Yes, indeed, Saudis can dance to an American tune. Ah, but who’s their Papa?
Check it out on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33FDP0o3s1s&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Category Archives: Humor and Satire
Saudis in Audis
It is going to be a long hot summer following the wintry start of the Arab spring. Here is a little comic relief from Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqJDuZIcQ34&NR=1
Turkish Star Wars
The Turkish sci-fi film that has become a cult classic because it is so awful is now available online in its entirety with English subtitles. Released in 1982 as Dünyayi kurtaran adam, it is most famous for borrowing scenes from Star Wars. The plot, such as it is, is discussed on Wikipedia. You can check it out for yourself, if you have never seen it and really have nothing else to do.
Burqa: both burlesque and Berlusconiesque
If you type “burqa cartoon” into Google, you will find a wide variety of cartoons making fun of the burqa and the controversy over it. Here are just a few samples…
Are you ready for May 22, 2011?
If you are reading this post today, one of two things may happen in the next day (May 21, 2011): (A) the Rapture will occur and you will not be chosen, or (B) the Rapture will be miscalculated yet again. I suppose the Rapture could happen and no one will be chosen; things are rather evil these days so maybe this time the Godhead will be totally pissed off and we are all on our way to hellfire and brimstone.
So let’s assume, for insanity’s sake, that it is option B. Move over Bishop Ussher, the alpha and the omega have been revised again. Bishop Ussher was the Irish prelate who in 1654 published a tract that calculated the creation of the world commencing October 23, 4004 BCE. This was the date that became embedded in many editions of the KJV, although there were other counts of the biblical begats that came up with different dates. You would think that a loving God would at least give his creation an exact time rather than this “one day is as a thousand years” nonsense. Bishop Ussher sure thought that.
Now one of the current daze of judgment scenarios making the rounds among bibliolaters of this age is for May 21, 2011, tomorrow by my reckoning, but I do hope God is using the Gregorian and not the Julian calendar. The folks at ebiblefellowship.com have pushed creation back to 11,013 BC, bumped the birth of Jesus back to 7 BC, initiated the “great tribulation” back in 1988 (the year the film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” was released) and now predict the rapture for May 21, 2011. I, for one, will be checking their website on May 22 to see what I might have missed, since I do not have reservations myself for the Last Trump (and I do not mean the Donald). I can’t even get Broadway tickets for “The Book of Mormon” before mid-June. Continue reading Are you ready for May 22, 2011?
Aiding Iraq: No Strings Attached
One day while navigating to the website for the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq at www.uniraq.org I came across an interesting error. It seems, as the image above shows (though it has now been corrected), that the Country Team in Iraq for a short while was “Untied.” I suppose during that window there were no strings attached to the aid.
Salafi vs. Wahhabi
So who is the best Muslim? Here is a debate between a Salafi and a Wahhabi. Guess who wins and guess who loses. (In a way we all lose in this kind of debate.)
Oh Brother(hood)!
First, something positive: there is an excellent op-ed in today’s New York Times by Greg Johnson on the situation in Yemen.
And now for something completely different… Now the “duh” moment. Here is a headline that deserves all the possible bad things one can say about an ignorant and stupid headline:
“Yemen’s Government Poised to Fall to the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda ?” The source I consulted is the Right Side News, where “right” certainly does not make “right”. It would be quite a major event if Yemen was taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood, since it does not have any kind of presence there. Of course if most Muslims are radical and all radical Muslims are the same, it hardly matters to someone like the ludicrous ranting of someone like Robert Spencer (whose Islamophobic magazine rag is the ultimate source of this story). The article was posted Wednesday at 5:38, but over a full day later the prediction that Ali Abdullah Salih would be ousted in 24 hours was unfulfilled. Back to the drawing board or the Book of Daniel, perhaps? Is this regime change supposed to be before or after all the bible believing Christians are raptured away? Continue reading Oh Brother(hood)!