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I am very concerned. Something is going on that is way deeper than what we see on the news. I can’t see clearly through the muddle and the hyped-up news stories. Did we Americans start this just like we started (and abandoned to massacre at the hand of Saddam) the Kurdish rebellion? If we didn’t start the protests in Egypt, why didn’t our numerous plants in the region have more information as to what is going on?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/03/AR2011020307014.html

I found this article about the beginning of the uprising in Egpyt:

Said, a young businessman from Alexandria, was reportedly beaten to death by local police this summer—well before rumblings of the country’s current unrest. But a Facebook page that bears his name has been one of the driving forces behind the upheaval that started last week.

The anonymous Facebook page administrator who goes by the handle El Shaheeed, meaning martyr, has played a crucial role in organizing the demonstrations, the largest Egypt has seen since the 1970s, that now threaten the country’s authoritarian regime.

Yet even Egypt’s most active activists have no idea who the anonymous organizer is.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/20110131/ts_dailybeast/12153_elshaheedthemysteriousanonymousbehindegyptsrevolt

So what is going on exactly? Anyone else have any ideas outside of the mainstream media blathering? Does Israel want the Suez canal? Do we? Or is there something else driving this?

[5yes]

I am very concerned. Something is going on that is way deeper than what we see on the news. I can’t see clearly through the muddle and the hyped-up news stories. Did we Americans start this just like we started (and abandoned to massacre at the hand of Saddam) the Kurdish rebellion? If we didn’t start the protests in Egypt, why didn’t our numerous plants in the region have more information as to what is going on?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/03/AR2011020307014.html

I found this article about the beginning of the uprising in Egpyt:

Said, a young businessman from Alexandria, was reportedly beaten to death by local police this summer—well before rumblings of the country’s current unrest. But a Facebook page that bears his name has been one of the driving forces behind the upheaval that started last week.

The anonymous Facebook page administrator who goes by the handle El Shaheeed, meaning martyr, has played a crucial role in organizing the demonstrations, the largest Egypt has seen since the 1970s, that now threaten the country’s authoritarian regime.

Yet even Egypt’s most active activists have no idea who the anonymous organizer is.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/20110131/ts_dailybeast/12153_elshaheedthemysteriousanonymousbehindegyptsrevolt

So what is going on exactly? Anyone else have any ideas outside of the mainstream media blathering? Does Israel want the Suez canal? Do we? Or is there something else driving this?

[5yes]

Yay for the Mosque approval. As a Temecula resident and Christian, I am happy that religious freedom is not just a dream for our community. Even if they were building the mosque in my backyard, I would be happy to see it. I lived 12 years of my life in Cairo and have never in all the other places I have lived felt as welcomed and part of a community as I did when I lived there, even though we were the only white family on our street. I love Arabs and Muslims, I am less and less anamored with Americans. I can’t believe Ren thought Cairo was a cesspool, WOW. I would love to raise my kids in a country where I found family and kindness to be more important than material possessions and superiority. As I have traveled most of the world I see that no matter what religion, the majority of people want to have peaceful, happy lives. A small minority want to fight and create chaos in the world, and this has nothing to do with religion, though religion is used as a means to violent ends. I believe that any participants in a religion that supported events like the Crusades and Spanish Inquisition cannot cast the first stone in labeling other religions as violent. We do the best we can with our lives and our God, let others do the same with their lives and their Jehovah or Allah. In the end, our three religions are intertwined so much that this is more about sibling rivalry than it is about terrorism or truth.

[5yes]

Yay for the Mosque approval. As a Temecula resident and Christian, I am happy that religious freedom is not just a dream for our community. Even if they were building the mosque in my backyard, I would be happy to see it. I lived 12 years of my life in Cairo and have never in all the other places I have lived felt as welcomed and part of a community as I did when I lived there, even though we were the only white family on our street. I love Arabs and Muslims, I am less and less anamored with Americans. I can’t believe Ren thought Cairo was a cesspool, WOW. I would love to raise my kids in a country where I found family and kindness to be more important than material possessions and superiority. As I have traveled most of the world I see that no matter what religion, the majority of people want to have peaceful, happy lives. A small minority want to fight and create chaos in the world, and this has nothing to do with religion, though religion is used as a means to violent ends. I believe that any participants in a religion that supported events like the Crusades and Spanish Inquisition cannot cast the first stone in labeling other religions as violent. We do the best we can with our lives and our God, let others do the same with their lives and their Jehovah or Allah. In the end, our three religions are intertwined so much that this is more about sibling rivalry than it is about terrorism or truth.

[5yes]

Yay for the Mosque approval. As a Temecula resident and Christian, I am happy that religious freedom is not just a dream for our community. Even if they were building the mosque in my backyard, I would be happy to see it. I lived 12 years of my life in Cairo and have never in all the other places I have lived felt as welcomed and part of a community as I did when I lived there, even though we were the only white family on our street. I love Arabs and Muslims, I am less and less anamored with Americans. I can’t believe Ren thought Cairo was a cesspool, WOW. I would love to raise my kids in a country where I found family and kindness to be more important than material possessions and superiority. As I have traveled most of the world I see that no matter what religion, the majority of people want to have peaceful, happy lives. A small minority want to fight and create chaos in the world, and this has nothing to do with religion, though religion is used as a means to violent ends. I believe that any participants in a religion that supported events like the Crusades and Spanish Inquisition cannot cast the first stone in labeling other religions as violent. We do the best we can with our lives and our God, let others do the same with their lives and their Jehovah or Allah. In the end, our three religions are intertwined so much that this is more about sibling rivalry than it is about terrorism or truth.

[5yes]

Yay for the Mosque approval. As a Temecula resident and Christian, I am happy that religious freedom is not just a dream for our community. Even if they were building the mosque in my backyard, I would be happy to see it. I lived 12 years of my life in Cairo and have never in all the other places I have lived felt as welcomed and part of a community as I did when I lived there, even though we were the only white family on our street. I love Arabs and Muslims, I am less and less anamored with Americans. I can’t believe Ren thought Cairo was a cesspool, WOW. I would love to raise my kids in a country where I found family and kindness to be more important than material possessions and superiority. As I have traveled most of the world I see that no matter what religion, the majority of people want to have peaceful, happy lives. A small minority want to fight and create chaos in the world, and this has nothing to do with religion, though religion is used as a means to violent ends. I believe that any participants in a religion that supported events like the Crusades and Spanish Inquisition cannot cast the first stone in labeling other religions as violent. We do the best we can with our lives and our God, let others do the same with their lives and their Jehovah or Allah. In the end, our three religions are intertwined so much that this is more about sibling rivalry than it is about terrorism or truth.

[5yes]

Yay for the Mosque approval. As a Temecula resident and Christian, I am happy that religious freedom is not just a dream for our community. Even if they were building the mosque in my backyard, I would be happy to see it. I lived 12 years of my life in Cairo and have never in all the other places I have lived felt as welcomed and part of a community as I did when I lived there, even though we were the only white family on our street. I love Arabs and Muslims, I am less and less anamored with Americans. I can’t believe Ren thought Cairo was a cesspool, WOW. I would love to raise my kids in a country where I found family and kindness to be more important than material possessions and superiority. As I have traveled most of the world I see that no matter what religion, the majority of people want to have peaceful, happy lives. A small minority want to fight and create chaos in the world, and this has nothing to do with religion, though religion is used as a means to violent ends. I believe that any participants in a religion that supported events like the Crusades and Spanish Inquisition cannot cast the first stone in labeling other religions as violent. We do the best we can with our lives and our God, let others do the same with their lives and their Jehovah or Allah. In the end, our three religions are intertwined so much that this is more about sibling rivalry than it is about terrorism or truth.

[5yes]

Aww, thanks TG – I have been reading this blog since it was very unpopular to mention the words “housing bubble,” and I have enjoyed your posts and wit for all these years. You are right, smart teachers move here for quality of life. My husband and I make the same here as we did in South OC, but now we can afford to take our kids on vacation and save for retirement. You can’t beat the Temecula drum forever, some people will always feel snobby about a mountain between them and the beach, some people will move here and love it, and some people may privately snicker at the fact that both of us who live up here and are happy have a totally inappropriate love affair with run-on sentences and commas.

[5yes]

Aww, thanks TG – I have been reading this blog since it was very unpopular to mention the words “housing bubble,” and I have enjoyed your posts and wit for all these years. You are right, smart teachers move here for quality of life. My husband and I make the same here as we did in South OC, but now we can afford to take our kids on vacation and save for retirement. You can’t beat the Temecula drum forever, some people will always feel snobby about a mountain between them and the beach, some people will move here and love it, and some people may privately snicker at the fact that both of us who live up here and are happy have a totally inappropriate love affair with run-on sentences and commas.

[5yes]

Aww, thanks TG – I have been reading this blog since it was very unpopular to mention the words “housing bubble,” and I have enjoyed your posts and wit for all these years. You are right, smart teachers move here for quality of life. My husband and I make the same here as we did in South OC, but now we can afford to take our kids on vacation and save for retirement. You can’t beat the Temecula drum forever, some people will always feel snobby about a mountain between them and the beach, some people will move here and love it, and some people may privately snicker at the fact that both of us who live up here and are happy have a totally inappropriate love affair with run-on sentences and commas.

[5yes]

Aww, thanks TG – I have been reading this blog since it was very unpopular to mention the words “housing bubble,” and I have enjoyed your posts and wit for all these years. You are right, smart teachers move here for quality of life. My husband and I make the same here as we did in South OC, but now we can afford to take our kids on vacation and save for retirement. You can’t beat the Temecula drum forever, some people will always feel snobby about a mountain between them and the beach, some people will move here and love it, and some people may privately snicker at the fact that both of us who live up here and are happy have a totally inappropriate love affair with run-on sentences and commas.

[5yes]

Aww, thanks TG – I have been reading this blog since it was very unpopular to mention the words “housing bubble,” and I have enjoyed your posts and wit for all these years. You are right, smart teachers move here for quality of life. My husband and I make the same here as we did in South OC, but now we can afford to take our kids on vacation and save for retirement. You can’t beat the Temecula drum forever, some people will always feel snobby about a mountain between them and the beach, some people will move here and love it, and some people may privately snicker at the fact that both of us who live up here and are happy have a totally inappropriate love affair with run-on sentences and commas.

[5yes]

Wow! My mind is still reeling from reading this thread. As a public school teacher who was homeschooled my entire childhood, I see things pretty differently from many of the posters here. While I personally disliked homeschool, I understand that it can have its place – to each his own. My parents homeschooled me to try to mold me completely and shelter me from the world. In my opinion, this was bad parenting. As I raise my children and teach at one of the top ranked public high schools in Southern CA, I realize how much I missed out on because my parents brainwashed me, oops, I mean socialized me only with their approved friend’s children. I hope that the homeschooling advocates are not choosing that path because of their own egos. The teachers that work in this valley love their students and try to teach them to be independent thinkers. We delight in our student’s wisdom and new ideas. We celebrate their successes and listen when they have problems. We run into our students at the grocery store, at the mall, at the dentist and we try to live our lives to be good role models. I am proud to live and teach in Temecula, and I am excited for the excellent education my kids are receiving.

[5yes]

Wow! My mind is still reeling from reading this thread. As a public school teacher who was homeschooled my entire childhood, I see things pretty differently from many of the posters here. While I personally disliked homeschool, I understand that it can have its place – to each his own. My parents homeschooled me to try to mold me completely and shelter me from the world. In my opinion, this was bad parenting. As I raise my children and teach at one of the top ranked public high schools in Southern CA, I realize how much I missed out on because my parents brainwashed me, oops, I mean socialized me only with their approved friend’s children. I hope that the homeschooling advocates are not choosing that path because of their own egos. The teachers that work in this valley love their students and try to teach them to be independent thinkers. We delight in our student’s wisdom and new ideas. We celebrate their successes and listen when they have problems. We run into our students at the grocery store, at the mall, at the dentist and we try to live our lives to be good role models. I am proud to live and teach in Temecula, and I am excited for the excellent education my kids are receiving.

[5yes]

Wow! My mind is still reeling from reading this thread. As a public school teacher who was homeschooled my entire childhood, I see things pretty differently from many of the posters here. While I personally disliked homeschool, I understand that it can have its place – to each his own. My parents homeschooled me to try to mold me completely and shelter me from the world. In my opinion, this was bad parenting. As I raise my children and teach at one of the top ranked public high schools in Southern CA, I realize how much I missed out on because my parents brainwashed me, oops, I mean socialized me only with their approved friend’s children. I hope that the homeschooling advocates are not choosing that path because of their own egos. The teachers that work in this valley love their students and try to teach them to be independent thinkers. We delight in our student’s wisdom and new ideas. We celebrate their successes and listen when they have problems. We run into our students at the grocery store, at the mall, at the dentist and we try to live our lives to be good role models. I am proud to live and teach in Temecula, and I am excited for the excellent education my kids are receiving.

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