What’s Jaouen Jonesing For?

I have never liked Sarah Palin.  It’s no secret.  Sarah Palin is the embodiment of everything that I think is wrong with America.  She is socially conservative, thinking that everyone needs to conform to her cookie cutter view on the world in order to live up to her standard.  She is ignorant.  During her campaign she said that funding joint fruit fly research with France was a bad idea because we were giving money to France, when in reality it was research to cure a number of horrible diseases.  She panders to the lowest denominator of American society with these sorts of comments.  I could rail on Sarah Palin for days about being an idiot, but current events have given me a better channel for my anger.  Sarah Palin is a drama queen.  We have all seen it and felt it.  That person that doesn’t get the joke.  That person that takes life too seriously and has no idea how to laugh at them self.  Palin is taking this too an extreme.  Apparently, nobody was giving her attention, so she manufactured a controversy.  This controversy surrounds a couple of moderately funny jokes that Letterman made about her daughter.  The jokes were about the older daughter’s apparent inability to follow her own abstinence advice (Don’t get me started on her).  Palin however, has warped the comments in that little acorn that she calls a brain, to be comments about her younger daughter (14 years old) getting sexually abused.  Letterman never made such a comment, but Palin is insisting that he did.  I have watched the video of Letterman, and he made no such joke.  Regardless, even if he did make a joke about her younger daughter, he is a late night comedian!  Palin needs to get a fucking clue.  Letterman makes rude jokes about everyone.   That is the point of late night comedy.  It’s about cheap shot jokes to get a quick laugh.  Its not a personal attack on Palin’s moron, slut, daughter.  The reason that this disgusts me so much is a “What If” scenario.  Let’s say that IQ’s in the United States dropped sharply and McCain had been elected President.  How would Palin be able to cope with North Korea telling her that she and her family are all fucking idiots.  How would she be able to cope with any number of other antagonistic nations making comments about her and her family.  It would be like having the head of a high school click at the head of the nation.  We would all be fucked.  So, to Sarah Palin I have this to say.  Shut the hell up, go home, and maybe do your job and pull Alaska out of the fiscal disaster that you have created there. Oh, and grow up, you aren’t in high school anymore.

A quick note from the Jaouen:  This may not be my best post, but I’m tired of Sarah Palin.  After this post I will never agnowledge her existence again (other than for cheap laughs).  Maybe if we all just ignore her, she will go away.

When a religious zealot kills a group of pro western supporters, we call his a terrorist. Why? He or she is creating an environment of fear in an attempt to cause a shift in policy. So, when a religious zealot kills an abortion doctor in an attempt to cause fear among abortion doctors leading to the illegalization of abortion, isn’t that terrorism too? There is no difference between a Christian fundamentalist terrorist and a Muslim fundamentalist terrorist, except that the US is a pro Christian nation. The killing of George Tiller by Scott Roeder is not a simple case of murder. This is a case about terrorism. Is the United States going to stand idly by while a group of ultra conservatives wield fear as a tool to create change? We must set an example with Roeder. He must be tried as a terrorist. He must treated as we treat all terrorists, by putting him to death, or a very dark hole for the rest of his miserable and pathetic life. This isn’t about being pro-life or pro-choice. This is about affecting political change by constructive means, rather than through fear and violence. The United States is in a world full of people who promote fear as a method of control. We must stand up for our ideals though. The United States cannot become a Saudi Arabia for Christian fundamentalists. We cannot protect these people. They must be dealt with, harshly. And lets call them what they are: Terrorists!

UPDATE: (6/14/09) Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad was charged with terrorism for killing a US army recruiter.  We officially have a double standard.  Welcome to America, land of equality (if you are christian)