"In Egypt, Turning Back The Clock For Ramadan"

"We have 30 days of Christmas Eve full of banquets and food," he explains. "Egypt consumes three times its normal food consumption during the month of Ramadan."

He adds: "They are semi-drugged by media, by food, banquets that are being held because religion advises that it is better that people eat together."


Really, was this guy high on something when he gave that statement? Something doesn't smell right; talking "Christmas Eve" and "semi-drugged" when speaking about Ramadan just ain't right. I mean, don't get me wrong, somebody yet has to set a new level for idiotic blunders after Al-Tantawy.

Who are these people?

"Mistrust Of Police Persists In New Orleans

"We had police officers involved in kidnappings, rape, murders, drugs, bank robberies. There was a guy who used to do, like, bank robberies on his lunch hour. It was just astonishing — at one point we had four police officers facing first-degree murder charges," she says."

Ah, so are they Iraqi by any chance or is it just bad luck following the American Law Enforcer around the globe? Who are these people anyways? Surely, not the same as those courageous soldiers defending Democracy in Iraq and other dark places? No, no, are you sure they aren't Al-Qaeda?!

Oxymoron

"Clinton Sees GOP Backing For START Treaty

Clinton argued that U.S. national security interests are at stake.

"There is an urgency to ratify this treaty, because we currently lack verification measures with Russia," Clinton said. "Our ability to know and understand changes in Russia's nuclear arsenal will erode without the treaty."

Isn't the idea behind acquiring a nuclear arsenal in the first place to keep others in terrified suspense? This nonsense is really getting on my nerves and being an Arab that takes a lot of nonsense!

What a Relief!

"Ricks: Afghanistan Could Turn Out Better Than Iraq

RICKS: I’m actually more optimistic about Afghanistan than I am Iraq. Iraq does look to me like an endless war, not necessarily one where a lot of American troops are going to be fighting and dying."

I'm thinking of a proper word I could apply to a person who has teh audacity of applying the words "optimistic" and "better" to either of the American wars. Sorry, gotta go vomit some...

How ironic?!

"Anti-apartheid activist Suzman dies" today: maybe it's just the cruel irony of the world that a lead anti-apartheid South African activist and thinker dies on the sixth day of the Israeli holocaust against Gazans. Or maybe she just dies of grief watching what the world had come to after her struggle for racial equality for decades.

Where's Obama in all of this?

So Obama is probably easing off some of the restrictions and sanctions placed over Cuba. Where does he stand on the Israeli genocide in Gaza again?! yea... he's the coming change, of color maybe but not in US loyalties to Israel and its destructive and hegemonic policy in the Middle East.

Israeli hesitation

Today the Israeli Army shows just how desperate they are. The toll of martyrs increases to reach at least 415 in addition to more than 2000 injured men, women, and children in Gaza. The Israeli army bombed the house of Dr. Nizar Rayyan, a high-ranking Hamas official and a condoner of human shield tactic, who refused to leave his house with his wife and children, killing Rayyan and his wife and three of his children. However, Olmert states that israel is not looking for a long-time war in Gaza belying the increasing anxiety in the Israeli ranks. Hama' missiles may be primitive but they proved to be far-reaching and effective in causing the Israeli administration to think twice about launching a land attack on Gaza, which they seem to be reluctant to start right now.