I was watching CNN a few days back while cooking some food and I saw something both disturbing and funny. The memory kind of went away for a while before resurfacing today, seemingly at random. They were talking about how America is perceived in Iraq and, ineviatably, the whole prision scandal thing came up. They had also talked about it the day before and they read some viewer mail.

Some of the people seemed reasonably intelligent and had good things to say. Some, not so good. There was one letter they read from some woman in Texas. She was commenting in response to someone who had been on the show who said that not only were the prisoners mis-treated, but that almost 90% of them end up being mistakenly imprisoned and later released without being charged with anything. This woman said there was nothing wrong with the innocent Iraqis being lumped in with the rebels. She said that if Iraqis can say that all Americans are bad then we can say that all Iraqis are bad. So she used a broad stereotype/sweeping generality (i.e. that all Iraqis hate Americans) to support her broad stereotype of hating all Iraqis. Gotta love that line of reasoning. The worst part is you just know there were people who watched that and nodded their heads in agreement. Stupid fucking people.

Quote of the YesterDay: "Don't be afraid to use your nails, boys!"
- The Scoutmaster

I kind of cheated by using this one from Simpsons when I had just used a Simpsons quote but my reasoning was that I would consider this a Radioactive Man quote. Pretty sweet, eh? Hbaka gets the point.

Quote of the Day: "Welcome to Sutter Creek. Five years ago, the gold ran dry. Now the Sheriff is dead, the mayor is running a brothel and the minister is a drunk. My kind of town! "
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Best o' luck on this one.