Men removed due to modesty concerns

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I cannot post any comments and am just trying to see if diary still functions for me.  BJ, I also note that you saw a comment I posted that I could not see and was unable to reply to yours.

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Hillary Clinton, Audrey Thomason Photoshopped Out of Situation Room Photo

 

 Morning Gloria —

Ultra Orthodox Hasidic newspaper Der Tzitung is telling its readers like it isn't- by editing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the now-iconic Bin Laden raid Situation Room photo. Oy vey.

The religious paper never publishes pictures of women, as they could be considered "sexually suggestive." Apparently the presence of a woman, any woman, being all womanly and sexy all over the United States' counterterrorism efforts was too much for the editors of Der Tzitung to handle.

 

While saving precious vulnerable men from being driven mad with desire over the image of a woman may be in line with Der Tzitung's editors' ideas of piety, Jewish Week's Rabbi Jason Miller points out that the altered image violates a central tenet of the faith,

 

Audrey Thomason, the counterterrorism analyst seen peeking out from behind another onlooker in the back of the original photo, was also airbrushed away, due to all of the sexy man-tempting that her very presence in a photograph would do.

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Derek K. Miller (photo right)  was a 41 year old Canadian writer and musician, who blogged for over 4 years about his battle with colorectal cancer. When he realized he would lose his battle, he did not stop blogging but shared his experience with his readers:

"I'm at the point with my cancer that the car has finally bumped down off the pavement and we're driving on gravel now. What I mean is, the end of the road is somewhere up ahead, not too far, and I'm not going back to smooth speedy travel, ever. To keep moving at a reasonable pace, I have to pay more attention to details, and a lot of stuff I previously took for granted requires effort—mine or someone else's. This has happened faster than I expected, but life often does."
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

  You can read the rest of his gravel road post here: http://www.penmachine.com/2011/04/on-the-gravel-road  (Be sure to check out the comments.)

During Obama’s first run for the presidency, we read and heard a great deal about his Kenyan family. Candidate Barack Obama used that tie and his Indonesian childhood to weave the message that his multicultural heritage and upbringing made him uniquely better able to lead America in the 21Century.

 “Roy”, Obama’s Kenyan half-brother (the Muslim polygamist that not long ago took a teen as his third wife), has turned up again just in time for Obama's next run.  

His name is tied to news about a Barry H. Obama Foundation he runs that claims to support poor Kenyans. The organization, which is named after President Obama’s father, claims it is a tax-exempt, federally recognized charity, but it seems it isn’t.

The New York Post ran the story over the weekend: 

USA Today OpEd

By Hillary Clinton and Julia Roberts

This Mother's Day weekend, most of us will enjoy a home-cooked meal — maybe even breakfast in bed. We'll probably take it for granted that the meal was prepared in a clean kitchen, where the air is safe to breathe. But for nearly half of the world's population, cooking at home is a deeply dangerous act. In fact, it poses one of the most serious health risks in the developing world, and it's a major threat to the environment.

The reason? Smoke from dirty stoves or open flames. Some 3 billion people live in homes where food is cooked on stoves orover fires burning fuels like wood, dung, charcoal, or agricultural waste. These fuels produce toxic fumes, and in poorly ventilated homes, the mix of chemicals can reach 200 times the level that the EPA considers safe to breathe. It can cause lung cancer, pneumonia, cataracts, low birth weight, even death. .....

ed.  Long article and good read. http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-05-06-Hillary-Clinton-Ju...

WooHoo.  The folks watching the live cam from the NYU library had decided that the eggs were never going to hatch, but this morning at 8:30 one little peep popped out.  Watch the live cam as the tow others hopefully hatch as well.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/hawk-cam-updates-from-the-n...

I get the feeling the POTUS thinks his trip to Ground Zero yesterday means our nation can close the book on 911 and move on to a new world order. (Are you feeling those vibes?) If I'm right, he's wrong.

When he spoke about the success of the Navy Seals mission and the death of bin Laden earlier this week, Obama made a point of saying:

“… [W]e must also reaffirm that the United States is not –- and never will be -– at war with Islam. I’ve made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11 that our war is not against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims.”

 

Unfortunately, President Obama was skirting the truth just as GW did before him. Yes, there are many Muslims, who suffered because of bin Laden and who are glad he’s gone.  

However, there are also many Muslims, who mourn him because they honor him as a Muslim leader, which the following excerpts from an AP article point out:

A Minnesota man travelled to suburban Detroit on April 30th and fatally shot Jessica Mokdad, his 20-year-old step-daughter (pictured on the left). Police there say it was because she left Minnesota to live with her father and was not adhering to Muslim customs. Her friends say the step-father was obsessed with her in a less than honorable way and would not leave her alone.

This story has all the earmarks of an honor-killing. The victim was a beautiful young girl victimized by a male relative, who attempted to use their religion to control her. She would not submit and died as a result.

The step-father (pictured on the right), Rahim A. Alfetlawi (45) was charged Monday in Warren, Michigan, with first-degree premeditated murder and two weapon offenses. He is accused of killing Jessica Mokdad with a single gunshot to the head in her grandmother's home.

Time to celebrate! Big stock market rally looks probable on Wall Street today. Impromptu crowds celebrating outside White House fence in DC and in Times Square. Lots of American flags, chanting USA, and some Bush/Cheney memorabilia on display. I even spotted a yellow Gadsden flag flown by a Tea Party member. It's happy time!

Some sort of revenge attacks seem likely but at least we got the big fish. He resisted, tried to use a woman as a human shield but she was shot and then Osama was shot in the head, along with some others, including his son.

Obama: Al-Qaida head bin Laden dead - Yahoo! News

 Update: The op was carried out by Navy Seals. Hurray for the Seals! Fantastic operation, flawlessly executed. Makes the US stronger and the dollar is strengthening on the news. 

Update 2: Details on the timeline: Bin Laden is Killed: White House Time Line | Jewish Internet Defense Force

Most of the reports on this concentrate on tut-tutting about his use of one of the commonist words one hears - but one dares not write it so instead, writes or says "the F-word".  Pretty strong stuff -

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During the Sudanese civil war, which lasted 23-years and ended in 2005, Muslim forces from the North swooped down on villages in the Christian South. They shot the men and enslaved the women and children. (You read that right, they made them slaves.)

 Christian Solidarity International has managed over the passage of time to free some 100,000 of those slaves through a complex series of negotiations with their slave masters and intermediaries. In the beginning, the humanitarian organization traded cash for freedom, more recently freedom has been won through the trading of cow vaccine. 

In March of this year, a prominent rabbi from Boston named Joseph Polak and his wife went to Sudan to celebrate the freedom of 150 newly emancipated slaves. Some of them appear in the photo.

Now I do fish and sometimes I've been known to troll a fly for spring landlocked salmon.  This is not about that.

Recently I opened up the registration process somewhat and I've noticed an influx of trolls with hilarious user names and no posts or comments.  These folks are the ones who earn $1000/week at home in spare time by adding links to commerce sites. 

If I get many spam posts the site will once again be locked down since I do not have time to deal with it and as I said elsewhere, I am thinking of moving on in the near future anyway. 

Tonight, I'll try and write down my thinking.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” -First Amendment, US Constitution

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There is a wealth of information for women and girls in this video. 

"If you ask men why they did a good job, they say, 'I'm awesome.' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard."

The double standards we make for ourselves.

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