The following letter written by Congressman Virgil Goode (R-VA) was first published in the C-Ville weekly in an article titled “Goode makes complete ass of self“. This letter was sent to a few hundred of Goode’s constituents after “Goode had received a flood of e-mails from constituents in response to newly elected Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison’s declaration that he would use the Koran, not the Bible, when being sworn into Congress next month.”

Dear Mr. Cruickshank:

Thank you for your recent communication. When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand. I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way. The Muslim Representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran. We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country. I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped.

The Ten Commandments and “In God We Trust” are on the wall in my office. A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Koran. My response was clear, “As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, The Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office.” Thank you again for your email and thoughts.

Sincerely yours,
Virgil H. Goode, Jr.
70 East Court Street
Suite 215
Rocky Mount, Virginia 24151

First off, this letter implies that Keith Ellison is an immigrant from the middle east – this should not be an issue unless Ellison were running for President – guess what, he can run for President because he was born in the US! Ellison was born in Detroit, raised Catholic, and later became a Muslim while in college. He says he draws strength and moral courage from both Catholicism and Islam. From Ellison’s website, “I am inspired by the Qur’an’s message of an encompassing divine love, and a deep faith guides my life every day.” The word “Qur’an” (or Koran) could easily be replaced with the word “Bible” and its meaning would not change. Virgil, I bet you and Keith have more in common than you realize (value systems included!).

This letter makes me ashamed to be in the same state that this man represents. The United States came to be after immigrants left Europe so they could freely exercise the religion of their choice! Goode’s message is one of hatred and bigotry derived out of his own fears of a religion which he doesn’t know. The Bill of Rights does not have a list of approved religions, because it approves the peaceful practice of all religions, Islam included.

Goode says if we do not adopt his strict immigration policy that many more Muslims will enter this country and the “values and beliefs tradition to the United States” will not be preserved. This country was once known as a ‘melting pot’ where people of different backgrounds could coexist. Maybe that is idealist thinking, but shouldn’t we be aiming for an ideal situation instead of spreading fear and hatred?

Months ago when I was living with Stan, for some reason we were discussing Teen Wolf (probably because Toine said Michael J Fox is the only man he would bang). Stan informed me that at the end of the movie, an extra exposes his manhood for all the world to see. Since Stan is an expert on all things wang-related I took his word for it. Last night Teen Wolf was on TV…I took it upon myself to inspect for wang. I found the scene in question and saw definite underwear…however I think the extra in question is actual female!

Debate on the interwebs seems divided. IMDB says the extra is female, while other sites indicate male. I am calling for all semi-professional wang inspectors to chime in. Have you seen the movie? Can you make a judgment from the crappy screen shot I have here? (Crappy YouTube version) When I rewound my TiVo…I could make out a few female curves that aren’t so obvious in the downgraded youtube version.

(Scott’s father is seen here describing his own wang with hand gestures)

Dream Update: After watching Teen Wolf, Michael J Fox showed up in my dream as a werewolf with the ‘bad girl’ Pamela that he doodled from Teen Wolf. The only catch was, they were in a Delorean time machine! Unfortunately no extras with exposed themselves in my dream.

Freshman year at JMU my roommate Will got me into the computer game Counter-Strike. It’s a first person shooter that is primarily played online with two teams, the terrorists and the counter-terrorists. I was never that great and my crappy computer froze half the time. Flash forward to last Christmas and Katie got me the new and improved Half-Life 2 with Counter-Strike:Source – Basically, Counter-Strike 2. Well in the last few weeks I’ve been playing more and more CS:S.

I think I may have reached some point of saturation. A few days ago I had a dream…I was in a relatively small enclosed area with a few people. Something like you would play paintball in with a few small barriers to hide behind etc. Paul McCartney was chasing me with a pistol trying to shoot me…I don’t remember actually having a gun and shooting back – more just running and trying not to get shot by a Beatle.

Maybe there’s a deeper meaning to this dream….or maybe I saw Paul McCartney during a Saturday Night Live sketch a couple weeks ago and he just got mixed up in my CS:S dream. Anyone have any psychological input on this one? There was a little while during high school when I would write down all the details of my dreams…if I woke up in the middle of the night I would write them down right away, then when I woke up in the morning I would read what I wrote and usually didn’t remember the dreams at all…maybe I should start doing that again and put my whacked out dreams on this blog.

Speaking of first person shooters, Stan sent me a link to a new awesome PS2 game that is right up my alley: “NRA Gun Club”. Here are a few quotes from the review in case you don’t actually read it: “It’s disgustingly ugly, nearly silent, and shallow in a way that will put off anyone, whether a firearms enthusiast or not.”, “The presentation in NRA Gun Club is atrocious.”, “The awfulness stacks up, resulting in a nearly unplayable product.” I guess these are the kind of games that come out when a new generation console replaces what was once the hotness.