Death or Conversion

An Afghan Man was given the choice of conversion back to Islam or death. He refused. Some in the government are saying that the man is mentally ill. This would give them the opportunity to keep their law and still let the man live. I think its absurd. I thought we helped to liberate this country from the Taliban to stop the crazy religious ideas. They may be slightly more moderate but the craziness persists.

I'm all for people believing in God the way they want. I just think that stops where it infringes on other people's belief in God. If your religion is so great, you shouldn't need to kill someone to make them a part of it. (or keep them from leaving it.) More and more I think Islam is a very dangerous religion. I see nothing peaceful about it.

I'm not saying other religions haven't had their bad times. The Christians also went through a convert or die phase. They got over it. I think that this was because the basic teaching of Christianity is peace. Islam isn't necessarily so nice... "Fight those who neither believe in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and do not embrace the religion of the truth, being among those who have been given the Book (Bible and the Torah), until they pay tribute out of hand and have been humiliated." (Surah 9:29)

Hollywood Crazies

I thought the Muslims zealots were bad. It seems the Hollywood version is right up there. I'm talking about the scientologists of course. OK, so they aren't bombing people. They are trying to kill other people's shows though. I'm speaking of Isaac Hayes leaving South Park because it picked on scientology. It needs picking on. Who can take a religion seriously if its main text is written by a Science Fiction Writer? L. Ron Hubbard wasn't even an overly talented writer.

Maybe they are just sore because they failed to completely shove "Broke Back Mountain" down our throats so they are fighting back with this. South Park started out as an animated short that was written for some Hollywood types. I can't remember if it was the first or second installment that made fun of Jesus and Santaclaus. They loved it and the TV series was born. I guess its OK to make fun of Christians but not Science Fiction based religions.

Tired of Broke Back

I've never even seen the film but I'm tired of it. Its like Hollywood is shoving this picture down our throats. BAFTAs, Critics Choice, possibly the OSCARS. Who are these people kidding. Notice it didn't even make the line-up for the People's Choice Awards.

The actor's claim that the OSCARS is the one that they want to win because its their peers who pick em. Whatever! Movies get made to be seen and to make money. In my opinion that makes the People's Choice Award much higher on the importance scale.

Wake up Hollywood. Stop shoving your political agenda down our throats and move on. Yes, I do believe that this is a small group's political campaign. I don't hate gays and I am not anti-gay movie theme. To each his/her own. I don't really have an opinion on the movie itself because I, like much of America, have never seen the film. Its not a subject that I want to see. I that the box office numbers, despite the huge Ad campaign, show that many people are not interested in it either. What do you think?

Incompetence all around...

Good Lord! Everyone was screwed up in this Katrina/Rita mess. Yesterday they said Bush and his Homeland Security Chief both knew about possible levee issues with the hurricane. They ignored the warnings from the experts. Today they have video of the Governor of Louisiana telling the White House that the levees were fine.

I guess that this was true at first. It took a day for the breech that drowned ST Bernard Parish to occur. The other breeches happened about a day after that. In a sense many residents of New Orleans probably got a false sense of security because there were no immediate problems in that area. The biggest problem that I saw was the incompetence of the leadership (The Whole Leadership from Local to Federal.) No one was prepared. Plans were not followed and people willingly put themselves in a fairytale frame of mind that said this hasn't ever happened so it probably won't.

Why didn't the local governments evacuate the residents? Why didn't the residents evacuate? Why didn't the Governor issue a mandatory Evacuation Order until the hurricane was almost on top of New Orleans? Why, if Governor Blanco (AKA Governor Blank Stare) knew she couldn't handle the problem, didn't she cede control of the National Guard troops to the Federal Government? Why didn't FEMA respond quicker? Why did they turn rescuers away when they showed up with boats and equipment, ready and willing to start pulling people out? (yes, they did in fact stop people from putting their boats in the water and helping the locals.)

None of it makes sense. We are looking to blame someone. I think everyone is too blame. Now that that's done, let's fix the problem so that it doesn't happen again.