religion and politics

I heard this song today (minus the first verse) and got a little pissed. On my first listen it sounded like one of those "my beliefs are better than your belief" songs we often hear on country radio. But as I looked over the lyrics I noticed that it wasn't really one of those songs, but rather an anti-Congress song.

On the radio today during a "top of the hour" news I heard this:

A man was saying in response to the Virginia Tech murders, that President George W. Bush should do more to get guns out of the hands of criminals.

Thirty seconds later they reported that the mayor of Nagasaki, Japan, was shot dead by an organized crime boss.

Japan has strict laws against handguns. Far stricter than the US has or probably ever will.

And a political figure was shot dead there.

People who want guns will get them. No matter what.

This isn't a big loss to the world.

But my only complaint is that his trial for his genocide against the Kurds should have been completed. I may have been redundant, but it might have given more people closure.

Hopefully Bush will have a real strategy for Iraq. One that does two things: We win, terrorist lose; and we get to leave.

I guess I'll complain about Bush and Iraq come January.

I found this disturbing.

A week or so ago I visited the House MD page at fox.com and saw the poll asking if people understood what Wilson said at the end of a recent episode. The scene had Wilson going up to the cop that's investigating House on drug/narcotic charges and pretty much turning his best friend over the cops.

As Wilson walks in he says (to the effect of) "Do I get 30 pieces of silver."

And half of the people who responded to the poll didn't know what that meant.

I'll write up my thoughts on the fall finale of Lost when I'm not so mad at the world and everything on it.

(And I'm not mad because of netflix. Or the election. I actually found the election results to be quite humorous and scary at the same time. And our new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi scared the shit out of me when I saw her interview with Matt Lauer. She is completely capable of screwing up the whole Iraq mess more than Rumsfeld ever could. And if she does, say goodbye to the Democrats winning much in 2008.)

It's a few days after 9/11 and I got to thinking about what kind of people (and I use that term loosely) would kill innocent people. (Okay, they were evil sociopathic religious nutcases worshiping an evil god. There, I said it.) Then I thought about why I liked America, despite its many flaws. And it boils down to freedom.

So here's my 13 reasons I'm proud to be an American Infidel.

1. We can choose what religion to believe without the government telling us.
2. Or not have a religion. And that's okay.

I caught a few minutes of Pat Robertson's The 700 Club this morning (and a few minutes is all I can stomach of that) and saw a news segment about California changing a law that would allow sexual orientation to a list of things that teachers or textbooks couldn't demean.

"California public schools could not demean gay, bisexual or transgender orientation under fiercely controversial legislation approved Monday by the Assembly." From the Sacramento Bee.

The Seattle Times is reporting that the man was a Muslim who was angry.

From the article:
"A man got through security at the Jewish Federation and told staff members, "I'm a Muslim American; I'm angry at Israel," then began shooting, according to Amy Wasser-Simpson, the vice president for planning and community services for the Jewish Federation."

About an hour ago a man walked into the Jewish Federation Center in downtown Seattle and started shooting.

Of course it's still too early to know why he did it (or too early to know anything, really, but newscasters don't seem to understand that....) the consensus around here (at least, I'm pretty sure it is) is that it has to do with the Middle East.

Which leads to my question: how does shooting up a Jewish center in Seattle support the Hezbollah cause? Or maybe I just don't understand how terrorists think. Which may be a good thing.

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Do preacher's kids have sex? I'm not talking about married preacher's kids, but teen kids who are the offspring of preachers? How many of you said no, they don't? If you did, I'm afraid you're delusional.