Sunday, July 05, 2009

Best News in Years: Daily Sex With Younger Women Keep Men Alive

Wait until my wife gets the news.
HAVING sex daily - especially with a younger woman - is the perfect recipe for keeping men fit and healthy, a study has revealed.

While the average life expectancy of a man is 77, the last seven years are, for the majority of men, marked by serious illness or ailments.

But according to experts, sex rates highest among the simple and often bizarre ways to keep men healthy - including cutting down on pain killers, eating five apples a day, brushing teeth with your wrong hand and carrying wallets in the breast pocket.

Germany's Max Plank Institute - which conducted a study into deaths in Denmark between 1990 and 2005 - found a younger bride can cut the risk of premature death risk by 20 per cent.

It showed men who were with women about 15 to 17 years their junior - who look after the children and can put food on the table - help extend their lives.

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King Obama Wants to Bypass Senate Ratification of U.S.-Russia Arms Treaty

Yeah, why bother with pesky little things like the Constitution? You're King Obama, you can do as you please.

I guess the Senate is too busy helping you wreck our economy to be bother with such trivial matters as arms treaties with one of our enemies.
With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty.

"The most ideal situation would be to finish it in time that it could be submitted to the Senate so that it can be ratified," said White House Coordinator for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security and Arms Control Gary Samore. "If we're not able to do that, we'll have to look at arrangements to continue some of the inspection provisions, keep them enforced in a provisional basis, while the Senate considers the treaty."

Samore said administration lawyers are exploring the "different options that are available. One option is that both sides could agree to continue the inspections by executive agreement; that would work on our side. On the Russian side, as I understand it, that would require Duma approval."

The fact that the administration is preparing for such an extraordinary measure shows just how much pressure the two administrations are under to arrive at an agreement before the 18-year-old treaty expires. While resident Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are expected to announce progress tomorrow on a nuclear arms reduction treaty – nicknamed “New START” -- to take effect in just five short months, many sticking points that remain unresolved.
The Senate is able to write legislation in the middle of the night and vote on it without anyone reading it. Apparently, however, they can't work on this given five months notice.

So let just ignore the Constitution!

Change!

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WaPo Publisher: Hey, Sorry About Our Political Prostitution

What does a newspaper do after being caught in bed with Democrats? Why, pretend it was all a misunderstanding and beg your dwindling readership to not abandon you because of your integrity.

You can't make this stuff up.
Dear Reader:

I want to apologize for a planned new venture that went off track and for any cause we may have given you to doubt our independence and integrity. A flier distributed last week suggested that we were selling access to power brokers in Washington through dinners that were to take place at my home. The flier was not approved by me or newsroom editors, and it did not accurately reflect what we had in mind. But let me be clear: The flier was not the only problem. Our mistake was to suggest that we would hold and participate in an off-the-record dinner with journalists and power brokers paid for by a sponsor. We will not organize such events. As publisher it is my job to ensure that we adhere to standards that are consistent with our integrity as a news organization. Last week, I let you, and the organization, down. The Washington Post remains committed, now and always, to the highest standards of journalistic integrity. Nothing is more important to us than that, and nothing will shake that commitment.
Just pathetic. I guess this dunce figures if you repeatedly infer some long-ago abandoned integrity we're to believe you're little money-making scheme didn't leave a massive black eye.

Read the rest of this letter if you need a good laugh, but we'll leave you with this parting gift.
We remain committed to you, our readers. We remain committed to the highest standards of integrity. And while we will continue to pursue new lines of business, we will never allow those new avenues to compromise our integrity.

In the meantime, I hope that we can continue to count you as a reader while we promise to continue to bring you the news as it develops, unbiased and with the best reporting and editing we can offer.
Unbiased.

Heh. What a cut-up.

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'Dodd Continues To Mislead People About the Value of His Irish Property'

The chicanery just never ends with Connecticut's shady Democrat Senator Chris Dodd. I guess getting the truth from the guy just won't ever happen, so let's hope this Irish cottage becomes a permanent residence for him, especially when he loses his Senate seat in 2010.
US Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut may have lowballed the value of a vacation property he acquired in a sweetheart deal in Ireland.

According to the Democrat's latest financial disclosures, obtained by The Post, Dodd claims his three-bedroom cottage on 10 acres with breathtaking views of the Atlantic is worth $638,000.

This figure falls far short of property values on Inishnee Island, where The Post discovered Dodd's next-door neighbor was selling a much smaller property for $1.2 million.

Although Evelyn O'Neill's cottage is slightly larger than Dodd's, with one more bedroom, it sits on only one quarter-acre, she told The Post.

Matt O'Sullivan Auctioneers, a real-estate firm, is handling the sale of O'Neill's property. Matt O'Sullivan said he appraised Dodd's cottage at $638,000 two months ago but refused to answer any further questions.

"Dodd continues to mislead people about the value of his Irish property," charged Tom Fitton, president of the conservative Judicial Watch, a Washington, DC-based ethics watchdog.

But a spokesman for Dodd said that the O'Neill cottage is the one that is overpriced.

"The value of the other property you reference is not comparable to the appraised value of the Dodds' cottage. According to the listed real-estate agent, the other property's estimated value is based solely on the owner's asking price, not an appraisal," Bryan DeAngelis said.

In April, Judicial Watch filed a complaint regarding the cottage with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, which is already investigating him for sweetheart mortgage loans he received.

Dodd purchased a one-third interest in the Irish property in 1994 with Kansas businessman William Kessinger for $160,000.

Kessinger was a business partner of disgraced Bear Stearns principal Edward Downe Jr., a longtime friend of Dodd. In 1993, Downe pleaded guilty to insider trading and securities fraud but was pardoned, at Dodd's urging, by then-President Bill Clinton in 2001.

A year later, Dodd bought out Kessinger's share in the cottage for a paltry $127,000.
For the most part the Washington press corps have little interest in Dodd's dubious finances, although some media outlets have questions.
Dodd is part of a culture in the Congress that sees nothing wrong with taking money from institutions they're supposed to oversee, in his case, firms like Citigroup, Bank of America, AIG, the late Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and many others. That may still work if you're watching over the Rules, Small Business or the District of Columbia committees, but the financial institutions Dodd's banking committee supposedly regulates have caused the collapse of the economy and no one has taken more money from them than the senior senator from Connecticut.

The day after Dodd offered reporters a quick peek at the mortgage papers he'd been hiding for months, a research group that keeps track of big money in politics revealed that he's by far the favorite congressmen of the financial entities that received some of that first $700 billion government bailout, the one that hasn't worked very well.

The Center for Responsive Politics reported that the firms getting the bailout invested $114 million in lobbying and contributing to members of Congress during the 2008 election cycle. The recipients of contributions from the 161 companies that have received Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) money “are the same members of Congress who chair committees charged with regulating the financial sector and overseeing the effectiveness of this unprecedented government program,” said the Center report.

And, of course, the number one beneficiary of contributions from these companies was Dodd. The senator received a very nice $854,200 from the TARP gang in the 2008 election cycle, when he ever so briefly ran for president. Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, wasn't even a close second with $279,000 from the soon to be failed businesses.

The new secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner said these companies won't be allowed to lobby the federal government while they have TARP money, but whether or not they will be able to continue to enrich Sen. Dodd with campaign contributions isn't clear.

After all - wink, wink - it isn't the companies giving all those dollars to Dodd and his colleagues, it's the firms' employees getting together in the company cafeteria to raise a bundle for their political heroes. You may have forgotten it is technically illegal for labor unions and companies to finance political campaigns. That's why they have their members' and employees' Political Action Committees pick their favorite candidates, who, coincidentally, are always the company's or the union's favorites too.

In 2010, a worthy opponent will demand to know why it took so long for Chairman Dodd to recognize that lending institutions were approving mortgages doomed to be foreclosed or why he insisted that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were “fundamentally sound” when they were on the verge of collapse. Freddie and Fannie gave more campaign money to Dodd than to any other member of Congress.

Depending on the state of the economy, Dodd will, at best, be vulnerable for the first time in his Senate career or already toast in 2010. As a result, the Republican Party, with the right kind of candidate, a moderate, centrist type, could find itself in the novel position of actually having a chance to elect a Connecticut senator for the first time in 28 years.
Let's all hope it's anyone but Dodd. Just imagine granting this thug another six years in the Senate.

Meanwhile, the folks at Dump Dodd had a little fun last Sunday.



Instapundit links. Thanks!

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Saturday, July 04, 2009

Formula One Honcho: Hitler Was Able to 'Get Things Done'

Expect a clarification of this stupidity pretty quickly. Or this idiot's dismissal from his position.
FORMULA One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has described Adolf Hitler as a leader able to "get things done" in a discussion about dictators during an interview with The Times newspaper published today.

Asked to comment on accusations that world motorsport chief Max Mosley behaved like a dictator, Mr Ecclestone went on to speak about Hitler, former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein - whom he said should have stayed in power - and the Taliban.

"In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he ... could command a lot of people, able to get things done,'' Mr Ecclestone told The Times.

"In the end he got lost, so he wasn't a very good dictator.''
Yup, he got a little lost. Let's overlook the systematic extermination of millions.

Hey, he got things done!
Mr Ecclestone added: "We did a terrible thing when we supported the idea of getting rid of Saddam Hussein. He was the only one who could control'' Iraq.

"It was the same (with the Taliban in Afghanistan). We move into countries and we have no idea of the culture. The Americans probably thought Bosnia was a town in Miami. There are people starving in Africa and we sit back and do nothing but we get involved in things we should leave alone.''
A town in Miami?

What an idiot.

So let's recount: Hitler was peachy, Saddam Hussein could control his people and hey, those Taliban aren't so bad.

But Americans? Why, they're a bunch of geographically-challenged rubes.

Good luck selling Formula One racing over here, pal.

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No Holiday for Media Slobbering Over Michelle Obama

It may be a national holiday, but that doesn't mean the media takes a day off from their contrived gushing over Michelle Obama. This one is so over the top it sets new standards for egregious fawning.

I could see if Barack Obama was married to Vanessa Williams or Tyra Banks, but seriously, this drooling over his wife is just sickening.
Michelle Obama brings her superstar glamor to Moscow this weekend as she accompanies her husband on his summit with the Russian president.

But the American first lady, who has wowed publics in the U.S. and Europe with her easy elegance and charm, will perhaps face a bigger challenge in winning over a Russian public that has scant respect for women who grab the limelight from their powerful husbands.
Easy elegance? Charm? Superstar glamor?

Are they talking about this hulking woman who declared America is a downright mean country?
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's wife Svetlana is pious and discreet and met her husband while she was a schoolgirl. She supports charity and the arts, but has assumed no independent voice on issues facing the country. She dresses conservatively, lacking the edgy fashion sense that has attracted a nationwide following for Michelle Obama.
A nationwide following? What nation? Kenya? The nation where these media morons live?
Michelle Obama's fashion sense attracts comparisons with Jacqueline Kennedy, and there is a Web site entirely dedicated to what she wears.
The only people drawing comparisons to Jackie Kennedy are these media twits. Here in the real world I've yet to hear a single woman utter words such as "gee, I want to get that outfit Michelle Obama is wearing."

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Friday, July 03, 2009

You Stay Classy, DNC

Well, since Just a Grunt already noted Sarah Palin's resignation as Alaska governor, there isn't much more to cover than the reaction.

As always, the Democrats lead the pack in snide smugness.
Following Palin's announcement, the Democratic National Committee blasted what it called her "bizarre behavior."

"Either Sarah Palin is leaving the people of Alaska high and dry to pursue her long shot national political ambitions or she simply can't handle the job now that her popularity has dimmed and oil revenues are down," DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse said.

"Either way, her decision to abandon her post and the people of Alaska who elected her continues a pattern of bizarre behavior that more than anything else may explain the decision she made today."
Classy.

Amazingly, Palin's uterine stalker fails to mention Trig.

Much more reaction here.

So, is this a move with an eye on a 2012 run?

Update: Doug Ross notes an item from one of the web's true bottom feeders (via Dan Riehl).

Also, ten theories why Palin may have resigned.

Having noted bottom feeders earlier, get a load of this:

Palin Will Run In '12 On More Retardation Platform

Via Allahpundit on Twitter.

Unreal.

In case they try to toss this one down the memory hole, here it is.


Click to enlarge.

Update
: Sure enough, the disgusting item from the Huffington Post went down the memory hole.

Oops.

Don't forget, the president thinks so much of those folks he singles them out for questions at press conferences.

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Sarah Palin Resigning As Governor

Just WOW!

I don't know what to say, but I am sure the pundits will have plenty to say and no doubt the long knives will really be out now. I hope the McCain campaign staffers who helped the liberals who filed one frivolous lawsuit after another against her are clinking their glasses.

I listened to her speech and it did truly sound like she was tired of fighting all of these complaints and now that all of them have been cleared she decided to duck out now before the next round could start.

I have been enamored of the governor ever since she stepped onto the national stage, and I believe a lot of the invectives directed at her from those inside the McCain campaign was because this woman cast a long shadow over the their guy, and while she rallied conservatives to turn out and vote, she also served to further show how weak the guy at the top of the ticket really was. Her presence was such that for much of the final months of the campaign Barack Obama wound up running against her, and comparing his non record against her.

She certainly was not deserving of all the hatred and vile actions taken against her family. She is a big girl and I have no doubt she could handle all of the stuff thrown at her, but the attacks on her kids was beyond the pale, and no doubt they will continue for a brief while, but like a wounded bear I hope she is going to retreat and protect her cubs, but when she comes back heaven help those whose have wounded her.

Maybe she won't come back out onto the stage, running for elected office, but like she says she will continue to work as a private citizen to promote change, but whatever the case may be I am pretty sure we have not heard the last of Sarah Palin.

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'It's Felony Stupid, But It's Not a Crime'

A bunch of kids at the Isabelle Jackson Elementary School in California could really be hot for teacher this summer.
California teacher Crystal Defanti sent her students home with a video of class memories, but the DVD contained certain "memories" that were not appropriate for the students to see, Associated Content reports.

The class memories DVD contained six seconds of the teacher having sex on a couch spliced between shots of the children, students at Isabelle Jackson Elementary School in California, sharing their memories in class.

The teacher learned that the sex clip had been included in the DVD when a parent called to let her know. She then called parents to alert them of the sex clip and ask them to get rid of the DVDs, the Associated Press reports.

"Just destroy them," Elk Grove Unified School District spokeswoman Torrey Johnson said of the DVDs.
Apparently Ms. Defanti won't be losing her job.
The Elk Grove Unified School District says they are investigating, but legal experts say it's unlikely that the teacher will lose her job.

"It's felony stupid, but it's not a crime," said defense expert Ken Rosenfeld. "Is it something that she should be disciplined for? Absolutely, but fired for? She didn't intend for this to happen."

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'I Really Don't Understand Why President Obama Got Involved in Our Primary'

I love the smell of Democrat civil wars.

Have at it, boys and girls.
Rep. Charles Rangel defended colleague Carolyn Maloney's right to take on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and lashed out anew at President Obama for butting into New York's Democratic primary.

"I really cannot say anything negative about a senior member who wants to run and whose polls, at this point in time, appear to be in her favor," Rangel, dean of the New York House delegation, told the Daily News.

Rangel stood up for Maloney while the state's senior senator, Chuck Schumer, and the Democratic establishment are rallying around Gillibrand.

"Nobody can challenge that she's not a hardworking member of Congress," Rangel said of Maloney, citing her work on behalf of 9/11 victims and her landmark legislation protecting credit card holders.

"She is certainly one of our most active members," he said.

In May, President Obama phoned Long Island Rep. Steve Israel to nudge him away from a challenge - a move that also prompted Rangel to criticize the President. Last month, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said publicly Team Obama favored Gillibrand.

"I really don't understand why President Obama got involved in our primary," Rangel said.

"I don't want to use the word wrong, but it doesn't seem like the astute political thing to do," he said.
Chuckles ought to look out for that bus that's about to run over him.

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'Taedong River Beer is the Pride of Pyongyang'

Just in time for their Fourth of July fireworks show, the Norks have now unveiled their own brand of beer.

I've consumed a lot of swill over the years, but I doubt I could work up a thirst for this.
In an apparent first, North Korea — a country that struggles to feed its 24 million people — has aired a beer commercial on state television.

The advertisement, which lasted nearly three minutes after a news program on Thursday, showed a grinning Korean man with sweat on his face holding a glass of beer, with a caption that read, "Taedong River Beer is the pride of Pyongyang."

The commercial said the beer relieves stress and improves health and longevity. It also showed images of a pub it said was in the capital of Pyongyang, filled with people drinking.

Normally, there are no advertisements on television in North Korea, an isolated, communist country that tightly controls its economy and is wary of capitalistic influences.

Programming consists of news, factory descriptions, some children's animation shows, and documentaries on leader Kim Jong Il and his father Kim Il Sung, interspersed with propaganda slogans and music, according to a South Korean Unification Ministry official.

The official, who has been monitoring the North's television for more than two decades, told The Associated Press that it was the first time he had seen any sort of advertisement for food, much less beer — although he has seen programs on North Korean cuisine. He asked not to be identified as he was not authorized to speak to media.

The commercial assured viewers of the beer's quality and nutritional value, saying it was made of rice and contained protein and vitamin B2.

It was unclear how much the beer cost and how many North Koreans could afford it. The country is among the poorest in the world, with an average per capita income of $1,065 in 2008, according to the South's central bank.

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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Dems Look to Remove Reagan's Name From Airport?

As we rush headlong toward the Socialist Utopia, it appears Democrats will not only be rewriting history but trying to remove any reference to it.
At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and Marion Barry confidante – told fellow Board members that he has heard talk on Capitol Hill about yanking former President Ronald Reagan’s name off the local airport and returning it to its previous generic moniker: National Airport.

“It was just a discussion. We’re not aware of anything specific,” MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton later told The Examiner.

It’s clear that the current crop of congressional leaders want no part of Reagan’s grand conservative vision for America, but erasing all trace of his memory from an airport that’s already been named in his honor is about as petty as you can get.
Oh, give them another day. They'll find something even more petty.

Change!

Hey, maybe they can just bypass the formalities now and name it after King Obama.

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Annual Fourth of July Fireworks Safety PSA

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That Screaming You Hear May Not Be What It Seems

Perhaps they should be lauded for their good intentions.

That and the young lady in question might want to muffle the screams with a pillow or something.
Police say a group of Connecticut teenagers misunderstood a woman's screams during sex and stopped what they thought was an assault by beating the woman's companion.

A girl, two boys and a 19-year-old man were arrested Tuesday and arraigned Wednesday on assault and conspiracy charges.

On June 6, police say the 16-year-old girl, who lives in the Torrington home, heard the 34-year-old woman's screams and thought she was being attacked.

The girl rounded up four friends. Police say they went into the bedroom and beat the woman's 25-year-old companion with a baseball bat and punched him. He was treated at a hospital and released.

One of the friends wasn't charged.

ABC: Free Airtime For ObamaCare, No Time for Stossel

Last week ABC News ran an all-day infomercial for ObamaCare and the ratings tanked for the primetime special.

Last Friday 20/20's John Stossel was slated to present a five-minute piece on Canada's abysmal government-run healthcare system and what do you know, it was yanked in favor of nonstop Michael Jackson coverage.

So much for presenting both sides of an issue.

Needless to say, Stossel isn't happy about it.
JOHN Stossel is telling his own network "Give me a break!" after it pulled his health-case insurance segment off the air to give more time to the death of Michael Jackson.

"I am sick of the Michael Jackson coverage," the "20/20" co-host wrote on his blog page at abc.com. "I hate it that ABC didn't run my piece."

He was apparently upset after the network decided to hold his piece on Canada's health-care system -- set to air last Friday night, the day after Jackson died -- in favor of a memorial to the King of Pop.

"Free markets sometimes encourage pandering to the masses," Stossel wrote on his blog. But "I still say, bless the market. The good outweighs the bad."

Using the network's own Web site to complain about its news decisions is pretty unusual.

According to senior vice president of ABC News, Jeffrey Schneider, the piece in question was a five-minute segment that contained some new reporting, but was mainly a compilation of clips from previous specials.
So it contains some clips? Big deal. The ObamaCare telethon contained a nonstop series of staged events and a filibuster from Obama himself.

Where is the new reporting in that propaganda?

Other than Jake Tapper, Stossel is one of the few credible sources appearing on ABC News. Conveniently removing his segment two days after the Obamathon seems very weak, especially considering it was five minutes during an avalanche of Jackson coverage.

Credit to Stossel for speaking up about yet another black eye for ABC.

Here are some thoughts from Stossel on the Canadian system. No wonder ABC censored him.

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'Supremely Articulate' Obama Losing Popularity

Obama's handlers at the US News and World Report are fretting that their hero is losing popularity and are baffled as to why.

If they need to ask they're beyond help.
President Obama is heading into stormy waters. His healthcare plans have stalled on Capitol Hill; he is being faulted for a shaky response to the post-election violence in Iran; his job-approval ratings are dropping; and confidence in his handling of the economy is ebbing. The warning signs are enough to worry Democratic strategists that Obama may be sinking into a trough that will sap his influence just when he needs it most.

Until now, President Obama has enjoyed a honeymoon with the country and the media (although not with opposition Republicans). This was because the supremely articulate, charismatic Obama presented such a contrast to George W. Bush, who remains unpopular. In addition, voters wanted action from their president in tough times, according to Democratic pollster Geoff Garin, and Obama delivered. In fact, he has moved the federal government into a more activist role than it has had under any other president in years, bailing out the financial industry, taking over much of the U.S. auto industry, injecting vast sums of money into the economy, and proposing huge changes in healthcare, energy policy, and other areas of national life. Finally, Obama is very appealing as an individual, which initially boosted his ratings.
Supremely articulate? I guess they've never seen his Wizard of Uhhhs routine when the TelePrompter isn't working.

Still, why should they worry? Obama can simply declare "I won" and all will be well again.

Although now that they've lost Helen Thomas, it may be time for the White House to worry.

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Joe Biden Visits Pennsylvania, Nobody Notices

That Joe Biden is quite the popular guy.
Vice President Joe Biden visited a small town on the outskirts of Erie today to talk to rural folks about federal stimulus money that can be used to expand broadband access to the Internet for rural areas that typically have poor connections.

Apparently stimulus money and broadband are not all that interesting to the local folk here: Only around 100 or so people have showed up so far to hear Biden talk at noon at Seneca High School off Route 8 in Wattsburg.

The room looked so sparse that about 30 or so chairs were removed by volunteers to give the illusion of a full house.

The effect didn't exactly work.

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NY Media Ignores Times Square Tea Party

We noted Wednesday a Tea Party was being held in Times Square. Judging by the lack of coverage, the local media would rather you think it just didn't happen.

You can see photos and a recap at The Berman Post.

Outside of this sneeringly condescending item from the Village Voice the event was entirely ignored by local print media. I wasn't watching any newscasts last night so it's possible some television station mentioned it, but I doubt it.

Other than the aforementioned VV item, here's what shows up on a Google News search.

I guess the media figures an event with thousands in attendance isn't worthy of coverage.

Al Sharpton announces he's passing wind and they all flock to capture every momentous second. If Cindy Sheehan showed up for the protest du jour, scores of media would follow.

Taxpayers protesting intrusive government? Not worth their time.

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Oh Goody, Islamic Comic Book Superheroes


Step aside Superman, Batman and Spiderman. Your day has come and gone to be replaced by the Noora, Wassi, and Jabbar.

There are the breed of new Islamic superheroes now being published in comic book form as part of an effort to show the kindler, gentler side of Islam. The article doesn't really say anything about bad guys, rather it is some sort of world wide treasure hunt for the 99 attributes mentioned in the Koran. Good thing, it must be hard to deliver a good round house kick wearing a burqua.
Each of the superheroes, 99 in all, is based on one of the 99 attributes of Allah in the Koran - everything from wisdom to generosity - though they come from a variety of countries, and have different physical characteristics.
None of them prays or reads the Koran, as they are meant to have equal appeal to children of all faiths.

The comic books have been around for about a year and now they are planning on making a movie. How long before we get the get outrage in the streets by the true believers for this blasphemy of their loving religion?

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