dustin has done a nice lil' recap on his cadaver politik blog, do check it out. He has also inititated a fun little project of cartoons About jesus, much in the spirit of what I have posted lately.

"The response by Muslims to some stupid cartoons makes it REALLY hard to sympathize with them, and reminds me once again why I fucking hate religion. However, despite all the coverage of this every bloody day (how many news stories on this did YOU hear before they actually told you what the cartoon actually portrayed?), unless you listen to DemocracyNow! you probably didn't know that this has nothing to do with Free Speech or Freedom of the Press. Why do I say that? Because apparently there were similar cartoons lampooning Jesus submitted for publication previously, and the editor of this Danish paper decided not to print them -- because it would just upset people. Hmm . . . So this fucker made a conscious, deliberate choice to publish cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammed as a suicide bomber and NOT to publish the cartoons making fun of Jesus. In other words, "I don't care if we upset Muslims, cause I don't like them anyway." And while of course the leader of Iran is an antisemetic psychopath, I think his call for a cartoon competition about the Holocaust makes an excellent point about the double standard in place and the clear racism involved. For my part, I hereby invite you to participate in a Cartoons About Jesus contest; send me images and I will post them. Kari has already started us off."

you simply MUST join in on the fun.

as for myself, it's nearly 6 a.m. and i've been up for two hours. a combination of a toothache and the huge amount of excederin (largely caffeine-based) have made it impossible to go back to sleep.

i've been doing a little bit of watching on this whole Bush/Ports deal, and although i'm not 100 percent knowledgeable on the subject, i have a hard time believing after all we have learned about our administration that ANYONE is surprised by the whole fiasco.

it's no big secret that our administration has close ties to saudi arabia. do i think it will make us less secure? i don't know if it would make us any less secure than bush flying the bin ladens out of the country right after 9/11. i don't know if it makes us any less secure than bush saying "bring them on" regarding the insurgents that HE didn't have to face. i don't know if it makes us any less secure than our country being the world police and administering "justice" to everyone but ourselves. i think it's just one more thing in a whole pile of other things that should make everyone pretty fucking nervous.

and for the bush supporters who voted that dumb bastard back into office:

YOU HELPED BRING THIS ON.

DON'T YOU DARE BE SURPRISED AT THIS. IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT HE WAS TIED SO CLOSELY TO THE UAE, IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW HE IS CAPABLE OF THREATENING OUR SECURITY, THEN YOU DIDN'T DO YOUR HOMEWORK BEFORE CASTING YOUR BALLOT. SHAME ON YOU.

HE IS NOT THE COMMON MAN. HE IS A MAN IN BED WITH MONEY AND CORPORATIONS AND THE ELITE. AND IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW IT, NOW YOU DO, AND I HOPE YOU SEE THAT THIS MAN WOULD SELL HIS MOTHER TO MAKE HIS TIES TO OIL STRONGER.

i am thinking less and less of my original theory that he is too stupid to be malicious, too ignorant to know any better. i think he is smarter than anyone gave him credit for and for that, WE ARE FUCKED. at the very least, he's smart enough to know that we as the public are apparently too stupid, too apathetic to do anything to change things.

wow. 6:09 a.m. and i'm furious.

time to get the kiddo ready for school.