http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-1YEzzPA-w&feature=colike
It seems that those predicting that violence will come from the Iranian regime while the Americans are bogged down in an election campaign may be more correct than any of us wish.
This is a sign of bad things happening…
I know that the summer holidays season is over, but my mind is still not fully back yet…
So, here are some more photos from my holidays up north:
Hip Hop on an island.
And a happy Yoshi, too…
This is such a beautiful place!
This huge hydro-electric dam lake is so beautiful and dotted with islands throughout. Some days, we take the rented motorboat to one or another of the numerous little islands. As the only inhabitants there, we can let the pets roam free!
One of the islands we go to every year (and, water-level permitting, walk/swim the perimeter of) has a very distintct ‘X’ in the rock made of other types of rock running through. Every year, we take a photo of this ‘X marks the spot’ x. This year, when Hip Hop saw we were taking pictures of it, the little ham went and lay on it to ensure he was the centre of attention…
Boating can be very exhausting!
MINNOWS!!!
Summer…
…this type of reasoning goes on all the time when I am forced to interact with other humans face-to-face:
Young people…
Wonderous creatures, arent’t they?
Today, the day after Labour Day, is the ‘going back to school’ day in my neighbourhood.
My older son is starting another semester at University today.
My younger son just came home from his first day in High School.
So perhaps you’ll forgive me if my thoughts are turning towards our youth and the future they will build.
One absolutely amazing young person has recently given a TEDx talk in Richmond Hill (Toronto). I do not know her personally, but my trusted source informs me that she is just 18 years old and speaks 17 languages fluently…
I will embed the full TEDx video at the end of this post, but because it includes many talks and is several hours long and the presentation I was so impressed by starts 2 hours and 2 minutes into the video, I think it worth posting a link here that cues up nicely to the start of her talk.
Watching young people like Sophia Glisch is inspiring…
One of the first things I had thought of after seeing this video was what she would make of this linguistic performance:
Here is the full video of the TEDx talk:
UPDATE: this post has been edited to correct the spelling/insert full name of the seventeenlingual genius, Sophia Glisch
Note: this post has been edited to remove some potentially inaccurate information
Yes, this lecture series is a little long – but very, very informative.
If you have read the Koran and the Hadith, and if you are familiar with Shariah, you will be impressed by the depth of Stephen Coughlin’s background knowledge – but there is still a lot of new material there for you because he draws the connections between the beliefs rooted (rightly or wrongly, but demonstrably held by the majority of pro-Sharia Muslims worldwide) in these and the decision-making and behaviour of Islamic political entities.
For example, he is one of the few people to have predicted the ‘Arab Spring’ months before it happened and accurately described it as a Muslim Brotherhood-driven action. He also accurately predicted other events many had considered ‘unpredictible’ – and in this lecture series, he walks us through the steps that made the events predictable.
If you are unfamiliar with the underlying doctrine, Stephen Coughlin provides an accurate grounding in their belief system and demonstrates its doctrinal roots. He also explains the very different concepts meant by Islamic political bodies when they use terms we consider familiar: words like ‘human rights’ (Sharia), ‘terrorism’ (killing of a Muslim without Sharia approval), and ‘freedom’ (freedom from ‘the laws of man’ in favour of the laws from Allah alone), ‘religion’ (Islam and Islam alone as Muhammad’s revelations abrogated all other religions) and more.
What is quite appalling, however, is his description of the depth of willful ignorance of all this by the politically correct decisionmakers who are directing the ‘war on terror’… His frustration is plainly visible and his Cassandra complex and the accompanying frustration are, at times, palpable.
Yet, it is precisely this willful ignorance among our decisionmakers and intellectual elites poses a clear and present danger to protecting our culture, our society and our very basic human rights.
Stephen Coughlin, Part 1: Lectures on National Security & Counterterror Analysis (Introduction)
Stephen Coughlin, Part 2: Understanding the War on Terror Through Islamic Law
Stephen Coughlin, Part 3: Abrogation & the ‘Milestones’ Process
Stephen Coughlin, Part 4: Muslim Brotherhood, Arab Spring & the ‘Milestones’ Process
Stephen Coughlin, Part 5: The Role of the OIC in Enforcing Islamic Law
Yeay!
I am back from my holidays!
Recharged by being in an internet-free bubble (with a few short exceptions, on which I will elaborate son enough) for a bit – which really is the only way to force me to ‘relax’….
But, before I get back to ‘serious’ blogging (if what I do can be called that), here are some gratuitous ‘beach-bunny’ photos:
Xanthippa's Chamberpot 