(K)ehkashan: The network ISIS is now ISIL, going from being
the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and now the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant and that is startling considering the movement from Syria to the Levant,
or from the S to the L, implies terrorist activity as having spread out of
Syria and onto Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine as well.
(D)addy Anwar: Jeffery Goldberg writes in the upcoming December
1, 2014 issue of The Atlantic that he
lived in a Taliban madrasa back in
2000 and goes onto to refer to it as a religious
seminary while stressing how Muslims do not have issues with Christians as
they do with Jews whom they staunchly hate. It is a bizarre article entitled Before the Beheadings and misinterprets
the Muslim world with a shanty and violent existence. Instead of visiting the
Muslim world with such preconceived notions, Jeffrey Goldberg would have been
far better off searching on Wikipedia what an actual madrasa is and is not.
(P)apa Harry: Jeffrey Goldberg would have found that the first
university of its kind, a mosque as well as a madrasa, the University of Qarawiyyin
was founded and funded by Fatima Muhammad Al-Fihri, the daughter of a wealthy merchant
much like the Prophet Muhammad’s first wife Khadija al-Kubra.
(K)ehkashan: The Levant or the Land of Canaan suffered
during the Late Bronze Age Collapse, when cultural achievements and literacy
rates plummeted. According to Wikipedia, government went from being central and
representative to isolationist and unrepresentative. Doesn’t it feel like the
United States Republican Party and its Democratic coconspirators are leading us
into decay and destruction by adamantly wanting to close our borders to
multicultural influences and leaving our lands infertile due to the Keystone XL
Pipeline?
(P)apa Harry: The Keystone XL Pipeline is not in the best
interest of the United States of America but the Republican Party and its
Democratic coconspirators are annihilating populations of people dependent
upon, the latest and gravest example, the Ogallala Aquifer which provides High
Plains residents with drinking water and their lands with irrigation ground
water that can be pumped for agriculture.
(D)addy Anwar: The American Farm Bureau Federation reports
that families operate 97% of the farms in the United States. There are over 2
million farms spread across the United States and over 100 billion dollars
worth of agricultural exports sold annually, far more than what we’re importing
or bringing in by buying from abroad. It balances out beautifully economically
and guarantees food safety for all of US.
(K)ehkashan: Charles Bixler Heiser’s book Seed to Civilization explains hunting
and gathering versus farming all rather concisely. Look here on the very first
page of the 1990 paperback edition,
Certainly there
could never have been much of an opportunity for large populations to build up,
even among successful hunter-gatherers. People probably lived in small groups,
for with few exceptions a given area would provide enough food for only a few.
Disease and malnutrition probably contributed to keeping populations small, and
it is likely that there were also some sorts of intentional population control,
such as infanticide.
(D)addy Anwar: Thanks darling. Is it the green highlighter
or yellow? Yellow highlight? Hmm… Found it!
Then, about ten
thousand years ago, food-procuring habits began to change, and in the course of
time our ancestors became food producers rather than hunter-gatherers. At first
they had to supplement the food they produced with food they obtained by
hunting and gathering, but gradually they became less dependent on wild food
sources as their domesticated plants and animals were increased in number and
improved. The cultivation of plants and the keeping of animals probably
required no less effort than did hunting and gathering, but in time they gave a
more dependable source of food. Having a dependable food source made it
possible for large numbers of people to live together.
(P)apa Harry: This book is soaked with fluorescent colors!
Harvard University Press, new edition, Charles B. Heiser. Oh, yes! Of course!
Of course! Let’s see, page 2 and, wait a second, right here right?
More mouths to feed
were no longer disastrous, but rather were advantageous, for with more bodies
to till and reap, food could be produced more efficiently. Although some urban
centers may have developed before agriculture, food production was probably the
chief stimulus for the growth of villages and eventually of cities. And with
the latter came civilization.
When food production
became more efficient, there was time to develop the arts and sciences. Some
hunter-gatherers, as was already pointed out, must have had considerable
leisure, but they never made any notable advances toward civilization.
(K)ehkashan: The Republican Party and its Democratic
coconspirators are wrecking American civilization by designing greedy personal
wealth portfolios that will never be satisfactorily attainable due to their unending
need to amass more and more assets. Forget about democracy and representative
government! A significant number of local law enforcement officials are foolishly
aligned with the Republican Party as are the Democratic coconspirators. These
folks vote against their own self-interests because they are prejudiced and
their fear is palpable and their pride manipulative in the hands of tricksters
like this outgoing and incoming United States Congress and the Supreme Court of
the United States. How can 435 Representatives and 100 Senators and 9 Justices
decide the fate of 316.1 million people? And how do we go about getting the
news on the Internet when the Press Corps is bought and biased as a result? The
European Union is also insisting that Google is a monopoly and ought to be
controlled, but what other business has given so much for free to its customers
as Google? And if Google is a monopoly as the EU is insisting, then why doesn’t
the EU fund public endeavors to create a viable competitor for Google?
(D)addy Anwar: I agree that the EU must introduce a concrete
competitor or competitors in order to go after Google. The Republican Party
mentality has hit the European Union that there are some things that remain
theoretical or hypothetical right now and deserve to be addressed at a later
time. However, when an answer is sought at a later time, inquirers are tersely
told that tomorrow is tomorrow and the right moment is still inconceivable. That
I was addressing the future and not the
present and that was in the past and no longer matters is a slippery slope.
(K)ehkashan: It’s a liar’s paradise and foolish Republican pomp!
Always has been. Look at the African American males gunned and killed and the
way their wrongful deaths are being dismissed and their protestors are being
reduced too on national news networks and by local law enforcement. Talking about
oligopolies like OPEC and the United States Press Corps, both are bona fide cartels
as is the United States Congress and the Supreme Court. You agree, Daddy?
(D)addy Anwar: There weren’t Democratic candidates for an
overwhelming majority of judgeships listed on the Tarrant County midterm
election ballot. An oligopoly involves small number of sellers, hence reduced
choices and reduced resources plus higher prices for consumers due to
calculated restrictive production of whatever product is involved, like oil. When
the small number of sellers, like the twelve nations comprising the
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries or OPEC, enters into an
agreement amongst themselves to
control prices and keep newcomers out of their particular market, then you’ve
got a cartel.
(K)ehkashan: You agree, Papa?
(P)apa Harry: There were Republican candidates for all the
judgeships listed on the Tarrant County midterm election ballot. And going to
the point you made earlier, my love, how can 435 Representatives and 100
Senators and 9 Justices decide the fate of 316.1 million people? Especially
these uneducated educated classes of obstructionists who rather talk sheer nonsense
than do the job that they cheated constituents and shred documentation in order
to win.
(K)ehkashan: The uneducated educated classes? Like Ted Cruz?
(P)apa Harry: The guy’s got a law degree but struts about
and gobbles like a male turkey when filibustering. Reminds me of the lawyer
character played by Jim Carrey in that classic comedy Liar Liar.
(K)ehkashan: Papa!
(D)addy Anwar: Seriously Harry! Jim Carrey’s genius and Ted
Cruz’s gutless gobbles are incomparable.
(K)ehkashan: Daddy!
