Lowes v. Terrorism

The place that I have never been to before, Lowe's, is doing America...no the world, a favor and they are single handily taking on The Terrorists. Let's see, are they charging the front lines (whateveah that is) putting their lives at risk, are they digging out road side bombs so children can go to school or are they training indigenous soldiers so they can protect their homeland...no.

My homies working the cane fields in Hawaii after WWII. Thanks.

They pulled their ads that ran during the new show All American Muslim. Yes, it's true. It's exactly like that recent Al Jazeera piece, I totally forget what it's called, where an Al Jazeera reporter goes to a HS football game in Texas. The reporter ask's if they can do some filming and if they can ask people questions about 9/11-n-stuff. When the big fat white man in charge learns that they are from Al Jazeera, he does not let them tape and record and says something idiotic like "It's a shame what they gone and done on 9/11." Really, WTF big fat white man. Any who...

Lowes is pulling the "big fat Texas white man" right now by pulling their ads from a show that happens to be about American Muslims. The guy in Texas only knew that the reporters were from Al Jazeera but he automatically associated them with The Terrorists. Obviously Lowe's believes that all Muslims are terrorists. They issued an incredibly weak statement on their FB page and that is where the coo-coo birds come out (and by coo-coo birds I mean bad fucked up people with hate in their eyes)...

What do you REALLY wanna say.

– “[The women on the TLC show] were almost pretty, till they put rags on their heads.”

– “How dare these people come into our country and try to take over and push their religion onto us!”

– “Thank you for pulling your support for American Muslim, now I will come back and shop in your stores.”

I wonder whether these people would ever have the guts to say these same things about other religious and ethnic groups in America today (CNN).

Isn't this what happened in WWII with the Japanese. They could of been chillinn' here for generations, raised with all the other kids, just as American as anyone else...oh but wait, you're going to the interment camp you Jap bastard. Does it matter that the people in the show are sheriffs, family peeps, pretty much the entire HS football team and good regular normal people, no...they are The Terrorists.

Didn't American go all bigot on the Irish when they first came to the states and likewise the Italians. My people came mostly after WWII, lot's went to Hawaii and Stockton. When I was growing up there was a large Cambodian migration (and I hated it because rednecks thought I/we were Cambodian and would go up to us and say, slowly, "Do you speak English."). The Chinese came and built the railroad-n-shit and in the early 90's, or so it looked to me, there was a Russian invasion (and I say that because all of a sudden there were hella blonds in fake animal print booty tights). And now to the present day...yes, we have bananas and yes, there are Islamic folk migrating to this country, and in fact....they have been here for quite some time (OK, I'm babbling...).

And in conclusion....if anyone is going to kick people outta this country, The Native Americans should do all the kicking. Fuck you Lowes.

* Awesome update just minutes after publishing. A super lame-o parent(s) complained to the school district about the Holiday Festival Show thingy because there was a Hindu song, sung in Hindi, in the show. WTF. What have the Hindu's ever done to anyone. Where are the Hindu terrorists responsible for 9/11. There are none. WTF.

News Roundup On Follow Atheist Friday

Why is it that when Team Atheist is in the news...it is always a bad negative thing. Oh well, any publicity is good publicity, right(?). Any who, Elevatorgate was the feature article in my favorite religion news aggregator, Religion News Service. The awesome sauce thingy about elevatrogate is that as a community, Team Atheist did address sexism and we are game to combat it within our own ranks. We need the ladies so much in the sciences, in the atheist blogosphere and in skepticism movements. BTW, RNS has a pretty fair amount of ladies writers reporting the news, so bully for them. Check it out.

Yesterday I wrote about how Islamophobia is being taught to the F.B.I., the armed forces and law enforcement. Today the F.B.I. has announced that it is dropping those programs (should never have happened in the first place). Check out yesterdays posts there are good links to Mother Jones and Slate. For those keeping track of the Christians that want to take over the world, known as dominionist, there is lot's of info for your score cards.

So, it is totally bad for authorities to teach Islamophobia and it is also super bad and wrong for uneducated and super stupid citizens to go old school and try their hand at vigilante violence. 9/11 is also the anniversary of stupid heads that attacked a peaceful Sikh dude because they thought he was...Muslim. So frackin' stupid, but I geuss that is what bigotry is-stupid. It is like when a loser calls me a 'chink' or a 'Jap' when I'm 100% brown hunky Filipino. At least get it right.

In the City by the Bay, the city that brought us OJ Simpson and your truly, 2,000 dirty stinky unimmunized kids were sent home from school because they did not receive the whooping cough vaccine. Gee I wonder if the deadbeat parents subscribe to the Jenny "I've killed many kids" McCarthey's philosophy of vaccines are bad bad bad, or are they not versed in the understanding of science, medicine (hello, herd mentality), or is it...all of the above. Regardless, keep your dirty stinky not-immunized kids away from me. I don't want to die of a disease that is easily preventable. Really.

Keeping with the pseudoscience-y stuffs...Dr. Oz, the multimillionaire that thrives off of selling bogus products with no medicinal value to people that really need help, has been called out for yelling "fire in a crowded theatre." Oz said that apple juice has too much arsenic in it and is hazardous to children. Basically the test he used was for something else (wastewater) therefore the results are no good, arsenic occurs naturally in lot's o' things, like, water, and I don't know this fo sho, but dude is probably selling the cure to apple juice arsenic (phobia) poisoning. Dude, scam much. Sheez.

I don't have too much info on this one, but my skeptic meter is going off. Authorities report that a young boy has emerged from the woods in Germany...speaking English. I don't know if this is a case of mysteriously speaking a foreign  language (skeptics dictionary) or an Ishi thing. I just know it sounds fishy and is a job for Team Skeptic.

Lastly, Christians at Vanderbilt U infiltrated a frat party with hidden microphones demanding that they repent.

That is all folks.

Really, honestly, I'm not attracted to stupidity. I don't care what the 'packaging' is. Awesome, sweetheart, atheist, skeptic lady, that is totally smart-n-stuffs...I'm still waiting and still available (and I don't care what the 'packaging' looks like. I way better than that. Hope to c'ya soon...whoever you are, Kriss.