I've been giving mainstream news my usual occasional glances and recently noticed that quite a few people are upset that a mosque may be one of the buildings put in near Ground Zero in the NYC, which is New York City (that's right, I'm borrowing from The Situation now; I'm more disappointed than you are but it had to be done).
Many of the people who flew the planes that killed the (more than likely) innocent people on 9/11 were of the same kind of people who pray in mosques. Or some such shit. I don't really focus much on religious studies. But I know them people are brown and hairy and prone to very directionally oriented prayer (I keep up on current events, which is the stuff that happens in the news).
And a lot of people are not comfortable with edificial representations of that turban-ish faith being so near the destruction that has become a symbol of fanatical Whatever They Are Ism to the part of the world that hates us more than most of the world hates us.
Or something. Truth is: I think I'm a little drunk.
And when I get a little drunk I get to thinking. And the great thing about thinking when you're drinking is that you boil stuff down to its essences (and occasionally you order pizza and then forget about it and then it shows up at your door and you're all like, "Hells yeah, pizza!"). So while I was thinking about mosques and whether they allow pizzas inside them I realized something:
They have Christian churches in what used to be Hiroshima. And they have a McDonald's in what was once Nagasaki. And over the last nine years our American leaders stole over ten trillion dollars from us to fight a war we didn't want, bail out bankers we didn't need bailed out, and steal an auto and insurance industry that they are not fit to run.
The people in charge of leading you to false wars are in charge of your health care.
And you're worried about a goddamn place of worship?
Look, I don't know anything about the Nation of Islam. Or the Muslims, or the Jews or the Scientologists or even the Catholics but I do know a little something about places of worship: not one of them has ever hurt a person. Of course, once again I must remind you that I'm not the smartest guy in the TPA, which is Tampa.
But here's the deal: the powers that be are going to make this a political issue. They're counting on your racism and your ignorance to help make it easier for them to steal all the freedoms they yank from your collective crank. Don't pay attention to the smoke: it won't even get you high.
Every religion is welcome in this country. Let's keep it that way. Every bullshitting, lying power thief is in charge of this country. Let's change that.
And if we do change that, then I'll throw the largest fucking pizza party any mosque has ever seen, rules or no rules, and I'll invite every person in the country and get them all totally wasted.
Except for that Angelina. She is such a bitch.