Journal BlackHat's Journal: Cheese and Onions. 2
My usual flame-baiting mix of; MLPs, History, News, Commentary and Toonage.
'The Lord of Munaytira wrote to my uncle asking him to send a physician to treat one of his companions who was sick. He sent him a [Syrian]Christian* physician called Thabit. He had hardly been away for ten days, when he returned, and we said to him: "How quickly you have healed the sick!" and he replied: "They brought me two patients, a knight with an abscess on his leg, and a woman afflicted with a mental disorder. I made the knight a poultice, and the abscess burst and he felt better. I put the woman on a [simple bland]diet and kept her humour moist. Then a Frankish physician came to them and said to them: "This man knows nothing about how to treat them!" Then he said to the knight "Which do you prefer, to live with one leg or to die with two?" and the knight said "To live with one." Then the physician said: "Bring me a sharp ax," and they brought them. Meanwhile I stood by. Then he put the sick man's leg on a wooden block and said to the [second]knight: "Strike his leg with the ax and cut it off with one blow!" Then, while I watched, he struck one blow, but the leg was not severed; then he struck a second blow, and the marrow of the leg spurted out, and the man died at once. The Frankish physician said of the woman: "This woman has a devil in her head who has fallen in love with her. Shave her hair off!" So they shaved her hair off, and she began once again to eat their usual diet, with garlic and mustard and such like. Her disorder got worse, and he[Frankish physician] said: "The devil has entered her head." Then he took a razor, incised a cross on her head and pulled off the skin in the middle until the bone of the skull appeared; this he rubbed with salt, and the woman died forthwith. Then I said to them "Have you any further need of me?" and they said no and so I came home, having learned things about their medical practice which I did not know before.' --Usama ibn Munqidh, 12 century.
* As asking one of his Muslim doctors to venture there[Frankish lands] would have been more problematic in that era.
Link : A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Link : "My view from the stripmall is ruined by those windmills on the hill," he said. Then adjusting his John Deer ballcap he spat and drove off.
Link : Galactic Inflation?!? "Paging Mr. S. Surfer, Mr. S. Surfer".
Link : Shit!!! Please keep working on it. Props and my thanks for trying to; all who lost their lives, loved ones and friends. See Slashdot's link too.
Link : I don't think his attitude is "extremely offensive" but it is stupid. Safety is not a ratio game, asshole.
Link : Speaking of stupid. Not that I expected anything less.
Link : See my JE for yesterday. #43427
Before my texttoon for today I want to talk a bit about Sandy. Image Link and Cagle's Blog. So his cartoon that has upset various pro-arab/pro-islamic critics may be naive and misguided but it is far from offensive. No to make it offensive; add George W Bush painting one half the bullseye and a generic Saudi prince painting the other half. A young Imman/jurist paints "The House of War Sucks!" on the troopers helmet while a early teen age boy straps a small mine on to the troopers leg. Dick Cheney is stealing the gear off his belt while an elephant and a donkey are stabbing each other in the background. For even more flames let's have him[trooper] looking at Bush and not the book holding generic terrorist as he asks his question. At the trooper's feet is a very small Kofi looking the other way while addressing a small group of rats and other small rodents each with tiny flags of ME and Euro countries. While a few hawks are picking off a couple of them(rats) at the edges of the pack.
I should mention that I thought it was quite funny in its original form as many Iraqis and most US troopers are equally ignorant of the Qu'ran. So it is fitting to make it (the Qu'ran) my recommended book of the day.
Ink and Wash: Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld standing in a hallway. Rummy's hands are a blur of lines and he looks very concerned. Powell is leaning back from the flurry. Donald's bubble has him saying "Powell, Help! My hands! I can't stop!"
Do I have to spell it out? (Score:2)
a - n - d - o - n - i - o - n - s
(oh, no...)"
Re:Do I have to spell it out? (Score:1)