One of the keys to mutual understanding and world peace is...

for people to lighten up a little bit and be a little less full of self-righteous pride. Foolish, self-righteous pride is the single most common cause of wars, fights, and general disagreements between people and countries. It also is the number one cause of honor killings.

At any rate, I'd like to bring something up about this picture that nobody in the media is asking.“Some of us didn’t feel comfortable doing it just because to me it was a little clownish for our part to be doing that,” Gasol said. “But the sponsors insisted and insisted. I think it is just a bad idea I guess to do that, but it was never intended to be offensive or racist against anybody.

Isn’t one of the sponsors the Chinese courier company? Doesn’t that mean that some of them were Chinese? Therefore, someone high up in the Chinese company must have known about the picture and approved it. Furthermore, according to Pau Gasol the “sponsors insisted and insisted”, so one of the Chinese sponsors must have insisted too? Did they come up with the campaign? If not, they had to be complacent with the campaign to some degree, right? Why isn’t anyone asking these questions, or is the knee jerk liberal media that desperate for a juicy racism story at the moment that they don’t care to answer the questions: who, what, where, when, and why? They prefer to just cry “racism” (when it was just poor judgment on the Spanish and Chinese sponsors parts) in order to get hits on their web-sites and sell stories.

Oh, and I'm voting for Barack Obama. Although, I'm a little worried about pulling out of Iraq, especially with Russia going all gung-ho in restoring their bruised egos and regaining the pride of being a world power by bombing the shit out of one of their neighbors. It's their way of saying: "nanny, nanny bobo the West can't do shit and we know it. So what are you going to do about it? Huh? Huh? Yeah, that's what I thought you weak, western bitches. You ain't going to do shit except bitch, moan, and posture".

This is one of the biggest resource grabs in history, and we need that oil. What if Russia starts fucking more people up? I'm sure if things got really bad they wouldn't have any qualms about bombing the shit out of the Middle-East and straight up taking their oil. If we move out do they move in? Scary thought. And did anyone notice that Russia had the balls to pull this shit during the Olympics?

One more thing, I was adamantly against going into Iraq in the fist place. But I hate to say it: if we leave without winning we're fucked if Russia ever decides to flex their muscles.