The title itself is kind of a clue. Sounds like fear mongering to me.
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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smonster - Jun 13, 2010 4:14:03 am PDT #22291 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
zuisa - Jun 13, 2010 4:23:01 am PDT #22292 of 30000
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I think I've seen the documentary too, and... not so good. Lots of fear mongering.
This sort of thing always reminds of this one friend/acquaintance person I knew who was horribly anti-Islam and carried on as if she knew so much about it, and when I asked where she learned so much about the religion, she said that she went to a lecture on Islam given by her Missouri Synod Lutheran Pastor at church. I asked if her pastor's opinion wasn't, perhaps, biased, and she seemed really puzzled.
Shir - Jun 13, 2010 5:21:54 am PDT #22293 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Typo Boy, I don't see how my approach contradicting your. When saying "life is unfair", I also mean "acknowledge the pain (on both sides), suck it up this way or another (with/without compensation), move on". Honestly, I can't see how anything I ever wrote here can be related to automatic hate of Palestinians. And I don't hate "them", certainly not by default. I'm saying that we had difficulties, they had theirs, talking forever about who suffered more won't get us anywhere.
Anyhow, I think you're reading too much into Palestinian/Israel role. There were other countries involved (Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt...). Everyone is feeling much more comfortable with throwing this on Israel and the Palestinians alone, but there are other immediate factors in the short-long history of "the situation".
I'm watching a documentary "Islam: What the West Needs to Know". It is scaring me a bit. I wonder how accurate it is.
omnis, go and read this: Shir "Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure." Feb 2, 2010 1:04:22 am PST and you may want to read the discussion before it.
And in much happier news: seems like there will be a site. I'm starting to get some positive feedback telling me I'm not crazy, but still need a legal hat for the site.
Edit: hold on. I don't think I saw/said proper hello to zuisa till now. So hello, zuisa!
zuisa - Jun 13, 2010 5:53:03 am PDT #22294 of 30000
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Thanks!! I haven't been posting too much 'cause it seems that you all are awake and posting while I am asleep and I get up and it's like "Natter: 526 new Messages" and I'm like AAAAAAH. But I've been very much enjoying reading!!
WindSparrow - Jun 13, 2010 6:08:42 am PDT #22295 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Hello, zuisa! Welcome!
Trudy Booth - Jun 13, 2010 7:10:05 am PDT #22296 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Hello zusia, you're delurking at a lively time!
(Of course, just about all our times are lively. Or punctuation arguments.)
And in much happier news: seems like there will be a site. I'm starting to get some positive feedback telling me I'm not crazy, but still need a legal hat for the site.
Shir, that's ASTOUNDING.
Zenkitty - Jun 13, 2010 7:13:20 am PDT #22297 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
And in much happier news: seems like there will be a site.
Excellent!
meara - Jun 13, 2010 8:40:15 am PDT #22298 of 30000
Yay for Hollaback Israel! Or whatever it ends up called. :)
I have apparently been eaten by a fatigue monster this wekeend. Good god, y'all. Thursday night I went to bed around the usual time, got up for a teleconference 7ish hours later, was so tired I went back to bed after the hour telecon, for three more hours. (Total sleep ~10.5 hours).
Friday night I went out dancing, contemplated meeting friends at another bar, but was sleepy (?) so went home and read a bit, then went to bed at 1:30AM (mind you I'd slept in until 12:30PM on Friday). ...slept for 11 hours. Got up and went to a friend's afternoon BBQ. Got home at 5:30PM and felt like crap, thought "I'll take a nap!" Took a flexeril and a painkiller and laid down on the couch...for four hours, at which point I got up and went to bed. Woke up a few times this morning and rolled back over. Total sleep: 16 hours (after only being awake about 5 hours on Saturday).
WTF?!?!
Zenkitty - Jun 13, 2010 8:57:59 am PDT #22299 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
meara, the fatigue monster sure is getting around this weekend. I've been a useless lump, staring vacantly into space for most of the time I haven't been asleep, which hasn't been much. Where you're too tired to watch television? Yeah, just give it up and go back to bed.
SailAweigh - Jun 13, 2010 9:17:34 am PDT #22300 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
It seems to be an epidemic of fatigue. I've been doing nothing more than skimming all over the internet to keep me occupied and ignoring chores I know need to be done. The only thing (semi)useful that I got done yesterday was getting about 800 words of fic written. And I need another 3400 by this Thursday. Oy.