Displaying 11,101 To 11,130 Of 11,789 Comments Agreed. » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 2:28 pm I about lost it when I saw that and shouted at the screen on that point about holding him up on nominations in he first place. What I would looooooove, is for him to do recess appointments to see them whine about it. Then again, I don’t want him to be like Bush out of spite, I just thought it was a humorous thought. » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 2:27 pm 😉 » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 2:24 pm Yeah I hate that. We all start by mimicking, anyway. Learn covers, start making them our own, etc. » Posted By Khirad On January 15, 2010 @ 11:00 am I would have likely embarrassed myself too, musing over Sega lyrics. Ouch ❗ » Posted By Khirad On January 15, 2010 @ 10:57 am Wow, I could not have done that. I’m not a gamer at all though… Moral of the story? Get him some good music, age-appropriate, to listen to! Nevertheless, I guess if it was written from the music, and not googled, that’s something, too. » Posted By Khirad On January 15, 2010 @ 10:27 am But perhaps it will start early in M » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 5:48 pm And to you! » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 5:44 pm I’ll be Captain Obvious:
By the way, tonight’s the Blue Moon. » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 5:21 pm What is truly frightening is how much time they put into this. It is truly mental, the obsessiveness I think shows an underlying disorder. This is the internet version of taping news story clippings all over your apartment ceiling and walls. » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 3:45 pm That reminds me of that Katy girl from the summer who used modern day Russia and the Soviets interchangeably. This is who we are dealing with folks. You think these people see nuance? They are prey for the shoddiest of conspiracy theories. In fact, I don’t want to sully the name of conspiricists with this quackadoodoory. » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 3:39 pm It was satire, they’re making fun of the same people we are. Notice the warning at the bottom. 😉 » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 3:19 pm We sure do, but parts of Phoenix and Tempe aren’t bad, either. Oh my lord, that “game” 🙁 I wonder if the whole team was taken over by body snatchers that had never seen a football before. I didn’t expect them to win, but to get more than 40-50 total yards would have been something. » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 3:18 pm Your post reminded me of this: Obama/Ahmadinejad secret relationship uncovered! » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 3:10 pm Oh my lord, I could only make it through 1:13. For conspiracy theorists (my favorite part – almost infomercial worthy – “now, I’m not a conspiracy theorist or anything, but…”), they sure love to package their stuff with slick graphics and a CILF (crazy I’d like to…). Not like they’re selling anything, no? I just love that about the theorists. They can put together any pictures to concoct and/or fit their pre-existing theory. Does anyone know of anything like the FSM which pokes fun of this feel-it-out method utterly devoid of rational thought and logical coherency? If not, there should be. » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 2:56 pm Obviously you aren’t in one of the safer enclaves of AZ. 😉 » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 2:50 pm These no talent political conspiracy hacks are taking all the fun out of » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 2:44 pm In the spirit of ma’ kith & kin, and Hogmanay: May the best you’ve ever seen Some Dougie MacLean (my fave version of Auld Lang Syne): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA And something that gets me hot ev’ry time (any “Monarch of the Glen” fans?) – a lass playin’ up the accent:
(I know Burns’ Supper is still weeks away, but I was goin’ on a theme) » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 4:03 pm Oi! 🙂 » Posted By Khirad On December 31, 2009 @ 5:02 pm This following movie and State of the Union make someone my age, more than history books, realize that however much things have changed, they’ve also stayed the same in some regards.
Edit – in case anyone missed Jon and Stephen on the gold angle: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-10-2009/beck—not-so-mellow-gold I love the Mad Men guy cameo, it helped my withdrawal a bit. » Posted By Khirad On December 30, 2009 @ 4:02 pm Don’t know if anyone’s seen this photo: http://www.goskagit.com/blogs/article/meet_the_mount_vernon_glenn_beck/ And, lest ye malign the whole city: Edit: do people nationwide know Lars Larson, aside from his appearances on TV? I feel dirty knowing that he now lives where I grew up and lived most my life. Lord, him in my hometown, Beck from my dad’s… » Posted By Khirad On December 30, 2009 @ 3:48 pm Oops, I just made one regarding it… » Posted By Khirad On December 30, 2009 @ 3:30 pm Co-sign on Hillary. I got more emotional with her attacks on Obama and I could not stand Terry McAuliffe. There was that period when everyone, including Hillary, knew it was over and he sold the superdelegate option like a used car salesman. On Palin, well, I’m still workin’ on some of the puzzles from “Going Rouge” which I got for Christmas. » Posted By Khirad On December 30, 2009 @ 3:27 pm When To Give Terrorists What They Want And When Not To Here’s the bit from BBC’s “Power of Nightmares” on Qutb, too:
» Posted By Khirad On December 30, 2009 @ 2:46 pm They’re like some conservatives in America. They have this romanticized version of what the original Ummah was like, a perfect community during the Prophet Muhammad’s time, and want to return to it. Wahhabism and Salafism can get tricky to peg down though and the terms are often used too freely. » Posted By Khirad On December 30, 2009 @ 2:42 pm Yeah, that’s why I said I like MPAC better, but people still go to CAIR, and my point was the anxiety these acts by radicalized Muslims produce in the broader community. As it concerns fundamentalism taking root and threats to our democracy, for purely demographic reasons, I still fear the Christian variety more as it regards the US. » Posted By Khirad On December 30, 2009 @ 2:31 pm Fortunately we aren’t. But there is the ghost of Qutb to contend with (if there is a policy argument to be made, it is that his time in jail formed his theory, but that doesn’t excuse the crap he wrote about America, having studied there). And in this we can see well-educated and affluent Muslims like we’ve seen time and time again take action. Fortunately, though, and I’d like a European to counter me on this if I am mistaken, we’ve integrated them better for whatever reason. There still are the problems of poor neighborhoods – though, to be sure, this could be said of other non-Muslim immigrant communities, as well. For every Muslim cheering there are still examples of Muslims who are scared every time this happens. It reminds me of the Chris Rock bit about him watching the news: ‘please don’t be a brotha, please don’t be a brotha, – gawdamm! – not again!’ Not to deflect a real concern and something which does turn my stomach, but to keep perspective: Chris Matthews interviewing someone from CAIR after the Nidal Hassan shootings: Sure, that last guy wasn’t stellar, to be sure. I like this group better than CAIR anyway: http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=962 I also wish I could find the op-ed of a Muslim who went to the FT. Hood mosque with Nidal. They all thought he was wrong and got into arguments with him. My only point is that it is as much a Muslim problem as it is a World problem. And every Muslim person who speaks out against extremists should get more attention. I would end by saying that, even solving the Palestinian issue wouldn’t be sufficient, as long as Israel exists. And in the imaginary world where it didn’t, they’d still find some other issue – like Chechnya – to cynically exploit. » Posted By Khirad On December 30, 2009 @ 12:47 pm Honor killing has little to do with Islam. True, there is qisas, but these types of killings are more anachronistic ethnic issues pre-dating Islam, like female genital mutilation. Here’s an honor killing story surrounding a Sikh family: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Honour_killing_by_UK_Sikh_family/articleshow/2384202.cms Little to do with Sikhism, either. Both may think it is Islamic or that the Gurus would want it, but both are sorely misinformed about their own religions. Much like right-wing Christians who misunderstand the loving and accepting message of Jesus. » Posted By Khirad On December 30, 2009 @ 12:14 pm For what it’s worth, a Shi’a wouldn’t have to be accommodated. They can make up their prayers at any time before the next day. If the canteen served pork, there’d still be a problem, but that would apply to a Hindu as well, and I never seem to hear such fuss (at least not as often as with Muslims) about those issues. Not sure how this is pertinent, but I think it’s important, and I know Abby tried to do this as well, not to generalize a whole broad and diverse religion. » Posted By Khirad On December 30, 2009 @ 12:11 pm Thanks, I was going to bring up the same point about the Hasidic community. I think there’s a double-standard when it comes to Muslims, where shari’a is painted with such a broad brush. There are different interpretations and applications of shari’a – though I know it’s entered our Western lexicon as a buzzword to recoil from in knee-jerk fashion. I still have problems with it, but all shari’a interpretations are not the same. These guys in the UK are among the worst, and only help legitimate BNP types. » Posted By Khirad On December 30, 2009 @ 12:06 pmComments Posted By Khirad
Be the worst you’ll ever see;
May a moose ne’er leave yer girnal
Wi’ a teardrop in his e’e.
May ye aye keep hale and hearty
Till ye’re auld enough tae dee,
May ye aye be just as happy
As I wish ye aye tae be.
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