Natasha had an interesting post that caught my attention today and for some technical reason I cannot post a comment on her blog so I wanted to voice my concerns here.
Jordan Times’ Randa Habib:

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Gays, transvestites, aphrodisiacs, edible underwear, kinky leather, handcuffs, The Vagina Monologues? A Middle East Times article suggests Beirut may be the Sin City of the Arab world.
An interesting quote:
“The Arab world is caught between fundamentalism and the sexual vulgarities seen in video clips and magazines, while in Lebanon there are people who are tackling sexual […]

Comedy Central is going back to the Futurama.

Three years after the show last aired on prime time, the cable net has signed a deal to resurrect the former Fox animated series for a minimum 13-episode run.
Comedy Central will start airing the new shows in 2008.
“We are thrilled that Matt Groening and 20th Century Fox Television […]

He also has a Ronald Reagan moment (although if Reagan was probably alive today he’d probably be pro-Israeli wall)….

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Persian? Arabian? Come on, it’s just a body of water…so let’s compromise…The Perabian Gulf!
TEHRAN, Iran, AP -Iran has banned The Economist magazine for describing the Persian Gulf as merely “the Gulf” in a map published in the latest edition, state television reported Wednesday. It is the second time in two years that Iran has banned […]

On his part, Olmert apologized for the deaths of Palestinian civilians in recent Israeli air strikes. At least 13 Palestinian civilians have been killed in Israeli air strikes in the past week, including two people in a Gaza house on Wednesday and three children on Tuesday. According to the AP, Olmert said he felt “deep […]

What would a Democrat political platform be without promising to legalize drunk driving…on weekends. This is seriously the funniest thing ever…

Jason Jones is simply hilarious. If elections could only be settled the old fashioned democratic way…a coin toss. Suffice to say the Democrats will not be taking back the house…but bigger miracles have been […]

GAZA CITY, 22 June 2006 â?? An Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a car traveling in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday evening, but missed and hit a house instead, killing a man, his sister who was seven months pregnant and her unborn baby, hospital officials said.
At least 13 other people were injured, four of […]

An Israeli air strike on a car in the northern Gaza Strip has killed three Palestinian children and wounded 10 other people.

An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the strike on Tuesday, saying the car was carrying armed men from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, affiliated with the Fatah movement of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president.
She had no […]

Hmm…If only there was some sort of device that could turn Arabs into Jews…
The biggest protests against Lavie’s name change can currently be heard within the Arab sector, which sees the proposed move as a way of disguising or removing the city’s Arab identity.
But Lavie is adamant that this is not the case. “I am […]

…but on a more serious note, domestic violence seems to increase during the World Cup (and other major sporting events) world wide.

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A few days ago Wael had a post entitled “The Largest Sofa in Town” about a sofa he saw on the side of the street in Khalda. Today while surfing the net I discovered that the sofa measures seven metres long and two metres tall, took about seventy metres of material and two weeks to […]

Very disturbing…
RIYADH, 19 June 2006 â?? Police in Riyadh arrested an expatriate who was watching a pornographic film in a mosque compound in the Al-Naseem district of Riyadh, Al-Watan daily reported yesterday. The man was caught watching the film during afternoon prayers on Thursday. Worshippers and policemen who were praying at the mosque heard bizarre […]

The following is satirical (but it could happen)
Israeli Mossad agents used too many explosives in a Gaza car bombing today and blew up the world. Israeli Major General Yoav Galant told reporters that only 12 armed militants were killed in the blast, but Pentagon experts believe the death toll could be much higher. “The Pentagon […]