Back in the blogging saddle...albeit briefly

Greetings my friends...
Family issues have greatly decreased my time in the blogosphere and so I can honestly say that I feel for Jacque Chirac and his profound malaise. Let me just say it is good to be back and it's really saying something when returning to fight the Islamic jihad one keystroke at a time is like a day in the park.
Wouldn't you know I'd be out of pocket with all that is going on the world. I'm convinced that it's planetary.
It is the Frosty Beaver Full Moon, you know.

Full Beaver Moon - November This was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Full Beaver Moon comes from the fact that the beavers are now actively preparing for winter. It is sometimes also referred to as the Frosty Moon.

Well, I live on a pond in the Jersey swamps with a thriving beaver population. The swamps haven't froze and it's illegal to trap. Alas, because the beavers really take out a lot of trees over the course of a season. This is just about the time we start seeing them. But enough about beavers, eh? Let's talk polygamy and profound malaise.

Ze French, zey are steel looking for ze root causes to their social unrest. It's that charming muslim custom, polygamy. I had read somewhere about polygamy resulting in single parent homes with absent fathers just after the "profound malaise" broke out and France went up in smoke.
French minister says polygamy to blame for riots. (So many clicks, so few brain cells.) The fathers, return to their sub Saharan Muslim countries and leave their families to the care of the much vaunted French welfare system.
Here's a few bites:

France’s employment minister on Tuesday fingered polygamy as one reason for the rioting in the country. Gérard Larcher said multiple marriages among immigrants was one reason for the racial discrimination which ethnic minorities faced in the job market. Overly large polygamous families sometimes led to anti-social behaviour among youths who lacked a father figure, making employers wary of hiring ethnic minorities, he explained.
Although polygamy is illegal in France, visas were granted freely to family members of immigrants until 1993, when visas were banned for more than one spouse. Many wives continued to enter illegally, however and a clampdown, if enforced, could affect families that entered the country before 1993.
Politicians estimate there are 10,000-20,000 polygamous families in France, most from North and sub-Saharan African countries such as Algeria, Mali and Senegal, where the practice is legal. Polygamy is a taboo subject for most mainstream French politicians. Far-right groups, however, have seized on it to argue that immigrants abuse the French social security system by collecting state benefits for several wives.

This is good news here. Another Jihadi bites the dust.
'Jihadist' computer expert cleared for extradition to US

First arrested by British police in December 2003 but released without charge, Mr Ahmad is accused of running a network of websites from 1997 to 2004 that supported "terrorist causes" in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
On www.azzam.com, a website he allegedly ran from an address in Fountain Road, Tooting, Mr Ahmad told readers that: "Muslims must use every means at their disposal to undertake military and physical training for jihad."
The US Government alleges that Mr Ahmad posted firearms training and travel advice for young Muslims seeking to fight in Chechnya and Afghanistan and sought to raise money for the Taleban and Chechen rebel groups. He is also accused of distributing CDs and videos glorifying jihad
According to his indictment, e-mails from Mr Ahmad's accounts included "discussions regarding donations; shipments of gas masks; procurement of night vision goggles; safe routes into Afghanistan and the type of personnel needed to support the jihad".

This is not good news here: 173 Sunnis freed from secret Iraqi torture bunker