The founder of a Muslim-oriented New York television station has been convicted of beheading his wife in 2009 in the studio the couple had opened to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims after the September 11 terror attacks.
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Signs of Spring
It may not look like that to you but it means a lot here. The ice on the creek is breaking up, it’s above freezing (just), there is a strong westerly wind blowing and the ice is being broken up by the incoming tide.
Feb Writing Comp:….Cabin Fever.
The heat in the air beat down like an oppresive blanket enveloped in steam and covered in treacle as the woman stumbled in the road and cursed yet again as she blinked away the sweat that was pouring down her face and turning her expensive dress into a sodden rag. A parrot screeched and the sound mingled with the strains of a radio playing a fast Rhumba beat somewhere nearby. She strained again to lift the suitcase from the dusty road to continue and then saw a seedy looking place that looked as if it may contain the type of man she was looking for, a man built for speed rather than comfort and who wouldn’t ask too many questions. Continue reading “Feb Writing Comp:….Cabin Fever.”
A Welcome for Cuprum, and Bootsy and Peter
In the early days of this site, every new author was formally greeted with a notice in the sidebar, but this pleasantry appears to have lapsed recently.
So, a belated welcome to Bootsy, our true blue correspondent in Perth; a more up-to-date welcome to Peter Barnett, a seasoned campaigner from the Dark Side, and an on time welcome to Cuprum426. It’s great to have the three of you on board.
I must confess that Cuprum is known to Boadicea and to me. I shall not compromise his privacy, for that is down to him to retain or to abandon at his choice, but I felt that the pre-existing relationship should be disclosed to all other passengers on the Chariot for the sake of probity. You may all relax, however, for he is not yet another Australian – he is actually quite normal, for a Pom.
Greetings again to Bootsy, Peter and Cuprum – it’ll be the last you get! 😀
The USA Celebrates Our Very Own Bearsy!
Assimilation depends on a shared sense of national pride
If we radiate no sense of pride, no community of identity, we make it much harder for settlers to want to belong. If we deride and traduce the concept of patriotism, if we teach that the nation-state is finished, if we affect to believe that British history was a hateful chronicle of racism and exploitation, if we insist that we’re all Europeans now, we can hardly be surprised if people – whether long-settled or the children of immigrants – begin to cast around for alternative identities.
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Moods that come and go…
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.
Laurence Olivier
Goodnight everyone, sleep well.
Our chief allies – oh dear!…
OZ – Whatever next?.
Whacko of the week.
Or, rather, whackos. I give you Haringey Council Social Services, (is anyone surprised that it is Social Services?) Department who have housed a family of ‘travellers’ in a £1.2 million house in Muswell Hill.
Why not take the children into care, give the ‘parents’ a caravan and tell them to sling their hook?
Boadicea's Chariot 
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