ABOUT TIME WOMAN!

I was extremely critical of this extremely privileged Arab woman, a human rights lawyer, for not speaking out against the genocide in Palestine. Finally, she has and it feels good. She might have kept quiet to be a good wife and not ruin her husband's career in Hollywood given the retribution against the actors and others who have spoken out. Although, I believe what the Netanyahu's government is doing is reprehensible, I know that not every Jew feels the same, many are against the war and hopefully their voices will be heard. Peace sooner the better. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/world/middleeast/amal-clooney-icc-gaza.html?region=BELOW_MAIN_CONTENT&block=storyline_flex_guide_recirc&name=styln-israel-gaza&variant=show&pgtype=LegacyCollection

WHAT REALLY GETS MY GOAT

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/21/world/middleeast/iran-economy-israel-war.html

If I try to respond in their comments section, The Times disapproves and buries it, so I have to address it on my blog. I can't take this insane misinformation that the world's populace is fed by its leaders and the press. 

1) Jimmy Carter handed Iran to Khomeini. There is a lot of evidence for this. My dad, who had a front seat to the 1979 revolution, knew this, so did all of the other political players. The documentation is available even on the western mainstream press. So, no the US and the mullahs haven't been enemies as each leadership claims. 

2) The mullahs attacked Israel full-well knowing that heir stupid drones and rockets won't do any real damage. 

3) Israel bombing some military facility in Iran is another wrist slapping. If either of these two countries wanted to do damage to one another as Israel is doing to the Palestinians they would. They play at this shit to shut their own populations up who fully expect enmity between the two governments and preserve their own legitimacy as well as unite their populace as they quaver behind their esteemed leaders. 

I wish the press would stop reporting on the surface events and get to the bottom of these governments' corrupt self-serving actions. 

THE PRINCESS GETS A POSSIBLE TUMMY TUCK

                    Photo by Toby Melville/WPA Pool/Getty Images. 

    So the world is speculating about Kate Middleton's abdominal surgery. Since my comment on Yahoo was rejected by the PC police turned AI, I will tell you here and now that the woman has had a tummy tuck. Why so much secrecy then if not to shield the princess from looking vain, but after three kids and the rumors of William prancing with another woman, I would want one too. So, I hope everyone would leave her alone. She might look perfect and act as perfectly as the press allows her, but no one's life is perfect.

So, I can delete this post and pretend that I never said those stupid things, but I'm not America pretending I was never racist with pulling down all the offensive statues. I guess I preferred to think that Kate Middleton's problem was a lot sillier than it is, and also didn't the palace actually say, it wasn't cancer initially? Well, always PR whores what else can cure the doctored photo (so stupid everybody does it and those most scrutinized shouldn't? Talk about a double standard. Being royal is hell : ) And the initial palace secrecy but the nation rallying around a sick princess. But I got to say, with Charles' diagnosis and now Kate's I wonder whether Megan Markle is thinking karma is a bitch, bitches. 

I'M SURE THE MULLAHS WILL CRY THEMSELVES A RIVER

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/world/middleeast/boycott-iran-parliamentary-elections.html

Enough said. 

THEY FINALLY KILLED HIM

 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/16/world/aleksei-navalny

    As the New York Times reported this morning Navalny is dead. Died? Yes, murdered, yes. I can't imagine a person proclaim his/her principles and for them subject him/herself to torture and eventual death. I greatly admire those who do, Navalny was one of those people---a hero. I hope the world will  always remember him as a righteous martyr for a free Russia. Long live his life spark. 

THE INHUMANITY OF THE EDITORS OF THE NY TIMES

I had stopped blogging for a while, a long while, as I was working on my novel, Dancing The Enemy. But somethings just get my goat too much for me to stay silent. Below is the link to the front page of digital NY Times. There is a terrible picture of a suffering boy trying not to cry somewhere in the rubbles of Gaza. And right next to it an Arab woman will teach you how to make fluffy rice every time. Really? Who are we who can look at the photo of the boy then just like that turn our attention to how to make rice? The editors of this, one of our most venerable publications, are stupid. What hope is there for the rest of human society?

 https://www.nytimes.com/

TALK ABOUT ENTITLEMENT

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/nyregion/co-ed-swim-class-stuyvesant-high-school.html 

I haven't written in a long while, seeing how I'm in an MFA program working on a novel, but this article and the lack of space for comments, prompted me. It is the outrage I feel at these people's demands that made my fingers itch to write. 

For one, the cult of the individual has become so strong that every person expects the institutions they attend or serve tailor their values and policies to the individual's needs---that's a lot of policies.

Second, as someone who was chased out of her own country under the name of religion or the pretense of it, I'm yes, intolerant of women who choose or cower to the hijab. I often want to scream at them that we here don't want their backward, uncivilized, barbarian values and if they want to keep them, isn't it so much easier to keep them in their own barbarian, uncivilized, backward countries that they chose to leave?

Third, no one made these people come here, or enroll at Stuyvesant. You don't like its ways, go to some muslim school where you can continue to be a benighted hijabi ruled by men.