Here’s a fun thought exercise for you:

You have four children: Blake, Jake, Rod, and Beth. You’re leaving them at home while you go to work. Before you leave you tell all who’s listening, “You guys take care of each other. I’ll be back soon. And no cookies until I get home with dinner.”

Upon your return you open the door to find Blake hanging upside-down from the ceiling fan, dead, bled, and obviously having been tortured. Additionally, Jake and Rod are standing there side by side, proud as shit, and bursting with excitement. They apparently expect you to issue them everlasting cookies.

You: What in shit happened here???

Jake: Your will was done Father. Blake ate of the forbidden cookies.

You: What? You killed Blake? Because he ate a miserable cookie?

Rod: We both did. He refused your message and willingly transgressed against you. We tried to make him repent, but he refused to believe your message.

You: My message??? WFT??? What about my message with regard to taking care of each other?

Jake: Oh, Father. You will be pleased. We took exceptional care of our brothers and sisters.

You: Bull shit! You killed one!!!

Rod: Blake was no brother of ours. He denied the message, and refused to join the covenant of the cookies.

You: Oh no… Where’s your sister?

Jake: Our dear sister was martyred.

You: “Martyred?” What does that mean? Who invented that word?

Jake: I did. It means she died doing your work, or according to your will.

You: My will??? What’s wrong with you? Your sister is dead? How? Doing what?

Jake: Well… You see, Blake had gotten away from us again. I was trying to break his legs with a baseball bat and hit Beth in the face instead. She died instantly. We did not morn though, for we knew, having died as a result of the service of the Father, that she would be ushered into endless cookies.

You: So I leave the house for a few hours, and you manage to kill half of my children over something I muttered walking out the door, about cookies…

Jake: We also had to pluck out one of Rod’s eyes. He was drawing pictures of cookies.

Rod: My bad.

You: Wait one damn minute here… This jar was full of cookies when I left. More than one cookies has been eaten — they’re almost gone!

Jake: Well, we of course ate some cookies, but only officially sanctioned cookies eaten in your name and according to proper custom.

You: Whaaaat? I didn’t sanction any cookie eating…

Jake: I served as your representative while you were away!

You: *sigh* So you tortured and killed your brother because he ate a cookie, in the process killed your sister, half-blinded Rod for drawing cookies, at the same time were eating about two cookies per hour each, and are expecting some kind of everlasting reward?

Come to find out, after reviewing nanny-cam footage, you see that Blake was not intentionally undermining your authority. He wasn’t in the room when you hollered out your instructions, so all he had were Rod’s and Jake’s retelling, of which he was suspicious. His suspicion and otherwise disinterest made him unwilling to join the cookie covenant.

This frustrated Jake and Rod, pushing their beliefs further and further hard lined each time they discussed the issue between themselves. By noon, Jake and Rod were furious with Blake, were not allowing him near the kitchen even for water, and were calling him a non-listener. Blake was outspoken with his belief that Jake and Rod were outright liars, using the Father’s so-called commands as a reason to hog all the cookies for themselves. Beth was simply frightened and unwilling to eat cookies either way just to be safe, and willing to nod along with anyone claiming to follow her daddy’s rules.

Eventually Blake snuck into the kitchen and had a cookie. Maybe he was wantonly breaking the rules? Maybe he simply wanted a cookie? Maybe he wanted to spite his bossy brothers? Who knows. Regardless, Jake and Rod took the opportunity to brand Blake an official rule-breaker non-listener, and took their retribution – all the while chanting, “We love our Daddy. We love our Daddy.” During the assault on Blake, Beth finally spoke out, pleading for mercy on Blake. That’s when the accident happened that killed her.

Netanyahu addressed the US congress today, reminding me what a real leader sounds and looks like. He nailed his speech out of the building. The capitol building breathed a sigh of relief, finally having a real grown up executive speech echoed off its walls after a complete absence of such over the last couple of years.

Breaking News!!!

All news outlets and the AP are all confirming that President Obama will announce that the USA has killed osama bin laden.  DNA tests have validated it is in fact his body!

The USA and the world celebrate the cutting off of one of the major heads of terrorism!

Bush’s groundwork has come to fruition through Obama’s continuation of his efforts!

UPDATE!!!
President’s address confirms US soldiers shot and killed osama bin laden!

It starts back a few days ago when Bill O’Reilly was on The View, a show where women talk inanely about issues. [no, I'm not saying every woman in the world is on this show] The group was thoughtfully discussing why Obama is having so much trouble with the American people.

O’Reilly was making the point that there exists between Obama and the average Americal a huge proverbial chasm separating how they see the world. His example of this disconnect was the mosque controversy in NY. Obama approached the issue as though it were one of freedom of religion – while 70% of Americans see plainly that building a mosque so close to the 9-11 sight is inappropriate because [and here it comes] Muslims killed us on 9-11. This statement caused Whoopy Goldberg and Joy Behar to walk off the set (then walk right back on).

I’ve said before I don’t have a problem with “The Ground Zero Mosque”. And personally, I don’t like how Bill described his idea. I don’t think it actually offended any Muslims, but saying that sort of thing gives bitchy Liberals more little sticks to swing and unfairly further the crazy-O’Reilly-narrative with their Teabagger generalizing double-standard. He could have used better words, and the words he used distracted all the stupid people – the ones who need to listen – from the very true point he was making.

The fact is: Muslims did kill us on 9-11. There was a network of guys who pulled off an attack on our country and killed over 3000 people, and those killers did this based on ideas and motivations found in their sect of Islam. Also, one of the biggest threats to peace in the world right now is radical Islam. People know this. This is what people think. Bill said it too simply. He assumes American’s have good sense and don’t need crayons. He’s right. What other society would have had zero backlash against Muslims after 9-11?

The average American starkly sees why constructing a Mosque so close to the site of mass-murder by Muslims is offensive. These Americans aren’t interested in limiting the freedom of anyone’s religion, or keeping Liberal support for a political agenda. They just see this as common sense, best to avoid, find another spot, respect the victims’ suffering. The President has a different way of looking at the issue – apparently. That’s the point Bill was making before he stepped in it.

So since then Bill has been hashing over this whole big to-do, complaining about political correctness running a muck, how it’s wearing on the American people’s constitution for politeness. He is right. It is difficult to have this much needed conversation because everyone is expected to pretend that they don’t have any less-than-enlightened inclinations about Muslims – it’s just those other guys we have to reeducate.

So a couple days ago Bill is having a Factor debate, which includes a contributor representing either side. Juan Williams is representing the that-was-a-stupid-thing-to-say-Bill side, and someone else was representing the Muslim-problem side. Besides working as a contributor on Fox News, Juan did the same thing for NPR, until 36 hours after this debate. Here it is:http://video.foxnews.com/#/v/4381309/factor-debate-over-danger-from-muslim-world/?playlist_id=86923

Now, Juan is a really likable guy. He’s friendly and honest. He’s one of those guys who you can never count on which side of the issue he’ll fall – but you can count on whatever he says, it will be sincere and thought provoking. He’s not toeing anyone’s line, in other words, and makes great points and always adds to the conversation. He’s my favorite kind of contributor. He makes me think and question my ideas.

Right off Juan concedes that Bill is right about one thing: Political correctness is run-a-muck. He also added that this is a bad thing because an over-adherence to political correctness makes needed conversation impossible because it forces people to ignore reality. He then went on to describe an example of the problem, that he himself feels uneasy when he sees people dressed in Muslim garb boarding his plane. He wasn’t advocating such feelings, he was making a factual statement, highlighting a problem he himself is part of, and went on to argue against Bill’s use of words, because they could further this problem.

So 36 hours later, after receiving pressure from CAIR (a Muslim civil rights group), NPR abruptly cans Juan over the phone, an employee of 10 years. The fool president of NPR, Vivian Schiller, claimed the reason for the firing was that Juan, as an NPR contributor/corespondent, isn’t supposed express opinion.

And this is where the fun begins. I swear, it’s like NPR forgot my birthday, just remembered, and felt guilty and got me something REALLY good.

1. Juan wasn’t expressing opinion. He was stating a fact, a helpful fact in countering Bill’s MuslimsKilledUs argument, and a necessary fact in the Muslim-American discussion.

2. There are numerous other correspondents and contributors for NPR on record making all kinds of offensive opinions at all kinds of venues. None have been fired.

3. Juan was holding up the pro-Muslim side of the Factor debate. So it’s obvious that those ninnies on NPR and the jerks at CAIR ignored the context of the statement, or didn’t even bother to read the whole transcript, and imprudently fired a very respected journalist in order to further petty political ends. They’ve been looking for a reason to cut this Fox guy out. Juan Williams, a black man on FOX, a FOX/NPR contributor, harms the Faux News narrative they try to spin.

Vivian Schiller then goes on TV and says that Juan’s opinions should be shared with his psychiatrist and publicist, not as an NPR contributor. Juan was also the ONLY black person on NPR – lol.

Now EVERYONE is pissed – across the spectrum. ALL the ladies on the View think NPR made a mistake, those morning idiots on MSNBC say NPR should hire him back, Bob Beckel [liberal political annalist] is forgoing his yearly donation to NPR in honor of Juan Williams, and the Fox people are PISSED their buddy Juan got screwed and are having a hard time keeping it professional [I love Megan Kelly]. The only non-anti-NPR report I read was a Times piece trying to present the controversy as a FOX-opinion-journalism vs NPR-fact-journalism debate… please… The Times and I stand in line together for food stamps…

Now it’s apparent that NPR REALLY stepped in the warm sticky shit. People are advertising their funding sources. A movement has started efforts to remove NPR’s Federal funding. It’s fund raising week – lol. And this whole thing has proven that NPR is a Liberal organization and has totally undermined their credibility.

Now I understand many don’t feel NPR is unfairly Liberal. That was my sentiment as well. I was kidding myself of course, just like you, but I can’t stay convinced any longer, not with this idiot Schiller at the helm, not with George Soros giving them 1.8 million dollars, not with this blatant double-standard, not with this obviously politically motivated knee-jerk vilification of a good man. And seriously – this was just a plain stupid move. It’s blown any credibility I personally had in the organization’s editorial choices – the opposite of the stated intention.

There’s more to come I’m sure. Schiller is going to get canned I bet. She may have ruined NPR. They might have to stoop to capitalism, or worse yet, STOP PLAYING PRAIRIE FUCKING HOME FUCKING COMPANION, or tone down their minimum three shows a day focus on something about homosexuals.

Happy Birthday to me.
NPR’s up a tree.
ACORN their funding dear congress.
He he he he he he.        

It was funny how everyone was calling it the “Ground Zero Mosque.”

Regardless, I think it’s obnoxious how people are upset about that Islamic Community center being built two blocks away from Ground Zero. There are already Mosques close by. There’s already almost everything close by – it’s Manhattan NY for crying out loud.

Anyone worried about Islamic militants or radicalism aught to support the Ground Zero Mosque. Like I said, it’s NY – what more liberalizing place is there than NY? Look at the Jews. They filled the place up and now most of them don’t even support Israel against Palestine.

If you don’t like Crazy Islam, support the Ground Zero Mosque and petition for a second one. Start a fund to relocate Muslims to the Ground Zero Neighborhood. Call your congressman and ask him to support subsidizing for Muslims a bunch of units in whatever buildings they’re building on Ground Zero. Not only will they became liberalized, it will bring down the proportion of infidels and reduce it’s terror target potential – lol.

I didn’t know too much about the Pastor guy. What you describe doesn’t sound healthy. But he’s not the enemy either. He’s just expressing himself. People do that all the time. Many times in much crazier more destructive ways. He not hurting anyone. He’s not destroying property. He’s not doing anything but making a statement.

The only reason the media and all else are making such a big deal is because they know that the people he’s making the statement about are going to go on a crazy rampage – and have already started.

I’m happy to have the Mullah build his mosque and the Pastor burn his Koran. Have at it – you jackasses.

The people needing our attention are the ones doing the actual harm. The trouble though is we have no idea how to deal with them. What do you do about an infectious ideology that has people springing up out of societies and killing people with suicide bombs? What do you do with a Clerical government that still executes women for arbitrary reasons and makes laws that treat them like children? How do you deal with a world-wide religion that – regardless of the political incorrectness of admitting it – advocates a 7th century system of laws and has at least a mild hostility toward non-believers?

And that’s why we give the Pastor and the Ground Zero Mosque our precious attention. They’re close by and rational enough to listen to us.

This is my favorite type of current event. It gives all the idiots and hypocrites a chance to show how idiotic and hypocritical they are.

The first thing is – I’m proud to live in a country where people have the freedom to burn books, despite public outcry or fear. And second – I’m proud of our President. Finally – he commented on the news of the hour without tripping over it and landing ass-first on an upright opened can of spray-paint. He said something about how he hopes the Pastor in question would listen to the better angels.

My main complaint about this issue is with the jerks calling this Pastor a Radical, an extremist, a bigot, or even a Terrorist. That’s simply ridiculous! Isn’t this Koran-Burning day simply an exercise in the freedom of expression – no different from hippies burning the flag, artists creating a portrait of the Virgin Marry out of vagina cuts from porno-mags, or a group of protesters burning the vast variety of effigies and symbols they like to burn?

Remember, these guys aren’t harming anyone. They aren’t “book burning” in the way the Nazis tried purging their land of alternate ideas. All they’re doing is pissing of crazy people! And you can’t prevent that anyway. And yeah, it’s offensive. A lot of things are offensive. So what’s the fuss?

This Pastor, this crazy book-burning Jesus freak, he’s demonstrated his point brilliantly – and answered the question – whether he knows it or not. Look how the media picked up this non-story. Look how upset these self-proclaimed progressive thinkers have gotten. Look how Liberals are trying to blame people like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin for inciting crazy people to do things. (this horrible act being on of those things)

What are they all so upset and worried about? Why is burning a book so “dangerous” and “bigoted”? Well – it’s because Islam is infected with self-justified anger and violence! All these fools who walk on egg shells, and call anyone criticizing Islam a bigot, are blatantly proving these “bigots” right.

I know the political correct thing to say is something ambiguous about Islam being a religion of peace, or something about how the majority of Muslims are peaceful. And to try pointing out things in other religions that might be interpreted as justifications for violence. But any reasonable understanding of history or the religion shows otherwise. Islam started out as a militant force. Mohamed led an army to Mecca. The philosophy is violently hostile to non-believers. And there are actual Islamic states today.

Of course, few Muslims today are militant. For the most part, Islam is currently practiced as a religion of peace. But listen, you can safely burn all kinds of things important to all kinds of religions and philosophies – except for one. For some reason, if you draw a cartoon of this philosophy’s founder, or burn this group’s holy book - PEOPLE GET KILLED!!!

Is that a reason to call this pastor a radical? Is it crazy to make this valid point? Hey – it’s a bad idea, I agree. I’d rather this goofball find a quieter way to be goofy. He’s making everyone he’s associated with look bad. And, if they light up those Korans, somewhere in the world people are going to get hurt and killed over it – people who have nothing to do with any of this.

I can’t help thinking though that these kinds of challenges to social comfort are good.

There are some morbid attitudes toward Israel. Should we support them? Of course yes! Why? Because they’re our ally!!!!

If you’re not concerned with loyalty or alliance, and are only concerned with American interests, you still want to support Israel because they are a strategic hold in a highly unstable and economically critical geographic area.

And even if you’re such a Liberal hippy your brain can’t quantify the necessity of sound world economic and military strategy – you still have to recognize that the entity at war with Israel, the movement that wants to see them destroyed, also wants the US and all free nations destroyed.

But Hippies like Helen Thomas, due to their illogical style of thought, back the Palestinians and call Israel an oppressor. They choose to see things only from the side of disenfranchised Palestinians, seeing only Israel’s rough treatment and not what makes Israel feel that treatment is necessary.

They use circular reasoning in blaming Israel – and the US for that matter – for any problems that arise. Missiles are fired into Israeli towns from Palestine – Liberals blame Israel for earning it, call them an occupier. Israel moves into areas to take out missile batteries – Liberals call it state terrorism. Seven Israeli commandos kill 50 Palestinian militants – Liberals call it a disproportionate use of force – because no Israelis were killed in exchange…

If Liberals and other ‘friends-of-Israel’ who criticize Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians really wanted to help the Palestinian people, they’d chastise Hamas and the other wack-job militants directly creating all these problems. They’d talk the average Palestinian out of the irrational idea of driving the chosen people into the Mediterranean and teach them some lessons from past Liberal super-stars like Gandi and Dr. King. If an oppressed people strikes out at the majority, kills and destroys, they’ll never see freedom. But if they line up and take a turn letting the majority hit them with sticks, and not retaliating like vindictive children, they’ll find themselves making salt at the beach in no time.

Hey Noisy Dove, there’s so much wrong with the world. Where should we start and how should we fix it?

Well Jackass, that’s a great question. We could start with people that ask lofty naïve questions like that little turd of a gem. I mean seriously – how privileged, isolated, arrogant, and over encouraged does a person have to be to ask such an audacious question?

Boo Hoo, I'm a hippy

And who is this ‘We’ you’re talking about? Do you mean you and me? Are you asking what an individual can do to effect improvements in the world? HA! I wish that’s what you were asking! Just in case: Learn everything you can about your niche in life and work hard to find better and more efficient ways for you and your beneficiaries to live and grow.

But that’s not the ‘We’ you’re talking about is it. You’re thinking of a community we. You’re asking what type of change we should attempt by advocating and with activism. So specific to you: Realize that few problems will find any type of long term solution in a huge bundle of cash, ship loads of subsidized-farm-grown food aid, and/or petty bloated bureaucracies. So take all those ostentatious know-it-all ideas you’ve absorbed from countless x-hippy teachers and self worshiping activist classmates about whose money you should spend and on what, roll them up nice and tight, like a joint, and gently but firmly hey-hey hoe-hoe them right up your compassionate puckered little ass.

Oh – also recycle and get a technical degree of some sort, not that Liberal Arts shit. And if you’re already a Liberal Arts graduate, just be sure to recycle. Don’t buy a hybrid. If you’ve got that big of a boner for carbon, keep driving the regular engine and stop eating meat.

The military suicide rate has always been lower than the civilian rate. Only until recently and I think during part of the Vietnam war has it been greater. As of February 4, 2009 the military rate was 20.2 per 100k and the civilian rate was 19.5 per 100k. LOL And I got that from World Socialist Web Site wsws.org. Wow hu? What’s the military doing to people that makes them .0007% more likely to kill themselves during two controversial wars?????? Such a crisis!!! Whoa is us – whoa – is – us!!!

The thing about the military is you are part of a team – it’s like a big extended family. You’re part of a much larger and greater system, which is fulfilling generally. Yeah, one in 14 in a shooter and they have to deal with killing. That’s their job and honor. Others give up as much freedom in becoming a doctor and other professions. These professions don’t require a legal contract to serve but you don’t have the support system either – and you have a SHIT LOAD of debt (student loans).

The reason the Fort Hood shooting was so bazaar, besides the whole Islam possibility, is that a primary part of training is working together regardless of color and creed in one cohesive unit. In other words, you have to be a real ass-wrinkle to not get along socially in the military, because you have to. When you’re forced to rely on the character of your team mates you start to forget about everything else.

And half the offensive stuff we get away with in civilian life ends a military career. Take part in discrimination, show racism? Boom – permanent current rank. Have sex with a co-worker? Crack – permanent current rank. And that’s at best. You very well might be discharged. Regardless, when someone needs to be promoted, and there’s a complaint on your record about you calling someone a camel-jockey, you’ll likely get passed over. So the frat-house idea of the military is just one more of those hippy ideas people tend to propagate.

I love the media’s excuse they were making up for this asshole at the time though: Contagious PTSD. LOL

Some were saying when this happened that if there were more Islamic fundamentalist terror attacks in the military, that they would start baring Muslims. I disagree with this. More Islamic Fundamentalist Terror attacks within the military won’t mean baring Muslims. That’s ridiculous. We need the type of people that are usually Muslim now more than ever. We’ll just have to stop being so damn shy about screening people’s backgrounds. And well have to go about those screens in an unobtrusive enough was as to not discourage Arabic and Farsi speaking Muslims from joining our all volunteer army and defending their home from enemies not only trying to destroy their society, but who are also destroying the image of Islam in the world’s eyes.