“Peaceful Islam” “Moderate Muslims” (yeh, MHWA)

So, a so-called “Moderate Muslim” who founded a television station to aid in spreading the “truth” about “the religion of peace”… beheaded his wife.

Yep. Ironic, eh? His intent to practice “holy deception” (al taqiyah), that is, blowing smoke up the skirts of stupid Americans, is shot to doll rags by his own faithful practice of Islamic traditions. So beheading is a tad messier than stoning. It’s still well within the traditions. After all, women–within Islamic tradition, closely following the life and work of Islam’s founder–aren’t really humans, just chattel.

And his wife–as countless others before her–discovered just how effective a “protective order” designed to keep him away from her could be. Yep. Worked just as well as “cease fire” agreements with Palestinian thugs works for Israel, that is to say, not at all. I just wonder how it might have turned out had she gotten a handgun, learned how to use it and had a carry permit, instead of relying on a piece of paper to shield her from a Muslim man intent on faithfully emulating the life and following the teachings of the Butcher of Medina…

(Do I have to “h.t.” Drudge? *heh*)


Trackposted to Nuke’s, The Virtuous Republic, The Pink Flamingo, , and The World According to Carl, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

Would you believe…

(said in my best Don Adams/Get Smart voice)… 15 minutes to set up an OS? Less, actually.

New VM: Ubuntu 9.04 alpha. Yeh, not even beta. Alpha. The finished product is due out in April, but I had to get a foretaste, so…

Ubuntu 8.10 host.

VMWare Server 2.

Ubuntu 9.04 client (VM).

After designating the hardware setup for the new client OS, less than 15 minutes to a working desktop. About what it took me for my last physical install of PCBSD.

Nice.

Of course, it might have taken a tad longer had it had to actually sniff out my real hardware configs, but still.

Unfortunately, even though I chose the “alternate” (text) install process, the promised ext4 file system wasn’t an option, and it won’t appear as a default choice until 9.10 (in October 09).

Oh, well. Ext3 is still not bad at all, at all.

Later…

Well, so far, I don’t see a lot of difference from 8.10, but I suppose the differences will become apparent… or I’ll look up the changelog later. 😉

Works fine. Had 350+ “updates” waiting when desktop first booted but would not install all of them unless I first performed an “upgrade” using a subset of the waiting updates. No biggie. Just went on with other things in the host system. We’ll just have to see how things go.