Puzzletime, folks! Point out the things wrong in the quote highlighted below….
NOW Demands Access to Program Geared to Fathers - washingtonpost.com
It’s called the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Initiative, and the Bush administration doles out up to $50 million annually to fund its programs to build job skills and help fathers connect better with their children. But the National Organization for Women says the effort is illegal because it’s only about men.
Answer: Ms. Gandy, since we are all about equal access, why have an organization that is ostensibly serving only women, as in the National Organization for Women? Why not National Organization for Organisms? NOO?
I think any group that pretends to care about women needs to be jumping up and down with joy when there is an initiative to help men become better fathers. It only benefits the mothers in the lower-income groups who most of the time are burdened with the care of their children as single moms when fathers don’t take any responsibility. Of course, if NOW had it’s way all those babies would have ended up aborted anyways, so what is the need for fathers…my bad!
Would NOW also oppose this program till the day men are able to give birth? There is a reason why women of my generation would rather not be called “feminists”.
Via Althouse, comes this story of a polar bear baby being raised by the Berlin zoo keepers. Animal activists would rather have the bear put to death than be fed and kept alive by the zoo keepers…because, you know, activists obviously know what is better for everyone!
Stupid frigging morons! What a waste of precious oxygen and valuable food!
update: Real funny was this comment on the thread at Althouse’s blog -Using their logic (that it is inhumane to raise an animal among humans, and the humane thing would be to kill it): I guess they will come out with a new version of ‘Tarzan’ next. In it, Jane does the ‘humane’ thing and shoots Tarzan.
Oh My! This link (via Althouse) really set me off to the point I had to take a few deep breaths to calm myself before I posted.
Wanting Babies Like Themselves, Some Parents Choose Genetic Defects - New York Times
Wanting to have children who follow in one’s footsteps is an understandable desire. But a coming article in the journal Fertility and Sterility offers a fascinating glimpse into how far some parents may go to ensure that their children stay in their world - by intentionally choosing malfunctioning genes that produce disabilities like deafness or dwarfism.
Where do you start? How about sterilizing these people forever? How can any “so-called” parent make a decision like that? Lessee…I am deaf/dumb/blind, whatever and suffered greatly in the world, so I want to make a baby who can do the same?
Specifically choosing deficient genes to create disabled babies? Do these idiots even fathom how much pain they are inflicting on an innocent so they can “bond in pain”? Blecchhh!
What next? cutting off arms, legs and other appendages on babies born to those who are missing limbs?
Seriously, even if you don’t shake it, it is your own goddamned fault if you happen to get raped! Don’t you know you are just an “uncovered pice of meat”? Don’t blame the “cat” for eating you. Not even if you are an Australian teenager who has been brutally raped by a few racist “cats”. Don’t you get it? You asked for it by being a woman, an Australian and by showing your flesh around!
I have absolutely no words for how angry this makes me! No more than for all the PC-police already out in full-force trying to explain the fucking shit away. Remember the double standard. Always do! Publishing of cartoons making fun of a religion? Horrendous and worthy of rioting and murders. Calling teenage gang-rape victims as brining this upon themselves? “Diversity”!
Do you think it will be worth it for me to try and hold my breath for the “feminists” who defended the hijab will be outraged at this misogyny? I don’t think so!
Look at this - BBC NEWS | South Asia | Anger over Gujarat religion law - the morons in Gujarat are hell-bent on saving the poor downtrodden Dalits from themselves. Dude, if you guys really care about their plights so much, you give them stuff too. Don’t you think there is enough red-tape and delay in your courts without you making up more stupid laws to hold up the justice system?
Can you think of how many ways this law can be misused to harrass Christian and Muslim preachers? Now, I understand there are definitely problems about some of the methods being used by these preachers to earn converts. That doesn’t mean a law as stupid as this has to go into effect. What constitutes allurement? If a missionary helps a sick child and the family converts, is that allurement? What an insult it is for Buddhists and Jains to now label them simply Hindus? What about Sikhs? Why this? Why now?
I think the biggest problem is the politicos are more focused on dividing up an already divided electorate instead of working towards genuinely improving living conditions among the poor who are more likely to convert, allurement or not. If you treat someone as an outsider, why are you surprised when they choose to leave you? This law is particularly uncomfortable for me since it reminds me too much of the apostasy laws in Islamic countries. WTF, I thought we were supposed to be a “peaceful and enlightened” religion, unlike those “barbaric” Mussalmans! (that is sarcasm for the sarcastically-challenged)
So, the Pope says that your religion is associated with violence (broadly speaking….) - what do you do to refute him?
a. You ignore him
b. You calmly reason with him and put out a smart speech explaining the fallacies in such reasoning.
c. You threaten violence - Vatican tries to calm Pope row as militants vow war�
I mean how else would you explain to others how incredbly peaceful you are except by threatening to firebomb the crap out of anyone who disagrees? Simple, really!
update: Oh yeah, the Pope should die! We are really peaceful people….
A view from the other side - a lot of food for thought….
Well, I saw a bunch of breathlessly gushing emails on the Desicritics email list, here is a sample of reactions - “stunning indictment of American policy after 9/11” - “I got goosebumps after reading this” - “I might start watching TV again” - “It cured my blindness and ED” - “I saw a lame man walk after reading this” - “All Muslims are not terrorists, don’t paint with such a broad brush - it is all Americans that are dumb, ignorant and arrogant”….and so on, I had to find Keith Olbermann’s rant so my readers can feel the awesomeness that was his rant.
Ok, so what was Keith’s point again? He is pissed that there is no memorial built yet? It is somehow Bush’s fault? This gives people goosebumps? Please, please, please tell me that DC is not simply another echo chamber where a bunch of desi elitists can gather around and break their arms patting themselves on the backs while pontificating on the awesomeness that is America-bashing! I knew there was a reason why I don’t post there anymore - it was after all a place where the Muhammad cartoon-bashing was enthusiastically defended, while anything any country remotely resembling a democracy does is automatically condemned (the more democratic and free you are, the more you suck and we will curse you while we live among you), so I guess I don’t need no reinforcements for my beliefs. It is pretty sad, but predictable all the same.
I guess it was only a matter of time until Hollywood latched on to Idi Amin to fawn over after the awesome Ms. Frida who couldn’t stop loving Stalin - Film shows Idi Amin as monster, cruel and charming.
Here are a few snippets that made me simply shake my head in wonder -“I came away with a different understanding of him,” said star Forest Whitaker, already tipped for an Oscar for his role as Amin, where he alternates rants, cruelty and paranoia with affection for his entourage, and especially for the fictional Scottish doctor he befriends.“All I had before was this image of a dictator who was killing all these people, and it’s true,” Whitaker told Reuters in an interview. “All these people did die during his reign. But afterward, after doing all the research, I started to see something of the other things.”
[snip]
“A lot of the things he tried to do were very popular,” said Macdonald, highlighting even the expulsion of the Asian business leaders as something that had resonated with Ugandans who became shopkeepers and business owners for the first time.
The Asians, expelled in 1972, had formed the backbone of the Ugandan economy before Amin came to power.
“Amin made Ugandans feel proud to be African, and proud to be Ugandan. He was someone who tried to get rid of the colonial inferiority complex,” Macdonald said.
There is a big difference between trying to humanize a monster and acknowledging that monsters like Idi Amin, Stalin and Hitler also belonged to the human species and exhibited some of the species’ characteristics.
While it is OK to point out some policies were popular, there should be a point also made as to how the popular policies were ineherently extremely hurtful. People fall for populist policies since they don’t know any better - there is a reason why a governing body should take the advice of qualified economists and other specialists who know their stuff way better than the regular people who cannot see beyond their own threshold.
What ultimately made me really uncomfortable about the article and the interviews were the tone of awe and amazement over Idi Amin with absolutely no balance of condemnation that Hollywoodians generally seem to have such a talent for….
I almost debated putting this in the category of literature and media, but decided against it. Yes, I am reading this incredibly disgusting book that fills me with fear with every new line I read. For now, all I can see is how can a book so clearly convinced of the superiority of one race over all others still put “racism” in scary quotes - what believing your race is superior to all others to the point others’ lives are worth nothing is not racism? Why would someone who is clearly not afraid of airing his disgusting views on his race and others be so scared or concerned as to put the word racism in scare quotes throughout the book?
More as I read more….
Oh, one more thing - all through the book, the author is extremely sympathetic to the Palestinian cause - is it just a case of enemy’s enemy? Ultimately, isn’t the Palestinian just another brown mongrel who is a threat to the White race once the enemy (Jews) is eliminated?
Another interesting point is the total lack of any sense of responsibility - all Jews and black people commit crimes for the fun of it, while the White people are either forced to do so or are brainwashed into it. Why does that remind me so much of the apologists of a certain Religion of Peace and it’s Holy terrorists?
My heart absolutely bleeds for these poor, little kids who after all simply think they are so much better than everyone else. Being so superior is not a sin, no?
For Conservative Muslims, Goal of Isolation a Challenge
The seventh- and eighth-graders were competing in a debate on this question: Is a segregated, all-Islamic upbringing key to protecting your Muslim identity? Eight of the dozen argued yes, using variants of the theme offered by Fatimah Waseem. Young Muslims “join with the non-Muslims, copy them and look up to them. This is hurting our identity… . Sometimes, we turn way from Islam,” she said. “In conclusion, … we cannot sway in the wind and become weak. We need to be protected … by segregation.”
I mean, who cares about integrating with a society that is just so much beneath them? After all, it isn’t like anybody here ever fought to be integrated with the normal society, right?
But the discovery that 15 of the 19 Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were Saudi and that their violent al-Qaeda ideology was rooted in Wahhabism had a particularly deep impact on Salafis, whose theology and practices were suddenly suspect. The attacks “shook the foundations of anyone affiliated with Wahhabism or Salafism,” said Chris Khalil Moore, 31, of Annandale, a convert who became immersed in Wahhabism while studying in Saudi Arabia before abandoning that approach to Islam. “Because they were fingered, pointed at, as being the ideology that helped foster the mentality of those hijackers,” he said, “I think a lot of people got scared.”
Well, said! I know it is obviously not my place as an unbeliever woman to say anything about you in public, brother, but how dare anyone be scared of a group that only managed to kill a few thousands of people and believes unbelievers like me and that too women are not worth the air we breathe? It is obviously not because of incidents like this…..right?
One of the area’s most prominent Salafi preachers, Ali al-Timimi, is in prison, convicted on charges that he incited young Muslims to wage war against the United States.How exactly do you reconcile this lament -
Salafi teachings begin to be more attractive to more Muslims as a defensive response,” said Peter Mandaville, an assistant professor in George Mason University’s Public and International Affairs Department. “In the face of this new global war on Islam, they are saying, we will hold fast and emphasize anew the fundamental tenets of our faith.
-with this from the same article -
For many years, the Saudis distributed a widely used English edition of the Koran with commentary by Abdullah Yusuf Ali. But in the late 1990s, they began giving out a new edition called “The Noble Koran,” with commentary that reflected the Wahhabi outlook of two scholars at the University of Medina.
Dude, they don’t hate you - you are the ones who hate everything that is not you!
I also found this paragraph quite interesting - especially the parts I highlighted -In mid-2004, federal agents raided the institute, confiscating computers and documents. But no one closely associated with the facility has ever been charged with a terrorism-related crime.(I was right, brothers! Look at this - a terror conviction for an Al Huda teacher!)
Many local Muslims were particularly embarrassed by commentary that disparaged Jews and Christians even though neither group is mentioned in the original Arabic.”
It is very interesting that this article dwells adoringly on the strict gender-separation between the people -A sign in a corner of the parking lot underscores its strict gender segregation.It reminded me of this tidbit from another very interesting article I read this morning -“Sisters Only,” it reads.
Inside is the congregation’s prayer room — divided by a tall barrier so men and women cannot see one another during worship — and classrooms for Al-Huda School’s 300 to 400 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Here, too, is Muslim Link, a community newspaper published by Dar-us-Salaam.
Hordes of horny men will wreak havoc across much of the world, according to a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Key reason: systematic abortion of female fetuses. Current result: “an estimated 80 million missing females in India and China alone,” plus imbalances elsewhere in Asia and North Africa. Future result: 12 to 15 percent more men than women in parts of the world over the next two decades. Implications: 1) “The growing number of young men with a lack of family prospects will have little outlet for sexual energy.” 2) “This trend would lead to increased levels of anti-social behavior and violence.” 3) “When single young men congregate, the potential for more organised aggression is likely to increase substantially and this has worrying implications for organized crime and terrorism.”
I seriously don’t understand what the article’s point was - are they saying that Salafism sucks or that it is increasing in popularity only because we are scared of it? (this was just a rhetorical question, btw). I find a lot of white-washing in here and excuse-making with absolutely no facts are no responsibility assignment. Everybody says that American Muslims are being discriminated against without once mentioning the reasons why or even mentioning the actual facts that prove if there is really discrimination. If 90% of terrorists fit a profile and people are worried youa re pretty close to the profile already is it really a good idea to get yourself closer to a self-destructive ideology? If a Muslim fell in a forest and hurt his little toe, are Jews still sons of apes and pigs? What hogwash!
Why not present the full facts about Wahabism and Salafism - you know, actual facts about what the preachers are preaching in the mosques and not what they say they are preaching? How about some actual freaking journalism from our journalists instead of stories that make my mind and not my heart bleed?
You didn’t know you could get arrested for trolling blogs now, did you?
L’Affaire GoldFrisch III: We All Knew This Was Coming at Blog P.I. (beta)
Well, it is a good thing our trolls were not as bad as the one and only “Frisch”… the first troll to be prosecuted for trolling(per Instapundit). Heh!
Relaxing with dead dictators, especially genocidal ones - if that is your idea of a fun evening, look no further…
It’s like if “The Producers” opened an eatery - Yahoo! News“This place is not about wars or crimes, but where people come to relax and enjoy a meal,” said restaurant manager Fatima Kabani, adding that they were planning to turn the eatery’s name into a brand with more branches in Mumbai.
I love how “Fatima” (sounds Muslim - what are the odds the next eatery chain she manages features huge images of Mohammed or the crusaders?) doesn’t understand why her little eatery called “Hitler’s Cross” should be about war and crimes and other icky stuff instead of relaxed and hip dining - the stuff one always associates with Hitler. I mean, they only serve “Halal” meat here, y’all! Jewish meat is available in owner Punit Shablok’s next restaurant, “The Gas Chamber”.
Update: In case you are wondering what kind of people let restaurants like this get into business, here is an email on the Desicritics group from Anil -I am at loss , who exactly is stupid here? Is it the insensitive jerks who named name a restaurant after Hitler(mind you it is not illegal under Indian law to do so) or the reactionary Jews and guilt ridden Germans who are making a mountain out of a molehill?I quoted the email in its entirety, so there is no question of context. What disgusts me is that somehow Jews are reactionary for complaining that people don’t idolize a nutcase who tried to exterminate their entire race? How very PC!
I tried really hard to not overreact to this item on the mutiny of some British passengers who refused to board a flight with two Arab-looking people who “might have” said something alarming in something that might or might not be Arabic. I didn’t want to jerk my knee too much - I tried to put myself in their shows - all I came up with was a big “F U” to the passengers who probably broke a few arms patting themselves on the back for bravely facing off with a couple of brown people.
I read through the entire thing - I understand how someone might have seemed suspicious wearing jackets during a warm patch of weather. I understand the atmosphere of suspicion the terror alerts create - the recently unearthed bomb plot would have made converts of some of the bravest people out there, probably. All that, still doesn’t excuse what happened. Where were cooler heads? Why couldn’t people think a little bit? The passengers have been through the same security measures all these dummies themselves came through, right? They have been checked as thoroughly as one can, right? What would have satisfied the idiots? IF the passengers stripped off completely?
How exactly are these morons making the atmosphere conducive for genuinely moderate people to not only live productive lives, but to report on those who are hell-bent on destroying those lives? This kind of nonsense serves no purpose but to propagate the racist tendencies and alienate those among us. I hope the passengers will NOT repeat this ever and call and write to apologoze to the innocent people they all virtually lynched in the plane.
Here is a good comment from Ann Althouse’s discussion of this same link -The Krishnans said…Update: The passengers defend themselves…..
So lets see…Here is a scenario for thought. As someone who looks muslim - I am an Indian of Hindu ancestry - i have already been subjected to extra scrutiny by the TSA (i have no problem with that) and am waiting at my gate discussing the Bombay bombings with a colleague (who also happens to be Indian) and we are talking to each other in Hindi and the word bomb is part of our conversation. Mr and Mrs. Ignorant overhear us and freak out and refuse to fly with us thinking we are talking “Arabic”, look “muslim” and are security threat. All perfectly rational (but slightly silly - given that TSA has given us the once’s over). While certainly not racist, it smacks of paranoia. Its fine to be vigilant but the Malaga situation, at least to me, seemed to be an overreaction. But the one silver lining i see in this - flying while looking South Asian becomes more pleasurable because of empty planes.
It was then, he said, that his wife Susanne began talking to another passenger who said she had sat next to the two men.“She said she had heard them saying it was the last 30 minutes of their lives,” said Mr Wearden.
“It may well be that the two simply thought they were being funny, but it perhaps better explains the passenger reaction.”
He denied this reaction had been racist. “You hear about people making jokes about these things in airports and being arrested and told it is not a joking matter in the current climate. Well this was another case of that.”
Looks like I picked a bad time to go AWOL from the blogosphere - look what the Indian Government has decided to do - Verbal Rhapsody: The new Big Brother!
What a sad state of affairs where you’d rather throw the baby with the bath water….
So, a newspaper publishes cartoons in Denmark and people die in Nigeria. Some people really have too much pent-up rage and too little outlet to channel it, don’t they! I have got to wonder if by now non-Muslims are not chilled by this apparent “pan-Islamic” solidarity then when will they wake up. It is also really funny to go to see “secularists” who will denounce Hindutva-vadis and Fundamentalist right-winger Christians in a hearbeat falling all over themselves to justify this behavior. If nothing, it exposes the hypocrisies of the “multiculturalists” who really believe fundmanetalism truimphs.
update: Here are some interesting thoughts on religion via Althouse -Mr. Dennett, anticipating the outrage his comparison will make, suggests that this how religion works. People will sacrifice their interests, their health, their reason, their family, all in service to an idea “that has lodged in their brains.” That idea, he argues, is like a virus or a worm, and it inspires bizarre forms of behavior in order to propagate itself. Islam, he points out, means “submission,” and submission is what religious believers practice. In Mr. Dennett’s view, they do so despite all evidence, and in thrall to biological and social forces they barely comprehend.
When you think about it, I don’t see much difference between religion and socialism. Both concepts require the individual to submit to a group-think as absolutely as possible. There is no room to maneuver or question the authority. I wonder is that is the reason why religion and socialism are anathema to each other - they are both essentially competing for the same resource - gullible individuals who somehow believe that the only way they can make themselves better is by submitting to the will of others.