A prime example of: No Guts No Glory

"You Still Can't Write About Muhammad," by Asra Q. Nomani

Starting in 2002, Spokane, Wash., journalist Sherry Jones toiled weekends on a racy historical novel about Aisha, the young wife of the prophet Muhammad. Ms. Jones learned Arabic, studied scholarly works about Aisha's life, and came to admire her protagonist as a woman of courage. When Random House bought her novel last year in a $100,000, two-book deal, she was ecstatic. This past spring, she began plans for an eight-city book tour after the Aug. 12 publication date of "The Jewel of Medina" -- a tale of lust, love and intrigue in the prophet's harem.

It's not going to happen: In May, Random House abruptly called off publication of the book. The series of events that torpedoed this novel are a window into how quickly fear stunts intelligent discourse about the Muslim world.

Random House feared the book would become a new "Satanic Verses," the Salman Rushdie novel of 1988 that led to death threats, riots and the murder of the book's Japanese translator, among other horrors. In an interview about Ms. Jones's novel, Thomas Perry, deputy publisher at Random House Publishing Group, said that it "disturbs us that we feel we cannot publish it right now." He said that after sending out advance copies of the novel, the company received "from credible and unrelated sources, cautionary advice not only that the publication of this book might be offensive to some in the Muslim community, but also that it could incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment."

After consulting security experts and Islam scholars, Mr. Perry said the company decided "to postpone publication for the safety of the author, employees of Random House, booksellers and anyone else who would be involved in distribution and sale of the novel."

Now let me ask this: If someone sent Random House a manuscript entitled Why Catholics Go To Hell and they felt they could make millions on it, would they publish it?

A prime example of: No Guts No Glory

News Flash

The Chinese are now in collusion with the Cubans to drill for oil off the Cuban coast. What they are doing in affect is sucking out the oil reserves right from under the Florida coastline.

I seem to remember in 2006 gas was about $2.65 a gal when Pelosi and her band of fools took over with the promise of ending the war and reducing the cost of gas. You see where they got us. No wonder their approval rating is worse then Bush.

These Democratic bastards do not want to drill for oil anywhere. They want an alternative fuel source. They want something that is clean and nice. Like tomorrow somebody is going to invent a pill. It goes like this: You piss in the gas tank, drop the pill in, and you're good for 500 miles. This is the fucking dream world they live in!

They are against drilling so we have only one option left. We have to rely on our friends for oil:

Venezuela............ Controlled by the "DR Evil" of South America

Saudi Arabia........ Weren't 15 of the 19 hijackers Saudi's?

Iran ....... Their leader, another mad man, latest quote "Israel is a stinking corpse".

How does that saying go .......with friends like these....

It cost's Saudi Arabia less then $2.00 a barrel to pump the oil. So between the Saudi's, speculators, and the oil companies, it is jacked up to the tune of $140 a barrel.

Take a moment and imagine a football field. Now imagine a postage stamp laying on the football field. The postage stamp represents the size of the area as a whole that would be taken to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge better know as ANWR.

Look I don't want to walk down Naples pier and see a oil rig 500 feet away. But if it is 50 miles off shore, and you can't see it, who gives a shit?

We need a alternative fuel source. Fine. Search for it while we are drilling for oil. Bush said we are addicted to oil. And damn it, we need a fix!

News Flash

Gitmo Fiasco

I was listening to Dick Morris on TV. He has a new book out (Fleeced). According to him 485 prisoners at Gitmo have been released. Out of that number 50 have been captured or killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Suffice to say the remaining 435 have not converted to Christianity, they just haven't been killed or captured....yet!)

Then we get this shit:

Supreme Court backs Guantanamo detainees

In rebuke to administration, suspects may appeal in U.S. civilian courts

WASHINGTON - In a stinging rebuke to President Bush's anti-terror policies, a deeply divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign detainees held for years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their indefinite imprisonment without charges.

Do you know the can of worms they just opened? Are these fuckers out of their minds? These dogs are military combatants, not liquor store robbers for Christ sake!

If I were in the military right now I would be thinking this.... Let me see if I got this straight, I am a married man with a family. I am laying my life down for God and country. My job is to kill or capture these bastards, and the one's that are captured may be released so they can come back and kill me or my buddies.....What the fuck am I doing here?

The Pentagon made a big mistake bringing these bastards to Cuba. They should have been shot in Iraq. Let's face it. No one in their right mind (including the Supreme Court) should let them out of jail. So why put them there in the first place? Do you want them dead, or an American soldier? Let them out and we got dead Americans somewhere in the world. It is as simple as that.

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Gitmo Fiasco

Tim Russert.....A Class Act

Goodbye Tim. You will never be replaced. We all miss you. May God keep you and bless you.

Tim Russert.....A Class Act

Obama Spare Me

Asshole's 2 and 3. Asshole No. 1 Wright, better known as wrong, is missing from this photo

You have heard about Rev Wright. Now we got Father Michael Pfleger, another nut case going off in the same church. I can't understand why the Catholic church puts up with this asshole. On a side note how can you be a priest and adopt two sons? After this latest outburst of bullshit Obama said he is resigning his membership in the church.

In other words what he is saying is this... since I am running for president I cannot be a member of this church (a church that he has been a member of for twenty years!) on the other hand, if I wasn't running for president I would still be a member.

Seriously, is this the kind of guy you want to be leader of the free world????

Obama Spare Me