wish me luck with my search for a second hand car online…

I go to coffee shops and few restaurants around the university “uni of Jordan” that’s where I live and still familiar with to some extent; I happened to overhear few conversations between girls and guys as well.. but I was shocked the most by what I heard from some considerable amount of girls and their outlooks of this subject… how things have changed tremendously.

I had to see that for myself, so I did go out couple of times to see what’s going on.. and yes… all I have read here is true.. and even a lot more.

I’m not sure what to think of that.. part of me says it’s their life.. it’s got nothing to do with me.. they free to do as they please as long as it dose not affect me in any way.. but on the other hand.. this exactly why I left where I was.. “Europe & Canada” … !! I came back for my old Jordan.. my old good ppl.. the proud ppl.. the serious “to a boring extent sometimes” ppl…. the very straight talkers and honest ppl… even the nosiness that we used to complain about.. I missed all that.

Any way.. I don’t think anything I say here or any where else would make much of a difference.. I guess it’s an era we live where every thing.. everybody.. and everywhere is just the same.. and it’s basically what we choose to be and think for ourselves…

And I choose to be the old Jordanian type… Proud of it … and always will be.

M.Bader

I would rather see a voting style similar to that of DPChallenge, where I can cycle through the photos in order (using a previous and next buttons) and rate the photos on a scale of 1-10. The highest rated photos could then be ruled as the winners.

The Senate has no Rules Committee, thus debate is usually not limited (only in some very special cases) and that’s what allows for the filibuster to occur. It isn’t a parliamentary tool that is invoked, rather, just what we call talking a bill to death.

Thanks!
Diego

I like the picture, and the colors are very vibrant.

@Musa: I disagree with regards to your take on the repetitive voicing of concerns. I think we (as Jordanians) have an obligation to do that in a collective and sustained effort towards solving those problems, one at a time.

The alternative is for us to all sit back and say “what’s the use?” and acquiesce.

I don’t think that’s how problems get solved.

The formula of leaping over mountains instead of climbing one steep at a time is neither rationale nor attainable. And neither is giving up on the climb itself.

Without going around in circles, and judging by your “as long as people are not allowed to truly elect who governs them” statement from the preceding “greater issues” post, it seems that we have reached a point where many change-seekers realise that the “circus-act” parliaments and the temporary corruption-laden governments are nothing more than accessories for the single decision maker, who is undoubtedly above the law.

While dedicating the battles to the petty outcomes of this abnormal situation (the palace’s clear infringement on every aspect of life without any sort of responsibility) may be regarded as a noble act (especially among half-assed reformist), the sheer volume and range of these annoyances will automatically deem voicing them repeatedly – absurd (as in unreasonable and useless, for the lack of a better word for the Arabic term A’bathi). Just look at the number of (whining, moaning, and complaining…) columns in daily newspapers analysing the symptoms in between articles that praises the disease – usually by the same authors.

i totally agree with you Sir!
but those people do not abide by a conscious nor by a request
the abide by a policy or by the law!!!

you need law makers on ur side buddy!!!

see, the thing is, I’ve complained about, ranted or discussed a lot worse things on this blog, so you taking this (or that watwet post) as a sample of my underlying “perspective” and then cementing it in stone is as silly as it is absurd. this rant is simply a sample from the everyday annoyances we face as citizens rather than an addressing of the “greater” problems, something I’ve done quite a lot of, and the post that precedes this one is an example of that.

the truth is, we can’t bash everything in hopes that it will one day simply all disappear. those of us who are interested in real change need to pick our battles one at a time until real change comes about.

and if you are in to discussing the larger problems then i support you, and I really, really encourage you to start a blog.

again.

in the meantime, this blog is my dose of free speech and i think i, and every other blogger, should be free to use it to talk about any issue we want, even if those issues are beneath musa.

This is just as absurd as claiming that one of the biggest issues that bothers anyone is the fact that the self-centered fame-starved brand-obsessed WEF lecturer is using twitter instead of wat-wet to promote her pretentiousness.

Something as trivial as the fact that the “royal palaces’ cars” in these motorcades are exempt from the 12JDs they have to pay for new license plates (by law), or that the minister of interior can issue a regular license plate to these cars without paying the custom fees is a much bigger violation of the constitution than an obscure prince or some parasitic sharif stopping traffic on a major street to arrive in time for the opening of a major industrial facility or a private school’s graduation ceremony.

But hey, at the end of the day it is all relative and can be viewed from different perspectives; while some people find rape absolutely reprehensible, some others may take offence to the lack of a contraceptive or the insufficient foreplay during the crime.

‫٤. عدم اعطاء اولوية المرور للمواكب الرسمية ومركبات الطوارىء اثناء قيامها بمهامها .‬

The law can be found at http://www.jti.psd.gov.jo

And if you search AmmanCity.gov.jo for tickets value you will get this
وصف المخالفة ترتيب تصاعدي ترتيب تنازلي قيمة المخالفة الدنيا * قيمة المخالفة العليا **
عدم اعطاء اولوية المرور للمواكب الرسمية و مركبات الطوارئ اثناء الواجب 50 100

and of course, we do not have any definition of motorcades so anyone with fake honk can be a royal! even Iraqies, I swear once an Iraqi GMC honked with the same panicing motorcades.