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Saturday, July 14, 2007

Wouldn't you know, I invoked the name of Osama bin Laden and sure enough he shows his ugly head and says this, according to reports:

"Octavia Nasr, CNN’s senior editor for Arab affairs, said bin Laden appears in only a 50-second portion of the video in which he asserts the Prophet Mohammed had wanted to be a martyr.

What is this status that the best of mankind wished for himself?” CNN said bin Laden asked rhetorically. “He wished to be a martyr. He himself said: ’By Him in whose hands my life is! I would love to attack and be martyred.

“This glorious prophet who was inspired by God summarized this entire life by these words. He wished upon himself this status. Happy is one who was chosen by God as a martyr,” bin Laden said, according to the CNN translation of his remarks."

I say, Osama you show us the glory of killing oneself by killing yourself! God just told me that you were chosen by him to be a martyr, honest. Cross my heart and hope to die...ooops! Didn't mean that, I wasn't chosen to be a martyr but you Osama were... god's calling you to do this, he told me personally today on my front porch.

Or are you saying Osama that your god wanted to be a martyr but couldn't cut it? Don't gods get their way? Seems to me, Osama, if you want to be a martyr there's lots of ways to make that happen.

Like Nike says in their ads, just do it!

Go Osama go, show us the glory of martyrdom by doing it. (For a truly spectacular death, Nike will give you 367 more wives, 19 pairs of Nike sneakers and a case of Margarita mix --on rainbow bridge of course and not before!!)

(Notice how the big shots never kill themselves, whether the prophet or Osama - they stay alive, get lots of wives and then find some teenagers who'll do the deed. Or American politicans who vote for a war that they'd never allow themselves or their children to "attend.")

If it's such hot shit to be a martyr then show us Osama -- get your video camera up and running and do the deed.

Let's see some old guy blow himself up instead of kids for a change.
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And I say the same thing regarding all the current wars Americans are paying for (how many of them are we in now?) Let's see the old guys and gals go to war for a change and let the young, males and females stay home.

Round up the dried up old politicians who think war is so nice and strap
some bombs on them and give them some guns and mace and nail files and "turned" strawberry preserves and drop them in the middle of Iraq.

I'm so sick of the world I live in. ( SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Okay I feel better now. Phew, calming down now.

And how was your day?

6 Comments:

Blogger Sylow_P said...

This is on of those days when I remind myself of the tree-hugger bumper sticker "think globally, act locally".

I can't do a fucking thing about Bush's war or any of that shit, but I can do big things here on the small scale. I choose to hire court supervised teens to work for me because they deserve a break. And if I can not only keep them out of jail, but also convince them they can do better than join the military; I win!

1:31 AM  
Blogger mary bishop said...

Yes Sylow, how right you are...

Ranting and raving does nothing, but on a small scale there has to be something I can do that will lighten my heavy heart and restore joy and peace to my soul.

You're a good man Sylow. Hiring those teens may very well change their lives forever.

9:20 AM  
Blogger minijaxter said...

hey mary
you do what you can by making those of us who'd rather not think of the ugly things world...well think of them. but you do so in a way that makes me want to think about them.

as for osama - the old saying goes speak of the devil and he shall appear...

12:34 PM  
Blogger Point Dexter said...

ranting is good. I think Bush needs to take a lesson from Osama. Wait, what? Politics was never my thing. But I do know "think globally, act locally" reminds me of Bio Dome. Gotta love those two trouble makers.

Anywho, my day could have gone much better than it did. I'm going to sink my sorrows in a glass of milk along side fresh baked cookies.

5:17 PM  
Blogger jeffsplace said...

Your always causing trouble. :)

9:46 PM  
Blogger mary bishop said...

Hi Miss Mini -- I really understand speak of the devil now...I'm surprised he hasn't called me on the phone..or is he the anonymous caller that's been driving me crazy and hanging up when the machine picks up?

Nicole...a bad day? I'm sorry. You have a lot of stresses on you right now and are carrying the lion's share of all the work I'm sure. It will pass - both the good days and the bad days pass..which is why we aren't all jumping off tall buildings.

Jeff! Hello and how are you and your family? Great to see your name on my blog!!

12:04 PM  

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