Newsflash; dateline Quebec:


New immigrants to the small town of Herouxville, Quebec, about 90 miles from Montreal, have been given fair warning: You are not allowed to stone women to death, burn them or circumcise them, by order of the town council. They even posted this decree on the town's website.


Not to be outdone, the president of the Muslim Council of Montreal responded that the declaration had "set back race relations decades."


For the record there is thought to be only one immigrant family living in Herouxville. No word on their country of origin.

A Generation of Swine

Microsoft, the technological touchstone for all things internet, is in hot water with Wikipedia for breaking their rules. For those of you who don’t know, one of the few rules for posting at Wiki is no marketing companies and no conflict of interest posts. It’s what keeps the site from becoming just a big sounding board for every dope with a message. Pretty much everyone who uses Wikipedia knows this rule (and even a lot of people who have never even looked anything up there). Why, then, Microsoft thinks its ok to pay bloggers to shill for their company on entries describing open-source (read: Microsoft competition) products is completely beyond my grasp. Microsoft, for their part claim to be “baffled at Wikipedia’s response…”

Dick (Dick Cheney, that is) says that the idea that blunders were made in Iraq is “hogwash.” He went on to say “I simply don’t accept that.” Considering that his boss (ok, does anybody really believe that Cheney takes orders from Bush??), the President had just admitted to mistakes having been made the night before Cheney called the idea hogwash… I’m left believing that the source of this administration’s strategy of: “If we say it, then people will believe it’s true!” is likely Dick Cheney. That might work on the Christian right Dick, but some of us can read. Dick.

A twenty-nine-year-old pedophile enrolled in an Arizona school as a seventh grader. They caught him on his most recent attempt because they thought his “guardian” (a former cell mate, doh!) didn’t look trustworthy but a nearby school system said he was enrolled there for several months. He probably would have been there longer had he not been dropped for poor attendance. I would have thought that if the prison tats didn’t give him away that the razor nicks surely would have.

And perhaps the most amusing thing I’ve seen of late is that Barack Obama is calling for universal health care. Who was the last person to propose that? Oh yeah, that chick from Arkansas, what’s her name? Hillary.

Stock up on the hard stuff now boys and girls 'caus it's gonna be a long election.

Which story should we believe? The week before last I got an email blurb about Barack Obama having gone to a muslim school called a madrassa. A madrassa is the kind of place where young muslims are inculcated with the kind of fanaticism that breeds suicide bombers and crazy-freaky jihadists. The story pondered what the reaction of the islamic community would be (because in the muslim religion an apostate is the very worst kind of infidel --worse, even, than the jews or Americans).

A couple of days later I was directed to an article in The Washington Post's sister publication Insight Magazine which reiterated the story that Obama had gone to a madrassa (although in his book The Audacity of Hope he claims to be a practicing christian). This article while maintaining the original contention that he had in fact gone to madrassa goes on to claim that the source who uncovered this was in fact in the campaign staff of Hillary Clinton.

Most recently CNN has broken the story that Obama didn't attend a madrassa at all and that although he went to a muslim school it was in fact much less radical. As for their part in all of this Hillary's staff disavows any knowledge of said madrassa and claims that this is clearly the work of the right-wing republican party (because they have what to gain by this?).

In the end, only time will tell. Obama's name is now conveniently associated with fanatical muslims making it a lot more likely that Hillary will get the Democratic nomination for president.

So what are we to believe? In light of this, unless the Democratic party pulls its collective head out of its ass then the smart money is betting on Cheney-Rove ticket in '08.

More Hypocrisy in the News:

I am laughing my friggin ass off over here.

A movie called Hounddog made it's debut at the Sundance Film Festival this week. In it 12-year-old Dakota Fanning plays a young woman of about the same age. In one scene she is violently raped.

Ok, I'll admit, I raised an eyebrow for about half a second. Admittedly, it might be kind of heavy material for a 13 year old to be dealing with but, call me an optimist, I'm fairly confident that Ms Fanning was in fact properly counseled by her guardians and the producers of the film and that she's probably pretty ok with it. I mean, she played Lilo from Lilo and Stich and she doesn't appear to believe she's a cartoon character so I think she can separate her self from her roles.

So what's so funny? Here's the punchline: apparently the Catholic League is calling for a Federal investigation into the making of the film. They feel that even acting out a rape scene is unsuitable for a 12-year-old girl and that the Feds should step in on this.

I guess it's only ok if its a 12-year-old boy and the person doing the raping is a priest. Remember, these are the same champions of justice who secretly moved several pedophile priests to other parishes to keep them from being investigated.

My mother still wonders why I won't go to church.

I'll take this opportunity to breathe a little life into this near-dead blog by noting a funny article I read in the Times today. Apparently the group CAIR (the Council for American-Islamic Relations) is protesting that they are being portrayed as the "bad guys" on the Fox Network's hit show "24." This isn't the first time American television has run afoul of CAIR --in the past they have threatened action against CBS's show NCIS and various other television shows for having portrayed Islam in a bad light.

This has to be the ultimate definition of irony. CAIR has a hissy fit, calls a press conference, and threatens legal action every time an American television show portrays a Muslim terrorist killing people. But they have never once publicly criticized Muslim Terrorists who kill innocent civilians.

It seems to me that if they're so concerned with their public image that maybe to ACTUALLY STOP KILLING PEOPLE would be a good place to start.