Sweet. I’ll have the Pekeking Duck then!
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Please, if you can, explain an aromatherapy antidote. The science community has stopped all work pending resolution of this breakthrough.
OHGODOHGODOHGODOHGOD
The thing is, the organisation I work for is contracted to the Auckland District Health Board, so we are required to have a flu pandemic plan in place. This is being taken extremely seriously, since they’ve given up trying to isolate it, and instead are working on controlling the spread as much as possible so that resources aren’t overwhelmed. We have had numerous meetings, been given numerous directives, and I’d have to say are we are now pretty clued up on how it can be contracted from clients, how clients can contract it from us, the various prophylactic measures we should be taking, how to recognise the onset and how long to isolate ourselves for, and then this woman, this sweet lady whom I actually quite like, pipes up and announces that none of this actually applies to her because she sniffs shitweed oil diluted to two parts per million and that we all ought to be doing the same. It was because of her that a mandate was issued that the only advice that was to be heeded was the official one, and that talking ill-informed crap was now a disciplinary offence.
Sorry, my chemistry is rusty. But since I’m sure this is a chemical formula, I’ll be brushing up, post haste.
It should be a firing offense, no questions asked. Such bullshit is dangerous as well as stupid. Expounding that kind of shit should get one tarred and feathered, bar none.
“I can’t get HIV; I only take it up the butt.” seems like a similar, good* idea.
*where good = the new bad.
This guy pretending to be my friend. He massaged my shoulder and smiled up at me playfully…as if the fluttering of my hormones would shake my morals. Psh.
Is it bad that I am looking forward to the next stupid thing someone says to me, since I now have a place for it?
~S.P.I.~
No, his middle name is Arabic.
If we’re going by founding dates, then Tennessee had slavery for only 69 years and the percentage of slave owners was much lower than what Philadelphia had.
My point is not that what the South did wasn’t evil. My point is that I have known about it and lived with it all of my life. And in my own way I tried to do more than just apologize. But Chris Matthews – who is usually a very intelligent person and is in a very responsible position for educating people – has once again perpetuated the myth that only Southern states had slaves when actually most Northern states had slaves much longer than most Southern states. Why haven’t these states educated their citizens about their slave histories?
While true, his father was not Arabic, but was (at one time prior to his son’s birth) Muslim in that for a period of time converted to Islam and in doing so adopted the name “Hussein” to demonstrate his new faith.
To be fair, I don’t it’s much different than saying Isaiah is a Christian name, though.
But this line of argument obviously ignores the fact that President Obama is so-named in the widespread tradition of naming the son the name of his father (i.e., he’s a junior–shocking, I know!). That tradition knows no religious or regional bounds.
However, you missed this part:
Bolding mine. His father was Kenyan. Last time I checked Kenya was in the African region, not the Middle Eastern region. There is a vast Muslim population outside of the Middle East whose only ties to the Middle East are to a religion that was born in that region. Would you say that all Christians and Jews have some personal ties to the region as well?
“You know, there’s a natural history museum - I forget where - that has the skeleton of Goliath in it.” From the guy who cuts my grass. Same guy who recently told me about someone’s 155-lb. Bassett hound. Eventually, I’ll learn to just leave a jug of cold water outside and disappear, instead of feeling obligated to let him come indoors to cool off…
Naming the son after his father does, too, know religious and regional bounds. Naming a baby after a relative who is still living is not part of Muslim tradition; in fact, that’s one of the good arguments against Obama’s being Muslim.
FYI, Kenya is about 80% Christian and only 10% Muslim.
I just read that naming a baby after a living relative is also against Ashkenazic Jewish tradition.
Well, sure. I’ve read that Obama, Sr. was atheist by the time he came to the U.S. Could be revisionist history, though, who knows. My point is that just because one is given a Muslim name doesn’t make them Muslim whether they’re father is or not. Both my kids have biblical names; not because I read/believe/like the bible, but because they are nice sounding names. IMHO, fathers passing on their full names is an ego thing (which is not necessarily a bad thing, of course).
Ok. I guess I’m just saying that the Middle East isn’t the only region you find Muslims in and there is no tie to the ME through Obama’s father.
Yes, but it happens. I would have like to have given my son my living Jewish father’s name, but was advised against it. Alternatively, we paid tribute to my father’s deceased father (whom I’d never met). His first middle name is tribute to his deceased paternal grandfather and his second middle name is a Hawai’ian name given to him by a Hawai’ian friend of ours. FWIW, neither of us is Hawai’ian. You can’t really fairly assume anything based on a given name, can you?
I heard some young Americans talking to a group of young Austrians on a flight from Washington to Dayton. They were discussing all manner of cultural differences. I learned two things I was not previously aware of:
*No one considers Ohio to be in the Midwest. It’s East Coast for sure.
An inch is about 10 centimeters.*
I’m encouraged for the future knowing that this sort of cultural exchange is going on.
Well, this is just a misspoken thought, but…
I was at the dog park the other day and a woman and I were discussing dog breeds. She said something about a “chocolate-covered Lab” and I couldn’t help but laugh. 
She didn’t “hear” herself until I repeated it it twice.
That isn’t even the dumbest thing RUSH LIMBAUGH has said this week. He claimed the governor of South Carolina’s erratic behaviour was the fault of Barack Obama, because the stimulus package overstressed him.
An in the case of Obama, it’s entirely irrelevant, because his name never was Muslim to begin with. Arabic and Muslim are not synonymous.
And Isaiah, for what it’s worth, if attached to any religion, would be a Jewish name, not a Christian one.
Alright. Sheesh. It seems fair to assume that the name was adopted to demonstrate the family’s Islamic faith.
I don’t see why people feel the need to go to polar opposite direction in disavowing all connection to Islamic faith of a middle name. It’s clear that there is a history of Islamic faith in President Obama’s family. It doesn’t mean that President Obama himself is Muslim and using his name as a slur against him is Islamophobic and connecting him to the ME due to his name is xenophobic. But, cripes, let’s not deny his family history lest his opponents use it against him. There’s nothing there for him, or any of his supporters, to be ashamed of. So what, his father was born into a Muslim family. So what, his grandfather converted to Islam. Woowoo. Big freakin’ deal.
What do I know? I’m agnostic. I thought Isaiah was a book of the new testament. I can see now I was incorrect. I stand corrected. Isaiah is a Jewish name. And a lovely one at that.
New York’s particular crime rate doesn’t address the stupidity of the ex-girlfriend’s statement. She said that New York was “no more or less dangerous than anywhere else,” seeming to deny that there was a statistical difference in crime rate between different places, which of course isn’t true.
Old Testament. But what of it? Plenty of good Christian boys are called Daniel, also the name of an Old Testament prophet, and no-one thinks anything of it.
If you name your kid after one of the Apostles you’re still giving him a name that’s Jewish in origin, you know.
I believe the name Peter actually comes from the Greek petros, and that Paul comes from the Latin. That’s your two main apostles right there, neither with a Hebrew name.