Muslims see irony in Obama’s Ramadan wishes

“I am assuming Obama’s greetings to Muslims wrt Ramadan are also directed at Muslims he will be force feeding at #GTMO during that month.”

“Obama wishing Muslims a happy Ramadan while he drone bombs them is like Hitler wishing Auschwitz a happy Hanukkah”

Via The Washington Times

Morning Jam – Snow Patrol and U2: Mysterious Ways

A beautiful video mashing U2’s live performance of Mysterious Ways with Snow Patrol’s cover of the song.

One day you will look back
And you’ll see where
You were held how
By this love while
You could stand there
You could move on this moment
Follow this feeling

It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right
She moves in mysterious ways
It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right
She moves in mysterious ways

Hard to believe it’s been nearly 23 years since Achtung Baby was released. Crazy!

Learning with Team Treehouse

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If I needed to customize the code in anyway it was a luck of the draw on whether I could get the code to work like I needed it to.

I’ve had a number of ideas that I’ve started and simply let slide because I couldn’t get the copied code to work just right.

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