Talking about Protests over Islam cartoons escalate worldwide – Europe – MSNBC.com

 Will the moronic actions ever end?

In democratci countries vitually everything is open for criticism, redicule or slander and religion is no different. Since the printing and reprinting of cartoons about the Islamic faith the Muslims community is in a uproar, view them here. These images are being called blashphomy and are being protested around the world.

Protest away that is fine and dandy but where the Muslim community does poorly is their reaction. Once the images came out the reactions were sudden and full of anger. Abductions, violence and the burning of flags was part their plan to get it to end. But don’t the people, extremist and any other Muslim who takes part in these actions see where this view of their culture and religion comes from?

Reacting with violence when ever the religion is made fun of or looked at from the outside in a different light is a self defeating prophosey. It is time to grow up and quit acting like your five when getting teased.

The Muslim/Islamic community is destroying their own image. If they don’t want everyone to think their religion is hateful then quite doing hateful actions to others when people or groups say stuff or draw cartoons about your religion.

Their are cartoons for crying out loud and if you want to be accpeted in the democratic community you have to be civil.

STOP THE VIOLENCE…

It reminds me of a saying…

"Can’t we all just get along?"

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There comes a point when you have to stop fight in order to have piece. It may seem like a simple concept but to others it makes little or no sense at all.

Today bombing tore through Iraq with target including busy shopping centers, army recruiting stations and US military convoys. This is a recurring story which we all have heard over and over again with little or no hope that these attacks will never end.

Babak Behnam, Revived Insurgency or Desperate Attacks? writes about a lawlessness in which the Iragi people will have to  deal with for a long time. This is highly possible especially since the anticipation of US forces pulling out. The tactics used by the insurgency have not change since the American lead invasion. Targeting US Military consitellations has proven ineffective so the insurgents had to target their people to encourage us to pull out. There is some logical backwardness to that idea but it brings nothing to the table for reconstruction for the country.

Lets say that the insurgents win, a relative term, and now have their country to themselves. Do they have a plan for a new Iraq? An Iraq which is self governing, that provides the highly needed services and doesn’t have the daily bloodshed. I haven’t seen or read any plan of theirs but that is because they don’t have one.

The insurgents have no idea how to run a country because they have spent their time learning destructive techniques instead focusing on productive processes.

There comes a time when you have to lay down your arms and say "we are not going to ruin our country anymore". Maybe that is something will never come especially if the fighters are so self righteous that no one else could possibly have a better way than theirs.

It is time for them to look around at the global factors which make others so successful. It should be easy to see that their way does not and will not work in the new global economies. There comes a time when everyone has to change and the insurgents time is here.

My hope is that change can take place and the region can something that resembles harmony but it cannot happen without change.

Talking about Readers weigh in on intelligent design ruling – Science – MSNBC.com

 

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Hooray!! Intellengent design is barred from being taught in PA schools. This makes me so happy and excited for the future of public education.

 

I did a post a while back, Seperation of Church & State: Good Idea? There is a danger of reverting to the past in which we fought so desperately to get away from. Now we have a religous right pushing the movement forward but in our court of law it is ruled unconstitutional.

Looking at the global problems religion continues to stay on top of the hate related fantical crimes upon humanity. There are so many views between individuals that having one way will never work. Why do you think the United States of America has prospered so much? Because we took religion out of it and kept everything to the facts.

 

But freedom of speech, I 100% believe in it, keeps the door open for all to speak their mind. This will probably never dispear in the US but at least the rulings happening now, precedent, will establish the position of the United States Government.

 

Don’t mistake a individuals positions for beliefs. They are two seperate topics and have very different answers.

 

Toby

 

Seperation of Church & State: Good Idea?

There is a debate going on right now on what should be taught in our public school’s science classes; evolution, intellegent design or divine intervention. My position is evolution. I believe in science and the truth is going to be found through research.

 

Now why the topic of church and state? Because if the proponents of intellegent design win their aurgument in the Supreme then religion can be taught in the classroom. Some may say that it would help bring up the morals of American society and that evolution will get an even bigger voice. Fat chance! And this is where my argument begins.

 

Western culture is one of the first, if not the first, culture to ever seperate church and state. Most of the world’s governments still have religious influence. This combination is not as healthy as it may first appear. When the West made its decesion to venture down this new path they embarked on something which directly resulted in their economic success. When church and state are mixed we see factions develop with their own political agenda.

Church and State should not be intertwined because of the negative results of this highley charged topic. Civilizations, countries, how ever you want to describe it has shown that the two don’t mingle without conflict. "With one religion you have terrene and with multiple religion you have peace", Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters (USA, Ret.), I might have the quote wrong and I apologize.

 

The United States of American is a young country with a new idea and in a very short period of time has climbed to the top in economical and technilogical advancements. Why? Well the seperation allowed people to stop worrying about others and start focusing on themselves.

 

My fear is if creative design is allowed to be taught in the public school system then we have the possibility to regressing into the old ways of thinking and its the main reason why our founders sought out this new land. Now, do we want to flee back into the old the ways and srew up our great system?

 

If you would like to get involved and save our Consitution please visit the Campaign to Defend the Consitution.

 

Also here are two recent articles published:

• Kansas education board downplays evolution
• Dover voters oust intelligent design supporters

Don’t let others tell you want to think no matter who the proponets are!

North Korea and Proliferation

Well did you all hear that N. Korea has declared that they will continue to develop nuclear weapons/power unless the United States builds light water reactors for them? In their earlier agreement they just wanted aid in exchange for giving up its nuclear ambitions. I was thinking to myself when I heard the news and was like "what the hell kind of negotiation move is this?". Redefining terms in the middle of a negotiation is one thing but to force agreement through a agressive posture can only make the other party irritated.

 

The N. Koreas are now playing games with all the countries involved in the talks. To me they are saying "were going to build it anyways so lets extort the other big powers so we can try and be in the same league", militarily, economically, and have the same global influence. Using might a country can not gain the power in which they so seek. The United became to be its size through economical and decomocratic factors not an agressive military dictatorship.

 

Currently the North’s economy is the toliet, there are food shortages along power and little access to public works systems. Their neighbor S. Korea has been using a democratic/capitalistic approach and now look at them. They have one of the highest per capita incomes, living standards and technology breadth on the planet. At this rate N. Korea will continue its backwards momentum and make increasingly more difficult to get out of their economic sink hole.

 

The times are going to be hard with the N. Koreans since it is in our interest for them not to have the technology. Even if we give it to them they will still used the knew knowledge for less that ideal purposes. They are not responsible enough to have that sort of technology.

 

So what do we do? Well, we are in a pickle. There is no choice but to continue the talks because I don’t see any other choice because they will test the bombs. Then a bunch of new problems arise that I won’t get into in this piece. I am at loss of ideas how to approach this problem.

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The Greatest Weekend; Isn’t Over Yet.

To say our event was a complete success would be a slight over statement but that is not to say we didnt do very good and thanks to everyone for your interest!!

 

We raised $1,870 dollars for the Red Cross to aid the victims left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. I took work off on Friday, from my full time job Starbucks accountant, to start my setup, organized, tie up loose ends and most importantly, get nervous. Our planning went well and the day was a full one all the way up until the start of the event.

 

People really didnt start to show until 7 o’clock which making my nerves run a little bit but once they did it started to rock. The event was small enough and informal enough, thank god for Marysville, that it was comfortable for everyone. Our guests were from local businesses, friends, and past clients so everyone had some sort of connection and Marysville isnt the biggest town either. I started by introducing myself immediately to people I didn’t know and to greet the ones I did.

 

It ROCKED for the amount of people that were there. I haven’t gotten the guest total yet but when I do it will be posted on BARE’s Relief page. everyone mingled and talked while listening to our one man band, Shan Coleman. Being from Jamica, his smooth Irie Island Vibe put a fun spin to the event. By the end of the night people were dancing and enjoying his music. The drinks may have contributed a bit, we had wine which I am not a huge fan of but I picked up a fresh keg from the Pyramid Ale House, Seattle, called Crystal Wiezen. A filter Hefe, it is smooth with a full body flavor missing the heaviness that only a non-filter beer can do. Ok, ok enough about the beer. I got excited for a moment and King have you tried it?

 

It felt so good to being doing something for poeple and having people show up so they could help. Saying "I didn’t know where to give and I can trust you guys" they gave willing and generously and 100% of the contributions are going to the Snohomish County Red Cross Chapter. I am so proud to be apart of this and articulating my feelings is very hard. So let’s continue this journey.

 

I got home the nextmorning at 10:20am, hit the showers and then off to the HUSKY GAME!! My consulting business partner, Chris, and we were off at 11:05. We rocked and our defense was un stoppable. I have the pictures but I am waiting to get my cable for my camera, left it in Marysville. The Dawgs went well over 300 yards on the day, 7 sacks, and 2 interceptions oh and the 34 points helped too. The best I have seen UW play in a few years and a great game to watch. After my night of Crystal Weizen I had to have 2 jumbo dogs, bag of chips, pretzel, bottle of water and a large lemonade i was good to go!! We stayed until the final.

 

By this time I am riding a high from all the positive energy this weekend had. It is amazing how well I feel and how all that energy perculates into more postive energy. Thanks to my buddy Lance for showing me that.

 

Now it is 9:52am on Sunday and I get to share my weekend but wait; it isn’t over yet. In a few hours I am taking off for the SEA HAWKS GAME!!!! I going with my buddy Brian, Lance and one other that and don’t know who it is yet. Michael Vick is in town and if our defense is solid we can get. This is what I would do:

Cover Vick’s recievers tight and force him to run. Run down his energy level so by the second half he doesn’t have the energy to sustain a strong passing game in the second half. Sounds simple to me but this is FOOTBALL and anything can happen.

Way to scenerios to run through and the experts can nail down a lot better than myself. Again the pictures from the game will be posted hopefully tonight!! Oh, where were we…ah yes the game.

 

Let’s hope for the best and to all my SEAHAWKS Fans, GenGLC, ARareToy and MEGABRAD. I can’t wait to yell, "Rip their heads off!!". This weekend just keeps going. Well i get better get cleaned up and fed. Catch ya’ll later!!

Tomorrow is the Big Day

In a few hours BARE’s Relief Event  will commence. This is my first event and I am kind of nervous. Our planning has been pretty good concidering that we had two weeks to implement and I already have a full time job. Doing what you have to means working evenings but that is ok with right now. Do it young right? As Larry the Cable Guy would say "Get Er Done". Until the next time my friends this is Toby signing off…

Ode To The Commenting Coward

	Screw you for posting to a site about the Katrina disaster just to advertise your worthless blog. Jackass.
	Published by: What is wrong with you?

 

Here is a comment i recieved shortly ago. Who ever you are, I appreciate your comment and thanks for sharing your level of intellegence with all of us here in internet land. I totally appreciate people like because I end up looking a lot more intellegent. Have you read my essay? Probably not, your a commenting coward who leaves no trackback information because you are a PANSY!! <cheers> PANSY

But if I understand your statement your saying I posted on Hurricane Katrina related sites to get people to come to mine. I could careless if you or anyone comes here. This site is for me and screw you. I welcome my guests to leave comments either on one of my posts or to just say "hi". I write on a topic that I am feeling at the moment or when I have the urge to write an essay.

I pity the commenting coward. You lack courage and heart. You have shown your lack empathy for the people of this situation. Thanks for stopping in and next time write something decent becuase stupidy is contagous and we don’t want to catch it.

Now that is over I need to send an apogy out to PebblePie because my ingorance gave me the opptunity to stick my boot in my mouth. Running on the assumption that I just knew what a Blue Star Mom is I state that her son was lost in the Iraq War and some friends online helped me to see the correct answer. Being an army brat I should have know but I was totally wrong, It means that she has a son/daughter is serving. I’m sorry. I hope you can for give me PebblePie.

Well I am off to the gym and then it will be a work even putting together a relief event to raise money for the American people affected by Hurricane Katrina. It is on the 16th so come back for pictures Take care everyone and until we chat again this is Toby signing off…

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Hurricane Katrina Essay

This essay follows the events that unfolded prior and post Hurricane Katrina. Its five parts document its power, destructive force, public & government reaction and my analysis. The report is incomplete because due to my lack of complete information as a result there are no recommendations for improvement.

 

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