Archive for December 9, 2006

One of the three Saudi royals can read. It is official. I wonder what he is reading though. (Please insert your own jokes).

Posted on December 9, 2006 by As'ad

Since yesterday morning, I can’t get this jingle out of my head: Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells rocks, etc. It is driving me crazy. I need to replace it. What if I start singing a new jingle, like: Fatfat bells, Fatfat bells, Fatfat all the way. Oh what’s fun….(“Believe it or not Jingle Bells, [...]

Posted on December 9, 2006 by As'ad

I am serious. I really want to know. Does anybody know when King `Abdullah of Saudi Arabia learn to read and write? I watched today him read the speech in Riyadh at the opening of the GCC meeting. It is most painful and torturous–if you were him. He would make a mistake of grammar almost [...]

Posted on December 9, 2006 by As'ad

I don’t like the Lebanese national anthem: I don’t like the “music” and I don’t like the lyrics–so grandiose and ultra-nationalist. Here is my alternative Lebanese national anthem.

Posted on December 9, 2006 by As'ad

To show you the influence of money on media: not a single Lebanese newspaper or any media–to my knowledge–has mentioned the Saudi arms’ scandal that involve Minister of Public Works, Muhammad Safadi, which is covered in British press. Even Al-Akhbar has not said a word. Mention it, NOW.

Posted on December 9, 2006 by As'ad

I hereby declare today the Ahmad Fatfat National Day. On this day every year, Fatfatists from around the world gather and serve tea to the nearest occupation soldiers that they can find. They also are instructed to discuss the principles of Fatfatism. A new book will be published soon under the title of The ABC [...]

Posted on December 9, 2006 by As'ad

“10 great places to indulge your sweet tooth”

Posted on December 9, 2006 by As'ad

Khalid Hidadah in the Wall Street Journal (yesterday’s issue): “Sitting beneath a portrait of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara in his Beirut office, Khaled Hadadeh, the general secretary of the Lebanese communists, admits that Hezbollah and the Communist Party hated each other for years. “We started out in blood,” says Mr. Hadadeh, a Sunni Muslim by [...]

Posted on December 9, 2006 by As'ad

“Afghanistan war nears ‘tipping point’: Government support is flagging, NATO is split on strategy, and Taliban fighters are revitalized” (How naive of me. All along, I have assumed that the place has been “liberated.”)

Posted on December 9, 2006 by As'ad

“”We consider Osama bin Laden a bad person, [but] we consider Bush a bad person, too…. Bush is a friend of the government, not of the people.””

Posted on December 9, 2006 by As'ad

“Judging from Bolton’s reaction, you might have thought that Malloch Brown had just insulted the ambassador’s mother. Red-faced and furious, Bolton declared that Malloch Brown, was a mere “international civil servant” who had no right to say such things. “It’s just illegitimate,” Bolton said. The hardliners in the House of Representatives promptly voted to cut [...]

Posted on December 9, 2006 by As'ad

“Le commentaire d’Angry Arab sur le discours de Nasrallah”

Posted on December 9, 2006 by As'ad