Apr 18 2007

The Troubled Lover Or Rambo Wannabe?

10 responses so far

10 Responses to “The Troubled Lover Or Rambo Wannabe?”

1. jimbo1 says:

   April 18, 2007 at 5:47 pm

   I will not give MSNBC the hit to their website…posting these photos and tapes is just wrong. This man killed 33 people in cold blood and they couldn’t wait to post the killer posing with his guns… Sorry AJ…didnt mean to rant..

2. lurker9876 says:

   April 18, 2007 at 5:58 pm

   NBC is going to air this CHO tape on Nightly News. How cold is that?

   OT: Looks like there’s a stalemate between Bush and the Democrats regarding the Defense Pork budget. Who will win on this one?

3. crosspatch says:

   April 18, 2007 at 6:21 pm

   This is going to lead to more sick individuals attempting to get their moment of “fame”. Shame on NBC for even publishing that stuff.

4. crosspatch says:

   April 18, 2007 at 6:32 pm

   And I can see why a news organization would want to promote it too. They have a direct financial incentive to create more events of this type.

5. crosspatch says:

   April 18, 2007 at 6:36 pm

   We can also drop the jihadi link. I looked at the return address on that envelope … it says A. Ishmael … not A. Ismail

   Which would also link to Ishmael Bush’s ax.

6. AJStrata says:

   April 18, 2007 at 7:45 pm

   Jimbo1,

   Not to worry. You are in good company. LJStrata believes the same thing. I have to give them credit though, for the picture!

7. Weight of Glory says:

   April 18, 2007 at 8:03 pm

   “We can also drop the jihadi link. I looked at the return address on that envelope … it says A. Ishmael … not A. Ismail”

   I have to disagree CP, respectively. Ishmael is simply another commonly accepted variation of spelling for the first son of Abraham, by the handmaid Hagar. The main reason why it can be spelled different ways has to do with Semitic languages. First, in Biblical Hebrew, there are no vowels, the massoretic Jews later added the vowel marks to the consonantal texts so that the oral tradition of how to pronounce names might be properly kept. This explains the vowel variations between spellings. The reason why there is a difference between the sibilants (‘s’ sounding letters) “sh” and “s” is because in Hebrew the symbol used to produce either sound is identical except for the placement of a very small diacritical mark. The letter looks just like our lower-case w; and the diacritical mark is a small dot, like our period. If the dot is placed on the left side, the letter is pronounced like “sh” if it is on the right side it is pronounced like a simple sibilant, “s”. Thus, the likelihood or unlikelihood of this being a Koranic reference cannot hang on the spelling. Personally, I don’t think he was a jihadi. I think he copied their outer elements as a way to express his own personal grievances. I think he was sympathetic to the Jihadist, in that they hated the same enemy, the West. But who knows. I stopped trying to figure this out when I learned that he called in abomb threat to Norris before he went in.

8. Weight of Glory says:

   April 18, 2007 at 8:15 pm

   Let me explain the vowel variation a little better. ‘ai’ and ‘ae’ are simply common dipthongs (two vowels that make one vowel sound) that make the long ‘A’ sound (like the ‘a’ in ‘male’). since the writings that contained the name Ishmael lacked vowels, later scribes added a vowel pointing called a “sere-yod” or a simple “sere,” which looks like our colon, only laying on its side. When later Latin and Greek translations replaced the sere, they inserteted the dipthongs that made that sound “ae” Latin and “ai” Greek. English primarily gets its vocab. from these two languages, thus it really is a pick and choose kinda thing. both spellings ‘Ismail’ and ‘Ishmael’ are correct.

9. Weight of Glory says:

   April 18, 2007 at 8:18 pm

   If I had my Greek and Hebrew fonts on this computer I could show you. By the way, I really really love languages.

10. MerlinOS2 says:

    April 19, 2007 at 12:26 am

    Weight of Glory

    That the beauty of the net, it brings together people with all types of skillsets.