THE DEATH OF A MUSLIM WOMAN

In the past four months, six Muslim women living in Berlin have been brutally murdered by family members. Their crime? Trying to break free and live Western lifestyles... Hatin's crime, it appears, was the desire to lead a normal life in her family's adopted land. The vivacious 23-year-old beauty, who was raised in Berlin, divorced the Turkish cousin she was forced to marry at age 16. She also discarded her Islamic head scarf, enrolled in a technical school where she was training to become an electrician and began dating German men. For her family, such behavior represented the ultimate shame -- the embrace of "corrupt" Western ways. Days after the crime, police arrested her three brothers, ages 25, 24 and 18. The youngest of the three allegedly bragged to his girlfriend about the Feb. 7 killing....read on

...So I really am "Daddy's girl." And no man can approach me as an independent agent because I am not my own, but belong, until my marriage, to my father. At the time of my marriage, my father gives me away to my husband and there is a lawful change of ownership. At that point and at that point only, I am no longer bound to do my father's will. Instead, I must answer to my husband. If you read the rest of Numbers 30 you will see that this is the case. Notice that there is no intermediate point between Daddy and Hubby. There is no "limbo land" where the girl is free to gallivant on her own, "discovering herself" as she walks in fields of gold, apart from any defining covenant head, doing whatever she sees fit....

George Stephanopoulos asked John McCain on This Week, how he felt about the recently exposed memo.

Download | play -WMP

Bobbing and weaving is the boxing term.

30 Bodies Discovered As Rice Visits Iraq

The bodies of 34 men shot execution-style were found in three locations in less than 24 hours, police said Sunday, a day when drive-by shootings and suicide bombings killed at least eight Iraqis, including a senior Industry Ministry official and a top Shiite cleric...

Novak compares filibusters to Nazi death camps

I found this comment on Kos, by Box 13. (I hadn't had a chance to view the show yet)

"On The Captital Gang Saturday Bob Novak made the following statement:

HUNT: Bob, why would Senator Frist refuse an offer to break the deadlock?

I wonder how the Anti-Defamation League will feel about this."

After Mark Shields smacked him down with truth , Novak took the Lords name in vain, an obvious sin in Novak's passioned Catholicism.

SHIELDS: ...We are changing that now and forever, and don't you ever forget it, because it'll be 51, and they'll be ideological and it's going to be a change in the American judiciary permanently.

NOVAK: Oh, Christ!

Just another example of a religious zealot spewing lies to justify their means. I wonder how many times he goes to confession a week? I like the way he substitutes the "nuclear option" with the words"constitutional option."

Kevin was nice enough to ask me to join the AS gang. Monday's will be my day, but I figured I'd give it a whirl today.

Here's my first little tidbit Click here

Anything interesting?

Is there any video worth posting?

Martyrs' In Iraq Mostly Saudis

Web Sites Track Suicide Bombings

Before Hadi bin Mubarak Qahtani exploded himself into an anonymous fireball, he was young and interested only in "fooling around."

Like many Saudis, he was said to have experienced a religious awakening after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and dedicated himself to Allah, inspired by "the holy attack that demolished the foolish infidel Americans and caused many young men to awaken from their deep sleep," according to a posting on a jihadist Web site... read on

Download | play -WMP Part I (Frontline's expose says it all)

How much more proof do we need that Iraq is a breeding ground for terrorists, no matter how many times the repubs try to deflect it.. We are not fighting evil dictators, but religious fanatics. Nation building does not work against religious fervor. Are we really surprised that most of the hijackers of 9/11 were Saudi's? The administration will never admit that we would have been much better off focusing on Afghanistan and Homeland Security instead of ginning up the evidence and attacking Iraq.

Part II will come hopefully later today.

Sisyphus Shrugged

This, on the other hand, is somewhat disturbing

The violation of the no-fly zone Wednesday led more than 30,000 people to quickly leave the White House complex, the Capitol and the Supreme Court and triggered an eight-minute "red alert" at the White House.

At the time, Bush was riding a bicycle at a wildlife center in suburban Maryland and wasn't told of the alert until after he had completed his ride at 12:50
Vice President Dick Cheney, first lady Laura Bush and visiting former first lady Nancy Reagan were among those evacuated from the White House complex during the alert.

White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said Thursday that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin and the U.S. Secret Service would review Wednesday's aircraft incident, the response and the failure to notify the commander in chief during his bike ride.

I would tend to think that was a fairly accurate assessment myself, but then I have a great deal of bias in this area.

Which seems to have been confirmed by events yet again.

I would tend to think that was a fairly accurate assessment myself, but then I have a great deal of bias in this area.

Which seems to have been confirmed by events yet again.

The violation of the no-fly zone Wednesday led more than 30,000 people to quickly leave the White House complex, the Capitol and the Supreme Court and triggered an eight-minute "red alert" at the White House.

At the time, Bush was riding a bicycle at a wildlife center in suburban Maryland and wasn't told of the alert until after he had completed his ride at 12:50

According to the latest campaign finance report, Wal-Mart has spent more than $280,000 trying to overturn one local ordinance. This makes this little local election the most expensive in Flagstaff's history. The Wal-Mart money is spent on full-page newspaper ads and mailings, both full of vicious Orwellian rhetoric implying that a zoning ordinance that limits store size is somehow the same as burning books. Yeah, go figure.

So, when H. Lee Scott Jr. says that Wal-Mart doesn't do that sort of thing anymore, he's a liar....I'm so surprised.