Bob Morris @ Feb 3rd 2006 23:25 - Category: Unfiled ;
The Nation details the Abramoff/Ralph Reed/Christian Right connections. Given this duplicitous den of thieves, it’s a challenge to determine who is the sleaziest. However, after due deliberation, Reed gets my vote, as he always piously wraps himself in the sanctity of religion while swindling the flock.
Bob Morris @ Feb 3rd 2006 07:21 - Category: Unfiled ;
Protests erupted in the Muslim world and militants issued threats against Europeans on Thursday in response to the publication in Western media of controversial caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.
Muslims, who consider any depiction of God and the prophets blasphemy, are outraged by the caricatures, one of which shows Muhammad with a bomb as a turban. Another shows the prophet standing on a cloud as he tells a group of suicide bombers that paradise has run out of the virgins said to await martyrs upon their death.
Freedom of the press is all-important, true. But these cartoons are deliberately imflammatory, mean-spirited, and racist. Will those same newspapers weep crocodile tears when a Muslim extremist detonates himself in a European shopping mall in protest. Ah well, it’ll sell more papers, won’t it?
Implying all Muslims are suicide bombers is akin to saying all Christians murder abortion doctors. Or that Christians invade countries because they, in their delusion, think Jesus told them to. I’m sure glad no one in the US does that.
Bob Morris @ Feb 3rd 2006 07:18 - Category: Unfiled ;
Gov’s gift to PUC official questioned
Schwarzenegger gave Susan Kennedy $25,000 after he received that amount from AT&T. Days later, she voted to OK its merger with SBC.
Sleazy, sleazy, sleazy.
Bob Morris @ Feb 3rd 2006 06:46 - Category: Unfiled ;
alJazeera forum - “Media and Power, Freedom of Expression and Political Manipulation”
Bob Morris @ Feb 3rd 2006 06:45 - Category: Unfiled ;
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