U.S. officials are looking to abandon the term swine flu, since much of the public has fears it could catch it from pork, which of course is ridiculous. Part of that misconception might be due to the recent actions of the idiots in China, Russia, Ukraine and other countries who banned imports of pork from Mexico and even from some U.S. states.
I first started blogging on Blogger on 16 Jan 2006. Within 5 days I wrote my first article on the Danish Cartoon Affair, Cartoons Heating up Europe. Shortly thereafter I noticed that many anti-Muslim bloggers were forced to have a splash screen that notified the reader that they are coming upon a site that may have objectionable content.
Before World War I there were no posters on American walls asking for the destruction of Germany. Before World War II very few Americans cared about the Japanese one way or another. Once we were at War, no one found it offensive that we portrayed our enemy as a subhuman that should be utterly destroyed. You cannot win a war being a nice guy.
When I was fourteen years old (1959) I used to hang around in the Village spending most of my nights explaining the origins of the Universe to a small crowd who would gather at the Cafe Wha? to hear me. I vaguely recall my lectures, basically rehashing theories I read in physics books and embellishing those with my imagination at the time. What I do remember quite clearly is that almost every week some listener would ask me if I had read "The Fountainhead."
First off, let me say that the title "Death to All Offensive Bloggers" does not refer to a new Obama Administration Executive Order requiring that all right-wing bloggers be publicly executed. No, I'm talking about Iran's new push to include the death penalty for bloggers who write about or promote illegal activities, such as apostasy, prostitution, etc.
When sex workers have to give discount coupons you know the economic crisis has gotten really bad. When I first read "Hookers offer discounts amid limp sex trade" I thought it was some joke, but no, that's a real headline. I'd like to think it wasn't an accidentally funny translation from the German.
It seems that Muslims take everything personally. This would not be a problem except that when they are annoyed they do not use the legal system to arbitrate personal or business differences, they murder. I know what you are thinking, who cares what Muslims do to each other in Iran or Saudi Arabia, let them destroy each other utterly.
My company does not provide a "letter of reference" to former employees. Generally we will confirm upon request our employee's dates of employment, salary history and job title. The reason for this is simple: America is too litigious. If we give a negative reference (even if true) we expose ourselves to legal liability...
Freedom of Speech means nothing if you can't call someone a nigger, kike, spic, faggot, fatpig, slanteye, slope, beaner, coon, wop, towel head, hymie, jigaboo, jungle bunny, gook, guinea, greaseball, hebe, kraut, porch monkey, raghead, sambo, spade, cracker, dago, gwailo, honkie, nip, spook, macaca or even the culinary insult: Cheese-eating surrender monkey.
I was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and came to America when I was four years old. I do not think of myself as an Uzbek nor have I ever harbored thoughts of returning to my birthplace to help out [Uzbekistan is number 171 in GDP per capita]. I bring this up because the idiot known as Madonna wants to adopt Malawi children and bring them up well-educated in the hope that one day they would return to their native country.
Last week in my article Should you Own a Car at All? I wrote, "One of the greatest impediments to the accumulation of wealth in this country is the unnecessary ownership of a car." In response, reader frank argued that in most of the country there is no public transportation and that he and his wife needed two cars because they both worked (he 12 miles away, she 18 miles).
A Muslim viewing this YouTube video of Charlie the Kosher Cocker-Spaniel might think it's an insult to Jews. That perhaps some anti-Semite put a Yarmulke on a dog to show that Jews are just like filthy dogs. But he would be wrong. Anyone looking at this video can tell it was scripted by a Jew. Who else would have this great sense of humor?
That's right: There is Nothing Wrong with Slavery. Consider the fact that a plantation owner has to spend a large portion of his cotton revenues on feeding, clothing, shelter and even medical care of his slaves. Shouldn't slaves therefore feel some debt of gratitude that he takes care of all their necessities of life?
First let me advance the notion that most people should not own a car at all. Let me give you a few examples: I have a partner who lives one subway ride away from our office near the Holland Tunnel. It would take him about 13 minutes to get to work riding the subway. Instead he drives to work, wasting perhaps an additional 20 minutes for the luxury of being stuck in Manhattan traffic.
I suppose there will now be a rightwing blogstorm over Obama's recent beatitude: "Let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not and never will be at war with Islam." But as Ed Morrissey notes, Bush expressed almost the very same sentiments during the entire 8 years of his administration.
One would think that what is true for Africa should be true elsewhere as well and indeed it is: A 2006 paper titled "Foreign Aid, Income Inequality and Poverty," from the research department of the Inter-American Development Bank came to the same conclusion regarding aid to Latin America that empirical research shows that aid is ineffective either in "achieving economic growth or promoting democratic institutions."
President Obama’s intelligence chief said last week that some inmates at the Guantanamo terrorist prison camp may be released in the United States, but just 13% of U.S. voters think that should be allowed.
