The comments by Po below the article were interesting, especially regarding ISIS and Syria, I thought.

I think that the moderate muslims are stuck in a rut
like soooooooo many other religionists -- they know
one way to approach life, and it includes their version
of a religion. . they can't see over the walls of the
cell in which they're living. -- j
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awwwwwww, quit beating around the bush and
get to the point -- how do you really feel? -- j
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Islam is a truly fu45$& up religion to put it bluntly

she maintains her youthful look and gradually is
losing weight ... I call her "Sexy!" -- j
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I did learn how to faint -- and then, later, that knowledge
helped with the low O2 of emphysema. -- j
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Apparently, there are some Democratic Senators whose spouses did not get that memo...

Ulp. Ha!

Oh wow. You were lucky. Good work, johnpe (and good life advice).

Jan

my wife works that miracle just by being pudgy! -- j
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I bet that you would lay 'em low, Jan. . I'm glad that
you are on our side!!! -- j
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they just gave me a lot of iron and good food, plus
a week of hospital rest, and I built myself back up
to the point where I could navigate life. . never had
a transfusion. . gave up coffee then, and other things
gradually thereafter. . the stress -- it's an "It's All
Small Stuff" thing, for me. . I must be vigilant, though,
to maintain the "cool" which it requires. -- j
.

The ironic thing about this is that it is like Machiavelli saying, (paraphrased) "Prince, if you can win the battle by only killing 5,000 of your troops, why fight it in such a manner that 40,000 of your troops die, just for the sake of martial display?" Machiavelli has gotten lambasted by history for trying to suggest such restraint to 'The Prince'. There is a bitter taste in my mouth when I type that at least this fellow is arguing for not breaking the wife's bones or causing her to bleed or disfiguring her.

This particular manifestation of Islam is revolting. It makes me want to go over to the ME and volunteer to fight with one of the Kurdish women's troops.

Jan

Their ideal - as also expressed in the Celtic tale "Sir Gawain and the Loathsome Lady" - is a woman who is ugly/concealed to any other man but who is radiantly beautiful when with her husband. (Fortunately, the Gawain tale has a pointedly happy ending.)

Jan

I used to do crossmatches to 'fill the patient back up' after this sort of thing happened'. If I was lucky, all it took was 4 units of blood; often I ended up crossmatching 8...and then the next shift took over.

Congrads on changing your lifestyle, johnpe! If you give other people the ability to 'kill you by stress' it is the same as handing them a loaded gun and painting a target on your chest.

Are you listening, Gulch??? Do not do this - you are pretty good guys, all told, and you should plan to stick around.

Jan, does not do crossmatches any more

Why does it matter to them since the women have to cover their face all the time anyway?

What else should you expect from a religion that never progressed beyond the Dark Ages? Where our anger should be directed, however, is at those that hold Islam should be respected. While I disagree with the primitive nonsense promulgated by religion, Islam is the only one that is out and out evil and revels in it - no matter what the so-called "moderates" claim.

Pre-conscious, Old Testament bicameral man was better behaved than that. I suspect even cave man was better behaved...at least they showed some sort of mutuality with others otherwise we would have not survived.
Yes, they are not human, not conscious, have no conscience, no mind...this is what a barbarian is.

"Islam, the religion of peace."
What King Barry said to a room full of students in India at the start of such drivel..
Old dino laughed at his TV.
I wasn't thinking about any Muslim "War On Women" at the time.

why do you even recognize these missing links in the first place. There are far better subjects to bring up.

I still know him, and neither of us has mentioned it since. -- j
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"I was advised by a man, once, to strike my girlfriend."
I bet your facial expression convinced him not to say that again.