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I’m sure this may offend somebody but really, I don’t care!
What goes on in the minds of those who believe honour killings are justified!?!?!
By now you’ve heard all about the Shafia trial where a father, a mother and a brother were all found guilty of murdering 4 family members, 3 sisters and a second wife!
What would your child have to do in order for you to make the final decision to take their life?
Think about it!
Like every other parent I know, I would gladly jump off a bridge before allowing any harm come to my children.
To sit back and watch them die by my hand? I can’t even say the words let alone barely type them!
Mohammad Shafia, his wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and their son, Hamed somewhere in that bizarre realm of reality they live in, deemed it fit to drown Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, Geeti, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammad, 52.
Why?
They were shamed and upset by the conduct of the eldest girls, Zainab and Sahar.
Both girls had been dating young men against the wishes of their parents.
They were also upset about Geeti’s defiance and Rona was agitating from a divorce to escape the polygamous marriage hidden by the family in Canada.
If you ask me, if they were doing this for ‘honour’, they should’ve jumped in the car with them. It would be the ‘honourable’ thing to do!
I don’t think many in this world would feel bad to hear of their demise, not because they’re Muslim. I have many Muslim friends who love their kids just as much as I do, but because they willfully took the lives of their children.
Think of how many mothers and fathers who have lost their children to accidents, disease, or miscarriages.
How dare the Shafia family take away a gift that would’ve gladly been accepted by one of those moms and dads?
‘Honour’?
Mohammad, Tooba, and Hamed, you make me sick and you better pray that your God is more forgiving than mine.
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I woke up Sunday a little more lazy than usual.
How lazy?
The kids and I watched 5, count ‘em FIVE Harry Potter Movies! Only 3 more to go…I think!
Despite knowing that the garage needed cleaning, and the Christmas lights were still on the house, I proceeded to further cement my ‘spot’ on the family couch when it dawned on me that I’ve really never sat down and did a movie ‘marathon’, and if you saw me you’d understand that ‘Bill Hart’ and ‘marathon’ will never be seen together in the same sentence.
Unless you count, ‘Bill Hart gets trampled by runners in local marathon!’
The Hart family is nowhere near the level of those hard core Harry Potter fans, since we didn’t stand in line to see any of the movies at the theatre, heck none of us have even read the books but I’ll tell you, those movie producers made themselves a great series.
Proof being that both kids were so enthralled in the magical wonder of Hogwarts neither child broke the audience silence with questions like ‘Why does Harry Potter wear glasses?’ ‘Why is Ronald’s family poor?’ ‘How do you spell Hermonie…Herimone…?’ gee thank goodness they didn’t ask me that!
We all sat quietly watching Harry Potter growing up before our eyes!
After each movie, we did our ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’, debating what would happen next, as the girls begged me to put the next movie on!
We started at 730AM, it all wrapped up around 7PM. Time to get ready for bed!?!?
We wasted an entire Sunday! The garage still needs cleaning, the Christmas lights are still on the house but once the guilt subsided I realized that the Sundays where my daughter(s) would gladly spend a day cuddled with their Dad on the couch are numbered.
It felt good!
They say ‘Laziness’ is one of the 7 Deadly Sins, but I’m here to tell you that once in awhile you have to put the work away, postpone the chores and just ‘veg’ with your kids.
I’m told I’m not going to be the #1 guy in my daughter’s lives forever!
So before some boy moves in on my territory, I shall teach my girls the ways of the force, the wickedness caused by one solitary ring, and if time permits all the super hero movies Spiderman to Captain America: The First Avenger!
Who am I kidding, I smell another Barbie marathon!
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EE-yikes! This is like the beginning of a scary movie!
Researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found what they characterized as “severe declines” in the population of small and mid-sized native mammals in the Florida Everglades.
These mammals include raccoons, opossums, marsh and cottontail rabbits, foxes and bobcats, as well as a number of water birds – grebes, herons and the federally endangered wood stork.
So what the heck is going on here!?!?!
Burmese pythons! (Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnn!)
If you’ve watched enough Discovery Channel you know Burmese pythons don’t belong here or else they’d be called Florida pythons. They thrive in South and Southeast Asia, not the United States.
It’s believed that a few irresponsible pet owners purchased a Burmese python and thought how cute the little fella’ was without realizing that these things can grow to be anywhere from 10 to 19 feet long! So they panic as their baby snakes quickly mature into giant, dangerous adults, and instead of calling animal control, they flush them or release them into the wild where they are obviously living the good life!
Just when you thought Florida had the whole gator thing licked!