Just Checkin' In..

Been a while. Just checkin in to make sure that Blogger has not deactivated my account for lack of anything interesting to say at this point. Well actually let me rephrase that.. For lack of anything interesting to blog.. Life has been extremely interesting though.

The Prophet's (peace be upon him) caricatures.. The superbowl (I loved the FedEx and the Hummer ads).. The winter olympics (which by the way, I bet no one is watching).. The caricatures.. oops.. I think I already covered that.

We have a section of people in the world who are not very happy people right now (No, I am not talking about the protesters). They have been persisting ever since the first infidel's throat was slashed by a 'pious' muslim, that Islam was the religion of peace. So far, after 2000 or so years, the hypothesis is yet to be proven. As a matter of fact, it appears that the opposite of that hypothesis is really true.

Ann Coutler's writings are not really a part of my staple reading. I think she is obnoxious and condescending and in general tends to raise the blood pressure of anyone she is speaking with. In a recent article she said, "In order to express their displeasure with the idea that Muslims are violent, thousands of Muslims around the world engaged in rioting, arson, mob savagery, flag-burning, murder and mayhem, among other peaceful acts of nonviolence. The rioting Muslims claim they are upset because Islam prohibits any depictions of Muhammad -- though the text is ambiguous on beheadings, suicide bombings and flying planes into skyscrapers." Me thinks she has a point!

Now, don't get me wrong. I have plenty of truly peace loving friends who happen to be Muslims. What I don't get is what's wrong with the other 99.99% of them? Don't they value human lives? All the talk of virgins aside, anyone who is willing make hell out of life here so that he can go to heaven deserves to be... trying hard not to sound like a angered fundamentalist muslim... er.. put in the same room as GWB and Ann Coutler and locked there for 5 years and forced into a conversation about liberals and Nucular WMD, and their relevance in modern day Halal diets and the holy prophet. Now there is an interesting conversation.

On a lighter note, I believe that when Mr. President Bush visits India later this year, he will not visit the 'samadhi' of Mahatma Gandhi, because he believes that the Gospel of Jesus Christ views cremation as a pagan practice. Good for him.

Sadam Hussein is seeing the benefits of being occupied by a civilized modern nation. He actually gets to walk out of court and yell abuses at the judge and the lawyers without the threat of having chemical weapons being couriered to his house with best wishes from the administration.

The Superbowl. The Seahawks should have won. The Steelers had a fantastic run knocking off 4 of the best offensive teams out there, so I guess they deserved to win. The game was a bit boring, and I am sure you would all agree that we have seen better and more exciting games in previous years. Add to that, there was no Janet Jackson or her wardrobe malfunction at half time and that removed any chance of making the whole thing more interesting. Thank heavens that there were no wardrobe malfunction with the Rolling Stones! The ads were good.

Oh well.. until later then..

The hate mail can now begin.