurus T Hill - Why are you guys surprised

Riley Freeman - Still not sure how the BBC Tues in with Oscars. But I'll bite. Please explain.

Andre Roberts - @Taurus T Hill… who's surprised? I actually think Michael would be happy with the casting were he still alive. Bleaching his skin and his "choice" in children for evidence.

Muhammad Rasheed - the national inquirer's nonsense is "evidence?" of what?

Andre Roberts - @Muhammad Rasheed… are those kids biologically his? Yes or no?

Muhammad Rasheed - Oh, you're talking about Paris and Prince an 'nem. Carry on.

Muhammad Rasheed - I wonder how he felt about all of those portrayals/casting of him. I know he was charmed by Eddie’s impression from Delirious, and they became friends from it.

Muhammad Rasheed - ya never know.

Andre Roberts - This dude made sure that any kids he had, had no black in em. That's very telling

Muhammad Rasheed - I don't know if he was "making sure." It was probably just as simple as -- of the people in his network circle -- the blond white woman was the only one he felt close enough to to discuss those things (intimacy of hair appointments or whatever), and she was the only one who was crazy enough to do it.

Muhammad Rasheed - ...plus her, and this alleged real father, were probably paid handsomely.

Andre Roberts - Perhaps

Muhammad Rasheed - He was very forceful about his pride in being a black man in that Oprah interview, where he finally revealed the vitiligo thing.

Muhammad Rasheed - Thinking he hated being black, and was actively trying to change his race, isn't the critical thinking position on the MJ debate. It’s pretty tabloid shallow.

Muhammad Rasheed - One thing that's for sure... as weirded-out as the public felt by what was happening to him physically, he had 30 something years to live with it and deal with it psychologically.

Muhammad Rasheed - The specialty niche demographic of wealthy, famous black, former child stars, who spent their whole lives in that Hollywood La-La Land community, already have that "I don't believe in race" thing as a real part of their personal ideology. With Michael, who probably felt it stronger than most, probably took the vitiligo thing as some kind of spiritual sign...

Andre Roberts - I saw that interview. I'm not buying it. The kids was the final straw

Muhammad Rasheed - I don't understand what you don't buy. What are you holding on to that justifies that stance?

Muhammad Rasheed - Michael Jackson talks about Vitiligo with Oprah

Andre Roberts - Holding onto? My opinion. Lol. People can say one thing and it's completely something else

Muhammad Rasheed - I mean, what are you thinking about that makes you lean in the direction you prefer about it.

Muhammad Rasheed - I'm just probing into the source of the opinion for further discussion.

Andre Roberts - With vitiligo and the skin covering creams they use to even out "they use to even out" you can go either direction. White or black. He chose white. There's a news caster that has it and he used the brown makeup that was his original color. Why not Mike? Then the final straw for me was making sure that his children were bilogically white. No black in them entirely.

Muhammad Rasheed - Before he recorded the Bad video, his brown skin did have an odd look to it (see: Liberian Girl vid). I speculate that as the condition progressed, it became more effective to 'white out' the remaining brown blotches, rather than cover the majority of exposed area with brown[-ish].

I don't rule out a psychologically ill, subconscious preference for a 'white look' from him. He had been relentlessly called ugly by his family during his awkward teen stage (he continued to cover up his nose as a nervous tick even at the age of 50), and it probably pushed him over the top. But I also think that if his hairdresser had been ole girl from Thriller, instead of Debbie Rowe, the kids would look black instead.

See Also:  The Michael Jackson Trial: What Went Wrong?

Return of the Fiery Phoenix!

Wow...! I've been really looking forward to Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods sequel and it didn't disappoint. As usual his work left me creatively inspired, and in awe of the powers & knowledge of the ancients, but this time it left me quite terrified. Missing from the previous work was the "smoking gun" -- the exact nature of the cataclysm that smashed mankind back down to the stone age at the end of the last Ice Age, wiping out all obvious traces of the source advanced civilization we've inherited our own sciences from. The evidence is backed by irrefutable, rock-solid scholarship, and is as amazing as it is alarming.

My personal conclusions were little different than they were after reviewing the movie The Road (see: A Bleak & Dreary Future). If we hope to survive the inevitable return of 'The Phoenix' we all need to invest in Marcin Jakubowski's brilliant Open Source Ecology project IMMEDIATELY! We haven't a moment to lose!

Thank you Graham Hancock for another masterpiece, and a much needed wake up call for the species.

Ebola versus Jesus

Muhammad Rasheed - Obama is Infecting Christians with Ebola To Destroy Jesus and Start A New Age of Liberal Darkness

Dude...

...you couldn't wait till you were a LITTLE closer to November?

Ola Betiku - would love to know how Christian DNA differs from others... lol

Muhammad Rasheed - It's Science, Ola. You wouldn't understand.

Ola Betiku - Muhammad Rasheed I probably wouldn't

Ola Betiku - as comical as this is... there was a time not to long ago when a great deal of people thought that a particular virus only affected gay people...

Muhammad Rasheed - Even though that turned out to be an inaccurate exaggeration of the truth, what they both have in common is the fact that certain behaviors can lead to greater chances of being affected by the disease.

In this case, if you hate Jesus, you'll get Ebola. #fixYoself

Ola Betiku - well I suppose when pregnancy is not in the equation gay guys used to have a lot of unprotected sex and that led to them getting hit pretty hard by the disease. The only way I suppose you could target just Christians with a disease is to lace bibles with it...

Muhammad Rasheed - Uh, nooo. The force of your blasphemous denial will cause the affliction to seize you, no doubt on the cellular level.

Paris Pacman Collins - Muhammad Rasheed were are you from? You certainly have no education from a real school or university.

Muhammad Rasheed - 'MURICA!!!

Muhammad Rasheed - @Ola... Yes, unprotected sex is one of the behaviors that increase the chances of being affected by a certain virus, but there's also another behavior that has THIS highlighted-in-red trait attached:



Ujamaa Crear - "'MURICA"

I cackled. ROFL

George Williams - WTF?

Dennis Thompson - I would share this but I am afraid that some people are so dense they would actually believe it.

Paris Pacman Collins - Wow this Muhammad Rasheed guy is really stupid.....lmao

Muhammad Rasheed - How DARE you!

P. P. Collins = jackass

Paris Pacman Collins - You are stupid. How dare you make up lies!? We're did you go to school?

Muhammad Rasheed - We're = Where

Muhammad Rasheed - Apparently the School of Jesus is superior to whatever jackass school YOU attended! STEP, FOOL!

Paris Pacman Collins - iPad auto correct but ok. You clearly have no education. No common sense. So again "Where" did you get your education of Jesus.?

Muhammad Rasheed - From the Internet, stupid! (and maybe some television back before the internet) and why would THAT lie???

Muhammad Rasheed - I'm offended by your dumbass questions.

Paris Pacman Collins - I am offended by your dumb ass post!

Muhammad Rasheed - YOURS!!!

Paris Pacman Collins - Where did you get your knowledge ?

Muhammad Rasheed - see, this is why Black people can't get ahead the way other, more jesus-friendly people are.

Muhammad Rasheed - Because of stupid people like YOU!   >:(

Muhammad Rasheed - It's the Information Age, dumbass!! I get my knowledge from the Internet!

Muhammad Rasheed - Are you deaf AND stupid???

Paris Pacman Collins - Fuck Jesus the slave master forced black slaves to except Christianity . Now Black People are more religious than Masa! I am a Proud Atheist but your post is extremely ignorant.

Paris Pacman Collins - Yet you can not even say where you got your knowledge . Are you one of those guys who went to jail and read a few books and now you trying to enlighten everybody.?

Muhammad Rasheed - 1.) [to get serious for a minute] The oldest Christian church in the world is in Ethiopia, and predates the American slave trade by about a trillion years. Just because Whites intro'd the Black slave to his Eurocentric version of the faith doesn't mean Christianity has zero value. That reveals your poor levels of research into the topic. [back to the show]

Muhammad Rasheed - 2.) I SAID I got it from the Internet!!!!! Stupid!!!!

Paris Pacman Collins - West Africa never practice Christianity until White People came with their abuse. E.I. Nigeria Ethiopia is in East Africa. Christianity is a hateful religion. Spread through fear , rape, plundering, hate, enslavement, lie and genocide. Keep your Christianity . I am all for facts but lies like this post are ridiculous.

Muhammad Rasheed - 3.) [to get serious again] The idea that West Africa never saw Christianity during the 2,000 years of the faith's existence... despite all of the trade & commerce with the world the region took part in... is insane. There were many West African Christians, who converted to Islam almost in totality over the centuries. This gave the impression to colonizing White people that they had never seen Christianity before, but that is not true. [back to the show]

Muhammad Rasheed - 4.) You wouldn't know a fact if it bit your autocorrect!!!!

Helen Mesa Ortiz - Actually Paris, he's informed and knows what he's. He in Miami high school students are doing exactly that. Soaking tampons with alcohol, inserting them in their rectum and going to school wasted.

Paris Pacman Collins - Helen get lost he is a big boy I think he can speak for himself. Clearly you dont know what your talking about.

Muhammad Rasheed - lol She was referring to my post to Ola above.

Paris Pacman Collins - Why did she say my name then? Helen pay attention...

Muhammad Rasheed - She called herself being funny and thought you'd be in the joke with her against me.

Ujamaa Crear - Wow. Somebody whose name I'm not allowed to say COMPLETELY missed the joke, and created a whole other joke in the process.

Carry on. *sips some Jesus tea*

Ujamaa Crear - Reminds me of this poor clueless guy:

A guy started trolling his 'friend' for saying stupid stuff on Facebook, but who is really the jerk here?

Dumb people who are uber serious and uber offended are fun.

NO!! Douse the Bern!

Muhammad Rasheed - If You’re Liberal and You Think Hillary Clinton Is Corrupt and Untrustworthy, You’re Rewarding 25 Years of GOP Smears

Muhammad Rasheed - There's no WAY putting a "Democratic Socialist" (Communist) in the White House would be "evolving."

Marc Keelan-Bishop - Why not? America Is WAY behind when it comes to democratic socialism.

Muhammad Rasheed - "Democratic socialism" is what the communists renamed themselves after their experiment crashed & burned. Infecting us with that disease until it consumes us will be the ultimate joke, laughing at ourselves towards our own destruction. Nothing about democratic socialism is progress.

It's evil.

Marc Keelan-Bishop - Hogwash. Democratic socialism is what exists and succeeds in Norway, Sweden, Germany, New Zealand, Iceland, France, Canada and many more countries. Communism was only ever totalitarianism.

Jeremy Travis - If Democratic Socialism is so bad, why does it work so well in other countries?

Muhammad Rasheed - Norway isn't a democratic socialist system. Their conservative party took the majority seats in 2013. Their central gov has total power, and their socialist part is a social-democracy.

Sweden has continuously reversed its position on allowing free markets and re-privatization of public industries since the 1980s, which means it is not a democratic socialist society, but a social-democracy.

For the most part, Germany is a lot like the USA with 2 parties dominating the political landscape. One is the center-left Christian Democratic party, and the other is the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Germany is not a democratic socialist system.

New Zealand is similar to Germany, with its left political dominating party being a social democratic one, not a democratic socialist system.

Iceland's system makes groups of political parties work together. Their democratic socialist party is ranked as the 3rd most influential, but they are still watered down by the Eco-socialism, Euroscepticism, and Feminism ideologies. Social democracy and liberal conservatism have way more influence to consider Iceland to be democratic socialist.

France's Socialist Party is split between the social democrats and the democratic socialist, with the former having the lead in influence.

Canada's largest socialist party is the New Democratic Party, and they are social democratic.

So it turns out your "hogwash" comment was complete nonsense, Marc.

Jeremy Travis - What's the difference between Democratic Socialism and Social Democracy?

Marc Keelan-Bishop - I think your definition is quite narrow. Democratic socialism is not antithetical to capitalism. Even the most right wing parties in most of the countries I mentioned are socially democratic.

Marc Keelan-Bishop - And you can't go by the name of the party. Don't forget that China goes by The peoples DEMOCRATIC republic of China.

Muhammad Rasheed - @Marc... I'm not going by the name of the party, I'm going by the party's stated ideology and goals.

Muhammad Rasheed - A social democracy seeks to fix or soften the problems with traditional capitalism so that an ideal capitalist-socialist blend is created in society.

Democratic socialism has no use for capitalism at all, feels that is is 100% evil and must go, and works to gradually convert it over to a full socialist system. It is Communism by another name. Literally.

Marc Keelan-Bishop - Where do you get this definition of "Democratic socialism" vs "social democracy?

Muhammad Rasheed - Political Ideologies: An Introduction by Andrew Heywood

Social Justice by David Miller

Muhammad Rasheed - where do you get your extra, extra broad definition of democratic socialism? So broad that that it treats the two different ideologies as if they are synonymous?

Muhammad Rasheed - Which I've noticed a lot on FB since Sanders has been getting more and more word-of-mouth attention.

Marc Keelan-Bishop - You are the first person I have ever read who differentiated between democratic socialism and social democracy.

Muhammad Rasheed - You're welcome. lol

Marc Keelan-Bishop - yours is certainly not the definition of what Sanders stands for.

Muhammad Rasheed - Yes, it is. He's a sneaky ass.

Muhammad Rasheed - Democratic Socialists work towards a gradual transformation from capitalism to total communism. Gradual.

So of course in the beginning they are going to pretend to be social democracy advocates.

Marc Keelan-Bishop - @Muhammad Rasheed… Hogwash again. He's for a rebalancing of capitalism, which has run amok in America. He seeks a balance like in the other countries I described.

Muhammad Rasheed - That's what the democratic socialist says in the beginning. "Rebalancing." He's easing you into his true goal.

Muhammad Rasheed - You never did say where you got your own definition for the term.

Who told you this?

Muhammad Rasheed - Tell me.

Marc Keelan-Bishop - My definition simply comes from reading about politics over time. Again, i've never come across a parsing of those terms the way you describe, and I have not read those two books.

I will ask this: what communist régime ever came in gradually? I can't think of a single one that was not the result of a violent revolution.

Muhammad Rasheed - You read about politics where?

Marc Keelan-Bishop - @Muhammad Rasheed… Newspapers, magazines, biographies.

Muhammad Rasheed - Which newspapers? What magazines? Biographies written by who?

Marc Keelan-Bishop - I read regularly The Globe and Mail, The Week UK, The Guardian, New York Times, Maclean's, Hill Times, LA Times, The Walrus, The National Post, Jerusalem Post.

Loads of biographies over the years, but the best recent one is Mao, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.

But of course all of that is besides the point. You are ascribing nefarious hidden motives to Saunders based on what appears to be an uncommon definition of a term. Everything Saunders says shows that he would like to work toward the type of capitalism enjoyed in the countries i described.

Muhammad Rasheed - It's not beside the point. The layperson, even the journalists from your favorite rags, think that every term with 'socialist' in it is interchangeable with every other. Meanwhile they each refer to a very specific thing, and when an actual career politician SME singles one out for his personal self-identification, it also means a very specific thing.

Sanders shows no less than the sneaky manipulative tactics of the Red Menace (i wear my melodrama proudly as a comic book writer).

Thomas Mack - I am forming a new political called Living On a Lonely Islandist... or LOLI for short. The LOLI party grows their own food, uses solar power, and purifies the surrounding water of the island to drink. The only requirement to be a Loyal Loli-ist is the desire to remove ones self from the current governments of the world and answer to your own sovereignty and the creator God... Now to find an unoccupied Island.

Andre Roberts - Doesn't matter to me. Whichever Dem gets it will get my vote.

Todd Holland - Hillary lost to a Black man in racist ass America...Let that sink in...She is near unelectable...I wouldn't back her McCain or Romney for dog catcher...

Muhammad Rasheed - He wasn't just any Black man. Obama represented the polar opposite of everything Bush did, and with his sharp wit and charisma, won over the independents and the youth for two landslides. Hillary will be good because she'll partner with Obama's agenda and work to make permanent the Executive Orders he put in; she won't sabotage his agenda the way Sander's is guaranDamnTeed to do. Hillary's problem is that she lacks charisma, and comes across "wrong" on camera, like Bob Dole or Gore or somebody.

Todd Holland - Hillary will/would be another scandal ridden mess that will sell out Obama,Black folks,her mother if it would keep herself in power...I ain't pro Sanders either,but I have no illusions about Clinton standing for ANYTHING but gaining or keeping power.

Muhammad Rasheed - Obama did partner with the Clinton agenda on many of his items... this was no secret. His commitment to strengthening the middle class is something that needs to continue so it will be cinched in for keeps. Hillary will do so, Sanders will not. The idea of a "strong & prosperous" middle class doesn't give him a warm & fuzzy. He will sabotage that for his bs commie foolishness at the country's expense.


See Also:

A Sinister Long-Term Goal for America

 McCarthy's War

Diehard Cheerleaders Amaze All By Cheering

Belief in the Prophets

Artie Buckley - Egyptian Scholar Admits Temple Mount Mosque Not Sacred to Muslims

Muhammad Rasheed - Dude, why wouldn't a known site established by previous prophets of God, on the command of that same God, and known to house the Ark of the Lord, not be sacred to Muslims?

Artie Buckley - Islam is a baby religion 632ad go figure !

Muhammad Rasheed - 'Belief in the Prophets' is a major aspect of Islam. Their stories and message are vital to the doctrine. ALL of their stories have that thread running through them that represent Al-Islam. That's why God commanded us not to treat any of them different than the others.

Of COURSE the Temple where the Ark of the Lord rested should be sacred to Muslims.

Roy Allen Grabow - They built it on top of where the temple was so they couldnt build it back ,,,,,but said its where somebody said was a Flying Donkey ........ISUM Raped the Bible and took our prophets and people out an made the karon from it .......NO Saviuor No Eternal Life ,,,,,,,,,a Book of BONDAGE

Muhammad Rasheed - lol They built it where the Temple was because the site of the prophet-kings David and Solomon was sacred to Muslims, too (peace be upon them both).

In islam you will be saved by accepting the fact that there is no god but the One God of Abraham, and living your life according to that belief. There is no other salvation. Do this and the believer will receive Eternal Life in the hereafter.

I don't understand where y'all come up with your stuff. Instead of passing along nonsense, you would be best served by researching.

Artie Buckley - David according to the storyline has nothing to do with muhammed if he existed.

Muhammad Rasheed - David received revelation from the One God of Abraham, and instructed the people in scripture & wisdom. This was the mission of the prophet-messengers, which included Jesus, Jacob, Joseph, Noah, Lot, Moses... up to Muhammad, who sealed the prophet-messenger line, and whose revelation closed the canon of sacred scripture.

Artie Buckley - Prove that biblically since David and the others u mentioned surfaces first in the bible.

Muhammad Rasheed - They were all of one Brotherhood, who covenanted with the God who anointed them, the One God they all served on the very same mission. It is for this reason why the Muslim upholds the Pillar of faith known as "BELIEF IN THE PROPHETS."

We recognize that they all had the same mission, and hold none of them above any of the others. Thus why the site of David & Solomon's Temple is sacred to Muslims, too.

Muhammad Rasheed - Didn't Jesus prophesize the coming of The Comforter after him? That was Muhammad, the seal of the prophethood.

Muhammad Rasheed - Didn't Moses warn the children of Israel that if they continued to rebel against God, that a prophet would be raised up among their brethren tribe that would instill in them much envy? That was Muhammad, the last of the prophets through the line of Ismael, brother of Isaac.

Artie Buckley - But someone who can live again is more than a prophet so why is this muhammed exalted over Jesus ? Whole books are dedicated to mary and Jesus in koran how many times muhammed ? It's all about giving the arab an identity as he rose in power into Northern Africa .



Artie Buckley - U cannot prove it u just uttering lies that were told to u get some sleep !

Muhammad Rasheed - 1.) All believers will live again, Artie, if they submit to the One God that made them as did the Christ Jesus, son of Mary. To be saved is to accept the Word of God as true and live it.

2.) Muhammad is not exalted over Jesus. "Belief in the Prophets" is the Pillar of Islam that explains that they all had the same mission, and none is to be exalted over any other.

3.) God told the story of Mary and Jesus to confirm their miracles and clear them of the numerous falsehoods said about them. Muhammad's story wasn't told in the Qur'an because it wasn't needed; his job was to preach and demonstrate the Qur'an.

4.) The message of the One God is for all of mankind. The identity of the Arab is irrelevant in that sense.

Muhammad Rasheed - I can't prove it? Did I not just remind you of two well-known prophecies within your own book? How then are ye deluded away from the truth? Have a care, Artie.

Artie Buckley - My book ? Who's name is on the copyright ? I'm here to show the fraud of Islam that's all

Artie Buckley - And u didn't provide anything from the biblical text fyi

Artie Buckley - And the Arab is important to Islam u know that u can't say those prayers in English they are inefficacious in any language other than Arabic. When the Arabs conquered others they changed the language to Arabic. I just posted something related to this it happened in Egypt their language was changed from Coptic to Arabic anyone speaking any other language would be killed @islam the peaceful religion, NOT !

Muhammad Rasheed -




Muhammad Rasheed -



Muhammad Rasheed - 1.) It sounds like you are advocating for the pauline Christian doctrine over Islam. You seem offended at the idea that Muhammad would be exalted over Jesus, even though Allah does not command that.

Muhammad Rasheed - 2.) The Arab's only role was to receive the message and distribute it. That's all. There was no inherent worth in the Arab himself that made him better than any other. The Arabic language of the Qur'an's original revelation is preserved in tradition only as a protection layer to help prevent the text from being corrupted over time. I am allowed to read English translations; only my Lord can command otherwise, and you will find no such command in the Qur'an. Some individuals, and sub-doctrinal schools prefer to only read the Qur'an in the original Arabic, but that is by no means a Pillar of Faith, only their over-strict subjective preference. Even though I understand the reasons for the practice, that does not make it Islam.

Muhammad Rasheed - 3.) The politics of government does not equal the religion. What the Arab-Egyptian gov rules that falls outside of the Qur'an's direct commands does not automatically equal Islam. The idea is absurd. If the new Pope declares that it is okay to have animal sex, does that automatically mean animal sex is a Christian practice? Christianity has very specific tenants that can be traced to the book, as does Islam; the well-researched scholar can discern between the two.

A Case Study Into the Madness of Crowds & Their Popular Delusions

Muhammad Rasheed - Bill Cosby Trying to Buy NBC From G.E. (Oct 1992)

Jeremy Travis - This article is from nineteen-hundred and ninety-two. It's that long ago that I have to refer to it like a date in the distant pass. The relevancy is completely lost now, some two decades and three years, a Black-owned network, and Black president later.

Muhammad Rasheed - Jeremy, the time period claimed for the rape allegations were also in the "distant past." Except for three of them, all the rest of the allegations were first reported in the 2000s under Troiani's group law suit package hoping to score $100 million from the comedian. Of the three, one was made during the height of Cosby's popularity in the '80s, while the other two were made in the '90s. To me, the theory that he is being attacked by rivals to ruin him is a lot stronger than the rape allegations themselves, which fail to hold up to any amount of scrutiny.

I posted this because I came across a definitive statement from someone who proclaimed that Cosby never tried to purchase NBC. I considered the comment a bluff.

Lana Andrade - He's still a fucking rapist.

Muhammad Rasheed - How do you know?

Lana Andrade - because HE said so.

Muhammad Rasheed - Copy/paste the quote[s] where he said he raped someone, please.

Jeremy Travis - Would that even sway your judgement?

Lana Andrade - NOPE

Muhammad Rasheed - Of course it would. That's why I'm asking for the info.

Muhammad Rasheed - Show me the quote where he admitted he raped people, please. Do so and I will join your lynch mob.

Jeremy Travis - 'Jeremy, the time period claimed for the rape allegations were also in the "distant past".'

There is a significant difference between the passage of time from incidents of sexual abuse 3-4 decades ago and an interest in purchasing a television network 2 decades ago.

Now granted, your point that he entertained the purchase of NBC is true and valid, but acting like this recent rise in the prominence of the allegations against him is to prevent that age-old purchase is ridiculous.

Tracy Lawrence - Wait, so him saying under oath that he gave woman drugs for the purposes of having sex with them AND 55 woman saying they were drugged and rape is coincidence?

Jeremy Travis - Tracy, I THINK what Muhammad is saying is that Cosby offered the women the quaaludes and they willfully accepted them only to turn tail decades later and say that they were given the quaaludes without their knowledge.

Tracy Lawrence - As a woman, that makes zero sense to me.

Jeremy Travis - As a rational human, it makes zero sense to me, too.

Tracy Lawrence - The way the current culture is, I would more readily believe that women would brag about taking drugs and bedding Cosby IF they did it willfully.

Jeremy Travis - Exactly! Do you know the tell-all interviews they each could book had it been consentual? "I banged 'America's Dad'!" "Bill Cosby is a pill-popping freak!" "Bill, I'll tell ALL of your secrets unless you pay me a substantial amount of money."

Muhammad Rasheed - ^That is 100% what Dickerson did. Her "tell all" book bragged about her encounter with Cosby back in the day and now, with the promise of a share in the $10 million payout offered by the Hollywood Attorney, suddenly the story changed.

Jeremy Travis - Even that doesn't discount the rest of the women.

Muhammad Rasheed - It isn't about "the women" versus Cosby, it's about Troiani vs Cosby. She's dangling a piece of that potential $100 million in those women's faces because she needs their cooperation in order to win her 33% off the top of a settlement.

Jeremy Travis - So you doubt what the women are saying because of Troiani? You don't believe ANY of the allegations?

Muhammad Rasheed - I don't believe Bill Cosby gave any of them drugs without their knowledge and raped them. I do believe it is highly likely that he did grope people inappropriately in party settings, and similar, over-friendly behavior with women he found attractive, and these incidents are being blown up out of proportion to add fuel to Troiani's bs 'rape' case.

Lana Andrade - I'm not having this conversation with another black man. I refuse. This just furthers my suspicion that I cannot as a woman trust myself with one.

Lana Andrade - 50 women. FIFTY. Gotdamn.

Abdur Rasheed -
Muhammad Rasheed - The significance of the "50 women" is that Troiani needs a lot of statements to score her $100 million; bodies to sway public opinion drawing from the very real evils of our "rape culture."

Muhammad Rasheed - I absolutely want the rape culture destroyed, I just do not agree with sacrificing an innocent to do it.

Muhammad Rasheed - "Just believe it!" isn't good enough.

Jeremy Travis - So then all of the women are lying?

Muhammad Rasheed - What are you using to prove that they aren't lying? $100 million is a lot of money. Lying to achieve large amounts of money has a long and distinguished tradition.

Aren't you all the ones who also argue against the evils of ‘capitalism?’

So what's the prob?

Abdur Rasheed – Cosby Deposition

Jeremy Travis - So when they said that he drugged them before having sex with them, and he admits to drugging women in order to have sex with them, your source of doubt is where, now?

Jeremy Travis - Giving chicks quaaludes, which will knock them ALL of the way out, then having sex with them while they're out, is rape.

Abdur Rasheed - Maybe his dick looks like a half melted candy yam and the chicks insisted on an anesthetic?

"You want to get into show business right? Daaaaaaaaahh!!!"

Muhammad Rasheed - lol smh

Abdur Rasheed - More Scandalous Revelations from Bill Cosby’s Unsealed Court Records

Muhammad Rasheed - Jeremy Travis wrote: "Giving chicks quaaludes..."

Offering them. It was normal during the swingers era to offer them instead of, or along with, alcohol and other rec drugs. It was part of the sub-culture the era is famous for.

Jeremy Travis wrote: "...which will knock them ALL of the way out..."

That's at least the second time you've said that about the drug, which differs quite a bit from its actual function and usage... which is actually a lot closer to how youth in more modern era used ecstacy.



Daniel Leon Ackerman - date rape was the style back then. still illegal though.

Muhammad Rasheed - I'm sure it's still the "style" in many circles now a days, but that doesn't mean that Cosby engaged in it. People deliberately drink alcohol to "loosen up' in adult social situations. This is why the drugs were both offered and accepted. No one in this scandal was raped.

Daniel Leon Ackerman - have to see if court agrees with you.

Jeremy Travis - "Methaqualone, sold under the brand name Quaalude (\ˈkwā-ˌlüd\),[a] in the US and Mandrax in the UK, is a sedative and hypnotic medication. It is a member of the quinazolinone class..

The sedative–hypnotic activity of methaqualone was first noted by researchers in the 1950s. In 1962, methaqualone was patented in the US by Wallace and Tiernan.[2] Its use peaked in the early 1970s as a hypnotic, for the treatment of insomnia, and as a sedative and muscle relaxant."

A 'sedative', 'hypnotic', and 'muscle relaxant' doesn't sound like a rape drug to you?

Muhammad Rasheed -



Jeremy Travis - OK, and... ?

Muhammad Rasheed - You're making a big deal about the effects it has, meanwhile alcohol is also a sedative/muscle relaxant. Both drugs, and others, were offered to people during that swinger’s era and it was a normal part of the culture to do so. You took them or you didn't. Were there people who weaponized them and preyed upon women? Of course, just like there are folk who get women drunk today to prey on them. Cosby wasn't one of these latter.

Jeremy Travis - How do you know that he wasn't one of the latter?

Muhammad Rasheed - The evidence isn't leaning in that direction. The evidence is bottle-necking right at Troiani's feet.

Muhammad Rasheed - @Daniel... Well, actually I fully expect the anti-Cosby "Just Believe It!" cult to win. It's an ideology. People aren't interested in what actually happened, they just want to sacrifice Cosby at the alter of this thing.

Daniel Leon Ackerman - i agree that public opinion has already found him guilty. courts are different.

Muhammad Rasheed - Daniel Leon Ackerman wrote: "courts are different."

Not really. If we could count on humans being able to set aside their biases and subjectivity, and strictly rule only on the facts, then we wouldn't have many of our problems.



Daniel Leon Ackerman - yep. courts are different than public opinion. they are official.

Muhammad Rasheed - People still use their subjective opinion and biases to make official decisions, as the casual search revealed.

Daniel Leon Ackerman - in this country we have difficulty convicting celebrities. my early prediction is Coz will be let off in criminal court and taken to the cleaners in civil court.

Abdur Rasheed - I'm not making a judgement either way until I have all the facts.

I DO think that it's important to keep it in perspective.

$100 million or $500 million doesn't matter if he's guilty.

If a multimillionaire raped you I would think that YOU would want to take a few days off without going in to your job at Walmart.

There are a LOT of opportunist out there and money is a pretty good motivator combined with a law firm who can make it a class action law suit and collect 33% of the total off the top before expenses.

Out of the 55 women who made these allegations if one of them is telling the truth because Dr Cosby had a moment of weakness and had sex without her consent -- as if he out of curiosity double clicked on a over the top freakshow porn site and liked it -- and then fell back on his position of "I'm Bill Cosby and she's nobody" then I really mean this part...FUCK HIM WITH A FROZEN PUDDING POP!

Being in a habit of paying women off when your rich, famous, and MARRIED isn't necessarily proof of anything.

Abdur Rasheed - I think that we should spend ZERO time worrying about our celebrity conviction rate and ALL of our energy on our conviction rate of the truly GUILTY.

Daniel Leon Ackerman - celebrities are above the law. let's ignore them.

Abdur Rasheed - How did we get there??

If YOU were a celebrity and you never broke a law in your life and somebody tried to extort you for money and kept a sample of your swimmers and had her lawyer call you and say that you raped her and she needs $200,000 or she's selling her story to the press somewhere some uninformed knucklehead is going to say, "Pfffffftttt celebrities are above the law."

The ONLY difference the the "celebrity" part that scenario is the $200,000 part and the some knucklehead heard about it part and expressed an uninformed opinion part.

That's why we don't have a Conviction System! We have and SHOULD have a Justice System.

Daniel Leon Ackerman - so many caps. are you getting worked up over this?

Abdur Rasheed - Does the emphasis of three of my words negate my point somehow?

The question should be: What is it about you that wants to see potentially innocent people locked up and disgraced just because they are well known?

I think that is a key question because it's representative of a lot of Americans and it's why we are so short sighted and progress is so slow.

Abdur Rasheed - BOMBSHELL Cosby News! What The Media Didn't Want You To See, Part 1

Muhammad Rasheed - smdh

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HYPOCRISY - Cosby vs Sheen
The Court of Public Gossip
Cos: Silent Stand-Up

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