Tacky Cartoon Resignation
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I can’t find much of anything to write about today except the Danish Cartoon Incident and the Coretta Scott King funeral. And there’s not much to say about the funeral except that it was awfully tacky of Democrats to use it as a political soapbox. So…
My, those cartoons sure are making quite a stir!
But seriously, seeing those crowds of angry young Muslims protesting and throwing rocks and firebombs and so forth all day every day makes me wonder: Don’t those people have jobs?? Or wives?? Or families?? Why don’t I ever have time to spend days on end throwing rocks at people?
It turns out that most of them probably don’t have jobs. Unemployment figures in predominantly Muslim countries like Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and Saudi Arabia run pretty high. Like 15%-20% or more. (American unemployment is 4.7%, for comparison.) At least according to this Bartleby World Factbook 2003 site.
Maybe Islam isn’t so bad, if your life goal is to avoid work.
My wife and I were wondering the other night if this incident could actually blossom into a shooting war. Wouldn’t that be funny? Of all the strange, unpredictable reasons for starting a war, “offended by cartoons” has got to top the list.
[UPDATE: Blogger Michelle Malkin offers a good overview of the evidence that The Lying Danish Imams purposefully contrived the whole cartoon incident to incite Muslim outrage.]
Oh.. here’s another fun item for Culture Warriors: That Bush appointee George Deutsch that tried to get NASA to change “Big Bang” to “Big Bang theory” resigned. Turns out he didn’t really graduate from college. (See Bush NASA appointee quits or A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA if you have a NY Times account.)
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