One of Beverly Young's comments were: "Wait until the president hears about this". hahahahahaha. And to think that her husband worked in the mail room at the VA before he became a representative. One thing about Young though, he knew how to keep the old bastards in St. Pete happy and that kept him in office forever.
Elaine,
Once again right on the money on the Danish cartoon.
A lot of Europeans think they are superior to the others, and think they are the most 'secular' in the world. Now in which country in the world are Christmas, Id and Diwali national holidays? Hmmm.. No European country!
India has a Sikh prime minister(Sikhs less than 1 percent in India), and a Muslim president.
The West is also very quick to criticize the other countries for treatment of minorities, such as India. Of course, there have been terrible communal riots in India. But this is sparked by a lot of "terrorist" acts. Meanwhile, just one murder in Netherlands(of a delibrate provocateour) caused all of Europe to be on the verge of serious riots in "civilized Europe". The hypocrisy is obvious to Indians.
I think (again!) Chinese (and Japanese) are going to benefit in the Middle East. This controversy has riled the Muslims a lot; the Danish companies have already suffered enormously.
ESF
Europeans and Americans run to our Quisling overlords in the Middle East to get reassurances but they can't stop their own populations from seething and the seething is quite a broil and bin Laden probably is happily transmitting that cartoon all over the place!
It plays directly into his hands.
The fascists consider any expression of anything to be a "protest".
I think this has been Capitol policy (especially during SOTU addresses) for a long time. That's probably a good thing, too - we wouldn't have wanted some right-wing nutcase protesting from the gallery while President Clinton was speaking, now would we? Of course we wouldn't!
Elaine, dear, you're an excellent cartoonist. If anyone can do justice to Ariel Sharon, it's you!
As to Mohammed... draw him, too. People have no problem poking a bit of gentle fun at all sorts of sacred cows (apologies to our Hindi friends for that one!) - why should Mo' be off-limits just because a bunch of people in the Mideat neighborhood shoot their AK-47s in the air?
(Speaking of which - do they ever think about what happens when those thinghs come down? "I shot a 7.62mm round into the air; where it lands I do not care."
Elaine, I have to tell you this. When I see those morons protesting the cartoons but keeping quiet about suicide bombings, my blood boils. Cartoons do not kill, suicide bombers do. Where are the protests over Zarqawi and the things he is doing to Iraqi Muslims? Where are the protests about Bin Laden and his continued defamation of true Islam? Where are the protests about Saudi Arabia and it's treatment of women and the poor?
These people need to get the hell over the whole cartoon thing and start protesting something that matters. Islam is not the only religion to have been satirized. Look at what Pat Robertson has done to Christianity!
Correct.
And censorship: I am a total 'free speech' person and feel people must accept the fact that everyone can say or do whatever and just live with it.
After all, they can say or put up whatever they want! So what is the problem?
Yet censorship struggles to put the internet jinn back in the bottle.
Elaine--Just discovered you through Matt Savinar's Life After the Oil Crash site. Wow, you have some background. Read about the idea to
allow homeowners to apply for FHA-type loans for solar electric systems. Sounds good to me--I have, until then, written a small book to empower people to start with solar on a small scale, it sells briskly on the internet. Now I've branched into gasoline alternatives--just in time for $3 gallon gas?? Be happy to send you some of my stuff, need a physical address. Like your cartoons, too.
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