Israelis join the fray

Several Israelis have decided to up the ante on the Iranian sponsored anti-semitic cartoon contest. The prizes being offered should draw cartoonists from all over the world.

My boy

The proof is in the pudding, as they say. Here is the pudding. This is one of the ultra sound pictures we got last night showing definative proof that we are in fact having a boy.

Warped Christianity

The Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church has recently gained nationwide infamy with their despicable displays at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq. The signs that these people hold and the messages they are presenting are beyond indecent. As repugnent as their demonstrations are, they are regretably within their First Amendment rights to demonstrate. An unfortuante problem with the First Amendment is that people seem to forget that their rights end where the rights of others begin. In this case, whose rights trump whose? I would say that the families whose loved ones have given their lives for this country have the right to a bury their family members in a solemn ceremony free from the invectives and hatred of these protesters. The First Amendment defines one of our most basic freedoms. It should be tempered though with common sense and consideration of others. Someone will always find a way to be offended by the speech of others and we should not limit free speech because of that. But this is quite different. I would contend that this constitutes hate speech. If we're going to have those ridiculous hate crimes in the books, we may as well put them to good use. Charge these protestors with a hate crime and lock them away.

The saddest part of this whole affair is that, inevitably, these sewer rats will be held up by the media as "mainstream" Christians. This just adds fuel to the fire of those who view Christians with derision. Every whacko that claims to be a Christian is paraded before the country as a typical right-wing religious zealot. So instead of all the good things that Christians are and represent, we are shown only the nuts that constitute the smallest fraction of those who claim to be Christian. One has but to look at how these people conduct themselves to see that they're anything but. Somehow, I have a hard time seeing Jesus at one of these protests holding a sign that says "Thank God for dead soldiers".

Islam is indeed a religion of peace

We've been hearing this tripe ever since 9/11. Islam is a religion of peace. Those who promote violence are just a fringe extremist element. So what then is the reasoning for the violent protests and calls for vengence over the cartoons that were published recently in several European papers? Must be a lot more Muslims in the fringe than we all thought.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183686,00.html

Free Drugs

The story at the link is about a program being implemented in Canada (big surprise). With socialized health care, it was only a matter of time before tax payers had to fund the habits of junkies.

Free Drugs!