Man Marries Goat
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A Sudanese man is forced to 'marry' a goatA Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.
Isn't romance great? Love and marriage. Still a revered tradition in some parts of the world.
The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.
They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.
"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said.
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FROM CAROL HERMAN
I'll bet there's no disappointment for the man; since the goat is already familiar. Already works when he has an erection. And, also gives milk. While the human goats have lots of drawbacks. Let alone they could get pregnant, and that gives ya another mouth to feed.
Again, the people in question, here, think a lot about Mohammed. But they've erased all that experience that would have come from the Sphinx. When the most advanced society WAS in Egypt! And, what's left? The culture that left; the one Moses took out. That by all accounts didn't measure up to Eygptian standards; happens to be the culture now of books. Learning. Technology. Oh. And, an ability to seek love. Not just sex. When interfacing for companionship.
How could the arabs have lost so much, and remain so unaware?
The "Man and his goat" have a lot more going for them than the mullets who dicate this crap.
But that's their problem.
And, here, at least, the goat's not about to become dinner.
Does it get better than that?
FROM CAROL HERMAN
By the way, men get lonely. When the world was agricultural, this stuff was pervasive.
But the Net does bring home the reality that there are plenty of backwards places in this world.
And, sometimes, it pays to notice when something cuts through and teaches ya a lesson.
Different subject. IRAQ THE MODEL was discussing the pope's message and the muslim's reactions. And, what he noticed surprised me.
FIRST OFF: The anger is not running in the streets, the way the propaganda seems to be showing. Yes. We're seeing stuff that's staged. But the muslims, themselves, are SUFFERING from this stuff.
So for a change of pace, here's a cut & paste from Iraq the Model. Beats the stuff about goats by a long shot.
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Begging for more anger!
Iraq's speaker of parliament opened Tuesday's session (Arabic) by complaining about "the pope's excuses are not enough, he must make a clear apology…."
The Islamist speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said it without shame or hesitation, just like all other leaders who owe us a thousand apologies a day for their ignorance and incompetence.
What can I say? We got used to this kind of behavior. When someone is full of mistakes he finds no shelter except in accusing others of being wrong.
I don't know what good can this do for Iraq or its people! What difference does it make to the average Iraqi whether the pope apologized or not? Did Mr. Speaker ask himself these questions?
My guess is that he was in a state of euphoria after watching the 150 teenagers-demonstration in Basra which is another proof of the ignorance of its managers.
I saw angry young men burning the flags of America and Israel, and I still can't figure out the connection they saw between Israel or Jews and the pope!!
In fact the continuous pathetic attempts to blame the west and Israel for everything shows clearly that the motives of such demonstrations are political not religious.
Anyway, it looks like the reaction of Muslims were not as violent or as bloody as the leaders wished them to be and that's why they're now provoking and yelling at the "sleeping" masses and pushing them to show more fury.
They want to add another big scene to the countless previous ones—angry mobs burning flags and pledging to destroy the "infidels".
Actually their latest calls for MORE ANGER are becoming pretty much like begging.
Iran thinks the Muslim people fell short of doing their duty and Qaradawi calls Muslims to have a "day of fury".
All these are theatrical acts directed by governments and corrupt clerics seeking controlled anger among the mobs to use in intimidating the west and discouraging it from applying more pressure on, or calling for changing, these tyrannical regimes.
Such calls are taking the headlines in the governments-controlled media in the Arab countries, and the governments, whether religious or secular, are promoting this provocation of anger.
Meanwhile, voices of reason are being pushed to the rear to appear in a short subtitle or in a tiny corner in the 10th page, or even not mentioned at all.
What the rulers want is the anger that the masses, in the eyes of the rulers, did not express enough of.
What has to be done now from the governments' perspective is to lash those lazy masses with the whips of the media and religion to do more angry protests and show more fist-shaking on TV.
For a while let the people forget about poverty, hunger, terrorism, illiteracy and other problems of the region… And let's redirect the world's attention from "insignificant" issues like Darfur, nuclear reactors, Hizbollah's defiance or Syrian and Iranian meddling with Iraq's or Lebanon's affairs.
What matters now is anger and only anger.
Right Mashhadani? Right Ahmedinejad? Right Asad? Right Mubarak?
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