February 21, 2007

All that is Wrong About Islam

rmiles7721February 21, 20072Site News

This is just awful. From Michelle Malkin:

A father killed his wife and four daughters in their sleep because he could not bear them adopting a more westernised lifestyle, an inquest heard yesterday.

Mohammed Riaz, 49, found it abhorrent that his eldest daughter wanted to be a fashion designer, and that she and her sisters were likely to reject the Muslim tradition of arranged marriages.

On Hallowe’en last year he sprayed petrol throughout their terraced home in Accrington, Lancs, and set it alight.

Caneze Riaz, 39, woke and tried to protect her three-year-old child, Hannah, who was sleeping with her, but was overcome by fumes. Her other daughters, Sayrah, 16, Sophia, 13, and Alisha, 10, died elsewhere in the house.

Riaz, who had spent the evening drinking, set himself on fire and died two days later.

Clockwise from top left: Caneze Riaz with daughters Sayrah, Alisha and Sophia, Father killed family for being too western
Clockwise from top left: Caneze Riaz with daughters Sayrah, Alisha and Sophia

Relatives broke the news to the couple’s son, Adam, 17, as he lay terminally ill with cancer at the Christie Hospital, Manchester. He died six weeks later.

I don’t care what religion you are or what you believe, but kiiling people just because they don’t believe in it as strongly as you do is just awful, or as Michelle puts it, monstrous. Oh, but this must not be one of the run of the mill muslims, he must be one of those rare birds known as an extremist, of which most muslims don’t belong. Yeah, right. Islam is all about converting the rest of the world, and those that aren’t converted end up as slaves, or dead. There are moderate muslims out there, and they need to take a long hard look at what their religion is promoting.

Countdown to Extinction


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Grey’s Anatomony

rmiles7721February 21, 2007Entertainment

I’ve been sucked in to another damn TV show. The wife has been watching it since last year, and I have caught bits and pieces of it over the last two weeks. The third part of three is on tonight tomorrow and I will probably get sucked into watching it as well.

Dinner is just about done. I’m just making a simple chicken and rice thing, the oldest girl has softball practice tonight, so we don’t want to wait too terribly long to eat. They have to leave in about 40 minutes.

I hate that my BeyondTV box is not connected to the TV now. It means that I have to record to my computer, but if it is over channel 100 I don’t get it and have to watch it in real time or miss it. The Sopranos should be starting again soon and I am a fan.

Flash for File Sharing

rmiles7721February 21, 20075Entertainment

I am trying to decide if I want to use this on my sidebar or not. It’s kind of cool, but it is limited in that I actually have to upload the files or music to a server and access it from there. It’s a flash widget from Box.net. It is actually kind of cool. It is a little big but I may be able to mess with the code to see if I can resize it. I did add some good thrashing tunes to listen to either way. If you want, you can get your own Box.net Widget at their web site.


Get your own Box.net widget and share anywhere!

Let me know what you think about it. I may stick it on the sidebar somewhere. Like I said, I can’t configure it for a bunch of music or anything. That would be pretty cool it it would serve up the stuff in my files directory. This was originally posted a couple of days ago, but I was able to take it as a paid opp today, so here it is again <g>.

Why Am I Still Awake?…

rmiles7721February 21, 2007Parenting/Family, Technology

…at 2:30 AM. 22 Hours after I got out of bed last.

Good question and one which doesn’t have a real clear answer other than the fact that sometimes I am a dumb ass of the third degree. Actually I have a black belt in dumbassery.

I got up at the usual time yesterday, about 4:30 AM or so. Surfed the web, posted a little bullshit, a couple of paid ads, drank coffee. Normally I will hit the shower between 5:30 and 6:00. Since I work so much closer to home now it has more often than not been closer to 6 AM. Then I go to work, getting there by 6:30. I was pretty worn out by the time the first shift was over so I locked everything up, picked up the four year old and came home. I attempted to nap for awhile, but was only partially successful.

I had to go back to work at 8:30 to oversee the next shift change and finish the paperwork that I had locked in the office earlier in the day. Count all of the food in the restaurant, count the money, make up my bank deposit so I could drop it at the bank on the way home. Deal with 100 stupid things that needed to be dealt with. It was around midnight when I finally got home. Very rarely can I just come home from work and go to bed. I have to have a bit of wind down time. Normally that’s spent on the computer. I posted some more, and surfed for a few minutes.

Unfortunately the four year old is developing a pretty nasty cough. I took her to the doctor late last week and they said she was coming down with a cold, so we have been fighting that. I am letting her sleep on the couch tonight, she is pretty congested and will sleep better reclining than being flat on her back. That I guess is the main reason I am still up listening to her cough. She’s had some medicine now though, hopefully she will start sleeping a little better, because I am getting pretty droopy here. Nodding off and making all sorts of typing errors. Thank god for spell check. Now if it could just check my grammar and post for me too, all would be well in my world.

I was going to keep her home Friday and spend tomorrow sleeping in, but I may reverse that and keep her here tomorrow. I have someone’s laptop to fix, and taxes to do for one of my waitresses, as well as a couple of netflix DVDs that I still need to copy and send back, so that I can watch them later. I don’t guess I will be getting much in the way of rest tomorrow. One can only hope that they let me sleep in for at least a little while. Since the girl is sick, if she stays home she may sleep in as well. I damn sure am keeping my fingers crossed.