According to Islam101.com:

The vast majority of Muslim scholars and jurists, past and present, have determined the minimum requirements for Muslim women’s dress: 1) Clothing must cover the entire body, with the exception of the face and the hands. 2) The attire should not be form fitting, sheer or so eye-catching as to attract undue attention or reveal the shape of the body.

The rules are simple, even I understand them. Apparently, so did the most powerful woman in America.  While receiving the red carpet treatment in Syria, Nancy Pelosi dons her head cover (hijab):

But then later . . . From aljazeera.net, there’s this:

What part of “clothing must cover the entire body” did she not comprehend? More importantly, what skirt did she decide NOT to wear when meeting with Bashar al-Assad? The snakeskin mini-skirt with chains? Does she WANT Hezbollah to attack us?

Keeping the scarf handy, “just in case”:

Also according to aljazeera.net:

The top Democrat politician had earlier said she had “no illusions but great hope” for the talks which she said would focus on the fight against terrorism, Iraq and Lebanon.

Someone in the DemocratIC party (Josh Chernila?) needs to tell aljazeera that it’s offensive to be called a Democrat. (Remember what a slam-bang job Josh did reprimanding Lt. Gov. Bolling at the blog conference?) Sheesh - the DemocratICS really need to hire better PR people. My son had a more successful result when he changed his name to, “Chad Vader!” Chad keeps his entire body covered, by the way, EVEN his face and hands. Maybe he’ll get to go to Syria next time . . .

Resolve to be tender with the young,

Compassionate with the aged,

Sympathetic with the striving

And tolerant of the weak and the wrong.

Sometime in life you will have been all of these.

Thank you, Mason Conservative.

This came in my e-mail bag today:

LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING
TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH
BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.

HOUSE # 1:

A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. It’s in the South.

HOUSE # 2:

Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on the arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville,
Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and
filmmaker) Al Gore.

HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

So whose house is gentler on the environment? Yet another story you WON’T hear on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC or read about in the New York Times or the Washington Post. Indeed, for Mr. Gore, it’s truly “an inconvenient truth.”

I’ve already verified this at Snopes.  It is TRUE!

Emeril’s got the Virginia Blog Carnival (April Fool’s Edition) posted.  Go on over and see why my last post was so crazy.  Ward Armstrong and Cindy Price . . . MY BIG FAT GRANNY, indeed!

Last Sunday’s Martinsville Bulletin ran a story about the Patrick Henry Community College School of Craft and Design in uptown Martinsville. Better known to the Virginia blogosphere as the Artisan Center, where we held a pajama party the first evening of the Blogs United in Martinsville conference last August. Southern Living magazine has had a writer and photographer on assignment there for a while in preparation for an article that will be published sometime in 2008.

Art? My big fat granny! They call this stuff art? Look at this bowl I purchased there last summer. It’s fine I suppose for the use I put it to, holding the leftover coffee grounds until I can get them to my composter, but I would never set that thing out where people can see it.

If Southern Living wants to highlight the arts in Henry County they should send a photographer to follow Cindy Price around. Now that girl’s an artist. I have all her CDs and I’ve even put together a Cindy Price outfit. Cut offs, a belly shirt, and of course, the hat and boots. I need some leather pants, though. Since Cindy has been on my mind lately, I’m beginning to reconsider Ward Armstrong. He has been a great Cindy supporter, supporting her just like he has the people of his district. I hear that he even recommended a lawyer for her.

I don’t know what the people here think Southern Living can do, we just had a half page ad in Blue Ridge Country magazine and it didn’t help anything at all. I’m starting a campaign that is sure to be effective in getting our local economy back on track. I’ve just sent e-mail to CMT to let them know what great talent we have here in Henry County. It wouldn’t surprise me to see them roll in here long before that Southern Living piece hits the presses. I’ll even bet they get here before NASCAR comes back.

UPDATE: (From Alton) In case you haven’t figured it out by now, 4 of us got together for a special April Fools Day post. As the plan was put forth by Ward Smythe some several days ago, we decided to follow the tradition of several of the better known comic strip artists and “substitute” for one another for this post. I placed all the names in a McDonald’s bag and then wrote down all the names on a page in alphabetical order, except I placed my name last on that list. I then drew names from the bag, assigning badrose to substitute for Greg, Greg to substitute for me, Leslie and Ward turned out to be reciprocal, leaving me to write for badrose.

So, Greg has not really moved in with Greg(2), he’s not even considering a move to Charlottesville to hook up with Rick Sincere. His satirical post “Some Announcements” was very well written by badrose.

While I do enthusiastically endorse Jeff Evans over Roscoe Reynolds, I think Greg did a great job imitating my rather unique style of writing. He even fooled Chris at STD, check out this post.

Leslie and Ward worked just as well off each other I think, with each writing in a very convincing manner imitating the other.

Badrose loves art, especially folk art. Her home is filled with it, and the “Starry Night” bowl made by Joyce Wray is among her favorites. As much as she loves art, her feelings for Ward Armstrong run just as deep in the opposite direction. As for Cindy Price, well, you would just have to live here to believe that story.

Alton did a great job impersonating me (it’s not easy being me!)   To see what I did to poor Greg, go here!