Daily Archives: May 9, 2011

Even in America, we have newspapers doctoring the truth

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Religious paper cuts Clinton from iconic photo

This is a copy of a newspaper that was printed in New York.

Here is the same photograph on CNN:

President Barack Obama and his national security team watch updates on the mission to capture Osama bin Laden on Sunday.
Notice a difference? Well, in the first picture, someone went through the work of photoshopping all of the women out of the picture. Turns out an ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious organization doesn’t believe that women in a picture should be included, because it would then be “sexually suggestive.” I’m not making this up either. It might have been possible to get away with this if the picture in question wasn’t such a talked about picture in the first place (whether or not Clinton was reacting in a strange way to some mysterious event that could have been about Osama Bin Ladin). You know, without the whole Hilary thing, there wouldn’t have been a story in the first place, SO WHY INCLUDE THE PICTURE IF YOU CUT HER OUT OF IT?
Okay, let me get out front and say this before continuing on. I have nothing against any specific religion, or promote any religious organization (or anti-religious organization either). However, having said that, I think we do a serious blow to any idea of organized religion whenever we try to pull this crap over the eyes of any followers. Censorship, or doctoring the truth, is NEVER a viable alternative to the truth. EVER. Lying means dishonesty. I have yet to come across a religion that advocates lying is the right course towards anything good. Ever.
The sad thing is: Anti-religious folk are now going to use this to cripple religious organizations. And then anti-Jewish groups will use this to insult Jewish religions. In the end, the only thing that was served was we promoted more hatred, more dishonesty and ruined the chances of honest conversations in this country and the rest of the world.
Good job, dishonest newspaper. Score one for Satan. (All apologies to Satanists who weren’t involved in any of this dishonesty)

As we suspected, Size Really Does Matter

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I was having a conversation with a female friend of mine, and I stated that no matter how much she says otherwise, size definitely matters. She denied it for a moment, and then after I showed her, she gave in and said that I was right. Size, in fact, does matter. Her exact words were: “Oh, my god. It’s huge!” So the matter is settled. Having a larger computer monitor is DEFINITELY better than having a smaller one.

This weekend, I had been thinking about it nonstop, and then I went to Sam’s Club, and there it was: a 27 inch Samsung monitor. It was huge. It was freaking HUGE, and it was there, just waiting for me. So I put it into my cart, took it to the cash register, wheeled it out to my car, opened the trunk of my car, placed it inside, wheeled the cart to one of those little cart places where they store them so Sam’s Club employees can gather them and make somewhat of a living, but I had to stop halfway because I realized my trunk was still open, so I wheeled the cart back to my car, closed the trunk and then wheeled the cart back to that little cart place where they store them so Sam’s Club employees can gather them and make somewhat of a living, drove back home, stopping to buy an Icee on the way (the Cherry flavored one…can’t stand the root beer one, oh my god, what were they thinking when they invented that), parked my car in the garage, closed the garage door, said hi to the girl who is always crying whenever I see her (that girl really needs to dump that guy…I swear), opened my door, entered my apartment, fought off a rabid band of stuffed animals that were overjoyed to see me again, set up the new monitor, turned on my computer, drank from my Icee, and then embraced the wonder that is a 27 inch computer monitor.

It was kind of nice. The Icee, too. But don’t get me started on that whole root beer flavor thing. I’m just saying.