Righteous Anger or Righteous Insanity

After thinking that this would die off after a couple of days its still around. The uproar over a cartoonist dipiction of the prophet Muhammed in a Danish newspaper has sparked widespread violence across the middle east.

What I don't seem to understand is that I see people on the news burning American, British, and Israeli flags. To my knowledge the United States didn't have anything to do with this. Correct me if I'm but I believe that I said above and have read that it was a Danish Newspaper that published this cartoon.

The Meat and bones of this post focuses on this article from MSN. I'll let ya read it for yourself but essentially there is now a bounty out on the cartoonists who drew these cartoons.

In the Words of Linda Richman from SNL.....Please Discuss.

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A Slight Difference

I've heard it said many times that Islam and Christianity serve the same God and that the Koran and the bible are not that disimilar.

Well as I was perusing the daily headlines I came across this a followup to the recent Muhammed cartoon saga. During a peaceful demonstration a group known as Hezbollah told all the "Tyrants" to shut up. I'm pretty sure that Jesus has been depicted in cartoons that show him in an unfavorable light yet do we run around setting fire to embassy's and throwing bricks through storefronts.

here is a little excerpt from the article in which I see a clear contrast

“Defending the prophet should continue worldwide,” Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, told the crowd. “Let (U.S. Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice, (President) Bush and all the tyrants shut up: We are a nation that can’t forgive, be silent or ease up when they insult our prophet and our sacred values.” “Today, we are defending the dignity of our prophet with a word, a demonstration but let George Bush and the arrogant world know that if we have to ... we will defend our prophet with our blood, not our voices,” Nasrallah added.


In words of Lewis Black: " Patriotism and Religion are good and in balance when they have a since of humor and when they don't......things go.....ary. Thats what happens when you don't laugh. You get so wound up in what your believing and no one is going "ha ha" and your screwed

My Day in Court

Those of you who don't know I was in a car accident in July 2003 and a year later the people in the other car decided to file suit claiming restitution of damages and lost income and that sort. I try not to bring this up all that often cause it just puts my whole day in a funk.

Well yesterday we had discovery depositions where both sides meet for questioning to better prepare a case for trial if it indeed goes that far. Our attorney was very good and very professional and told us there was a very good chance that there would be an out-of-court settlement simply cause there was alot of discrepancies with both individual's stories not to mention that they were very abrasive and defensive with some of their responses to my attorney's calmly put questions.

I would like to appeal to all those who visit here whom I call friend to keep me in mind in your prayers in this matter this situation always has a way of rearing its ugly head just when I've completely forgotten about it and its life as usual.

The State of The Union and other things

Well what I thought was going to be a abbreviated work week turned into me working 9-5 monday to thursday with today being my first day off since. I know to most people thats nothing and I say your probably right.

In other news I watched President Bush address the joint houses of Congress and the Nation Tuesday night in his State of the Union. I'm always amused by the distinct contrast that is shown at that speech you have the Republicans standing and applauding the President while the left side is as silent as a tomb. It's really ashame that we as a nation cannot get past the terms democrat and republican and attempt to work together as a nation. That we are reduced to biggoting and fighting simply cause each politician thinks that he/she knows best how to run this country.

Yes I will admit that at times I get tired of hearing new reports of yet another 3 U.S. Servicemen gettting killed by yet another roadside bomb. Its at those times I want our troops out of Iraq but I know about the notorious reputation that the U.S. has; that being once we achieve our objective we pull out and return to life and usual. To do that now would be disaster and created yet another enemy i.e. Osama Bin Laden. For those of you who don't know the U.S. helped him and provided him with weapons to defeat the Soviets in afghanistan once the Soviet threat was quelled we dropped Osama like a bad habit.

Well that was the meat and bones of my post hope everyone is doing well drop me some comments and let me know that you are well.

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