From the monthly archives:
One word. SANITY! Oh such amazing sanity, it almost makes me want to cry. I’m loving this guy. You simply have to watch this video. Please watch it, pretty please with a cherry on top. I’m in complete agreement! If only we had more of him around and in the right positions.
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The Darfur fighting has come to town . . . I was following closely the developments of the fighting between Minawi’s forces and the police. It is a clear indication of the tension between the former rebels and the government, the severity of the degree of mistrust.
No matter who was responsible, the police should have known better instead of being trigger happy. The Khartoum police are notorious for fuelling these kinds of tensions. There have been several such attacks between former SPLA forces in Khartoum and the police over the flimsiest of issues. They lack the power to diffuse tensions. Whether intensionally or not, it does not add to trust.
Meanwhile, Khartoumers have to brace themselves for more of the same . . .
And this is from the comments section of the same post:
- As long as there is an authoritarian government to keep the peace I doubt it will blow up like Baghdad.
- That is the irony of it all Aaron: Sudan needs a strong authoritarian government to keep it together, but at the expense of the people. If it breaks down, the alternative is too bad to imagine. But what is the way out of the misery do you think?
Sigh! When’s the enlightenment going to arrive? How can we actually formulate a strategy to bring about real life changing action instead of simply just relying on spreading awareness? No wonder so so many people in Sudan have despaired. No wonder so many just want to go to the mosque or church, pray, die and hopefully go to heaven. Sigh! Baby steps. We need books, not bullets.
UPDATE: And just as I posted the above, I immediately stumbled upon this excellent post by Lawrence of Arabia, an American Christian who writes at Eteraz: States of Islam.
Instead, current American policy is alienating those whom it has the greatest ability to actually reach, and disrupting and further degrading the lives of those who over whom it has the least influence. Democracy is tyranny without liberalization, and America is helping to bring that new tyranny to the middle east at gun point.
Sad but true. Read it all. It’s a must! His post is strikingly similar to this post of mine, which I wrote last year. I consider it one of my best. I’m a huge Lawrence of Arabia fan by the way but I must admit that some of his stuff on philosophy are just way too complicated for me to fully grasp.
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Sorry, I accidently deleted 4 or 5 actual comments while cleaning my comments section from the filthy perverted spam that has been hitting this blog like crazy during the past month. The spammers responsible are sick horny animals. I’m officially declaring a “War on Spam”. Who wants to be part of Drima’s Coalition of the Willing? Anybody interested? Grrrrr!!!
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At least he’s taking responsibility:
WASHINGTON - President Bush apologized to troops face to face on Friday for shoddy conditions they have endured at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He shook the artificial hand of a lieutenant and cradled a newborn whose daddy is nursing his remaining, severely injured leg back to health.
“The problems at Walter Reed were caused by bureaucratic and administrative failures,” Bush said during a nearly three-hour visit to the medical center — his first since reports surfaced of shabby conditions for veterans in outpatient housing. “The system failed you and it failed our troops, and we’re going to fix it.”
News that war veterans were not getting adequate care stunned the public, outraged Capitol Hill and forced three high-level Pentagon officials to step down. Bush met with soldiers once housed in Building 18, who endured moldy walls, rodents and other problems that went unchecked until reported by the media.
So can we officially declare that the cartoon below is pure nonsensical garbage or is it still too early for that?
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The movie is da shyte! It’s been a really long time since I’ve watched a movie that I enjoyed THIS much. It’s sort of a combination of LOTR and Gladiator except 300 has a lot more blood. And I mean A LOT more blood! Yummy! In terms of special effects I think the movie has set a new standard the same way The Matrix did about a decade ago. The casting is superb and the graphic effects are much and I mean MUCH cooler than anything I’ve seen in any movie before. 300 is absolutely ENTERTAINING!
The story and the hidden political message were pretty interesting too. Okay, fine so maybe there was no such thing as a hidden political message but who cares, let’s pretend there is one just for the fun of it. Here’s what I thought:
Leonidas = Bush
Xerxes = Ahmadinejad
The Spartans who opposed Leonidas going to war = Donkeys ie. “unpatriotic traitors”.
Leonidas supporters = Elephants
Watch the movie and you’ll know what I mean. It’s pretty obvious in my opinion. On a serious note though, Persians were portrayed in a negative way which made them look like a bunch of smelly barbarians. That wasn’t a nice thing to do, but then again, the movie is not based on accurate historical facts. Instead it can be considered mostly fiction. Most of my Iranian friends who watched it, enjoyed it. A few told me they vehemently reject the “filthy American propaganda” and are not going to watch the movie.
But I know I will… AGAIN!
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March 29, 2007 (WASHINGTON) — The United States will impose tough new measures against Sudan, likely within days, to try to force it to change course on Darfur and aims to pressure Khartoum militarily by helping rebuild forces in the south, U.S. officials said.
…Military options like a no-fly zone over Darfur — which Britain wants — or a forced intervention have been ruled out for now, but the Pentagon has done some “back of the envelope” calculations on what might be needed, a defense official said.
…Aside from slapping travel and banking restrictions on at least three more Sudanese individuals, including a rebel leader, Washington also wants to put more pressure on splintered rebel groups in Darfur.
“You have to squeeze them all,” said the defense official. “The goal is to get both Bashir and the rebels to come to the conclusion that they are not going to get anywhere with their current course of action.“
The United States is working closely with Britain, which takes over the presidency of the U.N. Security Council next month, and is planning a new resolution on Darfur.
I’m glad that pressure is being applied on the rebels too. Putting pressure on the government alone, encourages the rebels to continue fighting and therefore drags the conflict further.
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Apologies for that. Let’s just say some super concerned parties got too concerned and I had to make them happy or my headache would have worsened super greatly. Anyways… I’m super busy nowadays but at least I’m enjoying what I do. I’m going to bed. Good night.
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Huh? What? Sunnis and Shias? Oh no, sorry that’s Protestants and Catholics. But wait, how many years did it take them to calm down again? A hundred? Two hundred? Oh well, at least they’re not slaughtering each other… anymore that is. Good for them. How long will it take us to see Iraq calm down too?
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It’s all over the news and it doesn’t look like a bad deal (or does it?):
Arab leaders are due to meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this week to re-launch a 2002 peace initiative that offers Israel peace and normal relations in return for a complete withdrawal to the pre-1967 war lines and a settlement of the refugee issue. The poll showed that 72 percent of the respondents support that initiative.
Hmmmm… normalization of relations in return for a complete withdrawal to the pre-1967 border? Cooool! *Jumping around excitedly*. Wouldn’t we all love to see that? I say the only thing that might be a problem is the whole refugee issue. What’s the definition of a refugee? How many would that be? Israelis are a very paranoid bunch from what I’ve learnt.
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Not to be outdone once again by Bahrain, Dubai will be getting some Hooters pretty soon now, even though Dubai is not in Hooters’ expansion plans,
The investment requirements of the world famous franchise are not that onerous, on the contrary, these are easily available in any of our countries. The issue; however, is not the required investment, the entertainment, nor tourism value of such an enterprise. I am not against the move per se, it doesn’t make any difference to me and I have enjoyed visiting Hooters before - in a journalistic research capacity of course! It is up to the patron’s own set of values if they wish to enter such a restaurant or any other establishment, it is a personal choice after all.
Hooters in Khartoum? Maybe in 50 years but defintely not now.
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These are the new cool Islamic Super Heroes created by Teshkeel Comics:
In Saudi Arabia, a massive, hulking creature has escaped from a government holding facility, and no force on earth can stop him.
In Paris, A UNESCO official, psychiatrist and historian, dreams of world peace and chases ancient legends about mystical gemstones.
In the UAE, the kidnapped daughter of a tycoon escapes, bringing with her a gift and a curse - an enduring and ugly vision of a dying world.
And sitting in his dark tower, an ancient and powerful evil, spoken of only in legend, watches and waits for the signs that his true reign is near.
This is only the beginning. For soon, destiny will seek out the chosen from among those once forsaken. 99 gems containing the light of ancient wisdom lie scattered across the world waiting to be discovered. Those who possess the gems will wield untold power never before seen by mortal man. The salvation of the universe set in motion from the beginning of time lies now in the hands of those who dare to strive for it. Led by one man, a man dedicated to discovering the knowledge that was lost, these unlikely heroes and heroines must overcome great odds in their battle against the darkness, both in the outside world, and within their own souls.
They are The 99 and the fate of the known universe depends on them.
Interesting. Why aren’t the girls wearing hijab? And why are they wearing revealing clothes? This must be a conspiracy by Teshkeel to somehow brainwash our young Muslim sisters and make them forget about their duty of wearing hijab. On a serious note though, anybody noticed that all the characters pictured above have an Afro look except for one or two of them? More interesting. Eh, anyways, I’m not a big fan of comic books. However there’s one comic book I read about recently that really made me curious. It’s called Y: The Last Man and it sounds really good.
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