Is it OK to even write the word Muhammad?

It's just pathetic that the "religion of peace" is now a sacred cow in our country. The fundamentalists (ie, those who actually live as the Koran says to) have beaten the US and our media into submission. We can no longer discuss Islam, make a parody of Muhammad, or even identify known Muslim terrorists as being Islamic, we have to call them "extremists". It's a sad state of affairs. 

Recently the creators of South Park were threatened with violence and death for depicting Muhammad.....in disguise as a bear. Now, they didn't draw what they thought Muhammad looked like or even a caricature. They drew a bear and said Muhammad was inside. Is that worthy of a death threat? Well, evidently, it's worthy of the episode being pulled by Comedy Central. How's that for freedom of speech and artistic expression? 

Back five or six years ago when a newspaper in Denmark showed a cartoon depicting Muhammad, there was widespread violence and quite a few people were killed. KILLED. OVER. A. CARTOON. And our news networks would show the cartoons with the pixels out of whack, so as not to show Muhammad. What? Really? Yeah, really. What a sad shame, when we, living in the land of freedom, have to resort to censoring the news, parody, or satire. When's the last time anyone cared about making fun of Jesus, Satan, Zeus, Tom Cruise or anyone else? All is fair game......except Muhammad.

Let's ask this; Did any Christians make death threats against Matt Stone and Trey Parker (South Park co-creators) for portraying Jesus? Did any Scientologists threaten violence against them for making fun of Ron Hubbard? Did Mormons take to the streets and beat the piss out of people because Joseph Smith was turned into a cartoon character? You already know the answer to those questions. 

I have nothing against the rank and file religious person. I certainly hold no ill will towards any Muslim who is just going about their lives. But, it is high time that the religious moderates (ie, those who KNOW that the Bible, Koran, Book of Mormon, are not to be taken as literal truth) started calling out the extremists. If you want to be respected and taken seriously, take on the fundamentalists in your religion. There are parts of the Koran and parts of the Bible that simply can't be applied to the modern world and the age we live in. Search your hearts and minds.......does anyone who reads this REALLY believe that God or Allah wants us to kill each other over being apostates, blasphemers, working on the Sabbath, or being gay (just to name a few actions that are considered death worthy by the ancient texts)? It's hard enough to decide what you believe, raise a family, hold down a job, and live a life without having to worry about someone wanting to kill you. Life is hard. Life is tough. Enough with the religious violence already.

By the way, most people don't know, but South Park actually depicted Muhammad as a character back in 2001. If there were uprisings and threats, we sure didn't hear about it. So, now that we have given power to Islamic fundamentalists we can rest assured that our news and our entertainment will be censored and issues will be danced around. I've read that we shouldn't identify the 9/11 hi-jackers as Muslim extremists. They should be called "extremists" only. I guess that would be OK, if a couple of them were Jewish, a couple were Christian, mix in an atheist and maybe a Mormon.....then you could say they were simply extremists. But, they were ALL Muslim. They all were following the orders of the Koran. Muslim extremists? YES. The "Muslim" part is important. That is how you identify who wants to hurt you and your family. 

Here is an excerpt from a Christopher Hitchens article from 2006 (which I will also link....it's a good read);

The question of "offensiveness" is easy to decide. First: Suppose that we all agreed to comport ourselves in order to avoid offending the believers? How could we ever be sure that we had taken enough precautions? On Saturday, I appeared on CNN, which was so terrified of reprisal that it "pixilated" the very cartoons that its viewers needed to see. And this ignoble fear in Atlanta, Ga., arose because of an illustration in a small Scandinavian newspaper of which nobody had ever heard before! Is it not clear, then, that those who are determined to be "offended" will discover a provocation somewhere? We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

Hitchens Slate.com Article (click this link)

So, the bottom line is, we now live in a country where our media had decided that Islam is off limits as a serious discussion topic and as satire. Let freedom and the 1st Ammendment ring!!!!

 South Park's Muhammad depiction in 2001. No threats or violence that were made public.

    

South Park's Muhammad depiction in 2010 (yep, that's Mo in the bear suit). Threats of violence and censorship follow the airing of the episode.

Is this insane or what? What the hell is happening to us? If we can't trust the media to be honest and report the news as it is, regarding a cartoon or some violent people in a religion, then what can we trust them for? Telling the truth about politicians? Telling the truth about hot topics of the day? I'd have to say "no" would be my answer. 

By the way, in case any extremist Muslims read this, Freddy is on hiatus......I'm ghost writing for him. My name is Charles Manson. Come get me, I dare you.  

Seeing A Man About A Dog At Work: A survivors guide

I'm not gonna shit you here, this topic is crap. Yes, it's not something everyone wants to talk about
but it's something we all have to do sooner or later. The topic is......public pooping. I'm not going into
any detail about the actual act of pooping. We've all been there and done that. After this, there
should be no more poop topics. This should be left in the water closet.

Nobody wants to follow a pooper into the bathroom. Most of us just want to piss, wash off our hands
(well, most of us anyhow), and get the hell out of there. At work, it's just really most uncomfortable of all
situations. They can see your feet, you can see theirs and everyone is exposed. You know who is
pooping and the pooper knows that you know that he/she is pooping. It can make for an awkward
moment if not an awkward day.  You just can't walk in and walk right back out, then you have to hold
your piss, and others then know that you are holding your piss like a 5 year old trying to get through
an episode of  "Dora The Explorer" without wetting themselves.  And if you go right in afterwards, you
may have to do that  "gas mask" move where you pull your shirt up over your nose and mouth, thus
stretching out your shirt, and who wants to trash their "2004 Red Sox World Champions" t-shirt to
the car wash pile?

We are a civilized society and we like to think of ourselves as progressive. So why don't we have a
system in place that will allow others to know when you are strolling in to survey your kingdom on
the porcelain throne? There should be a signal or a place on the door to say "Enter At Your Own
Risk" or "Have A Heart, Let Me Poop In Peace". And another thing, if I'm at work and my co-worker
gets to take 30 or 40 minutes to poop, shouldn't I be compensated in a similar fashion with a
break? How about a nappy? Between smoking and pooping, some people only have to work about
2 hours out of an 8 hour shift. When's gonna be my time, oh Lord? When's gonna be my time!? Getting paid to poop almost makes it a profession! I have to start eating more bran.

One more friendly tip: If you do have to work poop, don't come out giving a blow by blow account or
description. We don't need a FOX News Alert from Sean Hannity about your dookie pushing.

Myself, I don't like public pooping. I'd rather walk in on someone performing beastiality than walk in
on a pooper. And nothing is worse than when you HAVE to poop at work and someone grabs the
stall door and shakes it. "Hey, leave me alone, jackass...I'm pounding one out, find another drop off
point, this one is reserved!" I'm all for comfort, I have the paper I want at home and I can be as
demonstrative as I have to be to get the job done effectively and efficiently. You people should train
yourselves to drop the kids off at the pool on your own time. Leave the rest of us alone when you are
delivering the brown baby. Go in the morning and/or at night. For God's sake, someone had to say
all this, I'm just sorry it was me.

I'm going to help you public poopers out by posting a set of rules and terms for getting through your
dirty work. The following "survival guide" is not mine. It can be heisted all over the internet. But it's a code that each of us should try to follow, when we take the Browns to the Super Bowl.

 

Work Poopers Survival Guide

click the link

More on the Catholic scandals

Pat Condell: Is Satan a Catholic?

(noted YouTube.com video blogger breaks down the Catholic church and its' sins in the past 1,000 or so years)

 

Any time I find a well written article or a pertinent video, I'm going to post it for anyone who is interested. I want to reiterate that I'm not picking on the rank and file Catholics. But, Catholics who are not concerned or do not voice their concerns to their priests or move to withold thier tithes are as much a part of the problem as anyone else, and perhaps should re-evaluate whether their loyalty lies with their God or with a man in a funny hat. If the members of the church, world wide, do not cry out, why should the Vatican give in to public pressure? 

Seems like one of the Pope's henchmen blames homosexuality for the molestation of children and not the repression of sexual desire. That's bogus. There have been plenty of little girls that have been raped and abused, so blaming homosexuals doesn't float.  And the Vatican knows this, man!

 Vatican backs off cardinals claims about homosexuality

Well, if the "fags are to blame" justifications won't work, move on to another group to put the blame on. Yep, the Jews. Apparently the evil Jews are trying to bring the church down with all these slanderous allegations. 

Bishop blames the Jews for this mess 

Instead of finding other people to pin some sort of blame on, all the church leadership has to do is walk into any bathroom, go to the sink and look up......right into a mirror. 

Once again, I can't stress enough how important and timely this documentary is. It makes the abuses and rapes more personal. You can see the church in action, protecting the abusive priests (or rapists, as I like to call them), and ignoring the concerns of the abused.

Deliver Us From Evil: Must See TV

Soccer Suuuuuuucks!!!!!

Soccer Sucks!

Let's face facts. Soccer is never going to be a popular spectator sport in the USA. Argue with me all you want, but you will be wrong. Sure, a lot of kids play soccer. But, when they grow up, they play football, basketball, or baseball, because with age comes wisdom. The good athletes with no hand/eye coordination will continue to play soccer, drink exotic coffee at Starbucks and quote Eddie Vedder like he's Shakespeare. That person will probably drive a Volvo, with "Save The Sea Monkies" and "Don't Blame Me I Voted For An Inconsequential Nader" bumper stickers.

Soccer just isn't fun to watch. It's, for lack of a better term, amuck! Sure, you can tell who's on what team, but at times, it's like they are all on the same team and the goal of the game is to not have any goals. If I see an MSL score (and why should I?) crawl across the bottom of the screen on ESPN 6.5, and that score is 2-0 with 187 minutes to go, I know that it's a blowout and there is no way the team with no goals can win. It's an unsurmountable lead! But, sometimes, when that 187 minutes (and that's just the regulation time of the 2nd half) runs out, they will add more time to the clock! What the hell???? Who does that? It's cruel and unusual that there even IS soccer, let alone they add minutes when the match should be over!  Did the Phillies get another inning after Joe Carter hit the homer of Mitch Williams?  Did the Rams get a fresh set of downs and time put back on the clock when Torry Holt just missed getting into the end zone against the Patriots? No, they lost, and they went home.

And speaking of losing and going home.....it's not OK to incite mayhem, panic, looting, and destruction because your team won or lost a "match". These "hooligans" are morons. First, because they actually care about soccer and second because they don't mind having their skull caved in by a pick axe to prove it.

I have to pick on this too.......no sport should EVER end in a tie. That includes NFL football. But soccer takes it to a new level because they actually have as many ties as wins and loses. How do you run around expending all sorts of energy for hours on end and have the damn game end in a tie? Where is the pay off? How in the hell can a person become a fan of a game that can produce a games worth of highlights in less than 2 seconds? Because if it's not a goal, there is NOTHING else to show.

Hey, bouncing the ball off your head is NOT cool. It's the kind of thing that if it happened to you in grade school, it would have an effect on your social life until you were put in your coffin. And even then people would say "Yeah, he was a total tool, he used to bounce a ball off his head all the time." It's almost as bad as Haki Sak, but not quite. To finish up, I'll tell you how I really feel. I know I'm not alone in this sentiment; I would rather have a character created by Rob Zombie slam the business end of a claw hammer into the back of my head and drag me through Death Valley, while I'm being slowly picked at and eaten by buzzards, coyotes, and the band "Skid Row", rather than watch soccer.

Here is a list of things that SUCK, but are still, somehow, better than soccer; the aforementioned Haki Sak, the comedy stylings of Rita Rudner or Margaret Cho, brussel sprouts, drowning in your own vomit, the movie "Cabin Boy", the song "Wind Beneath My Wings", reality TV, the Kansas City Royals, "starring William
Shatner", Juliette Lewis, Tesla, mowing the grass, grout work in the bathroom, food poisoning, working double shifts in a South American sweatshop manufacturing Nike's and Fruit Of The Loom products for 19 cents an hour and all the warm water you can drink, standing in line at the DMV, anal fissures, and finally, impotence.

New Content Soon!!!

I've taken a bit of time off from writing. I do have some new stuff though that will be up soon. One blog I'm excited about is my interview with guitarist Greg Clagget. Greg is a musician from Louisville that has had pretty good success in the music business, and is currently working on some new stuff.

I also intend to do a review or two of some of my favorite pieces of media (which means movies and/or music), and hopefully that will influence some of you to give some new stuff a try!

I was talking with a friend at work the other day and he wanted some advice on how to handle a situation at home. He said to me "Freddy, my wife wants me to give up smoking marijuana. She said it's too expensive. " So, I told him to tell her "So is a divorce."

Take care, be back soon!         FREDDY