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noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:34:00 +0000

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All Good Things.

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:40:00 +0000

I will be leaving the Internet so to speak. I would like to say that I will be back some day but I don't want to make promises that I am unsure I can keep. Things come up and we learn that we have less control than we thought we did over the events of our lives. Sometimes we just need to take what comes.

I have enjoyed writing as Apesnake but I guess all good things must come to an end. Doors and windows and all that. To everyone who read and especially to those who commented. Thank you. Take care of yourselves.

I promise to do the same.

Allergic to Admitting Error

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:21:00 +0000

An alpine slide is an amusement ride with a pretty simple definition. You have a chute on a hill- usually with twists and turns which you ride down on a wheeled cart. Personally I prefer something more nauseating but that's just me.

The government of New Brunswick has this site which advertises Sugarloaf Park in Campbellton where it mentions both winter and summer activities. Note that in the summer activities section (and not in the winter section) you are encouraged to experience Atlantic Canada's only alpine slide. This alpine slide, named (oddly enough) The Alpine Slide is not open during the winter. Are we still clear? Need some time to review?

Enter some other arm of the New Brunswick tourism department. They want to encourage winter tourism so they make some advertisements featuring winter activities at Sugarloaf and among other things, these ads state, "For the ultimate downhill experience try the alpine slide." (I don't know what medium they were using, the story about them was on radio.)

Now one would expect that this is a simple mistake. Someone compiling the list of winter activities saw "The Alpine Slide" and, not knowing what it was, assumed it was tobogganing; sliding down a snowy hill. A natural mistake. The park does have a sliding hill. But this mistake started to have people showing up looking for "The Alpine Slide" which was advertised as a winter attraction and being told that it was closed for the winter. Some of the visitors might have known what an alpine slide is but assumed it was covered or had the snow cleared off it or maybe they did actually think it was regular downhill sliding, only to be told that the "alpine slide" was closed for the winter.

Whatever the deal was, tourists were being needlessly confused and probably angered. So the governing Conservative Party's minister of tourism stepped up to the plate. She informed the province that...(sigh)

There was no mistake. She says that some of the staff at Sugarloaf refer to downhill sliding as "the alpine slide". So the ads are not mistaken. People working near "Atlantic Canada's only alpine slide", named The Alpine Slide happen to be the only people in the English speaking world to call tobogganing "the alpine slide". "Let's go up some hill and do the alpine slide. Eh?" is not a common Canadian phrase.

As of this morning there was no intent to stop or correct the ads. That would require admitting a mistake or even just a fallible choice of words. Governmental infallibility is a pillar of every political party's doctrine.

I suspect someone will give the tourism minister a clue before the end of the day. That is not the point. The point is that when confronted with a simple mistake that can cause a lot of damage, the first instinct of every single politician who has ever lived is to ignore deny and ignore again. And the moral of the alpine slide is that the ultimate downhill experience is watching government's ride their integrity down a chute. The sooner we learn how to take the representatives out of representative democracy, the better off we will be.

NBC Theatre

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:30:00 +0000

NBC Staging the News Again (Actually, it should read "staging the news still" but it is a great piece none the less.)

NBC Dateline is looking for a few good Muslims to do a sting on the racist Nascar fans. I wonder if they are hiring actors to attend the event and act like racist inbred fans, just to be sure of some good footage. I could use an acting gig and I have almost as little integrity as NBC. Doesn't NBC Sports carry Nascar events? Oh well.

The Latin Leftist Looking Glass

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 20:44:00 +0000

Via The Jawa Report I learned of this lovely turn of events reported at Dean's World. It seems that a Venezuelan company with links to Chavez has purchased an American company that makes election machines. The Dave's World article explains how it was proven that Chavez stole his recall election and how he managed to con the Carter Center into certifying the election as fair. I guess that success and other factors convinced Chavez that there is big money in stealing elections.

La Raza and La Overreach

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 05:05:00 +0000

One of the recurring themes of history is that of overreach. Many anti-war critics have accused Bush of doing it (or America in general) though I am not impressed by their arguments. One of the best examples was Hitler's decision to break his nonaggression pact with the Soviets. The Nazi economy was fueled by conquest (lacking sound economic fundamentals and based on a command economy) and when the price of acquiring new land and resources in the west exceeded the payoffs, he opened up a second front in the east which was just a classic example of someone knowing the lessons of history but being unable to learn from them.

In short, overreach in the political/military sense is like planting your pole vault pole before you get anywhere near the bar.

Last week, illegal immigrants and extremists who think of themselves as "La Raza" - the race (isn't thinking yourself to be special just because of your race kind of the definition of racism?) seem to have exhibited overreach. When speaking of La Raza in this post I will mean people who like the idea of the Mexican "race" assimilating and the south western states and separating to join Mexico to recreate a supposed ancient homeland called Aztlan where the Aztecs were supposed to have come from. I realize that the terminology is problematic but this movement is so new that the proper nomenclature has yet to be distinguished.

The kind of extremists who see Mexican immigration to the US as a conquest which is righting past wrongs (the "sins of the fathers" reasoning) have fallen for some key misconceptions which are, ironically the same ones that some opponents of immigration fall for:

1) Since Hispanic immigration is dominated by Mexicans, statistics on the number of Hispanics in America are indicative of a great block of like minded people. Val Prieto at Babalu Blog puts paid to that idea. What stands for Cubans likely stands for a huge number of legal Mexican immigrants. Many of those who worked hard to get to America and build a life legally and honestly, think La Raza supporters are loco.

2) A constant and unrelenting flow of Mexicans will eventually mexicanize the south west. Sorry, immigration, both legal and illegal, peaked at the end of the 1990s. And while the inflow is having an undeniable effect on the culture of the south west, it is nothing if not a two way street. It is fine for La Raza to look at a census map and think that Hispanics are taking over California or any other state but when many of these Hispanics were born here and don't speak Spanish, the idea of them all wanting to join a succession movement and merge with Mexico as some have dreamt of is kind of unrealistic. Maybe the decrease in immigration has something to do with the growth in the economy of Mexico which, while progressing in fits and starts, with lots of room for improvement, has been progressing. Ironically the growth might be faster if the much of the rural countryside were not being emptied of labour by emigration. Or maybe it has to do with the fact that Mexico is not an unlimited source of immigrants. In fact its population growth rate is below the commonly agreed upon replacement rate of 2.1% (or is it 2.2%). Their's is 1.17%.

3) The fertility rates of Hispanic immigrants will further mexicanize the south west. Firstly, these fertility rates drop in the second generation. Secondly, Hispanic kids being raised in the US, even in Hispanic communities are more assimilated into American culture than new immigrants. A kid who does not speak Spanish is not going to like the idea of joining Mexico, at least not once he is old enough to give it some thought. This does not stop La Raza theorists from looking at the statistics and dreaming of 11 million Mexican separatists in the US.

4) Nothing can stop the process now. Talk about painting your grapes before they are bronzed. The protests and the more extreme rhetoric has already provoked a political backlash among both legal immigrants and non immigrants alike. Just as the more fundamentalist North African immigrants to Europe have done, La Raza has over estimated their political and numerical clout and the result will likely be measures to slow immigration even further and to make sure that those who get in are the most loyal and personally invested people. In the case of Europe that is people who support pluralism and democracy while in America it means favoring the legal immigrants and deporting those for whom the law of the land is a mere inconvenience.

Whose Side Are You On.

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:53:00 +0000

I am very pro-immigration.

At a time when America's unemployment rate is 4.8%, stocks are rising, even consumer confidence is rising, and businesses in the US are having an extremely hard time getting skilled IT workers and unskilled laborers, to the point that many are having to leave the country, seeing Lou Dobbs come on TV and complain about too many immigrants and the "exporting of America" at the same time is laughable.

But how can anyone of any integrity tell the law abiding legal immigrants to the US that all their hard work, loyalty to the nation and dedication to doing things the honest way can be trumped by hopping the boarder and telling everyone that they own the place and that everyone else should get out?

I don't know what is more funny (in a fork in the brain kind of way), the fact that they are giving everyone a horrible impression of immigrants and confirming people's fears about them as a threat or the fact that they are making Mexicans look unemployable. Just like the recent protests in France, having large numbers of angry people running around making crazy claims of entitlement is not something that will attract a lot of businesses to an area or make people want to hire from your community. Once again the lowest common denominator gets to set the impression for the whole group. Where would they be without the media to edit and sanitize their rhetoric for them.

Hunger Strike Ended

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:06:00 +0000

Guillermos Fariñas Hernandez has ended his hunger strike. The average time one can survive a hunger strike is 60 days depending on the circumstances and that is roughly what he has put in. He is still not out of the woods health wise and he is committed to returning to his hunger strike.

Meanwhile, fidel castro continues to breath the same air as me. Determined to walk the earth as a shriveled corpse, the president for life and darling of the left-wing continues to defy all medical knowledge by continuing to walk without a central nervous system.

Politicians. You Can't Take Them Anywhere

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:31:00 +0000

Wonkette has a video of the Prime Minister of Italy humping a traffic cop - or trying to at least. Like most things politicians do, he is really just going through the motions. Like most things politicians do, he felt no need to ask permission. Like most things politicians do, failure came quick yet he felt he had succeeded. I could go on.

We're Number One! We're Number One!

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:13:00 +0000

We beat the homosexuals, the Muslims, recent immigrants and even the JOOZE. Atheists are the most distrusted minority in America. (Today America, tomorrow the world! BWHAHAHAHA!)

Guillermo Fariñas Hernandez

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:33:00 +0000

Mr. Hernandez is dieing and it may already be too late. I am not an expert on physiology but I know that the human body is not able to go on indefinitely under extreme deprivation. For all I know his organs and tissues may be undergoing irreversible damage.

Some people may think he is insane. He is undergoing a hunger strike because of his desire to have unfiltered e-mail access to the outside world. How can a journalist, living in Cuba, possibly think that Castro would care? Certainly any educated person would see that this is hopeless. What makes him think that his death will change anything? Did he think that the media outside of Cuba would care; that the press of the free world would be moved and champion his cause? If he thought so he has gravely miscalculated.

Why does he not just stop? Why not save his own life; live to use his gifts against the regime. What is he thinking?

I think I know what he is thinking. He is thinking that there comes a time when a stand must be taken; when all hope to avoid such a stand and still be successful is false hope. There comes a time when you realize that there are things worth more than your own wellbeing or even life itself and that the success or failure of your struggle is less important than the struggle itself.

In the history of civilization there have been many like him. Most have died quietly or have been put to death by the powers of the day. They have been imprisoned, exiled, tortured, crucified, beheaded, burned alive, disposed off, or have wasted away in anonymity. They have inspired the brave and provided a cautionary example to the cowardly. Some of them have catalyzed important social and political reforms - the events upon which our civilization has been built. Most went unnoticed into obscurity.

The reason people do this is to send a message. If the message only goes as far as one's friends and family then at least the message was given. It is a simple statement; one that says "I did all that I could." Not for themselves but for everyone else. Those whose minds are enslaved by fear will say, "He did all he could and it got him nothing." They don't get the message but it is not really meant for them. Those who see something beyond their own lives as important will say "he did all he could - we owe him for that."

It is because people understand that they owe men like Mr. Hernandez a debt that they have been unwilling to accept the apathy of western journalists to his plight. They are blogging his story, hoping against hope to save his life and making sure that if he dies, the thirty second obituary that I expect most broadcasters will afford him will not be all he is remembered by.

In a time where people are considered to be freedom fighters for blowing up their countrymen and for firing mortars at people who line up to express their democratic rights. There are real freedom fighters who have integrity and honor and are ignored as not newsworthy. They are not only newsworthy, they are an inspiration and a precious reminder of what humans are capable of when they try.

Irresponsibility All Around

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:26:00 +0000

Canada allowed material that could be used in hydrogen bombs to be sent to Iran. Can we be liberated now?

Also, I forgot to mention in my discussion of NBC Nightly News last night that they also included a piece on autism. While correctly stating that the exact cause of autism is in dispute they did not mention the fact that the evidence, shows that it has a strong correlation with several genes. Instead they gave two possible causes: vaccinations and mercury exposure (without mentioning any requirement for genetic sensitivity for mercury). From what I have read, these theories (especially the vaccination one) are about as respectable as denial of the link between HIV and AIDS. Further proof that NBC Nightly News is doing their research for science stories via Google and I am not talking Google Scholar. They could have picked up a phone and asked their family doctor for some information but why start trafficking in facts at this late date.

Oh, and several days ago local CBC Radio station in Fredericton, interviewed the president of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He is the guy who forbid Wi-Fi from the campus until he (him personally-not the scientific community) was convinced that it does not bake people's brains or snap their chromosomes. He was introduces as a doctor but I later found out that the doctorate is not in medicine or even veterinary medicine but in zoology. I wish I had had a pencil with me because I counted about four or five statements which were just completely untrue, including how respectable his views are among scientists.

The reason he is in Fredericton is because he has been so thoroughly refuted in the ensuing debate that he feels that he needs to take his dog and pony show on the road. If he can rev up some opposition to Wi-Fi in a city that has implemented a pioneering program of free Wi-Fi access as a public service like street sweeping, he can make himself look like less of a loon. CBC Radio gave time to the people responsible for bringing Wi-Fi to the city to refute the claims but not the same day. The fair and responsible thing to do would be to allow someone with a medical or scientific background to rebut, since people will ask themselves why they should believe nasty old civil servants about a medical issue especially when this nut was introduced as a doctor.

But is the term "nut" too harsh? Well, he has a science background and yet has implemented a policy that something will be forbidden until it is proved to him that it is not harmful. In science education they usually mention at some point that you can not prove a negative (he must have been absent that day. Also, you can not prove anything to anyone who:

if he can manage it, avoids laying down his head for the night near overloaded electric outlets.

Welcome to Fredericton, jackass. And contrary to what he alluded to (by refusing to completely correct the radio host) Wi-Fi is radio not microwave and Wi-Fi is not turning Fredericton into a giant microwave oven.

There is no belief too fringe for the media to not plug it uncritically, even if it scares people away from economic development or results in lower vaccination rates for serious childhood illnesses.

And why is there no agreed upon convention for the spelling of Wi-Fi, wi-fi, WiFi or even wifi? Can't people get together on this? (Grumble Grumble...)

NBC Hates Camera Crew.

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 02:03:00 +0000

Well the criticism of the media's treatment of Iraq coverage must have touched a nerve. (Jack Cafferty of CNN infamy went so far as to say that there is no good news from Iraq.) Three days after NBC Nightly News aired a denial of the criticism, they aired tonight's segment of "Iraq: Three years later" where the delved into the psyche of their Baghdad reporter and his personal behind-the-scenes footage.

We got to see the NBC reporter using a treadmill because he can't go outside and punching the heavy bag to relieve the stress of having seen dogs chewing on a dead body. (They are animals dude, cut them some slack. In all seriousness dogs will chew on any dead body, even in America, where people generally do not turn it into a political statement). We saw how the crew is forced to take turns cooking for each other because they can not go to a restaurant. We got to see the aftermath of a car bomb that the terrorists helpfully brought to within view of his window. What we did not see during the week long "Iraq: Three years later" was anything about security, reconstruction (PDF - Sorry to disappoint you Cafferty but it does exist), reconstruction (yes it bares saying twice), or any good news whatsoever.

One thing I did see on this self-aggrandizing bit of tripe was some footage of NBC filming this reporter. It went by pretty quick and I only noticed it after thinking back on the story but it seemed to me that the reporter was the only one wearing body armor. The camera guy and the boom mic fellow were in normal street cloths. Does NBC feel that camera operators are dispensable? Do boom mic operators not have families. Is NBC heartless or just lacking any ethics? I know which one I would bet on.

Save the Plastic People From UN Tyranny

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:19:00 +0000

Save the Plastic People From UN Tyranny

If you happen to be in London, England on Saturday at 2:00pm go to Trafalgar Square and help support the Danish people, both real and plastic.

The organizers are asking that people not bring the cartoons. While this may seem odd at first there are many Muslims who want to show their support for this rally and the organizers do not want them to feel that the event is anti-Muslim. Given that they (the Muslims attending the rally) are personally standing up for the rights of people to express thoughts and images which some of them personally find offensive, I think that is a most appropriate request on behalf of the organizers.

50 Days

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:18:00 +0000

When he dies will they report it?

NBC Nightly News Takes a Look in the Mirror

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:00:00 +0000

Tonight NBC Nightly News examined the question of whether or not they are biased in their coverage of Iraq.

Guess what they concluded. No really, guess.

They decided the charges were groundless. You see it is still too dangerous to report any good news from Iraq. That is not to say that their reporters do not venture out of the hotel; they most certainly do - every day. It is just that when they do go out it is still too dangerous to cover good news. Only flaming cars and bomb blasts are safe. Or news worthy.

So why are these charges being made at the media? Guess why. No really, guess.

It is because America is loosing the war and the Republicans need someone to blame it on (now they had a sox puppet guy on to say that last bit so it looks objective but that is their argument). And in an entire piece on whether the media is distorting the view of Iraq by fixating on flames and gunfire, often out of context, they included large numbers of clips of flames and gunfire out of context and not one picture of markets or new schools or a waste treatment plant or Iraqi Kurdistan or soldiers giving out school supplies to Iraqi children.

BTW The Unrepentant Individual has an interesting post on the US economy verses perception of the US economy.

What Do Afghanistanis Know About Afghanistan Anyway?

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:46:00 +0000

Elements of Canadian society (rhymes with 'reft-wing') have been so buoyed by the success of the anti-war campaign in the states that they recently have been trying to use Canadian media to turn the country against the Afghanistan mission. Even the minority Liberal party, who's government committed to the mission, started to backpedal in the hope that they could blame the whole thing on the Conservative party. They were making some headway until the soldiers and their families snuck in to the debate and started blabbing the facts and other inconvenient things.

The Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, on a surprise trip to Afghanistan told the troops that cutting and running was an offensive suggestion and was out of the question. He used strong enough speech that the "mainstream" left had to back down a bit or look like craven idiots. The rest of the left has no such inhibitions and so the Afghanistan ambassador to Canada was asked what he thought about this movement.

This Normblog post contains his reply and some interesting links on the subject.

WHAT????????

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:20:00 +0000

WHAT????????

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UN Stands Up To Racist Danish Lego.

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:53:00 +0000

As Sandmonkey reports, the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights has come down hard against the Danish people for being racist and they have now produced propaganda to drive home that point featuring a piece of evil red Lego.

Why do you think they call the office the "High" Commissioner?

Prime Minister Churchill's Gloomy Speech

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:07:00 +0000

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

NBC Nightly News

Good evening,

Prime Minister Churchill gave a speech today in which he discussed the possibility of British surrender. The Prime Minister ruled it out as a near term option but whether this policy will be sustainable in the face of massive military losses and civilian deaths is anyone's guess.

Churchill went on to predict heavy fighting and, no doubt, heavy casualties on various fronts including: on the seas and oceans, in the air, on the beaches, on the landing grounds, in the fields and in the streets and in the hills. It seems as if no inch of Britain will be safe.

The Prime Minister went on to spell out his "Plan B" in which Britain, having faced utter defeat at the hands of the Great Third Reich, waits starving and subjugated for help from abroad.

When we return, is anti-Reich prejudice harming the careers or German civil servants in America ...and... How can Germany be described as anti-Semitic when they are taking such strong measures to keep Jews from leaving the country?

Cue the Jeopardy Music

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:02:00 +0000

The UN is calling for 20 billion dollars to be invested over the next two decades on clean water development for Africa. The UN runs through a budget of 10 billion dollars every year.

Uh... UN dudes, do these two facts inspire any ideas? None?

Democrats and Other Psychic Friends

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:04:00 +0000

The CBC Radio news program, World Report which runs at the top of the hour was holding court in fine form this morning. They were stopping just shy of declaring victory for the brave insurgency and defeat for the imperialist crusaders but instead told us that many believe that victory had come for the brave insurgency and defeat for the imperialist crusaders. As long as it is someone else's statements it is news not propaganda even if the people saying it are the people you have been propagandizing for the last 3 years or just the guy down the hall. They must have cut themselves off early because they never got around to using the term "eminent civil war" fifteen times and they neglected to chant "Death to America" before going back to local programming but then the news has to fit in a roughly ten minute time slot so maybe they got to it later in the morning.

They might want to hold off on the prediction making because left-wingers have a pretty poor record of it, as this fellow shows.

Hey, An Actor Who Can Read (Or So He Claims)

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:44:00 +0000

Richard Belzer star of Law and Order: SVU [sarcasm] like all actors, is a genius. He can read and so understands what it is like in Iraq far better than people who go there and far better than the ignorant uneducated soldiers. Belzer is apparently a PhD in what's-whatery.[/sarcasm]

And Air America Radio host Mike Malloy feels that the American Troops are murdering Nazi war-pornography makers. [sarcasm] But no one on the left is anti-troops, right? That is just a myth put out by neocons. [/sarcasm]

Just Beautiful.

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:38:00 +0000

The UN approved the new Human Rights Council with absolutely no mechanism to prevent the worst of the worst human rights abusers from sitting on the council. What's more, the members of the General assembled will vote on the 47 members of the council on May 9 by secret ballot so we will never know the cozy little side deals that go on to get the worst of the worst back on the new council.

Human Rights Watch criticized the US for holding up the process of forming the new council and didn't they just get their wish. What do they have to say about this.

Reed Brody - special counsel to the U.S.-based group, Human Rights Watch - says he hopes the new council will block undeserving countries from membership.

"I think the challenge now frankly is to prove the United States wrong," he says. "And, I think our challenge is to make the council as good as the United States would have liked to see the council be."

And maybe it will be for a few years, though I would not count on it. But really isn't hope the best way to ensure systems don't get abused. The UN is now officially a faith based bureaucracy.

Speaking of bureaucracy and human rights abusers and not giving a damn about anything Burma is enjoying a news blackout about the bird flu outbreak they recently admitted to experiencing, leaving farmers in the dark as to what to do or what might happen if they admit to having a sick flock. Loverly.

Listen to This.

noreply@blogger.com (Apesnake) — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:51:00 +0000

Here is an opinion you don't get to here very often from women in the Middle East. I like how the cleric dismisses her as being unworthy of being rebuked because she is a heretic. She takes no guff from him. Of course she is under death threats now. Is pointing that out Islamophobic of me? Bhe. We secularists can be funny that way.