MeFi comment:
"Some recent bloggage on the topic:
Islam in China - written by a Chinese muslim.
Anak Alam - A Malaysian's recent travels to a number of muslim regions in China:
Madaris of Yunan
Muslims in the Dust Bowl of China
Zhaotong Prefecture, Part 1..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by omarr, homunculus
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Gas prices around the country as percentage of income: far more meaningful than this national pop-density stuff.
Most Americans are spending a very modest 5% of income on petrol. How thinly stretched are Americans that a rise from 2-3% to 4-5%..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Foci for Analysis, Parallax.Error, Brockles
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"but he's essentially singing about how all non-Muslims should be treated like Guantanamo prisoners.
RD, I thought at first that you just had a thing against muslims or the Quran in general or things like that. I've learned that arguing with such..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mike3k
Last month
MeFi comment:
"what i really want to know regarding this recording is whether the tune is improvisational or traditional or some combination of both. i mean, is it a sort of scatting, based on traditional tonation, or is there only one way to sing it?
There are..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by mike3k, lysistrata, RedEmma, effwerd
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Bora's comment is excellent. See also: Collapse Preparedness - lessons from the USSR, linked on Metafilter some time ago." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"The key to spiritual improvement is to increase slowly, never taking on so much of a burden that you give it up later. Slow, steady increase - that's the target.
Do you pray five times a day? If not, start with that. No beard or kufi or baggy..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by divabat, fairytale of los angeles, nasreddin
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Gotta be better than the Joneses, right? Or the Lees.
That's not really what I meant. I'm saying that your government's job is to protect your interests, not the interests of citizens of other governments. That's pretty fundamental. Now, could..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"How do you know you've had a hippie staying with you?
He's still there.^
***********
How do you get him to leave?
Give him gas money!
[True Story!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Deathalicious, lunit
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"How do you tell the difference between an oral and a rectal thermometer?
By the taste!
(Am I in the right thread?)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dasheekeejones
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"How did you handle it when you told your parents you had different religious beliefs then they did?
When I became Muslim, I put jewish Mom and catholic Dad at ease by explaining to them all the values and beliefs we shared and would continue to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by onhazier
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah? Not Sana Naveed, is it? She's got some lovely work too, like this tawiz.
On a related note, there's a wood-working calligraphy tradition in my area, most famous in Jepara, Indonesia where they produce calligraphy carved from teak. A..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kattullus
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd like to add that Islamic calligraphy is far from a fossil art. There are living masters producing phenomenal work up to the present day. Check out the websites of Mohammad Zakariya, an American calligrapher trained in Turkey (who I saw speak..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Kattullus, Burhanistan, dyoneo
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Also, if worse comes to worse and you are rejected and shunned, produce grandchildren. This is very very effective." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by aeschenkarnos
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Another thing to consider, Divabat, is that by paying for somebody's service for a task you could do yourself, you are providing employment for people who might not otherwise get it. I make it a point to hire tradesmen in my neighborhood - I could..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Forktine
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The country people always like to point to as the prime example of excessive consumption of natural resources also happens to be a large net exporter of food.
That's ancient history. The US is now close enough to the break-even point to dip into..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by regicide is good for you
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Matt Taibbi wrote the best Thomas Friedman smackdown that anyone will ever write.
... and has been involved in a bit of extreme pie-throwing himself...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mammary16
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"OF COURSE some people are richer than others. It's always been that way and it always will be.
OF COURSE people will reproduce as much as they feel able. It's always been that way and it always will be. Money is a rather more recent pursuit by..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The "unknowns" quote has been unfairly maligned in my opinion. It actually does make sense, it's just a complicated point that was lost on the media.
posted by bookish at 9:09 AM on April 21 [+] [!]
Yeah, actually it is reminiscent of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bonaldi
3 months ago
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"Yes, it is sunnah, and yes it is forbidden for muslim men to dye their white hair or beard to match their natural hair color. They could technically dye their white hair blue or green, but I don't want to start splitting hairs. Indian muslims do..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by taff
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's one thing to try and take other groups' struggles seriously
This is exactly the point though, isn't it, that white women only have the gender struggle to fight for, and have the luxury of saying that race or class injustice is just not their..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"The bible does condemn homosexuality and non-believers, doesn't it?
Ooh, I'd like to take a stab at that one too. Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, came in to settle a dispute. The parties involved said to mind his own business, they..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by graventy, JDHarper, heatherann, DevilsAdvocate, scrump, msali, khaibit, LobsterMitten, dersins, wtdoor, grouse
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"geram (n) malay - that urge you get to pinch a cute baby's cheeks, or the urge to tell off a coworker who deserves it. Basically an overwhelming urge that you have to struggle to suppress. It's a kind of basic emotion that we somehow don't have a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mumkin
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Thanks for the links, AV. I've been doodling around on this subject and thought I'd share some of the stuff I've found.
Deconstructing Whiteness: a bibiography
White Like Me - an introduction to the good bad and ugly of the burgeoning..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by meech, Ambrosia Voyeur, nooneyouknow
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Scarabic has by far the best comment on the situation. What makes the site effective and uncomfortable is that it is daring to speak about white people as a group that can be studied and commented upon, whereas it is the single largest privilege of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"ALL TWO YEAR OLDS TALK UNLESS THEY HAVE A DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEM
Oh come on. Speech development can vary widely in kids. Being behind the curve doesn't mean there's a problem - that's why it's a curve. Sure, suggest to your brother to have him..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gratuitous1
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I think it's only a matter of time before she goes Scientologist. Just a free test with that tin can contraption and she'll be jumping on the couch next to Tommy Boy.
posted by jonmc at 10:02 AM on February 6 [+] [!]
No, no, you've got it all..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kifer85
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Is it time to change the national anthem yet?
My vote: This Land is Your Land. Puts a lump in my throat every time. Not that that's the direction things are going in...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by perilous
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I agree, 3BM. It's important that other events can qualify to be called holocausts, so that "Never Again" has meaning to the world and doesn't turn into "Never Again will 6 million Jews be murdered by Nazis in Central Europe in the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lord_wolf
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Good new article by Dalrymple in the City Journal, sort of a review of the latest atheist books:
To regret religion is to regret Western..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Prospero
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh absolutely. It's the new catch phrase: x plus politics equals politics. There's nothing it doesn't fit." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nasreddin, verb
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Late to the party as usual, thanks to a 12hr time lag....
I live in Malaysia. In my isolated part of the country, I literally am unable to buy licensed, official DVDs of American movies. They don't exist. It's all pirated stuff. Let's just..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by finite
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Thanks for that article, homunculus. That coarse filter stuff is so ineffective. I returned to the US this summer with my 9 year old son and 7 year old daughter. When the HS officer scanned my son's passport it was flagged and we were taken to the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yoHighness
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's pretty impressive that this woman has acquired all the skills needed to pursue this kind of work. She's making a positive contribution, though a few of the cases seem a bit like entrapment in the way that she finds people junior to her persona..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by By The Grace of God
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"jet_silver, the hectare is not a standard SI unit? 10,000 m2 = 1 ha - what's wrong with that?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"then sold off as many as I could that I didn't feel like keeping
The costs are unreasonably high, but if you've already bought them, selling them is a bad idea. Passing the class is not the ultimate object. Whatever else you might say about them,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by arcticwoman
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Finally - Ebert's "I have won a Pulitzer ..." line is making me think about other high-level putdowns outside the world of crappy movies.
posted by NorthernLite at 9:06 AM PST on August 13
NorthernLite, you might enjoy The Book of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Tehanu
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Among other things, if I were judging the behavior of someone from a different country, I'd try to be a little circumspect. After all, there might be things about the culture you don't know.
Although etienne was doing his best to pass for a 13..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mattbucher
Two years ago
