My Take on Shit that Happened Days Ago...

I was far too angered to really address this the past few days, but I guess I'll talk about it now. We all know that President Obama can't stand the thought of someone not liking him. He's the leader of the free world and a fat high school girl all rolled into one. Obama to American voters: 'I'm NOT a Muslim! I'm a Christian!! Lookit meeee, I went to this church for like two decades. Oh, shit, nevermind, that church stinks since you don't like it. That guy's a nut! I'll have to find a new Christian church for my Christian morals and values!' Obama to Middle East: 'Asalamulakum, did you know my middle name is Hussein? Did you know my daddy was a Muslim! All his family were too! Lookit, me and you having so much in common! Pleaseeee love me!'

Ugh. Then, in his HOUR LONG speech in Cairo, he boasted about how this country has brought cases to court in favor of letting Muslim women wear their head-scarves and anyone who doesn't think they should be able to is a jerk-face. It's ok for them to wear their head-scarves but it's not ok for them to be unequal. Why, oh brilliant man with Muslim background, do they wear the head scarf? Did they all just get a permanent? Do they all have cancer? No, dummy, it's because they're viewed as unequal. In the Islamic world they wear it because if they don't they're breaking the law, in the Western world they wear it because they'll likely have cinder blocks throw at them when they get home if they're wearing a nice Lacoste polo instead of a burlap bag. Yes, it's part of their culture and their religion, but so is murdering women who claim to be raped and stoning gays to death. Do we have to indiscriminately allow all cultural rituals just because they're cultural rituals? Guess what, in my culture we run around naked humping inanimate objects (including people who are sleeping and only appear to be inanimate). Is that ok? Fuck no it's not. The historical rituals of some cultures fall out of favor for a reason. We don't have slaves anymore. That was something we always had. Women can vote now (might not have been the best idea. I think I'd forfeit my right to vote if all the piggish soccer moms who vote solely on the candidate's hairline and whether or not his wife dresses pretty would also be disallowed). The point is, just because a large group of people practice a certain behavior, doesn't mean it's acceptable (or safe) for society as a whole. When some Muslim woman's husband shoves a homemade bomb in her box and sends her to the supermarket, I'd kinda like her face to be captured on the surveillance camera. I know it's probably arrogant of me to say this, but do you really think that these women want to cover every inch of their femininity? Or do you think that they do it because that is how they were raised and they know the consequences if they don't do it. It's not a fashionable thing, it's a self-preservation thing. They either don't know it's not OK to view women as less than men, or they know it but are too afraid of what will happen to them if they speak out. I guess what I'm trying to say is that Obama really is a sheltered, self-important ass if he thinks that this practice does anything other than grand inequality to women.

The second thing, which is relatively new, is the 'Special Master of Compensation' that Obama is about to appoint. It sounds exactly like something out of 1984, I know. The point of the position is to enforce rules on companies that received bailout money. The rules will be about silly little things like how much a company is allowed to pay its employees. You know, insignificant things like that. It's said that Kenneth Feinberg is going to take this post and that he will report to Tim Geithner but will have 'wide discretion on how the rules should be interpreted'. So, he won't make the rules, Congress will write some vague cluster fuck of a rulebook and Feinberg will have carte blanche as to how he thinks it should be interpreted. So the government says to companies, 'we're offering you this money, if you don't want it, you're competitors will and you'll lose business. Not to mention the IRS auditors that will be knocking on your door. Oh, and one more thing, you're not allowed to pay us back when you want to and we're going to tell you how much you're allowed to pay your employees'. This is fucking nuts, it's getting worse every day and none of the disgusting mouth-breathers in this country will say a word. I can't wait until all the Obama voters actually see what they've done, I'm just worried about how much it will actually take to show them.