Andy Rooney didn't say any of this, but who cares? It's still damn good!

'I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens...Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.  Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.  I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, which is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?  I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.  I have the right 'NOT' to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off.  When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling; it is the Law of Probability.  I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English!  As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English!  My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the  countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.  I think the police should have every right to shoot you if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word 'freeze' or 'stop' in English, see the above lines. I  don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.  We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document and open to their interpretations.  I don't hate the rich; I don't pity the poor.  I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them.  I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more.  If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better, and put your name on the building.  It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid and say 'NO!' when necessary. I think tattoos and piercings are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!  I am sick of 'Political Correctness.' I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa, so how can they be 'African-Americans'? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great,  great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else.  And if you don't like my point of view, tough...

Winston Churchil quote

"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon." 

We die, they will die, they understand...

This may sound a little odd, but one of the things I like about the Aesir and Vanar is that one day, far into the future, they will die, and they know it.  All that they have done will be gone and in their place their offspring will create their own new world.  One day I will die, my wife will die, my brother, sister-in-law, we shall all die, and we know it.  All that we are will pass and in our place our children will create their own world. 

The Gods understand the glory of creating, working, striving to put off that day of death, yet ultimately submitting to it.  Even when they do, they don't fear it.  They can look at me and mine and I can look at them and theirs and see reflected the courage in each of us to fight against that fate. 

I much prefer my Gods to have that in common with me rather than some alpha and omega creature that can never share my fear, happiness, and final fate.

This makes no sense to me…

This is from the "Cordoba Initiative - Improving Muslim-West Relations" website…

"In response to the continued controversy over the proposed Islamic community center in New York City, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) will begin displaying an ad promoting religious freedom on the back of buses throughout the New York City transit system beginning September 20."

Why are these two organization spending money and time promoting religious freedom as a response to the controversy about the mosque in New York? When have they spent time and money promoting religious freedom regarding Christian actions? I know they've spent time and money trying to prevent Nativity scenes on government property, sounds reasonable to do that, (separation of church and state), but what's the motivation here? Are they concerned that the civil liberties of Muslims are threatened and thus they need to help them out? Are they as concerned with the building of a Heathen temple, Catholic church or Jewish synagogue in a Muslim country? Oh, wait, I forgot, that's actually illegal in most Muslim nations.

Here's the other thing that doesn't make sense to me…if the idea is to build bridges between the Muslim world and the Western world, why are they working so hard to annoy the living shit out of everyone? Other organizations have met with fewer outcries and changed their plans simply to avoid bad press and stay on good terms with the locals in which they want to build. In this case it's as if the Cordoba building is intended to anger non-Muslims. Which brings me to this beauty…"local and national American Muslim leaders today issued a call for "A Week of Dialogue" in October to combat bigotry and promote understanding and religious tolerance in civil society". In Muslim nations there is no effort to promote understanding or religious tolerance, you are either Muslim or a second class citizen, converting from Muslim to anything else is literally illegal, and may even get you killed. Talking about any other religion in a way that someone may consider an attempt to promote, (or worse, convert a Muslim) is illegal. That's not "understanding" and it's definitely not "tolerance"!

If they want to build bridges, let's build the mosque and a Catholic church the same size in Mecca.