“Regardless of how much knowledge
you might acquire,
you are still ignorant
without action —
You would be neither scholar nor learned,
but an animal carrying books.
A donkey doesn’t know whether it’s carrying books
or firewood.”
– Sa’di
Archive for March, 2007
Knowledge is Action
Thursday, March 15th, 2007KDE4 Update
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007As I mentioned, a lot of my free software related posts will now be at LinuxLibrarian.org. Here is my latest update on KDE4:
A lot of talk has been circulating recently about KDE4, as developers inch closer to settling on a release date. Here are some of the particularly cool features that I’ve encountered thus far…
Obama: The next War President?
Saturday, March 10th, 2007
According to this report, Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has “not ruled out” the possibility of military attacks against Iran. Using similar language to Bush’s, he even borrowed contradictory phrases such as “aggressive diplomacy” to describe how he would deal with Iran.
Well, here’s a hint, Barack, I don’t think threats of military attacks or aggressive rhetoric qualify as genuine diplomacy, and Iran is well aware of that.
Obama said all of this at a pro-Israel rally, where he mentioned his unconditional support for the Zionist state, with no mention of the Palestinians at all. One zionist even hugged him afterwards. To that end, it seems that he is carrying the position of most democrats: that the Iraq war was wrong, not because of the moral implications or the loss of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives, but because America is losing.
Well, here’s another piece of news that might come as a shocker to you, Obama, America will lose even more horrifically to Iran, a loss from which the U.S. (and the world) might never recover.
If and when I do decide to vote, it will be a for candidate who calls for peace, real, lasting peace, not conditional peace with zionist strings attached.
Cuteness
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
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Prophetic Attributes of Imam al-Mahdi
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
Sa‘íd ibn Jubayr reported, “I heard the saying of ‘Alí ibn al-Husayn, ‘There are many attributes (sunnah) of six prophets in our al-Qàim: Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Job and Muhammad [peace be upon them]. As for the attribute from Noah, it is long life, from Abraham, it is having a hidden birth and being separated from the people, from Moses, it is fear and absence, from Jesus, it is the disagreement of people about him, from Job, it is release after suffering and from Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), it is going out with the sword.
(Al-Siràt al-Mustaqím, 2, 238)
Supermodel
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
**Sigh** I don’t know what I’m going to do with this girl.
