Egypt's dictator, Hosni Mubarak, must be one frightened, over-sensitive little wuss. Seems he is so frightened of criticism, that a man was thrown in jail for three years for writing this fairly lame, very tame poem referring to Mubarak:

Shine, shine whom you shine on all of us
Shine, shine whom you shine wherever you go
No one can shine like you shine
You made people feel confused and lost
You made people feel happy and lost

(Verse from LA Times Blog). I suspect the poem sounds better in the original, but let's face it...if Mubarak feels it necessary to jail a man for these lines, he is one of the wussiest dictators on the planet. Hell, I've been attacked far worse than this and wound up being friends with those who insulted me. Mubarak should now be called Egypt's Supreme Wuss.

From the BBC article:

A civil servant in Egypt has been jailed for three years for insulting President Hosni Mubarak in a poem, according to newspaper reports.

Moneer Said Hanna's family said he wrote satirical poetry for fun, to entertain his work colleagues, and never meant to hurt anyone...
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To me, the best tribute to the Bush Administration was written in 2004 (I think it was). Eric Idle, angry at increasing censorship and infringement on civil liberties in his adopted nation, wrote The FCC Song. If you don't like profanity, don't listen to it. Not sure who did the video, but the song is the main part.

This is the song that comes to mind on this last night of Bush's regime, just as "This Land is Your Land" is the song I am thinking of as I ponder the beginning of the Obama Presidency.

RECENTLY I posted on YouTube's yanking of a vlogger's account due to the torture practices he was exposing that are perpetrated by Egyptian police. I was definitely disappointed in YouTube, although I sort of expect any large corporate entity to ultimately suppress free speech, because inevitably, free speech involves telling the truth, and at the end of that road can be found many ideas that might not support the agenda and behavior of corporate entities. As the RAND Corporation, "a California based think-tank with close ties to the military-industrial-intelligence complex" sees it:

RAND maintains "homegrown terrorism" will not be the result of jihadist sleeper cells. Rather, it will result from anti-globalists and radical environmentalists who 'challenge the intrinsic qualities of capitalism, charging that in the insatiable quest for growth and profit, the philosophy is serving to destroy the world's ecology, indigenous cultures, and individual welfare.' ...

Further, RAND claims anti-globalists and radical environmentalists 'exist in much the same operational environment as al Qaida' and pose 'a clear threat to private-sector corporate interests, especially large multinational business.'

—Truthout.org, The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act: A Tutorial in Orwellian Newspeak

So through these types of statements, we begin to see it all come together. The War of the future, already taking place now. Those who refuse to consider any ill effects upon the world and the animals and the poor and simply the common gente, a breed who refuses to let go of a philosophy of greed, despite the mounting consequences of such a failed paradigm vs. those of us concerned first and foremost with the weakest of us, the meekest of us, the poorest of us, and Mother Earth herself.
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Liberal cry-babies whined about Sally Fields' censored rambling at last the Emmy Awards but somehow completely overlooked the fact that hers was not the only bleeped or blacked out speech at the awards. Kathryn Hagel and Ray Romano come to mind.

Then there's Kathy Griffins' HI-lariously profane speech.

Kathy rocked the house at the 'technical' Emmys award ceremony which happened a week before last Sunday's primetime show. Did she whine about? Hell to the no.

Here she is on Larry King Live loving every moment of it :

Kathy Griffins, FTFingW!

Sally Fields won an Emmy Award last night. Unfortunately, she also won another opportunity to make an ass of herself by making "the statement of the night" at another awards show broadcasted to millions of households across the globe.

I hate it when Sally Fields gets all manic and twitchy, ready for her emotionally retarded speeches. Sally Fields making "a statement" is like listening to a banshee all decked out in felt scratch his nails on a blackboard while chewing styrofoam. Dogs weep when she gets on a podium and starts soap-boxing.

Which is no wonder why people at Fox Networks decided to rather aggressively bleep her ass, blackout the TV screen and force her off the stage. Take a look at how they violently do away with her dignity :

Here's the thing : Sally should have bowed out at 1:28 in this film clip. Had she stopped at that first round of applause, she would have left with a succint speech about the importance of acknowledging the selfless work of all mothers, especially the mothers of those "left in harm's way by war". Had she taken the cue from her peers, she would have walked away with the most profound speech of not just the evening but any awards show in recent memory.
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