12 May 2011
bleeding heart lupine with bee (I am the bee whisperer)
tulips
more tulips
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Freedom to Be Me: The meanderings of a freed mind.
Thursday, 12 May 2011
Public: Gardening 2011
bleeding heart lupine with bee (I am the bee whisperer)
tulips
.
Monday, 18 January 2010
Fog Frost, 18 January 2010
I saw this when I was walking to the hospital to visit Gramma (and a friend of mine who was dying). Surfaces were freezing cold because of recent temperatures; but that day, the air warmed up enough to make fog. Of course, when that fog touched surfaces - namely, vegetation - it froze. Gorgeous stuff.
I've blotted out objects which could identify the location, because PRIVACY.
I've blotted out objects which could identify the location, because PRIVACY.
Sunday, 2 May 2004
Asad: "It's Not Genocide" - Me: "It's Genocide, Stupid!"
I can't believe that I forgot this post until now. I had been trying to post up everything in chronological order, and this ruins it. Ahh well, c'est la vie, eh? Please note that I am making a play on words with my title line. I do not think that Asad is "stupid", nor is it my intention to say as such. I am only twisting a popular saying.
During the call-in segment of the Tusday 27 April 2004 Flashpoints show at about the 48-minute mark, Asad Abu Khalil responded to a caller who said that what is happening in Fallujah and all of Iraq is genocide by saying that he (Asad) does not think that what has been happening [in Fallujah/Iraq] is genocide: "I think that if American bombs were being dropped on a white population in Europe, there would be more outrage than what we see for Iraq. I think that the religion of the people in Iraq were [other than] Islam, again, there would be more outrage. [However], I do not want to use words such as genocide. I think that one has to be more precise in the use of language, as bad as things are."
My opinion is certainly different. What is occurring in Fallujah and throughout all of Iraq under the illegal US occupation is nothing less than genocide. And with this late posting, might I also add that the recent airing in the US* of the illegal abuse of Iraqi prisoners fits only too well into the picture of American genocide of the Iraqi people.
*Of course, anyone who keeps up with the news has known for some time that this kind of abuse has been occurring in Iraq.
During the call-in segment of the Tusday 27 April 2004 Flashpoints show at about the 48-minute mark, Asad Abu Khalil responded to a caller who said that what is happening in Fallujah and all of Iraq is genocide by saying that he (Asad) does not think that what has been happening [in Fallujah/Iraq] is genocide: "I think that if American bombs were being dropped on a white population in Europe, there would be more outrage than what we see for Iraq. I think that the religion of the people in Iraq were [other than] Islam, again, there would be more outrage. [However], I do not want to use words such as genocide. I think that one has to be more precise in the use of language, as bad as things are."
My opinion is certainly different. What is occurring in Fallujah and throughout all of Iraq under the illegal US occupation is nothing less than genocide. And with this late posting, might I also add that the recent airing in the US* of the illegal abuse of Iraqi prisoners fits only too well into the picture of American genocide of the Iraqi people.
*Of course, anyone who keeps up with the news has known for some time that this kind of abuse has been occurring in Iraq.
Friday, 16 April 2004
Fallujah: It's Genocide, Stupid!
Fri Apr 16
I can't possibly see a society which tolerates the mass slaughter of innocent human beings with weapons of mass destruction such as MOABs and DUs as "civilised". In my dictionary, 700 innocent dead in one city in one month equals genocide. Time for the Hague, I say.
I can't possibly see a society which tolerates the mass slaughter of innocent human beings with weapons of mass destruction such as MOABs and DUs as "civilised". In my dictionary, 700 innocent dead in one city in one month equals genocide. Time for the Hague, I say.
Wednesday, 14 April 2004
on Shi`ah Islam
To: newshour@bbc.co.uk
The sacred days of Muharram, `Ashurah, and Arba`in are not properly described as "holidays" or "festivals" when referring to Shi`ah Muslims. This has been said countless times, and the listeners get the impression that the BBC doesn't really care about the quality of their reporting. With the increased availability of such satellite broadcasts as Manar, Jazeera, and `Alam, we listeners are finding it less frustrating to listen to sources which won't make the same careless and lazy errors.
Again I am telling you, for the thousandth time, it seems to me, that neither Najaf nor Karbala are the "holiest city to the Shi`ites" as your correspondant from Baghdad has just erroneously reprorted whilecovering the impending attack on Najaf by the occupying American troops. The holiest Shi`i city is Mecca, the site of Islamic Hajj and the burial site for Prophet Muhammad. The next holiest Shi`i city is Medinah, where Prophet Muhammad lived for many years. The next is Quds/Jerusalem, where Musilms believe that Prophet Muhammad was transcendentally transported in what we call Mi`raj. Then comes Najaf, then Karbala. That owuld make Najaf the FOURTH holoest city to Muslimss, NOT the first.
Do you people have something against consulting Shi`ah Muslims before you let your jaws flap like some ignoramus?
The sacred days of Muharram, `Ashurah, and Arba`in are not properly described as "holidays" or "festivals" when referring to Shi`ah Muslims. This has been said countless times, and the listeners get the impression that the BBC doesn't really care about the quality of their reporting. With the increased availability of such satellite broadcasts as Manar, Jazeera, and `Alam, we listeners are finding it less frustrating to listen to sources which won't make the same careless and lazy errors.
Again I am telling you, for the thousandth time, it seems to me, that neither Najaf nor Karbala are the "holiest city to the Shi`ites" as your correspondant from Baghdad has just erroneously reprorted whilecovering the impending attack on Najaf by the occupying American troops. The holiest Shi`i city is Mecca, the site of Islamic Hajj and the burial site for Prophet Muhammad. The next holiest Shi`i city is Medinah, where Prophet Muhammad lived for many years. The next is Quds/Jerusalem, where Musilms believe that Prophet Muhammad was transcendentally transported in what we call Mi`raj. Then comes Najaf, then Karbala. That owuld make Najaf the FOURTH holoest city to Muslimss, NOT the first.
Do you people have something against consulting Shi`ah Muslims before you let your jaws flap like some ignoramus?
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