The Flashing Lightbulb Sura called simply "An Noor" or The Light:
You can find most of this (evidence for following post) in what is known as a "mandatory"
Sura called An Noor (a Sura mind you that describes the modern light bulb, moth behavior and the absence of light at the furthest depths of the sea and I suggest reading the entire Sura and reflecting on it but I will post a few highlights of it here):
[Noor 24:11] Indeed those who have brought this great accusation are a group from among you; do not consider it bad for you; on the contrary, it is good for you; for each man among them is the sin that he has earned; and for the one among them who played the
greatest part in it – for him is a terrible punishment.
Noor 24:33] And those who do not have the means to get married must keep chaste till Allah provides them the resources by His munificence; and the bondwomen in your possession who, in order to earn something, seek a letter of freedom from you – then write it for them if you consider some goodness in them; and help them in their cause with Allah’s wealth which He has bestowed upon you; and do not force your bondwomen into the dirty profession, while they
wish to save themselves, in order to earn some riches of the worldly life; and if one forces them then indeed Allah, upon their remaining compelled, is Oft Forgiving, Most Merciful.
[Noor 24:35] Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth; the example of His light is like a niche in which is a lamp; the lamp is in a glass; the glass is as if it were a star shining like a pearl,
kindled by the blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west – it is close that the oil itself get ablaze although the fire does not touch it; light upon light; Allah guides towards His light whomever He wills; and Allah illustrates examples for mankind; and Allah knows everything.
[Noor 24:40] Or like realms of darkness on a deep sea, which is covered by a wave, the wave covered by another wave, and above it is a cloud; layers of darkness upon darkness; if he removes his hand it does not seem visible; and the one to whom Allah does not provide
light – there is no light for him anywhere.
**Comparing and contrasting the mysterious behavior of moths (still not completely understood) and the luminescence of creatures at the bottom of the sea with whom the last prophet was not aware of and it is only recently understood that these creatures give off light for various reasons one of which is for the reason of attracting prey and another for preventing predators from capitalizing on the darkness to sneak up on them. Gives a whole new meaning to the Red Light Districts of the planet eh?
17.12.06
It's not as if some god took up a pen and wrote out a
how-to book for "his" creation to follow.
Exactly. There is conflicting evidence as to who wrote the text(New Testament) but this doubt about who or what inspired it concerns everyone it seems.
One of the things about the Quran (of which there is no doubt about the author per "us") that is explained in detail is the fact that the Creator abrogates the text (Quran) and for the reason
of making it easier on the adherent. There are clues however that indicate a "genetic" connection between two parties, the Jews and the Muslims plus an additional feature or two like the simplification of dietary law. The Quran was intended for all people not just those genetically linked to the line of prophethood. This is the conflict in fact between the Torah tradition and Xtian.
The abrogation of dietary law and circumcision law appears to have
been abrogated in the New Testament but we cannot know in fact if
that abrogation was man made or Creator given unless we turn to the
Quran which states that it was "not ordered" for "them" as in Xtians.
Why? It isn't completely clear but it does highlight a very important point and that would be the symbiotic relationship between Judaism and Christianity which vary a great deal in terms of the notion of prophet versus "rabbi" versus Creator and forms a distinct background when the Quran asks: Ask them why it is they disagree on these issues (more than just dietary law and circumcision..there are many views that differ including one of the most important and
that would be the "profession" of one's religion to others in order to "convert" them which is prohibited in Orthodox Judaism and full throttle in Xtian missionary ideologies).
Like I said..there are many ways to view Islamic Law and to limit it
to the way Arabs view it or other impoverished or undereducated
people living in oppressive environments is to limit Islam to the
Arabic or perhaps Indonesian societies. Islam is free to anyone and
anyone is free to look at the laws and study their application. It
is a serious irresponsibility to leave it to those you don't respect
as per your posts.
Take polygamy. Are men naturally polygamous or should they be? Hmm.
Does the Quran order men to be polygamous?
There isn't a good answer to the first question and it could be
argued that women can have multiple partners as well. However, only
one half of that population gives birth to the physical
manifestation of the sexual act and hence, the economic burden of it
if it cannot be proven that a father exists or she knows who the
father is.
Now, does the Quran actually order it and what kind of women would
agree to it in the first place? No, it doesn't order it but it
permits it and encourages it for widows (of war especially and for
indigent "slaves" who agree to consensual sex with their employer
or "sponsor" i.e. those whom your right hand (suggesting the
legality of the relationship) possesses.
Not many women who are rich or "well bred" i.e. of an upper
socioeconcomic "order" would agree to the sharing principle. The
instruction is fully intended for impoverished women. The Quran
actually orders men (and they must be submitting muslims to enjoy
the four wives rule...not just any old cad who "says" he is a
muslim) that if they cannot support two or three or four women then
to only marry one. THAT is very clear in the Quran.
There are some who say that the part about "whom your right hands
possess" is akin to legalized rape but that is also not true. The
Quran explicity says that it is forbidden to "prostitute" a woman
i.e. to use her sexually regardless of whether your hand possesses a
contract with her or not. That includes war booty which says the
captor must be married if the "soldier" intends to "go into her".
I'd say though that the days of women as war booty are pretty much
gone but the days of rape as part of war and pillage are very much
still with us.
Regarding women's rights and Islamic law to a woman who cites misogyny in Islam as her single complaint:
No one said Islam was for you. :) Nor are Islamic laws "for you"
to either appreciate or apply in your life. Those laws are for
muslims. Whether or not they apply their laws well or are able to
apply them in acceptable ways in a modern world is something for
their scholars to hammer out. It is clear that if a muslim
practices "barbaric" things outside of Islamic states (and we could
say that even covering a head of hair appears barbaric in Western
societies that approve of public nudity partial and impartial to
some degree) that Western societies have overridden Islamic law:
Turkey prohibits covered women from attending public university or
holding government jobs.
It is a two way street you know.
And I can only relate the data, I didn't write the Quran. :) And I
am duty bound to relate it in the best way I can.
I might add that in the many years I've lived in Islamic societies
I've not seen one stoning. I have heard of a few lashings and
certainly public beheadings but never a stoning. I've seen a number
of cases of "honor killing" but the Quran doesn't support killing
fornicators and adulterers. It is more like a "natural
quarantining" of fornicators that we can all say exists as part of
the problem i.e. you cannot fornicate alone nor can you commit
adultery alone and those people must marry each other. Not that it
is applied in real life and who could regulate such an affair as the
secret liaison of lovers who practice discretion and who is able to
marry a couple? I can marry a couple provided I have the
appropriate witnesses. :) In fact, I offered to marry my daughter
to her "betrothed" during the Israeli invasion this summer so that
they could both stay under my roof legally. As well, I'm sure there
are many muslims in which the union is between a virgin and a non
virgin.
I'd say that the actual application of the law is more about social discretion and a resistance to embrace a kind of liberty as it is in the West which has resulted in far less good than people are willing to admit is due to this "social liberation". I'd also say that evidence in Western society demonstrates that large numbers of people desire a return to the "old days" when they didn't have to deal with so many impoverished and unwed mothers. You only have to watch a few episodes of Maury Pauvich (sp?) to know that people need to know who the father of a child is in order to administer economic justice to the child. Islam says a TREMENDOUS amount about the economic justice of the child and the "orphan" but it is seldom as highlighted as these notorious lashings and "honor killings" (and mind you, honor killing is more of an Arabian tradition than an actual law in Islam) but those lines have become blurred. Actual honor killing (as I've mentioned elsewhere) mean the MALE is killed and it is a male that takes a woman against her will and the will of her family. Basically a kind of "rape". If a young woman declares
she has been raped HE must face Islamic law and it isn't lenient. But if the young woman loves her partner there is no reason she shouldn't marry the man either willingly or unwillingly (the shotgun wedding technique). This proves the "fornicators are to marry fornicators" supposition of the law which is very clear about that.
If she refuses to marry her "rapist" (if you will and I'm saying she
admits to the act but refuses her own responsibility) then she might
face public ocstracism (note the Mike Tyson situations in which
women claim rape but it appears the act was consensual and hence
these women usually face ocstracism IN THE WEST). But if a person
believes in "love" they know that a man who desires her as a mate
will look past that and marry her anyway and this happens all the
time in Islamic countries.
Love you know is a many splendoured thing. And the way I see
it, "natural law" has its way of creeping into our view without our
giving it permission.
16.12.06
The Polytheist
Every time a poet does this, they risk quitting forever.
-Darla Whitehead, The Book of Warnings
In the most Oriental chapters of chaos
are the great portals of time, the backwards
and forwards of speech are opened, closed
bang bang bang, interpretation in the breezes.
The dietary is shared with disaster
in the pigment of newsprint and rally.
Who bothers about the senate anymore
when each thing branches into a hundred more,
a very long history of policy is the groundwork
for a mudslide in a mileau of plunder.
There isn't a quick fix for this, there isn't
a new order. There is this right now
in the revocation of prairies, that haze.
Your God and mine. That makes two.
The future isn't written in Latin anymore.
Evolution isn't negated by Islam or the Quran. It is studied
alongside of the Quran much like a parable would be. We don't
understand this parable though because we cannot verify if
the "paradigm" is what it is unless we see it with our own eyes i.e.
ergo cognito sum.
So, what is the only thing any of us here will actually personally
witness IN OUR LIFETIME regarding evolution? (We have to accept
that what we read is entirely fallible not only due to our own
impotence but the impotence of any given presenter of such
information..we are all equal in that respect).
There is a hadith in which the last prophet (SAW) tells his audience
that none of them would be alive in one hundred years.
What did he mean? Well. Perhaps that we will not be alive in
50,000 years to determine whether or not birds will lose their
ability to fly because the air will become so thick with smoke and
pollution (or any reason you can imagine) and hence evolve into
creatures with perhaps a "new" piece of equipment that will make
them able to bury into holes in the ground. We simply will not be
around to verify it any more than the Greeks are around now to
verify exactly how it is they obtained the information they appear
to have obtained.
So, what is the next question?
What is the only thing we can actually VERIFY right now about the
Theory of Evolution (without a lab, without a book and without even
an idea of the intracacies of various things like the Cambrian
explosion, evolution of stars (due to their distance and the speed
of light even they are being seen by us billions of years in the
past) and the human "missing link" (of which there are only a few
remnants and not even an entire skeleton older than around ten
thousand years)?
We can see:
Extinctions*.
Is this not what every parable in the Quran and to some extent the
Bible (Torah/Injeel) point out? But especially the Quran which reminds
a person of their own death as often as it reminds us of the death of civilizations
and notes that the animals all expereince "society" as part of their paradigm.
*Which could be construed to mean genocides.
Every time a poet does this, they risk quitting forever.
-Darla Whitehead, The Book of Warnings
In the most Oriental chapters of chaos
are the great portals of time, the backwards
and forwards of speech are opened, closed
bang bang bang, interpretation in the breezes.
The dietary is shared with disaster
in the pigment of newsprint and rally.
Who bothers about the senate anymore
when each thing branches into a hundred more,
a very long history of policy is the groundwork
for a mudslide in a mileau of plunder.
There isn't a quick fix for this, there isn't
a new order. There is this right now
in the revocation of prairies, that haze.
Your God and mine. That makes two.
The future isn't written in Latin anymore.
The back stories are:
Evolution isn't negated by Islam or the Quran. It is studied
alongside of the Quran much like a parable would be. We don't
understand this parable though because we cannot verify if
the "paradigm" is what it is unless we see it with our own eyes i.e.
ergo cognito sum.
So, what is the only thing any of us here will actually personally
witness IN OUR LIFETIME regarding evolution? (We have to accept
that what we read is entirely fallible not only due to our own
impotence but the impotence of any given presenter of such
information..we are all equal in that respect).
There is a hadith in which the last prophet (SAW) tells his audience
that none of them would be alive in one hundred years.
What did he mean? Well. Perhaps that we will not be alive in
50,000 years to determine whether or not birds will lose their
ability to fly because the air will become so thick with smoke and
pollution (or any reason you can imagine) and hence evolve into
creatures with perhaps a "new" piece of equipment that will make
them able to bury into holes in the ground. We simply will not be
around to verify it any more than the Greeks are around now to
verify exactly how it is they obtained the information they appear
to have obtained.
So, what is the next question?
What is the only thing we can actually VERIFY right now about the
Theory of Evolution (without a lab, without a book and without even
an idea of the intracacies of various things like the Cambrian
explosion, evolution of stars (due to their distance and the speed
of light even they are being seen by us billions of years in the
past) and the human "missing link" (of which there are only a few
remnants and not even an entire skeleton older than around ten
thousand years)?
We can see:
Extinctions*.
Is this not what every parable in the Quran and to some extent the
Bible (Torah/Injeel) point out? But especially the Quran which reminds
a person of their own death as often as it reminds us of the death of civilizations
and notes that the animals all expereince "society" as part of their paradigm.
*Which could be construed to mean genocides.
13.11.06
10.11.06
There's a 2nd crucial lesson, which I think is much more important. Hezbollah showed not only that you can defeat Israel. It showed how to defeat Israel. It proposed a relatively simple, but to my thinking fundamental, formula. So in this speech, the last speech (09.23.2006), Nasrallah raised this issue: "what is the Hezbollah model?" He considers it as follows: "Resistance depends on planning, organization. This resistance experience, which should be conveyed to the world, depends - on the moral and spiritual level - on faith, certainty, reliance [on God], and readiness to make sacrifices." Ok, you have to be committed. You have to be willing to go the full nine yards. The next sentence I found remarkably interesting. It says: "It also depends on reason, planning, organization, armament, and, as is said, on taking all possible protective procedures.... The pious, God-reliant, loving, and knowledgeable resistance is also the conscious, wise, trained, and equipped resistance that has plans. This is the secret of the victory we are today celebrating, brothers and sisters." To most of you this doesn't sound like anything particularly profound but, in fact, it is because at the end of the day Israel always depended on the fact that its adversaries were stupid, incompetent, blowhards and windbags, and hot air baloons, and, in fact, they were right... That when they were dealing with a Nasser, he was a blowhard; a Saddam Hussein, he was a windbag; when they were dealing with Yasser Arafat, he was a hot air ballon. They were nothing of any substance... [inaudible]... That was Israel's ace in the hole. Now comes along an Arab leader who says we have to use "reason." It's a very remarkable thing to read. We have to use "reason." We have to think, plan, organize. And he didn't just say it ... [inaudible]... As I'm sure, as most of you know, that the Israelis were reporting that their [Israeli] population was waiting anxiously for each speech from Nasrallah to find out what's going on [Poll: Israelis believed Nasrallah over Peretz,Ynetnews.com, by Anat Breshkovsky, 09.03.2006]. They [Israelis] stopped believing their own media and they only believed what he had to say. No more of the Arab windbaggery -- on the second day of the war in '67 Nasser says 'we destroyed all of the Israeli Air Force.' Or when the hot air baloon Saddam Hussein, after defeat in 1991, gave out Victory Medals to the Iraqi Army. That era is over. This is a serious leadership whose commitment is matched by its intelligence and its incorruptibility. And that really is the formula. And now the United States and Israel are in living dread because they don't fear Hezbollah -- it's 3,000 fighters -- that's not what they fear. What they fear is, throughout the Arab world all the anti -- they call it American, I'll call imperialist -- all the anti-imperialist movements will now be emulating the Hizbullah model. Those who want to defeat the Americans, the American designs in the region, they're going to look for the Hezbollah model and the Hizbu'llah model says you have to "reason," you have to think, you have to "plan," you have to anticipate, and if you do that, you can win. And the fact is, it's true. If you do that, you can beat them.
Video: Finkelstein on Hamas, current crisis, Lebanon, Hezbollah
(Burlington, VT, 09.30.2006)
Video: Finkelstein on Hamas, current crisis, Lebanon, Hezbollah
(Burlington, VT, 09.30.2006)
9.11.06
"Nothing in Clouds Hill is to be a care upon the world. While I have it there shall be nothing exquiste or unique in it. Nothing to anchor me." T.E. Lawrence
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8613542103331739937&q=hamza+yusuf
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/currentread/currentread02.html
To Trust or Not to Trust
"As I reflect on my conversation with my Arab friend I understand his frustration. Trusting motives is one thing when trust has been earned, and something else entirely when it has not. Should we be surprised at the Arab world's attitude toward the West. Probably not. Should we endeavor to understand Arab culture and history and earn their trust. The obvious answer is yes, and reading Seven Pillars is a good place to start."
No. It is not easy when trusts have all shattered. Particularly when a person is under attack, to be nice let alone be what one is supposed to be: forgiving.
The 85% of all Israelis who supported the attack against us in Lebanon...well, what can I say. It isn't my forgiveness that they need. And those who continue to remain silent about the slaughter being perpetrated on their behalf, both Jew and Israeli.....it isn't mine that they require.
That is all.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8613542103331739937&q=hamza+yusuf
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/currentread/currentread02.html
To Trust or Not to Trust
"As I reflect on my conversation with my Arab friend I understand his frustration. Trusting motives is one thing when trust has been earned, and something else entirely when it has not. Should we be surprised at the Arab world's attitude toward the West. Probably not. Should we endeavor to understand Arab culture and history and earn their trust. The obvious answer is yes, and reading Seven Pillars is a good place to start."
No. It is not easy when trusts have all shattered. Particularly when a person is under attack, to be nice let alone be what one is supposed to be: forgiving.
The 85% of all Israelis who supported the attack against us in Lebanon...well, what can I say. It isn't my forgiveness that they need. And those who continue to remain silent about the slaughter being perpetrated on their behalf, both Jew and Israeli.....it isn't mine that they require.
That is all.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5991.shtml
On 25 June 2006 Israel embarked on a military operation in Gaza that has resulted in over 300 deaths, including many civilians; over a thousand injuries; large-scale devastation of public facilities and private homes; the destruction of agricultural lands; the disruption of hospitals, clinics and schools; the denial of access to adequate electricity, water and food; and the occupation and imprisonment of the people of Gaza. This brutal collective punishment of a people, not a government, has passed largely unnoticed by the international community.
On 25 June 2006 Israel embarked on a military operation in Gaza that has resulted in over 300 deaths, including many civilians; over a thousand injuries; large-scale devastation of public facilities and private homes; the destruction of agricultural lands; the disruption of hospitals, clinics and schools; the denial of access to adequate electricity, water and food; and the occupation and imprisonment of the people of Gaza. This brutal collective punishment of a people, not a government, has passed largely unnoticed by the international community.
http://www.venusproject.com/ethics_in_action/Israeli_Bulldozer_Driver.html
"Rachel Corey [sic], 23 years old from the state of Washington, was killed while she was trying to prevent Israeli army bulldozers from destroying a Palestinian home. Other foreigners who were with her said the driver of the bulldozer was aware that Rachel was there, and continued to destroy the house. Initially he dropped sand and other heavy debris on her, then the bulldozer pushed her to the ground where it proceeded to drive over her, fracturing both of her arms, legs and skull. She was transferred to hospital, where she later died. Another foreigner was also injured in the attack and has been hospitalized - at this stage his nationality is unknown." (15 March 2003)
"Rachel Corey [sic], 23 years old from the state of Washington, was killed while she was trying to prevent Israeli army bulldozers from destroying a Palestinian home. Other foreigners who were with her said the driver of the bulldozer was aware that Rachel was there, and continued to destroy the house. Initially he dropped sand and other heavy debris on her, then the bulldozer pushed her to the ground where it proceeded to drive over her, fracturing both of her arms, legs and skull. She was transferred to hospital, where she later died. Another foreigner was also injured in the attack and has been hospitalized - at this stage his nationality is unknown." (15 March 2003)
8.11.06
BREAKING NEWS: ISRAELI STATE TERRORISM ACCEPTED BY US MEDIA.
IF THIS WERE A SUICIDE BOMBER TARGETING ISRAELIS, THERE WOULD BE A PUBLIC AND NATIONWIDE BREAK IN COVERAGE OF ELECTION RESULTS.
WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE IS THE MEANING OF THIS?
"A number of Iraqis, increasingly pessimistic as violence on the streets shows no signs of fading, said they had not even followed the U.S. election race." Today on Yahoo's frontpage.
IF THIS WERE A SUICIDE BOMBER TARGETING ISRAELIS, THERE WOULD BE A PUBLIC AND NATIONWIDE BREAK IN COVERAGE OF ELECTION RESULTS.
WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE IS THE MEANING OF THIS?
"A number of Iraqis, increasingly pessimistic as violence on the streets shows no signs of fading, said they had not even followed the U.S. election race." Today on Yahoo's frontpage.
Good Morning Democrats:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_gaza
Little Terrorists Killed While Sleeping
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip - Israeli tank shells crashed into a residential neighborhood, killing at least 18 people including eight children in their sleep early Wednesday, Palestinian witnesses and officials said.
According to witnesses, all those killed in the neighborhood north of the town of Beit Hanoun were women and children. Khaled Radi, a health ministry official, said 13 of the dead were from the same family. He said at least 40 more people were wounded, all civilians.
In the popular Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, a Hamas member was quoted:
"The reaction is coming. [Israel] prepare the coffins and black body bags," Nizar Rayan, a hardline Hamas leader shouted to an agitated crowd outside a morgue in Beit Hanun.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/785407.html
The Whimpers
"The advantage poets have over other mortals is not their ability to "show us the way," but their gift of finding the right words to address reality; words that were once sent into the ether will keep resonating in the sound boxes of human minds. "
Eliot wrote his poem in 1925, and, according to the accepted view, it reflects upon Eliot's skepticism about the men of his time - Europe after World War One -, the posterity, and society as a whole. The epigrams preceding the poem point the reader to Joseph Conrads' "Heart of Darkness" and to Guy Fawkes (whose day is November 5th, a strange coincidence), and Eliot readers will easily identify the allusions to Dante and Christian symbolism.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/784587.html
"This mosque is more than 800 years old. It is part of our heritage and thousands of people visited it every year," lamented Akram Abdel-Jawd Qassam, whose family have been caretakers of the holy site for half a century.http://www.dailystar.com.lb
"The Jews want to destroy everything. Even our heritage and our history. It's a tragedy," the elderly man said.
"They are crazy. They fired on everyone. Children, women, the elderly. Afterward they say the Palestinians are terrorists but it's not these people who are the real terrorists," he said.
Palestinians said they were stripped down to their underwear upon arrival, fed only bread and tomatoes during a three-day detention in the field while they were brought one-by-one for questioning at the college.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=76731
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_gaza
Little Terrorists Killed While Sleeping
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip - Israeli tank shells crashed into a residential neighborhood, killing at least 18 people including eight children in their sleep early Wednesday, Palestinian witnesses and officials said.
According to witnesses, all those killed in the neighborhood north of the town of Beit Hanoun were women and children. Khaled Radi, a health ministry official, said 13 of the dead were from the same family. He said at least 40 more people were wounded, all civilians.
In the popular Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, a Hamas member was quoted:
"The reaction is coming. [Israel] prepare the coffins and black body bags," Nizar Rayan, a hardline Hamas leader shouted to an agitated crowd outside a morgue in Beit Hanun.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/785407.html
The Whimpers
"The advantage poets have over other mortals is not their ability to "show us the way," but their gift of finding the right words to address reality; words that were once sent into the ether will keep resonating in the sound boxes of human minds. "
Eliot wrote his poem in 1925, and, according to the accepted view, it reflects upon Eliot's skepticism about the men of his time - Europe after World War One -, the posterity, and society as a whole. The epigrams preceding the poem point the reader to Joseph Conrads' "Heart of Darkness" and to Guy Fawkes (whose day is November 5th, a strange coincidence), and Eliot readers will easily identify the allusions to Dante and Christian symbolism.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/784587.html
"This mosque is more than 800 years old. It is part of our heritage and thousands of people visited it every year," lamented Akram Abdel-Jawd Qassam, whose family have been caretakers of the holy site for half a century.http://www.dailystar.com.lb
"The Jews want to destroy everything. Even our heritage and our history. It's a tragedy," the elderly man said.
"They are crazy. They fired on everyone. Children, women, the elderly. Afterward they say the Palestinians are terrorists but it's not these people who are the real terrorists," he said.
Palestinians said they were stripped down to their underwear upon arrival, fed only bread and tomatoes during a three-day detention in the field while they were brought one-by-one for questioning at the college.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=76731
Bad Manners in the Post Anti Semitism Age
...a must see article.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/11/wolff200611?currentPage=2
Mel Gibson's meltdown, Günter Grass's past, and Joe Lieberman's primary loss all have reminded the world of a centuries-old hatred. But right now, the author argues, given Israel's controversial influence in Washington and recent invasion of Lebanon, people might be a little too eager to cry anti-Semitism.
"But no matter. Indeed, it may be exactly that goyishness, that reasonable assumption of latent anti-Semitism—what The New York Times characterized in recent coverage of the mock-anti-Semitic comic Sacha Baron Cohen as "that most risky of social toxins"—that helps create the leverage we're talking about. Walt, Mearsheimer, and Massing argue that because of the great effectiveness of an ad hoc group of determined Jews and their organizations, sometimes called the Israel lobby, or what my father—once president of the Jewish Federation of North Jersey—called "professional Jews" (that is, people who made their living off of being Jewish), the correlation of anti-Semitism with even the slightest qualms about Israel has become, year by year, ever more rigid. (Walt and Mearsheimer's own experience on the receiving end of great opprobrium for their article would certainly seem to demonstrate this point: nobody who ventures into this debate gets out in one piece.) The result is that every politician and media figure defaults to fixed sentiments about Israel. Everybody uses the same stamp-of-approval language. If you doubt Israel, you're suspect. You're practically Mel."
"On the other hand, if there is really no anti-Semitism, if it is as dead as … what? Communism … then a different sort of debate inevitably begins. If there is no anti-Semitism, then you can't so easily use the anti-Semitic card as a line of polemical defense. You can't be soft on an issue if there is no issue. If it becomes less than credible to accuse people of anti-Semitism, then there are aspects of the Israel situation—for instance, the disproportionate amount of U.S. aid to Israel, cited in Walt and Mearsheimer's article ($3 billion a year, one-fifth of the foreign-aid budget), or, more recently, the whole Lebanon-invasion thing—that reasonably intelligent people might want to consider at some greater length. So, in that respect, the very absence of anti-Semitism—if that's what we've achieved—becomes, practically speaking, anti-Semitic."
...a must see article.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/11/wolff200611?currentPage=2
Mel Gibson's meltdown, Günter Grass's past, and Joe Lieberman's primary loss all have reminded the world of a centuries-old hatred. But right now, the author argues, given Israel's controversial influence in Washington and recent invasion of Lebanon, people might be a little too eager to cry anti-Semitism.
"But no matter. Indeed, it may be exactly that goyishness, that reasonable assumption of latent anti-Semitism—what The New York Times characterized in recent coverage of the mock-anti-Semitic comic Sacha Baron Cohen as "that most risky of social toxins"—that helps create the leverage we're talking about. Walt, Mearsheimer, and Massing argue that because of the great effectiveness of an ad hoc group of determined Jews and their organizations, sometimes called the Israel lobby, or what my father—once president of the Jewish Federation of North Jersey—called "professional Jews" (that is, people who made their living off of being Jewish), the correlation of anti-Semitism with even the slightest qualms about Israel has become, year by year, ever more rigid. (Walt and Mearsheimer's own experience on the receiving end of great opprobrium for their article would certainly seem to demonstrate this point: nobody who ventures into this debate gets out in one piece.) The result is that every politician and media figure defaults to fixed sentiments about Israel. Everybody uses the same stamp-of-approval language. If you doubt Israel, you're suspect. You're practically Mel."
"On the other hand, if there is really no anti-Semitism, if it is as dead as … what? Communism … then a different sort of debate inevitably begins. If there is no anti-Semitism, then you can't so easily use the anti-Semitic card as a line of polemical defense. You can't be soft on an issue if there is no issue. If it becomes less than credible to accuse people of anti-Semitism, then there are aspects of the Israel situation—for instance, the disproportionate amount of U.S. aid to Israel, cited in Walt and Mearsheimer's article ($3 billion a year, one-fifth of the foreign-aid budget), or, more recently, the whole Lebanon-invasion thing—that reasonably intelligent people might want to consider at some greater length. So, in that respect, the very absence of anti-Semitism—if that's what we've achieved—becomes, practically speaking, anti-Semitic."
7.11.06
Hahaha, did everyone know that there is a WAR in Palestine lately?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/784887.html
Beats me! Who cares about them.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=76715
Several top Israeli officials have said the Jewish state must prepare for a second round of hostilities with the militia, which it says is armed by Syria and Iran. Both Damascus and Tehran deny the charge.
Hizbullah media officer Hussein Rahhal told The Daily Star on Monday that the Israeli threat was real.
"The Israelis continue to reveal aggressive intentions towards Lebanon all the time," Rahhal said. "That is why we have to take into consideration that the major military power deployed along our southern borderline can, at any moment and under any pretext or without an excuse, launch an attack on us. ... The Israeli generals' statements are the clearest proof that the resistance's reasoning is true. The resistance has to be ready to face any attack at all times. There has to be conformity between the resistance and the Lebanese Army and the role of the government and that of the people."
And one fifth of the US foreign aid budget goes to this war mongering nation each and every year...since WWII. Such a hard time they have of it!
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/784887.html
Beats me! Who cares about them.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=76715
Several top Israeli officials have said the Jewish state must prepare for a second round of hostilities with the militia, which it says is armed by Syria and Iran. Both Damascus and Tehran deny the charge.
Hizbullah media officer Hussein Rahhal told The Daily Star on Monday that the Israeli threat was real.
"The Israelis continue to reveal aggressive intentions towards Lebanon all the time," Rahhal said. "That is why we have to take into consideration that the major military power deployed along our southern borderline can, at any moment and under any pretext or without an excuse, launch an attack on us. ... The Israeli generals' statements are the clearest proof that the resistance's reasoning is true. The resistance has to be ready to face any attack at all times. There has to be conformity between the resistance and the Lebanese Army and the role of the government and that of the people."
And one fifth of the US foreign aid budget goes to this war mongering nation each and every year...since WWII. Such a hard time they have of it!
November
(2004)
Today is the day I was born
forty odd years ago at five pounds no ounces,
pregnant women were still allowed to smoke back then,
in the good old days. Fags were fags and no
one accused anyone of putting out a butt.
Not that it didn't happen.
I promised that it would be like just any other day,
but as usual that feeling envelopes me
as I wake to November Seventh Skies,
having just started re-reading Ted Hughes,
Birthday Letters for Sylvia, re-appreciating
the man's willingness to digress
on all that love meant to him,
in sentimental ways, not meaning to please
anyone, remembering Plath's rejection
at the hands of England in its Entirety.
As if I'd never read that book the first time.
What is it about this being born that matters
as you conjure up one of mother's old stories,
the time she saw The Light in her placenta previa,
the Voices told her:
"We aren't ready for you yet," and brother John
lived to be allergic to human milk and cow's milk,
the only answer a goat's teet before Similac.
And I had to be born. I definitely had to be born.
Now that John is an homeless addict and Mom is dead,
you wonder why she lived so that he could die
so many years in the future,
unrecognisable save for the knowledge that it really is him
casing my sister's house for a burglary.
It must have killed her as it kills me now.
He was born the November day six years before
JFK was shot and it always mattered
to us all in some familial way that we couldn't fathom
when we remembered it before it ever happened.
Oh November! Oh November here you are again
In the refrain, the afterbirth,
The light and the stain. November again.
....and on November 5th, I finally finished V for Vendetta. Now...there is a movie that ought to be watched. Once the movie started, it was only a moment or two until V mentions, the Fifth of November. And there it was! We were watching V for Vendetta on the Fifth of November.
It was a real Jimmy Judd moment.
http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/
And of course, there is always the Crowhaven moments of yore:
http://www.lastdriveinontheleft.com/crow-secret.html
Poor old Meg Porter.
(2004)
Today is the day I was born
forty odd years ago at five pounds no ounces,
pregnant women were still allowed to smoke back then,
in the good old days. Fags were fags and no
one accused anyone of putting out a butt.
Not that it didn't happen.
I promised that it would be like just any other day,
but as usual that feeling envelopes me
as I wake to November Seventh Skies,
having just started re-reading Ted Hughes,
Birthday Letters for Sylvia, re-appreciating
the man's willingness to digress
on all that love meant to him,
in sentimental ways, not meaning to please
anyone, remembering Plath's rejection
at the hands of England in its Entirety.
As if I'd never read that book the first time.
What is it about this being born that matters
as you conjure up one of mother's old stories,
the time she saw The Light in her placenta previa,
the Voices told her:
"We aren't ready for you yet," and brother John
lived to be allergic to human milk and cow's milk,
the only answer a goat's teet before Similac.
And I had to be born. I definitely had to be born.
Now that John is an homeless addict and Mom is dead,
you wonder why she lived so that he could die
so many years in the future,
unrecognisable save for the knowledge that it really is him
casing my sister's house for a burglary.
It must have killed her as it kills me now.
He was born the November day six years before
JFK was shot and it always mattered
to us all in some familial way that we couldn't fathom
when we remembered it before it ever happened.
Oh November! Oh November here you are again
In the refrain, the afterbirth,
The light and the stain. November again.
....and on November 5th, I finally finished V for Vendetta. Now...there is a movie that ought to be watched. Once the movie started, it was only a moment or two until V mentions, the Fifth of November. And there it was! We were watching V for Vendetta on the Fifth of November.
It was a real Jimmy Judd moment.
http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/
And of course, there is always the Crowhaven moments of yore:
http://www.lastdriveinontheleft.com/crow-secret.html
Poor old Meg Porter.
6.11.06
Giggster is gone. Suicide isn't painless.
http://www.lochravenreview.net/2006spring/baig.html Three poems by the late poet.
http://www.criticalpoet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18093&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Farewell Sandi Blakemore Baig
Sandi fought a very long battle with chemical addiction, health problems and so wanted to be a professional poet. She finally took her own life, just couldn't take it anymore. She is survived by her son Josh. My prayers go out to her family.
http://www.lochravenreview.net/2006spring/baig.html Three poems by the late poet.
http://www.criticalpoet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18093&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Farewell Sandi Blakemore Baig
Sandi fought a very long battle with chemical addiction, health problems and so wanted to be a professional poet. She finally took her own life, just couldn't take it anymore. She is survived by her son Josh. My prayers go out to her family.
4.11.06
The Russian Warnings
Asked about the violence in Volsk, Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman said his office is gathering information about such incidents around the country to try to determine whether there is a common cause, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported. - September 15, 2006
Talk is such a bunch of razors,
sharp bouquets of steel
with determination. There
is no explanation better
than the cut save the abstraction.
We are a pile of reasons
in a sturdy stack of faults.
To wonder which wound
would bleed the most
is a bet, a challenge.
Way too big for the dull knifes
with lost hopes, unlucky bachelors
lost on the hunt for actions.
Analysing your time
what is left, what is spent
and which part you still hold onto.
Too soon some say to die.
A slaughterhouse of promise
with the usual guilty pose,
just shivering in the laughter.
It is a butchery of the present.
The blood runs colder than the rivers
in Russia, the Volga strewn
with haymakers and vodkas
make the best antifreeze.
Car guts don't bleed like people though.
Tragic men all go home
just like the animals and ice.
They drop their instuments,
leave them for the others,
in the times known as al kharj.
Asked about the violence in Volsk, Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman said his office is gathering information about such incidents around the country to try to determine whether there is a common cause, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported. - September 15, 2006
Talk is such a bunch of razors,
sharp bouquets of steel
with determination. There
is no explanation better
than the cut save the abstraction.
We are a pile of reasons
in a sturdy stack of faults.
To wonder which wound
would bleed the most
is a bet, a challenge.
Way too big for the dull knifes
with lost hopes, unlucky bachelors
lost on the hunt for actions.
Analysing your time
what is left, what is spent
and which part you still hold onto.
Too soon some say to die.
A slaughterhouse of promise
with the usual guilty pose,
just shivering in the laughter.
It is a butchery of the present.
The blood runs colder than the rivers
in Russia, the Volga strewn
with haymakers and vodkas
make the best antifreeze.
Car guts don't bleed like people though.
Tragic men all go home
just like the animals and ice.
They drop their instuments,
leave them for the others,
in the times known as al kharj.
The Broadcasts
It is a fundamental truth to awaken
with fused eyes not from the tears
but the infections. Day after day
with each decrease in sight
the idea of the wet-eyed elders
with their tissues tosses about
on tables in gnarly heaps
of time origami, these used-up paper puzzles.
Stacks of literature near
the resevoirs of waiting
for pills of hope counted dearly.
Two o'clock to ten, eight hours
of constant sleep, rainbows
full of impossibility, this one
for life, a pleasant pot of gold.
The furnace blows in fierce reminders
yet the schedule remains the same,
the retirement accounts are growing.
Nothing beats an investigation
but a trial, the fuzzy light
of TV where old women go
and big men rest in the constant
chatter of radiation, whole dynasties
of excuse and banter, fickle
drainage and chalk philosophies
where the girls look fairly good.
Here is the etiology of the bloodshot
where the blind call the blind, the blind.
It is a fundamental truth to awaken
with fused eyes not from the tears
but the infections. Day after day
with each decrease in sight
the idea of the wet-eyed elders
with their tissues tosses about
on tables in gnarly heaps
of time origami, these used-up paper puzzles.
Stacks of literature near
the resevoirs of waiting
for pills of hope counted dearly.
Two o'clock to ten, eight hours
of constant sleep, rainbows
full of impossibility, this one
for life, a pleasant pot of gold.
The furnace blows in fierce reminders
yet the schedule remains the same,
the retirement accounts are growing.
Nothing beats an investigation
but a trial, the fuzzy light
of TV where old women go
and big men rest in the constant
chatter of radiation, whole dynasties
of excuse and banter, fickle
drainage and chalk philosophies
where the girls look fairly good.
Here is the etiology of the bloodshot
where the blind call the blind, the blind.
3.11.06
Anti Zionist Jews who accuse Israeli Zionists of Nazi Collaboration:
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/
You know, what is surprising to me as an American, is the fact that Americans have accused Bush of being a Nazi, a fascist among other things. Americans have accused Clinton of murder, collaboration, sexual misconduct, etc. The TV is just chock full of "Anti American" sentiment. That the press is no longer an unbiased press (CNN for democrats/FOX for Republicans). You know, in police states, the control of the press by the state is of paramount importance and it is no different in the "so called" bi-partisan pissing match the US government not only supervises but allows to exist as a "free press". It is no longer a free press. In fact, the press controls the government and it is clearly evident in Kerry's HONEST appraisal of the young men who fight and die in Iraq on a daily basis...mostly under the age of 21 years old. Kerry wasn't misrepresenting anything. He was telling the truth but the press intervened and placed a gag order on him. Is the US government answerable to the press? I most definitely think so. Absolutely. It is worse than the methodology of police states who control their presses. It is a higher level of abuse and uses "Freedom of Speech" in a most exploitative way. To suprress information that would actually lead to change not only in the ME, but in the United States of America...which is rapidly becoming one of the most oppressed countries on the planet. Oppressed not only by the government, but by individuals themselves. Like our friends at the JD who have taken it upon themselves to police my politics, my poetry and my involvement online at the Daily Kos. America is a very sick old man indeed.
But to this day, a person is censored for declaring Zionism an evil ideology born in the minds of two men who were documented racists. Who were complicit in diverting attacks that would have eliminated places like Auschwitz. And who garnered a deal to sell German goods as "Made in Palestine" during the Jewish boycotts of German goods in the first half of the 20th century.
To this day, Zionism is a "no man's land" involving censorship, baiting and targeting of anyone who is brave enough to speak the word out loud and accuse those who support Zionism of sponsoring ethnic cleansing and terrorism of the worst sort: STATE terrorism.
Thank God not all the Good Jews are dead. There are many who are crying out for justice for the Palestinian people and muslims worldwide. Most of them live outside Israel and many of them are horrified to be linked to the war crimes of Israel.
No one though seems to be listening to them and the press never covers much about them. It is no wonder that they operate in obscurity. The press is much more involved in Building the Government that allows the press to continually manipulate news events and hence, world history as a documentation of actual crimes against humanity and against entire countries.
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/
You know, what is surprising to me as an American, is the fact that Americans have accused Bush of being a Nazi, a fascist among other things. Americans have accused Clinton of murder, collaboration, sexual misconduct, etc. The TV is just chock full of "Anti American" sentiment. That the press is no longer an unbiased press (CNN for democrats/FOX for Republicans). You know, in police states, the control of the press by the state is of paramount importance and it is no different in the "so called" bi-partisan pissing match the US government not only supervises but allows to exist as a "free press". It is no longer a free press. In fact, the press controls the government and it is clearly evident in Kerry's HONEST appraisal of the young men who fight and die in Iraq on a daily basis...mostly under the age of 21 years old. Kerry wasn't misrepresenting anything. He was telling the truth but the press intervened and placed a gag order on him. Is the US government answerable to the press? I most definitely think so. Absolutely. It is worse than the methodology of police states who control their presses. It is a higher level of abuse and uses "Freedom of Speech" in a most exploitative way. To suprress information that would actually lead to change not only in the ME, but in the United States of America...which is rapidly becoming one of the most oppressed countries on the planet. Oppressed not only by the government, but by individuals themselves. Like our friends at the JD who have taken it upon themselves to police my politics, my poetry and my involvement online at the Daily Kos. America is a very sick old man indeed.
But to this day, a person is censored for declaring Zionism an evil ideology born in the minds of two men who were documented racists. Who were complicit in diverting attacks that would have eliminated places like Auschwitz. And who garnered a deal to sell German goods as "Made in Palestine" during the Jewish boycotts of German goods in the first half of the 20th century.
To this day, Zionism is a "no man's land" involving censorship, baiting and targeting of anyone who is brave enough to speak the word out loud and accuse those who support Zionism of sponsoring ethnic cleansing and terrorism of the worst sort: STATE terrorism.
Thank God not all the Good Jews are dead. There are many who are crying out for justice for the Palestinian people and muslims worldwide. Most of them live outside Israel and many of them are horrified to be linked to the war crimes of Israel.
No one though seems to be listening to them and the press never covers much about them. It is no wonder that they operate in obscurity. The press is much more involved in Building the Government that allows the press to continually manipulate news events and hence, world history as a documentation of actual crimes against humanity and against entire countries.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=17&article_id=76541
Israel insists that it needs to conduct surveillance flights over Lebanon in order to monitor alleged arms smuggling, but this claim is a blatant lie.
Israel insists that it needs to conduct surveillance flights over Lebanon in order to monitor alleged arms smuggling, but this claim is a blatant lie.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/2/15112/4240
Join Tim Smith and I for a debate party at the Daily Kos.
Thanks Tim! I couldn't have done it, "without" your help.
1.11.06
Lolita in Tehran @ Silliman.com
[ Uthman bin Hunayf was the Governor of Basra. He was one of those persons who were held in respect by Imam Ali (a). During his governorship Ibn Hunayf once attended a feast given by a rich man of Basra. It was a very sumptuous dinner. When Imam Ali (a) heard of this he wrote the following letter to him. It shows that the more Imam Ali (a) liked a person the more severely he judged his activities. ]
The Amish, the non Amish and others who prefer Fiction instead of Fact:
Happy November.
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/
[ Uthman bin Hunayf was the Governor of Basra. He was one of those persons who were held in respect by Imam Ali (a). During his governorship Ibn Hunayf once attended a feast given by a rich man of Basra. It was a very sumptuous dinner. When Imam Ali (a) heard of this he wrote the following letter to him. It shows that the more Imam Ali (a) liked a person the more severely he judged his activities. ]
The Amish, the non Amish and others who prefer Fiction instead of Fact:
Happy November.
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061101/ts_nm/mideast_dc
Moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel was waging "all-out war," and called the operation "despicable."
....you see to Israelis, all Palestinians are the "infrastructure of terror" because they all share a belief, a knowledge that they have been the target of over a half century's worth of ethnic cleansing, theft and murder. Goes to show you how the arrogance of the US's stance in the world i.e. "The Greatest Country on Earth" has led to the noxious and entirely inexcusable arrogance of Israel which has no legitimate right to exist regardless of whether or not it does.
Many countries exist (including the US) without a "legitimate right" to exist and now..these two belligerent tyrants with bloody hands not only condone violence, they pay for it.
Thanks America. Not a single candidate on EITHER roster who pledges to eliminate US funding for Israeli terrorism. Not a single one.
Moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel was waging "all-out war," and called the operation "despicable."
....you see to Israelis, all Palestinians are the "infrastructure of terror" because they all share a belief, a knowledge that they have been the target of over a half century's worth of ethnic cleansing, theft and murder. Goes to show you how the arrogance of the US's stance in the world i.e. "The Greatest Country on Earth" has led to the noxious and entirely inexcusable arrogance of Israel which has no legitimate right to exist regardless of whether or not it does.
Many countries exist (including the US) without a "legitimate right" to exist and now..these two belligerent tyrants with bloody hands not only condone violence, they pay for it.
Thanks America. Not a single candidate on EITHER roster who pledges to eliminate US funding for Israeli terrorism. Not a single one.
Israeli Terrorism Continues Unabated:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=76560
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=76560
31.10.06
On the challenge of writing Politically from an Arab or Muslim perspective:
http://greatamericanpinup.blogspot.com/2006/01/suheir-hammads-zaatardiva-and-kazim.html
Well done.
http://greatamericanpinup.blogspot.com/2006/01/suheir-hammads-zaatardiva-and-kazim.html
Well done.
Is Muqtada Al Sadr becoming the "Nasrallah of Iraq"?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061031/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Besides al-Sadr, the largest Shiite coalition in the 275-member parliament, the United Iraqi Alliance, had also condemned the checkpoints for inflicting what it described as "collective punishment" against residents of Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods.
*"Kidnapping a man can't be a pretext for laying siege to these neighborhoods," Sheik Jalal Eddin al-Sagheer, a prominent Shiite lawmaker, said at a news conference.
Al-Maliki's threatened to further roil relations with the U.S. that hit a rough patch last week after Al-Maliki issued a string of bitter complaints — at one point saying he was not "America's man in Iraq."
Al-Maliki had apparently been angered by a statement from U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad that the prime minister had agreed to set a timeline for progress on reaching security and political goals — something al-Maliki denied. He also angrily rebuked the U.S. for a raid on Sadr city targeting an alleged death squad leader in which 10 people were killed.
*As it was a justification for Israeli war crimes against the Lebanese people. A person MUST read between the lines. Political and war captives cannot be the basis for wars when in fact, the US and Israel are engaged in a war against Muslims and their way of life, liberty and the persuit of Islamic States instead of US engineered democrazies. Particularly in light of Gitmo and Abu Gharaib. If that is indeed the case for "collective punishment" then boy, does the US have it coming to them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061031/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Besides al-Sadr, the largest Shiite coalition in the 275-member parliament, the United Iraqi Alliance, had also condemned the checkpoints for inflicting what it described as "collective punishment" against residents of Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods.
*"Kidnapping a man can't be a pretext for laying siege to these neighborhoods," Sheik Jalal Eddin al-Sagheer, a prominent Shiite lawmaker, said at a news conference.
Al-Maliki's threatened to further roil relations with the U.S. that hit a rough patch last week after Al-Maliki issued a string of bitter complaints — at one point saying he was not "America's man in Iraq."
Al-Maliki had apparently been angered by a statement from U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad that the prime minister had agreed to set a timeline for progress on reaching security and political goals — something al-Maliki denied. He also angrily rebuked the U.S. for a raid on Sadr city targeting an alleged death squad leader in which 10 people were killed.
*As it was a justification for Israeli war crimes against the Lebanese people. A person MUST read between the lines. Political and war captives cannot be the basis for wars when in fact, the US and Israel are engaged in a war against Muslims and their way of life, liberty and the persuit of Islamic States instead of US engineered democrazies. Particularly in light of Gitmo and Abu Gharaib. If that is indeed the case for "collective punishment" then boy, does the US have it coming to them.
Screw MOCKERY. We have had enough
of Israel's BRUTAL MOCKERIES!
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/781888.html
In the heaviest show of aerial power since the August 14 cease-fire, IAF fighter jets dived down at least six times to zoom low over the southern suburbs. No bombing was reported, but the roar of the jets caused concern among residents, some of whom took to the rooftops and balconies to watch.In south Lebanon, officials and witnesses reported IAF planes staging mock raids over the towns of Nabatiyeh and Tyre.
I.E. "staging" "mockery" "caused concern"....just like everyone they murder is a "militant".
Militant pregnant women at checkpoints and their stillborn little militants that die because they are denied transit to hospitals. Militant children with their buckets on the beach. Militant children on their way to school (a famous incident in which the IDF literally planted a shell on a path to a Palestinian schoolyard and detonated it by remote control) in which five children from one family were murdered in cold blood. The Militant boy named Mohamed Al Dura that was murdered in cold blood as his father sheltered him from IDF machine gun fire. The Militant activist Rachel Corey who was not only run over once by an IDF bulldozer but repeatedly.
So many militants and so much mockery!
She complains of how no one is helping them.
of Israel's BRUTAL MOCKERIES!
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/781888.html
In the heaviest show of aerial power since the August 14 cease-fire, IAF fighter jets dived down at least six times to zoom low over the southern suburbs. No bombing was reported, but the roar of the jets caused concern among residents, some of whom took to the rooftops and balconies to watch.In south Lebanon, officials and witnesses reported IAF planes staging mock raids over the towns of Nabatiyeh and Tyre.
I.E. "staging" "mockery" "caused concern"....just like everyone they murder is a "militant".
Militant pregnant women at checkpoints and their stillborn little militants that die because they are denied transit to hospitals. Militant children with their buckets on the beach. Militant children on their way to school (a famous incident in which the IDF literally planted a shell on a path to a Palestinian schoolyard and detonated it by remote control) in which five children from one family were murdered in cold blood. The Militant boy named Mohamed Al Dura that was murdered in cold blood as his father sheltered him from IDF machine gun fire. The Militant activist Rachel Corey who was not only run over once by an IDF bulldozer but repeatedly.
So many militants and so much mockery!
She complains of how no one is helping them.
30.10.06
Jimmy Judd is dead.
http://www.willcoxrangenews.com/articles/2005/12/07/news/news3.txt
The strangest thing happened today. My daughter and I were on the road to Douglas and I was retelling the Miracle Valley tale for about the thousandth time. I thought about what an interesting story it is and how the two of us should "work on it" together. When I got home, I did a quick search on Jimmy's name and Miracle Valley and found much to both of our surprise and amazement, that the sherriff had died on Friday. This is the second time Miracle Valley has made such a strange re-entry into my life on this "visit" to SE Arizona. Last time, it was a deer when I wished to see an animal. The poem, called The Old West is about miracles and the deer and the valley in which Miracles are said to occur. And mammoth bones discovered.
Must be a sign.
http://carmenisacat.blogspot.com/2006/09/milk-is-white-love-is-black-you.html
http://www.willcoxrangenews.com/articles/2005/12/07/news/news3.txt
The strangest thing happened today. My daughter and I were on the road to Douglas and I was retelling the Miracle Valley tale for about the thousandth time. I thought about what an interesting story it is and how the two of us should "work on it" together. When I got home, I did a quick search on Jimmy's name and Miracle Valley and found much to both of our surprise and amazement, that the sherriff had died on Friday. This is the second time Miracle Valley has made such a strange re-entry into my life on this "visit" to SE Arizona. Last time, it was a deer when I wished to see an animal. The poem, called The Old West is about miracles and the deer and the valley in which Miracles are said to occur. And mammoth bones discovered.
Must be a sign.
http://carmenisacat.blogspot.com/2006/09/milk-is-white-love-is-black-you.html
29.10.06
Israel Using Dirty Weapons of Mass Destruction
(well, we all know this and some of us even know about
the flying nuclear waste from places like the Los Alamos
facilities that mysteriously lost some computers to
a forest fire...some of us actually know what DU is.
It is flying Nuclear Waste that kills two birds with one
very hot stone: eliminates the need for disposal
while simultaneously distributing radioactive
dust to everyone in close proximity to a war
zone, regardless of their role as "enemy
combatants". Or non, as the case may be.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/780584.html
Busby's report concluded that such results could be caused either by bunker-busting conventional bombs using uranium or a new kind of weapon bearing a "novel small experimental nuclear fission device or other experimental weapon (e.g., a thermobaric weapon) based on the high temperature of a uranium oxidation flash."
(well, we all know this and some of us even know about
the flying nuclear waste from places like the Los Alamos
facilities that mysteriously lost some computers to
a forest fire...some of us actually know what DU is.
It is flying Nuclear Waste that kills two birds with one
very hot stone: eliminates the need for disposal
while simultaneously distributing radioactive
dust to everyone in close proximity to a war
zone, regardless of their role as "enemy
combatants". Or non, as the case may be.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/780584.html
Busby's report concluded that such results could be caused either by bunker-busting conventional bombs using uranium or a new kind of weapon bearing a "novel small experimental nuclear fission device or other experimental weapon (e.g., a thermobaric weapon) based on the high temperature of a uranium oxidation flash."
Ode To Patty D
They said we couldn't play together
no more-no more, couldn't play together
no more. I didn't get it. La dee da.
You were white, I was white.
You were poor, I was poor.
You were mean, I was mean.
Just didn't get it so we snuck around.
We borrowed the Japanese Flag from
an old house half-burned down,
stole a crystal ball.
It didn't tell us nothing.
I think it was because you were
an Eastern Hillbilly and I was a Western.
But it could have been your mean dog Trixie,
a gray pointer with gnashing teeth
or your brother David, may he roast in hell
for opening up the kitty that way.
They said we couldn't play together
no more-no more, couldn't play together
no more. I didn't get it. La dee da.
You were white, I was white.
You were poor, I was poor.
You were mean, I was mean.
Just didn't get it so we snuck around.
We borrowed the Japanese Flag from
an old house half-burned down,
stole a crystal ball.
It didn't tell us nothing.
I think it was because you were
an Eastern Hillbilly and I was a Western.
But it could have been your mean dog Trixie,
a gray pointer with gnashing teeth
or your brother David, may he roast in hell
for opening up the kitty that way.
28.10.06
All Muslims Declared Insane:
http://www.islamonline.net/iol-english/dowalia/society-7-2-2000/society1.asp
Ibn Umar (raa) reported that Allah's Messenger (pbuh) as saying: "Every intoxicant is Khamr and every (type of) Khamr is prohibited. The one who drinks wine in this world and is addicted to it dies without repentance and will not drink it in the Hereafter."3
http://www.islamweb.net/ver2/archive/article.php?lang=E&id=844&ShowVoteResult=yes
A recent study revealed that alcohol use costs the U.S. a staggering billion US dollars a year, more than all illegal drugs combined, in the form of lost workdays and drunken driving accidents. Alcohol is a most addictive psychoactive drug; about six million Americans persistently misuse it and another 8 million are permanently addicted to it. This year about 100,000 will die from alcohol-related causes and hospital beds are littered with chronic alcohol abusers suffering from heart disease, stroke and liver failure. Others spend years in and out of treatment centers with their lives wrecked as well as of those close to them. Most of such outpatients suffer from illnesses such as anxiety, depression and schizophrenia. Yet alcohol is a socially accepted common drink and flows freely throughout the American society. Alcohol manufacturers spend more than 1 billion in advertisements promoting its relaxing and pleasing effects. That is three times the annual budget of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) for alcohol research. Unlike other drugs, no war has been declared on its misuse and any talk of restriction conjures up the failures of 1920's prohibition era. There is no discussion of its ill effects except in relation to road accidents, despite the knowledge that it is responsible not only for death of others on the road but is also harmful to the one who uses it.
In Pre Islamic Arabia:
Drinking would provide escape from deep-rooted personal insecurities and the instability of family life, just as it does today. (Hahaha much like Pre Islamic America ya think?)
A well organized plan for gradual change. The Islamic prohibition on alcohol was a logical final step of a well organized plan executed over a period of 3 years, communicated by the Qur’an and put into practice by the Prophet. Thus the heavy and problem drinkers were gradually weaned off this habit. We could assume this to have some resemblance to the present-day systematic desensitizing hierarchy used in behavioral therapy.However, the most important factor was the believers’ whole-hearted readiness to give up drinking when the Divine command came: "Surely al-khamr (intoxicants; wine and alcoholic drinks) is forbidden." This command was enough to stop drinking instantaneously, throw away any and all drinks and to break up or empty existing pots, skins full and other containers of fermented date, palm, honey and grape in every gathering and household until the streets of Madinah flowed like streams of alcohol as a testimony to the greatest anti-alcohol movement ever witnessed by humankind. It was an extraordinary exhibition of willpower installed by faith.
Thus it is clear that the current epidemic of alcohol abuse cannot be remedied unless the supporting structures and mechanisms are put in place in the American society. Therefore, it is time that American Muslims with their rich tradition and reGreater Syria methodology, get busy working to help their compatriots beset with problems such as those associated with the use of alcohol.
http://www.islamonline.net/iol-english/dowalia/society-7-2-2000/society1.asp
Ibn Umar (raa) reported that Allah's Messenger (pbuh) as saying: "Every intoxicant is Khamr and every (type of) Khamr is prohibited. The one who drinks wine in this world and is addicted to it dies without repentance and will not drink it in the Hereafter."3
http://www.islamweb.net/ver2/archive/article.php?lang=E&id=844&ShowVoteResult=yes
A recent study revealed that alcohol use costs the U.S. a staggering billion US dollars a year, more than all illegal drugs combined, in the form of lost workdays and drunken driving accidents. Alcohol is a most addictive psychoactive drug; about six million Americans persistently misuse it and another 8 million are permanently addicted to it. This year about 100,000 will die from alcohol-related causes and hospital beds are littered with chronic alcohol abusers suffering from heart disease, stroke and liver failure. Others spend years in and out of treatment centers with their lives wrecked as well as of those close to them. Most of such outpatients suffer from illnesses such as anxiety, depression and schizophrenia. Yet alcohol is a socially accepted common drink and flows freely throughout the American society. Alcohol manufacturers spend more than 1 billion in advertisements promoting its relaxing and pleasing effects. That is three times the annual budget of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) for alcohol research. Unlike other drugs, no war has been declared on its misuse and any talk of restriction conjures up the failures of 1920's prohibition era. There is no discussion of its ill effects except in relation to road accidents, despite the knowledge that it is responsible not only for death of others on the road but is also harmful to the one who uses it.
In Pre Islamic Arabia:
Drinking would provide escape from deep-rooted personal insecurities and the instability of family life, just as it does today. (Hahaha much like Pre Islamic America ya think?)
A well organized plan for gradual change. The Islamic prohibition on alcohol was a logical final step of a well organized plan executed over a period of 3 years, communicated by the Qur’an and put into practice by the Prophet. Thus the heavy and problem drinkers were gradually weaned off this habit. We could assume this to have some resemblance to the present-day systematic desensitizing hierarchy used in behavioral therapy.However, the most important factor was the believers’ whole-hearted readiness to give up drinking when the Divine command came: "Surely al-khamr (intoxicants; wine and alcoholic drinks) is forbidden." This command was enough to stop drinking instantaneously, throw away any and all drinks and to break up or empty existing pots, skins full and other containers of fermented date, palm, honey and grape in every gathering and household until the streets of Madinah flowed like streams of alcohol as a testimony to the greatest anti-alcohol movement ever witnessed by humankind. It was an extraordinary exhibition of willpower installed by faith.
Thus it is clear that the current epidemic of alcohol abuse cannot be remedied unless the supporting structures and mechanisms are put in place in the American society. Therefore, it is time that American Muslims with their rich tradition and reGreater Syria methodology, get busy working to help their compatriots beset with problems such as those associated with the use of alcohol.
From The Archives of Shame
I've only met one person who worked for Homeland Security in my travels. He was a bastard.
We were in Cyprus evacuating and there were many women with small children. They had loaded us up at the crack of dawn (from the refugee center) and taken us to the Cypriot airport. We waited and waited. The C 130s could only hold a hundred passengers each. Our group was in line and the next plane was having trouble so we just had to stand there and guard our places. One woman I had run into several times in the years preceeding our fateful day...a muslim woman from Louisiana....was having problems guarding her own place from her own daughter...a girl who had married a muslim man and "reverted" and then, the mother in law had "reverted" and was in Lebanon in order to take care of her autistic grandson because her daughter was obviously a bit selfish. Anyways...as we were waiting, another busload of us appeared and they just made a line by ours and when they opened up the screening booth, they just hopped right in before us..we'd been waiting almost four hours.
Well...the little kids were getting dehydrated and the poor mothers in our tribe were having a hard time. My powerful friend had taken the previous cargo jet outta Cyprus so it left no one but me to protect our little hapless band of idgits.
So I stepped up to the plate..there was nothing I could do about the "line cutters" who had arrived after us because this mofo from Homeland Security just didn't care about First Come First Serve...he hated us all because afterall, we were mostly LEBANESE Americans and children. So....I went up and told him that the babies and women need to go FIRST. They were getting massively dehydrated and in fact, one flaked out Lebanese woman who was the wife of a doctor had completely lost it and was getting medical attention from the airport nurses and medics (who, by the way asked ME if they should give her some valium so I asked her doctor husband who was used to the woman's neuroses and he said, point blank, "no" and neither one of them could look at me during the long haul to Newark because his wife had started yelling at me because I said to her: Are you maybe hysterical?).
So the Homeland Security guy treated me like I had no right to be a nurse and talk about the Titanic Method of "women and children first" and was just such a major asshole.
I asked for his name. And a piece of paper to assign numbers to my tribe so that the women and children could go have a diaper change and a drink without losing their place in line to the usurpers. He denied me a piece of paper! Said I was just screwing everything up and I had no "authority" to do such a thing!
I said fine. It's on you buddy if one of these babies goes into a hypovolemic crisis (many of the kids had diarrhea as well from the uncertain conditions we'd been bathing and eating in for four days).
Finally he followed me and said, "here is some water...go distribute it."
And I said NO. YOU DO IT. IT IS YOUR JOB.
So...I got my tribe through on the next C130 (a whole collection of short stories in that tale!) using my number system which completely foiled the attempts of other line breakers to further delay our departure....and you know what?
In the waiting area of the Cypriot airport....where I had to rush to find my children because I SWORE to my tribe that I'd be the last to board and if anyone had babies, they'd go before me with MY OWN CHILDREN....all the mommies and daddies came up and thanked me.
Homeland Security my ass. They are Nazis and don't give a damn about humans. They are sick little bureaucrats drunk on their own authority.
My two cents.
I've only met one person who worked for Homeland Security in my travels. He was a bastard.
We were in Cyprus evacuating and there were many women with small children. They had loaded us up at the crack of dawn (from the refugee center) and taken us to the Cypriot airport. We waited and waited. The C 130s could only hold a hundred passengers each. Our group was in line and the next plane was having trouble so we just had to stand there and guard our places. One woman I had run into several times in the years preceeding our fateful day...a muslim woman from Louisiana....was having problems guarding her own place from her own daughter...a girl who had married a muslim man and "reverted" and then, the mother in law had "reverted" and was in Lebanon in order to take care of her autistic grandson because her daughter was obviously a bit selfish. Anyways...as we were waiting, another busload of us appeared and they just made a line by ours and when they opened up the screening booth, they just hopped right in before us..we'd been waiting almost four hours.
Well...the little kids were getting dehydrated and the poor mothers in our tribe were having a hard time. My powerful friend had taken the previous cargo jet outta Cyprus so it left no one but me to protect our little hapless band of idgits.
So I stepped up to the plate..there was nothing I could do about the "line cutters" who had arrived after us because this mofo from Homeland Security just didn't care about First Come First Serve...he hated us all because afterall, we were mostly LEBANESE Americans and children. So....I went up and told him that the babies and women need to go FIRST. They were getting massively dehydrated and in fact, one flaked out Lebanese woman who was the wife of a doctor had completely lost it and was getting medical attention from the airport nurses and medics (who, by the way asked ME if they should give her some valium so I asked her doctor husband who was used to the woman's neuroses and he said, point blank, "no" and neither one of them could look at me during the long haul to Newark because his wife had started yelling at me because I said to her: Are you maybe hysterical?).
So the Homeland Security guy treated me like I had no right to be a nurse and talk about the Titanic Method of "women and children first" and was just such a major asshole.
I asked for his name. And a piece of paper to assign numbers to my tribe so that the women and children could go have a diaper change and a drink without losing their place in line to the usurpers. He denied me a piece of paper! Said I was just screwing everything up and I had no "authority" to do such a thing!
I said fine. It's on you buddy if one of these babies goes into a hypovolemic crisis (many of the kids had diarrhea as well from the uncertain conditions we'd been bathing and eating in for four days).
Finally he followed me and said, "here is some water...go distribute it."
And I said NO. YOU DO IT. IT IS YOUR JOB.
So...I got my tribe through on the next C130 (a whole collection of short stories in that tale!) using my number system which completely foiled the attempts of other line breakers to further delay our departure....and you know what?
In the waiting area of the Cypriot airport....where I had to rush to find my children because I SWORE to my tribe that I'd be the last to board and if anyone had babies, they'd go before me with MY OWN CHILDREN....all the mommies and daddies came up and thanked me.
Homeland Security my ass. They are Nazis and don't give a damn about humans. They are sick little bureaucrats drunk on their own authority.
My two cents.
27.10.06
Good Boy, Lucky Girl
Finally, I saw
it came running down
after the rocks
that it knocked
into antecedence,
little chips
from the slag.
The dog had watched
it many times,
I could tell
by the twitch
of his ears,
the way he snuck
outside at dawn
in the freezing cold
to see it.
I really wanted it
as much as he,
could almost smell
the pelt, feel
the squirrel run.
I finally saw it.
I'm such a lucky girl.
Daylight sometimes finds us all.
Finally, I saw
it came running down
after the rocks
that it knocked
into antecedence,
little chips
from the slag.
The dog had watched
it many times,
I could tell
by the twitch
of his ears,
the way he snuck
outside at dawn
in the freezing cold
to see it.
I really wanted it
as much as he,
could almost smell
the pelt, feel
the squirrel run.
I finally saw it.
I'm such a lucky girl.
Daylight sometimes finds us all.
http://www.geocities.com/midisandlyrics/whenthesaintsgomarchingin.mid
or maybe it's this:
http://www.geocities.com/midisandlyrics/winchestercathedral.mid
But where in the world would people be without this:
http://www.geocities.com/midisandlyrics/hesgotthewholeworldinhishands.mid
or this particular SNAFU:
http://www.geocities.com/midisandlyrics/houseoftherisingsun.mid
There is a house in New Orleans, they call the "Rising Sun",
It's been the ruin of many a good girl
And oh God, you know I'm one
Oh God, you know I'm one
Oh God, you know I'm one.
I imagine those songs, without the word G-D would just be...well....just songs to our great Mazda, the one, the sublime but somehow, it just wouldn't work:
And oh Mazda, you know I'm one.
Damn.
or maybe it's this:
http://www.geocities.com/midisandlyrics/winchestercathedral.mid
But where in the world would people be without this:
http://www.geocities.com/midisandlyrics/hesgotthewholeworldinhishands.mid
or this particular SNAFU:
http://www.geocities.com/midisandlyrics/houseoftherisingsun.mid
There is a house in New Orleans, they call the "Rising Sun",
It's been the ruin of many a good girl
And oh God, you know I'm one
Oh God, you know I'm one
Oh God, you know I'm one.
I imagine those songs, without the word G-D would just be...well....just songs to our great Mazda, the one, the sublime but somehow, it just wouldn't work:
And oh Mazda, you know I'm one.
Damn.
25.10.06
Every time a poet does this,
they risk quitting forever - Darla Whitehead
Which Lingua Franca
In the most Oriental chapters of chaos
are the great portals of time, the backwards
and forwards of speech are opened, closed
bang bang bang, interpretation in the breezes.
The dietary is shared with disaster
in the pigment of newsprint and rally.
Who bothers about the senate anymore
when each thing branches into a hundred more,
a very long history of policy is the groundwork
for a mudslide in a milieu of plunder.
There isn't a quick fix for this, there isn't
a new order. There is this right now
in the revocation of prairies, that haze.
Your God and mine. That makes two.
The future isn't written in Latin anymore.
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-05/08/article03.shtml
And of course, there's this:
After the Communist takeover in 1949, Mao Zedung set about dividing the Muslims into nationalities so they would identify with their 'ethnic' origin and not their 'Muslim' identity.
According to population statistics of 1936, the then Kuomingtang Republic of China had an estimated 48,104,240 Muslims. After the introduction of Mao's policies, this number was reduced to ten million. No official Chinese explanation has ever been given for this apparent disappearance of around 38 million Muslims. The mass extermination and destruction of the Muslims of China pales before the much publicized plight of a handful of Tibetan monks or the democrats of Tiannaman Square.
Talk about a Holocaust!
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HI06Ad01.html
In the past the Hui were among the least orthodox Muslims in the world. Many smoked and drank, few grew beards, and Hui women rarely wore veils. Increased contact with the Middle East, however, has wrought changes. Thousands of Hui students have returned from colleges in Arab countries over the past few years and they have brought with them stricter ideas of Islam. Mosques in Ningxia have now begun to receive worshippers five times a day, more Hui women have taken to wearing headscarves, and skullcaps are in wide evidence. There is a strong identification among the Hui community today with the wider problems of the Islamic world. "It's American policy that has given all of us Muslims a bad reputation," said Yang, Tai Zi Mosque's female imam, quivering with indignation. "We are a peace-loving religion, but look what they [the Americans] have turned us into. Look what lies they spread about us," she continued. The 50 women surrounding her all nodded slowly in assent. For many non-Muslim Chinese, this identification of the Hui with communities outside of China is problematic. "Earlier the Hui were just like us except they didn't eat pork. Now they think they are very special. They think of themselves as foreigners," a Foreign Office official in Ningxia complained. The Hui are exempt from China's one-child policy, and affirmative-action schemes reserve special seats for them at universities and government departments. In interior regions such as Ningxia that have been left out of the economic boom of China's coastal region, competition for jobs is intense and resentment against the Hui's "special" privileges is increasing.
they risk quitting forever - Darla Whitehead
Which Lingua Franca
In the most Oriental chapters of chaos
are the great portals of time, the backwards
and forwards of speech are opened, closed
bang bang bang, interpretation in the breezes.
The dietary is shared with disaster
in the pigment of newsprint and rally.
Who bothers about the senate anymore
when each thing branches into a hundred more,
a very long history of policy is the groundwork
for a mudslide in a milieu of plunder.
There isn't a quick fix for this, there isn't
a new order. There is this right now
in the revocation of prairies, that haze.
Your God and mine. That makes two.
The future isn't written in Latin anymore.
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-05/08/article03.shtml
And of course, there's this:
After the Communist takeover in 1949, Mao Zedung set about dividing the Muslims into nationalities so they would identify with their 'ethnic' origin and not their 'Muslim' identity.
According to population statistics of 1936, the then Kuomingtang Republic of China had an estimated 48,104,240 Muslims. After the introduction of Mao's policies, this number was reduced to ten million. No official Chinese explanation has ever been given for this apparent disappearance of around 38 million Muslims. The mass extermination and destruction of the Muslims of China pales before the much publicized plight of a handful of Tibetan monks or the democrats of Tiannaman Square.
Talk about a Holocaust!
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HI06Ad01.html
In the past the Hui were among the least orthodox Muslims in the world. Many smoked and drank, few grew beards, and Hui women rarely wore veils. Increased contact with the Middle East, however, has wrought changes. Thousands of Hui students have returned from colleges in Arab countries over the past few years and they have brought with them stricter ideas of Islam. Mosques in Ningxia have now begun to receive worshippers five times a day, more Hui women have taken to wearing headscarves, and skullcaps are in wide evidence. There is a strong identification among the Hui community today with the wider problems of the Islamic world. "It's American policy that has given all of us Muslims a bad reputation," said Yang, Tai Zi Mosque's female imam, quivering with indignation. "We are a peace-loving religion, but look what they [the Americans] have turned us into. Look what lies they spread about us," she continued. The 50 women surrounding her all nodded slowly in assent. For many non-Muslim Chinese, this identification of the Hui with communities outside of China is problematic. "Earlier the Hui were just like us except they didn't eat pork. Now they think they are very special. They think of themselves as foreigners," a Foreign Office official in Ningxia complained. The Hui are exempt from China's one-child policy, and affirmative-action schemes reserve special seats for them at universities and government departments. In interior regions such as Ningxia that have been left out of the economic boom of China's coastal region, competition for jobs is intense and resentment against the Hui's "special" privileges is increasing.
24.10.06
23.10.06
Israel has been accused of firing as many as 4 million cluster bombs into Lebanon during the war, especially in the last hours before the cease-fire. U.N. demining experts say up to 1 million cluster bombs failed to explode immediately and continue to threaten civilians.
On Sunday, a cluster bomb exploded in a southern Lebanese village, killing a 12-year-old boy and wounding his younger brother, security officials said. At least 21 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded by cluster bombs since the end of the war, the U.N. Mine Action Center said.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, has been criticized for failing to distinguish between Israeli civilian and military targets.* Human Rights Watch also said the militant group fired cluster bombs into civilian areas of northern Israel during the fighting.
*Yet, Hezbollah managed to kill, mostly IDF personnel. Like the old days when wars were not extended exercises in how many war crimes can be perpetrated by US allies without any accountability being assigned to them for war crimes whatsoever.
What a joke. What is even jokier is the notion that French UNIFIL soldiers are "threatening" Israel with ground to air missiles if they keep flying over. Translates to: When we start killing Lebanese civilians per the dictates of the number one War Criminals Israel/USA, we can say we promised to shoot down a few IDF interlopers. Just an FYI in the "predictions" department.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061023/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_phosphorous_bombs
On Sunday, a cluster bomb exploded in a southern Lebanese village, killing a 12-year-old boy and wounding his younger brother, security officials said. At least 21 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded by cluster bombs since the end of the war, the U.N. Mine Action Center said.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, has been criticized for failing to distinguish between Israeli civilian and military targets.* Human Rights Watch also said the militant group fired cluster bombs into civilian areas of northern Israel during the fighting.
*Yet, Hezbollah managed to kill, mostly IDF personnel. Like the old days when wars were not extended exercises in how many war crimes can be perpetrated by US allies without any accountability being assigned to them for war crimes whatsoever.
What a joke. What is even jokier is the notion that French UNIFIL soldiers are "threatening" Israel with ground to air missiles if they keep flying over. Translates to: When we start killing Lebanese civilians per the dictates of the number one War Criminals Israel/USA, we can say we promised to shoot down a few IDF interlopers. Just an FYI in the "predictions" department.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061023/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_phosphorous_bombs
22.10.06
InterBoard Poetry Community
October 2006 Winning Poems
Judge: David Kirby
First Place
"The Song of Bob"
by Margaret Ruth Porter
Salty Dreams
Second Place
"Sarah in Gaza, 1956"
by Steve Meador
Poets.org
Third Place
"Joseph Kony"
by Christopher T. George
The Writer's Block
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"The Thing about this Theory"
by Yolanda Calderon-Horn
Desert Moon Review
~~~
"One Winter in Whidbey Island"
by Brett Addison
The Critical Poet
Poems and Commentary:
The Song of Bob
by Margaret Ruth Porter
(for Fred Tarr and the Radio Room)
The love affair with stangers began
with morning glories between us, Bob
went to work at the prison at 6:30
as the birds performed their last songs.
He quieted Sarge, Berry and Coco with biscuits
before he left with his radio
on, yet they started barking before
he reached the first stop sign.
I want to be his wife forever they thought,
I thought and we kept barking,
as we chased his car for all time in our minds.
Bob talks to his ex 1500 minutes a month,
he doesn't seem to mind the cost of his past tense.
Why didn't you just stay married? I am
pretty too behind this fence made of chain-mail.
Twenty-one years is all he says
from the screened-in back porch where he keeps
his old partners, ex-police dogs, his detritus.
It is as if 21 years is the official
Americana. There must be one
hundred morning glories from me
to Bob, outflanking the trees
choking them slowly. Bob wants me
to be his wife forever, waiting in my war
torn house next door so he can get home
from prison to say goodnight and wake up
again to say good morning all over.
I am the last sweetheart in town.
You get a lot of value with this poem: the whole thing is a mystery, yet each line is as well. As in the best literature (think Dostoevsky, Melville, Shakespeare), the scenario here is vaguely criminal; there's danger lurking in every shadow. And the voice is sexy and threatening yet off-hand, as though all this turbulence is no big deal. What the reader gets is the stuff of dreams; the threat is enormous, yet you know you're going to wake up, or at least you hope you do. --David Kirby
Sarah in Gaza, 1956
by Steve Meador
The figs. I had to see
if the figs were safe. Without them
we would have nothing to sell or trade,
only some dried tomatoes
and hard raisins. The smoke
from the trucks and tanks was no different
than the dust and sand that filled our mouths
every day. The sound of the planes
like the scream of hot wind.
The bombs could have been thunder.
I was eight and knew I could
save the trees from the madness.
Thank God, oh thank God
the French and British
did not want figs. I held my arms out,
protected the grove as they drove by
looking for men and boys to catch.
Maybe to shoot. When I ran down the hill
my grandfather, father and uncle
were squatting in the chicken pen.
The French wanted to kill them.
Lana, our Christian neighbor,
whispered a breeze of soft words
through their thick forest of guns.
A captain flicked his cigarette at our brave men,
then the soldiers left. My uncle smoked the rest of it.
I saved the figs.
Lana saved our men.
What a time, what a place -- and while the time has changed, the place is still riven by a conflict that looks as though it will never have an end. There's only one stance for a writer to take, and that's a stoic one. So much ink has been spilled over the Mideast, and much of it amounts to emotional pornography, that is, an unearned excitement that leaves one feeling drained yet sickly. That's not the case with this poem. Hre the poet speaks calmly and laconically and in a way that is so much louder than any bombast could ever be. --David Kirby
~~~
Joseph Kony
by Christopher T. George
The Lord told me, "Raise a children's army."
So I formed the Lord's Resistance to fight
the oppressors in Kampala. My boys burned
village huts, killed, cut off people's ears and lips,
-- now their mouths stay open, the better to pray
and their ears strain to hear the Lord's words.
Some ask why we did all these things. Why does
a leaf fall? Is it not because God wills it?
When my children pounded babies in wooden mortars,
dare you question it was the Lord's request to me?
Now some name Joseph Kony a war criminal. Yet,
the way of my people, the Acholi, is to forgive, to invite
all to the mataput, to share a roasted
sheep. I will quit the jungle with my sixty wives
for nothing less than full amnesty, the shared meal.
I will emerge from the jungle shadows,
an old lion bringing the wisdom of my Lord God
to the young lions to tell them to let the holy oils annoint them,
a stone sewn into their garments
so a mountain projects to shield
them and all bullets bounce off.
And I will sing in praise
of the Lord of the limping and the lost,
Lord of the empty basket,
of the water turned to blood,
of the severed lips and ears -
the butchered lamb at the feast.
~~~
Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning couldn't have foreseen that the dramatic monologue would be put to such use, but that's what the tradition is all about; you take the best from the past and you ring changes on it. Here, a blood-drenched man speaks his mind, and we despise him, yet we understand him. A poem is not going to work unless the reader can say, "Well, yes, I guess I've felt that way myself." We say that after reading this one and then we flinch, not at the subject but at ourselves, at these beasts and angels we call humanity. --David Kirby
Honorable Mentions:
The Thing about this Theory
by Yolanda Calderon-Horn
Under the remains of honey daylight,
cut to stripes by white plantation
blinds, I sit at your desk, wrapped
in my it voice, scribbling my best
guess of why pumpkins
are gobbled mostly in the fall.
I plan to leave the theory
in your notebook: but it's absurd,
and we've had enough of that. I
throw my head back so that my
chin points straight ahead--
swallow hard, shoving unfettered
thoughts down my throat.
I want to roll my corners out
like this colorful Persian rug
you love, but I'm being pulled
from under you while words
hash to dust. And you need
protocols for the future
like a tin full of leftover screws.
~~
One Winter in Whidbey Island
by Brett Addison
The Bering Straits were especially cruel that year.
The Anacortes fleet lost two crab boats. In Friday
Harbor it never quit raining. The paper always
had suicides. That was the year Scoop Jackson
quietly died.
She kept the nightstand full of prescription bottles.
Her hands never touched the Earth. No plants grown,
no digging in a garden. Occasionally, a glass needed
washing.
The mill's Black Liquor ate up the soles of my boots.
Lummi Indians unloaded the green chain of the sawmill.
Ten hours lifting 4 by 6's and 2 by 4's makes you strong
or breaks you down. No in betweens. Nothing grey,
but the fog.
The sound of Navy jets doing touch and go's. A hotdog
pilot flew under Deception Pass Bridge and took out
the phones. The steer jumps the fence even with the tire
around the neck.
Back then the island was covered with Sitka Spruce.
You could drive to the top of Mt. Erie and it seemed
the whole Sound was in front of you, except Seattle.
Northern Lights kept the path to the barn.
I hear she's back in Tucson and went into treatment
after her last boyfriend died on her kitchen floor
from a hot shot. Her son's in a rock and roll band.
I'm here, still wet and shivering.
Alas yes, I was nominated for this and apparently, a funny poet named D Kirby thought it was okay and decided it needed some press. What can I say? Dick wrote and congratulated me and that was nice. I know Dick doesn't read many poems, especially mine hahaha. Anyway, I'm always more interested in his poems because he works so damn hard on them. Currently Dick is archiving his work and his life story, the whatnots and etcs. Something it seems a poet must do "sooner or later" so that you don't get that Prufrock effect. The women coming and going speaking of Michelangelo.
This poem though had to be headed off "at the pass" so to speak. My husband had to be told that no, I'm not thinking of running away with my gentleman neighbor Bob who I really like. Nice dogs too. That one named Berry is great. A drug sniffer and Bob says to him "Hands against the wall!" and Berry complies for a "frisk". Apparently, Berry was quite the attraction at in the public schools here. Around here though we just keep our distance. Berry isn't what you'd call, lazy. Nice doggie. Nice doggie. Sarge on the other hand is an old coot and TRIES to act the part of an old police dog but ends up looking more chihuahua and less Rottweiler than he should.
That being said, look at those other poems! What on earth was the judge thinking? CTG puts forth something I remember from the "old days" of CTG...from the O'Malley poems. This is truly what CTG does best and that poem above is gorgeous...when he does this, you cannot tell whether it is fact or fiction. I wish he'd do it more often
The second place poem isn't second at all...it is really a slice of real time. Figs. You know, a fig in a poem beats two in the tree and there are many ways to describe a Sara in Gaza but this one takes no sides and opts just to show the real deal or at least, something we can wrap our minds around.
Yoly Yoly Yoly. I call her, Yoly of the Sevenlings. She has written a half dozen or so of those (Akmatova-ish poems of seven lines only) and this wonderful poem ends with a tin full of screws. Something so very ordinary and in that, it becomes something quite extraordinary i.e. that you can relate to. The miraculous in the everyday just because we all have one sitting around somewhere, a tin full of screws. I can think of several movie titles that use exactly that rhythm and that nuance, that sound. Yoly.
But what about this other "honorable mention"? Indeed. From the Bering Straits to Tucson and shivering. Man oh man.
I may be a bit biased because my father fought up in the Aleutians in WWII and froze his little toesies off....and one night down here just two hours south of Tucson he SAW the Aurora Borealis as he was coming home from the swing shift in the mines. Geez. Perhaps the IBPC should have five first places but I think, if it were me, I'd place that last one at the top of the list. It is grand in scope, conversational in pleasure and offers no pat answers about why poems like that must be written and why they exist at all. They just are...unique and NO ONE can write one just like that:
One Winter in Whidbey Island by Bret Addison. A lot of distance to cover in one poem.
But yeah, Go Salty, Go Spitoon and thanks to PJ Nights for thinking of me. Or if not me, Bob. He is such a nice man.
Haha and when he buys milk (buy one, get one free) he gives us the other gallon.
"We're selling 50 percent more Hezbollah music since the end of the war" on August 14, says studio owner and distributor Hassan Abu Jaafar from his base in Beirut's Shiite-dominated southern suburbs.
"We've put out 10 new titles since then, compared to only five from January to July."
Within days of the end of fighting, new CDs complete with images of Hezbollah's claimed victory and the destruction wrought by Israeli bombs were piling up in the shops.
Abu Jaafar says he sells almost half a million Hezbollah-themed CDs and cassettes a year but refers questions about his profits to the finance ministry where his taxes go, grumbling also that demand is so great much of his music is pirated.
Hooray, Hooray!
Ed Conti
a red apple, evidence
a delicious apple, judgment
October 2006 Winning Poems
Judge: David Kirby
First Place
"The Song of Bob"
by Margaret Ruth Porter
Salty Dreams
Second Place
"Sarah in Gaza, 1956"
by Steve Meador
Poets.org
Third Place
"Joseph Kony"
by Christopher T. George
The Writer's Block
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"The Thing about this Theory"
by Yolanda Calderon-Horn
Desert Moon Review
~~~
"One Winter in Whidbey Island"
by Brett Addison
The Critical Poet
Poems and Commentary:
The Song of Bob
by Margaret Ruth Porter
(for Fred Tarr and the Radio Room)
The love affair with stangers began
with morning glories between us, Bob
went to work at the prison at 6:30
as the birds performed their last songs.
He quieted Sarge, Berry and Coco with biscuits
before he left with his radio
on, yet they started barking before
he reached the first stop sign.
I want to be his wife forever they thought,
I thought and we kept barking,
as we chased his car for all time in our minds.
Bob talks to his ex 1500 minutes a month,
he doesn't seem to mind the cost of his past tense.
Why didn't you just stay married? I am
pretty too behind this fence made of chain-mail.
Twenty-one years is all he says
from the screened-in back porch where he keeps
his old partners, ex-police dogs, his detritus.
It is as if 21 years is the official
Americana. There must be one
hundred morning glories from me
to Bob, outflanking the trees
choking them slowly. Bob wants me
to be his wife forever, waiting in my war
torn house next door so he can get home
from prison to say goodnight and wake up
again to say good morning all over.
I am the last sweetheart in town.
You get a lot of value with this poem: the whole thing is a mystery, yet each line is as well. As in the best literature (think Dostoevsky, Melville, Shakespeare), the scenario here is vaguely criminal; there's danger lurking in every shadow. And the voice is sexy and threatening yet off-hand, as though all this turbulence is no big deal. What the reader gets is the stuff of dreams; the threat is enormous, yet you know you're going to wake up, or at least you hope you do. --David Kirby
Sarah in Gaza, 1956
by Steve Meador
The figs. I had to see
if the figs were safe. Without them
we would have nothing to sell or trade,
only some dried tomatoes
and hard raisins. The smoke
from the trucks and tanks was no different
than the dust and sand that filled our mouths
every day. The sound of the planes
like the scream of hot wind.
The bombs could have been thunder.
I was eight and knew I could
save the trees from the madness.
Thank God, oh thank God
the French and British
did not want figs. I held my arms out,
protected the grove as they drove by
looking for men and boys to catch.
Maybe to shoot. When I ran down the hill
my grandfather, father and uncle
were squatting in the chicken pen.
The French wanted to kill them.
Lana, our Christian neighbor,
whispered a breeze of soft words
through their thick forest of guns.
A captain flicked his cigarette at our brave men,
then the soldiers left. My uncle smoked the rest of it.
I saved the figs.
Lana saved our men.
What a time, what a place -- and while the time has changed, the place is still riven by a conflict that looks as though it will never have an end. There's only one stance for a writer to take, and that's a stoic one. So much ink has been spilled over the Mideast, and much of it amounts to emotional pornography, that is, an unearned excitement that leaves one feeling drained yet sickly. That's not the case with this poem. Hre the poet speaks calmly and laconically and in a way that is so much louder than any bombast could ever be. --David Kirby
~~~
Joseph Kony
by Christopher T. George
The Lord told me, "Raise a children's army."
So I formed the Lord's Resistance to fight
the oppressors in Kampala. My boys burned
village huts, killed, cut off people's ears and lips,
-- now their mouths stay open, the better to pray
and their ears strain to hear the Lord's words.
Some ask why we did all these things. Why does
a leaf fall? Is it not because God wills it?
When my children pounded babies in wooden mortars,
dare you question it was the Lord's request to me?
Now some name Joseph Kony a war criminal. Yet,
the way of my people, the Acholi, is to forgive, to invite
all to the mataput, to share a roasted
sheep. I will quit the jungle with my sixty wives
for nothing less than full amnesty, the shared meal.
I will emerge from the jungle shadows,
an old lion bringing the wisdom of my Lord God
to the young lions to tell them to let the holy oils annoint them,
a stone sewn into their garments
so a mountain projects to shield
them and all bullets bounce off.
And I will sing in praise
of the Lord of the limping and the lost,
Lord of the empty basket,
of the water turned to blood,
of the severed lips and ears -
the butchered lamb at the feast.
~~~
Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning couldn't have foreseen that the dramatic monologue would be put to such use, but that's what the tradition is all about; you take the best from the past and you ring changes on it. Here, a blood-drenched man speaks his mind, and we despise him, yet we understand him. A poem is not going to work unless the reader can say, "Well, yes, I guess I've felt that way myself." We say that after reading this one and then we flinch, not at the subject but at ourselves, at these beasts and angels we call humanity. --David Kirby
Honorable Mentions:
The Thing about this Theory
by Yolanda Calderon-Horn
Under the remains of honey daylight,
cut to stripes by white plantation
blinds, I sit at your desk, wrapped
in my it voice, scribbling my best
guess of why pumpkins
are gobbled mostly in the fall.
I plan to leave the theory
in your notebook: but it's absurd,
and we've had enough of that. I
throw my head back so that my
chin points straight ahead--
swallow hard, shoving unfettered
thoughts down my throat.
I want to roll my corners out
like this colorful Persian rug
you love, but I'm being pulled
from under you while words
hash to dust. And you need
protocols for the future
like a tin full of leftover screws.
~~
One Winter in Whidbey Island
by Brett Addison
The Bering Straits were especially cruel that year.
The Anacortes fleet lost two crab boats. In Friday
Harbor it never quit raining. The paper always
had suicides. That was the year Scoop Jackson
quietly died.
She kept the nightstand full of prescription bottles.
Her hands never touched the Earth. No plants grown,
no digging in a garden. Occasionally, a glass needed
washing.
The mill's Black Liquor ate up the soles of my boots.
Lummi Indians unloaded the green chain of the sawmill.
Ten hours lifting 4 by 6's and 2 by 4's makes you strong
or breaks you down. No in betweens. Nothing grey,
but the fog.
The sound of Navy jets doing touch and go's. A hotdog
pilot flew under Deception Pass Bridge and took out
the phones. The steer jumps the fence even with the tire
around the neck.
Back then the island was covered with Sitka Spruce.
You could drive to the top of Mt. Erie and it seemed
the whole Sound was in front of you, except Seattle.
Northern Lights kept the path to the barn.
I hear she's back in Tucson and went into treatment
after her last boyfriend died on her kitchen floor
from a hot shot. Her son's in a rock and roll band.
I'm here, still wet and shivering.
Alas yes, I was nominated for this and apparently, a funny poet named D Kirby thought it was okay and decided it needed some press. What can I say? Dick wrote and congratulated me and that was nice. I know Dick doesn't read many poems, especially mine hahaha. Anyway, I'm always more interested in his poems because he works so damn hard on them. Currently Dick is archiving his work and his life story, the whatnots and etcs. Something it seems a poet must do "sooner or later" so that you don't get that Prufrock effect. The women coming and going speaking of Michelangelo.
This poem though had to be headed off "at the pass" so to speak. My husband had to be told that no, I'm not thinking of running away with my gentleman neighbor Bob who I really like. Nice dogs too. That one named Berry is great. A drug sniffer and Bob says to him "Hands against the wall!" and Berry complies for a "frisk". Apparently, Berry was quite the attraction at in the public schools here. Around here though we just keep our distance. Berry isn't what you'd call, lazy. Nice doggie. Nice doggie. Sarge on the other hand is an old coot and TRIES to act the part of an old police dog but ends up looking more chihuahua and less Rottweiler than he should.
That being said, look at those other poems! What on earth was the judge thinking? CTG puts forth something I remember from the "old days" of CTG...from the O'Malley poems. This is truly what CTG does best and that poem above is gorgeous...when he does this, you cannot tell whether it is fact or fiction. I wish he'd do it more often
The second place poem isn't second at all...it is really a slice of real time. Figs. You know, a fig in a poem beats two in the tree and there are many ways to describe a Sara in Gaza but this one takes no sides and opts just to show the real deal or at least, something we can wrap our minds around.
Yoly Yoly Yoly. I call her, Yoly of the Sevenlings. She has written a half dozen or so of those (Akmatova-ish poems of seven lines only) and this wonderful poem ends with a tin full of screws. Something so very ordinary and in that, it becomes something quite extraordinary i.e. that you can relate to. The miraculous in the everyday just because we all have one sitting around somewhere, a tin full of screws. I can think of several movie titles that use exactly that rhythm and that nuance, that sound. Yoly.
But what about this other "honorable mention"? Indeed. From the Bering Straits to Tucson and shivering. Man oh man.
I may be a bit biased because my father fought up in the Aleutians in WWII and froze his little toesies off....and one night down here just two hours south of Tucson he SAW the Aurora Borealis as he was coming home from the swing shift in the mines. Geez. Perhaps the IBPC should have five first places but I think, if it were me, I'd place that last one at the top of the list. It is grand in scope, conversational in pleasure and offers no pat answers about why poems like that must be written and why they exist at all. They just are...unique and NO ONE can write one just like that:
One Winter in Whidbey Island by Bret Addison. A lot of distance to cover in one poem.
But yeah, Go Salty, Go Spitoon and thanks to PJ Nights for thinking of me. Or if not me, Bob. He is such a nice man.
Haha and when he buys milk (buy one, get one free) he gives us the other gallon.
And in other news:
The Shiite movement and its followers have produced revolutionary anthems since its official creation in 1985, but the "victory" in its latest war with Israel has brought unprecedented sales and thrust its previously unknown performers onto the international circuit.
"We're selling 50 percent more Hezbollah music since the end of the war" on August 14, says studio owner and distributor Hassan Abu Jaafar from his base in Beirut's Shiite-dominated southern suburbs.
"We've put out 10 new titles since then, compared to only five from January to July."
Within days of the end of fighting, new CDs complete with images of Hezbollah's claimed victory and the destruction wrought by Israeli bombs were piling up in the shops.
Abu Jaafar says he sells almost half a million Hezbollah-themed CDs and cassettes a year but refers questions about his profits to the finance ministry where his taxes go, grumbling also that demand is so great much of his music is pirated.
Hooray, Hooray!
Ed Conti
a red apple, evidence
a delicious apple, judgment
Lyn Lifshin, the go-go boot poetry sensation. Alas, does Ms. Lifshin publish too many poems?
Well, not if they act like this:
http://fourampoetryreview.i8.com/four.html
Our word for the loved and the dead are the same,
the beloved, and once you’ve had either while you
have them, you don’t need any other living people
in your life
From: Kiss, Baby, The New Film
A Few Words About Tinnitus
I'd say it was about eleven thirty
or so and this car alarm starts going
off in the still of night. my door
still open to catch the last of summer
through there but then
it needed to be shut because
of the danger out there, it is just
everywhere you know. Outside, the street
lamp flickered a bit and the moths
kept mothing about in the halo
as if it didn't matter to them,
one way or another, just little bugs.
Over in the distance, the dark hills
were gently lit by the few lasting
glimmers and glows of the night
owls who creep into bed as slowly
as the neighbors who came outside
to turn off the siren, another false
alarm and they spoke a bit, went
inside to hit the switches there
lock the doors, some cursing maybe
or perhaps a round of gin rummy.
That one man was thinking of mummies,
I know it, I just know it.
I remember when that sort of thing
happened to me and I felt like
the ground might shake if I asked it to.
I honestly asked the ground to shake
and then the car started to make that noise again.
I wish there weren't such things as mummies.
The moths laughed plenty when I told them,
they sounded like pins, magnets and bells.
Well, not if they act like this:
http://fourampoetryreview.i8.com/four.html
Our word for the loved and the dead are the same,
the beloved, and once you’ve had either while you
have them, you don’t need any other living people
in your life
From: Kiss, Baby, The New Film
...a poem with what you would call "a smashing title baby" (Austin Powers).....and it is, a smashing title. A poem is really made out of two things and only two:
The Title
The Idea
The rest is just tricks. And I'm sure if Austin Powers reads poetry, this is the type of stuff he likes.
A Few Words About Tinnitus
I'd say it was about eleven thirty
or so and this car alarm starts going
off in the still of night. my door
still open to catch the last of summer
through there but then
it needed to be shut because
of the danger out there, it is just
everywhere you know. Outside, the street
lamp flickered a bit and the moths
kept mothing about in the halo
as if it didn't matter to them,
one way or another, just little bugs.
Over in the distance, the dark hills
were gently lit by the few lasting
glimmers and glows of the night
owls who creep into bed as slowly
as the neighbors who came outside
to turn off the siren, another false
alarm and they spoke a bit, went
inside to hit the switches there
lock the doors, some cursing maybe
or perhaps a round of gin rummy.
That one man was thinking of mummies,
I know it, I just know it.
I remember when that sort of thing
happened to me and I felt like
the ground might shake if I asked it to.
I honestly asked the ground to shake
and then the car started to make that noise again.
I wish there weren't such things as mummies.
The moths laughed plenty when I told them,
they sounded like pins, magnets and bells.
21.10.06
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/777440.html
Iran described Israel's war with Lebanon in the summer as a victory for Hezbollah and has also praised Palestinians who resist Israeli occupation. "The false myth [of Israel being invincible] has fallen by the will of the Palestinian youth and the faithful warriors of Hezbollah," Ahmadinejad said. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in May that Iran's leaders had turned Israel "into a target for annihilation."
Ahem. Olmert seems to have forgotten that what HE did spoke to the nations of the world pretty clearly.
What an idiot.
In any event, it is pretty clear that the US is not only unable to fight in another war, they are clearly unable to fight the ones they are involved in.
Steadfastness and Islam are just not bombable. Islam can't be destroyed or replaced and the foolishness of that is evident.
Those that do oppose this war however, have not enough foresight to continue to oppose the war should Israel continue to have a death grip on what is being stated plainly in the Israeli press:
Israel is failing to exist and it is failing to uphold human rights. In fact, the abuses it foists upon the Palestinians have not diminished, they have grown larger. Not a good sign in any regime because that is when a regime turns into a dangerous and insane agressor.
Apparently, the patience of Zionism is not the same as the patience of Islam. Islam isn't Ahmadinijad. He is just a leader. And he knows what is important for muslims to hear because they heard it before....in the writings of sages and prophets. Not in the miserable contemplations of a racial bigot named Ben Gurion.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ArticleNews.jhtml?itemNo=775930&contrassID=13&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0
Aumann does have a very strong point. However it is not unique to the Israelis. It is a historical fact every country in the world has had to fight for its existence. England, France, Germany, Italy, and the US, have sent their sons out to die for the nation they represented. Right or wrong, that's the way it is. It is up to the Israelis if they want to continue to have a nation. In order to do so, besides, diplomacy, and modern weapons it takes the blood of the nation, and shedding the blood of the enemy. Israel must do all it can to find a diplomatic answer to it's problems, and must be willing to pay the ultimate price and extract a higher price from its enemies.
Professor Aumann called "the death of 3,000 human beings small change" (in the Yom Kippur War) because he understands the realities of the Middle East. For Israel to remain viable it must be prepared to both accept and inflict such losses on its enemies. All he is saying is that Israel lives in a rough neighbourhood and in order to survive, it needs to be as ruthless as it's enemies. He is right of course...
Tim Reid, Melbourne, Australia
Well, you see, that is the whole point. When Nasrallah did what he did, he had no way of "knowing" anything other than a careful reading of the Ben Gurion Herzl texts, inflammatory documents of hatred and expansionism. So, what did he do?
Invited them to their own demise. Come on in!
And this is exactly what will occur should Israel and Israeli lobbiests in the US congress prevail and convince Americans of the "so called" nuclear intent of Iran and lead the US into further danger...for what? For Israel? Hmm. Is it really worth it considering that Israel itself is a monstrosity of perverse idealisms that have resulted in the death and dismemberment of so many completely unable to defend themselves?
Not all countries are within the borders of the prison camps of Israel. And Europe itself is within range of alot of things and in fact, is becoming Islamicized. Turkey as well even though they would like you to believe Turkey is just "a-okay' westernized. It isn't. I saw it with my own eyes.
So, Israel may in fact do what the Quran tells them to do f(and trust me, they know what the Quran tells them to do)....and they may in fact:
Invoke Death.
Hmmm. Not a great thing to have to witness and even a lesser good thing to have firm knowledge about.
If only the Americans had been unified...this would have most likely turned out much different. But you see, people who have bad intentions never enjoy the priviledge of "unification" because they hide their plans behind curtains of deceit.
We all just get to watch and accept that this is the way it has to be and it is, unavoidable.
Unless of course, as Ahmadinijad suggests, the Israelis turn their fate over to the muslims themselves and let the muslims decide per their own councils, "what is best" for the protected minority called "The Jews". They were identified as such for a REASON. Not just any reason but for this particular opportunity in time.
And believe me, they are questioning whether or not it may indeed be best for all parties including the diaspora whom they represent on the world stage. And that diaspora is in dire need right now. Dire.
Iran described Israel's war with Lebanon in the summer as a victory for Hezbollah and has also praised Palestinians who resist Israeli occupation. "The false myth [of Israel being invincible] has fallen by the will of the Palestinian youth and the faithful warriors of Hezbollah," Ahmadinejad said. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in May that Iran's leaders had turned Israel "into a target for annihilation."
Ahem. Olmert seems to have forgotten that what HE did spoke to the nations of the world pretty clearly.
What an idiot.
In any event, it is pretty clear that the US is not only unable to fight in another war, they are clearly unable to fight the ones they are involved in.
Steadfastness and Islam are just not bombable. Islam can't be destroyed or replaced and the foolishness of that is evident.
Those that do oppose this war however, have not enough foresight to continue to oppose the war should Israel continue to have a death grip on what is being stated plainly in the Israeli press:
Israel is failing to exist and it is failing to uphold human rights. In fact, the abuses it foists upon the Palestinians have not diminished, they have grown larger. Not a good sign in any regime because that is when a regime turns into a dangerous and insane agressor.
Apparently, the patience of Zionism is not the same as the patience of Islam. Islam isn't Ahmadinijad. He is just a leader. And he knows what is important for muslims to hear because they heard it before....in the writings of sages and prophets. Not in the miserable contemplations of a racial bigot named Ben Gurion.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ArticleNews.jhtml?itemNo=775930&contrassID=13&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0
Aumann does have a very strong point. However it is not unique to the Israelis. It is a historical fact every country in the world has had to fight for its existence. England, France, Germany, Italy, and the US, have sent their sons out to die for the nation they represented. Right or wrong, that's the way it is. It is up to the Israelis if they want to continue to have a nation. In order to do so, besides, diplomacy, and modern weapons it takes the blood of the nation, and shedding the blood of the enemy. Israel must do all it can to find a diplomatic answer to it's problems, and must be willing to pay the ultimate price and extract a higher price from its enemies.
Professor Aumann called "the death of 3,000 human beings small change" (in the Yom Kippur War) because he understands the realities of the Middle East. For Israel to remain viable it must be prepared to both accept and inflict such losses on its enemies. All he is saying is that Israel lives in a rough neighbourhood and in order to survive, it needs to be as ruthless as it's enemies. He is right of course...
Tim Reid, Melbourne, Australia
Well, you see, that is the whole point. When Nasrallah did what he did, he had no way of "knowing" anything other than a careful reading of the Ben Gurion Herzl texts, inflammatory documents of hatred and expansionism. So, what did he do?
Invited them to their own demise. Come on in!
And this is exactly what will occur should Israel and Israeli lobbiests in the US congress prevail and convince Americans of the "so called" nuclear intent of Iran and lead the US into further danger...for what? For Israel? Hmm. Is it really worth it considering that Israel itself is a monstrosity of perverse idealisms that have resulted in the death and dismemberment of so many completely unable to defend themselves?
Not all countries are within the borders of the prison camps of Israel. And Europe itself is within range of alot of things and in fact, is becoming Islamicized. Turkey as well even though they would like you to believe Turkey is just "a-okay' westernized. It isn't. I saw it with my own eyes.
So, Israel may in fact do what the Quran tells them to do f(and trust me, they know what the Quran tells them to do)....and they may in fact:
Invoke Death.
Hmmm. Not a great thing to have to witness and even a lesser good thing to have firm knowledge about.
If only the Americans had been unified...this would have most likely turned out much different. But you see, people who have bad intentions never enjoy the priviledge of "unification" because they hide their plans behind curtains of deceit.
We all just get to watch and accept that this is the way it has to be and it is, unavoidable.
Unless of course, as Ahmadinijad suggests, the Israelis turn their fate over to the muslims themselves and let the muslims decide per their own councils, "what is best" for the protected minority called "The Jews". They were identified as such for a REASON. Not just any reason but for this particular opportunity in time.
And believe me, they are questioning whether or not it may indeed be best for all parties including the diaspora whom they represent on the world stage. And that diaspora is in dire need right now. Dire.
"And when Allah alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who believe not in the Hereafter are repelled, and when those (whom they worship) beside Him are mentioned, behold! they are glad." [39:45] (according to Marmaduke Pickthal)
The Fifth Infallible: Imam Hussein
#25 of the Forty suggested for memorization:
A man came to the chief of martyrs Imam Hussain (A.S.) and said, "I am a man who commits sin and do not have patience and restraint regarding sins and wrongs so admonish me with a piece of admonition."
Thus he (pbuh) said, "Do five things and commit any sin you may wish. First is that do not eat the sustenance of Allah and do commit any sin you wish. And secondly, get out of the dominion of Allah and do perform any sin you wish and thirdly, seek a place where Allah does not see you and commit any sin you please and fourthly when the angel of death comes to take your soul, repel him from your self and do any sin you may please. And fifthly when Malik (Iblis) makes you enter the fire, DO NOT ENTER the fire and do any sin you please."
Hussein is of course, the grandson of the prophet. Not a paid for representative of the Hindu council*. It is also important to note that part in the Quran about the poets and that some are good and some, not very.
SERMON 17 (Hadrat Ali, pbuh)
About those who sit for dispensation of justice among people but are not fit for it.
Among(1) all the people the most detested before Allah are two persons. One is he who is devoted to his self. So he is deviated from the true path and loves speaking about (foul) innovations and inviting towards wrong path. He is therefore a nuisance for those who are enamoured of him, is himself misled from the guidance of those preceding him, misleads those who follow him in his life or after his death, carries the weight of others' sins and is entangled in his own misdeeds.
The other man is he who has picked up ignorance. He moves among the ignorant, is senseless in the thick of mischief and is blind to the advantages of peace. Those resembling like men have named him scholar but he is not so. He goes out early morning to collect things whose deficiency is better than plenty, till when he has quenched his thirst from polluted water and acquired meaningless things.
He sits among the people as a judge responsible for solving whatever is confusing to the others. If an ambiguous problem is presented before him he manages shabby argument about it of his own accord and passes judgement on its basis. In this way he is entangled in the confusion of doubts as in the spider's web, not knowing whether he was right or wrong. If he is right he fears lest he erred, while if he is wrong he hopes he is right. He is ignorant, wandering astray in ignorance and riding on carriages aimlessly moving in darkness. He did not try to find reality of knowledge. He scatters the traditions as the wind scatters the dry leaves.
By Allah, he is not capable of solving the problems that come to him nor is fit for the position assigned to him. Whatever he does not know he does not regard it worth knowing. He does not realise that what is beyond his reach is within the reach of others. If anything is not clear to him he keeps quiet over it because he knows his own ignorance. Lost lives are crying against his unjust verdicts, and properties (that have been wrongly disposed of) are grumbling against him.
I complain to Allah about persons who live ignorant and die misguided. For them nothing is more worthless than Qur'an if it is recited as it should be recited, nor anything more valuable than the Qur'an if its verses are removed from their places, nor anything more vicious than virtue nor more virtuous than vice.
SERMON 68
Admonishing his companions about careless behaviour Amir al-mu'minin said:
How long shall I accord you consideration that is accorded to camels with hollow hump, or to worn clothes which when stitched on one side give way on the other. Whenever a vanguard force of Syria (ash-Sham) hovers over you, everyone of you shuts his door and hides himself like the lizard in its hole or a badger it its den. By Allah, he whom people like you support must suffer disgrace and he who throws arrows with your support is as if he throws arrows that are broken both at head and tail. By Allah, within the courtyard you are quite numerous but under the banner you are only a few. Certainly, I know what can improve you and how your crookedness can be straightened. But I shall not improve your condition by marring myself. Allah may disgrace your faces and destroy you. You do not understand the right as you understand the wrong and do not crush the wrong as you crush the right.
From the letter to Hassan:
If your kindness or indulgence is going to bring forth cruel results, then severity of strictness is the real kindness.
An accessory of an accomplice who insults you and a friend who has not formed a good opinion of you will not be of any help or use to you.
Do good to your brother when he is bent upon doing harm to you. When he ignores or declines to recognize the kinship, befriend him, go to his help and try to maintain relations. If he is miserly with you and refuses to help you, be generous with him and support him financially. If he is cruel with you, be kind and considerate with him. If he harms you accept his excuses. Behave with him as if he is a master and you are a slave, and he is a benefactor and you are a beneficiary. But be careful that you do not thus behave with undeserving and mean persons.
Advise your friend sincerely and to the best of your ability even though he may not like it.
Every arrow of yours will not hit the bull's eye.
And the last one is certainly, the most accurate.
The Fifth Infallible: Imam Hussein
#25 of the Forty suggested for memorization:
A man came to the chief of martyrs Imam Hussain (A.S.) and said, "I am a man who commits sin and do not have patience and restraint regarding sins and wrongs so admonish me with a piece of admonition."
Thus he (pbuh) said, "Do five things and commit any sin you may wish. First is that do not eat the sustenance of Allah and do commit any sin you wish. And secondly, get out of the dominion of Allah and do perform any sin you wish and thirdly, seek a place where Allah does not see you and commit any sin you please and fourthly when the angel of death comes to take your soul, repel him from your self and do any sin you may please. And fifthly when Malik (Iblis) makes you enter the fire, DO NOT ENTER the fire and do any sin you please."
Hussein is of course, the grandson of the prophet. Not a paid for representative of the Hindu council*. It is also important to note that part in the Quran about the poets and that some are good and some, not very.
SERMON 17 (Hadrat Ali, pbuh)
About those who sit for dispensation of justice among people but are not fit for it.
Among(1) all the people the most detested before Allah are two persons. One is he who is devoted to his self. So he is deviated from the true path and loves speaking about (foul) innovations and inviting towards wrong path. He is therefore a nuisance for those who are enamoured of him, is himself misled from the guidance of those preceding him, misleads those who follow him in his life or after his death, carries the weight of others' sins and is entangled in his own misdeeds.
The other man is he who has picked up ignorance. He moves among the ignorant, is senseless in the thick of mischief and is blind to the advantages of peace. Those resembling like men have named him scholar but he is not so. He goes out early morning to collect things whose deficiency is better than plenty, till when he has quenched his thirst from polluted water and acquired meaningless things.
He sits among the people as a judge responsible for solving whatever is confusing to the others. If an ambiguous problem is presented before him he manages shabby argument about it of his own accord and passes judgement on its basis. In this way he is entangled in the confusion of doubts as in the spider's web, not knowing whether he was right or wrong. If he is right he fears lest he erred, while if he is wrong he hopes he is right. He is ignorant, wandering astray in ignorance and riding on carriages aimlessly moving in darkness. He did not try to find reality of knowledge. He scatters the traditions as the wind scatters the dry leaves.
By Allah, he is not capable of solving the problems that come to him nor is fit for the position assigned to him. Whatever he does not know he does not regard it worth knowing. He does not realise that what is beyond his reach is within the reach of others. If anything is not clear to him he keeps quiet over it because he knows his own ignorance. Lost lives are crying against his unjust verdicts, and properties (that have been wrongly disposed of) are grumbling against him.
I complain to Allah about persons who live ignorant and die misguided. For them nothing is more worthless than Qur'an if it is recited as it should be recited, nor anything more valuable than the Qur'an if its verses are removed from their places, nor anything more vicious than virtue nor more virtuous than vice.
SERMON 68
Admonishing his companions about careless behaviour Amir al-mu'minin said:
How long shall I accord you consideration that is accorded to camels with hollow hump, or to worn clothes which when stitched on one side give way on the other. Whenever a vanguard force of Syria (ash-Sham) hovers over you, everyone of you shuts his door and hides himself like the lizard in its hole or a badger it its den. By Allah, he whom people like you support must suffer disgrace and he who throws arrows with your support is as if he throws arrows that are broken both at head and tail. By Allah, within the courtyard you are quite numerous but under the banner you are only a few. Certainly, I know what can improve you and how your crookedness can be straightened. But I shall not improve your condition by marring myself. Allah may disgrace your faces and destroy you. You do not understand the right as you understand the wrong and do not crush the wrong as you crush the right.
From the letter to Hassan:
If your kindness or indulgence is going to bring forth cruel results, then severity of strictness is the real kindness.
An accessory of an accomplice who insults you and a friend who has not formed a good opinion of you will not be of any help or use to you.
Do good to your brother when he is bent upon doing harm to you. When he ignores or declines to recognize the kinship, befriend him, go to his help and try to maintain relations. If he is miserly with you and refuses to help you, be generous with him and support him financially. If he is cruel with you, be kind and considerate with him. If he harms you accept his excuses. Behave with him as if he is a master and you are a slave, and he is a benefactor and you are a beneficiary. But be careful that you do not thus behave with undeserving and mean persons.
Advise your friend sincerely and to the best of your ability even though he may not like it.
Every arrow of yours will not hit the bull's eye.
And the last one is certainly, the most accurate.
20.10.06
Israel Invents New Weapon of Micro Destruction
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/mysterious-wounds-point-to-israels-use-of-new-weapon/2006/10/18/1160850998361.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/mysterious-wounds-point-to-israels-use-of-new-weapon/2006/10/18/1160850998361.html
19.10.06
On Kallam versus the Avicennians versus Zionist Atrocities aka Vandalism
You see, it started when the issue of place became the dwelling place of God as a reversal of the dwelling place being in the sphere of ultimate logic or as we might suggest, Allah.
Ultimate logic does not require a place. What is required, is to sense that there may be men on Mars....anymore that is. Green men. We are so caught up in the issues of Island Living. Caught in this pocket of light so to speak, which is actually, the conundrum of Bats.
Hints are the only way a person of certain magnitudes, can teach. Otherwise, there is the obligatory biases involved in dwelling here or there. Exile or the other term, where one dies which is of course, an unknown. Perpetually exiled it seems until finally planted.
In the Middle East, it is important to die in the place of one's birth. All semetic crowds are the same until the question arrives: assimilation. In other words, unification theories.
Allah said: Plan well. I also shall plan. And with that! He directed folks towards something thought to be magnetic and placed it dead center in the guidebook, just for kicks.
One of the main problems however, was with the geneologies and jealousies. The apple of course was simply: A Divine Order. Doesn't matter which one really and there is no way of knowing which Apple Trees produce which Lotus Blossoms (and boy, you are really in trouble if you have to find a way to fit into a flower pod). No way to know and in fact, it is such that until the common prophet Abraham said and did some stuff, nothing was previously known.
Boys will be boys though and most boys are of the jealous type. Cain/Abel...you know, the familiar stories. In fact, I've seen it myself. It is called Civil Indecencies and most are perpetuated by the most moral types with the finest of ideals.
Eyes are necessary to formulate opinions based on reading various texts. Heart and Faith however, as complex as those are, are required to usurp the boundaries of fundamentalist thinking of any sort. Literal tendencies as in "Kallam" , First Cause and hence "Fuzzy Maths and Lies" are no more than human peculiarities used in the scheming of the generally faithless.
What is very interesting is that this "book circle" of distribution is also alligned with the Scambala types. I'd be careful if I was to hobnob with those types of beings. They like to paint people which is the same as Racial Profiling only it comes in a broad variety of "pastels".
Never mind what is said about "those who blow on knots". We wouldn't want to get too technical on such unware readers of the most important of all texts:
The Dawn (113)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficient, the Merciful
Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of the Dawn
From the evil of what he created
And from the evil of the utterly dark night when it comes
And from the evil of those who blow on knots
And from the evil of the envious when he envies.
The last third of the Quran is probably the most entertaining in terms of "getting a person going" into the interior depths of its truths.
Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.
—Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/files/leo_strauss_and_the_world_of_intelligence.pdf
You see, it started when the issue of place became the dwelling place of God as a reversal of the dwelling place being in the sphere of ultimate logic or as we might suggest, Allah.
Ultimate logic does not require a place. What is required, is to sense that there may be men on Mars....anymore that is. Green men. We are so caught up in the issues of Island Living. Caught in this pocket of light so to speak, which is actually, the conundrum of Bats.
Hints are the only way a person of certain magnitudes, can teach. Otherwise, there is the obligatory biases involved in dwelling here or there. Exile or the other term, where one dies which is of course, an unknown. Perpetually exiled it seems until finally planted.
In the Middle East, it is important to die in the place of one's birth. All semetic crowds are the same until the question arrives: assimilation. In other words, unification theories.
Allah said: Plan well. I also shall plan. And with that! He directed folks towards something thought to be magnetic and placed it dead center in the guidebook, just for kicks.
One of the main problems however, was with the geneologies and jealousies. The apple of course was simply: A Divine Order. Doesn't matter which one really and there is no way of knowing which Apple Trees produce which Lotus Blossoms (and boy, you are really in trouble if you have to find a way to fit into a flower pod). No way to know and in fact, it is such that until the common prophet Abraham said and did some stuff, nothing was previously known.
Boys will be boys though and most boys are of the jealous type. Cain/Abel...you know, the familiar stories. In fact, I've seen it myself. It is called Civil Indecencies and most are perpetuated by the most moral types with the finest of ideals.
Eyes are necessary to formulate opinions based on reading various texts. Heart and Faith however, as complex as those are, are required to usurp the boundaries of fundamentalist thinking of any sort. Literal tendencies as in "Kallam" , First Cause and hence "Fuzzy Maths and Lies" are no more than human peculiarities used in the scheming of the generally faithless.
What is very interesting is that this "book circle" of distribution is also alligned with the Scambala types. I'd be careful if I was to hobnob with those types of beings. They like to paint people which is the same as Racial Profiling only it comes in a broad variety of "pastels".
Never mind what is said about "those who blow on knots". We wouldn't want to get too technical on such unware readers of the most important of all texts:
The Dawn (113)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficient, the Merciful
Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of the Dawn
From the evil of what he created
And from the evil of the utterly dark night when it comes
And from the evil of those who blow on knots
And from the evil of the envious when he envies.
The last third of the Quran is probably the most entertaining in terms of "getting a person going" into the interior depths of its truths.
Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.
—Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/files/leo_strauss_and_the_world_of_intelligence.pdf
18.10.06
The Israeli government is clearly unsatisfied by the outcome of its war with Lebanon in July and August and seems to want either a second round or another conflict in the region. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other senior officials have issued a series of bellicose statements, threatening to use force to halt arms shipments that they claim are still reaching Hizbullah, threatening "pre-emptive" strikes on Iran's nuclear program, and threatening to intensify an already deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&article_id=76235&categ_id=17
The Jewish state has a long history of lashing out across its borders in order to mask divisions within them. (Er, this is a typical "semeitc:" thing and perhaps a typical thing in humanity in the thing called the Adventure of War which is many things...in the US it is a way of "shaping up" a society gone mad with drugs and violence, sexism and bigotry).
I wonder what the answer to the world's dilemna is? The plan, as I see it, is immense. The armies build in various ways and alot has to do with the intention of individuals. And the ability of propaganda to invest itself in the bad intentions of some and the way it annoys the good intentions of others.
Islam. I'm telling you. The answer is Islam. Islam is color and nation blind.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&article_id=76235&categ_id=17
The Jewish state has a long history of lashing out across its borders in order to mask divisions within them. (Er, this is a typical "semeitc:" thing and perhaps a typical thing in humanity in the thing called the Adventure of War which is many things...in the US it is a way of "shaping up" a society gone mad with drugs and violence, sexism and bigotry).
I wonder what the answer to the world's dilemna is? The plan, as I see it, is immense. The armies build in various ways and alot has to do with the intention of individuals. And the ability of propaganda to invest itself in the bad intentions of some and the way it annoys the good intentions of others.
Islam. I'm telling you. The answer is Islam. Islam is color and nation blind.
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