Who is more scary?

I am back in Germany. Hooray!

Still, here I am currently watching a video from a TV show called "Fault Lines."

As my theme here has steadily been religion in the U.S. from my viewpoint and from what I hear and think about I absolutely had to quickly write about this.

Here is a link to part 1 of the episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TME6X9LQ4y8

It is about the indoctrination of religious extremists in the U.S. military and I think it is a legitimate question to ask...

Is a world power with the largest military capabilities (by far) and christian extremists deeply entrenched in it's rows more scary/dangerous
THAN
A group of terrorizers (yeah, I just watched Harold and Kumar - Escape from G.B. again... it was on TV give me a break!) that has neither the financial means nor the amount of "soldiers" to be a real threat to a whole country? (<-- the long awaited questionmark. 2 years of almost exclusively writing english still are unable to keep me from writing irresponsible, reader-killing, ridiculously sentences like this one right here right now. Thanks for reading.)

9/11 was horrible, vicious, despicable, and totally evil.

But I am scared that western civilization is quietly accepting (or not moving against) a religious extremist movement that proclaims their way (namely evangelical Christianity) as the "right" one and the other (Islam) as the wrong one.
And that also is horrible, despicable, evil, and really fucking stupid. It's another prime example of the "black and white"-world that I have been pointing out as so dangerous in earlier posts.

This time it's really actually dangerous physically and not just a totally messed up mind set.

Maybe more later. Right now I am watching in awe and with a scaringly high amount of non-surprisedness (yeah, I can make up words. So what? I am German. We do it all the time.).


Post scriptum:
Currently I am wondering if there is a function that will enable the average reader who is sick of my paranthesis-comments to just blend them out automatically? Maybe I just invented the NEXT GOOGLE/YOUTUBE/TWITTER/FILL IN THE BLANK ______.
A giant new awesome thing that everyone will totally use all the time and I can then sell to some company like Yahoo or Microsoft or (preferably) Apple for like approx. $2.5 billion.
Maybe...?

Kevin Devine and such...

So, I am still on a family RV trip around Lake Michigan. The weather is horrific but this amazing 21st-century-embracing camping site has WiFi.

I thought I'd give you a couple of pictures and a good song/good song lyrics.

A couple of weeks ago (May 26th) my mother, Katie, Katie's brother (David), the singer of The Get Up Kids, and me attended a small (approx. 50 people) concert in Lawrence (this sentence definitely has too many brackets/parentheses). I never heard of the guy (Kevin Devine) but it was a concert and it was in Lawrence and it was 1 day after my mother had arrived, so I figured - after listening to one of his songs online - that we shall go see him. So we did.

And it was a lot of great fun. Here is a picture my mother took at the concert:


And here is one of his songs which was REALLY great live but sadly not as good on the Album and not as good on YouTube. Live he played it with the whole band and it was really good stuff.

Also, when you click this you will find lyrics to that same song that are just as good non-live as they were live (another proof to why lyrics are so fucking important :) ).

Here are a couple of pictures from our trip:

Katie and me playing a round of golf in Lawrence. What else?

At Royals vs. Tigers game

Mother and sister meet again.

Dinner in Chi-Town.

A homeless guy singing "Somewhere over the Rainbow" in a Chicago subway station.

Where The Wild Things Are


Family at Bleachers in Wrigley Field

Find Mo/Jo/Mom! We are on ESPN! Hooray.

A little bit of baseball at Wayland Academy

Cheesehead-Mo

Canoeing on Lake Michigan

So long and thanks for all the fish.



P.S.:
I found an amazing new (?) function on facebook that allows me to have this Blog published in facebook notes AUTO-fucking-MATICALLY! If that is not the greatest invention since the light bulb then I don't know what is, snitches! Facebook wins.

Dear Internets,

I know I have been kind of on and off with you in the last couple of days. But look at my dedication now!

Here I am sitting in a trailer park laundry room just to spend a couple of bytes with you.

And now, when my disappointment over not enough e-mails from mere mortals kicks in, I understand that your way of telling me that I am missed is through a list of YouTube subscription updates I can work my way through. Then I turn on my iTunes and the podcast updates seem to just flow in (actually stumble in most of the times due to bad-trailer-park-internets - you have to work on that!) and give me new pleasures.

Twitter has shown a total disregard to my existence and catching up is utopian. Facebook seems to be just fine without me (which breaks my heart after all the hours and days I spent with it). At least my fantasy baseball teams seem to have a sincere longing for my time and effort.

So, I will try betterment knowing that the future is dark as most trailer parks seem to neglect you and rather elect to live in a world of seclusion, pain and suffering.

I will bring you pictures from my mothers facebook albums, I will print out what you need me to print, I will update my status on twitter, I will update my status on facebook, I will keep neglecting my MoSpace, I will look up when the Marlins won the World Series again on Wikipedia, I will also google what the fuck these power plants at Lake Michigan are up to, I will keep my Azureus running as long as I can, I will catch up with The Onion, and now I will leave you tonight for a better tomorrow.

Good night Internets. Although I know you never sleep and always watch over me and my binaries.

Mo.