American Culture?
So, I stumbled on
this article today, and I wonder if some people ever went to 10th grade.
There is a Dennis Prager quote in there that is particularly mystifying. A muslim elected to congress wants to take his oath on the Koran instead of a Bible, and here's what Prager had to say about it.
He should not be allowed to do so -- not because of any American hostility to the Koran, but because the act undermines American civilization.
American civilization, muslims are a part of American civilization you dumbass, as is the Koran and the idea of religious freedom, so I fail to see how this does anything but affirm American civilization.
First, it is an act of hubris that perfectly exemplifies multiculturalist activism -- my culture trumps America's culture. What Ellison and his Muslim and leftist supporters are saying is that it is of no consequence what America holds as its holiest book; all that matters is what any individual holds to be his holiest book. ...
I don't even understand this idea of multicultural activism and trumping american culture, these people are in fact American, they are American culture, they can't trump their own culture, this makes no sense to me. What is this idea of America's holiest book, last time I checked we weren't a religious state, meaning we have no holiest book. Ellison is right, what the individual hold holy is all that matters, because it's that person taking the oath, if he takes the oath with something he would just as well use as toilet paper it doesn't mean anything.
Devotees of multiculturalism and political correctness who do not see how damaging to the fabric of American civilization it is to allow Ellison to choose his own book need only imagine a racist elected to Congress. Would they allow him to choose Hitler's "Mein Kampf," the Nazis' bible, for his oath? And if not, why not? On what grounds will those defending Ellison's right to choose his favorite book deny that same right to a racist who is elected to public office?
Ok, first of all this is stupid because it assumes a racist could even get elected to public office. That aside, personally, I wouldn't deny the racist the right to use whatever book he wanted, and I feel the need to liken this to free speech. In order preserve our own freedom of speech, we have to accept the fact that others may not agree with them. If we are to deny Ellison his right to take the oath on the Koran, what is to prevent us from later denying people from using the Bible to take an oath. Didn't we all learn this in 10th grade when we had to do ill prepared debates on free speech and other constitutional freedoms?
Is the President Even Human?
At a private reception held at the White House with newly elected lawmakers shortly after the election, Bush asked Webb how his son, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq, was doing. Webb responded that he really wanted to see his son brought back home, said a person who heard about the exchange from Webb.
“I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing,” Bush retorted, according to the source.
Webb confessed that he was so angered by this that he was tempted to slug the commander-in-chief, reported the source, but of course didn’t. It’s safe to say, however, that Bush and Webb won’t be taking any overseas trips together anytime soon.
SourceIt's Kind of amazing that Bush still doesn't seem to get it...
Summer wind was always our song...
I went to see the ataris tonight, which was cool, they played several new songs all of which were quite enjoyable. The show in general was wierd, it was at Catholic U and there were only like 50-75 people there, more than half of which weren't really into it. Kris also refused to play "Your Boyfriend Sucks," "Teenage Riot," and "Boys of Summer," and voiced his opinion that the first two were two of his least favorite songs he's written, and that the Eagles want to be paid for them playing Boys of Summer. The crowd was actually pretty lackluster until the last 5 or 6 songs. They did the whole slow solo beginning to San Dimas with the band coming in at the end, which was pretty cool. Oh yeah and there are now only two people who were in the band on the last album still in the band.
It was kind of wierd I noticed that there may only be two types of Catholic U girls, the slightly plump and the very young and dressed to get fucked, although both groups seem to love the most uncomfortable looking heels, especially for a rock show. McD and I had a joking discussion about how I was going to wake up in some random girl's dorm room, needless to say that stayed a joke.
The other kind of wierd thing that I saw there, was this girl who was an uncanny combination of two other girls I know. It was like, if one feature didn't look like one it looked EXACTLY like the other. It was almost as if she was their offspring, if she didn't seem older than one of them, and they weren't both female. She was pretty cute, but it was kinda creepy.
Oh and no one but me will ever realize how ironic it was that they opened the show with "Summer Wind was Always our Song."
I might start doing this again...
I might start doing this again, mostly because today I feel like I need to get out some shit that I don't like about myself. I'll spare the details of the story, but basically I had a bad WoW raid. (I know what your thinking, but read on) At the end I was really fucking pissed, because I didn't do well (not bad, but not well, and really just on a technicality). And I think what really pissed me off was stuff that was done/said both jokingly and completely unthought out and on the fly. At which point I realized that I, for some reason, want these idiots in my guild to like me, and think i'm good so badly that I get angry when I think they don't. (I say idiots, but I like most of them, even if some like to mouth off about things they seem quite ignorant about)
So this lead me to think about shit that has happened in my life, and what I realized is that I am rarely satisfied just knowing that I did well for myself. I have this need for people to tell me I did well, and obviously everyone likes praise, but the fact that I seem to get angry when I don't get it is kind of disappointing.
