As you might have heard, Cheney shot one of his buddies, the White House tried to hide - or joke about - the incident, and now the guy's had a heart attack due to the lead lodged in him. There's not a whole lot to add to this other than, you should know better than to give a chronic draft dodger a weapon.
Moving from chickenhawks to fried chicken, random angry Pakistanis have burned down a KFC. This all stems from the Mohammed cartoons run by various European newspapers depicting the Prophet in sometimes ill fashion. The main problem is that you aren't supposed to denote Mohammed in any satirical form.
That said, the overreaction is just plain silly to me. I know that fundamentalists on both sides are fomenting a clash of cultures, but come on. At some point, these are just angry people with no one they can vent their frustrations out on except whoever their government and religious leaders tell them they can. Hell, it's why we "hate" the French right now; it's the only protest allowed by the GOP. Same problem, just less burnt embassies.
Sure, the cartoons are offensive, but they are a LOT more offensive things going on in the Middle East to worry about. Case in point: the Iranian response to all of this is to (beyond funding terrorist organizations) publish anti-Semitic cartoons. Talk about missing the point of free speech by regressing to your usual hate-filled response.
I've been busy with work lately, sorry about the lack of updates. I have a bunch of links getting less and less relevant every day but will scrounge what I can and post them for all of you.
In the meantime, work has been kind enough to assign me to a job in Puerto Rico. Leslie is coming along and we leave tomorrow. So, if you don't get a post until later next week, realize I'm probably on the beach.
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