This is how Sarkozy aims to win the presidency while Michel Aoun aims to do that by allying with Hizbullah, propaganda and accusing everyone of corruption...
As Robert Fisk says, "Pity the Nation" !
Monday, January 29, 2007
The Vanished Lebanese Dream
We had this dream to grow as high as a tree,
to be something every eye could see.
So we let our roots to let us be;
glory was what we wanted to seek,
but, how can one be happy while climbing to the peak?
We just felt hopeless, desperate and weak.
We met a people who fought for the Madonna,
they were sure with their sect they’d reach nirvana!
We thought no one could defy our sage.
it’s now time to break out of the cage;
to build a new stage and open another page.
Yet,how can we continue our dream with broken feet?
So we found ourselves a seat
hoping our tears won’t cool out our heat.
Okay! We can forget about Our Lebanon
without letting them have our share:
that is poking them to be more fair.
Now, I keep wondering if we can reach our goal
with this handicapped soul...
Must we learn how to crawl?
Damn you Mr. Chair,
you have left us too blind to bare!
to be something every eye could see.
So we let our roots to let us be;
glory was what we wanted to seek,
but, how can one be happy while climbing to the peak?
We just felt hopeless, desperate and weak.
We met a people who fought for the Madonna,
they were sure with their sect they’d reach nirvana!
We thought no one could defy our sage.
it’s now time to break out of the cage;
to build a new stage and open another page.
Yet,how can we continue our dream with broken feet?
So we found ourselves a seat
hoping our tears won’t cool out our heat.
Okay! We can forget about Our Lebanon
without letting them have our share:
that is poking them to be more fair.
Now, I keep wondering if we can reach our goal
with this handicapped soul...
Must we learn how to crawl?
Damn you Mr. Chair,
you have left us too blind to bare!
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Courage
As I am watching Courage the Cowardly Dog right now,do you know what comes to my mind? Aoun! Yes, this is a man whom I think the creators of the show modeled their character entirely-not loosely on him.
If we read into the history of this man from the civil war till now, a very clear trend is drawn. A man who is always pretending to be the liberator of his people from corruption, oppression and whatever there is in the dictionary that implies bad deeds and at the end of the day....flees like the wind!
Over and over, this man who I am sure has issues that stream from his challenged height tries to project courage through illogical and crazy schemes and still his followers/supporters flock behind him towards the doom.
But, there is a big advantage that Courage, the dog holds over Orange Aoun and that is losers' luck. Somehow, at the end of each episode fate ends up giving Courage a chance towards yet another mishap. As for Aoun, time is not his ally. He is well into his 70s and Alzheimer is building bridges in his brain.
Burning tires to him is constitutional!! I wonder what he is planning with his new best friends this Tuesday. Do you think he is going to declare that burning people down is constitutional???
My advice is for him to go look into his will (leave something to your son-in-law, will you? ) and choose a good quality casket for your "holier than thou" corpse since it maybe too valuable to both your "worshipers" and the rest of "us" together!
If we read into the history of this man from the civil war till now, a very clear trend is drawn. A man who is always pretending to be the liberator of his people from corruption, oppression and whatever there is in the dictionary that implies bad deeds and at the end of the day....flees like the wind!
Over and over, this man who I am sure has issues that stream from his challenged height tries to project courage through illogical and crazy schemes and still his followers/supporters flock behind him towards the doom.
But, there is a big advantage that Courage, the dog holds over Orange Aoun and that is losers' luck. Somehow, at the end of each episode fate ends up giving Courage a chance towards yet another mishap. As for Aoun, time is not his ally. He is well into his 70s and Alzheimer is building bridges in his brain.
Burning tires to him is constitutional!! I wonder what he is planning with his new best friends this Tuesday. Do you think he is going to declare that burning people down is constitutional???
My advice is for him to go look into his will (leave something to your son-in-law, will you? ) and choose a good quality casket for your "holier than thou" corpse since it maybe too valuable to both your "worshipers" and the rest of "us" together!
Friday, January 26, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
I Bow to You
Wow! Now, that was a great day! I wonder if the mobs who cracked each others' heads and limbs would feign innocence and find a way to blame their lack of intelligence and their fang revealing instincts on Israel or the United States or or...
What I keep seeing day after day is a people so addicted to blood that they would always seek war. The July war wasn't enough for them, and it didn't give them the satisfaction of feeling the bones break and smell the blood and sweat up-close.
Bashar must be packing some bags, he is expecting his return very soon. His father came to "restore" peace in an earlier insanity period, so he is betting on the international community after seeing the parade of stone throwing and pipes wielding to beg him to come back to Lebanon. After all, we are proving that we are not Lebanese. We are shia and sunnis and maronites and druze so who cares who govern us? I hate to say this but it seems to me that Arabs deserve dictators like Saddam to curb their fanaticism and tribal emotions.
At the end, I want to salute the youth who participated today in showing us and the whole world how civilized and classy we are... I bow to you!
What I keep seeing day after day is a people so addicted to blood that they would always seek war. The July war wasn't enough for them, and it didn't give them the satisfaction of feeling the bones break and smell the blood and sweat up-close.
Bashar must be packing some bags, he is expecting his return very soon. His father came to "restore" peace in an earlier insanity period, so he is betting on the international community after seeing the parade of stone throwing and pipes wielding to beg him to come back to Lebanon. After all, we are proving that we are not Lebanese. We are shia and sunnis and maronites and druze so who cares who govern us? I hate to say this but it seems to me that Arabs deserve dictators like Saddam to curb their fanaticism and tribal emotions.
At the end, I want to salute the youth who participated today in showing us and the whole world how civilized and classy we are... I bow to you!
Intro to Civil War
what's the new course this semester?
it's how to destroy your country from the inside!! sure we already had the course on how to do it from the outside back in July and now it's time for the 2nd way, a more effective way that could generate much better results!
today i can say i had my fair share of the mini-war today, shootings, ppl throwing rocks, burning cars, beating each other and the result is what? additional taste of "the law of the jungle".
I no longer believe in chances and fake innocence, what happened today alongside 'Paris III' cant be a mere coincidence, that just insults my intelligence!
They said that what happened today is a fight at the university, sure it started there but looking at the footage on TV, one would need few seconds to realize that the ppl who are fighting are not university students, i doubt if they even made it to school!!
this time i needed no TV to know what's going on as i had the a row seat of all the action, people defending their neighborhood and their homes against masked thugs with weapons who are burning and destroying cars just because they believe these cars belong to the ones living in this area, attacks based on hatred, hatred of the other, and they claim they want to share!
it doesn't need a genius to know who attacked who, who's invading the others' homes and who's destroying the other's properties..
do they seek civil war? do they want to destroy the country?!
in these religious days to some sects, i say thank you for another sample of your democracy and peace, thank you for being the stars on today's news over all the TV networks, thank you for performing to us MEN IN BLACK III!
it's how to destroy your country from the inside!! sure we already had the course on how to do it from the outside back in July and now it's time for the 2nd way, a more effective way that could generate much better results!
today i can say i had my fair share of the mini-war today, shootings, ppl throwing rocks, burning cars, beating each other and the result is what? additional taste of "the law of the jungle".
I no longer believe in chances and fake innocence, what happened today alongside 'Paris III' cant be a mere coincidence, that just insults my intelligence!
They said that what happened today is a fight at the university, sure it started there but looking at the footage on TV, one would need few seconds to realize that the ppl who are fighting are not university students, i doubt if they even made it to school!!
this time i needed no TV to know what's going on as i had the a row seat of all the action, people defending their neighborhood and their homes against masked thugs with weapons who are burning and destroying cars just because they believe these cars belong to the ones living in this area, attacks based on hatred, hatred of the other, and they claim they want to share!
it doesn't need a genius to know who attacked who, who's invading the others' homes and who's destroying the other's properties..
do they seek civil war? do they want to destroy the country?!
in these religious days to some sects, i say thank you for another sample of your democracy and peace, thank you for being the stars on today's news over all the TV networks, thank you for performing to us MEN IN BLACK III!
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
LEAVE OR DIE
The law of the jungle: to the civilized world, it is a figure of speech. To us, the Lebanese, unfortunately it is a full blown reality. Individualism scares us. We try to paint a picture of civilization but when the clock ticks 12, the curtain falls unveiling various “packs” that follow their leader unconditionally. We burn our country down, chanting silly slogans handed to us over generations and bringing ourselves down further into a black abyss.
Today, as I was watching the people who are burning tires and besieging our lives on TV, I thought of my cat and dog. My cat and dog always fight for the control of the household but they have an understanding that at the end of the day the cat is the chief and my dog always retreats. Yes, even animals with their instincts have boundaries. We do not.
We should have a Dr Moreau. In the Island of Dr Moreau, the animals had a set of rules that they recited: “thou should not walk on all fours; thou should not eat meat…” I truly believe that we should be programmed like this. We keep seeking wars for the survival of the tribe and the only solution to elevate us from the animal kingdom to the civilized world is a Dr Moreau.
I am ashamed of my nationality today. I am ashamed of my countrymen. There is fashion week in Paris today and we have “BURN OUR COUNTRY DOWN” festival. I am ashamed, yet I do not want to attack. Words fail me when I see those painful images. Words fail me when I try to imagine what is next.
Eventually, there are only two options for people who do not follow the law of chaos and mayhem. “LEAVE OR DIE”. Our country belongs to militias with katyushas and tribal men. “LEAVE OR DIE”.
Today, as I was watching the people who are burning tires and besieging our lives on TV, I thought of my cat and dog. My cat and dog always fight for the control of the household but they have an understanding that at the end of the day the cat is the chief and my dog always retreats. Yes, even animals with their instincts have boundaries. We do not.
We should have a Dr Moreau. In the Island of Dr Moreau, the animals had a set of rules that they recited: “thou should not walk on all fours; thou should not eat meat…” I truly believe that we should be programmed like this. We keep seeking wars for the survival of the tribe and the only solution to elevate us from the animal kingdom to the civilized world is a Dr Moreau.
I am ashamed of my nationality today. I am ashamed of my countrymen. There is fashion week in Paris today and we have “BURN OUR COUNTRY DOWN” festival. I am ashamed, yet I do not want to attack. Words fail me when I see those painful images. Words fail me when I try to imagine what is next.
Eventually, there are only two options for people who do not follow the law of chaos and mayhem. “LEAVE OR DIE”. Our country belongs to militias with katyushas and tribal men. “LEAVE OR DIE”.
Democracy
democracy, does it really exist in our current culture?
After trying to throw democracy down the drain when the circumstances turned unfavorable to their personal interests, we had the honor of witnessing how democratic protests can be peacefully performed. Dozens of smashed cars, numerous civilians wounded, more threatened with their lives and safety of their properties in case they don't join, and the list goes on and on.. sure people have the right to protest and go on strike but where’s the right to not to? Where’s the right to go to work, go and try to make a living in this paralyzed economy especially when I’m not one of the “patriotic” people who are getting paid with the clean, blessed and righteous money coming from the clean and blessed pro-resistance country and in form of US Dollars!!
The funny question one would ask nowadays is how come people who are ready to break every rule in the book in order to reach their goals are requesting to govern the lands? With what rules left will they be able to build what they claim to be destroyed by others? (while ironically leaving themselves out of any responsibility).
Are rules made to be followed just when you're on top or otherwise made to be broken at any possible opportunity?
Are we to believe that all this destruction was spontaneous? All these tires, rocks and piles of sand weren't distributed by an organized party? That the hundreds of visitors who came to pay my neighborhood a visit and bring with them many gifts of rocks and canes were the result an unstructured movement? Are we to become deaf, blind, brainwashed and maybe mentally retarded?!
Thank you for giving us a sample of what to expect if you ever get the opportunity to govern, in case we miraculously managed to forget the past 25 years!
Thank you for turning a peaceful strike into a realitytv street fights day!
After trying to throw democracy down the drain when the circumstances turned unfavorable to their personal interests, we had the honor of witnessing how democratic protests can be peacefully performed. Dozens of smashed cars, numerous civilians wounded, more threatened with their lives and safety of their properties in case they don't join, and the list goes on and on.. sure people have the right to protest and go on strike but where’s the right to not to? Where’s the right to go to work, go and try to make a living in this paralyzed economy especially when I’m not one of the “patriotic” people who are getting paid with the clean, blessed and righteous money coming from the clean and blessed pro-resistance country and in form of US Dollars!!
The funny question one would ask nowadays is how come people who are ready to break every rule in the book in order to reach their goals are requesting to govern the lands? With what rules left will they be able to build what they claim to be destroyed by others? (while ironically leaving themselves out of any responsibility).
Are rules made to be followed just when you're on top or otherwise made to be broken at any possible opportunity?
Are we to believe that all this destruction was spontaneous? All these tires, rocks and piles of sand weren't distributed by an organized party? That the hundreds of visitors who came to pay my neighborhood a visit and bring with them many gifts of rocks and canes were the result an unstructured movement? Are we to become deaf, blind, brainwashed and maybe mentally retarded?!
Thank you for giving us a sample of what to expect if you ever get the opportunity to govern, in case we miraculously managed to forget the past 25 years!
Thank you for turning a peaceful strike into a realitytv street fights day!
Monday, January 1, 2007
Happy New Year
Pacem in Terris
Pope John XXIII, 4/11/63
"May He banish from the hearts of all men and women whatever might endanger peace.
May He transform them into witnesses of truth, justice and love.
May He enkindle the rulers of peoples so that in addition to their solicitude for the proper welfare of their citizens, they may guarantee and defend the great gift of peace.
May He enkindle the wills of all so that they may overcome the barriers that divide, cherish the bonds of mutual charity, understand others, and pardon those who have done them wrong.
May all peoples of the earth become as brothers and sisters, and may the most longed-for peace blossom forth and reign always among men and women."
Pope John XXIII, 4/11/63
"May He banish from the hearts of all men and women whatever might endanger peace.
May He transform them into witnesses of truth, justice and love.
May He enkindle the rulers of peoples so that in addition to their solicitude for the proper welfare of their citizens, they may guarantee and defend the great gift of peace.
May He enkindle the wills of all so that they may overcome the barriers that divide, cherish the bonds of mutual charity, understand others, and pardon those who have done them wrong.
May all peoples of the earth become as brothers and sisters, and may the most longed-for peace blossom forth and reign always among men and women."
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