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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Ha h aha ha ha hah ah ha ha h!!!
"Somehow!"
She sure is a voodoo doctor, that Joan! But she didn't fool you, Lusoris!
I've been sappy all day, and news from Mumbai sent me over the top about how to approach my/our day for thanks. Shouldn't take Mumbai to provoke that, given the many tragedies that abound in our world. And yet, I've spent hours today on the phone with family members over silly matters like do we need some more folding chairs, what happens if there isn't a microwave to keep casseroles hot, oh, oh, oh...on and on. Take a pill. In any event, I'm thankful that I can acknowledge all silliness and all that I have to be thankful for. And, I don't give a hoot who wants to call me an Obamabot (read: as if no brain, think Pink Floyd video), I am grateful for president-elect Obama. 55 days can't pass too soon for me. Won't be easy, hard to believe it could be worse. Scratch a cynic, find an optimist.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
GEH
I'm sitting with my Dad laughing at the little crush he has on Michelle as we watch the Obamas on Barbara Walters. Happy Thanksgiving, Joan!
Simple thank-yous.
Me, I'm having a hard time this night before ?Thanksgiving?. "Alone" (but no that doesn't necessarily mean lonely & etc.); trying to keep up with this ... vanishingly small? frighteningly (for me) fast quick-and-immediate world.
In the money crunch I'm even in arrears as to my membership status here at Salon, and have to type a whole lot of more words and acronyms even to be able to say anything back to anyone.
"New Yorker" (as a currently "Pacific West Coast" somewhat involuntary [inadvertent?] expatriate) I just want to thank you ... this small moment in ?larger time? ... for your post.
Thank you, "New Yorker", and thank you everyone at Salon.com -- for helping this one sole and solitary (do NOT, please, read as soggy and weepy ... which I try not to be!!) longtime Salon.com reader
salonmarte
Why is it towards panic and fear
You instantly resort?
When I was a boy
I used to live in a Muslim country
Egypt
Every other summer
And as for the ascendency of fundametalism
Most day to day everyday citizens
Consider it a big bronze age backwards bummer
Can you wrap your frightened brow around that?
Political extremism is found and fomented
All over the whole geo-political, global map
Most Muslims in their modern yearnings
Have modern sensibilities
Based upon modern knowledge
Modern teachings
And modern learnings.....
cranberry fest?
or unrest?
think or un-think, therefore we am?
Sam I Am.
Not really, that's silly.
Wanting things to work
and me no longer to shirk.
Happy Tahini & Martini to thee :)
(rhymes aside, keep making us think please you winky-dink)
Happy day of thanks to you.
(no soggy or weepy, just good wishes--to you and all)
I'm laughing now at the Michelle crush from your dad. Thanks for sharing. And Happy Thanksgiving.
Tommorow
A lamb loin and rice I cook
A friend's comin' over
To give me restless looks
I am not frightened of anything. I do not know why you say that I am "always frightened." For example, there is a credible threat against the subway in New York during the holiday season and I have no plans to take a cab or walk anywhere. I take the subway to and from work, to my friends' homes, to restaurants, etc., though I am certain that it is only a matter of when, not if, that there will be an attack.
I know that religious extremists exist in every country. The current occupant of the Oval Office and elected officials all over the country fit that description. If Sarah Palin had been one 72 year old heart attack away from the nuclear codes, I would have been afraid. She would be one to attack another nation in order to bring about the "End of Days."
One cannot deny that Pakistan has a well earned reputation as being the most dangerous country in the world. Its government is fragile, radical extremists hold considerable sway and they do everything they can to destabilize the Pakistani government. If they had access to nuclear weapons, it would provoke a wave of violence. I do not say that because there are Muslims in that country. Unlike others here, I do not stoop to ad hominem attacks, so I would appreciate it if you would refrain from accusing me of being some unsophisticated rube. I know that you and others think me unstable and stupid because I think we should at least follow Vatican guidelines and wait until at least five years to beatify Obama. Just because I do not like him does not mean I am a bigot. I have not lived for years in the Middle East or other nations in Asia, but I have spent significant time there. When I lived in France, I volunteered in the poorer areas in which Muslims and North Africans are de facto segregated from the rest of the community. No, I do not know everything about Muslims. It would be bigoted to say that one "knows how they are."
Kindly extend me the courtesy of not looking for bigotry, ignorance, violent subliminal messages (as some other fool did when she said I was suggesting Obama was raping Sen. Clinton by offering her SoS), or whatever. I may not pander to the white people on this board and let them call me "brotha" (or "sistah" because I am a woman), but I am not some sort of fear mongering, anti-Islam, neo-con. I am a very liberal person who just happens to dislike Obama. Yes, I wish he would fall on his face and no I am not grateful for him. I respect your right to feel otherwise and I am truly sorry (no sarcasm) if I gave you the impression that I think that religious extremism and fragile governments are limited to societies with a majority population of Muslims. I was referring strictly to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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