Egypt's "Farewell Intercourse Law".

I heard of this story on Sean Hannity's, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh's radio shows. All three give the U.K. Daily Mail as the source of their information. That site links to Al Arabiya News as their original source.

The Islamist-dominated parliament in Egypt is on the verge of approving a law which will allow husbands to have sex with their dead wives - within six hours of her death.

The controversy about a husband having sex with his dead wife came about after a Moroccan cleric spoke about the issue in May 2011. Cleric Zamzami Abdul Bari maintained that marriage between husband and wife remained valid even after death; so, accordingly, he said sex with one's dead spouse was allowed in Islam. Unless one thinks that Islam is sexist, the cleric also claimed that a woman would likewise be permitted to have sex with her dead husband.

Zamzami is not new to making controversial pronouncements concerning Islam. Two years ago, he said it was permissible for pregnant women to drink alcohol. Considering that drinking alcohol isn't even permitted in Islam - not to mention the risk of fetal alcohol syndrome - this statement is odd, indeed.

As they say, if there's no photo (or video) it didn't happen. I was able to locate a video of Zamzami explaining himself from a blog called Blazing Cat Fur. Of course, Zamzami is speaking Arabic in the video, but fortunately for us, the writer of the blog managed to put in a translation via subtitles.

Barn av Regnbuen.

From Yahoo News:

"Tens of thousands of rose-waving Norwegians gathered in central Oslo Thursday to deride mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik by singing a song he hates, viewing it as Marxist indoctrination.

Some 40,000 people, according to police, massed in the rain at a square near the Oslo district courthouse where Breivik is on trial for his July 22 attacks that killed 77 people, to sing "Children of the Rainbow" by Norwegian folk singer Lillebjoern Nilsen."

The article goes on;

"Breivik last Friday told the court that Nilsen was 'a very good example of a Marxist' who had infiltrated the cultural scene and that his song was typical of the 'brainwashing of Norwegian pupils.'"

"Children of the Rainbow" is Lillebjoern Nilsen's adaptation of Pete Seeger's "My Rainbow Race" and is very popular in Norway.

In Norwegian, "Children of the Rainbow" is translated "Barn av Regnbuen" - discovering that little tidbit was how I was able to locate a Youtube video of the song sung in Norwegian.

I don't speak or understand Norwegian - if "Barn av Regnbuen" is an accurate translation of the Seeger song, I can't say that the song would be on my list of all-time favorites. However, the fact that mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik hates this song so much is reason enough for me to post the Youtube version here.

NASA's Lunar No-Fly Zones Explained.

In yesterday's post I mentioned that, earlier yesterday morning, I had heard on Neal Boortz' radio program that NASA was declaring certain areas of the Moon as no-fly zones.

I thought the announcement a bit odd, but didn't give it much thought until yesterday evening.

A search of the Internet led me to an article at the Hindu.com. Referencing an article from Science the writer explained that, because of the $30 million in prize money from Google and the X Prize Foundation, NASA felt the need to protect the historic and scientific value of sites containing artifacts from America's voyages to the Moon. Due to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty which says that the lunar surface has no owner, NASA's no-fly zone is not legally binding, but the agency felt that it needed to safeguard the discarded food and astronaut feces at the Apollo landing sites.

As one might expect, not everyone is buying NASA's explanation for the no-fly zones.

One writer suggest that NASA is holding back scientific progress by demanding these restrictions. He also suggests that the reason behind the lunar no-fly zones is that the Apollo lunar landings were actually a hoax.

Writers for other websites - such as ufodigest and realufos(1) realufos(2) - maintain that these restricted sites are military bases. Obviously, according to these folks, NASA does not want China or India (who will certainly have lunar expeditions in the near future) learning of these secret lunar bases. I'm sure that when China or India or whoever may win the Google Lunar X Prize declares that there are no lunar military bases, these ufologists will put forth the idea that, either NASA has bribed (or frightened) those involved, or that NASA has some sort of cloaking device which has made the bases invisible.

I want to make it clear that I don't fall in with those who deny that we've been to the Moon. This video is all the evidence I need.

3 1/2 Time Outs Tuesday: The Radio Edition.

It's Tuesday, and time again for 3 1/2 Time-Outs-Tuesday.

 1) I'm not quite sure who thought it was a good idea for former Governor Mike Huckabee to go up against Rush Limbaugh in the talk radio arena. I don't have any animosity towards Huckabee; I just think he's a bit bland.

Now, I might tune in to his radio show if he were put up against Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz or even Sean Hannity. I just don't see many of Rush's listeners switching to Huckabee.

The last few days, Rush has had a number of guest hosts filling in. That would be my oppourtunity to give Huckabee a listen. I wouldn't change the dial if Mark Steyn were hosting, but Mark Davis and Mary Matalin don't hold my interest. Huckabee is just barely more interesting than those two. He doesn't stand a chance against Limbaugh.  

2) Speaking of Sean Hannity, this writer says Hannity set Twitter on fire by "suggesting the if the poor were starving that they could eat rice and beans”.

I didn't read the Tweet; I wasn't listening to Hannity's radio program when he "challenged the notion that that Americans living in poverty are going to bed hungry".

 I've always felt that the government's food stamp program was wasteful. It seems to me that it might be better - both financially and from a nutritional aspect - if food stamps could only be used to purchase basic items, such as flour, rice, dried beans, eggs, milk and a limited amount of meat. No junk food - no processed, packaged food.

Unfortunately, the food stamp and welfare system isn't designed to help the poor, but rather to keep the poor dependent on the politicians.  

3) Nearly every radio talk show play ads for incomeathome.com. One would think that, with all the celebrity endorsements, there must be something to it all. When I went out of work for surgery, I thought I'd look into the company. I was thinking that I could make a few extra bucks while at home recuperating.

 No such luck.

 incomeathome.com is simply a cover for selling Herbalife products. After talking to a "coach", I was not impressed. There may be money to be made by some folks, but the whole think was just not a good fit for me.

 1/2)  It's being reported elsewhere, but listening to Neal Boortz this AM, I learned that NASA will classify certain areas of the Moon as "no fly zones".

Dog Eat Dog - The Rock Version.

Considering all that's been going on lately with the President's poodle problem , I thought it might be appropriate to post a video of Ted Nugent's song, "Dog Eat Dog". Bon appetit. (or should I say, Bone appetit?)