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December 11, 2004
I hate colds -- and other ramblings
I never seem to get a good night's sleep, which leaves me a bit cranky [crankier?] when waking. Not to mention at 4 am our smoke alarm went off. That was disorienting and unnerving. Checked over the whole house, into the attic space ... nothing.
Time for new smoke detector.
And I'm gearing up for a day of chores starting with hunting down a Christmas tree. I cannot bring myself to buy a fake one. I love the smell of a Noble fir and that creative challenge each year in finding one just the right size and shape and then decorating it.
So here's some links with reading I'll get back to:
LA Times predictably runs an opinion whine from someone who got pulled out for questioning entitled "Guilty of 'Flying While Muslim'". Sheesh, get over yourself already. If it were Beserker Baptists who were running around the world blowing up buses of school children, flying planes into skyscrapers and beheading people on video tape while screaming "God is Great" and demanding a worldwide Baptist theocracy, I'd damned well hope random Baptists would be under much more scrutiny at airports. Too bad this dad didn't take time to explain it to his twelve year old.
An Illinois school district has ordered school bus drivers to turn off the radio, least the screaming kiddies hear evil Christmas music.
Arafat is still dead and conspiracy theories about it just went up a notch as PLO Foreign Minister Kadoumi is spewing oout that it was Israel and the United States who "poisoned Arafat." This is right up there with the Islamist male paranoia about shaking a Jewish hand and having his penis disappear. My bet is still that Arafat died of AIDS. Too bad there isn't a courageous French medical staff member to leak the real story. [hattip LGF]
Is ill-treatment torture? I just don't see anything in this Guardian story that justifies the headline. I mean, how about if I a wrote a story with the headline "Female Secretaries Complain about on going Rape and Humiliation" and then the body of the story contained complaints about obnoxious men who asked for dates too many times, slapped them on the tush or cornered them in an intimidating manner.
Am I the only one that worries about this bastardization of the language? If we call humilitating behavior "torture", what are we going to call real torture? You know, like slowing sawing a civilian's head off? Just where are the crowds of "human rights activists" protesting outside of Islamists mosques demanding an end to that...er... really real torture?
Posted by Darleen at December 11, 2004 10:51 AM
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Actually... The Chicago Tribune has reported that the school board reversed the decision, and now they are allowed again.
Posted by: Nick at December 14, 2004 10:42 AM