It’s VI Day!! Victory in Iraq Day!! Somebody grab me a nurse to kiss in Times Square!!

What?

Oh? We did that back in 2003?

Hmmm…okay. Well, at least Iraq is now a stable, pluralistic, democratic society where everyone is progressing and feeling good about themselves.

Mission Accomplished: Halliburton, ExxonMobil, BP & Royal Dutch Shell now control nearly all of Iraq’s oil!

So, you see, Cheney and Rumsfeld knew exactly what they were doing. So what if it cost nearly 100,000 Iraqi lives; 5,000 American lives; another 50,000 injured Americans and $1 Trillion?

It’s the cost of doin’ bidness.

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Okay, you rednecks, hillbillies & trailer trash. See what you’ve done?

You’ve gone and made the Muslims produce a video to reassure us all they’re not scary boogy-people bent on the destruction of this very land they call home.

They wouldn’t of had to do this except y’all forced ‘em to because of your stompin’ around, acted stupid, sayin’ stupid things and tellin’ everybody Muslims are scary boogy-people bent on the destruction of this very land they call home.

Here’s the website.

Why don’t you pick on the Episcopalians or the Catholics, for Heaven’s sake? And, hey, why not the Buddhists? You KNOW they’re not gonna fight back.

But a group of Muslims felt the need to produce a very nice, very simply stated little video to say, among other things: “I do not want to take over this country.”

Not even the Catholics had to say THAT! (Well, okay, maybe JFK had to call a press conference to say the Pope would not be Secretary of State in his administration.)

The video even includes a Spanish-speaking Muslim!

That’ll make the rednecks’ heads explode!!

Y’all need to understand something: when the world says it hates ‘Murka, it’s not our freedom they hate. Not really. It’s not our wealth (or the wealth, at least, of the top 1 percent of ‘Murkins). It’s not our conspicuously consumptive way of life, although part of it might be the new Corvette.

No. What the world really hates about ‘Murka is our dumbasses.

We really need to get this out in the open, talk about the elephant in the room and admit it. It’s our dumbasses the world hates most.

We know this because the World ‘Murka Hate Index (the WMHI) was highest when we had as our Dumbass-in-Chief that barely literate guy from Texas. Once we elected an adult as President the WMHI started dropping immediately.

Now that we’re talking obesity as a national epidemic, which is related to our dumbass problem, perhaps we should engage in a national effort to drastically reduce our dumbass epidemic as well.

We can begin by turning off stupid talk radio wingnuts and watching only American Idol on the Fox Networks.

Or we can wait for redneck heads to explode when they see a Spanish-speaking Muslim.

That and by rolling back airport security measures for people from countries where most people look kinda dark and swarthy, sorta like Jesus probably did.

But, hey, it’s Holy Week in a number of ways and the time of year when lots of religions celebrate something. Jews observed Passover this week (at which point the whole Easter thing started in the first place.) Muslims just celebrated the birth of the Prophet.

Buddhists celebrate every day and the Hindus are rolling around both Hanuman Jayanti and Baisahki. The Zoroastrians just celebrated Naw-Ruz and the Rastafarians celebrate every time a good crop comes in.

Each of these festivals was celebrated in traditional ways in the White House, this year; along with the Kenyan socialist holiday of Sean Hannity’s birthday.

The Fox Nation is celebrating Sarah Palin’s new show on the TeeVee Box, panned almost universally among anyone with any sense about what makes up good TeeVee.

“Palin is disconnected from the show,” says the New York Daily News. “Having her follow the taped pieces with interviews gives the production the feel of a telethon, without the pitch for money.”

Surprising, really, that Glenn Beck didn’t object to the debut of the Sarah Palin Variety Hour on Maundy Thursday. Hmmm…must have slipped past him.

And just in time for Easter, the crazies who think its okay to end baby-killing by killing doctors almost had a new martyr of their own to celebrate.

Scott Roeder, convicted of killing Kansas City doctor George Tiller was sentenced to life in prison, eligible for parole in 50 years. He can get out when he’s 104.

Lots of murder cases get the death penalty. But not this one.

At his sentencing hearing, Roeder was defiant saying the blood of justice will sweep over the nation “like the prairie wind.” Whatever that means.

It’s been a tough week for the Republican Party, too. In a single week, the GOP has gone from the Party of No to the Party of No-Holds-Barred when it comes to kinky bondage-themed L.A. clubs and phone sex.

Finally – and in the spirit of what Easter is REALLY all about – a high school in Palo Alto, California – ironically called Gunn High School – decided to counter the hate laid at its doorstep with a rally to promote peace, tolerance and love.

Click here to read the story and watch the video.

(Thanks to @jeangfl on the TwitterMachine for the heads up.)

Peace.