Freedom and Liberty in Southwest Virginia circa 2006

I've had just a bit of a change of pace lately. No newspapers and essentially no news. How many Americans' don't know the North Koreans have been a bit frisky over the weekend? One - that's me. After the flu, then the hard drive adventures (all is now well), I decided the safest course of action was to read, help a family member with graduate work stuff, and then attend the Highlander Homecoming Festival. We followed the parade, dressed my maltese in a tartan coat of reds and blues which sparkled against his brilliant white fur. He wore sorority colors in his top-knots and he was most decked out for the festivities. I have had some much needed down-time and am sure I will be given more homework assisgnments to read and review to ease the burden on my middle child. Alas, what is all that "experience" for if your family can't capitalize on it? Right? I read when I have the flu and so, having finished my two Vince Flynn spy-type novels, I rummaged around the house and found James A. Michener's Caravans. A section of this manuscript will be the focus of my next post. In it, I will type several pages of Mr. Michener's work. When you read it, you will know why. A friend at Steve's Hodgepodge (a blogspot.com) suggested that Muslim women are oppressed. According to the exerpt from Caravans, they are far worse than oppressed. They are enslaved and treated as subhuman, no better and in some cases far inferior to the animals and beasts of burden the man owns. Islam supports and, in fact, relies on a primitive society that subjugates women. One would hope that is not true but times change hard in the Islamic world. It is not a world we in the West would want for ourselves. More on this..... Always remember that uncontrolled power is the root of all inhumanity to man. Watch who wields it and upon whom the power is inflicted....