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Jim Anderson
I believe that is naive to suppose that the Israelis and American Jew traitors do not foster Islamophobia in the US for their own purposes. The film maker was originally identified erroneously as a Jew. However, what about the people who funded the movie? Were they also erroneously identified as Jews? Or did they see a dupe who would do their bidding so Israel could, North Korea like, continue its activities under a super power's suffrage?
September 17, 2012 at 12:00 am |
getreel
Hey JIM; AAHHHHHHHAH!!!!!! I'm a Christian Jew American Capitalist....AHAHAHAHAHAHH!!! I love you!!!
KristaSeddique
Well, Jim, as a Muslim, let me just catch you up. CNN (if you believe them) reported that the producer of the film "said" he was Jewish and "said" he had 100 Israeli donors, but the reality is, when interviewed by the Police, he admitted the money came from him own wife's family, in Egypt. 🙁 So, turns out, Jews had nothing, and I repeat NOTHING to do with the film, that we know of. So, anyone abroad that burned the Israeli flag... you just fell into the hands of a fool–who is trying to play on your anti-Israel, pro-Palestine sentiment. As a Muslim, I would say then, if you did that, you are DEAD WRONG. Muslims, wake up. People play us. Don't be played!
2.5/2.7% of the total population of these sheors, are about to hoist the black flag of Islam upon us all – are they?It's pretty sad the extent to which British society caves in to such a small minority.. The Muslims must laugh at the craveness of the Brits.Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a complete system.Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called religious rights.'When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to the reasonable' Muslim demands for their religious rights,' they also get the other components under the table. Here's how it works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:United States Muslim 1.0%Australia Muslim 1.5%Canada Muslim 1.9%China Muslim 1%-2%Italy Muslim 1.5%Norway Muslim 1.8%At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:Denmark Muslim 2%Germany Muslim 3.7%United Kingdom Muslim 2.7%Spain Muslim 4%Thailand Muslim 4.6%From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).France Muslim 8%Philippines Muslim 5%Sweden Muslim 5%Switzerland Muslim 4.3%The Netherlands Muslim 5.5%Trinidad &Tobago Muslim 5.8%At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam – Mohammed cartoons).Guyana Muslim 10%India Muslim 13.4%Israel Muslim 16%Kenya Muslim 10%Russia Muslim 10-15%After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:Ethiopia Muslim 32.8%At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:Bosnia Muslim 40%Chad Muslim 53.1%Lebanon Muslim 59.7%From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:Albania Muslim 70%Malaysia Muslim 60.4%Qatar Muslim 77.5%Sudan Muslim 70%After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:Bangladesh Muslim 83%Egypt Muslim 90%Gaza Muslim 98.7%Indonesia Muslim 86.1%Iran Muslim 98%Iraq Muslim 97%Jordan Muslim 92%Morocco Muslim 98.7%Pakistan Muslim 97%Palestine Muslim 99%Syria Muslim 90%Tajikistan Muslim 90%Turkey Muslim 99.8%United Arab Emirates Muslim 96%100% will usher in the peace of Dar-es-Salaam' the Islamic House of Peace there's supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:Afghanistan Muslim 100%Saudi Arabia Muslim 100%Somalia Muslim 100%Yemen Muslim 99.9%Of course, that's not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons. Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel. Leon Uris, The Haj'
October 7, 2012 at 7:51 pm |
The reality for liberals is that the United States is a Christian country, it always has been, it always will be. Muslims understand that, liberals do not. Christian values and Christian culture will always be apart of the US and nothing can change that. Liberals can preach this multi-cultural non-sense all they want, there isn't a problem with Islamaphobia, there's a problem with the multicultural world liberals want that cannot possibly ever exist.
September 16, 2012 at 11:57 pm |
MoodyMoody
No, the USA has never been officially a Christian country. It has been predominantly Christian, yes, although even that is changing. But Washington and Jefferson were Deists, not traditional Christian, and Thomas Paine was an atheist.
thecollegeadmissionsguru
Here here Moody, my post wasn't allowed, suppose I put something in that wasn't kosher... but well said.
guru,
You probably said const'itution or doc'ument, or one of the other fragments that the filter reacts to.
more2bits
The way of Christ is the way of all religions–a myth. Talk talk talk. Nothing substantive. No proofs. No scientific facts. Just conjecture plain and simple. Just ignorance. Just gullibility. Just foolishness. The way of all religions is just more of same and the reason why planet Earth will never have peace. Wars over resources? Sure they exist just like animals when a starving wolf catches other wolves devouring their prey they will try to sneak in and get a bite. Religions are like that–bite you when your down to convert you and then brain wash you.
If this wasn't so I DARE. I double DARE all the world's religions to stop at once ALL Brain washing of our kids until they have reached age 21 and allow their more mature minds to make up their own mind before they are brain washed.
You won't, and you know it because you depend on this "NAZI" technique to keep the money flowing to your coffers and your waste one your churches–300,000 or more in the USA alone.
We could build 10,000,000 condo's out of the same materials and eliminate the homeless by converting all those churches.
Wasted money. Down the drain. Fools all.
THe whole problem with this entire arguement is religion itself. Some body already mentioned there are (2) types of Muslims, well, there are (2) kinds of Christians, and (2) kinds of Jews, and (2) kinds of Shintos, and (2) kinds of every religion, those that follow their teachings, and those that invent their teachings to justifiy how they were raised. All of you pointing fingers need to look inthe mirror first, there's your problem.
Religion is largely cultural. Its not about what some book written 2000 years ago says, it's all about the culture and traditions of groups of people. In the US, many of those who are not even all that religious still have very conservative beliefs.
The problem isn't that people won't look in a mirror, the problem is that they're not looking at anything in the first place! Instead they close their eyes shut, cover it with their hands to be doubly sure and then blindly believe whatever their imams/clerics/tribal leader tells them.
An anti-Muslim video was made by ONE individual American with NO TIES to the government at all? Obviously America hates Islam, we must therefore invade their embassies and murder their ambassadors!
Muslims kill several thousand Americans under the aid and protection of the (then) Taliban government of Afghanistan? Nonono, that wasn't done by Muslims, the Afghan people or representative of Islam at all; how DARE you invade Afghanistan and depose the government!
Only for the new members:
Putting the kibosh/"google" on religion to include Mormonism:
• There was probably no Abraham i.e. the foundations of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are non-existent.
• There was probably no Moses i.e the pillars of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have no strength of purpose.
prob•a•bly
Adverb: Almost certainly; as far as one knows or can tell.
• There was no Gabriel i.e. Islam fails as a religion. Christianity partially fails.
• There was no Easter i.e. Christianity completely fails as a religion.
• There was no Moroni i.e. Mormonism is nothing more than a business cult.
• Sacred/revered cows, monkey gods, castes, reincarnations and therefore Hinduism fails as a religion.
• Fat Buddhas here, skinny Buddhas there, reincarnated Buddhas everywhere makes for a no on Buddhism.
Added details available upon written request.
A quick search will put the kibosh on any other groups calling themselves a religion.
e.g. Taoism
"The origins of Taoism are unclear. Traditionally, Lao-tzu who lived in the sixth century is regarded as its founder. Its early philosophic foundations and its later beliefs and rituals are two completely different ways of life. Today (1982) Taoism claims 31,286,000 followers.
Legend says that Lao-tzu was immaculately conceived by a shooting star; carried in his mother's womb for eighty-two years; and born a full grown wise old man. "
ضع kibosh / "جوجل" على أساس الدين لتشمل المورمونية:
• ربما لم يكن هناك أي أسس إبراهيم اليهودية والمسيحية والإسلام هي غير موجودة.
• ربما لم يكن هناك أي موسى دعائم اليهودية والمسيحية والإسلام ليس لديهم قوة العزيمة.
• • مشكله في بلاي
ظرف: بالتأكيد تقريبا، بقدر ما أحد يعرف أو يمكن أن أقول.
• لم يكن هناك أي فشل غابرييل الإسلام كدين. فشل المسيحية جزئيا.
• كان هناك أي فشل أي عيد الفصح المسيحية كدين تماما.
• لم يكن هناك أي موروني المورمونية هو ليس أكثر من عبادة الأعمال.
• المقدسة / التبجيل الأبقار، الآلهة القرد والطوائف، وبالتالي التناسخ الهندوسية كدين فشل.
• الدهون بوذا هنا، جسد جديد نحيل تماثيل بوذا هناك، في كل مكان يجعل بوذا للا على البوذية.
وأضاف التفاصيل المتاحة بناء على طلب خطي.
بحث سريع وضع kibosh على أي مجموعة أخرى تطلق على نفسها دين.
على سبيل المثال الطاوية
"أصول الطاوية غير واضحة. تقليديا، يعتبر لاو تزو، الذي عاش في القرن السادس ومؤسسها. الأسس الفلسفية لها في وقت مبكر والمعتقدات والطقوس في وقت لاحق طريقتان مختلفتان تماما من الحياة. اليوم (1982) الطاوية يدعي 31286000 أتباع.
تقول الاسطورة ان تصرف بطريقة صحيحة ولدت لاو تزو بواسطة نجم اطلاق النار، وقاموا في بطن أمه ل82 سنة، وولد
Mohammed, your arguments are logical and sound. I hope there are many Muslims like you out there that are trying to show the true face of Islam to the West. I, like you, worry that the continued violence against westerners in the Middle East will eventually lead to backlash in the West. Many innocent Muslims might be harmed. The cycle of violence must be stopped because there will be no end to it. Violence begets violence and all reasoning people must acknowledge this truth. I lived and worked in the Middle East for many years. I know that most Muslims are family oriented people who want to live their lives in peace. However, there is a large group of Muslims who cannot see the world in any terms other than that defined by their religion (as many Christians cannot). These people are trouble and must be controlled. It is the responsibility of Muslim nations and responsible peaceful Muslims to make sure these radical Muslims do not hijack your religion and turn it into something all non-Muslims hate. Like Mike in SA, I do not see this happening. Perhaps this is just because the media does not report on it. Hate speech and religious violence must be stopped whether in occurs in the West or the Middle East.
Agree and support you 100%. I think media also has a very strong role to play. Instead of highlighting only the bad news, they should also highlight people who are trying to build bridges.
There are people in all religions and races who are extremist and full of hate. Unfortunately their voices are loud and easily suppresses the mild tone of the silent majority.
As humans we must get to the tipping point and realize that all religions are just a propagation of false ideas written to control populations. No one can deny that "infidels" are "the other guy" in Islam. In Christianity there can only be one God. Theirs. Until "Us and Them" can become "We" this race and planet are doomed. I hope that humanity can pass this test.
Steve Lyons`
The true face of Islam is on the nightly news and it is ghastly violent.
I know people who believe in Aliens and Ghosts who are very kind and do nice things too.
No one can deny that the books people claim to be written by God are full of hate, killing and prejudice. We don't need them.
God Himself said there is only one god, so why shouldn't I believe Him?
@Pete: I am Muslim, and I agree 200% with Mohammad. The Prophet wasn't perfect, (pbuh). He was a human–and Muslims do not believe he was God. I can confirm that we believe that we say "Allah" because Allah is the word for God in Arabic and we pray in Arabic–even if we are English speaking and born in the USA. Pat Robertson is not 100% wrong in all he does–but he is 100% wrong in all he does toward Muslims. He has repeatedly spread falsehoods about Muslims and so have many Evangelical ministers–eager to justify why God loves Jews more than Muslims (supposedly)–even though they point to other scriptures that clearly state that God is no respecter of persons. Anyway, I fear another Holocaust, as the American media constantly bombard Americans with horrible images of Arabs. Even 100 or 200 or even 1000 protesting is hurting us, as they burn OUR flag too. The one thing I hate the most is trying to explain that in those countries, while it is horrible that some people burn and kill, people that don't burn and don't pillage and don't kill are in the MAJORITY. They are not exciting to report on, but the Arab feed on my Facebook page is FULL of Arabs who denounced this nonsense–even though the said they were offended. THey simply could not approve of burnings. Those of you who think Arabs only burn and pillage, God help you to meet one. My son and daughter, 5, and 7 are Arab and growing up in an America they LOVE. I could wait a little longer before telling them the truth - that they are now the most hated people on the planet–even as much as Jews once were hated. Sad. History DOES repeat itself.
0G-No gods, ghosts, goblins or ghouls
Ummmm, 'cause there is no proof that any god exists or that The Babble is anything more than a collection of poorly written fiction?
Pete I agree with you on all you said.
Off Course Muslims like me who do acknowledge that there are major problems in the Muslim world. Every time there is an article about terrorism or crime I cross my fingers and for it not to turn out to be from a Muslim. Unfortunately reality is, 90% of the time now a days it is. This is depressing. But while people like you and me might understand what's behind the ignorance of Terrorism, many people here don't and its feeding those who want to spread hate on both sides.
The problems in the Muslim world as you might know it is way to many and it reaches well beyond Islam as a religion and teaching itself. The Muslim world today and ever since the fall of the Ottoman Empire has been mixed with Politics, wars, colonization, extreme poverty and off course with that comes very low education. All these are what causing problems right now. For example if we take most hotspots you will find them to be in Afghanistan, rural Pakistan, Yemen, Sudan Chad, mali etc. One must look at the GDP in those areas to understand how these areas are affected by extreme poverty. These areas are under served and almost always extremely uneducated. And just as they are uneducated in reading and writing how can one expect them to be educated in Islam itself.
Other Areas such as Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Syria etc, have been either under harsh dictatorships, or colonization and wars. Violence is the language they have been taught regardless of their religious beliefs.
Then we look at the suddenly wealthy Wahabi country (Saudi Arabia) and we tend to forget that Saudi Arabia just recently became wealthy (as recent as 1970's) and did not reform yet from its pre-wealth tribal mentality.
The Middle East is a Mess and we can't fix that in a day. But I agree with you, As Muslims we have to stand up and we have a responsibility to stop those who have hijacked our religion. However, it we do not want to stop one group of people to end up facing a group of bigots and racists who are preaching against us as well.
Islam does not condone murder. Islam, like any other religion does have stories of wars, however, just like Christianity if you misconstrue the true teachings behind it, you may end up using any religion as a weapon.
And the 10 commandments says there are other gods (that don't actually exist either).
Bubbaray
The issue is not Islam nor Christianity it is fundamentalism of all degrees and beliefs. Fundamentalist Muslims are over stimulated by a poorly made film and currently Christian creationists are over stimulated by a recent Dr Pepper ad. Fundamentalist Muslims fly airliners into office buildings, fundamentalist Christians blow up family planning clinics and murder health care workers. Both believe a book gives them God's permission to do so. The threat to enlightenment, peace and compassion is fundamentalism, the threat to the world is fundamentalism.
Close, but no cigar
All "people of faith" propagate this violence. If only the "fundamentalists" had this delusion, they would be cast out as psychopaths for their belief. But when 1 billion people support the delusion that "their God" is all powerful, they are given the power to kill.
Close, hate to tell you man, but if it were not for the secular laws of this land, there would be Christian goups out there JUST as radical as any Muslim group. We don't want to admit it, but there are Christian Fundamentalist groups right now who are just as well armed and just as ready to die for their Jesus.,
Guys, have to point you to comments by Farid, Muhammad, and myself. We are all Muslims, out here to utterly condemn the actions of those who burned and killed in Libya. If the 19 who did this think they did it in my name, they did not. If they think they did it for Islam, they did not. They are ignorant fools, and those that follow them are fools. Luckily, there are billions of Muslims who were NOT "with them" We may not get a prime time slot on CNN, to renounce those who BURNED OUT EMBASSY, and killed OUR ambassador, but we feel it, nonetheless. Muhammad, below, makes an interesting point about the history in these countries that contribute to the violence - and not necessarily the religion. Religion gets blamed for a lot that religion doesn't even teach. 😉
Beware of God.
Until all religion is gone, there will be murderous fighting. The kindest people I have met in my life are atheist. A belief in the supernatural is unnecessary.
The Koran, The Bible and The Torah are all filled with love and hate. So is Alice in Wonderland.
Just say no and free yourself from this delusion.
We do not blame all the Christians for the genocide committed by Hitler.
We do not blame all the Christians for the millions perished in the two world wars.
We do not blame all the Christians for the atrocities committed against innocent civilians by allied forces.
We do not blame all the Christians for the crimes committed by some British against native Indians.
Yes, we do denounce any and all extremism and terrorism. We do believe in the freedom of speech, but we denounce people insulting and hurting other's beliefs through cheap movies or cheap attempts to make money.
So, if it was an expensive movie insulting Muhammad you'll be OK with that?
Nasser, it isn't completely about Muslims what some say on here, it is about hatred and fear. Some people are so full of hatred that they are no better than the terrorists they rail against. We live in a world that has gotten smaller with technology and we find ourselves having to live with others who do not think as we do, or act as we do, or worship as we do; this causes fear on both sides and it is those who fear who cause the bulk of the trouble.
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Islam ism, self centered, Muslim's believe in fundamental clause of Sharia, Al, the La, limit H, most high or absolute 180* we trust, and every Muslim believe in takia, an art of lying, makes us fastes growing truth absolute, filty self centered American Consti tution, denier of truth absolute. for more for more visit limitedisthetruth.com/blog.html and click on word Takia to open file, but turn off virus protection first.
@Hamm: Have you renounced (yet) the Christian Extremist, who looks like he did this and blamed Jews, in order to inflame people against Americans? Are you OK with that? I'm not, and I while I value free speech, I also believe that those who incite others to violence hold responsibility for the actions they take in their life–just like I believe that Hitler had more responsibility for what happened in Nazi Germany than, say, a guy in the GErman army, who believed the lies, but did not carry out the sick plan. The guy who did this was a little mentally ill, if you ask me, but who has stepped up to condemn him, now that people have died? And it's hard to find him, so I know it's hard to protest, but people expect us Muslims to go protest guys that live in foreign countries or that get arrested here for plots... when we are tied in much of the same way. We don't support them and think they are loony tunes, but finding them and paying for the travel to go confront them seems about as futile as finding a guy named "Sam Basil" that may or may not even exist under that name! We do condemn them, but it's tough to "show" people just how much condemnation has gone out–unless they attend Friday Prayers to hear it! CNN, are you interested in giving us Muslims a voice to issue condemnation? Or not just Muslims–but ARabs.... Go talk to the Media Director for the ARab-American Anti-Discrimmination Committee. They have lots of people who can speak very well on the subject of Islam... who don't mince words... but does anyone really want to hear a Muslim condemn a terrorist? If you do, like I said, come to Friday Prayers! I hear it all the time!
September 17, 2012 at 1:02 am |
mr grim reaper
@ religion is the disease more people are murdered for religous thoughts than any other damm religion.
i hope all of you rotten muslims burn are flamed by surtur.murdering
pedophiles.
How do you feel when Muslims say these kinds of things about you? I bet you are angry, then why do you think they should not be angry at YOU?
@GrimReaper: Wishing me to hell does nothing to solve the problems? And when I'm gone, there will be another Muslim to deal with unless you propose a "Final Solution" like they did, ultimately with Jews. Now, at least I know how Jews in the 1930's began to feel when they could do nothing "right." So, are you going to give me a crescent moon to wear next? Do I get to ride a train to Kansas–where I will never be heard from again too? Jeez, people, wake up. Do Grim REaper's comments have any place in American Society–any more than Bin Laden? Why does Bin Laden's words trump MINE, as a muslim? B/cause his sold papers. Who wants to listen to me console Christians and Jews and tell them that they are great people!?
I want people to consider a situation where white westerners become a very small minority, that the people of the other countries control the World, set the tone. Then shudder.
Richard, that was actually the case for most of the world's history. World civilization did not begin in the 20th century. With all good that the USA and "White Westeners" as you call them do. The last century saw 2 world wars and almost a 3rd that cost more lives than any Muslim terrorist ever could achieve. If you are fair Richard, you will concede that this Islam hate started after the fall of the USSR, leaving the US military complex looking for its next enemy or face downsizing. I do not ever remember Islam vs. West wars before this unless you go back to the Crusades.
If it weren't for the West, we'd be living the same as they did during the Crusades...
@Richard. Define WEST... it was actually the Muslims who gave us a LOT of the science and astronomy we use today. When the Catholic Church was killing people for using science and trying to understand a world that differed from what the church wanted taught, it was the Muslim world that was working well ahead of the "west" So be careful when making some claims.
I think the current cycle of Muslim hate comes from the Arab Oil Crisis and the Iranian Hostage situation, well before the fall of the USSR.
Yes, guru, then Islam came in and put the kabosh on Arab science progress. Religion ruins stuff.
No argument Richard. The West has contributed immensely to the great standard of living that we enjoy today, but they did not do it alone. They built upon the knowledge of Greeks, Romans, Egyptian, and yes, even Arab Muslims who contributed greatly to many fields of Science. True, the Middle East has digressed since then, but there is hopefully a new Arab Spring which will wipe away many of the dictators and fanatics of the past, but this will take time and hard work.
Hamm, if we stayed OUT of the politics of the region, instead of trying to control the politics of the region for OIL, this would not be happening.
Farid, then you do not understand why Thomas Jefferson sent the Marines to Tripoli.
Hamm, the Arab Oil Crisis was the result of the founding of Israel and the displacement of millions of Palestinians, including my family. As for the Iranian Hostage situation, that was the result of the USA supporting a tyrant (the Shah) that murdered and tortured his own people, neither of which is directly tied to Islam. The people only turned to a more radical version of Islam because the mullahs promised the people change from their current situation.
pepsee
islam started destryoing the world right from its inception. Read history.
Steve, Jefferson sent the Marines to Tripoli because of pirates raiding commercial ships. I do not think anyone would argue that those pirates were criminals. Even if they justified their "pirating" as ok because Muslims were pirating other religion boats, this is not acceptable. Jefferson would be the first to admit that he did not send Marines against Muslims, but against criminal pirates. I would hardly call this a war of religions.
Someone posted this a couple of days ago - a quote by an 11th century Syrian:
"The world holds two classes of men—intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence."
– Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri
(Abul ʿAla Al-Maʿarri born AD 973, died AD 1058) was a blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer.
He was a controversial rationalist of his time, attacking the dogmas of religion and rejecting the claim that Islam possessed any monopoly on truth. –http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ma%CA%BFarri)
@SteveLyons: Steve, why bash Muslims for the Barbary War? Do you honestly think Islam teaches stealing is OK? WHY? People, as a Muslim, I don't know whether to be more angry at fellow Muslims for thier ignorance or AMericans–or more mad at AMericans for their ignorance or Arabs / Muslims? As for Thomas Jefferson, my only comment is that he made a treaty with the North African Nations and wrote, "in his sixth annual message to Congress in December 1806 that in addition to the successful completion of the Lewis and Clark expedition, "The states on the coast of Barbary seem generally disposed at present to respect our peace and friendship." So, Steve... he ultimately MADE PEACE. So, what was your point again to Farid?
hacham14
I think the main problem is that you have two types of Muslims. Not the typcial Shia, Sunni schism but between peaceful Muslims and more extremists. The first type of Muslims are those who go about their business. They pray five times a day, follow most of their rituals, go to work and provide for their families. They understand that there are other religions out there and are willing to live with these people.
The second kind of Muslim, the more extreme ones, believe that their life and everyone else's should revolve around Islam. They follow Islam to the letter, partake in "honor killings," riot when someone criticizes or pokes fun of Muhammad (although they regularly make caricatures of other religions), fly planes into buildings, upholding dhimmi, etc
The issue arises when people use an umbrella name Muslim to describe all Muslims, when they are not all the same. Much of the criticism should be levied at the latter group and not so much the former group. The former group should only be criticized for not doing enough to separate themselves from the latter group of Muslims, the more extreme, and taking actions to stop these radicals. However, there are those who do speak against radicals and try to keep them out of their communities. The issue is that in many areas where the radicals operate, they have significant power, and trying to tackle these groups brings the risk of death to oneself and to one's family.
The conclusion is, that we should all stand together against radical Muslims and we shouldn't protect them my calling those who oppose them, Islamaphobes. I know there are people out there who dislike Muslims, or even those who look like Muslims, no matter what flavor they come in, and that behavior isn't right. To their credit, however, it's not like people wear signs that say I'm a terrorist. Anyway, we need to stop protecting the Islamic extremists and their supporters. If you want to protect these people, then prepare to meet the wrath of the world!
muslim criminals are hiding in caves and kept in jails, many have been tried and sentenced to death in terror charges whereas radical and extremist Bible believers win elections in the US and claim to speak to God who tells them to forge evidence, lie, wage wars that kill millions in the name of Armgeddon, Messiah, and some $ changing temple in Jerusalem.
My fellow Muslims, please remember what the Quran says, we do not worship Muhamad (p.b.u.h), we worship God which means we should follow righteousness even when it pains us to do so. If we do follow God, then we would ignore those who try to inflame us or use us to justify their actions against us. Please have the wisdom to do as our beloved Prophet (p.b.u.h) of withstanding prejudice, persecution, threats, and insults by showing compassion and discipline even to those who hate us. That is being a true Muslim. That is the real Jihad.
Thank you Farid. Very well said. Thank you for showing the truth to our faith
Brother, what I was thinking is exactly what you've stated so nicely. Thank you. Your reflection, as a Muslim, encourages me in the midst of seeing my flag burn... and at the same time, being Muslim–having to listen to insults about my religion because of fanatics abroad that are anti-American to being with. You are right. I don't at all have to burn anyone or anything just because Mohammad (pbuh) was insulted. His life was a better example than that.
Our Father who art in Heaven, haloed be thy name
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done.
On Earth as it is in Heaven
AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, AS WE FORGIVE THOSE THAT TRESPASS AGAINST US
For thine is the power and the glory for ever and ever.
pditty
So the movie is on youtube for months then on 9/11 Americans are attacked and killed and the focus is this youtube movie.... I don't buy it.
It not only took the hate-monger in the US to make the film, it also took the hate profiteers in the Muslim world to distribute it enough to stir up the mobs. Whatever would these small groups of militants do without Western filmmakers, cartoonists, and Qu'ran burners to provide the insults needed to really outrage the people over there?
LOYAL NORTHERN DEMOCRAT
The nice thing about Rag Heads is that when you pour gas on them and set them on fire they look like a birthday candle when their towel lights up.
and it is muslims who teach such hate and murder fantasies, right?
You are a fool and very possibly could be someone who would cause more violence. You sir, are an asshat.
Larry L
I'd guess under-educated, ill-informed Southern Teavangelical... These religious articles flush out all of the right-wing roaches too hateful to be anything but losers and too ignorant to say anything meaningful.
@Kat: Had to laugh... as a Muslim, sometimes, I have to read things twice to figure out if I'm reading a Christian extremist or a Muslim extremist's words. They all start sounding alike to me, except one or two key words or phrases. ;-(
Army in Afghan
@ Larry L
and this whole article was supposed to be about the evangelicals and their 'islamaphobia' how about your 'southernaphobia' or 'christaphobia' or 'republaphobia' or how about the fact that your post was insulting to whole groups of people. But you know what is not going to happen? Riots and murders in the street because of it. There is a difference between western culture and predominatly islamic culture and many people want to call pointing out those differences 'islamaphobia'. Call it what you want it doesn't change the truth.
And remember, a MUSLIM can't draw an image of the prophet, I can draw whatever the hell I want.
truth1111
Islam is a cult created by a psychopath. It cannot be reformed. It must be eradicated. Islam must be eradicated not because the Quran says Earth is flat or the shooting stars are missiles that Allah fires at the Jinns who climb the heaven to eavesdrop on the conversation of the exalted assembly. These stupid tales could even amuse us. Islam must go because it teaches hate, it orders killing of non-Muslims, it denigrates women and it violates the human rights. Islam must go not because it is false but because it is destructive, because it is dangerous; a threat to peace and security of humankind. With the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in Islamic countries, Islam has become a serious and a real threat to the survival of our civilization.
people like you should go. I bet if Zionazis like you stopped hijacking our foreign policies and turn our country into a war machine for the benefit of israel, then we would never hear about Islamphobia or terror in the world
Truth, the problem with what you claim is that, as a nation that believes in the FREEDOM of religion, we are by our own founding prohibited from doing just what you claim we should do. A paradox if ever there were one. Also, you too, are an asshat.
Funny how much Christianity, the Mormon cult and Judaism are so similar to Islam. All based on crazy fables promoted by sinister opportunists and followed by the incurious and gullible. Mohammed was a pedophile, Smith was a pedophile and polygamist, Catholics accept pedophilia among their priests, Jews prefer inbreeding and Evangelicals believe Mary was a virgin. And who would have ever thought there are people in this country that want to elect a candidate that fervently believes in the Angle Moroni, Kolob and Lamanites. What a twisted mess. Roll it back folks. Vote against the Mormon cult or don't vote at all.
Mike in SA
Gee...I wonder why ANYONE would be an Islamophobist? I mean, after all, since 9/11/01, there have only been a few attacks by radical, hate filled Muslims, right? I mean, there have only been over 19,200 deadly attacks by Muslim terrorists.
Yeah...I think we can be a bit afraid of these idiots. Go to thereligionofpeace.com A whole different outlook to all of the Muslim apologists here.
Low n slow
How many bombs have gone off in Muslim countries, having been launched from US drones versus how many have gone off in Western countries due to terrorism?
go too loon watch to debunk religion of peace war propaganda.
Mr. McLaren,
I am a Canadian Muslim who is very impressed by your article. You have shown that civilized people do exist in the "civilized world". Unfortunately, media outlets have been turned from a voice for freedom of speech to voices of hate and counter-hate messages. Muslims like me who denounce and condemn terrorism every day are the unfortunate one who have to listen to bigotry and hate by those who turn their anger on us. Reality is, all those terrorists hardly read the racist comments on here, its Hard working American and Canadian Muslims like us who have to listen to people like Pat Robertson spewing and inventing lies and stories about Muslims. For example in one of his speeches on his website, Pat Robertson actually claims that "Allah" stands for Hubal the pagan god of the moon. This is not only a lie, its purposefully done to miss inform his followers about Islam. Instead, he failed to say that Allah is the Arabic word for God, just like Yehwah is the Hebrew name. He failed to mention that Muslims believe in the same religion and god of Abraham, Isaac, David, Moses etc.
Aside from politics and wars and all that. The majority of American and Canadian Muslims are hard working people and should be treated as equal citizens. There seems to be a growing culture of hate on comment forums such as this and especially on Yahoo news comments and they are unstopped. Media outlets seem to be allowing hateful bashing against Islam and Muslims under the cover of "freedom of speech". While I cherish and encourage freedom of speech, the line should be drawn when it offends, abuses and assaults others. When Hitler wrote his book and he blamed the Jewish for all the downfalls of Germany, it eventually incited people to hate Jews and we all know that this ended up real bad when the Nazis made the Holocaust that killed 6 million innocent Jews. My fear, is that the more America allows people to write hateful and untrue messages blaming Muslims as a source for all evil, the more people might think that it is OK to Abuse and assault innocent Muslim and Arab Americans or Canadian and eventually this might turn as bad as what the Nazis did.
Media has a role to act responsibly because it is the source of people's information, or as it seems nowadays miss information.
Hey..."good" Muslim. How many times have you denounced the radicals? How many times has your Imam denounced the radicals? How many times have you hidden you head in the sand and hoped these radicals didn't think you "Muslim" enough for them?
Until you control the evil that has taken over your religion world wide, please...spare me your indignation. Until YOU and the other "good" Muslims stand against it, you will all be painted with the same brush.
Mike in SA,
You seem to think you know me. I have denounced and condemned terrorism every single time it happens. But reality is, you cannot associate every Muslim to a crime made by other Muslims. Just like I cannot associate a christian to any crime created by other Christians. And for your information in the mosques I go to every Imam speaker denounces terrorism.
that is the Islamphobes goal. They want to continue to use the US as their war machine to maintain Israel's hagemony, illegal colonization of Palestine, and its racial supremacist apartheid regime. Google "fear inc" and see the background of all islamphobs supported with millions of $'s.
Just like we do not believe all the Christians for the genocide committed by Hitler.
Yes, we do denounce any and all extremism and terrorism.
Mike, you are a hatemonger, and I bet a Christian, too. Your view of the world isn't a healthy one and in reality you are no better than the people you rail against. Think about it.
Mike, YOU come on here and seek to destroy another person's religion, one I am sure you do not understand at all, and you claim that YOUR hatred is justified while there's is not? Come on, man... think...
ehcanadian
I'm also a Muslim from Canada, and I agree with you Mohammed.
Hey, Mike, how about you stop every single evil act of a Christian? If you're so pious and good, you'd be able to stop all of the evil in the world, all the murdering, raping etc. If all the good people had absolute control over all the evil people in the world, like puppets, like you wish us Muslims to do, there wouldn't be evil people.
Really annoying when people ask me to go and stop the evil acts of other people, as if I can just up and go take a plane and cast a spell. Seriously? Grow up.
MadGOPer
It is a shame that all of us are held hostage by those who twist their religion to justify hate. Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Tony Jenkins, and others promote a extreme form of Christianity that endangers both fellow Christians and Muslims. Extreme Christians pulled the "trigger" with this vile video and the Islamic extremists provided the action. The result being that good Americans and Libyans were killed and wounded. Add the destruction of trust and the spread of lies and misinformation, we have ourselves a tremendous mess. Unfortunately, both mainstream Christians and Muslims are unable and/or unwilling to confront these "people" and do something about them.
@Mohammed, from Canada: I'm America–born in America, and I have the same problem. People always tell me that I don't "denounce Muslims who are radical" when I'm out on Yahoo or CNN, but they don't interview me. I feel that Muslims in American media have no voice. If a Muslim is shown, he is a ranting lunatic from abroad. I dare you CNN, allow us to speak. Put some of OUR intellectuals on TV, like you interview other "experts" on the Mid-East. How about interviewing a few Muslim-Americans when stuff like this happens. Really, Farid Zakaria and Christian AManpour can only cover so many topics and though they are great to take on a lot of subjects, you need to interview Muslims. HELLO.
Mohammed. The unfortunate burden here lies within your religious community and your faith. Its your religion being subverted and getting smeared. Any outsiders trying to ferret out the bad guys are bound to use a broader brush than needed. It doesn't mean you personally know a terrorist but it does mean some Muslims do. If your community doesn't accept the responsibility of purging the ranks then people like pat Robertson will keep spewing bile. We just had an 18 year old out here in Chicago throw his life away as a wannabe carbomber. Just think what positive intervention could've saved him from getting into. Instead the feds had to do it and now hes got a bag over his head for life.
Cordoba Initiative's Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said on 60 Minutes that the United States and their policies were an accessory to 9/11. The issue Muslims have with the US press isn't the media coverage but that Americans aren't believing the spin. CNN and NBC News can have a spokesperson on from CAIR every day, it's not going to change how Americans see things. Americans support Israel, when you have Muslims saying things against Israel and in support of terrorists like Hezbollah, then there is a problem. CNN can report a dozen times a day that Muslims are peaceful, it doesn't work when Muslims are killing our ambassador to Libya and murdering troops from within in Afghanistan. Americans understand facts, not spin. What Muslims really want is for it to be politically incorrect to report the facts. The American media should only report nice things about Muslims, not tell Americans that Muslims are killing Americans or rioting in the street over an amateurish youtube video
CurmudgeonTx
Mohammed,
The only problem I have with your main comment is that you are not forced to listen to anything on TV or look it up on your computer and listen to it. I am a Christian and don't even listen to the stuff you listen to...THAT is free choice, and God/Allah gave that to us all to use wisely.
If you are offended by something someone is saying, don't listen. If you are offended by a cartoon depiction of your Prophet, don't read it. That is what freedom of speech/expression is all about. You have the right to say or depict anything you want, but others have the right to not listen or look.
Ralph M
Islamophobia , no. Being aware and careful because of the unbalanced, fanatical things they do at the drop of a hat..yes.
King RedNeck
Are you my Memphis dude? You are so right. I love this board – all good christians are on this board tonight. Please tell everyone we don't need to read facts. We watch Fix news, the channel of god. All facts all the time.
Both if us dropped out from school but look at us. We are the smart Christians. Keep hating brother!


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"My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school." - Margaret Mead
City Brings Back Paddling
In an era when students talk back to teachers, skip class and wear ever-more-risque clothing to school, one central Texas city has hit upon a deceptively simple solution: Bring back the paddle.
Most school districts across the country banned paddling of students long ago. Texas sat that trend out. Nearly a quarter of the estimated 225,000 students who received corporal punishment nationwide in 2006, the latest figures available, were from the Lone Star State.
But even by Texas standards, Temple is unusual. The city, a compact railroad hub of 60,000 people, banned the practice and then revived it at the demand of parents who longed for the orderly schools of yesteryear. Without paddling, "there were no consequences for kids," said Steve Wright, who runs a construction business and is Temple's school board president.
Since paddling was brought back to the city's 14 schools by a unanimous board vote in May, behavior at Temple's single high school has changed dramatically, Wright said, even though only one student in the school system has been paddled.
"The discipline problem is much better than it's been in years," Wright said, something he attributed to the new punishment and to other discipline programs schools are trying. Residents of the city's comfortable homes, most of which sport neighborly, worn chairs out front, praise the change.
"There are times when maybe a good crack might not be a bad idea," said Robert Pippin, a custom home builder who sports a goatee and cowboy boots. His son graduated from Temple schools several years ago.
Corporal punishment remains legal in 20 states, mostly in the South, but its use is diminishing. Ohio ended it last year, and a movement for a federal ban is afoot. A House subcommittee held a hearing on the practice Thursday, and its chairman, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), is gearing up for a push to end the practice once and for all. She plans to introduce legislation within weeks.
"When you look that the federal government has outlawed physical punishment in prisons, I think the time has come that we should do it in schools," she said.
A joint American Civil Liberties Union-Human Rights Watch report last year found that students with disabilities were disproportionately subjected to corporal punishment, sometimes in direct response to behavioral problems that were a result of their disabilities. Many educators and psychologists say that positive tools, such as giving praise for good behavior and withholding it for bad, are far more effective for discouraging misbehavior.
Those techniques "encourage them to behave well in the future," said report author Alice Farmer. Paddling "makes students lose respect for their teachers."
Rules about paddling vary from district to district, but typically only administrators, not teachers, can mete out the punishment, which is done in private. Usually, a long, flat wooden paddle is used to give as many as three blows across the student's clothed rear end, although Farmer found students who had been hit many more times. Boys are overwhelmingly the target.
Not everybody in Texas is gung-ho about paddling. The practice has been banned in the state's big cities, and its use varies from campus to campus in districts that allow it.
In Alvin, a formerly agricultural city of 23,000 that has been swallowed by Houston's suburbs in the past decade, the policy is on the books but not used in many schools.
"I don't think it's that simple anymore," said Terry Constantine, who added that she hasn't swung a paddle in her 16 years as an elementary school principal there. "We look for our parents to work with us now."
At Alvin High School, where the technique is used, Principal Kevon Wells said he had paddled students about six times this school year. If a student continued to misbehave, he said, he wouldn't do it again. "I'm not into beating kids," he said.
But in Temple, a city just outside Fort Hood that shakes with the air horns of the trains that pass through its rail yards, many residents say they hope that the old-fashioned solution can address what they see as rising disrespect among youth. They say their discipline problems aren't different from those in any other school system in the country: students showing up late for class, or violating the dress code, or talking during lessons. Those habits were unheard of in the days when schoolteachers routinely swung a paddle, they say.
"Back then, you wouldn't throw spitballs, because you were afraid of the consequences," said Darr Kuykendall, a worker for a plumbing supply company.
"A lot of kids have tempers," said Abby Jones, a junior at Temple High School. "Those kids that would be paddled would think of it as a threat . . . and maybe would be better."
Parents also pushed for the change because many paddle their children at home and wanted consistent discipline in the classroom, said John Hancock, assistant superintendent of administration for the Temple schools, who has been an educator for more than 40 years.
"We're rural central Texas. We're very well educated, but still there are those core values. Churches are full on Sundays," Hancock said. "This is a tool we'd like in the toolbox for responding to discipline issues."
Hancock, an urbane, sturdily built Colorado native who wears horn-rimmed glasses, said the school system had banned corporal punishment about six years ago because a state law change made what was permissible uncertain. Follow-up made clear that schools could paddle, he said.
Since the policy was changed in May, the school system has paddled only one student, and that was at the request of his parent, Hancock said.
Many districts, including Temple, which is nearly evenly divided among white, black and Hispanic students, require parental consent before the punishment is given. Temple also requires the student's consent, Hancock said, and the punishment is considered equivalent to an out-of-school suspension.
Residents said restoring paddling is less about the punishment and more about the threat.
"It's like speeding," said Bill Woodward, a graphic designer. "Are they going to give you a speeding ticket, or . . . a warning? I'd speed all day if I knew it was going to be a warning."
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it doesnt make students respect them more...it makes them HATE them more! if your actully smart then you wouldnt have corporal punishment in school! but...its the LONE star state...and they want to be different...hey! they broke schools rule while adding a terrible rule to it!! O_O
skylord says:
hey this has nothing to do with topic but what if teachers are giving us purpously wrong answers to confuse us
yes i kno its random
but why are thehy paddleing kids that wont make them like you they will hate you

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For years now my husband and I have had various couples we've spent time with on a regular basis. Several of these couples have become what we like to call 'our mentors' and we always walk away from time spent with them saying 'THAT was fun!' Our time spent chatting, laughing, and going deeper as friends leaves us both feeling refreshed and fulfilled in many ways.
Just last night we went out on a double date with a couple we've known for about 6 years. We use to get together with them more frequently, but in the last couple of years we've seen less of each other. Last night was perfect! I believe it's a true sign of a good friendship when you don't see each other as often as you'd like, but when you do finally get together you pick up right where you left off and it feels so natural and easy to communicate.
DH and I walked away from our double date last night agreeing we LOVE getting together with other couples. There's something special about getting together with a married couple whose a 'step ahead' of where we are in our marriage/parenting journey. It's a give and take relationship and I think last night we both gave each other reasons to hope in the future of our marriage and a new sense of thankfulness for what we've been through that has shaped us into who we are as couples today.
#1. Encouragement and support. Every couple needs time alone, but also time with other like minded couples.
Couples can help encourage each other and support each other simply by talking about life's challenges in marriage, parenting, jobs, etc. By discussing topics that are of value to each couple we can all gain wisdom from our own experiences in life as well as hope in what's to come. Plus, a renewed energy in marriage comes from being inspired by each other. Other marriages can challenge us to keep pressing on and keep striving to become better spouses if we find those couples who we see eye to eye with and develop close friendships with them. As married couples we can help encourage and support each other by allowing ourselves to be open and honest with a few other couples.
#2. Wisdom and Hope. All married couples have more to learn.
No marriage is perfect or ever will be. We've all had our bumps in the road and we're all learning as we go. If we have 2-3 couples we are especially close to and are willing to go deep with we can potentially learn from each other. Because each couple learns different lessons as life goes one; each couple brings different experiences and knowledge 'to the table'. So, as we spend time with other couples and get to know them on a deeper level we can learn from their mistakes and successes and in turn THEY can learn from us. It's important for these relationships to be give and take. Too much is lost if it's one sided in any way.
#3. Unity in the community. Marriage is meant to be shared.
We were created to be in relationships with other people. Through our healthy relationships we are drawn to deeper union with Christ and stronger bonds in our church community. The value in sharing your love as a couple with those around you is a lot bigger and more far reaching than you realize because you may not 'see' the fruits, but by being a positive example and in expressing genuine love and care for each other WE are ALL a light to the world. The reality that marriage is beautiful AND it's challenging...THAT reality needs to be shared in order to help form a community around all marriages and a witness to our faith community.
Couples mentoring couples can have a positive effect on marriages.
Do you know a couple you'd choose? Can you be 'that couple' for someone else?


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Truly, a capital ride ! October 2002 Back to Rides in 2002
Hi there, loyal readers ..... (I hope).
With the disappointment of Dave Johnson & me missing the Birmingham to London tandem-tricycle record, I waited several days before starting to be interested in the weather again. I also needed to find and fit three new sprockets to the tandem, as we (he?) had managed to tear them apart in our 110 miles of aggression.
In the end, we had to tolerate a couple of weeks of winds from the eastern sector, which were of no use for the one remaining schedule that I had submitted with the RRA. This was for Marina Bloom and me to establish a tandem-tricycle record over the 150 miles of the Cardiff to London route. The standard to beat was 8 hours, and I was sure we could beat that by an hour. I had already had a schedule on file for a total time of 6h 45m, and so I had hastily altered a few details before sending it to the RRA.
The first opportunity that cropped up was for Wednesday 23rd October, and it looked quite good. On the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, the charts for the Wednesday were all consistent, and so we set off on the long drive to Wales with the sun shining down on us, and our hearts full of optimism.
You're waiting for the catch, but there didn't seem to be one. We arrived at the start with sufficient time, and were despatched (by Audrey Hughes, as ever) at 1300 precisely from the main door of the National Museum of Wales. Quite a large crowd applauded as we clattered down the twenty concrete steps, and we were soon making our way out of town.
Some minor delays coupled with Rumney Hill left us slightly outside our schedule at the first check. However, we made good progress after leaving Newport, and would surely have been ahead of the plan by Chepstow if I hadn't sent us up the last hill in far too high a gear. Oh, and those steps outside the museum.... well, I might've made that bit up ... but you never know, do you?
We zoomed down towards the Severn Bridge, and were marshalled onto the cycle path by Pauline and Alan Strong. As we approached, Alan shouted "Watch the Kerb!", but I still managed to hit it with a tremendous bang, and I can't believe that we didn't end up skidding along on the forks. Getting over the bridge was without serious incident, although we still managed to hit something on the way off, which again seemed likely to have given us a puncture at least. You do have to be careful with these suspension bridges - once you're past the centre, it's easy to work up a tremendous speed .... and you mustn't forget that a 30 mph crash could easily put you over the railings.
But still, we reached England, and were soon on the minor roads through Olveston and Tockington. Before the Severn Bridge had been built, the Cardiff to London route was much more elegant. You would take the A48 from Cardiff to Gloucester, and then the A40 from Gloucester to the London finish point at Marble Arch. However, with the arrival of the bridge during the 1960s, it was possible to take a much shorter route, if you didn't mind doing some cross-country stuff as you made your way across to the Bath Road at Chippenham. But enough of that. As soon as you leave Tockington, it's bottom gear time, for the grind up Washingpool Hill to the A38.
When we got to the top, I was surprised to see that we were still hanging onto the schedule. We then followed the End to End route for half a mile before turning right towards Chipping Sodbury. We made our way up onto the Cotwolds, and at the Acton Turville check, we were still level. The night before, I'd looked at the details of the schedule, and noticed that the times given were assuming a level speed throughout. Sometimes, this isn't a bad assumption, but I was fairly sure that we would be slowing up from Reading onwards because of traffic - to say nothing of the fact that it was going to be dark by then!
And so, realistically, being "on schedule" at 50 miles didn't really mean that we were likely to be "on schedule" at the finish. Lucky we had 75 minutes between our schedule and the minimum standard, I think. We were moving well as we passed Castle Combe and approached Chippenham. We were actually going to be ahead of schedule. Until I took a wrong turn in the town, which ended with us being stuck behind a stationary bus for what seemed like a decade. When we reached the checkpoint, we were level with schedule again.
As we rode away from the town, I realised that when I'd previously ridden over this route (1996), the way through Chippenham had been different - and I'd carelessly just followed the way of yesteryear. But there was (again) no time to reminisce, as there were hills to climb on the short section to Calne. We were a minute down at Calne.
There is then a very long, draining rise called Labour In Vain Hill to Beckhampton Cross. That was just awful, but we kept things together, and were going quite fast as we made our way along to Marlborough. In the chaos that is the Market Square we just avoided being run over by a bright yellow Porsche, and were a minute down at the Town Hall. This was almost exactly halfway, and I wasn't exactly rejoicing as we changed down through the gears to deal with the large hill out of the town.
But once you're up that one, there aren't really any other big obstacles to deal with. We were holding onto the schedule at Hungerford, and were actually a few seconds up at Newbury. Unfortunately, the lights in Thatcham make it just about the worst place in the world to get through, and so we needed to be very nippy once we got onto the road to Theale.
A brief, planned, stop was made near the Pangbourne Lane roundabout, where we took lights on board, and stocked up with enough drink to take us to London. We approached Reading knowing that we were still ahead of schedule (just!), and wondering just how bad things would be in the town.
We were six minutes down when we left Reading. At Maidenhead (definitely dark by now) we had slipped to seven minutes, and by Slough we were nine minutes down. We conceded that we probably wouldn't beat 7 hours.
This was obvious when we reached Cranford and our deficit was 13 minutes. Part of our problem was heavy traffic, but a lot of the time loss related to the fact that the tandem-trike isn't very manoeuvrable, and wherever it goes, it's always going to be unexpected (particularly in the dark). We only needed one car to fail to notice our wide rear end (not a reference to Marina!), and we'd've been in trouble.
So it was stop-start past Hounslow and to Chiswick. Things looked up for a while after the Hogarth roundabout and over the Hammersmith Flyover, but there were still too many busy junctions for us to really keep flowing.
But we did eventually reach the Museums, and the turn into Exhibition Road, and then into Hyde Park. For some reason, we seemed to make heavy weather of the park, but we emerged at the far end, and did the last little jump around the roundabout to the finish. Mightily relieved, but slightly disappointed with the time, we took refuge back in the park and waited for the car. Within a few minutes, we were all reunited and the racing season had finally ended.
Don Glover gave us an official time of 7 hours 4 minutes 35 seconds, which was 20 minutes down on my "guess", but still 55 minutes faster than the standard. Not a vintage performance, but I think we're reasonably happy to see the job done and the social season earned.
Just for completeness, here's the weather chart showing reliable west winds
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NFL Free Agency
Where Should Jadeveon Clowney Land?
Free agency and the draft are in the rearview mirror, and yet one of the NFL's star edge defenders remains teamless. Who should take a chance on Clowney?
By Danny Kelly May 7, 2020, 7:50am EDT
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The list of impact pass rushers still available on the free-agent market has dwindled to a select few, and Jadeveon Clowney remains the biggest domino yet to fall. The free-agent defender didn't generate the type of market he had hoped for heading into the offseason. Teams have reportedly balked at his injury history—he had surgery after the season to repair a core muscle injury—and inconsistency, according to NBC Sports' Peter King, and his inability to meet with teams due to the coronavirus pandemic doesn't help. So instead of the $20-plus million per year he was reportedly looking for, Clowney is now more likely to opt for a one-year deal and hope to hit a bigger payday next spring.
But while the former Seahawks and Texans star has thus far failed to land a new market-setting long-term deal, he is reportedly healthy and brings rare game-wrecking ability―making him a potentially massive steal for the defense that lands him for the 2020 season. Here are nine teams that make sense for the free-agent star.
Clowney reportedly hasn't shut the door on a return to Seattle, but the Seahawks don't seem to be actively engaged in contract talks. In recent interviews, general manager John Schneider has mostly referred to the team's efforts to re-sign Clowney in the past tense―"We took a good run at it; it didn't happen," is what he told 950 KJR last week―and there's no indication that Seattle will be willing to up their offer, which was reportedly in the $13 million to $16 million range for 2020 (in fact, they might bring him back only at a discount).
As we get closer to the season, though, Seattle may need to be the first to flinch in this game of chicken. The Seahawks signed veteran pass rushers Bruce Irvin and Benson Mayowa in free agency in an attempt to add some experience to its stable of young pass rushers, which includes L.J. Collier (their first-round pick from last year), Rasheem Green (a third-rounder in 2018), and a pair of draft picks in Darrell Taylor (second round) and Alton Robinson (fifth round). But for a team that finished 30th in Football Outsiders' adjusted sack rate and ranked 28th in pressure rate (19.3 percent), taking Clowney out of the equation doesn't really inspire much confidence.
Seattle has $21.3 million in effective cap space heading into 2020, so there's still ample room to bring Clowney back on a one-year deal. The Seahawks do have an advantage over most other teams looking to land the free-agent pass rusher because they know how he works in their defense, and they should have more information than most on the concerns around his injury history. Clowney comes with risk, but there's also plenty of risk for Seattle in not addressing a position of major need.
The Titans fell just short of a Super Bowl berth last year and have a chance to contend in the AFC again in 2020, but the team's middling pass-rush group could hold them back from that goal. After finishing tied for 13th in sacks (43) and 24th in pressure rate (21.1 percent) in 2019, Tennessee jettisoned longtime star Jurrell Casey and veteran Cameron Wake during the offseason while making just one major move to address the pass-rush need: signing former Falcons pass rusher Vic Beasley―who's netted just 18 sacks in the past three years after leading the league with 15.5 sacks in 2016. The team can still lean on Harold Landry (who led the team with nine sacks in 2019), Jeffery Simmons (who grabbed two sacks as a rookie) and Kamalei Correa (who chipped in five sacks) to get after the passer, but Clowney could be the piece that puts Mike Vrabel's defense over the top.
The Titans have $21.4 million in effective cap space to work with in 2020―ninth most leaguewide―and if anyone can figure out how to best deploy the über-versatile pass rusher, it's Vrabel, who coached Clowney in Houston from 2014 to 2017.
The Ravens are built to win now, with very few obvious roster holes. The offense is led by reigning MVP Lamar Jackson and the already strong defense got an infusion of talent with the acquisitions of Calais Campbell and Derek Wolfe during the offseason and the addition of linebacker Patrick Queen (and others) in the draft. But Baltimore could give their defensive unit a 6-foot-5, 255-pound boost in the form of Clowney, who'd pair nicely with Matt Judon (or perhaps just replace Judon, as the fifth-year pro has yet to sign his franchise tender).
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The team's decision to re-sign outside linebacker Pernell McPhee on Tuesday could be a sign that they're out of the running for Clowney's services, and Baltimore's cap situation might limit their flexibility in bidding against other suitors. With just $10.2 million in effective cap space at their disposal, the Ravens would have to get creative with contract restructures or outright cuts if they hope to land the big fish. Where there's a will, though, there's a way.
The Colts have pushed their chips all in for 2020―so why not go after another huge win-now option? After signing free-agent quarterback Philip Rivers, GM Chris Ballard made an aggressive move in trading the 13th overall pick for 49ers pass rusher DeForest Buckner, a disruptive and versatile penetrator who can elevate the play of the team's entire defense from day one. Along with the team's two second-round picks, receiver Michael Pittman and running back Jonathan Taylor, Ballard has the Colts ready to give its AFC South rivals a run for their money this season.
With $24.2 million in effective cap for 2020 (fifth most), Indy is well positioned to make one more splash in free agency. It'd be a hell of a lot of fun to see Clowney playing next to Buckner and Justin Houston, and he might just provide the boost that unit needs to make a big jump next year.
This one's pretty simple: The Browns are the big stack at the free-agency table, bringing a league-high $38.5 million in effective cap space to throw around in negotiations. The team's 2019 acquisition of pass rusher Olivier Vernon hasn't exactly been a smashing success (Vernon netted 3.5 sacks in 10 games), and while there are indications that Cleveland plans to keep Vernon around for the final year of his deal (at a $15.5 million cap hit), the team could use an infusion of talent opposite Myles Garrett after going in other directions in the draft.
The Lions have a chance to be more competitive this year than some people expect, particularly if quarterback Matthew Stafford plays a full season. The team made strides toward improving its offense by signing tackle Halapoulivaati Vaitai in free agency while drafting running back D'Andre Swift and offensive linemen Logan Stenberg and Jonah Jackson. They should also get a big jump from second-year tight end T.J. Hockenson. Defensively, the additions of defensive backs Duron Harmon, Desmond Trufant, and rookie Jeff Okudah along with edge rushers Jamie Collins and rookie Julian Okwara could help turn that unit around in the long term. Grabbing a dude like Clowney, though, would certainly speed that transformation up.
The Lions have $29.4 million in effective cap space for the 2020 season, the third-highest figure in the NFL. If I'm Detroit, I'm asking myself whether it makes sense to waste another one of Stafford's prime years by hoarding cap space this year.
The Eagles' consistently stacked defensive line groups were a major factor in the team's successes in the past few years, but Philly is uncharacteristically thin in its edge rusher depth heading into 2020―especially after mostly ignoring that spot in the draft (they did take pass rusher Casey Toohill in the seventh round). The team still has some options, though: They could re-sign 31-year-old free agent edge rusher Vinny Curry, who notched five sacks last year in a rotational role, or they could up the ante, spend a little bit more, and add a potential game changer in Clowney.
GM Howie Roseman has $23.5 million in effective cap to work with (seventh most in the league), so there's wiggle room to make a win-now move that could push his defense over the top in the short term. Philly is one of five teams reportedly interested in signing Clowney, along with the abovementioned Seahawks, Titans, Ravens, and Browns.
The Jets are another team with reported interest in the free-agent pass rusher, and a quick glimpse at the roster would tell you exactly why. Veteran pass rusher Jordan Jenkins is the biggest name in New York's edge-rushing group after netting eight sacks last year, but past him, there's mostly just a bunch of question marks, including rookie third-rounder Jabari Zuniga. The Jets aren't exactly one pass rusher away from Super Bowl contention in 2020, so a one-year deal may not be too appealing for the team, but they do have the wiggle room (with $18.3 million in effective cap space) to make a splash and upgrade that defense in the short term.
The Giants were reportedly near the top of Clowney's landing spot wish list, and if there's anything that GM Dave Gettleman loves, it's adding hog mollies to the trenches. On paper, Clowney would be a great fit for what the Giants are building up front: The team has invested major resources in upgrading its interior defensive line―Gettleman grabbed Dexter Lawrence in the first round last year before trading for and subsequently franchise tagging Leonard Williams―and with so much beef in the middle, Clowney would have a chance to wreak some havoc on the edge.
Past the obvious fit, the Giants have a clear need, too: The team signed former Packer Kyler Fackrell in free agency, but still needs more help at that spot. With $15.8 million in cap space to work with, they're a dark horse in the bidding for Clowney's services.
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October 13, 2019—#4700 Music & the Spoken Word
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Conductor: Mack Wilberg
Organist: Andrew Unsworth
Announcer: Lloyd Newell
Guest Conductor: Anton Armstrong
"Praise to the Lord, the Almighty"1
Music: German hymn tune
Lyrics: Joachim Neander; translated by Catherine Winkworth
Arrangement: Mack Wilberg
"All Things Bright and Beautiful"2
Music: John Rutter
Lyrics: Cecil Frances Alexander
"Salvation" (Organ solo)
Music: American folk hymn
Arrangement: Gilbert M. Martin
"Climb to the Top of the Highest Mountain"
Music: Carolyn Jennings
Lyrics: Adapted from Isaiah 40
Anton Armstrong, guest conductor
"Antiphon" from Five Mystical Songs
Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lyrics: George Herbert
"Love One Another"3, 5
Music and lyrics: Luacine Clark Fox
"How Firm a Foundation"4, 5
Music: Attributed to J. Ellis
Lyrics: Attributed to Robert Keen
On the CD America's Choir.
On the CD Peace Like a River.
On the CD Teach Me To Walk In The Light.
On the CDs Called to Serve and Then Sings My Soul.
On the CD set The Missionary Collection.
The Spoken Word
"To Will the Good of Another"
It's natural to be concerned about our own needs, our own well-being. Virtually every living thing has instincts of self-defense and self-preservation. But we aren't meant to be like other living things, and we are guided by something much higher than instincts.
This is why our souls resonate with eternal principles and truths that lift us above worldly concerns. Perhaps the most universally inspiring of these is love, which Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote "moves us to will the good of another."1 How different that is from the spirit of self-interest. And how essential it is—for without this kind of love, other people with different views or different goals can seem like a nuisance, even an enemy. Before long, society is ruled by contempt, antagonism, and discord. Sadly, it's not hard to see evidence of this in our world today.
At a recent university graduation, author and social scientist Arthur C. Brooks suggested a remedy. "If we are going to beat the problem of contempt," he said, "we are going to need something more radical than civility—something that speaks to our heart's true desire. We need love."2
Think what could happen in our communities, our workplaces, our homes and families, if there were no contempt. Is it possible to disagree—even to strongly disagree—without crossing the line into contempt? Is it possible to genuinely care about—even to love—those with whom we disagree? Is it possible to set aside, for a moment, our own good to "will the good of another"?
It must be possible—and it is! At those times when we feel burdened by the hostility around us, we can remember that compassion is always more helpful than contempt, civility is always more effective than rudeness, and love is always more powerful than hate.
Love, unlike its opposites, always builds and blesses. By spending more of our time and energy, more of our heart, on seeking the good of another, we can spread light and love. This is the way—the only way—to overcome selfishness and bitterness and create the world we all hope for.
Summa Theologica: Second Part of the Second Part, trans. Anthony Uyl (2018), 256.
"More Love, Less Contempt" (Brigham Young University commencement address, Apr. 25, 2019), 3, speeches.byu.edu.
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Some of you may know, but I am working on a large scale redstone tutorial area. And you can help me!
What I would like from anyone and everyone is to give me suggestions for builds (it can be anything from a system to lock doors, to special doors, to some automatic farms) that you would like to see built and explained how it works. Post it here, and in time, I will incorporate your suggestion!
As in a chest which discards all the items you put in? That's a good one, thanks for the suggestion!
Feel free to go look at my shop on the 2nd floor of H-mart. You can copy or improve upon anything there of mine.
Since it's a tutorial area, I suggest showing the different kinds of circuits and clocks - the building blocks of all redstone circuits: torch clock, piston clock, hopper clock, logic gates (AND, OR, NAND, XOR gates), etc.
Maybe like a lighthouse mechanism?
I borrowed a lighthouse mechanism from elsewhere that works well on Famcraft. Let me know if you would like it in the demo area.


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Finally, the lifts are open at Tottenham Court Road, and you can access both the Central and Northern line platforms step free, using the five new lifts that have been installed at the station (there is a sixth one, which is for staff/emergency use only)
The Northern line is labelled at being down at level -5, whilst the Central Line at level -4.
To get to the Central line from the ticket hall involves using two lifts, and a corridor walk, to get to the Northern, you can get one lift all the way down (which stops to interchange with the Central line if you wish).
We're updating the 3D map for TCR today, and we'll preview it here tomorrow and have it in the next update of the App for you …
This post categorised under: 3D Maps / Accessibility / Lifts
Part of the Victoria Station Upgrade has been completed with the brand new entrance at Cardinal Place now being open. It was due to open in December 2016, but opened a month later in January, bringing a new way in and out straight to the Victoria Line – which then lets you connect as before to the District and Circles.
The lifts aren't finished .. yet, but there's 3 of them – all new, and when they're open it'll bring step free access to another Zone 1 station.
We have of course updated the 3D map for Station Master, and here's how it will appear ni the next update…
We had a nice man by the name of Simon get in touch with us from Germany, who has designed his own Crossrail map. He's taken the individual service pattern that is going to be running, and create his own map with each service shown by its own line. This is quite common he says in Germany for u-Bahn maps to be like this, and individually numbered, unlike on the TfL map where separate services aren't shown like this. Thanks Simon.
Click on the map below for the large full size version!
This post categorised under: Crossrail / Map
This post categorised under: Disused Stations / Hidden London
The gatelines at Walthamstow tube has moved! It used to be at the top of the escalator, but ever since the National Rail station became part of the Overground, it obviously made sense to make the station all 'as one' to allow you to just tap in once for interchanging, so there is now a new gateline for the tube on the corridor to the bus station, and new barrier gates either side of the Overground platforms … meaning that there are just now these marks on the floor where the old gatelines for the Tube entrance used to be!
This post categorised under: Ticket Office
New video in the series from Londonist, of Secrets of the Underground … Geoff takes us round some spots on the tube again that you might not have known about.
This post categorised under: Video
Its only a year late… actually, it might be about 15 months late we think, but finally .. finally the new lift at Vauxhall station is open meaning it now has full step-free access. It's located at platform level in the crossover corridor towards the southern end of the platforms, and we've already updated the data in Station Master to be in the next release of the App. They've also re-opened what was Exit No.6, and logically called in No.4 which is a ramp, for step free access from the street (although there is now a working lift again from the bus station too!)
This post categorised under: Accessibility
This post categorised under: Signage
We've known about this for a while but have only just got down there this week to look at this – the terminating platform at Putney Bridge has been removed, with that track now being the 'through' line, and the curved outside track where trains used to call has now been disconnected and presumably soon will be removed altogether.
Here's the 'island' platform at the northern end looking towards Earls Court, through trains now come through on the track of the left of the island, and (for reasons unknown) a green fence has been put along the right hand side where the through platform used to be but is now no longer in use.
We were told that this might actually speed up journey times heading south from Earls Court to Wimbledon by a minute, as the track is now straight and so they can now approach faster and not have to slow down for the curve. However, when we were there it looks as if the old speed restriction was in place and drivers are having to adhere to it as they are still coming into the platform slowly, and so a new higher speed limit has yet to be implemented. This should make your journey a teeny bit quicker though, yes!
So platform 3 (above) is now no longer in use. Platform 2 (what used to be the terminating platform) is now the through southbound, and with it goes a charming old Platform 3 sign which appears to have been removed, even though it would have done no harm to leave a lovely old pieces of heritage there in place. Shame.
3D Map to be updated in Station Master App in the next update, as the southbound door exit position is also slightly different now!
This post categorised under: Infrastructure
Another dreaded 'blue blob' will appear on the tube map after today making it harder to read, but bringing with it the excellent news that another Zone 1 station now has step free-access with the addition of two news lifts at Tower Hill tube station, meaning that you can now access both platforms without using steps.
Read the full TfL Press Release here
This post categorised under: Accessibility / Lifts


The closest airport to Irkutsk is International Airport Irkutsk (IKT). Distance from International Airport Irkutsk to Irkutsk is 4.4 miles / 7.1 kilometers.
International Airport Irkutsk is located approximately 4.4 miles / 7.1 kilometers southeast of Irkutsk and about 8.6 miles / 13.8 kilometers northeast of Markova. IATA airport code is IKT.
Distance from Baikal International Airport to Irkutsk is 137.8 miles / 221.8 kilometers. Baikal International Airport is located approximately 7.3 miles / 11.8 kilometers west of Ulan-Ude and about 54.3 miles / 87.3 kilometers northeast of Gusinoozyorsk. IATA airport code is UUD.


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Facebook "Paper" May Beat Trademark Complaint As Drawing App Is Registered As "Paper By FiftyThree"
Josh Constine	@JoshConstine / 7 years
There's a whole stack of apps named "Paper" in the App Store, but Facebook's new one may come out on top despite a requested name change from drawing app maker FiftyThree. One problem is that FiftyThree registered its app's trademark as "Paper By FiftyThree" not "Paper", and while it's a lame legal loophole, it may be enough to let Facebook keep the name.
This morning, the $15 million-funded developer FiftyThree published a blog post about its app that launched in March 2012, explaining:
"It came as a surprise when we learned on January 30th [2014] with everyone else that Facebook was announcing an app with the same name—Paper…We reached out to Facebook about the confusion their app was creating, and they apologized for not contacting us sooner. But an earnest apology should come with a remedy…Facebook should stop using our brand name…What will Facebook's story be? Will they be the corporate giant who bullies their developers? Or be agile, recognize a mistake, and fix it?"
It's a reasonable take on the issue. FiftyThree's app is well-known and loved. It won Apple's 2012 iPad App Of The Year award. And it was in the App Store first. Yet today, Facebook launched a content reader and beautified Facebook client called "Paper".
The argument conveniently ignores fellow drawing app Paper, released in October 2011 by studio Contradictory which has 25 other apps in the store. There's also another drawing app called Paper released in September 2012 by miSoft. Plus there's more than 50 other apps with Paper in their name. Paper Doll, Paper Camera, Paper Ninja.
Still, FiftyThree's accusation that Facebook uses its size to bully developers rings true. But it might not matter because of the name FiftyThree registered its trademark under. I asked Facebook if it had a statement regarding FiftyThree's complaint and was given a "no comment". But if the complaint was elevated into a formal lawsuit, Facebook could likely tell the court "We didn't release an app called 'Paper By FiftyThree.'"
Though that position could hold weight legally, it's not exactly honorable. Especially considering Facebook asserted its trademark on the word "book" to force other companies to change the names of products like Lamebook and Placebook. Though in those cases, third-parties were directly piggybacking on how Facebook used "book" to popularize their own brands.
Here, it's more of a coincidence that Facebook wants to use a name already employed by FiftyThree rather than it trying to coin off the existing mindshare of the word. But it still feels like Facebook is trying to muscle in.
In the case of a legal battle, the court would be deciding if Facebook's Paper is confusingly similar to Paper By FiftyThree. Since they're distinct apps with distinct icons, Facebook's has no drawing element, Paper is a common name other apps use, and the names are techncially different, Facebook may escape being forced into a change.
Mark Zuckerberg wanted Facebook to become the modern newspaper, offering high-quality content no matter what your area of interest. Though colloquially used by another developer, FiftyThree doesn't have the legal rights to the name, so "Paper" may have just been too juicy for Facebook to pass up.


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Kreschatik street (main street) - 900 metres. Arena (Mandarin plaza) - 800 metres.
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Gotta love a sketch challenge with a fun theme! This week's challenge from Lasting Memories was to use this sketch with Fall colors. Fall is my most favorite time of the year, so I know I have plenty to work with!
My kids love going to the pumpkin patch and "try" to pick up the biggest one to bring home....never happens. I always let them get one big one and a bunch of smaller ones to play with. But to find the best, we visit quite a few pumpkin farms.
These felt pumpkins have been my favorite embellishment for a long time. I found them at Michael's and bought tons of them. I know they will be used for many pages...along with the miles of raffia and jute I bought. Perfect for Fall Pages!
Be sure sure to check out what the rest of the Design Team at Lasting Memories created this week! You won't be disappointed! Fabulous inspiration!
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You have until September 24th at 9:00 pm to link up! Have fun and Happy Fall!
This is such an awesome layout. I love the stitching on those cute little pumpkins.
I couldn't agree with you more! You can never have too much raffia and jute! I love those pumpkins! I'm gonna have to go look for those now!! Great lo!
Wonderful layout. Love the felt pumpkins. Will have to get some.
What a great LO and LOVE those pumpkins! I would have bought them all up too!! Awesome job this week!!
Hi Wendy! Lovin' this layout! I want some of those felt pumpkins!! Your photos are super cute. Red wagons, kids and pumpkins are just good combos! Wonderful layout!
Love your LO! And yes those pumpkins ARE great!


Recently I've been having a problem where I am always hungry – yet my training schedule has been less due to a bug that I've had for three weeks.
Food at 5pm – generally a good healthy meal.
I drink a lot of water during the day and 2/3 coffees.
So I've no idea. As I sit here writing this I'm thinking of eating a bowl of cereal before bed – but it's a bit late.
If anyone does ready this and has some advice please get in touch.


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