Shit, Piss and Mohammad

Chris Ofili, the award winning British artist painted a picture of the Virgin Mary covered in elephant dung.



Beautiful, right? It is in the eye of the beholder I guess. Some think Raphael's images of the Virgin Mary were beautiful. Pish posh. He is so 16th century. Besides, defenders of the arts proclaimed, "It's not the Virgin Mary. It's a painting". Touche.

I guess Ofili was trying to out-controversy the feisty Piss Christ by Andres Serrano. In this artistic masterpiece, Serrano photographed a white crucifix submerged in the artist's own urine.



Pretty awesome, right? I mean step aside Goya and Picasso. This is real Spanish art.

So what's the big problem with South Park's images of mohammad?



Is your sacred image in feces? Is he being burnt and used as toilet paper as Torahs were during the Nazi era?

yes- you are offended. As am I by the images I placed above. And people should have more common sense and sensibility. But the call to anger, the threats of death show a level of ignorance and quite frankly evil that is not tolerable in democracy.

So if muslims demand to live in a society that conforms to their laws, then by all means they should return to Saudi Arabia. Just like Mexicans demanding Arizona provide them with free education and health care should return to Mexico.

This is America. Is can be so free that it offends your deepest held beliefs. And I'd have it no other way.

To you Comedy Central, TV Station that has offended me hundreds of times over with anti-Catholic humor, I say way to go! You have proven you humor is truly gutless and your courage is only skin deep.

Yes, this time the terrorists won. And that is no laughing matter.

Arizona and Federalism

Arizona has made a stand. And I stand with it.

And in out federalist nation- if you do not like Arizona's laws, your choice is clear. Do not live in Arizona.

The over-powerful federal government has stripped states of rights that the Founding Fathers envisioned they would have. If Florida chooses to have no income tax and South Carolina still allows you to smoke in a bar (gasp!) then why can't Nebraska be pro-life state and Arizona a state for legals only? In California you must recycle under penalty of death. In New York, school children learn about lesbian orgies in pre-school. Why can't Arizona kick out illegals?

In the issue and emotion of this new law, federalism is being lost and, I fear, will once again be the victim. President Obama will step in as the all-knowing, all-caring, all-powerful federal government again and determine from Washington, DC what is best for the people of a State he knows is somewhere west of Chicago and south of San Fran.

Arizona has made it illegal to be illegal. And that has sparked the outrage of the left who is promising demonstrations on May 1st.

Are you as curious as I am to see how the media shows these "demonstrations"? I wonder if they will show the flag burning (American flag) and the vulgar pictures of the President. And the nazi symbols and the gazillion Mexican flags.

Illegal aliens are fleeing Arizona. Just wait till a few hundred thousand descend on Texas and New Mexico and California. Pretty soon Arizona's law will be adopted by ever border state. Just imagine if it were adopted by America, too...

On cars and Scotland

A friend sent me this op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal by Penn Jilette- the talking half of Penn and Teller. Penn writes about hummers, and more importantly, freedom. Freedom to drive a stupid car that guzzles gas and sucks down cash faster than a stripper in Vegas. Freedom to be stupid, as Penn puts it.

Seamus Hasson from the gutsy Becket Fund wrote a book called The Right to Be Wrong and it too follows this line of libertarian independence though in a religious context. Freedom is the right to believe the wrong things about God, about redemption, about sin and also about money, about wealth and savings and overall values. Freedom from a government that claims to care but intervenes with its own values system and mandates that which it deems to be your best interest.

Remember the Voltaire quote "I may disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it". Obviously Voltaire hasn't stepped foot on a college campus recently. That notion of the right to be wrong, of the right to be stupid, is dying a slow death. More accurately is being put to death by a caring government.

President Obama and his socialist ideology care about people. About their health, about their education, about their general "well being". How often do we hear terms like "adequate" healthcare and "affordable" housing... his love for mankind may even be genuine but it is shortsighted. In creating a government that provides for the people he really is robbing the people of what makes them truly human: their freedom.

And in healthcare and education it all seems well and good. But it is spreading into more obtrusive areas that is shocking the American people into awakening. Certain cars are "better" that others in Obama's mind and so he will pass policies that punish those cars he does not like. Or, like in the case of Hummer, he will just not allow them to be made. That is how he will force us to adopt his values. He will declare it so.

Yesterday Goldman Sachs was brought up on fraud charges and I'm sure some executives will get summoned before the wing backed chairs of a Congressional Committee so the braintrust of elected leaders can wag fingers and read from staff-written scripts of feigned indignation. Of course no one from Fannie or Freddie has been brought up on charges. We'll save that juicy morsel for another time...

Obama-imposed values. Imposed on us and on our lifestyles. Didn't it start with seat belts 20 years ago and, indeed, seemed like a good idea at the time. Until the fines and tickets followed. Then we got bike helmets. Then smoking. Then water meters. Then 5 cent returns on cans. Now it includes plastic bags, cars, healthcare, non-hydrogenated oil, salt and while we sit in our non-lead based painted homes and don't water our lawns at certain hours... I wonder if we are free. We certainly aren't happy.

As Obama and his caring Congress outlaw more and more things, the nation gets fatter, angrier and mobilized. So more laws, more banned foods and sugar drinks and all encompassing values on lifestyles. Interesting that the new tax being floated by the administration, modeled after Europe is called just that: a VALUE added tax. For it is the government, you see, that will put their values on what you buy, on how you live. Their values. Not yours.

Obama mocked the tea partiers at a speech in Florida. His disdain for the American people oozes out of a carefully sewn patchwork costume of patriotism and superman. He mocked the people who cling to guns and religion. He mocked the people who don't eat arugula and shop at Wholefoods. And while he cranks up the heat so he can sit in an 85 degree Oval Office, he reminds us that we cannot live as he does. Do as Obama says and don't ask how we lives. It's as if all the vegetables in his garden were for show only.

Braveheart was on again- it's always on TBS or TNT or AMC. And Williams Wallace has a wonderful line to the "noble" leader Robert the Bruce:

“You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it”.

We do not need nor will there be a violent revolution (did you hear that Secret Service? I'm not advocating violence). But we do need a ballot box revolution- and one is coming. Obama knows it. Reid sure as hell knows it. Americans want their hummers. They want their cigarettes and guns and religion. They want, more than anything else in the world, their freedom.

A great man I worked for knew that. The press never grew tired of mocking Bush. And Obama brings up Bush's name in spite and anger with petty banter and trite jabs. Obama in his smallness wants to be great and his way of claiming greatness will be through imposition and mandate robbing Americans of freedom and liberty guaranteed through us by God and Constitution.

Freedom is worth the fight. Obama will lose in the end. Freedom will endure.

This Makes It Official

Newsweek magazine must have a crystal ball. The front cover of it's next issue boldly proclaims:

So, there you go. Newsweek has declared the recession over and the economy "back". And this is truly, to use their headline, "remarkable".

And I, the narrator of guffmanandgodot, declare cancer eradicated. Hurrah! Hurrah!

This is the same Newsweek, who's editor in chief, Evan Thomas, while being interviewed on Hardball with Chris Matthew stated "We stand for something – I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."

To which Chris Matthews responded "Yeah". That's some hard hitting journalism!! Maybe they all sat around after the interview, when they were done solving the world's problems, and wondered if Jesus was as smart as themselves...

It only makes sense that if Newsweek can deify Obama, then it can also declare the economy sound. "Let there be prosperity! And there was prosperity. Newsweek saw that the prosperity was good. Thus evening came and morning followed, the second day."

Media bias is one of those themes beaten to a pulp and yet we've barely scratched the surface. Today an editorial in the New York Times supported military tribunals for terrorists. Funny, Bush didn't get that editorial. And the Obama Justice Department is pressuring Google and Yahoo to release emails without a warrant... yet I've heard no Rachel Maddow screed about "shredding the constitution".

So if you can scrape together $2 and need a good laugh, go buy the newest Newsweek magazine and rejoice in America's return and celebrate the great god who stands above us all, Obama.

Millions can do this because they don't have jobs. Can you use foodstamps to buy a magazine? Eh, just call it toilet paper. Same difference.

Just Kidding!

We all need a good laugh. Maybe that was Mohammed al Modadi's intention when he made a light-hearted joke about lighting his shoes on fire during his flight to Denver. The 27 year old Qatari "diplomat" was sneaking a smoke in the bathroom and when airline officials saw the smoke and alarms go off, he decided to make a joke about it.

That would be like Cardinal Egan making a joke about Catholic priests needing to spend more time with children.

Muslims have gotten a bad rap in this country- do doubt. And I am all-too aware of my own bias and distrust of the islamic cult...er...religion (see- another joke!). But muslims have something to prove- making jokes about blowing up planes is not great diplomacy... or very smart. Not all Italians are in the mafia; not all muslims are terrorists. But if the shoe fits.... light it. I didn't have much sympathy for Lillo Branacto when acting the part of a mafioso got him arrested.

So what is the sentence for Mr. al Modadi? Oh- it's pretty stiff. Prepare yourself: he is being sent home.

I grew up in NYC and now live in DC. My whole life has been surrounded by idiots with diplomatic license plates and diplomatic egos. It is insulting when our own laws protect those who abuse them and punish those who obey them.

But we see this all the time. Freedom of religion means don't do anything religious because that might insult someone. So hide that damn Christmas tree and put away that Crucifix. But if you are offended by Act II "My Pussy is Angry" in The Vagina Monologues.... well then you are just ignorant and intolerant.

Someday that will all make sense.

Illegals cross our border, steal American identities, rape welfare, medicare and social programs, birth bastard children who become de facto Americans and then claim they can't be deported for some family values reasons... welcome to lawlessness. When a nation's laws are used against that same nation, something is gone awry.

Obama likes this type of lawlessness- especially when it comes to his love of muslim countries. How else does one explain his hyperbolic examples of islamic contributions and historical accomplishments, his bowing to Saudi king, his constant apology for America and Americanism.

I'll tell you what is great about America- that we didn't slit the throat of the Qatari child diplomat. Had an American made such a joke overseas, I'd be curious to see if such measure would be employed. Joke about Chechnyan terrorist in Moscow and see if Putin yucks it up as tongue-in-cheek humor.

There's another issue at stake- and that is American autonomy. We will always interact and trade with world community. But we've hit a level of dependency that is uncomfortable. That is why Qatar feels no remorse. If America got uppity, Qatar would withhold oil or deny us bases for CENTCOM staging operations.

Our allies in the islamic world have the upper hand. Sometimes they are so bold as to even joke about islamic terrorism. A 27 year old from Qatar laughs at us. Something is wrong.