This is crazy and I could be a target for writing this article....BUT

Some things just flat out need to change.....and not in a few hundred years but right NOW.

While glancing through Tuesday's LA TIMES I noticed a headline on the bottom of page three.

"Woman sentenced to die for apostasy freed in Sudan."

Meriam Ibrahim, 27, mother of two, one of which was just born in prison, married to an American from South Sudan, WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH LAST MONTH FOR
APOSTASY
APOSTASY
APOSTASY

I just want this to sink in.........

SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR
APOSTASY

Have I made my point here?

THE FACT THAT SHE WAS FREED BY AN APPEALS COURT IN KHARTOUM IS NOT THE MAIN PART OF THIS STORY

IT'S THE ONLY GOOD PART OF THIS STORY, BUT IT'S NOT THE STORY

The story is.........that in 2014
on planet Earth
someone can be sentenced to death for
APOSTASY!

AND TO BE TRUTHFUL.....IT REALLY PISSES THE FUCK OUT OF ME.....I TRY NOT TO DROP THE "F" BOMB IN MY ARTICLES BUT..............

THIS IS A HUGE

WTFATT??????????????????????
WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY THINKING?

And let me state categorically....if anyone is bothered by my using the work fuck while trying to make a point then where does the sentencing to death for apostasy rank on their list?

Using the word fuck on a bad thing to do list is number 1,900,000,000,000 compared to death for committing apostasy, which might actually rank in the top five of the all time stupid senseless bad thing to do list.....and it might be number one on the human being being evil list.

For clarification purposes....

a·pos·ta·sy

/əˈpɒstəsi/ Show Spelled [uh-pos-tuh-see] Show IPA

noun, plural a·pos·ta·sies.

a total desertion of or departure from one's religion, principles, party, cause, etc.

 

Now read how each and every organized religion views apostasy and how they interpret this so called desertion.....which is a really strong description by the way......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy

I'M FAIRLY CERTAIN THAT IF YOU READ THE ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA PAGE ON APOSTASY AND YOU AGREE THAT MURDERING A HUMAN BEING WHO CHANGES THEIR RELIGIOUS VIEWPOINT IS ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR THEN YOU AND I HAVE A VERY DEEP AND UNREPAIRABLE SCHISM AT THE  BASIC CORE OF OUR THOUGHT PROCESS.

The simple truth is that billions of people DO NOT THINK that apostasy is punishable by death........but..... and here's the big
BUT
The planet earth is inhabited by MILLIONS of people WHO DO THINK that APOSTASY
is a PROPER AND JUST reason to put someone to death.

THAT THOUGHT PROCESS NEEDS TO CHANGE
and
change

NOW!

I HAVE A GREAT SUGGESTION ON HOW TO MAKE THAT CHANGE but I've  got to get back to painting for my art show in September.

PART TWO....coming soon.

Michael Timothy McAlevey






 

Don't post like this on Sunday BUT

With the new aggressive activity, by ISIS, going on in Iraq I thought it might be a good idea to once again point out the not so obvious.

The Islamic rule of law called "Sharia" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia should be viewed, whether extensively or partially, by anyone who wonders what is going on in the Middle East, Northern Africa and Southeast Asia.

But knowing how historically archaic Muslims are regarding the female role in society, it is a bit strange that  ISIS... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis  is the name of the militant group trying to make a singular Islamic state in that region.  One would think that even if its a workable acronym, the name should be changed just on principle alone. 

 

Everybody knows about the internal battle between Sunnis and Shiites for control of the Islamic religion.  First and foremost they should most definitely take a lesson from Christianity and immediately recognize that MULTIPLE interpretations of one religion can exist without bloodshed.....even though there is a history of bloodshed within that organization.  The optimum word here is HISTORY.  And that's what Islam needs to address in the year 2014.  It's time to let violent interpretations of a religious nature become a thing of the past.  There's a debate about how religious writings should be viewed and of course all supposedly HOLY BOOKS have the same debate.  Personally I think it's time for some new books......or NEO if you know what I mean.

The situation is that 1600 years later there is still an extremely hostile debate still going on within Islam about who should be in charge and what interpretation should be followed....and the bloody debate goes well beyond the boundaries of their own religion.  Islamic law says (one very strong interpretation)  basically that everyone who is not a follower of Islam and Mohammad is an INFIDEL.....and infidels can only be dealt with in one fashion.

ZAP EM!

And that is, just simply put...............NOT COOL AND QUITE WRONG....an of course completely devoid of any form of..............enlightenment.  (Which, by any stretch of the imagination,  should be the ultimate goal of any religious movement, wouldn't you agree?)

IT'S CAUSING PROBLEMS EVERYWHERE but the main problem is in the Middle East....and the United States gets sucked in because of oil (Iraq is #7 on our oil import list).

It's important to remember which countries are Sunni and which are Shiite or SHI'a

SAUDI ARABIA
TURKEY
SYRIA
PAKISTAN
AFGHANISTAN
KUWAIT
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
EGYPT
LIBYA
ALGERIA
SUDAN
QATAR

ALL SUNNI

IRAN
IRAQ
YEMEN

3 SHI'a or SHIITE

Obviously by now you do know that Saddam Hussein was a minority Sunni leader controlling the majority population of Shiites....and we all know how that worked out.  And it's also quite obvious that the size of Iran's military is probably the only thing stopping a complete Sunni takeover of the region.

So it would seem to me that looking at the above list that OUR (US) main cooperation would  be with the SUNNI movement......BUT WAIT....there's a trick here and no one seems to understand how that trick is being played.

I SURE AS HELL DON'T SEE HOW IT WORKS FOR US, ON EITHER SIDE OF THE FENCE.............DO YOU?

If I look at the facts and jump ahead it would seem that the UNITED STATES AND IRAN NEED TO TEAM UP JUST LIKE WE DID IN THE 60'S AND 70'S WITH OUR OLD PAL THE SHAH.

LOGICALLY THAT ISN'T AN ANSWER BUT JUST BRINGING IT UP DOES SHOW HOW TRULY CONFUSING THE ENTIRE PICTURE IS.

THE SUNNI'S ARE ON THE MOVE THROUGHOUT NORTHERN AFRICA AND ARE BEING VERY AGGRESSIVE ON THEIR MOVE TOWARD BAGHDAD. 

IT WOULD ALSO SEEM OBVIOUS THAT IRAN WOULD HAVE TO HELP IRAQ BUT THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

The odd part is that Sunni's are trying to kill the Shiites when it truth the Shiites are not infidels like the rest of us.

Now you might understand why I choose to play music on Sunday.  So sorry for the break in soft melodic action but once the Egyptian Goddess ISIS appears on the scene....everything else gets trumped.

Thank God and Seamus that I have a piano........

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Like Doonesbury I can post from archives

ORIGINAL WAS WRITTEN IN AUGUST OF 2007 and with my art show coming up in September it's pretty easy to see that what I'm doing NOW is nothing new....just visual instead of wordy.

 

Just south of Orion

Researchers from the University of Minnesota, using the Wilkenson Microwave Anisotropy Probe satellite, discovered the ultimate NOTHING, or VOID, in a region of the sky either near or very close to the constellation Eridanus and just south of Orion.

They have discovered a "gargantuan" hole completely devoid of the following items that seem to be found in abundance throughout the universe.

galaxies
stars
dark matter

This "gargantuan" void is about a billion light years across and the researchers have stated that "they have no idea why it is there."

That's a rather funny part of the story.....like what did they think would be there to explain it....
A "GARGANTUAN" SIGN?
THIS IS A LARGE VOID IN THE UNIVERSESTAY OUT!
The researchers, headed by Professor Lawrence Rudnick and his colleagues Shea Brown and Liliya Williams, also said that a void this large has never been discovered and in fact no one even "expected" to find something like this.

NO ONE?

They also say that what they've found is not "normal."

NOT NORMAL?

Microwave Anisotropy Probe satellites have been around since.......what? The late 1990's

It's not like we've been using Microwave Probe satellites since Galileo or Copernicus.....so discovering things in the Universe that are not NORMAL seems rather presumptuous to me.

And NO ONE thought there might be areas of the universe that haven't been filled with something?

NO ONE speculated that perhaps the Universe had areas of expansion available, when I've always heard that the Universe was always expanding.....and I'm an idiot.

One of the other funny things the Minnesotans said was....."The region appeared to lack DARK MATTER."

Dark Matter, or Dark Energy depending on your school of thought... is usually detected by measuring gravitational forces, because of course.... IT.... cannot be seen directly.

My question is ....when you measure gravitational forces in order to detect DARK MATTER obviously something is allowing a gravitational force to be measured. That something normally would be either Gases or some other molecular structure such as a Star or an entire Galaxy.

COULD THIS REGION TURN OUT TO BE THE NEXT GENERATION OF DARK MATTER?

THE BIG KAHUNA OF DARK MATTER?

THE KING OF DARK MATTER?

THE ULTIMATE DARK MATTER?

THE BOSS OF DARK MATTER?

IF SO....THEN THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE HAS A BIG FREAKIN PROBLEM.
and since you and I are temporary residents of this Universe....it becomes our problem too....

Of course realistically speaking, it's probably going to take 1 or 2 million years for that THING just south of Orion...to get into our face.
But our children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's (this could take awhile to get to 1 or 2 million years) but relatives are relatives and somebody needs to think about their future.

Obviously I have some issues with
DARK MATTER
and what we don't know about it
and yet we are trying to create
oneat the CERN facility underground in Europe.

How strange to think that THE THING just south of Orion is the ultimate big daddy of Dark Matter and IT is watching our experiment at the CERN facility just hoping that we can make a little DARK MATTER baby

and then the CONNECTION will be shorter between the two.....and
BIG DADDY DARK MATTER and LITTLE BABY DARK MATTER
CAN UNITE
AND
then finally we can check out what happens when our molecular structure gets absorbed by something that absorbs all energy and all light.

DARK MATTER FREAKS ME OUT......as I am sure you can tell.

On the other hand....perhaps a VOID in the Universe just simply makes sense because the Universe needs room to expand.
Those wacky kids from The University of Minnesota have a long football season ahead so of course they've got to be looking somewhere else.

You can bet your ass that USC kids aren't looking at anything....other than September 1....vs Idaho.

Real Dark Matter would be Idaho upsetting the Trojans.

The Universe would have entirely new problems to deal with if that happened.

AND OBVIOUSLY I'M GETTING EXCITED ABOUT COLLEGE FOOTBALL AND THAT'S ONE OF THE WAYS I DEAL WITH MATTERS THAT ARE VERY VERY VERY DARK.

I'm sure you have your own special ways to deal with the mysteries of the Universe.

Just check out that area.... south of Orion.....and note......NOTHING.

EVERY ONE EVERY WHERE

 It would seem to me, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but knowing what kind of damage could be done if a large asteroid struck our planet, wouldn't it be a rational thought if we ALL….

 every country....every corporation....every politician....every organized or non organized religion....every atheist….every billionaire.....every millionaire.....every middle class worker.....every farmer….every artist……every warlord……..every illegal immigrant……every prison guard….every janitor……..every Major League enterprise…..every horse owner….every student…….every Union member….every Olympic Committee participant…..every Doctor, Lawyer and Candlestick maker…..EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING ON THIS BEAUTIFUL BLUE GREEN PLANET……

decided that we needed to work TOGETHER on a solution which will prevent ANY SEMI-LARGE OBJECT from space entering our gravitational field and striking the ground which in turn could ultimately destroy life as we know it.

If 200 countries and 10,000 scientists can spend $20 Billion and work for 20 years on an large underground hydra-collider (CERN) attempting to figure out the origins of the Universe then it would seem logical that a similar effort could be put forth to prevent the possible elimination of the human species.  So much petty bullshit is taking place between homo-sapiens when a GRAND PROJECT, like stopping a LARGE foreign object from smashing into our planet, could have us all working on the same page.

Call it EHOSP….every human on same page…or WOSP…..world on same page…….It seems like these large rocks, traveling at 20,000 mph just suddenly appear and doesn’t that seems a bit strange with all the eyes we have in space and on the ground?

And we should start working together really soon…….LIKE TODAY!   Correct me if I’m wrong…….but shouldn’t the destruction of the human species be on the top of our priority list?  Then once we have our EMAARSP (Elton Musk anti-asteroid rocket smashing program) in place we can go back to silly things like fighting to determine who GOD loves more or how much oil should we drain from the earth before we realize that the Sun has more than enough power to share….AND all we have to do is improve the receptive technology that already exists.

Our priority list also needs to include a new Triple Crown winner and to be honest I have no idea why. California Chrome is an amazing horse story and it gives hope to anybody who ever thought about buying a race horse.

I would love to see a future where year after year we still wonder if this is the year for a Triple Crown.  That future is in jeopardy if a large block of Rock is allowed to make contact with Earth.

I was going to post this on Facebook but they don’t have a spell check and I read a statistic the other day that says 85% of the people who started to read this stopped after 140 characters.  It’s a Tweet world isn’t it.

Whatever it is…..we need to have a global unified program in place regarding the issue of random asteroids striking our planet.

Correct me if I’m wrong!

Bowe and so many thoughts

The situation with Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has so many layers and my guess is that we might never determine the actual ramifications until classified documents are declassified.  I've read too many spy novels to reach any conclusions at this point.

The story has a "HOMELAND" feel to it and if Mark Wahlberg is somehow involved in the production I won't be surprised.  My guess is that because of the HBO show we won't be seeing any photo ops with Bowe and President Obama anytime in the near future.....or ever.

Observing what we've seen and heard so far:

The father looks like he's part of the Taliban but then it's important to remember that he might just be a rural Idaho type resident.

The Internet rumor chain has gone wacko on this dude and I've read stories already where he's responsible for multiple American deaths.....MULTIPLE.  Pretty soon he's going to be blamed for the United States being in Afghanistan.

The outpost he disappeared from was really not an outpost but his pup tent and gear.....which he apparently left behind when he started walking to India.  If the Taliban did take him why didn't they take his stuff?  Is their stuff better than ours?  I bet they, or he, took his iPhone.

The Taliban guys released from Guantanamo Bay are wanted by international authorities for the deaths of thousands of Shiite Muslims.  I would think Qatar might not be the safest place for them but then again I never learned about Qatar until a few years ago.  I do know it's strictly an oil and natural gas territory that is considered one of the wealthiest states in the region....and the population consists of 20% Pakistani and 20% Indian....which must make it a fairly uptight community.  There are 650,000 people in Qatar and now 5 of them are on the Shiite's most wanted list because Qataris are followers of the Wahhabi brand of Sunni Islam.

Please remember that most of the problems in the Middle East, Northern Africa  and South Asia are due to the 1,400 year old schism between Sunni and Shiite Islamic fundamentalists.  And the only thing they might have in common is an innate hatred of the Jewish community.....and of course Satan....better known as America.  (Their term not mine)

Please rest assured that if he did desert his post the military will court-martial his ass faster than you can say Assalamu Alaikum. 

I'm just worried that they infected him with another strange version of MERS and sent him on his way......but like I said I read way too many fiction novels and am probably just a permanently fictionalized paranoid basket case.

Maybe now you understand why I post music on Sundays.........everyone needs a break from time to time.

I think I'll just change the channel and watch Ozzie and Harriet.

Good luck Bowe and I hope for your sake that this entire episode was planned years ago by the Reagan Administration and you turn out to be a full on human spy drone for the United States of America.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Listen......

It's been awhile since I heard her voice and it really is one of the sweetest voices ever.

And then we get a little Hoyt with Linda.......

listen to both again.....it's worth the repeat....and then keep punching the little boxes with all the related videos.  Listening to Linda and Emmy Lou with Dolly is such a gift.....or as Kurt Russell said in Tombstone......"That's my idea of Heaven."

Follow that with Vince singing a great song.....

It's Sunday......enjoy whatever it is that brings you more of whatever.