Friday, February 24, 2006

Freedom Toast, Freedom Fries

When that idiot Bob Ney, a Congressman from Ohio, insisted the Congressional cafeteria start calling French fries and French toast, "freedom fries and freedom toast," we all laughed at his stupidity.
Now the lunatic fringe in the Middle East have started calling Danish pastry, "roses of the prophet Mohammed."
Lemme see if I have this straight-
They can't handle cartoons depicting Mohammed, yet they can name pastries after him?

And speaking of idiots, after George Bush has spent the last six years trying to scare the hell out of us by claiming Arab terrorists are out to kill us- and any Arab might be a terrorist, now he wants us to be all-inclusive and let them operate our ports?
Please.

In an e-mail discussion with my political nemesis Recycled Sip Clyde, he was flabbergasted that I was in favor of racial profiling at airports and other venues. He thought I had betrayed the liberals.
I say, hell yes I'm for racial profiling at airports.
Security agents don't need to be randomly shaking down little old Hispanic ladies at airports, they need to be strip searching guys with Middle Eastern passports and names like Akbar and Mohammed.
I don't care if they live in Cincinnati and sell carpeting for Sears, I am suspicious of all Middle Eastern types because Bush has spread his paranoia so successfully.

Does that mean I am anti Islamic?
Well, the terrorist division of Islam has given them all a bad name, and I don't see any big clumps of Muslim clerics publicly denouncing suicide bombers or calling for other Islamic extremists to knock it off, so I guess I am.

It's kind of like the way I feel about Christian fundamentalist extremists. I think they give the word Christian a bad connotation, and it causes me to wonder about any self-proclaimed Christian.

I'm not an atheist, but you sure as hell don't see them banding together and flying planes into buildings or bombing embassies or KFC franchises. Nor do you hear them bitching about abortion or gay rights.

Nope. As long as Islamic extremists are blowing shit up, I say keep all of them away from running our ports, and we should watch them like hawks when they are in our country as aliens holding green cards.
And as long as Christian extremists keep trying to control our bodies and souls, they are also suspicious provocateurs who need to be watched carefully.

8 comments:

Lulu Maude said...

I don't know what to make of the racial profiling issue. I do know that it is ironic that Bob Ney was so quick to coin the self-righteous term Freedom Fries and that he is turning out to be an Abramoff sweetheart. A perverse satisfaction there!

Sarah Letnes said...

Behavioral profiling would have caught the men that bought one-way plane tickets with cash and flew into the Twin Towers. I don't think racial profiling would be practical or all that effective. The TSA is stopping two-year-olds with the same name as someone on the known terrorist list, for goodness sake. What good is that doing anybody?

And as much as Bush has tarnished the image of America, the hatred of Muslim Extremists extends far beyond his reign of terror. They’ve hated us, and Israel for a long time.

Karen Zipdrive said...

Okay, my idea of profiling would practically eliminate toddlers unless they were with suspicious looking guardians who may have loaded a little plastique in their Pampers.
Basically, a little more careful visual inspection and a few questions asked of "likely suspects" wouldn't hurt.
Making random searches of people who look like me, trying to get home from Vegas after being awake for three days, is a fucking waste of time and personnel.
Let's take a look at the faces of the 9/11 terrorists---see any similarities among them?
Good.
Well, check out that type and the women who travel with them, if there are any.
Honestly- if a half dozen Saudi men are all boarding the same U.S. airliner at the same time, fuck 'em-go get the sniffer dogs.
If people of certain Middle Eastern descent are offended, tough luck. We all have to sacrifice after 9/11.

Unknown said...

Hey KZ,not to go off topic but..you hear about the newly found emails that were turned over to Fitz regarding PlameGate? Tricky Dick is really gonna want a drink according to the article I read tonight.

Karen Zipdrive said...

Dusty- no, I haven't heard about that. Clue us in, please.

Karen Zipdrive said...

Ooops, spoke too soon.
Dusty's blog, listed at the right, has the whole story.

Karen Zipdrive said...

Bean, forgive me for being just a humble journalist trained to distill the complicated into clarity, but as such, I must ask... what is the point you were trying to make?
:)

Karen Zipdrive said...

Bean and Sis, okay, I am clear now and I agree with great enthusiasm.
Anyone whose God wants to judge and/or punish me is worshiping *someone*, but I doubt it's really God.
The God of my choosing is a kind and loving one, who would not condone war, torture or oppression.
To me, any kind of religious fundamentalism is suspicious.
The only fundamentalists I appreciate are NBA basketball players.