Guest Column

The Blog looks good, but it's hard to read, with the banner on the side I have to wait until you post something else and then read the previous post, but whatever.

So here's something I wrote yesterday before I checked Jcreadsthenews.
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Okay I have to vent a little bit. At lunch I was reading the news about those silly Muslim cartoons that have started WWIII. It appears that all over the Muslim world they are rioting, shooting things and people, and torching trees, buildings , cars etc. and I just have a few questions.

1. the rule is no images of the prophet right? I get that just fine, but unreasonable violence, that’s okay? So the message here is don’t draw a picture of Mohammed or whoever, but shoot anyone who you may think can draw? Cant wait to convert.

2. Every time something like this happens, everything in the city gets lit on fire, and a bunch of stuff is destroyed, my question is; why destroy THEIR OWN stuff, not ours? The Danes go to sleep in their giant fluffy feather beds with their wooden shoes next to them, and Afghanistan burns away through the night. that sounds like a great testament to the problem solving skills of the rioters to me. Then they can look at their city and say look at what all the White people\non-Muslims\Americans did. (not that we are blameless, I usually support some of their views of us)

3. do none of these people ever have anything to do during the day? EVER? If your friend Bob called you right now to go burn Creed CD's in the name of all that is good and holy, then yes I'd say we might all go. For a few hours, if the weather was good, if there was a good restaurant nearby, and mostly to get the heck out of here. Would you go again tomorrow? I doubt it. Well, maybe you would… but wouldn’t it be more fun to eat PB & J at the zoo or something?

4. cartoons are idolatry? Really? Okay…
"OH great and powerful Hobbes, I ask you for forgiveness in drawing a funny looking man with a bomb for a helmet. Please stay my pen, lest it be used to puncture my heart with eternal shame. In the name of your most righteous servant Calvin, I pray that all cartoonists will be swiftly killed. Especially that guy who draws Marmaduke. He sucks. Amen."

None of this was meant to offend, I respect all religions, etc, blah blah really, blah, I'm just really confused.

The disclaimer is for my work computer. And about that statement about accepting no less than the heads of the people who drew the cartoons, well, it works both ways, bucko. You hide Osama and we'll protect Charles Schultz.