Blah. Dead horse. You think Islam is a religion of peace and love? Just ask Salman Rushdie.

You think Christianity is a religion of peace and love? Just ask about a million people tortured to death in Europe by the spanish, or a billion altar-boys shown that special brand of love.

You think Buddhism or Hinduism is about peace and love? Take a look at southeast Asia at the moment.

You think Judaism is about peace and love? Don't even need anecdotes; just read the Old Testament, keyword "Gomorrah".

To priests and imams, rabbis and reverends: Stop fucking up the world, you perverts. The message is wearing thin.

Why is it that all the guys have the same god, but the fight is about whose ad agency he's going to hire?

God I hate you guys.

I've noticed that over the years, the hatred of the president has gotten worse. Maybe it's just because I pay attention now, or maybe because I kinda like Dubya, but it seems like the hatred is getting ever more intense. Towards the end of Clinton's period, people were really ripping him a new butt each and every day. But the defenders were just kind of, oh yeah, whatever, kind of like they are with Bush. The hatred that Bush is getting is just out-of-hand, if you ask me. I mean, the guy is president of the USA after all; you would think he would get some props somewhere.

It's snowing. I can't believe it. It's April 10th, and it's snowing.

Most americans underestimate how far north Europe is. We picture it as being about level with the US, as far as latitude is concerned. Not true. Europe is more level with Canada than the US. Dusseldorf, for example, is on the same latitude as Calgary.
Of course, distance from equator is not the end-all, be-all of saying it's freakin' cold somewhere. Nevertheless, it is indeed freakin' cold here.

It snowed. Last year it snowed on Easter Sunday, which was something like April 19th. I hated it.

Here's a thought:

We all saw the performance by the Iraqi Information Minister this morning. To me, he looked a little scared. Could it be that Saddam's still alive (he hasn't updated his blog in a day or two), and he's being kept in the dark by the InfoMin? Think about it: Why would you even try just now to convince a bunch of reporters that the obvious isn't true, much less try so hard. He's either blown a fuse, or he's doing it because Saddam's watching, and needs to think that the War's going well.

Damn, if he wants to think that he's winning the war, he should just read the New York Times.

the command-post says the Iraqis have some still-operational pre-Desert Storm German/French ROLANDs.

Hmm...now I wonder where they got them from?