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Actually I was modifying an old lawyer joke wherein a fella buys a brass rat and all these real rats start following him so he throws the brass rat into the harbor and all the real rats follow it into the harbor and die.

So if we had maybe a brass OBL...

The DHS would follow him off a cliff!

However, they would use threats aainst the families of generals to break the seige Saladin put on them.  

Kind of like Israel punishing the families of suicide bombers.

The more things change...

I never really though about it like that, but yeah, its a good parallel.

Depends, Im pretty sure that was more allowable in Europe, but I think the Arabs took a dim view of such things.

Oh no, they did have a policy of going after the big targets, which puts them in my good books.  They would use a dagger, only a dagger, so almost certainly courting their own death.  And they were fanatically loyal to the Old Man of the Moutains, as he was practically God himself.

However, they would use threats aainst the families of generals to break the seige Saladin put on them.  Thye said they would slaughter them all unless they were left to run their own affairs.  They also tried to kill Saladin twice during the seige (at one point it is rumoured even his own bodygurads were shown to be Assassin agents) and it was said Rashid Din al-Sinan, the Syrian Old Man of the Mountains, stalked the night killing any soldiers he came across.

Alot of it sounds true, of what you know from lluminatus!, but I did a fair bit of research on them, got a few big textbooks relating their history and what they did.  By the time the Mongols came they were another convenional state, lost alot of thier early zeal.  Didnt stop them popping of the Khan's son though.

why is it a terror gorup?

hassan i sabbah saved countless lives by targeting only the leaders and generals of opposing armies and nations.

i thin khe should get the nobel peace prize.

And their families and children.

Hassan i Sabbah smoked a lot of hash for a Republican.

He wasn't a republican. Republicans didn't exist at that time. But he did control political affairs through assasinations and so on.

Plus, Republicans not smoking hash is proof of unintelligent Republicans.

He was a poet also.  And an Iranian.  I wish he was alive still today.  He set the mark for crazed terror groups.  Id like to see Al-Qaeda members throw themselves off cliffs on someones command.  And there was all that business with Rashid al Din Sinan and Saladin.  Where they managed to get the siege of Maysaf called off and give Saladin a paranoia complex for the rest of his life.  Bunch of amateurs today.

I'd suggest "warlord", "oberfuhrer", or "Sacred Flame of Tajikistan"

The last one has a certain ring to it.....

Whats above General again?  Field Marshal right?

Reckon the NSRA should get a mention upon Wiki, oh Commander in Chief?

But isnt Wikipedia so damn tempting?  Every time I go onto it, I feel this urge to change things around.....

The intelligence of a mob = that of its lowest member divided by the number in the mob.  Oh shit....

Yes I do.  Jealous, I see.  Sorry, about your luck...

What's lucky about living in a state full of jabbering rednecks?

More targets?

Not if you ARE (as VoT seems to be) one yourself.

They dont count.

Yes I do.  Jealous, I see.  Sorry, about your luck...

What's lucky about living in a state full of jabbering rednecks?

More targets?

Im going to kill that frog, and all who are linked to it.  You know how annoying those ads are?  I was willing to put my foot through the TV the last time I saw it.  And if you watch music chanels, its on all the time

Hence Swizerland.  If I were a citizen there, it'd be law that I have to have a gun.  And the laws are even more relaxed then the US in some areas. Of course, the downside is that it is Switzerland.  But then again, no-one wants to invade, because even evil dictators and corrupt CEOs have to have a safe place to store the cash.

Are you serious?  They have tried that in some US cities and it is a better deterence than gun control.  If you know someone else has a gun, you are less likely to try to take something from them.  Even if it is an 80 year old woman and you are trying to get her social security check.

Yup, because Switzerland has conscription still.  That was one of the reasons Hitler didnt invade the place, because every Swiss has a gun and is well trained to use it.  For example, the Israeli Army is based on the Swiss model, I think.  Im much more American when it comes to matters like gun control.  Its also why all the banks are there, because Switzerland hasnt been invaded in 500 odd years and is traditionally neutral.  And has nice chocolate (although not as good as Belgium. )

Im not certain as to the conceal and carry laws there, but I presume given the low crime rate it is a possibilty.