We would post, but it takes a brain to comprehend what we're trying to tell you.

+1 Prado for sassiest comment of the week

Unfortunately obi won't be able to as it would also require a brain to move the cursor and click the +1 button.

Indeed. Obi is only capable of mindlessly typing on his keyboard. He doesn't know what he's saying. He's delusional, he probably needs a lobotomy.

Although that would require surgeons learning how to operate on an empty space.

ooooh, plus one for that juicy morsel.

Alright, you got me, TrPrado...

I'm actually a zombie--BRAINS...*BRAINS*...

(I've already tried Putin, krellin, and fiedler--no dice!)

hey

what about your ex-gf Mapleleaf?

The basic problem is being strong and united in a complex world. So called 'Liberals' will always try and philosophize to shirk responsibilities and hard decisions. Plus some men just want to watch the world burn.

Not to worry. Strong decent men like me just build more country clubs and fence you tards outside. Sometimes we throw you some leftovers. Say thank you.

Is anyone surprised obi doesn't have a brain? Obi is an English major.

"Obi is an English major."

Ah so he doesn't have a brain or career prospects.

Very nice Vashta :)

I'm no Ben Carson fan at all, but this is *exactly* analogous to when Bill Maher refused to call the 9/11 hijackers "cowards" way back in 2001. Idiots like obiwanobiwan latch on to the easy soundbite without looking at the full context. Like Maher, Carson's comment is quite asinine. But it's nothing at all like obiwanobiwan is making it out to be.

Essentially all he's saying is that there's virtue in being willing to die for one's beliefs. That's far from saying we should be more like ISIS, as our resident quasi-illiterate English major points out in the opening post.

^Hey, stop replying to the topic there, Invictus! ;)

"Essentially all he's saying is that there's virtue in being willing to die for one's beliefs. That's far from saying we should be more like ISIS, as our resident quasi-illiterate English major points out in the opening post."

And now I shall strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger all the wrath a freelancing English major can summon! :p

But you know...

When MLK gave his famous "Mountaintop" speech, he's making an allusion to Moses--and he made it for a reason, as the African-American community had been drawing (understandable) parallels to themselves and the Israelites of the Exodus story vs. Pharaoh and Egyptian slavers for decades. ("Go Down Moses," anyone? ...The African-American spiritual, not the Faulkner collection.)

And when Reagan gave HIS "City on a Light" analogy, he was clearly referencing the New Testament, and Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, to be specific.

So, generally, when you make analogy or comparison...you have more of an underlying REASON than "Oh, well, these things are kinda sorta alike."

MLK saw--to use the term more colloquially than spiritually--a connection between what he saw as the "soul" of oppressed Israelites and the soul of African-Americans, that there was a deeper connection there than "both were slaves."

Because (spoiler alert) A LOT of people have been slaves over the course of history.

Just like A LOT of people have been "willing to die for one's beliefs."

So of ALL the people, nations, and groups Ben Carson could've used for an analogy, he chose...ISIS.

Furthermore, let's go for the English major extra point here and take Carson's actual text--"They got the wrong philosophy, but they're willing to die for what they believe."

That doesn't sound like "Well, sure, George Wallace may have had 'the wrong philosophy' when he said 'Segregation now, segregation forever!' but hey...he REALLY believed what he believed strongly!" to anyone else?

Just saying...when you use a reference...you use it for a REASON...and of all the references he could've picked...he chose ISIS.

I would've told an English major joke, but he probably couldn't read it.

I don't deny that it was silly to use the Islamic State as the example. But you go much further than that in your criticism, putting the words of George Wallace into the mouth of a black brain surgeon.

In reality, you're just using this as an opportunity to make hay expressing your OUTRAGE over something a conservative public figure said. Perhaps you're not familiar with the Bill Maher incident I mentioned. Google it. It's the reason Politically Incorrect was cancelled. Your misplaced fury at Ben Carson's remarks are of exactly the same sort as people's reactions to Maher's.

Monty was an English major, too. It's nothing to be ashamed of Obi.