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Sunday, March 02, 2008 - Posts
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With some Rambling Hal amendments in italicized (brackets): FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take Read More...
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Have you ever asked yourself about the 100th name for God/Allah? It has never occured to me TO EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! For I have always heard that in Islam God has 99 name and while I have never been interesting enough to know the 99 names which are mostly Read More...
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It is really interesting the see the Danish ambassador in Amman mr Thomas Lund-Sorensen blogging about his own perspectives of the second part of the Danish cartoon fiasco that has erupted two weeks ago. In his blog post he describes the demonstration Read More...
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Back in January, I wrote in this blog stating that my posts will be less frequent than usual. The reason is the amount of work responsibilities as well as the tasks I have in maintaining three other blogs, the Arabic version of Jordan Watch and my two Read More...
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... #64 is here ! I'll be hosting #65 right here at Philosophy, et cetera in two weeks time. If you're new to the Philosophers' Carnival, you can learn more about it here . If you have a philosophy blog of your own, feel free to send me your best work, Read More...
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"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." Ayn Rand Amen to that! Read More...
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I just finished reading the book by "Holy Land, Unholy War" by Anton La Guardia. Anton works with the Economist and before that with the Daily Telegraph. He has been covering the Middle East for some time. His book is part history and part facts. It is Read More...
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The NYT Magazine has an article on single-sex schooling, filled with infuriating claims of the generic form, 'Boys like X, girls prefer Y,' etc. It's not until the 4th page that they actually acknowledge how hopelessly misleading this all is: [Giedd says] Read More...
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I was attending a workshop at the Higher Media Council a few months ago when I saw these old local newspaper pages framed on the walls of the training center. I took some shots with the intention of blogging them, and uploaded them on flickr, but then Read More...
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How is it possible that there are millions of people around the world that are blind and deaf to the atrocities we wake up to every morning? How does it make sense that there are scores of people who don't close their eyes on the image of bloody corpses Read More...
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I don't read Cosmopolitan magazine. I used to though, when I was 15 or 16 I think. Whenever I found one lying around a friend's house, I'd flip through the pages and read the stories of a reader's Most Embarrassing Moment, and marvel that some people Read More...
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I was reading a report by Human Rights Watch on so-called honor crimes in Jordan, and I got filled with resentment and fury. Read this:
Under article 340, any man who kills or attacks his wife or any of his female relatives in the act of committing adultery Read More...
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And it has been exactly one year since I started visually narrating my months on this space. One year of extreme changes, one year of a lot of colors, one year of a lot of words. Related: On MarchOn AprilOn MayOn JuneOn JulyOn AugustOn SeptemberOn OctoberOn Read More...
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غزّة و مُتعةُ العيش الذليل ** أعتقد أن العدد الذي قتلته إسرائيل في غزّة الى الآن لا يكفي ..، فالرقم صغير جداً وعيب (ينحكى فيه) ..،، وأعتقد أن الدم الذي رأيناه من الأطفال والنساء: ليس دماً حقيقيّاً..بل.. يود أحمر..أو خُدعة سينمائية..ولن يُمرًّر الغزّيون Read More...
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King Abdullah have been warning the global community over and over again that letting peace slipping from us at this point of time would only help weakening the side of the moderates in the middle east. I personally love what Queen Rania said when she Read More...
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/24F4810C-61CB-4284-AB2B-CCA786434016.htm ... and all that kept whirling round in my head was that stupid song by Slim Shady ..."would the real slim shady please stand up, please stand up, pleeeeease stand up!" because Read More...
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Everyone now has the chance to watch Fadi Haddad's short film, Solitaire. Click Here I watched Solitaire more than once and I loved it. I loved the actors (I happen to know two of them), the concept, the story, the photography, the music, and of course, Read More...
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