I'm changing my name to Kevyn Hussein Jacobs

[kevyn]

Even though I voted for McKinney, I really dislike this nasty habit some Republicans have of calling Obama by his middle name -- as if Hussein was somehow a 'bad' name. Or a scary name. Or something like that. It's really, really distasteful, and shows just how petty, small-minded and ignorant many Republicans are.

Hussein, in Arabic, means "good," or "handsome." ^{[source: Wikipedia]} Doesn't sound that scary to me.

So, from now until the election, my name is Kevyn Hussein Jacobs.

Grow up, Americans.

(Thanks to tianas_knife for pointing this movement out to me on Facebook!)

Comments

[bluebear2.livejournal.com]

You're both good and handsome.

I think the Republicans are hoping that people are unintelligent.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Awww, thank you!

> I think the Republicans are hoping that people are unintelligent.

Yep. The whole system is predicated on people not being informed. So only people like me, who actually WORK to be informed have any idea about what's really going on.

The greatest threat to the imperial oligarcy that is the United States is an educated populace.

[kennapea.livejournal.com]

my younger cousin's middle name is hussein.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

No shit? That's cool.

Incidentally, that icon of yours of the woman with the multiple breasts covered by Jack-O-Lanterns... what is that from? My downstairs neighbour, Nate, was asking about it.

[kennapea.livejournal.com]

it's my halloweenized version of this one.
it's from dave mckean's (who worked on "mirrormask" and has done countless book and CD covers) book, "The Particle Tarot: The major arcana".
all the images used to be online, but were left out when he did his new site (which still doesn't seem to be functioning fully).
someday, i'll get a copy of the book, but for now the only copies i can find, are upwards of $60 (last i checked).

[kennapea.livejournal.com]

it's also where this one came from.
the last one's the Empress card; this one is Justice.

[kennapea.livejournal.com]

and this is Death.

okay, i'm done. =D