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Muhammad. Muhammad. Muhammad. Muhammad. Muhammad. Muhammad. Muhammad. Muhammad. Muhammad.

It’s a fucking collection of syllables, get over it. I’ve never heard so many fucking people cry as when the word Muhammad is involved. Islam must be too new or something, because they’re still willing to kill over some guy they never met (Muhammad).

The guy had some good ideas, the guy had some great ones. One of those was non-violence. So stop, please stop, hurting and killing in his name or because of his name. A school in Africa was closed for a month because a teacher let her kids use a common name, Muhammad, for their class teddy bear. The school now fears reprisals and the safety of faculty and students, because some people are willing to blow the shit out of anyone that looks at the name Muhammad crosswise. If they name is so damned holy, how come every man that even looks vaguely middle eastern is named Muhammad, no matter how criminal or not they may be, no one fucks with them.

I was considering not posting this, as it is insulting to a certain segment of the Islamic population. But then I read that people were protesting to try to have the teacher put to death for her student actions because she ‘insulted Islam.’

You know what, anyone who agrees with that? Fuck you.

And just to ensure that Jihad is declared upon me and death threats are sent, I’m going to post not only my drawing of Muhammad, but one of Allah as well, and show their reactions to what is going on ‘in their name.’ Here we go:

Muhammad: @:(#+-<

Allah: @:(#+-<

p.s. I think Islam is pretty good as religion goes, but as always, fuck the nutters. Fuck the Christian nutters, fuck the Catholic nutters, fuck the Islamic nutters, fuck the Scientology nutters, fuck the Buddhist and Hindu nutters. And the more you try to silence dissent, criticism and ‘insults’ the more I will say: FUCK YOU!

Wanting someones death because they allowed children to name a teddy bear Muhammad is terrorism. Wanting to flog her was bad enough. 15 days imprisonment and deportation was merely insulting.

No one will bring about the death of organized religion as fast as organized religion itself, whether through getting so crazy everyone rejects it, or getting their wish and wiping all life off the face of this earth so we can go ‘be with god,’ i.e. turned into carbon deposits that will be recycled for the next dominant life-forms attempt.

From the AP: Bernanke said he expects consumer spending will continue to grow and suggested the country can withstand the current problems without falling into a recession. But he indicated that consumers could turn more cautious as they try to cope with all the stresses.

The odds have grown that the country could enter a recession. A sharp cutback in consumer spending could send the economy into a tailspin. Against this backdrop, Fed policymakers will need to be “exceptionally alert and flexible,” Bernanke said.

And now, with a filter in place from democnow:

Nouriel Roubini is with us. He’s a professor of economics at New York University, an economic adviser under the Clinton administration, and maintains the widely read Global Economics Monitor website. He was among the first economists to predict the housing slump and now warns a severe US recession is “inevitable.” 

And he goes into details, throwing a trillion into the price tag of ‘written-offs.’ The saying was “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon we’re talking about real money.” It appears we might have to update that with a ‘tri’ in place of the ‘bi.’

The house next door to me comes up as $277,000 on zillow.com- the flyer on the house says $139,000 for a 4b/2ba that ‘needs a little tlc’ to say the least of the prats who ruined it. At least their rooster is gone, and their rotting car has been pushed to another empty lot where I don’t have to see it up close. In fact, there are quite a few empty houses on this block now… it occurs to me I am seeing the ripples of one of the hardest hit communities in the county. You’ll forgive me for not revealing the address. But I’m sure there’s a place like it near you that you can see for yourself the desparity of .net and .life.  I know who I believe.

Today I blog about Chile, the country not the vegetable, and prostitution, the oldest profession. Adult prostitution is legal in Chile. Their sex workers are protected, and I’m honestly surprised they allow this as they are a very Christian nation. But, as the man in the article said “Everyone can do what they want, but if someone tells me that they’ll do something immoral … I’m not going to encourage it.”

I’m only mentioning this because a Chilean prostitute is donating the proceeds of 27 hours of “love” to a charity for poor, disabled children. She has raised $4,000.

In this country, prostitutes are beaten, killed, or jailed, and usually on drugs.

Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness indeed. Of course, this is more newsworthy than the stark American parallels with 1930s Germany.

“Homeland security” — “heimat” — became popularized by the National Socialists [Nazi Party]. Goebbels developed the practice of embedding journalists.

NAOMI WOLF: … If you look at the sequence of, you know, Hitler descending in an airplane in von Riefenstahl’s famous Triumph of the Will and being greeted by the uniformly armed paramilitary sort of surrounding their leader and him saying, “Help us accomplish our mission,” and then you look at other famous images from this administration –

AMY GOODMAN: Like George Bush on “Mission Accomplished.”

NAOMI WOLF: “Mission Accomplished,” exactly right. You look at how, you know, Hitler said we have to invade Czechoslovakia because they’re a staging ground for terrorists and they’re abusing their ethnic minorities

we should be afraid when the state starts to torture people that it sees as at the margins or that citizens see at the margins: brown people on an island in Guantanamo with Muslim names, whatever. That’s what they did in Germany in ’31, ’32: anarchists, communists, Gypsies, Jews, whatever, homosexuals, whatever. You know, people didn’t care, because they were seen as at the margins. People knew about the torture cellars in Germany.

AMY GOODMAN: It’s interesting. During the lead up to Nazi Germany, American reporters were fired by their American editors, pulled back from Germany, because they were sounding the warning. They were saying, “We’re seeing a fascist society build.” And they were told that they were biased, they were not understanding the circumstances in which Hitler was rising up, people were concerned about their economy, they had been devastated, and that they were being alarmist.

There’s more. It always happens to someone else, though, you know. As long as we have true patriots in charge of this nation, we’ll be fine.

Unfortunately, you are always someone else to someone else.

Give up the dirt. Give up the fucking rock. Stop wasting lives over it. Normalize relations so you an visit your fucking rock, cry about how you lost it, and set about spending your money crushing your neighbors financially until you can buy said rock back at a pittance. It may take a couple thousand years, but you will have the rock, you can build your temple. Shit, you’ve already been waiting a couple thousand, what’s a couple thousand more? Spend your brains thinking about how to increase your lifespans and enrich yourself. No one said you couldn’t buy a country if the price was right and they were poor enough.

Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Bush secretly authorized the spy agency to intercept international communications coming in and out of the United States that were believed to involve foreign terrorist organizations. It did so without going through the FISA court, claiming the Constitution and Congress’ authorization for the use of military force after the terrorist attacks were all the authority the president needed to undertake the program.

They forgot to mention these allegations:

The National Security Agency attempted to recruit Qwest to a program of warrantless monitoring of communications months before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Nacchio’s lawyer said in court documents. Nacchio said he turned the NSA down after company lawyers said the program was illegal.

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Utah man gets tasered for arguing about a speeding ticket.  What strikes me as odd is how other traffic ticket taserings come up in the related videos section. I had no idea this happened. Everything was caught on tape by the cop’s car. The guy maintained, even after being tased, that he had been obeying the prior speed limit before he got to the 40mph sign and had slowed down upon passing it.

Now, on the one hand, the guy should have been a bit nicer to the cop.

On the other hand, the cop had no reason to feel this guy was a threat. Nothing threatening was said, no threatening moves were made, though I guess you could say this is “resisting arrest.” Arrest for what, and not being read your rights, however, is another matter. The cop didn’t claim he was resisting arrest however, he just said, when asked why he did such a thing, he replied “Well, you should have followed my instructions.”

Later, the cop threatens to arrest the guy’s pregnant wife if she doesn’t do exactly as he says.

He never read the guy his rights, and never said why he was arresting him other than “You were speeding” and refused to tell the guy how fast he was allegedly going.

Nevertheless, the question of whether taxpayers should finance embryonic stem cell research will make an appearance on the 2008 campaign trail, said its proponents.

If taxpayers are forced to keep funding the killing of middle easterners, we should fund embryonic stem cell research without a doubt. There is no ethical killing, even in war. Killing is killing. Sometimes your hand may be forced, sometime it is you-or-them. But the killing will always hang on your soul.

The Bangladeshi death toll has now definitely passed the death toll from the September 11th World Trade Center attacks. Where’s our global war on nature?

Oh, yeah, that’s right.

Q: How big a threat is that scenario?

A: Probably small. The U.S. economy is still the world’s largest and its financial markets remain attractive places for foreign investment even with the dollar’s slide.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Don’t forget that. Also, America is seen as so full of hubris by some of the world there are people out there looking to be David. Don’t forget all the unnecessary drains on our economy like our huge prison population (interestingly enough, BBC and Reuters reported on the prison story, no AP story out yet), our dumping of money into useless military operations that make our world less secure… And of course the fight against medical marijuana, which shows up not at all in mainstream American press despite being on a study done by US scientists on everyone’s favorite cause, boob cancer.