Three Words to Solve the California Budget Crisis:

THE RUNNING MAN!

Say what, Mir Hossein Mousavi is a rock star?

So, it's been a long time since I've blogged because I've been trying to stay away from the news. It just pisses me off too much the kind of garbage that the media prints. Okay, so I still read the news, but I don't blog because I'm busy.

First of all, I'm glad the Iranian people are finally standing up for themselves. And I'm glad that Obama is staying out of this mess. If people want freedom and democracy they should have to fight and bleed for it themselves. It's not our job to "free" everyone.

Anyways, isn't this the guy that was prime minister during a time when Iran used chemical weapons to murder over 500,000 Iraqis? Yeah, he is. So why is everyone acting like this guy is some kind of saint or something? Okay, maybe he wasn't directly responsible, but come on-the guy was one of the top ten most powerful people in the country during that time. Putting him in power instead of that other nutjob is like trading Hitler for the tenth in command. Mousavi and his nutjob of a wife in power would not be much of an improvement over the last guy. Wait, none of these people have any real power anyways aside from being figureheads for the public while the real powers that be run the show.

Bloodbath ensues. Yay, world! Change is on the way, same as it ever was...

That's some REAL CHANGE, AIG STyle!

Ahhh. It sucks being right, especially when everyone (including myself) would rather just have me be wrong. The truth hurts. And the truth is: nothing changes until people change, which is what I cynically said at the beginning of the campaign for "change".

I find it surprising that Obama is so surprised that a bunch of crooks stole his hand-out. As if Wall-Street execs and high powered CEO's are going to suddenly "change" or grow consciences just because there's a new boss in town. They and we are the same self-entitled, greedy, lazy, dim-witted Americans we were before he was elected. Not much has changed aside from a few cosmetic differences. Unfortunately, America and the majority of Americans are a bunch of narcistic, greedy crooks that only care about themselves.

Oh, and please (Obama) apply this lesson in human nature to the Russians and Iranians. They are not going to suddenly "change" just because you're being nice to them. They're still a bunch of misogynist, war mongering, corrupt, assholes. The sad truth is that most people don't change, because most people suck. Sorry, the truth hurts.

Clinton: Chinese human rights can't interfere with other crises

No, shit. It's kind of hard to impose your ideals onto a country that owns you. I can just hear hyper-idealistic Hillary now (she's not b/c she's much too smart for that).

Hillary: Yeah, we want to borrow trillions of dollars, but you have to stop exploiting your workers that enable you to build up your GDP. Thus, allowing you to have the cash flow to lend us money so we can still support our bloated ideals that wouldn't be possible without you committing gross human rights atrocities to your own people, not to mention your neighbors.

China: Fuck you, hypocritical, high-minded American with your gilded ideals and lofty rhetoric. If you didn't already know: we own your ass. And if you ever want anymore money from us you better shut the hell up. You better hope we don't ever want to collect on those loans, and you're able to pay them back otherwise when shit hits the fan with climate change, water shortages, and overpopulation we'll take what's ours-your whole country's infrastructure that you sold us through municipal bonds and the like.

Hillary: Okay, just give us more money, pretty please.

School fight posted on YouTube

Trust me, the kids set up these fights before-hand. They're proud of them.




"You're supposed to behave at these events as you behave at school," Mike Brooks of CNN said in regard to student behavior.

Mmmm, anyone who has taught at urban public schools around the country knows that this is how they behave at school on a daily basis. This is the norm, not an anomaly.

CNN contributor Roland Martin likens Obama to Kanye West

I sure as hell hope not because Kayne West is a self-deluded, narcissistic, jackass, who is anti-education.





Well, at least he didn't compare Obama to Jesus Christ or something. Then again, Obama is going to cure cancer. And at the very least if he falls short of his goals he will still achieve greatness by curing the common cold.

Promoting understanding...

...one beheading at a time.

TV Report transcript

Muslims in America come from many countries and have diverse backgrounds, but they are united by their desire to practice their religion in peace and to replace the negative image many non-Muslim Americans have about Islam. In this report by Carol Pearson we meet three very different Americans who practice Islam.



A control room at Bridges TV
A control room at Bridges TV
Muzzammil Hassan came to America from Pakistan 25 years ago. He became a successful banker in Buffalo, New York, near the famed Niagara Falls.



While he and his wife were happy to be in the United States, they were upset by the negative perceptions of Muslims, and particularly how this perception might affect their children.

Like the perception that if Hassan's wife were to talk back to him he'd cut her fucking head off.



That is how they came up with the idea of Bridges TV. Mr. Hassan's wife challenged him to start it.

Then he cut her fucking head off after claiming it was her idea all along, not his.


Muzzammil Hassan
Muzzammil Hassan
MUZZAMMIL HASSAN, FOUNDER, BRIDGES TV

"I had no background in television. I didn't know anything about TV. Her comment was, 'you have an M.B.A. (masters degree in business) why don't you write a business plan?'"



And so he did. He quit his job at the bank and for the next two to three years worked almost non-stop in developing an English language television network that offers news and entertainment for Muslims.



Mr. Hassan hopes Bridges TV lives up to its name by uniting American Muslims and by helping non-Muslims overcome the negative images they may have of both Muslims and Islam.

Like the negative perception that Muslim Husbands cut off their wives' fucking heads when shit goes south in the relationship.

MUZZAMMIL HASSAN, FOUNDER, BRIDGES TV

"There should be a Muslim media so that Muslim children growing up in America grow up with the self confidence and high self esteem about their identity both as Americans and as Muslims."

And to know it's okay to cut someone's fucking head off when you get mad at them, especially when you need to put a woman in her place.

Other Muslims are also trying to reach out to non-Muslim Americans.



Hadia Mubarak is a graduate student at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has grown up in the United States - her father is from Syria, her mother from Jordan. Hadia is the president of the Muslim Student Association for Northern American. She feels obligated to change the perceptions many Americans have about Muslims.



Hadia Mubarak
Hadia Mubarak
HADIA MUBARAK

"This is sort of my calling. The only exposure they had about Islam was in the media or what they saw in Hollywood: Arab fanatics blowing up planes, hijacking planes."

And husbands cutting off wives' heads.

She says she also feels obligated to dispel the perception that Muslim women are oppressed.

Because she likes getting her fucking head cut off.

HADIA MUBARAK

"If you meet Muslim women, they are some of the most vocal, strongly opinionated women you will ever meet in your life. "

And that's why our husbands sometimes cut our heads off. It's all a matter of being open-minded and adhering to cultural relativism.

Hadia wears the hijab, even when she runs track, but she says the decision to wear it was hers and hers alone.

Even if her husband threatens to cut her fucking head off if she takes it off.

Muhammad Latif Hayden is an American who converted to Islam. He first learned about it through Sheik Muhammad Rahem Bawa Muhayaddeen, a Sufi from Sri Lanka.



Muhammad Latif Hayden
Muhammad Latif Hayden
MUHAMMAD LATIF HAYDEN

"I took the shahadah (declaration of belief) with Bawa in 1972, and since then I've been a Muslim."



Mr. Hayden wanted to learn Sufism, a mystic type of Islam. After Sheik Bawa Muhaiyaddeen died in 1986, Mr. Hayden dedicated himself to spreading Bawa's teachings.



MUHAMMAD LATIF HAYDEN

"The importance of sharing that information, the importance of making available those teachings to Muslims and non-Muslims alike, is essential, especially today."



Muhammad Latif Hayden is now secretary of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Mosque in Philadelphia. He publicizes the sheik's teachings through books and recordings and the Internet. As he describes it, his work is to show others the way to live in equality and peace in the kingdom of God.

While occasionally beheading an infidel from time to time.