The Weekend The World Went To Hell
February 4th, 2006 at 9:32 pm by SmantixThe world would go straight to hell right before the Super Bowl and all I’ve got to show for it is a loving home, a beautiful wife, a fly-ass ride, a 53″ HDTV, and a well-trained dog.
Screw it. I had a good run.
But Where’s Stormshadow?
Islamic Ninja Gyno-Assassins prepare to boycott Denmark products over a cartoon.
Playing With Fire
A Syrian Boy Scout Jamboree ended tragically in Damascus today as a marshmallow bonfire in the lobby of the Danish Embassy raged out of control. “Being prepared” as they were, the scouts promptly moved to the Norwegian Embassy.
al-Reuters brings the gasoline and matches.
Allah’s Got a Posse
Gods just aren’t what they used to be as the alleged “prophet” Mohammed needs an attorney. Why Gods need attorneys I can’t imagine. Allah must be going through one of those periods where he loses all of his magic powers like Alan Cumming in Son of the Mask.
Lawyers in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries have decided to forge an alliance in defense of Islam following the publication of cartoons denigrating the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in some European newspapers.
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Muhammad Abdu Yamani, a former information minister, emphasized the need for taking decisive actions against those individuals and countries that insulted the Prophet.“We’ll not accept abusing our Prophet in any form,†he said. He stressed the need for educating the world on the greatness of the Prophet.
Compare and contrast with Italian lawyers who want to prove their god doesn’t exist.
Cuba’s “Rich” Get Taken Down A Notch
Of course, the real story is that there are rich people in Cuba:
Yet “rich” is a mushy term on an island where state pay averages just $12 a month — a wage virtually impossible to live on even with heavily subsidized government services and mostly free housing. Many of Castro’s targets are simply poor Cubans who steal from the state to make ends meet.
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With material resources limited, Cuba must set priorities “significantly different than those given primacy in capitalist countries,” Central Bank President Francisco Soberon told economists last year.
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Cubans with money join diplomats shopping at an upscale grocery store offering luxuries such as microwave popcorn and peanut butter.
I’ve got half a jar of Skippy and two packets of Orville Redenbacher in my kitchen cabinet. I could have you and your whole family killed for three Little Debbies and a six-pack of Natural Light tallboys. Don’t be hatin’.
Deadbeats Threaten Boycott
And in other risky, wealth redistribution schemes, a New York hotel is finally learning that no good deed ever goes unpunished. Al Sharpton is stirring up bad press for the Radisson Hotel that mistakenly put up Hurricane Katrina victims.
His solution? In exchange for the meteorologically disenfranchised deadbeats to move out of the hotel they’ve been staying in for free (for months), the managment of the chain can buy off their freeloaders for the low, low price of $2,500 cash money. And all of the free towels and miniature soaps they can fit in their suitcase.
February 5th, 2006 at 1:46 am
Paris Hilton should be thankful her father wasn’t a Gas n’ GO heir. Not sure about anyone else out there in the Christian Community. But if I found a resemblance between cartoons and my GOD, I should seriously consider my religious beliefs.
February 5th, 2006 at 8:37 am
From Arab News:Atta said the alliance would ask businessmen to stop dealing in Danish products in order to harm its economy. He urged all Saudis and Muslims to boycott the products of countries that insult the Prophet. “An economic boycott will help influence policies and decisions of countries,†he added.(emphasis mine)
My question is this: when does the rest of the world hope on this threat-train and come up with their own drawings of Mooooohammed. I would LOVE to see the Middle East boycott, well, everything.
February 5th, 2006 at 9:32 am
In the US, I don’t think it will ever happen. It’s just dog psychology. Cartoonists and newspaper people know they’ll get a fatwa on their ass if they ridicule Allah’s posse so they just avoid it all together.
Making fun of Christians, on the other hand, and there’s not much of a threat of the Baptists packing their Chevy Avalanches with fertilizer and gasoline and ramming it into Gannett headquarters. So they do. “Artists” will portray bin Laden as Jesus Christ without fear of reprisal and if anyone criticizes them at all they’ll cry “Censorship!”
Imagine NBC’s new series – “Book of Ahmed”. A young, pill-popping, gay Islamic Cleric struggles with the…blah, blah, blah. Would never happen.
February 5th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
53″?
That’s kinda small, isn’t it?
57″ over here
February 5th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Kind of small? Yea. 4 and a half feet doesn’t fill my 15′ foot ceilings the way I like.