Holy Vermicelli 21 August 2010
Posted by marisacat in Divertissements, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, India.trackback
Hyderabad, India: A worker dries seviiyan, thin vermicelli, used in the preparation of sheer khurma, a traditional sweet dish served during Ramadan [Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images]
I am really really tired of images of people praying… which I find to be a subtle message, deeper than any desire to depict and promote multi-culturalism:
Pray to the Nothing in the Sky.
No thanks. Praise the extremely fine and near-transparent vermicelli? Have at it.
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Question for BHHM if he comes around:
Do you know anything about Teaneck NJ… a place I am pretty sure I have never been, so I don’t know what it used to be iether…
But I read that just recently a Muslim was elected mayor… think hmmm from Hyderabad (I might be wrong) descent? and i cnanot seem to find much on his run or about him (think I read he was briefly on the town council, 2 years or so), the Vice Mayor is an Orhtodox Jew… also male. I find rather boring articles praising it as a model (which it may or may not be).
Apparenlty Teanceck is 30% Jewish, I am guessing maybe an Orthodox enclave???
The reason I am interested is they may be good fiscal city managers (not that I esp care, frankly) but this strikes me as bad news for women.
So, what if anything, do you know?
Suck a L’Orange
Haha…this should be good.
Some people just don’t keep up with the news… wishes lies and dreams seem to do it for them…
ZOMG
That’s as far as I’ve read tonite. I may have to save the rest for tomorrow’s popcorn-laden breakfast. Might as well start the day with a good laugh.
The Left killed Jesus.
Yeah that is one for the Dem operatives to roll with.
Giood luck is all I can think of.
wow that’s stupid
It’s Bergen County. Which is all I need to know.
Obviuosly somebody’s playin with the wires. Cuz if it’s Teaneck and if it’s Bergen county , they’ll need more than a story about a new Mayor to cover it all up.
As the story is set up, note how the NYT site offers “Gadfly” .
How awful.
And I see it on another echo chamber by The Gothamist” IIRC, one of the Pwog Blog Boyo’s ventures or backer from Brooklyn?.
Interesting to say the least.
hmm thanks for that… I had run across a report of her killing that referred to her as “gadfly” but not the NYT report. I see Hameeduddin was chatty on page 2. And toward the end, in fact at the very end, they lable her conspiracist, loner, eccentric and whatever else… top of the article they just went with loner.
Well I expect NJ to be a sordid pit of crime and whatever else, Dem party political skullduggery. But I have not been in North Jersey since childhood and no memory of Teaneck at all…
I see, reading Wikipedia, that the city council is the town governing body and from the members, by the members, is selected the Mayor. They mention significant hard core Jewish Orthodox, Israel supporting enclave, but no mention of Muslim nor S Asian, Indian significant population.
obviously a story inside this, somewhere…
I think this is the story …
TEANECK — Mohammed Hameeduddin became the first Muslim mayor in Bergen County history Thursday, as a divided Township Council elected him after a fierce, weeks-long debate over who should take the gavel.
Hameeduddin, who won a council seat two years ago, earned five out of seven votes at the annual reorganization of township government, which took place outside the municipal building.
Councilwoman Lizette Parker, who had served as deputy mayor since her election in 2006, fell short of votes needed to become Teaneck’s first female African-American mayor.
At recent council meetings, a number of residents had questioned whether Parker would be denied the mayor’s seat in part because of her race and gender, pointing to her status as the top vote-getter in May.
oh thanks for that, more informative than anything I landed on… … how’ve you been, btw?
Interesting, isn’t it? I hadn’t heard of this story before dropping by here, so thank you. The township has a significant African American population, close to 30%.
More, from some right-wing blog, in comments:
The record needs to set straight here. Believe it or not, the Muslim is the better candidate for mayor, for Americans, for conservatives, for Jews, and for Zionists.
His opponent Parker is part of the left-wing voting bloc on Town Council. She and the other leftists have tried repeatedly to pass resolutions against the war in Iraq. In fact, I was called by another Town Council member to mobilize opposition to her faction’s left-wing resolutions.
Hameeduddin was elected with a group of right-wing Orthodox Jews. He campaigned in synagogues, and has never been heard to utter an antisemetic or anti-Israel remark. He is a capitalist whose focus is on developing the town of Teaneck.
I am managing editor of The Jewish Voice and Opinion, a right-wing Orthodox Jewish magazine. We endorsed him (along with several Orthodox Jews) when he first ran for town council in May 2008.
I’m doing as well as can be expected. I mean, if we thought things were bad before
Yes, I had not heard of him nor the selection, his rise to Mayor from the town council, til he popped up over Mosqueria… one of the Mosqueteers, I gather. I’ve been finding all sides questionable, all aprties collaborators, so when one catches my eye, been looking him/her up…
Yes in a town of Orthodox Jews and Muslims, the black woman who is xtian or perhaps nothing will be sidelined, ESP if she is anti war or anti these wars…
Glad to hear you are well….
hmm I see Iran has unveiled a long range drone bomber…
Good for the goose, good for the gander.
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Are you calling me a honky?
Let us be the judge of that, ‘k? And with that sentiment, at least we have something in common with the GENERALS.
ugh
This country is certifiably insane. Especially the DEM flagwavers who buy this crap. As Obby’s minders just sub the whole thing out to Xe (née BLACKWATER)
The current Brass – { yeh, they won’t be there long, well, maybe long enough to swap insignias for corporate merecenray logos in the killing and privatized looting business} – the current Brass gives Obbie’s handlers a little “moment” as long as “tribute” – freighters of $$$$$ ….is paid.
People don’t like “War”? No Problemo.
Just change the name to “An Authorization to Use Military Force”.
And watch the fiddlings fall in line.
And then call it anything from a “Surge” to a “setback” to “success” to “withdrawal as promised ” or “advising” and just
CARRY. THE. FUCK. ON.
What a country.
I think there’s no coincidence we have the kind of DoD developed electronics deployed as entertainment devises in the hands of every serf in the land. BUT We have a government that is very concerned about…..baseball. They could give a shit about Labor but when ballplayers or television writers go on strike whoodoggy!
Obbie fucked up I tell ya tho. If he had anything near “shovel ready” in the oh so urgent manner that professional stadia arenas and other sports venues were built in the last decade, he might not be in such straights.
Instead, He and his handlers are left
peddling pictures of him swimming.
They could give a shit about Labor but when ballplayers or television writers go on strike whoodoggy!
God bless steroids, they can command congressional hearings, replete with low life “nurses” and salvaged blood tinged cotton balls…
It’s all historic…
Commander Codpiece v2.
Oops, my spittle begans at “Well, I thought…” (the usual!)
Anyways, I’m heading out for some of the best New Jersey has to offer.
Flounder. LOL.
…got it…
I cannot see it oging to a second trial but if it did, I think Rahm and Jarrett would get snared in.
Not hOly Pretzel tho…………….
[not that it matters]
Rahm seems to be awfully quiet these days. Gotta wonder what vile things he’s up to.
oh subversion of the constitution… something like that…
Angry Arab weighs in (no embedded links):
Welp, the Move On types in PA plum moved on from Eli so it’s no surprise this making of The Popcornucopia. Which should create a nice clusterfuck all the way down-ticket there, too. The Donk Polling outfit PPP got the whiney whiney from some Blog Boyos last week over their sampling , in effect,
Surely you can find SOME people who identify with us?”
Oh Lordy.
.. and Rasmussen….RASPUTIN as far as the Pwog Bloggers are concerned…has some delish internals. Basically, Pennsylvanians loathe Ob and Rendell, think the economy sucks and is getting worse, that we are most definitely in a Recession, Nelly, and they, ah…
DISSAPROVE.
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In New Hampshire, Hodes has unfortunately come down with a similar strain of Kiss a’ Fuckin Death. Which is hilarious, as he gave up his Historic Progressive House seat to reach for the Sen.
Welp, you know how it goes: Nice you could visit DC, Paul.
Enjoy the trip back in the Buick.
By the way, whatever happened to your valet?
And Swett., Lantos’ daughter,
is on the ventilator in the OTHER NH house race.
Nice you could make it too, Katrina.
And Help yourself to the carmel corn. Oh yes, by all means,
take some HOME.
I just read someone else who is trailing… name eludes me… OH! Patty Murray… do ya think the soccer mom theme died (I hope so!)? Finally?
… the list is long. Long night for the political non-soul…
More good news from Recovery Summer! {chortle-chortle}
And I saw The Telegraph was channeling you today…
At this rate, what’s next?
Gibbsie in tighty whities at the podium?
Rahm buck nekkid with the finger jab on Meet the Press?
God I hope I have money by the second week of November for cable.
(the chortle being the Telgraph’s op-edist suggesting Ob IS
ahkchully too BIG for the Presidency..) Who comes up with this shit?
they are scraping bottom. Writing anything, at all.
Like Eugene Robinson: Obby’s presidency is a huge success, you just can’t see it. For osme reason…
I don’t htink he does want to be bothered with it…IF he can get a big payout anyway… AND a library (a given) and so on.
They’d be jsut as happy as Mr and Mrs International Black People.
Swedish prosecutors issue, then cancel, arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder
Well, the guy is clearly not a priest. Henh.
Strategically, Wikileaks may have made a mistake in having distributed one very large “insurance policy” encrypted file. Maybe It should have distributed files of varying sizes that could be released in smaller doses as warning messages to back off.
well I am hoping Wikileaks has a lot …. and not just one more big one.
NY Tea Party Platform: Relocate Welfare Recipients to Prison Dorms
Jesus… what a fucking punitive judgemental nation.
I can only convey my grief.
Allison Kilkenny has more on how widespread this thinking is:
Okay. This is the third time I’ve begun a reply to that drivel. I give up.
Hi catnip. No need for a reply, because so many commenters at Gawker already have taken that moral obligation well in hand — to wit:
I wonder if recipients of corporate welfare will get to live in prisons and learn better hygiene also. Too many rich people wipe their asses on the little people. It has to stop.
oh that is a VERY good one.
Hey moiv!
Yes, that one works.
some good comments.
Of course, I’m also reminded of supposed “lefties” like Cosby and Snob lecturing the poor and taking away their foodstamps to pay for bullshit food programs.
Different authoritarians, different methods.
Dean: Obama’s staff “misjudged” progressives
Yeh, Howard. Misjudged. Alot of it goin’ around.
But let’s compromise.
I mean Howard’s not just another TOTAL fucking asshole.
Afterall, there’s no need to extrapolate now…
Drudge has this up…
from the Army Times..
{channeling trending comments on DailykosKinderLebenStrudel}
Yep, good thing we’re OUT under Obama, and ya know,
we WON and all.
Which symmetrically, is just like they are politically…
oh very very funny…
OK… they have massive “re-messaging” on Health Care Mess… and now this.
So, what did work?
Barney… anything to add to that?
[via Mike Allen Playbook]
SMH
Let’s see… the wars did not do it for you? As a symbolic problem of the West with Islam? No?
But a Mosqueria at issue, planned by muslims living very comfortably in the West, taking succor from the US government under Bush and Obby – and, at a price, providing cover for America’s wars does get you all het up?
Ok…
I’m sticking with our wars of aggression and acquisition as the ultimate evil.
Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, at 9/11 event in Pa.
i.e. Wife of war criminal and the wife of the president who let him off at 9/11 event in Pa.
Unification….
[snicker]
Bi-criminalship or post-law or something…
More Candidates Hunting For Votes With Guns
We can always go backwards… And we DO!!
“All y’all dumb motherf***ers don’t even know my opinion on shit.”
I can’t think of words to describe this. Stupidity? Xenophobia?
What Does Obama Really Think About Gay Marriage? A Telling Timeline.
Nu
LINK
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