Grammy Awards

We're watching the Grammy Awards right now, and I'm still pissed off at Mary J. Blige for not thanking Bono during her award acceptance speech. She was singing his friggin' song ("One")! C'mon!

But, I'm am extremely happy that the Dixie Chicks won the song of the year award, among other awards, for "Not Ready to Make Nice". It's a great song, and perfect message for the flack that they received from all of the backward idiots who somehow thought that Natalie Maines's comment was un-American.
Ummm, the ability to talk out against our government is one of our greatest (and lately most endangered) rights as Americans. And some people were so offended that she said it "on foreign soil", as I believe that they were in London when she said that she was ashamed that president shrub was from Texas ("president shrub" being my way to refer to the president, not hers). Sometimes I wonder where people leave their common sense. Who cares where she said it? She could say it from the moon and it would make no difference. Should she have stopped in the middle of her statement said, "wait a minute; let's head back to the states so that I can put the president down"? The same laws that protect her freedom of speech, are the same laws that protected people who spoke out against what she said. So, what's the big deal? Just because you don't agree with what someone says, doesn't mean that they don't have the right to say it.