tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136282512009-07-14T17:29:36.537+11:00HareegaHareega... (a.k.a Reega Reega Hareega) Not my real name, just the temperature here. Don't listen to the people who say that I have a sense of humor that can freeze the mercury inside a thermometer. For questions, complaints or insults email me at faristuta@hotmail.comHareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.comBlogger747125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-38790280197743041222009-07-14T16:03:00.003+11:002009-07-14T16:17:50.956+11:00Taste of Treason: Drinking Disi's Radioactive WaterAs I have mentioned a few times before, according to a study published at the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Environmental</span> Science and Technology journal in February, 2009, Al-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Disi</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">aquifer</span> is <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">contaminated</span> with radioactive radium. (Click <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es802969r">here for the abstract</a>, published by scientists from Duke and Yale and other local <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">universities</span>). We've heard about an <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">investigation</span> that would talk place. Nothing ensued. Not a big surprise.<br /><br />Today, it was <a href="http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=18393">announced </a>that the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">contaminated</span> water will be reaching Amman by 2012, six months ahead of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">schedule</span>.<br /><br />I am out of words.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-3879028019774304122?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-18707520812175167942009-07-14T11:32:00.003+11:002009-07-14T11:39:09.101+11:00Older Than Time: The Napoleon of Amman<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SlvSJXxUMZI/AAAAAAAABV0/AbPUWZuvrOs/s1600-h/5976_128029055475_514565475_3429754_3674057_n.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 234px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358107240128852370" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SlvSJXxUMZI/AAAAAAAABV0/AbPUWZuvrOs/s320/5976_128029055475_514565475_3429754_3674057_n.jpg" /></a>A perfect example of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandiose_delusions">grandiose delusions.</a><br /><br />(Picture courtsey of my friend Rami)<br /><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-1870752081217516794?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-1731709008744978852009-07-13T04:21:00.003+11:002009-07-13T04:24:05.289+11:00Bruno, Briefly<div align="center"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SlocG5oRD9I/AAAAAAAABVs/efBFOavv3_Y/s1600-h/bruno1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 215px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357625611585130450" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SlocG5oRD9I/AAAAAAAABVs/efBFOavv3_Y/s320/bruno1.jpg" /></a>Very vulgar<br />Very explicit<br />Very offensive<br />Very inappropriate for all age groups<br />and one of the best movies I've seen in my life<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-173170900874497885?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-80760884997600966122009-07-12T08:56:00.006+11:002009-07-12T09:38:47.837+11:00MiiiiKro- Blogging for Tamooz 2009: Ala Hobbi Bi Sa7niki Wasbi7eena, Wala Tubqi Khumoral Andareena... Andareena.. Noon<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SlkUaciq3RI/AAAAAAAABVk/W7SJx97ouVI/s1600-h/090203-alessandra-ambrosio_aspx_ss_image_1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357335676304678162" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SlkUaciq3RI/AAAAAAAABVk/W7SJx97ouVI/s320/090203-alessandra-ambrosio_aspx_ss_image_1.jpg" /></a><br /><div>* It was sad to see Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett die on the same day. Things are not going well for white women since Obama became president.<br /><br />* There's been a debate going on on whether Al-Hajj should be suspended this year because of the swine flu. Meanwhile, all Chinese mosques in Urumqi, China suspended Friday prayers because of political unrest. This shows the irony about China: their policemen are more fierce than a deadly virus but they still can't make a T-shirt that will survive past one-time laundry.<br /><br />* The CIA announced that Mullah Omar of Taliban is now worth 10 million dollars. I'm afraid he'll be purchased by Real Madrid.<br /><br />* Barack Obama visited Ghana. He was expecting people there to commend the US on electing a black president, but the Ghanaians said it's no big deal. So far they have elected 12 black men to be their president.<br /><br />* If you're a doctor and you have patients who wake up after a few days of being unconscious, it's not cool to tell them it's 2013. Sometimes they might believe you.<br /><br />* During a visit of Jordanian official to Mujeb, a citizen took off his clothes and started taking a shower in public in protest of water being cut off his house.<br /><br />Immediately afterwards and as a sign of support, a gay group in San Francisco sent him an invitation for a vacation. The group wrote, "You'll be showering with all of us, and there will be enough water for everyone to have a good time."<br /><br />* I really did enjoy our local Jordanian restaurant in Arizona. It's not only good, but very clean as well. In fact you can taste the authentic Yara soap in your mansaf dish.<br /><br />* The movie Bruno opened yesterday. In the movie Sasha Cohen plays the role of a very gay man who likes to kiss men on the face and dance with them for hours occasionally rubbing his body against them, or as it is called in Jordan: a wedding.<br /><br />* A Jordanian woman was raped, and as a punishment her brother killed her. He should have spent 15 years in jail, but the judge cut it to 7 because the man did something honorable by killing his sister.<br /><br />My only wish now is for the judge to have a honorable brother who will kill him after being raped.<br /><br />* Michael Moore's next documentary "Capitalism: a Love Story" trashes capitalism as a terrible way of living. The movie is produced by Paramount Vantage, which happens to be the film division of Paramount Pictures, which is in turn part of Viacom.<br /><br />* 26 men were held in Egypt because they were planning on bombing the Suez Canal. I'm not exactly sure why they were arrested when the only dreaded consequence of blowing a canal is making it bigger?<br /><br />* I decided to start eating healthy. I bought a big ass salad with an extra Blue Cheese dressing, and to reward myself with this success I ate a cheesecake. Tomorrow I'm giving myself a break from dieting.<br /><br />* Important advice: whenever you're driving on the highway always make sure your window is closed just in case a bird drops a greenish poop on your windshield then you try to wash it quickly with the wipers but the poop, mixed with water, strangely flies in a semi-circular fashion into your window directly into the lateral space between your eyeglasses and your eyes, lodging over your eye while you're driving at 70 mph<br /><br />*I'm a little upset that my race in the US is often labelled as "Other" or "Unknown", but I'm glad that at least my gender is not classified as such.<br /><br />* David Letterman: "Anybody here from Minnesota? Congratulations, you have a brand new senator, our old friend, Al Franken. Al is an interesting guy. Went from being a comedian to politician. George Bush, the other way around."<br /><br />----------------------------------------<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">the picture above is of my fiance-to-be Alessandra Ambrosio. She is a famous model (or singer, actor, not sure exactly). She recently surpassed diabetes and is expected to catch up to smoking as the number one risk factor for heart disease in men aged 12-99. I also would like to thank her for her contributions in the medical field: her urine is used to manufacture aphrodisic perfumes and her feces is used by Pfeizer to produce Viagra.</span> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-8076088499760096612?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-82643394903111572652009-07-10T12:39:00.003+11:002009-07-10T13:16:06.805+11:00Four Years of Hareega<div align="center"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Busy but alive, stressed out but happy, exhausted but excited, indifferent but grateful to anyone who has ever clicked a button to run across the green, then brown, then blue, the orange-and-white blog.</span><strong> </strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;"><strong>Thank You</strong></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-8264339490311157265?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-30888527056440499762009-07-08T16:48:00.005+11:002009-07-08T16:58:08.294+11:00The Best Screw Up EverThis 12-year old boy participated in the talent show Britain's Got Talent this year,<br />he performed a song for Amy Winehouse, but Simon Cowell interrupted him saying that he screwed up the song, and gave him one last chance with any other song.<br /><br />The boy, Shaheen, chose a song by Jackson 5 instead. He did pretty well.<br /><br />This earned him an invitation a few months later by Micahel Jackson's family to participate in his funeral, thus providing him with a worldwide exposure he had never dreamed of, especially that he had previously lost in the talent show.<br /><br />Here's a clip of the audition, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVU4IkzMNIo">you can have to click here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-3088852705644049976?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-85224895782773076702009-07-07T11:16:00.005+11:002009-07-07T11:51:43.034+11:00All in the headI had a patient who went to surgery one morning. I went to her room in the afternoon to check on her.<br />I tried to wake her up but she was still sleeping, recovering from the heavy effect of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">anaesthesia</span>.<br /><br />I don't like to examine patients without them being awake, but since her surgery was in the head, I looked around. I had to take her glasses off then looked around the head and found a small wound dressing. It looked a little old to me, so I went to the nursing station to find her nurse.<br /><br />"Did Jessica go to surgery today to remove her VP shunt?", I asked the nurse.<br />"Yes, she got back a couple of hours ago"<br />"Her wound looks a little old though!"<br />"<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">hmm</span>, I don't think you're allowed to look at the wound, I have strict orders to keep it covered for today"<br />"<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ok</span>, well it was not covered very well...."<br /><br />Jessica was in room 220. However the nurse took me to room 232, and indeed Jessica was sitting there, awake and talking.<br /><br />I pulled the nurse out of the room immediately, and asked her, "I thought Jessica was in room 220!"<br />"Yes she was, but after the surgery we moved her to 232"<br />"So who's in 220?"<br />"Adam, the one with the head injury. Just transferred from the ICU"<br />"<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Uhm</span> OK...."<br />The nurses started smiling, said, "did you think he was Jessica?"<br />"Well they're both <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">blond</span>... and with the glasses I couldn't tell"<br /><br />There's a good reason I didn't choose to become a surgeon. It would have sucked to amputate the wrong leg, or open up the head of the wrong patient, wouldn't have felt right....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-8522489578277307670?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-87881901055039002802009-07-03T13:53:00.003+11:002009-07-03T14:04:16.936+11:00The Future King of Jordan<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/Sk1yvBRvaKI/AAAAAAAABVc/XpfL4v0V-f0/s1600-h/5733.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 238px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354061684135651490" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/Sk1yvBRvaKI/AAAAAAAABVc/XpfL4v0V-f0/s320/5733.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br />Jordan's King Abdullah II on Thursday officially named his eldest son, Hussain, 15, crown prince in a royal decree, the palace announced.<br /><br />A royal court official told Gulf News that "this is a normal process", stressing the timing carries no specific meaning.<br /><br />"The constitution is very clear. The line of succession in Jordan is explicitly clear, the eldest son of His Majesty is the heir to the throne and the crown prince."<br /><br />The crown prince position in Jordan carries no political duties.<br /><br />The naming of the crown prince comes nearly five years after King Abdullah, 47, stripped his half-brother Hamza of the title.<br /><br />When he became king in February 1999 after the death of his father, Hussain Bin Talal, King Abdullah named his brother Hamza crown prince in keeping with their father's wishes.<br /><br />But five years later, he withdrew the nomination, leaving Prince Hussain as de facto crown prince but without an official appointment.<br /><br />The king had the option of either appointing one of his brothers, Prince Faisal or Prince Ali, or naming his son, Prince Hussain, crown prince.<br /><br />King Abdullah and his wife, Queen Rania, have two boys and two girls. Prince Hashim is 4 years old, Princess Iman is 13 and Princess Salma is 9.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-8788190105503900280?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-73659879734177348272009-06-30T00:00:00.002+11:002009-06-30T00:05:11.686+11:00BiMontly Video: Real Coca Cola Egyptian AdFrom the 1940s....!!<br /><br />Is this Layla Murad singing? I couldn't tell<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5QhmpOt5re0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5QhmpOt5re0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-7365987973417734827?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-57574433786247804732009-06-28T11:15:00.012+11:002009-06-28T13:41:35.961+11:00Ten Breathtaking, Shocking or just Plain Brilliant Moments in SportsContinuing on my series of Ten Amazing Moments in Sports (previous ones: <a href="http://hareega.blogspot.com/2008/06/ten-extraordinary-moments-that-made.html">here</a>, and <a href="http://hareega.blogspot.com/2007/11/ten-moments-you-cant-forget.html">here, </a>and <a href="http://hareega.blogspot.com/2006/07/i-wanna-make-you-scream.html">here</a>, and <a href="http://hareega.blogspot.com/2007/01/most-fantastic-moments-ever.html">here</a> ) ... here are another ten moments in the history of sports that made the world stand on its feet, or just get shocked for a few seconds, showed an extraordinary skill that will never be matched again. Very unusual, strange and freakish moments...<br /><br />Make sure you raise the volume!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>1- Monica Seles Stabbed</strong><br /></span><br />She was on ruling the tennis world winning one tennis tournament after another, when a psycho threw a knife at her back during a game. The man was German and he wanted the number #2 player Graf to climb to the number one spot instead of Seles. Indeed she did.<br /><br />Seles came back to play 2 years later but did not reach her pre-injury level.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0bctYKlgBQQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0bctYKlgBQQ&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">2- Wrong Way!! Wrong Way!!</span></strong><br />I don't watch 'American' football, but this incident in 1964 happens once in a million years. This Vikings player grabbed the ball and ran with it without any resistance from the opposing team for a very good reason: he was running to the wrong side of the field.<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1IBkQoXNvbA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1IBkQoXNvbA&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">3- Maradona Fighting Back</span> </strong><br />While playing for Barcelona in 1984, Maradona was deliberately injured by Atheltico Bilbao's defender Goikoetxea. Goikoetxea was proud of injuring Maradona and kept the shoes he used to injure him in a glass box. Maradona suffered severely but was able to return for the second part of the league, and this time Maradona started a terrible fight against Bilbao players. Many of his teammates joined him and the field was a mess.<br /><br />It took an intervention by the Spanish King, yes the King Juan Carlos to end the war between both campaigns after he called both players together to his palace days later and asked them to shake hands.<br /><br />Here's the fight:<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vttuYis46A0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vttuYis46A0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">4- Panenka's Precious Penalty</span></strong><br />It was the final game of the 1976 European Championship (Euro 76 if you like!) between Czechoslovakia and Germnay. It went to penalty shootouts. Germany missed a penalty and the Czechs had one last penalty, if scored would give them the championship. Antonin Panenka stepped up and in this critical moment decided to experiment with this new penalty kick. This type of shooting a penalty was named after him. Zidane scored from a Panenka penalty in the 2006 World Cup final.<br /><br />Check the video to see whether or not Panenka scored.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Bd1Hr96IenI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Bd1Hr96IenI&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Trivia: the German player who missed (Hoeness) is currently the director of Bayern Munich.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">5- Three Seconds</span>.</strong><br />This is possibly the most controversial gold medal match in Olympic history. USA and the USSR played the final game in basketball. Up to that game the US had never lost a single game in their Olympic history. It was close game however with the Americans leading 50-49 with 3 seconds remaining. The Russians played those 3 seconds without scoring, however those 3 seconds were replayed three times for various reasons and following mixed decisions from different people. In the third replay the Russians scored and won 51-50. The Americans refused to accept their silver medals. They were sent to them by mail but they returned them. Today, 37 years after the game, the original players of the US basketball team still refuse to accept their silver medals.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sqCXSSJHwU0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sqCXSSJHwU0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">6- Answer The Question, Jerk!</span></strong><br /><br />Tennis players can get pretty upset at the referee's decision, but nobody was nearly as crazy and rude as John McEnroe. This is one of his very angry moments at the refree.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8j0eqZKTjpk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8j0eqZKTjpk&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">7- Very Fair Play</span></strong><br /><br />Italian footballer Paolo DiCanio was well-known to have bad manners on the field. His career was filled with fights and red cards. However in this game for his team West Ham against Everton, the Everton goalie was on the ground after injuring his knee, and DiCanio refused to score against him. DiCanio, among all others, received the 2001 FIFA fair play award for this unexpected act from DiCanio (who happens to be a very proud fascist)<br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YKrGjuSFw9g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YKrGjuSFw9g&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">8- Samir Bannout wins Mr. Olympia</span></strong><br /><br />Mr. Olympia is the most elite competition for bodybuilders in the world. In 1983, Samir Bannout of Lebanon competed and won the title, becoming the first and only Arab to date to win the competition. Here is his performance in that competition. He reminds me of my body in 10th grade.<br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wvJwDBkPNkI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wvJwDBkPNkI&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />If you're wondering what Jordanian Mustafa Hassanin won, it was an amateur world competition. Great achievment, but it wasn't Mr. Olympia.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>9- The Gift </strong><br /></span><br />West Germnay played Argentina in the 1990 World Cup final. Argentina played with 10 players after a player was sent off, defended brilliantly and the game was close for a 0-0 draw. However, 5 minutes before the end, Argentinian defender Sensini cleared the ball from Voller. Voller decided to fall inside the penalty kick and Mexican referee decided to call it a penalty. Germany scored and won the World Cup 1-0.<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HFXF3_bxDHo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HFXF3_bxDHo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">10- Slow, Miserable Death on the Circle.</span> </strong><br /><br />This is a dark moment in the history of Formula One. In 1973 Roger Williamson was racing in the Dutch Grand Prix when he lost control of his car which caught fire and hit the barriers. He survived the collision but was trapped inside his car which was on fire. Another driver (Purley) stepped out and started extinguishing the fire. No emergency crew showed up to help. There was only one fire extinguisher available and Purley had used it. He heard Williamson's screams from inside asking for help. The first fire truck arrived EIGHT minutes after the accidents. Williamson by then had died of asphyxiation from the fumes.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ho5-6taeWRQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ho5-6taeWRQ&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Hope you liked them,</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Hareega</span></strong><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-5757443378624780473?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-67671581475206211552009-06-27T03:27:00.004+11:002009-06-27T03:33:10.506+11:00A Tribute to Michael JacksonMichael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died on the same day. That was a very bad day for white women.<br /><br />Here's a tribute to Michael Jackson, a real artist who was destroyed by child abuse, extreme stress and whatever he was rubbing on his skin.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tbWgb69GQhk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tbWgb69GQhk&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-6767158147520621155?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-14663594524356776372009-06-26T13:28:00.002+11:002009-06-26T14:24:29.191+11:00Let Them Wear Burka<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SkQ_XO8EkTI/AAAAAAAABVU/m__q8Y0pYDo/s1600-h/burka-france3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351471925602586930" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SkQ_XO8EkTI/AAAAAAAABVU/m__q8Y0pYDo/s320/burka-france3.jpg" /></a><br /><div>I think burkas are crazy, and I always look at the woman wearing it (if I can) and wonder why is she wearing it. I even felt like throwing a question at a student working with me once just out of interest to see if she truly believes that me seeing her face will trigger my hormones and change me into an uncontrollable raging bull. What have always prevented me from doing so is my manners, or whatever remained of them. I always felt it was a personal decision by that woman, a result of multiple religious and cultural factors that I probably do not agree with, but the last thing that woman needed is someone who she doesn't know coming on and asking her questions about something like her clothes.<br /><br />French president Nicolas Sarkozy said in a speech last week that burkas are not welcomed in France. The Parliament is preparing for a law that bans the wearing of burkas in France.<br /><br />I have a major problem with that.<br /><br />First, they are banning something because they do not like it. A woman who is shopping or walking down the street is not taking away the freedom from anyone else. She is minding her own business. We should not lock people up because we don't like how they look, otherwise we'd be locking up men covered with tattoos, fat people wearing shorts and Nadia Al-Jundi from existing.<br /><br />Secondly, they're doing the same thing that the religious police is Saudi Arabia and Iran is doing, chasing women and giving them a fine or locking them in jail because of something they are wearing (or not wearing for that matter). It's exactly the same concept. The French government would lower itself to the level of Saudi or Iranian government in interfering with the woman's own freedom to wear what she wants to wear.<br /><br />Abuse is another excuse the French have for banning the burka. They assume every woman wearing the burka is being forced to do so by her husband. This is actually true in a few cases. However in France a woman can get a divorce is she is being abused by her husband, and there are shelters everywhere for women who suffer from domestic abuse.<br /><br />Integration into the society is another concern, but you cannot enhance that by forcing a woman by law into wearing what you want her to wear. Besides, passing such law would cause many women covered with burkas to stay home rather than go outside their house.<br />If you want them to be integrated you have to influence the way they think, if possible, by many other methods that do not violate personal freedoms. It has to be their own decision to put on or take off whatever cloth they want. You will not suddenly open up their mind by dropping a piece of cloth.<br /><br />Do not treat a cough by a cough suppressant. Treat it with excising the cancer that's causing it. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-1466359452435677637?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-51595560879564929292009-06-22T10:51:00.002+11:002009-06-22T11:04:07.859+11:00Hard Days for Arabic FootballArab teams had a terrible week. Egypt defeated the World Champs Italy 1-0 and hardly lost to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Brazil</span> 4-3 only to be humiliated by the US 3-0 (Don't forget that the Americans scored a 4<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span> goal that the referee did not see). Iraq failed to score in 3 games and was relegated from the first round of the Confederations Cup along with Egypt. Tunisia failed to score at home against Nigeria and drew 0-0, Morocco failed to score against Togo and drew 0-0 and are now technically out of the World cup.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia failed to score at home against North Korea, drawing 0-0 and giving the North Korean the ticket to their first World Cup in 34 years. Bahrain, Qatar and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">UAE</span> lost 15 out of their 24 matches in the qualifications.<br /><br />Don't get me started on Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait and our national team (which lost to Bahrain 4-0 recently).<br /><br />Egypt's great victory against Italy was a great one but apparently due to a lot of luck and a good goalie. To be fair they played a wonderful second half against Brazil. They can do something, but I'm hoping for Algeria to qualify instead of them to the World Cup. Algeria has been one wonderful surprise so far, they finally woke up after two decades of disappointing results.<br /><br />Let's wish them the best.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-5159556087956492929?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-91209001823039928552009-06-21T12:40:00.004+11:002009-06-21T13:30:58.107+11:00Are Jordanian Blogs Not So Great?I did a little <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">survey</span> on my blog where visitors voted on the overall quality of Jordanian <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">bloggers</span>. This <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">survey</span> is by no means a scientific and the results may be skewed. Besides, those who voted are actually people who visited my blog. Obviously it's people who read blogs so the results might actually be a little better than what they actually reflect.<br /><br />Worldwide, most blogs are awful. Most blogs are created by people for no obvious reason and they stop existing a few weeks to few months after nobody really reads them. A lot of them are copy+past+<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">youtube</span> blogs and those are doomed to fail. In the US at least I've been through a lot of "mommy blogs" where a mother, usually a housewife with a kid or two posts <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">stories</span> and pictures of her husband and kids. Those are nor awful blogs, but are extremely boring for anyone who doesn't know the person. Finally there are blogs where you feel the person is trying to say something but you can't understand what are they trying to say, or they write in a bad style or very large or very small fonts or whatever reason there might be to keep one away from reading them.<br /><br /><br />For that reason I'm not very concerned that a lot of Jordanian blogs active right now will disappear. Mine might be among them sooner than I expect. However I am concerned that we have not had any good blogs in a while. It feels to me like many blogs were created over a period of 2-3 years and some of them were great. They discussed many controversial issues, they used a language many journalists in the mainstream media never used, they had pictures and videos of things we encounter in a typical Jordanian daily life. With time a lot of them faded away, and nothing special came by to replace that vacuum. Besides, most blogs were in English and most Jordanians prefer to read and comment in Arabic. A well-written blog like the black iris is written in English and despite the fact that it's well-written not a lot of Jordanians are able to access its content. Mab3<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">oos</span> is clearly a very clever and humorous guy who often crosses many political red lines in his blog but again, he's writing in English and his <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">blog's</span> name is <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">mab</span>3<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">oos</span> and this is a very major obstacle for people to access his blog. A few other <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">bloggers</span> have very interesting articles and I depend on them in knowing about what's going on in Jordan, but again there are many basic issues that we are afraid to discuss. We're afraid to write something that we'll regret writing later on, or from a random comment an anonymous commentator might drop. <br /><br />Finally, and I don't have the statistics to support this but it sounds like the case, when it comes to reading news or opinions, Jordanians would rather read a newspaper or watch TV than read something online. We are still not a very i<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">nternet</span>-friendly society especially when it comes to the not-so-young.<br /><br />Overall, I don't think Jordanian blogs are terrible, but we have plenty of room for improvement. I'm hoping for stronger, more challenging, more controversial and well-written blogs especially in Arabic to start appearing on the internet. As for myself, Hareega isn't going to get any better, medical school has irreversibly damaged all of my brain cells and 70% of my hair.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-9120900182303992855?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-26724472764233998512009-06-21T03:28:00.002+11:002009-06-21T03:34:37.554+11:00June 1993<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/Sj0O3vHTuyI/AAAAAAAABVI/kbDUA9BwUcg/s1600-h/wedding19.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 374px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 238px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349448283088730914" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/Sj0O3vHTuyI/AAAAAAAABVI/kbDUA9BwUcg/s320/wedding19.jpg" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-2672447276423399851?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-69213214596813489142009-06-16T02:12:00.002+11:002009-06-16T02:16:27.763+11:00Ahmadinajhad Won. Accept it.They had elections, whether or not they were fair is something we don't know and I don't think anyone will have the ability to tell. I hate <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ahmadinajhad</span> but I like democracy and when people vote, their opinion needs to be respected. I hate it how the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">US's</span> attitude towards every other country where if "our guy" wins the elections would have been fair and the people spoke up their mind, but when the "bad guy" wins the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">elections</span> are unjust.<br /><br />Let Iranians vote for whoever they want to, and if they're taking the streets and are going bring down <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ahmadinajhad</span> let them do it themselves. The last time the bad guy was brought down by a criminal military invasion things did not go very well and it was a country a little bit close to Iran both geographically and alphabetically.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-6921321459681348914?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-47486402377464466842009-06-14T01:28:00.002+11:002009-06-14T01:39:35.536+11:00This Picture is Not Photoshopped<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SjO3y-fBZQI/AAAAAAAABVA/ZXUo3IEl6NM/s1600-h/article-1192494-054A6C3C000005DC-880_468x314.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346819269013366018" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SjO3y-fBZQI/AAAAAAAABVA/ZXUo3IEl6NM/s320/article-1192494-054A6C3C000005DC-880_468x314.jpg" /></a><br /><br />that's a female guard behind him<br />and he's wearing a tie under the military uniform<br />and has a goatee at the age of 67<br />and he is still Libya's leader after 40 years<br />And he has the picture of late Omar Al-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Mokhtar</span> on his chest, like a prostitute wearing a cross.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-4748640237746446684?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-58728661062192955592009-06-12T16:11:00.005+11:002009-06-12T16:29:33.341+11:00Becky's HeartOne of my busiest and most stressful months as a medical resident was the one on cardiology service, where we had to admit and treat patients with heart disease. What made the rotation easier for us was Becky. Becky was a nurse practitioner who knew enough about cardiology that she used to do all the paper work and prescriptions necessary for patients, which normally would take a very long time.<br /><br />Some residents didn't like her much, perhaps because she occasionally would show that she knew about heart disease a little more than they did, something that harmed their ego. Either way she always did her job pretty well.<br /><br />Recently she started going home a little early. Other than the occasional complaints when the resident didn't find her around at 5 pm, nobody else complained because she continued to work hard, although not as hard as usual.<br /><br />Last week Becky asked to take Friday off because she had "things to do". On Saturday she was found dead in her house. She had written a letter about how much depressed she had been, how much struggles she had in her life, then grabbed a gun and shot herself in the head. Apparently she had previously attempted to kill herself by swallowing many pills but she recovered from that incident. She gave life a second chance but life didn't smile back so Becky decided to go and this time she made sure she would go for good and indeed she did.<br /><br />This was sad and scary. This very pleasant lady has been working with us and was extremely depressed to the point where she wanted to end her life and had a plan for it without anyone of us, doctors, knowing about it or even detecting any warning signs. We treated an enormous number of patients with depression. Every doctor had previously held numerous patients in the hopsital against their will just because they were considering ending their life. We study depression and we know what to do with a depressed person. But all that time we did not pay attention to that lady working with us who had died <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">inside</span> long before we heard about the bad news on a Saturday morning. Depression is a very real disease, and like Becky its victims often seek permanent solutions to temporary problems. I hope she's in a better place.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-5872866106219295559?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-33143507530722698382009-06-11T10:57:00.005+11:002009-06-11T11:23:20.666+11:00Unpolished StupidityI have a Polish friend, say his last name is <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kaczynski</span>. He introduced me to his wife and her name was Polish too. In less than a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">nano</span>-second I forgot her name.<br /><br />I wanted to invite them to dinner, and couldn't remember her name and didn't feel like addressing her as "the wife" because that would be a little rude. So I looked his <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">facebook</span> friends and found it: Gizela <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kaczynski</span>.<br /><br />I sent him a text message, "Hi Roman I would like to take you and Gizela to dinner this Friday".<br /><br />He replied, "Thank you, but why do you want me to bring my mother from Poland to the dinner?"<br /><br />I'm pretending not to have received the message just trying to come up with an explanation.<br /><br />Morale of the story: if there's a funny story involving Polish people, the stupid people in the story might not be the Polish.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-3314350753072269838?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-29929979124931381232009-06-10T12:03:00.004+11:002009-06-10T12:05:00.972+11:00BiMonthly Video: Obama in Denny's!!The Onion news network is a fake news network that is very culturally insensitive and offensive to everyone on the planet as well as incredibly super funny.<br /><br />Every few days they post a new video that can be incredibly funny, like this one today!<br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_yiQXPOO1Yo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_yiQXPOO1Yo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-2992997912493138123?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-86950887695005268782009-06-06T04:26:00.003+11:002009-06-06T04:29:29.929+11:00Jerusalem RememberedThat is Jerusalem right after the Israeli occupation on this day 42 years ago. A little painful to watch.<br />We were a miserable broken nation then.<br />And I wish we'd be just as miserable and broken as we were right after that defeat.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/15YesIVc5FM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/15YesIVc5FM&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-8695088769500526878?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-85769784097257651092009-06-04T11:39:00.005+11:002009-06-04T13:28:01.959+11:00Virgin For SaleI'm not talking about the record company, but a <a href="http://www.momlogic.com/2009/01/22-year-old_bids_virginity_goo.php">real virgin</a>.<br /><br />Natalie Dylan is a 22-year old student (and prostitute in the making) who is suffering in these tough economic times, so she <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">decided</span> to sell her virginity and the price offered was 3.7 million dollars.<br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343266348523884722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SicYbyQQkLI/AAAAAAAABU4/nuMZa3ENNUo/s320/3404973512_8dc1338c4d.jpg" border="0" /><br />Man, I know with <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">this</span> economic recession everyone was saying , "we're so --<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">ked</span>", but I didn't know it was going to be that real.<br /><br />Anyway , for that man who's ready to pay those millions, if Natalie doesn't show up, you know how to reach me honey, love and kisses :)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-8576978409725765109?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-3837568621787656482009-06-04T02:33:00.007+11:002009-06-04T03:08:14.818+11:00Do You Want to Live Here? Bagdad, Nothing, Why?Those town names are not only funny, but the story behind naming them is very interesting.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Nothing</span>.</span></strong><br /><div><div><br /></div><div>First, we have Nothing, Arizona. This is really a town called Nothing. The locals say that a bunch of drunk guys gave it the name in 1977! </div><div><br /><br /></div><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343129917731682482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 186px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SiacWd8ouLI/AAAAAAAABUY/5bVevGKO_hQ/s320/Dsc_7521d80sm4.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343130515984268530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 248px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/Siac5SnKvPI/AAAAAAAABUg/8DoFuSVfgSM/s320/205542600_ac440c043f.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;"><strong>Why</strong></span><br /></div><div><span >This town was located at a point where 2 major freeways interesected in a Y-shape. They wanted to name the town "Y" but the state refused to give it a one-letter name, so they named it Why.</span></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343132225264509202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SiaecyLVYRI/AAAAAAAABUo/iHRiUL1EVEU/s320/IMG_9430_jpg.jpg" border="0" /><strong>Here's a store in this town named "Why-Not"</strong></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343132447380469650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/Siaeptn595I/AAAAAAAABUw/hGD97sP9Qg0/s320/209553120_e87e83bc90.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:180%;">Bagdad</span></strong></div><div>It's a little strange to have a very small town of 3000 people in Arizona named Bagdad. It's basically a copper mine town, that was named after a son and father working in a mine long time ago, and the son asked the father, "Can I have a<em> bag, dad</em>?" Hence the name Bagdad (with the "h" missing)</div><div> </div><div>All of these towns are located in Arizona. Never been to any of them, and not planning to do so.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-383756862178765648?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-85779868414032778142009-06-02T19:28:00.002+11:002009-06-02T19:34:53.623+11:00Outrageous<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/01/cheney.speech/index.html">Per CNN:</a><br /><strong><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/01/cheney.speech/index.html">"Dick </a>Cheney said today that he does not believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the planning or execution of the September 11, 2001, attacks.<br /><br />He strongly defended the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq, however, arguing that Hussein's previous support for known terrorists was a serious danger after 9/11."</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />I don't think that those 100,000 who perished or the 30 million who saw their country fall apart because of him necessarily agree with his statement.<br /><strong></strong><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-8577986841403277814?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13628251.post-46003943044973375142009-06-02T15:51:00.003+11:002009-06-02T16:21:18.246+11:00Comments of Al-Arabiyyah Readers Over the Air France Plane Crash<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SiS2xJp_7xI/AAAAAAAABUI/P3FOs1Z-EF8/s1600-h/nbv.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342596013490171666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 310px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1ji4JzH-LlQ/SiS2xJp_7xI/AAAAAAAABUI/P3FOs1Z-EF8/s320/nbv.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I'm ashamed to say that I have all the 289 comments on the news so far.<br /><br />I don't know much about flying routes, but I'm sure a plane flying from Rio <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">de</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Janero</span> directly to Paris can never pass through Bermuda triangle!!<br /><br />Also, some Arabs need to learn how to shut the f--- up.<br /><br />Here are some genius comments:<br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">مثلث برمودا -</span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">لغز الرقم 6 ........تابعو معي رقم الرحله 447 ومجموه هذه الارقام هو 7 + 8 = 15 ومجموع 15 يساوي في النهاية 6 ... وعدد الركاب مع الطاقم هو 216 و15 اجمعو هذه الارقام فتكون 9 + 6 = 15 اي الناتج النهائي 6 </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">......والشهر هو رقم 6 بالميلادي والهجري وساعة اختفائها كانت السادسه .......اليس امرا" غريبا" ؟؟؟ </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">ما كنها عدت من جنب مثلث برمودا ؟ - </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">كانت الطائره تحمل 228 شخص أو 230 شخص أو 231 شخص ... لغز الاسبوع ؟ ؟ الجائزه رحله الى فرنسا على متن طائره مشابهه</span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">لا يكون ادخلت مثلث برموداااااااااااااااااا </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">ولكني أتسائل ,, متى موعد سقوط البوينج ؟؟ لأنه لو تلاحظون ,, كل ماتوقع طيارة أيرباص ,, لازم تلحقها طيارة </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">بوينج علشان يحافظوا على نسبة المبيعات ,, و سلم لي عالركاب </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">والله حسيت نفسي في مطار هيثرو بلدن......الذي لا زلت اتذكر فيه انني عندما نزلت اول مرة للندن ....كيف </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">تجمعت حولي المعجبات الشقراوات الجميلات الساحرات........والله لولاتدخل الشرطة واعوان المطار لتفريقيهن عليا.....لوقعت حاجة في نفس يعقوب فقضاها..هاهاهاهاهاهاهاها </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">نسيتي الرقم 330 اللي يشير إلى نوع الطيارة فـــ 0 +3+3 يساوي ست رقمية وليست أنثوية ، الله يلطف </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">بالمسلمين منهم وينجي أهل الكتاب المحصنين والمحصنات منهم </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">لا يفعل مثل هذه الاشياء الا مثلث برمودا.... لا احد يخرج منه ابدا ... الله يستر .... دعيبس الشرير </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">هل تعلمون يا اخوتي الاعزاء ان هنالك العديد من الطائرات التي فقد اثرها ما ان تكون قد مرت فوف مثلث برمودا هذا </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">المثلث الموجود في المحيط قد جلب استغراب وحيره العلماء فلا احد يعرف الى هذا اليوم لما تختفي الطائرات فوق هذا المكان بالتحديد </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">الله ينجيهم بس انا اعتقد انهم نزلو في المحيط الاطلنطي والينزل في المحيط الاطلنطي والله صعب يطلع من هناك لان في سمك القرش ينتظرهم هناك </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">ا</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">لقرصنة الصومالية الجوية ههههههههههههه </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">اعتقد انهم دخلوا او اعتقد اان الطيار ان اخطاء الطريق او انه ميل قليل الى مثلث برمودا </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">نتمنى أن تعرض العربية برامج وثائقية عن مثلث برمودا .. وشكراً </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">..... </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">من مسار الطائرة ..... يبدوا انها اختفت في مثلث الرعب </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">ياناس صدقوني كان عندي شك ان هاي الطائرة تصيبها مكروه رغم التطور والتكنلوجية الموجودة في الطائرة لكن هذ </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">القدر </span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="right"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">ركاب هذة الطائرة الذين جلسوا فى درجة رجال الاعمال حدث لهم نفس المصير ام ان الطائرة من الامام لها حماية خاصة ؟ </span></strong></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13628251-4600394304497337514?l=hareega.blogspot.com'/></div>Hareegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506185925815988104noreply@blogger.com13