My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

I can understand why some people would get upset at the desecration at the image of Mohammad. I can equally understand how people would get upset at the desecration of Christ. The thing I cannot understand is why someone would feel the need to mass protest over it.

Granted I do not think most of them should have been published in the first place, common sense and good morals would dictate that, I also think that if I ran a newspaper I would make damn sure I was the first paper in my country to print these offending cartoons - just think of the publicity - hell everyone in the world has suddenly heard of some dodgy Danish paper!

In context - did they take the piss out of Christ equally as much? If the articles were fair and balanced then there should be no issue. I usually like to stay unbiased by offending everyone - it works out much easier. Fuck Christ. Fuck Mohammad. Fuck Buddha. Fuck God. Fuck L. Ron Hubbard. Fuck Isaac Asimov. Fuck Ray Kroch. Fuck Colonel Sanders. Fuck The Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Why Rising Popularity Poses a Dilemma for Hamas - By SIMON ROBINSON/JERUSALEM

In towns like al-Bireh, Hamas has built popular support by providing a disciplined alternative to Fatah, which is seen by many Palestinians as corrupt, inefficient and unable to run a garbage collection service, let alone negotiate with Israel. Hamas has long run its own medical clinics, schools and soup kitchens for the poor—mostly in the Gaza Strip, its stronghold. In last year's local elections, Palestinian voters gravitated toward Hamas because of its reputation for having "members with a clean record," as Mayor Hamayel puts it, in a reference to Fatah's many corruption-tainted officials. Residents of towns where Hamas won control say they are now better run than they were under Fatah. In Qalqiliya, a West Bank town that Hamas won in elections last June, the Hamas council has paid off the town's debt, balanced its budget, raised salaries and begun rebuilding roads. Even in al-Bireh, which Hamas has governed for less than a month, there are signs of improvement: the streets are being cleaned and teams of men last week were installing stoplights in the rain hours after the end of the workday. The locals are impressed. "Fatah has not achieved anything for me," says Haytham Hammad, 22, a corporal in the Palestinian security forces, over a cup of coffee and a cigarette in an al-Bireh cafe. "Hamas is capable of taking back the rights of the Palestinian people—daily rights like a good job, clean water."

Hamas, hamas, hamas. They seem to be victimised so much by the western media that I know next to nothing of what they actually do. Surely there must be some reason they keep getting voted in. They are meant to help the poor and needy, aka, everyone in the Gaza Strip, and are supplying the people with food, water, and weapons - when you have people who have had all of their family killed who are being looked after with all of this generosity - is there any wonder that some want to repay their debts with their lives?. What does one do when the vote is between that which feeds you or that which has delivered nothing?

To top it all off America is refusing to "negotiate with terrorists" which includes talking to Hamas. Democracy at its best. Cuba anyone?

I'm tired. i have to do my tax from last year this weekend or I'll have the ATO onto me. Apex tax hasn't been done yet either - and I'm meant to be doing that. I hate taxes - but you know what they say, there's only three sure things in life, death, taxes and nurses.