Bydio

… I don’t care for some of the wording they use in some of their articles.  This one starts out with:

Times are tough in Gaza. So tough, in fact, that the Middle Eastern
region’s residents, starved for petrol as a result of Israeli
sanctions, have turned to running their cars on pressurized cooking
gas, according to a report today in the Toronto Star.

Times are hardly tough if the residents of Gaza can boycott Israeli fuel shipments.  Further, Israel shouldn’t be giving ANY fuel to Gaza because Gaza is attacking Israel with missiles on a daily basis.  I dare say that if Rhode Island was lobbing missiles into Massachusetts, the residents of MA (even Cambridge) wouldn’t be NEARLY as understanding with RI as Israel has been with Gaza.

You know why people get upset at Israel for acting tough with Palestinian Arabs?  It’s sometimes anti-jew sentiments, but I think most of the time it’s because we expect Israel to act like a western power; like an adult.

Why does no one make a big deal out of Egypt saying this?

CAIRO (AFP) — Egypt said on Thursday it would no longer tolerate Palestinians infiltrating the country from the Gaza Strip, and threatened to break the legs of anyone crossing the Rafah border illegally.

“Anyone who breaches the border will have their legs broken,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit was quoted as saying by the official MENA news agency on public television overnight.

Because Egypt is populated by “children” who just don’t know any better.  Think of a mother making excuses for an embarrassingly petulent child in a supermarket; “he’s just tired”, “he doesn’t know any better”, “I just don’t know what’s got into him today”.

This is how many people treat the actions of thepeople and leaders from Arab, African and Asian worlds.  It becomes an excuse for a child who should know better, but is “acting out” or having a “temper tantrum”.

Y’know what?  I’m sick of these people being treated with kid gloves.  The excuses for behavior, the occasional spanking with loud protests from the other “mothers”, it has to end.  It’s time to man up.  These people aren’t children, they’re adults, and their actions should have real-life consequences.

All you “mothers” out there, you wouldn’t let your husband get away with any of the stuff these supposedly poor, downtrodden brown people do, so shut the fuck up and let daddy take out the trash.

Chuck Norris has already banged Osama bin Laden’s 72 virgins.

Chuck Norris Facts

In Treatment is a new show on HBO.

I recommend it.

The Wire is a show on HBO.  Last season (season 5) is on now.

This show rocks hard.  Buy the DVDs, or steal them off the net, either way, you’re a disgusting person if you don’t watch this show.

Rob & Big is a show on MTV that I recently discovered.

It’s awesome, go watch it, Tivo it, make it your friend.

The Moment Of Truth is a new show on Fox.

Complete dogshit.

Head Case is a show on Starz.  I don’t know if it’s new or not.

It’s dogshit.

Hollywood Residential is a new show on Starz.

It sucks, don’t watch it.

I’m a Patriots fan, and I was disappointed that they lost the Super Bowl and the perfect season, but… well… they deserved to lose.

They played poorly, they were totally pwned by the Giants’ defensive line, and it just didn’t come together for them.  There were poor calls against them, the Fox announcers were clearly pulling for the Giants, but in the end it comes down to how they played, and they played poorly.

I worried about their playing during the regular season.  Sure, they won every game, but many weren’t decisive victories, and more than once they were bailed out of their poor playing by penalties called against opposing teams.  They won, but they didn’t dominate like a true championship team should.

Even during the Super Bowl (end of the 3rd quarter), my dad turned to me and said, “If [the Patriots] win with this score [7-3 at the time], there’s hardly any way I can defend them.  The Giants are dominating them.”

While the Patriots are a strong team, and deserved to be in the Super Bowl, I don’t think they deserved the “best team EVAH!” status some people were giving them.

On the flip side, the Giants’ strength was in their defense, and to give MVP to Eli Manning is ridiculous.  He didn’t play all that well, but their defensive line shattered the Pats’ offensive line, which no one else did all season.  Further, some people are giving the Giants way too much credit for their win.  They did well, but they didn’t put a fantastic team on the field.  They won, BARELY, over a team that’s usually much stronger than them on average.

Sunday was the day the Patriots weaknesses took over and the Giants strengths were highlighted, and it’s kinda funny that it took Giants to be true-giant killers.

18-1 is still better than the 1972 Dolphins 17-0 season.  It wasn’t the perfect season for the Patriots, but they were strong enough to be record-breakers, and they should be proud.  The Giants… well… they got a trophy and bragging rights, but they aren’t a better team than the Patriots.