Teaching Islam To Nonbelievers

The Abundance (Kawther)

To thee have We granted the Fount (of Abundance).

Therefore to thy Lord turn in Prayer and Sacrifice.

For he who hateth thee, he will be cut off (from Future Hope).

I have been leading a series of lectures in Bisbee for nearly seven weeks now. My goal was to dispel some of the misconceptions people have about Islam. I also stated that my goal was not to "convert" the students in my lecture series but in that, I know that Islam itself is a system of Allah choosing whom Allah will and if something I say to my students leads them to further investigation and 'conversion', then so be it, the seed of belief was already in them, the notorious MUSTARD SEED. I told them early on about what my bias is and asked them to consider their own. My bias is that I do believe the Quran is the Word of Allah and nothing less, that I take it LITERALLY and I did my best to relate to them the logic of that. The logic of that is based in the Arabic language as the transmission mode of what the Quran refers to as "the communications" of Allah or "Our communications" as it is worded verbatim in the text.

What I've found is that the American society is far away from belief. It is far astray in terms that most people have a very, very difficult time conceiving of a Creator let alone the Angels and the Djinn. I have been really challenged over the weeks by my students because they can become irritated at what it is I have to say. They apparently do not understand that I am not the one saying it....Allah is the one saying it...in the Quran and those communications follow a distinct logic. The problem however with my students overall (with the exception of the believers in the group) is that the unbelievers (athiests and so called "agnostics") is that they possess the FIRST BIAS. The First Bias as I like to call it is that they do not believe in Allah or God (whatever word you choose to use). The first thing a person needs to UNDERSTAND the logic of the Quran is this simple belief and it is contained in the Shehada which is the statement of "WITNESS" a person makes when actually accepting/embracing Islam as a way of life:

"There is only one 'ilah (ALLAH) and he has no sons and no partners and his messenger and prophet is Mohamed". What distinguishes a monotheist from a muslim is the second part of that statement i.e. that Mohamed (SAW) is the messenger and prophet of Allah. It is also what distinguishes other "types" of believers i.e. Christians/Jews/Others from muslims. A muslim is a DISTINCT type of believer but not one that ignores the existence of other types which never accepted the communications i.e. the QURAN and accepted it as the actual word of Allah. Let alone what distinguishes a Jew from all other types of believers that accepted the next to last prophet, Jesus (Isa, SAW) and hence, they are the focus of much of Allah's attention in the Quran as complete and serial rejectors of the prophets (who all originated in the genetic Hebrew bloodline). Due to the fact that Allah "chose" them above all others (Allah chooses whom Allah will) then they are in a very serious bind when it comes to the communications. Not from me but from Allah.

My group of students is composed of one fundamentalist Christian (and anti Arab believer - a teacher from the high school), one non practicing Jew (who is very Jewish in an ethnic sense but not a religious one), one woman who desires to accept Islam, another woman who is "Islam" friendly and inquisitive, a man who has never declared to be anything really but seems to want to be something, and yet another who seems to be interested in Islam from either a historical perspective or simply one for entertainment's sake and last but not least, a Canook who left a fundamentalist background for a "universalist" one but cannot conceive of the linkage between science (nature) and religion let alone politics and the all encompassing view Islam has of humanity and the societies in which we exist in together.

Out of all the lectures I have given, it was the last one that provided for me the biggest challenge overall. It was the lecture that questions what the Quran has to say about genetics versus what Darwin had to say and how Darwin's view has become obsolete even to non believing laboratory scientists. It is the case that Darwinism and all of it that Darwinism entails as a basis for societal/political practices has caused most of the disruption in the "God Beliefs" of people in Western society in my opionion and in the opinion of the Turkish muslim philosopher, Harun Yehye. In fact, I was not in agreement with the manner in which Yehye promotes "anti Darwinism" but now that I have seen it up close and personal, I am a believer in Anti Darwinism. That is because Darwinism is taught as a 'religion' in the sense that it cannot be questioned and to question it is to become an "apostate" (kafir in Islamic terminology) to this Western society. Nothing that I can see has caused greater damage to the souls of humanity.

So when one of my students was confronted with my Darwinian challenges he asked, "So, you (muslims) do not believe in evolution?"

How can a person answer that? It isn't that muslims do not believe in evolution "per se" but is evolution really understood by the people who believe in it? Any more than Islam is understood by everyone who believes in that as well?

NO. It isn't. People seem to have confused the two things: Evolution and Adaptation.

Two different things entirely. Evolution is the COMPLETE change of one species into another regardless of the time span required for such a change. For example, evolutionists have promoted the idea that fish somehow turned completely into birds. This is truly laughable when you think about the steps required for fish to transform into land going beasts let alone, sky going and non water filtering respiratory creatures who build nests instead of deposit eggs on underwater grasses or by simply depositing them for the currents to carry this way and that. Forget the fact that fish had to learn to sit on their eggs and completely ignore that fish are COLD BLOODED and birds are WARM BLOODED. And why then are there still fish since we know that for things to evolve it is due to the EXTREME force exerted by the NEED to adapt to varying environmental changes? The list of rhetorical questions that refute the ludicrous concept of absolute evolution are quite long and I won't go into to them now. Hopefully, I wouldn't need to as people have brains and ought to investigate ALL of their beliefs (not just the ones they like either).

Adaptation though, is another matter altogether. Islam puts forth the argument that all body plans were initially created but Islam does not negate that those types of things experienced progress and vascillation through "stages" and sometimes were changed by complete changes (human beings) but that all human beings are of the same type (NOT apes/monkeys) but of different RACES which are now extinct. We humans tend to not think we are like the Dodo bird and can experience RACIAL/SPECIES SPECIFIC extinctions that are the results of the deleterious effects of HUMAN BEHAVIOR. Western systems tend to think that kind of thinking is "for the birds". Heh.

For instance, homoerectus whateveris (to paraphrase the lineages of bones discovered by the Leakey's et.al.), were simply like Eskimoes. And we know for a fact that these types of small indigenous cultures from the Aborigines to the Apaches...are at risk for not only "social" extinction but actual "genetic" extinction through intermarriage, language and social deterioration and disease (as would be the case with the serious genetic mishaps on the Arabian Peninsula where first cousin marriages are the norm and have known detrimental effects on the offspring of those individuals in terms of increasing the morbidity and mortality of specific populations i.e. Saudis the best example of that that I know of).

In a nutshell, it has become clear to me what was not clear before. The Quran states that most people will not "believe" and it is true. Most will not because most cannot as they have been given a serious handicap in their thinking by a significantly huge number of DARWIN FANATICS. Most people will not believe without the intervening periods of vast social change like the one we are experiencing now in which humans are forced (as the Quran states: willingly or unwillingly) to face the seriousness of following a certain set of dictates NOT of human origin but of DIVINE origin.

It does beg the question, "What about the Jews then?" Are we responsible for what becomes of their small "indigenous" tribe in light of the idea that Islam relates that we all originate from the same two persons, Adam and Eve (Huwa, pbut) and in all actuality are all of one species and Allah gives everyone free will to choose "his way or the highway"? That is the question and if I was a Jew or any other type of actual "rejector" then I'd be investigating very seriously what Allah has said his plan is for those who disagree with his words. I'd be what you call, "motivated". It has bothered me for some time that Christians who supposedly believe in "God" would ignore ANYTHING God might have said. I ask them, "If you knew God left a message under that rock over there, wouldn't you want to go see what it said? Wouldn't you be overwhelmed with love for God and a desire to understand his plan and turn that rock over?" That one causes most Christian believers to tremble a little in stupification of their own "ignorance" as in ignoring something very, very important to them.

As for the unbelievers and the arrogant, who cares really what becomes of them. I certainly don't and have no control over it.

How to get people to see the logic of this thing called Islam? Well, Allah knew that was not only difficult but a job for Allah only. And that is why Sura "one-o-nine" was revealed to us as muslims:

The Disbelievers (Kafr)

109:1
Say : O ye that reject Faith!

109:2
I worship not that which ye worship,

109:3
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.

109:4
And I will not worship that which ye have been wont to worship,

109:5
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.

109:6
To you be your Way, and to me mine.

In Memoriam of Mothers

My mother was the most patient explainer of death. She was vacuous when it came to love but competent at giving it all the same. I'll never forget her visit after my father had died the year preceeding. We were driving over to 19th Avenue and Northern to visit her brother Everett in the hospital. He was dying. Her sister had died only months before from lung cancer.

Everywhere she looked she noticed hearses (where there were none) and graveyards (none either). It was death on every corner yet I'd just started life. I was married and had a three year old daughter. I was in college and training to be a nurse.

I became fed up with her terrible desire to see death. I told her so and she became so hurt she swore she'd never come visit me again.

By the time I had my second child, she and I had more or less forgotten our exchange a few years before. She was so frail and sick then that she required a caretaker to drive her on necessary voyages (to hospitals mostly). She came up to stay with me after the birth as all good mothers ought even though she could barely support her own weight on her osteoporotic bones. She weighed no more than a hundred pounds by then.

On the third post partum day while I was taking a nap, she had her caretaker(Tim) pack her things and ready to leave. I came down the stairs and saw her bags by the door and burst into tears. I just couldn't take it but she said that she was just too sick to stay on and burden me anymore. She was having diarrhea and worried about soiling the carpets. I had to let her go but it wasn't easy. Post partum depression never needs an excuse to set in and mine lasted for years until she finally passed away some twelve years ago now and that depression was replaced by mourning her loss which really, has never actually ended.

You never get enough of your mother, especially if she is friendly with the hours of death. She'd explained to me as a very young child that my father only had a few months to live yet he stayed on for another decade. We spent ten or more years talking about nothing but death.

Now, I know why. She was preparing me for hers.

From the Sura called The Women

[4.97] Surely (as for) those whom the angels cause to die while they are unjust to their souls, they shall say: In what state were you? They shall say: We were weak in the earth. They shall say: Was not Allah's earth spacious, so that you should have migrated therein? So these it is whose abode is hell, and it is an evil resort

A Few Doors Down, the Three Words


These houses are either
empty or sad, constantly
changing hands -
in the dusty keep
of the ages, the dark tunnels
of heat and mouse steps,
voices come and go
via those places and back
where funerals are less eager
to offer rides and pastries.

a body transparent
a body on a table
a body of ash and water
a table set for three
a body full of holes
with a finger trapped
in a book to mark the place
a body sewn to the finger
caught in the book
of estates and tailors

A gold crown
in a nearby town
belongs only to the dentist.

The rain is patient this year
April is patient,
the lilacs that live
two hundred years
the scrub oak
the generations of poppies
on the hill scattered,
are all patient.
So many to clothe
this year in grass and seedlings,
so many Armageddons to attend.

Why is it that people cry
over corpses and why is it
they do not cry about death?
You've seen one of us die,
you've seen them all.
No one goes there to visit the dead.
No one goes there to cry
or whisper or clasp.
They go there to wonder
about themselves
with mouse steps,
side-stepping in the aisles
careful not to bunch up
or bump into one another.
Their faces tell lies and more lies.
No one thinks they'll get caught.

Her son dressed as honestly
as he'd been raised
in a crisp white shirt
each button a little lock.
Her husband looked gray
as the mourners snuck in and out,
his patience exhausted.
He closed the door himself
and shut off the lights.
We were counterweights
that is all he had to say.



The Declining Day

By (the Token of) Time (through the ages),
Verily Man is in loss,
Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds,
and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth,
and of Patience and Constancy.

I won't however, hold my breath if you don't mind.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=517849

Walt, the Belfer professor of international affairs, and co-author John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago set off a storm of controversy last March when they published a paper arguing that the pro-Israel lobby, led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has distorted foreign policy through its influence on academia, the media, and think tanks. Their essay also argued that the lobby was a “critical element” in the decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

The forthcoming book will be published by New York-based Farrar, Straus and Giroux and is due out in September, according to Walt, who declined to answer other questions about the book. Mearsheimer did not respond to phone calls to his office in Chicago.

Since the publication of their essay last March, the claims made by Walt and Mearsheimer have divided the academic community.

New York University professor Tony Judt, who wrote a New York Times op-ed supporting the pair shortly after their article appeared, said in an interview yesterday that the professors’ work has forced a discussion of the Israeli lobby’s influence, a previously taboo topic.

“The article and subsequent furor have opened up the debate as never before [and] the book will presumably do more of the same,” Judt said.

On the Brighter Side

http://www.esinislam.com/Matters_of_fact/Islam_flourishing_among_the_African_Americans_despite_US_discriminations.htm



Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the United States, particularly among African Americans, who are undeterred by the government’s increased scrutiny of Muslims since the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to a Reuters article.

Muslim converts from the American black community say they embraced the Islamic religion because of the disciplines of its prayers, its emphasis on worshippers’ submission to Allah (SWT) and its affinity with people who are oppressed.

Some black Muslim converts are also suspicious of the U.S. government’s warnings about the emergence of new enemies since the 9/11 attacks because of memories of how authorities demonized civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. As a result, they are willing to embrace Islam as a legitimate alternative to Christianity, the majority religion among U.S. blacks.

A new black Muslim convert in Atlanta told Reuters he embraced Islam when he visited Africa for the first time. After reading the holy Qur’an, Mark King says he realized that its blessed teachings were similar to his own beliefs, not least in fighting injustice.

Wha? Cattle Mutilations?

Yer kidding me. Nope. 30,000 to date in North America:

Read on:

http://www.ob1.com/fyfecow.html


On January 31, 1993, a rancher in the Dawson Community led investigators to the carcass of a Black Angus cow. The animal's genitals and rectum had been cored out in one large incision that left a hole the size of coffee can. The animal's jaw had been completely stripped in an oval incision that encompassed The entire right side of the animal's face. The tongue was completely gone, cut deep down into the throat. There was no blood present on the animal itself, nor on the ground surrounding it.

Further examination revealed a flaky white material on the animal's right rib cage and on the ground five (5) feet from the carcass. The material was placed in the empty wrapper of a cigarette pack and transported to the Fyffe Police Department where it was transferred to a glass jar. While removing the flaky particles from the cigarette wrapper, the material came in contact with the brass tip of a ball-point pen. Within one second of contact with the brass, the material melted into an almost clear liquid. To reduce the risk of this happening to the remaining material, the rest was shaken out into a jar where it remained unaffected. This white, flaky material was then air expressed to a molecular biologist at a leading eastern University for analysis.




[004:119] And surely I will lead them astray, and surely I will arouse desires in them, and surely I will command them and they will cut the cattle' ears, and surely I will command them and they will change Allah's creation. Whoso chooseth Satan for a patron instead of Allah is verily a loser and his loss is manifest.

More importantly, it is this same type of aluminum compound which, when combined with Iron produces Lava. Lava...love lava. But, the people in the WTC who died probably wouldn't feel the same way about this substance used to melt the building:

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/thermite.htm

Just Water Eh?

Such turbulent behavior has engaged scientists for centuries, and artists as well; Leonardo da Vinci loved to draw the characteristic eddies of moving water. The great eighteenth-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler analyzed fluid motion, but omitted the effects of friction. Unfor-tunately, when Euler used his equation to design a fountain for Frederick the Great, it failed to work. Now we know the correct equation, but it is brutally difficult to solve, and it leaves unanswered the central question: how does deterministic laminar flow break into random whorls? This commonplace effect that we experience daily is a great unsolved problem of classical physics, in some ways as challenging as quantum mechanics.

http://www.emory.edu/ACAD_EXCHANGE/2006/aprmay/perkowitz.html

Sura Al Nur, The Light:

Or (the Unbelievers' state) is like the depths of darkness in a vast deep ocean, overwhelmed with billow topped by billow, topped by (dark) clouds: depths of darkness, one above another: if a man stretches out his hands, he can hardly see it! for any to whom Allah giveth not light, there is no light!

Sura Al Baqra, The Cow

Thenceforth were your hearts hardened: They became like a rock andeven worse in hardness. For among rocks there are some from whichrivers gush forth; others there are which when split asunder sendforth water; and others which sink for fear of Allah. And Allah is not unmindful of what ye do.

Deuterium is a stable isotope of hydrogen, meaning that it is not radioactive and has a very long life span. Deuterium is still the same element as hydrogen but it has one neutron making it twice as heavy as protium. Deuterium was discovered by Harold Urey, in 1932. Deuterium was the first isotope to be separated from its element in pure form. It is believed that deuterium was created during the initial phase of the big bang. A free neutron will decay in ten minutes unless it interacts with a proton to form a nucleus of a deuterium atom. Most of these deuterium atoms combined to form helium but a few extra were left over and remained deuterium.
When two deuterium ions bond with one oxygen ion, deuterium oxide, heavy water, is formed. It looks the same as and tastes similar to regular water, but some of it's characteristics are different. Heavy water is different from regular water in physical properties. Heavy water boils at 101.41 degrees Celsius and freezes at 3.79 degrees Celsius. The heat capacity, heat of fusion, heat of vaporization, and entropy of deuterium oxide are all higher than the values for water. Heavy water is also more viscous than water is. Deuterium oxide is not as good of a solvent as water is either. Deuterium will form stronger bonds than hydrogen will.
Approximately one of every six thousand drops of water is actually deuterium oxide. The overall deuterium to hydrogen ratio on earth is 1:6600.

DARWIN IS DEAD

Sura called Time

76:1
Has there not been over Man a long period of Time, when he was nothing - (not even) mentioned?

76:28
It is We Who created them, and We have made their joints strong; but, when We will, We can substitute the like of them by a complete change.*

*Note: In Arabic, words are gender specific and "we" is used as it is in French as the Royal We and does not imply multiple creators.


"It is a striking, but not much mentioned fact that, though geneticists have been breeding fruit-flies for sixty years or more in labs all round the world- flies which produce a new generation every eleven days-they have never yet seen the emergence of a new species or even a new enzyme."21


Although an almost incomprehensible number of species inhabit Earth today, they do not form a continuous spectrum of barely distinguishable intermediates. Instead, nearly all species can be recognized as belonging to a relatively limited number of clearly distinct major groups, with very few illustrating intermediate structures or ways of life. ( Robert L. Carroll, Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution, Cambridge University Press, 1997)


If my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking most closely all of the species of the same group together must assuredly have existed... Consequently evidence of their former existence could be found only amongst fossil remains.(Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition, Harvard University Press, 1964, p. 179)

And be careful for those Moby Bears:


"I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale" - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Humor, er, Species.

Sura Ya Sin, 36

Glory be to the One, who created in pairs all things that the earth produces, as well as themselves, and other things they do not know.



The Arabic word “azvaj” is the plural of “zavj” meaning “pairs,” “matches,” “partners.” There are three sorts of pairs in the Creation as described in the verse:

a- Pairs that grow from the earth, i.e., plants that have species of differentiated sex;
b- Human pairs, males and females. Also some included human characteristics like bravery / cowardice; love / hate; generosity / stinginess, etc.
c- Pairs unknown: men did not know anything about the creation in pairs at the time of the descent of the Quran.

Sura Yunus

Say: "Of your 'partners', can any originate creation and repeat it?" Say: "It is Allah Who originates creation and repeats it: then how are ye deluded away (from the truth)?"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070320/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_norway

JERUSALEM -
Israel's foreign ministry canceled a planned Tuesday meeting with a top Norwegian diplomat in a sign of displeasure the day after he met with Palestinian government leaders from the Islamic Hamas group, Norwegian and Israeli officials said.

Norway's deputy foreign minister, Raymond Johansen met Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas and other government officials on Monday, becoming the first high-ranking Western official to visit leaders of the violent Islamic movement, which has killed more than 200 Israelis in dozens of suicide bombing attacks.

Sura Al Baqra

[2.11] And when it is said to them, Do not make mischief in the land, they say: We are but peace-makers.

[2.12] Now surely they themselves are the mischief makers, but they do not perceive.

**One of the biggest problems we muslims have with the "Jews" is that it is mostly true about them, ie what he Quran says about them. They are not peace makers and behave like Pharoah:

http://www.aina.org/news/20070317151234.htm Reminds me of what the Jews did to the Muslims in the "Battle of the Trench".

http://desertpeace.blogspot.com/2007/03/rachels-work-lives-on.html Jews murdering Americans with impunity.

http://www.muckrakerreport.com/id374.html Jews encouraging Americans to die for Israel.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Kristof_US_should_stop_biting_tongue_0317.html US patsies never criticize Israel in their ME anti war malarkey. That is Irish for BULL SHIT.

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/750 Jews impersonating Arabs ALL the damn time or didn't you people know that Ehud Barak showed up in Beirut disguised as an old Arab woman in order to assassinate the leader of the PLO named Arafat?

http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb02262007.html Jews targeting Arab business competitors in war time and peace time. I thought they were democratic and all but fact is folks, when they bombed Liban Lait, a Lebanese dairy which markets in Europe and competes with Israeli dairies...did they really think there was a Hezbollah at the bottom of the yogurt or a banana in his pocket?

Screw Israel. No right to exist. No right to stay and no right for Jews to sit pretty and ignore this and feel all warm and fuzzy inside about their "jewish homeland" as it is called. If you are a Jew and don't like this blog then go to hell. And if you agree then why are you sitting there and saying nothing?

YOU are complicit in their crimes and therefore, go to hell. It is not the time to remain silent in the face of the outrages perpetrated by Israel and for Israel.

"In physical cosmology, a cosmological horizon marks a limit to observability, and marks the boundary of a region that an observer cannot see into directly due to cosmological effects."

Cosmological Horizon

"Observations of the universe are limited by the physical properties of light. Terrestrial observations are limited by the fact that light propagates in straight lines, while the surface of Earth is curved. The distance one can see can be increased by observing from a higher vantage point, but there is a limit: an observer on an infinitely tall platform could only see one quarter of the way around Earth's circumference. Astronomical observations are limited by the fact that light propagates with a finite velocity, c. The only objects that can be seen are those whose emitted light has had enough time, since the beginning of the Universe, to reach Earth today. In both cases, the physical limit to vision is called the horizon."

"In any case, it is interesting to note that the cosmological horizon is a maximal limit of perception and not an actual boundary. Much like an individual who is unable to see the edges of the Pacific Ocean while they are floating n the middle of it; we can only see the light from areas of space within the cosmological horizon."

55:33O ye assembly of Jinns and men! If it be ye can pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, pass ye! not without authority shall ye be able to pass!

55:34Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny?

The Dawn

By the break of Day
By the Nights twice five;
By the even and odd

http://www.quranmiracles.com/19/19read.asp?id=38

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/957

http://www.counterpunch.org/adwan03172007.html

http://www.muckrakerreport.com/id374.html

http://www.counterpunch.org/weir03152007.html

Israel using human shields? Invading other countries? Imprisoning people in ghettoes? Strip searching young muslim and Christian women (not Jews of course)?

No way man! What a Godawful surprise!


While commonly associated with Nazi Germany, the swastika symbol is more than 3,000 years old. The term "Swastika" was originally the name for a hooked cross in Sanskrit, and swastikas have been found on artifacts, such as coins and pottery, from the ancient city of Troy.

Not only are swastikas associated with ancient Troy, the symbols are found in many other cultures, such as Chinese, Japanese, Indian and southern European. By the Middle Ages, the swastika was a well-known symbol and had many different names, depending on the country. In some cultures, such as in ancient China, the symbol is turned counterclockwise (sauvastika).

Throughout its history, the swastika represented life, sun, power, strength and good luck. In the early 20th century, it was still considered a positive symbol. During World War I, it was found on shoulder patches of members of the American 45th Division and the Finnish air force. Only after the Nazi period did its connotation change.

German nationalists chose to use the swastika in the mid-19th century because it was associated with the Aryan race and Germanic history. At the end of the 19th century, German nationalists used the symbol on periodicals and for the official emblem of the German Gymnasts’ League. By the 20th century, it was a common symbol used in Germany to represent German nationalism and pride, for example, as the emblem for the Wandervogel, a German youth group. Swastikas also were used, however, in anti-Semitic periodicals.

The swastika officially became the emblem for the Nazi Party on August, 7, 1920, at the Salzburg Congress. Describing the new flag in Mein Kampf, Hitler said the swastika symbolized the victory of the Aryan man.

Today the symbol is most commonly associated with Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, neo-Nazis and other hate groups.



Same difference if you ask me.

The Day After the Beach:

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/938

Aside from Roses, there is no flower as beautiful and aromatic as Lilacs.

From the Zaburزبور , more commonly called, Proverbs which is attributed to Solomon and part of the Psalms of the ancient Jews contained in what is known today as the Torah or Tanakha:



The Sayings of Agur*

I am myself the stupidest of people,
bereft of human intelligence,
I have not learned wisdom,
and I lack the knowledge of the holy ones,
Who has mounted to the heavens, then come down again?
Who has gathered the wind in the clasp of his hand?
Who has wrapped the waters in his cloak?
Who has set all the ends of the earth firm?
What is his name?
What is his child's name?
Do you know?
Every word of God is unalloyed,
a shield to those who take refuge in him,
To his words make no addition,
lest he reprove you
and account you a liar.

Two things I beg of you,
do not grudge me them before I die:
keep falsehood and lies from me,
give me neither poverty nor riches,
grant me only my share of food,
for fear that, surrounded by plenty,
I should fall away
and say "Yahweh - who is Yahweh?"
or else, in destitution, take to stealing
and profane the name of my God.

Do not blacken a slave's name to his master,
lest he curse you and you suffer for it.

There is a breed of person that curses his father
and does not bless his mother;
a breed that, laying claim to purity,
has not yet been cleansed of filth;
a breed haughty of eye,
with disdain in every glance;
a breed with swords for teeth,
with knives for jaws,
devouring the oppressed from the earth
and the needy from the land.

*Agur was the son of Jakey of Massa (in Northern Arabia).

On Being Different, Unusual,
Impractical and Saved:


From the Qur'an, 42:49-50, the Counsel:

Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth
He creates what he pleases
He grants to whom he pleases daughters and grants
to whom he pleases sons,
Or, He makes them of BOTH sorts, male and female
AND He makes whom he pleases barren***!
Surely He is the Knowing Powerful

And from the Bee, Sura number 16 which coincidentally (or maybe not!) is the haploid number of male drones who fertilize the diploid (32) Queen Bee rather than the diploid drones who, if they were to fertilize the eggs would manage to create a new species of bee with 64 chromosomes and why stop there! Why not have bees with a squillion chromosomes, what the hell! You see, bees practice a kind of eugenics that conserve all the genetic material of both parents as opposed to humans who are less conservative and exercise a bit more "free will" in their reproduction techniques by using only half of the information contained in the humble strands of DNA:

16:3
He has created the heavens and the earth for just ends: Far is He above having the partners they ascribe to Him!

16:4
He has created man from a sperm-drop; and behold this same (man) becomes an open disputer!

16:5
And cattle He has created for you (men): from them ye derive warmth, and numerous benefits, and of their (meat) ye eat.

16:6
And ye have a sense of pride and beauty in them as ye drive them home in the evening, and as ye lead them forth to pasture in the morning.

16:7
And they carry your heavy loads to lands that ye could not (otherwise) reach except with souls distressed: for your Lord is indeed Most Kind, Most Merciful,

16:8
And (He has created) horses, mules, and donkeys, for you to ride and use for show; and He has created (other) things of which ye have no knowledge.

The interesting thing to note about the Sura called the Bee (well, there are several things actually but this is one) is that it contains within it not only the suggestion of the eugenics of Allah, but the entire process of how food is brought to market including the fact that it is driven there on the backs of animals created specifically as beasts of burdens. For example:

16:10
It is He who sends down rain from the sky: from it ye drink, and out of it (grows) the vegetation on which ye feed your cattle.

There is a sense of the purposefulness of the plan in many Suras but especially in The Bee. When at first a person reads the Qur'an, a person with no experience and no faith either, they tend to see these passages as just more Bible Stories of the ancients. But no....not in this case when in fact it starts out with a big "Wha?" Allah states, I created you from a spermatazoa and you dare to question my authority in these matters? How dare you, you fools! And truth be told, when a person becomes fully aware of the capacity of the Qur'an to comment on human nature, human biology, the food chain and natural selection (which is naturally, Allah's selection of the fittest and it is NOT random and not at all based on competition save for the evil doers who feel there is never enough to go around)...when a person comes to the final conclusion regarding the integrity of the Qur'an, a person can no longer ignore the rules. How it is...only a fool would do that and even then, Allah promises that a soul will follow willingly or unwillingly. One only has to look at the news on any given day and see that people are struggling whole heartedly against natural law in their societies. Natural Law which is necessarily, the Law of the Creator of all things including Jesus Christ (Isa, SAW), including Jonah (SAW), including Musa (Moses, SAW) and including you and me plus our dogs, cats and circular saws:

16:12
He has made subject to you the Night and the Day; the sun and the moon; and the stars are in subjection by His Command: verily in this are Signs for men who are wise.

16:13
And the things on this earth which He has multiplied in varying colours (and qualities): verily in this is a sign for men who celebrate the praises of Allah (in gratitude).

The Qur'an is so thorough that it even comments on modern definitions of infinity which are popularly accepted (ignored and avoided by the Greeks who didn't require a mathematical model for infinity (calculus/algebra) in order to square a corner or stack a wall)...popularly accepted "nowdays" as infinity that is "countable and uncountable":

16:18
If ye would count up the favours of Allah, never would ye be able to number them: for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

The notion of countable and uncountable infinities requires a decent understanding of the world of real numbers and the world of transcendental numbers. Take a stick of known size (say a six inch stick) and divide it up into smaller and smaller sections (the notion of Borges Map of the World)...you will never achieve the final division of course and it used to be in mathematics that it was similar to the speed of light...one could approach it but never attain it which of course, is also in the book in the Sura called The Beneficent (a Sura which details several of the favors for you):

55:33
O ye assembly of Jinns and men! If it be ye can pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, pass ye! not without authority shall ye be able to pass!

55:34
Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny?

It was that infinity was a "known" quantity but it was unusually hard to gather the facts of it due to its very nature. In other words, it is both countable and uncountable and without it, modern mathematics would not be what it is and we as humans would not have been able to construct a universe that can be discussed logically between each other. We'd still be building the Parthenon and gosh, we'd be very tired of all the repetition of forms.

16:72
And Allah has made for you mates (and companions) of your own nature, and made for you, out of them, sons and daughters and grandchildren, and provided for you sustenance of the best: will they then believe in vain things, and be ungrateful for Allah's favours?-

Allah made mates for you "of your own nature", kind of like the bees who we are expected to study at some point in time to understand the nature of haploidy/diploidy and of course "euploidy" not to mention polyploidy, aneuploidy (which, believe it or not is the cause of cancer) and the soon to be famous:

Eurekaploidy. I discovered that one. No one knows about it yet.

Heh.


***!
Of those he makes barren on purpose, it is the Klinefelter's male, not the Turner's mosaic female, that he makes barren. And for a reason. One that many people nowdays, are rather fond of NOT calling: Gender Confusion. A wide spread problem in a society where sixth grade children have begun having sex under their computer lab desks. Sheesh. For that matter, it might be tres inconvenient for men to be "fertilizable" because certainly, they do not possess a uterus and that much is for sure. As opposed to the humble Honey Bee eggs, ALL OF WHICH are viable and hatch regardless of being fertilized in the proper manner or not.

In Memory of Judy Hearn, who died in her sleep with her finger resting gently in a book to mark her place. My thoughts and prayers go to her four children and husband Jeff. Judy opened her business in 1973 and operated Singletree on Main Street in Bisbee which had moved for the last time into the old Irma Courteol building where Bisbee girls used to find their fashion, immortalized in the movie LA Confidential. I remember the first shop she and Radical Ann opened up in the old tortilla factory. She was a survivor in business and in life to those who know her story well. She was a weaver of great renown.

She'll be greatly missed by us all.

Bisbee, Arizona March 12, 2007

Painting: City of Lights by Judy Perry whose work is always featured at Singletree:

Are Gender Problems
Getting You Down?

http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/intersex/management.html

An article regarding the creation of males, females and a very common genetic disorder in both sexes (Turner's Syndrom (1 in 5000 human births) and Klinefelter's (1 in 700 births))socialization, hormone replacement therapy, transexualism, etc.

From the article:

Another case is that of a well known Olympic figure. He wrote of his story in 1988.42 Erika Schinegger won the Olympic gold medal for Austria for women's downhill skiing in 1966. After the win she was given a sex test and declared unequivocally XY. When told of the test findings she immediately transitioned to living as Erik, a male. Erik said he never truly felt he was a typical girl. He had never been interested in romantic boy friends and was always more attracted to women. As Erika, however, she just thought that was her lot in life. I've interviewed Erik and one of his physicians. None of the physicians she had been seen by previously wanted to tell her of the mistake for fear it would be too psychologically damaging. Switching sex never occurred to her until the condition and situation was revealed. Follow up showed that she was born in a small town, delivered by a midwife, and pronounced a girl due to a severe hypospadic condition. When she was made aware of the situation her transformation to male living was rapid. The hypospadic condition was repaired and her psychological adjustment to the change was appropriate. Erik is now a married ski instructor.

From the Qur'an, 42:49-50, the Counsel:

Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth
He creates what he pleases
He grants to whom he pleases daughters and grants
to whom he pleases sons,
Or, He makes them of BOTH sorts, male and female
AND He makes whom he pleases barren
Surely He is the Knowing Powerful



***Fertility in males with Klinefelter's cannot be improved with testosterone therapy but enlarged breast size can be influenced with testosterone therapy in Klinefelter's males as well as an increased sense of "well being". Additionally, the type of Klinefelter's in which there is more than one X chromosome, there is an increased possibility for criminality which might be influenced with early recognition and hormone replacement therapy.

***Fertility in females with "monosomy" type Turner's syndrome is absent but females with "mosaic" type Turner's syndrome are usually fertile.

For Sale

http://www.svherald.com/articles/2003/09/22/news/news4.txt

The Walter Douglas house qualifies for this distinction. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of Interior, it was rated as excellent on all three of its criteria for excellence of architecture, the importance of its owner (business tycoon Walter Douglas) and significance to history. It also was named House of the Week by the Wall Street Journal and was again awarded that distinction on Friday.

The architect, Walter C. Trost, a student of the renowned architect Henry Sullivan from Chicago and father of prairie-style architecture, and classmate of Frank Lloyd Wright, was given unlimited funds by the mining company to build a showcase home. Access to large sums of money allowed Trost to let his imagination fly.

He said the mining company spared no expense in funding this house. "They had more money than they knew what to do with," he said.

The mining company wanted to make it a showcase home for Walter Douglas, the general manager of mining operations in Arizona, for entertaining and doing business with people from around the world. Douglas commissioned Henry C. Trost to design the home. The house is considered the largest and best example of Trost's work and is considered an exquisite example of mission revival style.

The home has 12 bedrooms, six fireplaces, maple floors and leaded glass windows whose details match the details in the bookcases and wall and window trim. Matching paneled walls, eight foot pocket doors, massive beamed ceilings, hall arches and original brass wall lamps are found throughout the home.

Four of the six fireplaces were made with Gruebe tile imported from Italy. Each tile would, at today's prices, cost $250. That would bring the cost of one to around $10,000 in tiles alone.

A PHOTO BLOG worth seeing.
This guy is terrific:

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/

From his blog:

Lebanon uncovers European-run spy network
2/28/2007 4:45:00 PM GMT

Lebanese security officials have uncovered a European-run intelligence network that spies on the resistance movement Hezbollah, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.

According to As Safir, Lebanon’s General Security Department arrested an inspector at the Rafiq Hariri International Airport in Beirut after “noticing suspicious action.”

The daily said the inspector, from the northern port city of Tripoli, was one of the top members of the spy network. It didn’t say when he was detained, but noted that he has been referred to the military judiciary.

Lebanon Interior Minister, Hassan Sabeh, was informed of the incident, and ordered security officials to “put an end to these acts that disturb security”, the newspaper said.

As Safir also reported that security experts following the inspector found out that he was trying to recruit airport staff and other civilians to work for European spy services.

The report suggested that the network aimed at “monitoring Hezbollah centers and institutions as well as military positions."

It said maps, pictures and videotapes of Hezbollah offices in Beirut and in south and east Lebanon were seized during a raid on the inspector's house.

"A digital camera used in the photographing task was also confiscated," As Safir said.

Israel’s intelligence service, the Mossad, has been working under the cover of European intelligence agencies’ names, the newspaper said.

It appears that the Mossad was doing the same thing with the recently uncovered network, it added.

Last June, Lebanon uncovered a “terror network” that was used by the Mossad to carry out attacks inside Lebanon, mainly against Hezbollah and Palestinian resistance groups.

The Lebanese army said at the time that a retired police officer, identified as Mahmoud Abu Rafeh, was the head of the terror network, and that he confessed to assassinating a number of Hezbollah and Palestinian fighters on behalf of the Mossad. j



I am so shocked. I wonder if this is how THIS got there?

Liquid explosives found South Lebanon
3/3/2007 2:00:00 PM GMT

Lebanese authorities reported having uncovered 31 chemical explosive charges in south Lebanon

After nearly six months of extensive search by U.S. and European intelligence agencies for lethal "liquid explosives", that followed a foiled plot to attack passenger aircraft on flights across the Atlantic, the Lebanese authorities reported having uncovered 31 chemical explosive charges in south Lebanon.

Of course it is. Dummie. It is a trick question. Both articles from CNN/CIA/MOSSAD affiliated Al Jazeera.

American Gothic

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth — it is the truth which conceals that there is none.The simulacrum is true.=Ecclesiastes, from Baudrillard's The Precession of the Simulacra.

It used to be the sky
and vast dominion meant
this side next, fill it up or erase it.
All the water in the far off sea was clean
under and outrageously deep, freshening the edges.
Once upon a time mom and dad
could fill a car for the weekend
with gum and wrappers
as children fell asleep in the corners,
jarred and blinking in the glow
of good intentions.
There was no where to run, no real need to
and plenty of jargon to fill the time.
Nothing needed to be done about
the same old secrets: engine on, engine off.
Easy does it and upsy daisy in the rigamarole,
we kept the getty-up and go
in the thingamajig under the hood.
Time doesn't pass in these juke boxes anymore,
there's more fidget in a pesky market
than on the streets where everyone used to ride
look no hands and by the seat of the pants
all torn and socks full of thorns.
The weeds mattered more than the sanctions
when girls got up slow and boys grew up thin.
Way back when a window was mostly pegs and putty
instead of glide and shine, no one minded a crack.
No one bothered to count the missing bits
of paint or the patches on a pair,
it was expected. Life needed to end somewhere.
We could stitch the universe with a thread,
organize the world with a rake and we sure did.



Thanks to the Love Contract between Israel and the US:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=80181

Radio Nablus

We know how the old women cry
from Nablus,
into the radios that carry
voices into the transient beyond
where kinship is a violation
and walls are the dominion.

Grandmothers of the ya habibi
yah ayooni, send us a bag full
of bulghur cleaned and tightened
by your old hands, send us
your own on Radio Nablus.
Send us something and we
will bring you perfume and slippers
the next time we come.

How she cries, that old woman
on the radio, for Hadi and Iman
to pour the tea and kiss the hand.
Her generic voices are dry
commands of echo and ache
on the seas of return, listen, stay.

http://www.quran-radio.ps/about_us_italy.asp

Is this true? No way. Israel and Israelis are such very nice people.


March 2, 2007 -- ISRAEL'S DOUBLE GAME IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: ARMING TERRORISTS WITH KHMER ROUGE WEAPONS


WMR's report yesterday on the U.S. naval buildup in Southeast Asia, particularly in Cambodia, coincides with a major Israeli intelligence and weapons smuggling operation in the region.

Israel has been a major, albeit covert, player in Southeast Asia since Israeli multi-billionaire tycoon Shaul Eisenberg began supplying weapons to Cambodia's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. Eisenberg, a close business partner of China's military, was also an early arms supplier to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. Eisenberg was active with Asia's Jewish community during World War II, not as an compatriot of the Allies but as a close intelligence and business partner of Japan's Imperial government, which was allied with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the Axis Alliance. Escaping Nazi-controlled Europe, Eisenberg settled in the Far East, making his primary bases of operation Japanese-occupied Shanghai and Japan itself. In Shanghai, Eisenberg, along with Imperial Japanese military intelligence units, formed units of future Jewish terrorist groups -- the Irgun and the Shanghai Betar (Betar was founded in the 1930s by the Polish Zionist Yakob Jabotinsky, a supporter of Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, to battle the British for control of Palestine and the ideological godfather of later neoconservative oracle Leo Strauss). The Japanese taught the Jewish paramilitary forces in Shanghai, including some who escaped from Joseph Stalin's Jewish Autonomous Region creation in the Soviet Far East on the Chinese border, how to disrupt colonial occupiers' logistics and command and control elements, strategies that had been successful against the British, Dutch, French, and American colonial authorities in Asia. The Irgun and Betar gangs would eventually use the knowledge gained from the Japanese in their terror campaign against British and Arab forces in Palestine following World War II. Eventually, Irgun and Betar veterans would form the present-day Likud Party, now headed by Binyamin Netanyahu, a noted extreme right-winger.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

WMR visited Phnom Penh, Cambodia and discovered that the Mossad and Cambodian criminal syndicate allies continue to obtain bought-back Cambodian weapons from Cambodian government warehouses and are selling them to guerrilla groups throughout Asia, including Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, anti-Laotian Hmongs, the small anti-communist Free Vietnam Movement, and Burmese tribal guerrilla groups.

WMR photographed a number of Zim shipping containers portside along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh. From this and other port facilities, including the port of Sihanoukville, bought-back Cambodian weapons , some originally provided to the Khmer Rouge by Eisenberg and the Chinese, are making their way to insurgent groups around Asia, possibly including Iraqi guerrillas battling U.S. forces in Iraq.

Not far from Zim's Mekong port facilities in Phnom Penh sits a quiet and unassuming Mossad surveillance station. From this vantage point, Israeli operatives keep a close eye on Mekong river traffic and any "new players" who arrive into town. With new oil deposits being discovered in contested waters of the Gulf of Thailand, border skirmishes in the region are likely to increase, driving up the demand for small arms in the region. The cached weapons in Cambodia stand to make Israeli intelligence a handsome profit.

Dubai Ports? Oh yea. Evil Arabs. Forgot about that!

Zim Integrated Shipping (Isreali Firm Supports DPW, Will appear on CNN "Situation Room" Today)
www.zim.com ^


Posted on 03/02/2006 8:22:01 AM PST by new yorker 77


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The War at Home

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6400179.stm


The cause of the losses, which range from 30% to more than 70%, is a mystery, but experts are investigating several theories.

American bee colonies have been hit by regional crises before, but keepers say this is the first national crisis.

Bees pollinate more than $14bn (£7bn) worth of US seeds and crops each year, mostly fruits, vegetables and nuts.

The mystery disappearances highlight the important link that honeybees play in the chain that brings fruit and vegetables to supermarkets and dinner tables.

The crisis threatens numerous crops, from avocados to kiwis and California almonds - one of the most profitable in the US.

"I have never seen anything like it," California beekeeper David Bradshaw, 50, told the New York Times.

"Box after box after box are just empty. There's nobody home."

Heh.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m31032&s1=h1




http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerPage.jhtml


Where do you hide a crime? Right out in the open. No one cares.
No one ever did.

ODE TO THE DOG TICK

Never was a parable so small
yet so blood-filled as the song
of the dog tick. Out in the garden
catching the shadows of butterflies.
Remember when the box started
scratching? Nine and ten cocoons
started wanting to fly? Oh yes
the bookshelf and we were eating
our breakfasts. Woke up and just
started eating. All the noises
but not like the sound of a tick
burning in the ashtray because
that is more silent still.
Burn tick burn, bother not the dog.
He only waits for your mysterious arrival,
the one on the wind, the one he never chose.

http://www.loosechange911.com/

The Famous Chewbacca Defense
which freed OJ Simpson:

Cochran: Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, Chef's attorney would certainly want you to believe that his client wrote "Stinky Britches" ten years ago. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Gerald Broflovski: Dammit!
Chef: What?
Gerald: He's using the Chewbacca Defense!
Cochran: Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.[1]

The Five Dancing Smoking Guns:

1. The Israeli "movers" cheered the 9-11 attacks to celebrate the successful accomplishment of the greatest spy operation ever pulled off in history.
2. One of them, or an accomplice, then calls a 9-1-1 police dispatcher to report Palestinian bomb-makers in a white van headed for the Holland Tunnel.
3. Having thus pre-framed the Palestinians with this phone call, the Israeli bombers then head for the George Washington Bridge instead, where they will drop off their time-bomb van and escape with Urban Moving accomplices.
4. But the police react very wisely and proactively by closing off ALL bridges and tunnels instead of just the Holland Tunnel. This move inadvertently foils the Israelis' misdirection play and leads to their own capture and 40 day torture.
5. To cover up this story, the U.S. Justice Department rounds up over 1000 Arabs for minor immigration violations and places them in New York area jails. The Israelis therefore become less conspicuous as the government and media can now claim that the Israelis were just immigration violators caught in the same dragnet as many other Arabs.
6. After several months, FBI and Justice Department "higher-ups" are able to gradually push aside the local FBI agents and free the Israelis quietly.


Ah. Well, I always knew that but what about that woman in CA that incinerated in her car at 25mph versus tree. The next day she was to give a deposition on the identity of those she issued "fake" driver's licenses to...she was of course, the only person to be able to physically ID any hijacker of any nationality. And she burns up in a car which hits her neighbor's Cypress going 25 mph?

Oh yea. Right. Whatever.

Hell is an ambush. And I'll bet there are still people who don't know the USAF planned to use "kamikazee" pilots in WWII but scrapped it d/t a catastrophic crash during training (into one of its own bases, duh).

The Chargers, The Glorious Qur'an, Sura 100


By the (Steeds) that run, with panting (breath),
And strike sparks of fire,
And push home the charge in the morning,
And raise the dust in clouds the while,
And penetrate forthwith into the midst (of the foe) en masse;-
Truly man is, to his Lord, ungrateful;
And to that (fact) he bears witness (by his deeds);
And violent is he in his love of wealth.
Does he not know,- when that which is in the graves is scattered abroad
And that which is (locked up) in (human) breasts is made manifest-
That their Lord had been Well-acquainted with them, (even to) that Day?

Photo by: Bisbohemian/Flickr



THE MINING TOWN WAVER

Silly old man walks down silly old street
waves his hand at everybody. You don't know him.
No one does. So, he must be a retarded angel.
Past the hospital, across from Dottie's Diner,
he walked every day just waving his hand in the air.
Eternity behind him, a shadow calls his name.
A thousand ghosts shimmer in a tributary

all the way back down
the other way to the Campbell Shaft.
We called to him the Philosopher King.
They say, he was born that way.

For Whom the Central School Bell Tolls

So, before WWII was even halfway over, the Reader's Digest announced that six million Jews would be dead and a "phantom" by the end of the war. Now that is just too crazy eh? What a premonition don't you think!? Is it any wonder that Israel is such a desperate nation and people?

Anyways, I finally met Alice Notley. She read my favorite poem One of the Longest Times just as one of my very dear Laundry Hill siblings is going to go in for a bit of non elective and perhaps life saving surgery. So, it was great but all in all, it was somewhat of a let down in the context of knowing no one but RAP knows what I'm talking about and why the tears just poured out when it got to the part about this stick is 'little sister" and this stick is "you". The Creosote. What would Alice Notley care?

Ahem.

I wonder if this is the company that rebuilt our home that was so badly damaged this summer?

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&article_id=79748&categ_id=17

"In July 1993, an Israeli military onslaught in South Lebanon demolished or badly damaged more than 4,700 homes; Jihad al-Binaa restored virtually all of them. Three years later, the Israelis went on an even more destructive rampage that completely or partially destroyed about 7,000 residences; Jihad al-Binaa rebuilt or repaired 6,714. This past summer, Lebanon's wrathful neighbor to the south lost all sense of proportion and damaged or destroyed at least 86,000 homes; Jihad al-Binaa sent some 1,000 engineers and 5,000 volunteers to conduct site surveys (although actual rebuilding has been delayed by the current political impasse in Beirut). Leaving aside questions of right and wrong, what can the Bush administration hope to achieve with an empty statement of hostility toward an organization that has done so much good for so many Lebanese who have suffered so much heartache because of so many bombs and shells supplied by the United States?"

Ah yes. '96 was a great one too. Very hot that summer and the six hour drive to Beirut in the river of refugees then seems just a pale memory and even then, this summer might one day pale as well.

Goodnight Alice Notley.

And I truly did enjoy the reads from Grave of Light. It looks like another success story for you.

http://www.bisbeearizona.com/www/members/members.php?scat=10





Malnutrition in Gaza resulting in sales of family possessions:
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m30834&hd=&size=1&l=e

USA and ISRAEL (same thing really) LOVE CLUSTER BOMBLETS D/T EFFECT ON CHILDREN:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/070222/1/46v0b.html

Israel HATES Muslims and hopes you do too:
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/16748151.htm

Iran has "no right to exist" according to fleet commanders:
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=43943

US continues to blame muslims for American antimuslimism and hate crimes:
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_has_no_intention_of_attacking_Ir_02222007.html

Super Duper Power, Incestuatious Amplification:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qGAqA-muYU&mode=related&search

"If they were realistic about the war, the American people wouldn't have bought it."

But you know what? The American people don't give a shit. They need to suffer a little more before they can actually develop the ability to be empathetic. Sad but true. Crying and starting blogs about having flights delayed (Jet Blue)....for crying out loud. Americans are not only babies but they are stupid.

Holocaust Denial Movies

1. Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec2. The Well3. Hair Cut4. Engine Exhaust5. Nuremberg Trial6. Gassing Building7. Abraham Bomba, Treblinka Barbar8. Eliyahu Rosenberg9. Reader's Digest and Ben Hecht10. Ridiculous Experiments11. Treblinka Burial Space12. Belzec Burial Space

My personal favorite is the Reader's Digest film. Precious.

Poor old Messiah.

The Vitus Mystica and St. Vitus' Dance of Poetry Past



http://www.religioustolerance.org/isl_intr.htm


-His (rasool Mohamed SAW) mother said "When he was born, there was a light that issued out of my pudendum and lit the places of Syria."
-Also at the time of his birth, "...fourteen galleries of Kisra's palace cracked and rolled down, the Magians' sacred fire died down and some churches on Lake Sawa sank down and collapsed."
-His foster family had many experiences of amazingly good luck while he was in their care.
-As a young child, the angel Jibril visited the boy, ripped his chest open, removed his heart, extracted a blood clot from it, and returned him to normalcy

http://www.seekwisdom.org/

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm

Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained

http://www.muhammadanreality.com/descentmuhammadreality.htm

This narration is from Ka`b al-Akhbar, who was known as Abu Ishaq. Ka`b was of the learned scholars of the Jews and during the blessed lifetime of the Holy Prophet {S} he lived in the land of Yemen. He did not accede to the honor of true faith during the Prophet's {s} lifetime, but only thereafter, during the Khalifa of Abu-Bakr as-Siddiq, or, according to other accounts, during the time of ‘Umar. He is referred to in some of the hadith related by the honorable companions of the Holy Prophet {S}. One of these companions, Sahif bin ‘Umar al-Ansari, claims to have heard from his father ‘Amr:

During the Holy Prophet's {s} lifetime I became acquainted with Ka`b and I used to meet him in a number of assemblies. It was his intention to come and attend the association of the Holy Prophet {S}, and without yet having met him, he confirmed that he was indeed the Seal of the Prophets; he frequently describe his characteristics to us. One day he told us that this was going to be the Holy Prophet’s last year, and that he very much wished he could make ready and go to meet him on time. He hastened his preparations and set out on the journey. There came one night, however, when he was seen to dart in and out (of the tent) at frequent intervals during the night, gazing intently at the night sky and weeping copiously.

http://takingaimradio.com/m3u/takingaim070213.m3u

Heh.

The Importance of Being Earnest

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=79625

"What does it all mean Basil?" - Austin Powers,, The Spy WHo Shagged Me




Ah, now what does it all mean nowdays? Ask a Shi'i. You need to ask one that understands what being a Shi'i is first off. Then, you need to listen to that Shi'i when that Shi'i is telling you she knows what Nasrallah is thinking before he states it openly. All one has to do actually to know that, is to read the Nahjul Balagha it seems and of course, to have faith and be certain of the afterlife. Without those three things though, you must rely on someone like me. I often tell my kids who are profoundly influenced by the dreadful societies we must live in, that "if you cannot have certain faith, have faith in someone who does." That'd be me. Um, especially when I'm telling you about Sayyed Nasrallah as opposed to some dead poet who is basically, dead.

Unfortuantely for some people it seems.

Anyway, we just celebrated the second year anniversary of the mob style hit on Valentine's Day (forget about the NINETEEN supposed hijackers and the message that was sent, heh, and there weren't even NINETEEN known culprits you know) of our beloved martyr, Rafik Hariri. He is much beloved and he is a martyr. But, and I say, BUT....was he the only one that should require such profound ceremonies and heartaches? How about the eighty people who died when Israel tried to assassignate a much beloved Shi'i scholar by the name of Fadallah? Oh, he is still alive you know and going strong. Runs Mobil gas stations through the Levant and donates everything to his well known charities, mostly orphanages.

What does it all mean? What does it mean when a week ago, Nasrallah demanded the Lebanese government return a weapons shipment to Hezbollah. Is he CRAZY?

Not at all. And when I read about it a week ago I had a great big "Aha!" Yes indeed. Beloved Sayed Nasrallah who never lets anyone down, not so far anyway. What was he doing? Admitting OPENLY that Hezbollah was receiving arms shipments? Is he really all that naive? Or, are we? Alas. His concerns are that the arms shipments will go to one of the many US backed "insurgencies" present in Lebanon (the Mossad most importantly and their minions) and will be used against the Lebanese people instead of against the usurper known as Israel. That is what they are for you know and rightfully so. Noting that the US arms Israel, pays Israel's bills and seems to have this crazy lock-step march going on with their Zionist brethren.

Nasrallah is "going on the record" so to speak. That famous record that recorded that 85% of all Israelis support Israeli war crimes against the Shi'i of South Lebanon this past summer. On THAT record called "the periodical one".

So...what else does this story mean and reflect upon? What is the message when Nasrallah holds a much smaller rally, not internationally televised or recognized commemorating the fallen Shi'i of Lebanon's brutal past as it pertains to Israeli expansionism? It means, we won't be neglected and that the Sunnis in Lebanon have fallen prey to this steady pandering to their misery over ONE fallen Sunni businessman which the US is using against the muslims as a whole. Because Nasrallah is known throughout the ME as a muslim who has faith and is worth following his every word and deed and he is being listened to before anyone is and that includes George Bush, Musa al Sadr, Ahmadinijad, Assad, the King of Jordan, Mubarak and of course, GLEN the MORON BECK.

From the article:

In a rare public appearance, Nasrallah paid tribute to the two Hizbullah leaders, and also responded to comments made by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on Friday, as well as those made by members of the governing coalition on Wednesday during the two-year commemoration of former Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination. However, Nasrallah did not mention the international tribunal to try those accused of killing Hariri.

"We never hid the fact that we had weapons, unlike other groups in this country who demand disarmament and themselves are armed to the teeth," the leader of the resistance said. "We have many weapons of many different kinds." During the war last summer, "we didn't fight Israel with swords made of wood," he joked.

Nasrallah insisted that he would not forgive Lebanese authorities for seizing weapons from his group. "We are ready to provide the army with all the weapons that it requires ... but we will not forgive anyone who confiscates a bullet and uses it irresponsibly," he said, referring to the truck-full of Hizbullah weapons seized by the Lebanese Army, near Beirut. Defense Minister Elias Murr has said the army would use the seized weapons to fight Israel in the event of any future violation of Lebanese sovereignty.




Sura Yunus (Jonah)

[10.2] What! is it a wonder to the people that We revealed to a man from among themselves, saying: Warn the people and give good news to those who believe that theirs is a footing of firmness with their Lord. The unbelievers say: This is most surely a manifest enchanter.

Photo: Heart of a Zinnia by Radiann Porter






1. From the Book of Confusions

Silly old man walks down silly old street
waves his hand at everybody. You don't know him.
No one does. So he must be a retarded angel. - Ode to the Mining Town Waver

As the bee tends
the tendrils of time
on the outskirts
of her metaphysical chores,
she is weightless, harmless, free.
Flowers are her chaplains,
out in space and so small.
Daisy, peony, carnation:
you paper-puzzles, you grand masters
how about me? Is this a Valentine?

Hey pollen pushers, egg minders
in the society of specialists,
who gave you your orders
to sting and mend?
All this subatomic origami, all these stars.


A must read is, The Chain of Miracles by Harun Yahya the famous Turkish anti materialism advocate and Islamic scholar. Makes you realize that the reason astrophysics is so hard for the layman to comprehend is because those describing it in the text books are lying about who invented it in the first place. They like to take a little too much credit and therefore, do not describe the invention of "something else" (Allah) as plainly as they ought to.

http://www.harunyahya.net/V2/Lang/en/Pg/WorkDetail/Number/2537

http://joannafrancis.wordpress.com/2006/11/10/israeli-snipers-killing-us-troops-in-iraq/

Americans are supposed to believe that rag-tag “insurgents” use IEDs powerful enough to kill three US troops per day, on average. An American soldier even set up a blog on how “Intel” is betraying and targeting US troops. But sometimes Mossad bomb-makers accidentally blow themselves up in Iraq.

According to Richard Wilson, Israeli sniping and IEDs are false flag operations. He says that on March 28, 2005, Americans arrested 19 Mossad agents who fired twice on a US Marine checkpoint. The Marines beat up the Mossad agents and tore off their Star-of-David necklaces. (The US media incorrectly said the agents were Americans.) The Mossad agents said they were employees of Zapata Engineering, which helps the CIA conduct interrogations, and also manages US ammo dumps and US motor pools in Iraq.

Rocks, Mining and Human Nature

Opals are beautiful and Alexandrite, which is somewhat similar is the most valuable stone...more expensive than a diamond of the same carat weight. Alexandrite is a stone that is measured by its degree of color change...most of them are found in Russia and there are very few with color change potential greater than 90%.

I saw one in Riyadh that was 95% and it was valued at 24,000 US dollars and weighed only one fourth of a carat. When you hold them up to LIGHT, Alexandrites can appear to be green or purple or yellow or pink or any color of the rainbow. Lower quality Alexandrites only show a few of their colors and are worth much less in dollars.

It is the one stone that is like the human being. The higher degree of flexibility, visability and change, the more valuable it is. Diamonds are really the stone of peasants. Traded for weapons you know and actually quite abundant. Like people who are unable to change colors and dimensions, the diamond is not the girl's best friend at all, but humanity's worst enemy.

In reality though, these are all only rocks. You cannot eat them and when you die, you leave them behind and you are buried under nothing but rocks and dirt.

The Light

24:35
Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! Allah doth guide whom He will to His Light: Allah doth set forth Parables for men: and Allah doth know all things.


Ode To Rocks

In pockets and gardens, under
our beds for miners carry
a fair share in long gray
pails with jugs of soup
near shanks and flesh
with crusts plus those
stored in the chests.
The spare parts of the world
cast about pose a craving
as deep as the ocean is long
as the rivers are wide. A record
of perennial harvests hauled
up from the ground
on ladders of iron, even that!
Beloved fountains of slag
pour into banks of remains
where genuflection pays
paper for gold and time with loss.
Poor men fair well in shifts,
forever on the way in or out
with dirt clinging, dirt in love
with the heroic skin, part
ancient shroud part, let me in.

And I hope that the Creator is pleased with my work. I don't try to publish at all anymore...not really. I believe that my poems are recorded and will be returned to me if I am lucky enough to enter paradise.

And here is an exceptional article about the famous Russian stones:

http://www.gemstone.org/gem-by-gem/english/alex.html

So, I was sayin', there was a flood and this guy looked at me and said...


http://gsahist.org/gsat2/pardee.htm

"Various correspondence in the 1920s led Bretz to believe (Bretz, 1978, personal communication) that Pardee was actually considering flooding from a glacial Lake Missoula as a cause for the scabland topography. Bretz (1974) speculated that Alden dissuaded Pardee from the idea. Bretz saw a memorandum of September 25, 1922, to David White, chief geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey, in which Alden noted of Pardee's work: "... very significant phenomena were discovered in the region southwest of Spokane.... The results so far ... require caution in their interpretation. The conditions warn against premature publication." "

So far we have, silence on the Cambrian Radiation, the origin of the universe from a single point of "zero mass and infinite density" and a flood. What next, the plague?

The Heretic, one J Harlen Bretz:

"It seems then that Pardee actually considered the flood hypothesis with Lake Missoula as the source, but was probably dissuaded from pursuing such a heretical notion any further by Alden and Kirk Bryan (Pardee's superiors at the time). This idea is at least consistent with Pardee's silence when Bretz presented his rather shocking catastrophic flood idea at the now infamous 1927 "scabland debate". 2

Sometime before 1927 geologists were catching on to the seriousness of what Bretz was suggesting. If true, Bretz's theory would undermine the very foundation of Uniformitarianism. Just as anticipated, the general outcry against any hint of a catastrophic model was very loud indeed. In fact, there was a very strong desire to publicly discredit and humiliate Bretz. So, to this purpose, Bretz was asked to present his ideas in public forum to the Geological Society of Washington. Bretz himself was rather unaware of the underlying purpose of this gathering or just how hostile his audience actually was to his ideas. Unawares to Bretz, six "challenging elders", as Bretz later referred to them, were chosen to counter Bretz's claims and beat him in public debate.6

http://www.detectingdesign.com/harlenbretz.html

...I am reminded of the watering of lawns, the boats called sticks and ants.

In response to the bogus movie: The Lord of War which suggests the AK 47 to be the weapon of mass destruction, the poor man's atom bomb, etc. Hollywood oh, yea. Hollywood. Forgot who was taking issue with violence.

T-bird At The Gila River, Summer '05




"Advice: learn poems so that you don't have to write them.
Strategies are useless testimonials."
- The Book of Warnings, D. Whitehead

This pretty life is death's comma,
we are in between, constructing
the darkest layer in the top soils
over which the eagle flies
with the owl, as same as the bug.

Once I stood on a reservation
for Indians and thought.
The wild wisdoms entered
into the world's recorder
like drugs with the cackle
of gypsies and caw of old birds.

When suddenly! Like that!
…the newest grand canyon opened
her secret vaults to receive
the sound and reek of vomit leaving the throat
of a drunkard who turned in and then, sped away.
Ah, the stories the rocks will tell.

Old Woman w/backdrops

Ouzai, Beirut: Mechanics

Looking Up From The Statue...meanwhile back at the ranch a Coke Monkey runs rampant in Tyre South Lebanon. Coke, it's the real thing and it beats Drano:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/azstar/20070204/lo_azstar/tucsonfightsopenairmethmarketmidtownresidentscleanupeffortwatchedbypoliceacrosscountry

Why an Arabic Qur'an?


http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~coby/essays/refdigl.htm

It’s a warm Friday mid-afternoon in a village in the Peruvian Highlands, not far from Cuzco. In the main plaza, a small crowd consisting mostly of women and young children – some of elementary-school age, some pre-school – is chatting in Quechua, seemingly waiting for something to arrive. And , sure enough, something does arrive: a brightly painted school bus, which stops near the crowd and disgorges a dozen or so neatly uniformed high-school students. It’s their families who have been waiting for them. But before these older boys and girls join in the Quechua chatter with their mothers and younger siblings, they bid farewell to one another and to their schoolmates who stay on the bus to go on to the next village. They talk about plans for the weekend – soccer, movies – and for the following week. How do I know this? Because this conversation is in Spanish, not Quechua.

Snort, Swill and Blow:

What next, the plague? Seems to me that rumors of avian flu are a bit overrated in light of midnight tornadoes, a binge-drinking rate among US teenagers at 45% and Italian snuff:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070202/hl_nm/italy_cocaine_dc

What is the world's problem? The sniffles?

I hardly think so.