Escape from boredom

My latest book, “Krev din rett” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a book about women and Islam. On the front cover there is a quote from Salman Rushdie “Dette er en ekstrem viktig bok, heftig, utfordrende og nødvendig”. It is well worth reading!

Found her blog here http://hirsialiayaan.web-log.nl/hirsialiayaan/ It is also in fact interesting to just go to the page because it is a very Web 2.0 blog, Mashups and all.

I have also wondered in the past whether or not it was right to publish the pictures of the prophet Muhammad by Jyllands Posten and here in Norway Magazinet http://www.magazinet.no. When all the fuzz was going on I was unsure what was right or not, and I must admit, stupid as I was, I thought it might have been wrong. But now I realize that I have totally changed my opinion. If I should mean that to publish the drawings was wrong, then I should hate the movie “Life of Brian” among other movies, but…I don’t, and I realize that it was the right thing to do. Shame on Norwegian politicians who argued against Magazinet. Read how Ayaan defends her right to offend here http://www.nrc.nl/opinie/article215732.ece – go, Gadget, go!!

Found this article in Magazinet about Christians having been killed in Niger due to the Muslim community suspecting that they had pictures of Muhammad there http://www.magazinet.no/artikkel.asp?Artid=10373. I must say that the more I read and get to know Islam, the more I resist it. It is ok that the government tells me not to drive faster than 30 km/h out in the street, and that I have to pay my tax, but I do not want to be told by elderly men with long beard what to think when at home (true, Koreanen does so), how to treat my woman….must…stop…now…before…I…get…to…angry…and…maybe…will not be able to stop writing…

Just read the book “The Book of Books” by Trevor Dennis, a introductory book about the Holy Bible. As I have read books about Islam in the past I wanted to read about the bible as well. And already today I got to use my knowledge when referring to the story of Job. Apart from that, did I learn something? At least that I totally disagree with the Old Testament. The stories in the New Testament is better, since they focus more on “be good to everyone, everyone can get to heaven” and such…

http://www.lion-publishing.co.uk/pages/data.asp?layout=product.htm&IdISBN.exact=0745936253

Yesterday I was at Blå where Goldwasser played http://www.myspace.com/panatropes . Elin is the vocalist in the band. It was different, nice – even though parts of it are…strange…

Top Gear always takes things to the next level!

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My latest book was “Til siste slutt” by Alf R. Jacobsen, telling the story from the 6’th of May when German soldiers killed 6 civilians at the small place called Hopseidet http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopseidet As usual when it is about the second world war and written by Alf R. Jacobsen, a very good book.

Some time I ago I did my duty and sent a letter to The State Council of Beijing doing my share to help Chen Guangcheng, a blind civil rights activist who is now doing his time in jail. Read more at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Guangcheng#Detention_and_trial and to find out more about what Amnesty does for him (Norwegian) http://www.amnesty.no/web.nsf/pages/CFDB46730458CF22C1257305002F157F

Was surfing on Finn.no looking at tractors when I found this Valtra T180 2003, costing kr. 485.000,- for sale. At first I found nothing special, just another expensive machine, but then…I studied the pictures in detail

Airbrush your tractor…if this ain’t redneck, nothing is…

For as long as it is for sale http://www.finn.no/finn/agriculture/object?finnkode=9970351

Celebrity’s are influencing a lot of people, and now how people date, such as “elderly women dating younger man” – their proof Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore…and also “celebrity’s are living together, but not necessarily getting married…as this was news…much ado about nothing I must say. My mom is dating a younger man, my mom affected by celebrity’s – roll on the floor laughing…

http://www.kjendis.no/2007/10/08/514410.html

Tonight we saw episode 5, season 6 of The Sopranos. The first scene when Tony is walking down the stairs he sang a song which I knew that I should know but could not remember. And when the episode was over they played a song that Elin wanted to know which band played it. I ran to my computer while memorizing the lyrics (not a long run, since the laptop was just next to me in the sofa).

After about a minute doing searches on Google, I stumbled across this page http://thehive.modbee.com/?q=node/3949 that had all the answers. There are people more dedicated to Sopranos than me I must say 🙂

I also found the official Sopranos web page which had the information about all the songs in the episode http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/music/episode82.shtml (but not the one Tony sang while walking down the stairs)