Random Thought For the Day

Bill Maher once infamously said the muslims involved in 9/11 were brave because they were clearly willing to die for their cause. I have to disagree. If they had believed that they would spend an eternity in Hell paying for their sins then I might call them brave but that's not what they believed. What they believed was that all sins would be forgiven, and they apparently took advantage of this by committing a lot of sins involving booze and strippers before the big day, and that they would be rewarded in Paradise with 72 virgins. That's not bravery. All that is is proof that comedian Larry Miller was right when he observed that you can get men to do anything as long as you end your description of the activity with the phrase, "...and then you meet women."

Are we having fun yet?

How do you cause thousands of New Yorkers to panic for no reason at all? If you're the White House Military Office you approve a photo op in which a 747 buzzes the Statue of Liberty while tailed by a fighter escort and when you inform the local authorities of what you're doing you tell them the mission is classified and they're not allowed to warn anyone ahead of time. For some odd reason this made people think the city was facing 9/11 Part 2 resulting in widespread panic with people deciding on their own to evacuate the area while flooding 911 with phone calls.

And the Democrats think President Bush was stupid?