SNL - The Chronic of Narnia Rap

I missed this last weekend because I was watching poor King Kong being removed from his natural habitat and then murdered on top of the Empire State Building. Seriously, that is one depressing movie! "T'was beauty killed the beast?" What?!? No, it was you damn dirty humans! Oh, and make sure you go to the bathroom before seeing the movie, it is unnecessarily over 3 hours long!

Anywho, follow the link to watch the video. This is definitely one of the funniest things SNL has done in a while.

Happy Holidays to all! Except Bush.... BUCK FUSH! No seriously, Happy Holidays to all, and I will see some of you next year. Heiwa!

I am William Wallace!

Honestly, I was hoping to be "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man," at least he came in at # 2, along with Neo, WOAH! If only I looked good in bright, skin-tight spandex, if only... You scored as William Wallace. The great Scottish warrior William Wallace led his people against their English oppressors in a campaign that won independence for Scotland and immortalized him in the hearts of his countrymen. With his warrior's heart, tactician's mind, and poet's soul, Wallace was a brilliant leader. He just wanted to live a simple life on his farm, but he gave it up to help his country in its time of need. William Wallace 63% The Amazing Spider-Man 58% Neo, the "One" 58% Captain Jack Sparrow 54% Indiana Jones 54% Maximus 50% Batman, the Dark Knight 42% The Terminator 38% El Zorro 38% James Bond, Agent 007 38% Lara Croft 29% Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0 created with QuizFarm.com

Which Religion Is the Right One For You?

Interestingly enough, I am in fact, an agnostic after all. I'm surprised to learn that apparently I may consider bar-hopping with the Devil, since satanism came in at 3rd. Hmmm, perhaps I should put an end to those ritualistic sacrifices, ya think?

Click the link at the bottom of this post to take the quiz yourself. I'd love to hear all of your results!

You scored as agnosticism. You are an agnostic. Though it is generally taken that agnostics neither believe nor disbelieve in God, it is possible to be a theist or atheist in addition to an agnostic. Agnostics don't believe it is possible to prove the existence of God (nor lack thereof).

Agnosticism is a philosophy that God's existence cannot be proven. Some say it is possible to be agnostic and follow a religion; however, one cannot be a devout believer if he or she does not truly believe.

agnosticism 79% Buddhism 75% Satanism 75% Islam 58% Paganism 58% atheism 54% Judaism 42% Hinduism 38% Christianity 29% Which religion is the right one for you? (new version) created with QuizFarm.com

Excerpt from "Why I am Not a Christian"-by Bertrand Russell

Fear, The Foundation Of Religion

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing -- fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts. Science can help us to get over this craven fear in which mankind has lived for so many generations. Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead of the sort of place that the churches in all these centuries have made it.


What We Must Do

We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world -- its good facts, its bad facts, its beauties, and its ugliness; see the world as it is and be not afraid of it. Conquer the world by intelligence and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it. The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people in church debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings. We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages. A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. It needs a fearless outlook and a free intelligence. It needs hope for the future, not looking back all the time toward a past that is dead, which we trust will be far surpassed by the future that our intelligence can create.

A full text of the essay can be found here.

So what do you think?

War Based On a Lie: The View From a Captain in Iraq

Weapons of mass destruction? I’m still looking for them, and if you find any give me a call so we can justify our presence in Iraq. We started the war based on a lie, and we’ll finish it based on a lie. I say this because I am currently serving with a logistics headquarters in the Anbar province, between the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi. I am not fooled by the constant fabrication of “democracy” and “freedom” touted by our leadership at home and overseas.


This deception is furthered by our armed forces’ belief that we can just enter ancient Mesopotamia and tell the locals about the benefits of a legislative assembly. While our European ancestors were hanging from trees, these ancient people were writing algebra and solving quadratic equations. Now we feel compelled to strong-arm them into accepting the spoils of capitalism and “laissez-faire” society. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy watching Britney Spears on MTV and driving to McDonald’s, but do you honestly believe that Sunnis, Shias and Kurds want our Western ideas of entertainment and freedom imposed on them? Think again.


I’m not being negative, I’m being realistic. The reality in Iraq is that the United States created a nightmare situation where one didn’t exist. Yes, Saddam Hussein was an evil man who lied, cheated and pillaged his own nation. But how was he different from dictators in Africa who commit massive crimes again humanity with little repercussion and sometimes support from the West? The bottom line up front (BLUF to use a military acronym) is that Saddam was different because we used him as an excuse to go to war to make Americans “feel good” about the “War on Terrorism.” The BLUF is that our ultimate goal in 2003 was the security of Israel and the lucrative oil fields in northern and southern Iraq.


Weapons of mass destruction? Call me when you find them. In the meantime, “bring ’em on” so we can get our “mission accomplished” and get out of this mess.


Capt. Jeff Pirozzi
Camp Taqaddum, Iraq

Couldn't have put it better myself!