We aren't sending any clear messages to the terrorists people...seriously, we aren't.

If I hear that phrase (we are sending the terrorists a message...blah blah..fill in the rest yerself) one more friggin time, I am gonna lose my lunch or my head will explode, I swear to Buddha.

Its that type of skewed logic that keeps our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and our money flowing to places like Pakistan. Pakistan...don't get me started on those two-faced yahoo's. That anyone actually believes we can 'pay them off' to be our allies..well, they are either delusional or lying. Pakistan's leaders take our tax dollars (or money borrowed from China) and smile, then they go and laugh their collective asses off about how stupid we are to give them money when they hate us and work to kill us.To them, we are nothing more than Stupid Americans with bags of money.

And that makes me sad because so many Pakistani's are poor and live in squalor. So many have never been inside a classroom to learn how to raise themselves up from the bottom of the barrel.

Yet Pakistan has nukes...and that's some scary shit I know. But giving them billions isn't changing anything, no one will ever convince me that it does. How much of that money makes it down to the poor that need it the most? Corruption is rife in Afghanistan, from the head fuckwad all the way down..so why do we think it's any different in Pakistan?

The terrorists will never go away, we will never kill or jail them all..they have something that guarantee's they will fight to the death to end America as we know it..it's called hate. It's instilled in them as early in their lives as possible and hate is something that is hard to wipeout..just look at various parts of our own country that still treat people of color or anyone different as shit...as anything but equal. The ACLU has to file lawsuits to keep states like Arizona and now Utah, from instituting hosed-up, so-called immigration laws designed to make individuals second class citizens m'dear reader.

If we can't end racism and inequality in our own country, how the fuck do we think we can end global terrorism?

We need to clean our own house before we try to force others to clean theirs. Its a no-fucking-brainer.

Hundreds counter protest Westboro Baptist

The five or six haters from Westboro Baptist were counter-protested by hundreds of people today before Elizabeth Edwards funeral. From a local report:

A counter protest aimed at members of the Kansas based Westboro Baptist Church drew hundreds to downtown Raleigh Saturday.

Organizers said they sought to drown out the anti-gay group which sent members to Raleigh to protest at the Elizabeth Edwards funeral - saying she advocated for homosexual rights during her life.

By 11:30 Saturday morning, Westboro members were yelling at the counter protest group calling itself the Line of Love, but it was hard to tell what they were saying. The Edwards supporters responded with cheers and applause.

In other news, the same assholes from Westboro showed up in my son's neck of the woods yesterday. McAlester, OK a very small, rural, almost tiny town, has been a target for Westboro after their last military funeral protest there found their van with two slashed tires.Keep in mind that OK keeps electing the rightwing nutter/neocon Tom Coburn to Congress, so to me, the fact that they stood up to the hate-filled assholes from Westboro speaks volumes. From the NewsOK link:

Under the guard of about three dozen law enforcement officers, eight members of the Westboro Baptist Church picketed three locations in town for two hours Friday and left the city with their tires intact.

Stung by their last visit to McAlester, the church members and their van were provided a police escort to each protest site and then promptly out of town.

While the church members protested, police stood guard over their van to prevent a repeat of their last visit, when two of the tires on their vehicle were slashed.

Assistant Police Chief Darrell Miller said officers were ordered to protect the van because “We want these people out of here as soon as possible.”

The heavy police presence was expected to cost the city of McAlester nearly $1,500 in overtime pay, Miller said.

Seven evening shift officers had to be called in early to provide protection, and 10 SWAT team officers also were used, he said.

Assisting McAlester police were troopers with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Pittsburg County sheriff’s deputies and a few officers from nearby Krebs.

When the church members last visited McAlester to picket at a soldier’s funeral on Nov. 13, they were met by nearly 1,000 counter-protesters.

It makes me really fucking angry that small cities like McAlester are forced to spend thousands to actually protect the fuckwads from Westboro. That is one of the reasons why I believe hate speech should not be protected by the 1st Amendment.