BULLETPROOF BURKHA EXCERPT

AL SALAAM/RICE: Sure I picked that first burkha up in Cairo. The kevlar sheath? That was Tenet’s only good idea. (page 3)

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QUESTION: What are realistic goals in Iraq? How are women going to keep their rights in there and in the Middle East? What is gained by accomodation? Start there and go.

(Crossposted at The Heretik)

TODAY IS EARTH DAY

How Will You Love Mother Earth Today?

The Heretik Salutes The Mother in Us All!

AN UPPITY WOMAN CAN BE WHATEVER SHE WANTS
Women Are Not Defined by Men
Posted at The Heretik
MADONNA AND WHORE?
Why Do Names Matter?
We All Can Say Madonna and Whore, Madonna or Whore, Madonna is a Whore, Whatever! One thing we can say about one Madonna Louise Ciccone is that we cannot say just one thing. A woman with one name wears many personas: Madonna. Wear the mask, vogue, come on let's vogue, whatever! Madonna! A woman wears a cross and crosses every line in her path: Madonna. Whatever! Cherry picking musical genres, cherrypicking musical youngblood cherries Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Whatever. Madonna!

A WOMAN DEFINES HERSELF!
F**k, no, F**k Off Whoever Gets in Her Way: Madonna!
As a concept, the Christian Madonna has been hailed and derided. Mother of God and handmaiden! Opposites non attractive to some, no matter to others. Woman as mother of god elevates woman to level of greatest respect in a world that shows little respect to those without a title. Handmaiden of the Lord makes a woman a servant in a master's house. Madonna!

KILL BILL, ONE AND TWO
Consider Bill Clinton, if only for a moment. Clinton of the blowjob and the dress, Clinton of the scandal and the mess. The Feminist Curse or Consort to the Queen? What does it mean when a man is defined not by what he does, but by what is done to him? Is this question defined by the famous is? Is any sex consensual? Can a woman choose to be a whore? Can a queen rule from a prison cell?

What does it mean when a blowjob almost blows a Presidency away? Without intent to belittle the matter and who did what to whom and the power equation, who was on their knees first and who ended up on their knees later? And who used blowjobs to blow smoke up our collective asses?

Bill Clinton does not define the women he most is attached to in history. They define him. The putative persona of whore Lewinsky defines Clinton as pig, the elevated persona of madonna and queen Hillary defines him as tool for her agenda. Make no mistake. Clinton was and is attacked for what his wife believes.

A WOMAN CAN BE EVERYTHING SHE WANTS
Where Men Are Doomed to Certainty, Women See a World of Choices

Why does The Heretik love Uppity Women? Not to define, but only to say this. Women are natural heretiks, ever pointing out what does not fit, what does not sit right in the world of stand up guys. Women admit possibility. Possiblility is the greatest heresy in a certain world.

Recently The Heretik has come to know Chalicechiq a wise woman who admits more possiblity than most. Her blog is entitled Light. Do not so easily pass up her young wisdom.

Sometimes you just got to say oy. 

It's a yiddish word, hence popular with Jews.  Oy.  If you want to know why The Heretik hates intolerance, he has one word. Oy.  The Heretik has a lot of reason to say oy lately.  It's short for oy vey.  Yiddish. Oy. Oy is good enough alone, but better with vey. Oy, meet vey, Vey meet oy.  Oy vey.  What is good enough alone sometimes makes the mistake of picking the wrong partner.  Oy. Oy vey.

Oy.  The Heretik loves the Jews.  Heretik, what are you saying? You Zionist militant motherthinger.  Burn.  This is not my Reggie White Moment.  Calling Doctor Kevorkian.  The Heretik needs your assistance in his suicide here.  Oy.  We think he may have been hanging out with that crazy Senator Byrd.  Talking about the Nazis and the Jews.  Not good.  Not good at all.  Oy.

Why can't The Heretik love the Jews?  If you don't love the Jews, you have probably forgotten the importance of a people who place a high value on education, who brought you the great concept of respect for the law of men and the greater law of god far greater than any man.  Who makes gains for some makes advances for all.  There are far worse things in life than love of learning and love of law in lawless times. Oy. 

Why can't The Heretik love Jews?  Man, I love the Jews.  Oy.  They stood by me and I by them.  Unfortunately (or proudly) we stood together at a final barbeque in 1360 and other years as well.  No steak for us, only the stake for us gone up in  flames.  And all of us burnt to a crisp.  The Heretik says oy.  He knows why the Jews say Oy vey.

Oy vey.  It means je ne sais quoi, does not compute, how can I put it into word? Oy. It is the essence of irony, what the Jews know well and are unafraid to show in this Mel Gibson, gone mad kind of world today.  As Myron said to me as they put the flame to the wood and we stood at our stakes,  us soon to be steaks uneaten, only roasted for someone else's sad and sorry satisfacton, " Heretik, Heretik, Heretik, these Ten Commmandments that they got here, these Christians, you know where they got them?"

Oy, I said.  Oy vey.

Meshuga Myron's voice went gone, but I know where these burning Christians got these Ten Commandments.  Oy.  They got them from the Jews, the Jews I love, the Jews I burnt with at the stake back in the Terrible Terrible Times of the Long Ago and the Terror  of the Recent Times .  Oy.  The Heretik will burn again with the Jews he loves sometime in the future.  Oy.  Oy vey. 

No matter how much they burn them and me, the world will always have the Jews.  The Jews to blame.  The Jews to burn (and me as well).  May Jews always survive to remind us of who they are, to remind us of who we are.  There will always be Jews, no matter any sad and failed attempts at a Final Solution.  Oy.

There will always be Jews who are Jews and Jews who don't know they are Jews.  We are all of us Jews, only some of us know it.   Jews throughout history have represented The Other, something different.  When they come for what is different, they come for us all.  Oy.  When they come to kill what is different and you stand and look away, they have killed something in us all.  Oy.  Oy, meet Vey.
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We stand at a moment in history when the putative Christians have seized the Ten Commandments with the loving idea of forcing them down everyone else's throats.  For your own good.  It is time, don't you see?  Some things must be done.  Come on.  Take these tablets.  Accept them, accept these tablets or else. Oy.

This is a Kevorkian moment of madness, a suicide for a society of tolerance and freedom.  There is a Jonestown jingle in the air. Oy. The Heretik  will not allow the tablets to pass his lips.  Nor will he drink the Kool Aid.  Oy!

Other great times in the Inquisition can be found here.

Just because a woman stands up for herself doesn't mean she is telling a man to sit down.

Unrecognized women bloggers, unacknowleged hands have reached deep into the undercurrent of what runs against women in These Mad Times. What these hands have pulled out is not pretty in sight, nor sweet in smell. Do not blame the messenger for revealing what she sees. This odious tide against truth. That surging slime upon dignity. That undercurrent , this ceaseless tide, would drown a woman in an endless churning sea. We must ask ourselves where such endless energy comes from and why.

The Age of Men Alone is not over. The Truth is it never was, but what never existed in Truth holds onto its illusions through force. The Age of Men and Women has begun, as it begins for each of us every day. A day of bright smiles and light laughter rarely needs a heavy hand. This day and this age would shine more brightly were it not for those who would wish to extinguish its flame through fear. Who fears this new age fights not against just women, but against us all. Women's bodies have always been the battleground where victories both dark and light are won. When the light goes out for women, that light also goes out for men.

The Heretik holds in highest esteem those who hold the light gently in their hands and fiecely in their hearts. All are invited to discover a celebration of the light here.