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October 24, 2005
imagine you are a woman
Reads, because I must.
On CAGE - Imagine You Are a Woman excerpts of an article by Badriyya Al-Bishr, a lecturer in social sciences at King Saud University.
Imagine you're a woman whose husband breaks her nose, arm, or leg, and you go to the Qadi to lodge a complaint. When the Qadi asks you about your complaint, and you say, 'He beat me,' he responds reproachfully 'That's all?!' Read the rest, and imagine.
I suppose it's okay to threaten your students with blowing up their school bus, if you are a splodey living in the UK eh? I'm sure the "race" card will be wielded if any sort of punishment (I say expulsion, not from the school but from the country would sufice) would be protested because bombs ..well tis a cultural thing.
A fine Read to be read on the Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal by Bret Stephens A History of Violence - How did the Palestinians descend into barbarism?
On National Reivew - Elizabeth M. Whelan writes of Breast Cancer and A Cure.
We "think pink," but we are led to believe that a cure is something ephemeral, always just out of reach — although still our goal.
But wait: A front-page article in USA Today this week describes just how drastically drug innovations have reduced the threat of breast cancer — and quotes the National Cancer Institute's Jo Anne Zujewski as saying new drugs already constitute a cure: "I am using the 'cure' word."
So: Is it possible that a cure for breast cancer is already at hand and that a prevailing societal resistance to good news (particularly advances by the reviled pharmaceutical industry) has kept the fact a well-guarded secret?
Imagine what would happen to free speech if the UN had control of the internet. Just Say No to UN Control of the Internet. Good gourds. On TechCentral - Constantin Gurdgiev breaks it down for us on, what would happen and why it's most definitely a Bad Thing. Web of Confusion A tax on email? Ja whol.
Can't they tax something else like oh I don't know make-up? Call it an Ugly Tax. You gotta wear it? You gotta pay. Okay fine we can call it a Beauty Tax. Oh yeah and perfume gets double bonus tax. How about a bad hair tax. Dark roots? More taxes for you! Car alarm tax, wait, those should just be outlawed. They don't deter, only annoy. That or they guy who lets his mind piercing alarm go off for over 15 minutes at three in the morning must be publically flogged. There ya go.
On Jihad Watch Hugh Fitzgerald has some advice for il presidente.
"What serious advice by the numbers would you give the president as to how to deal with the ever encroaching threat of fundamental Islam?" -- a question to me from a posting at Jihad WatchI dig the War Board idea. OH yeah.
Is it so much to ask that the locals know how to stand in a line and not shower in eau di cheapassperfume on a Monday morning?
40 rows left then edging on my new wrap then the edging. I haven't forgotten the requests for a non-holey wrap, I know, lace isn't practical for many especially when little fingers are around.
Posted October 24, 2005 08:00 AM
