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Saturday, 14 November 2009

Friday, 13 November 2009

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    So the government is moving to seize mosques (NYT)?  Put that way it sounds way bad, right?  Actually, I'm not really sure how it wouldn't sound bad.  It has something to do with ties to Iran and allegations that the foundation who owns them is essentially helping to fund the Iranian nuclear program.  While the proceedings go through the courts (and this could take YEARS), the mosques will remain open, but really?  What will the government do with the mosques if they succeed? 

    So as more and more of the Fort Hood story unfolds the more I am left gobsmacked.  Seriously?  Malik Nadal Hasan set off alarm bells all over the place but they thought they were being politically incorrect so they essentially ignored it (TMM)?  They were concerned about him but didn't do anything?  And how, if you know someone is troubled, do you just ignore it?  How do you not try and reach out to him? 

    And what is with the initial reports being wrong as to who shot Hasan (NPR)?

    There are many things I cannot understand in all this.  How could Hasan have done this?  Did he really do this in some bizarre protest of Muslims being sent overseas to fight other Muslims?  I think that more than anything shows me that there is something not quite right in his head.  I don't believe it's a religious things, because how could such a thing help his fellow Muslim Americans?  How could he possibly have believed that it would do anything other than harm them (NPR)? 

    I just don't understand.

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

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  • dingus6
    Back in the days before internet, we actually went out and found people and flirted with them! Sitting in front of the computer generally isn't going to help your social life.
    • Posted 4/22/2009 3:06 PM
    • by dingus6
  • soobee72
    Oh, I've put that on the back burner again. I keep forgetting to check the site. I am a bad e-dater.
  • dingus6
    So, who have you been dating?
    • Posted 4/17/2009 3:13 PM
    • by dingus6
  • ThePrince
    i know what you mean..i think it's funny.....but at the same time, you have to wonder how ummm...low things have to be when parents argue about stuff like that. for me; the question is: should they even be parents to begin with? and how did they even manage to make it to adulthood in the first place
  • merrow_mistral
    Thanks for accepting my invite! I've been reading your blog for almost a year and have been getting so much news information from it. This new xanga feature seems like a clone of "myspace" and my daughter told me that the favorites stuff reminds her of topics of an online dating service. Whatever
  • soobee72
    It's all very peculiar. It made the sidebar stuff really long, didn't it?
  • Morgane
    Yeah, it's pretty new - and to be honest, I'm kind of nonplussed about it. I could take it or leave it. But while it's new and vaguely interesting for ten minutes I had to spread the love!!
    • Posted 3/27/2006 3:23 PM
    • by Morgane