SPRING IS IN THE AIR.....

Well folks , spring is around the corner.
Unfortunately for us in Lebanon instead of the usual "shakeshkik" we have a new flowering variety: the nitro-b(l)oom. It is coming up everywhere. Some foreign power has payed for, sown and fertilized this year's growing season and is now sitting back to await the harvest.

In case you've lost count, we now have bombs planted in cars, bombs planted on buses, bombs planted in apartment buildings, bombs planted in the trash, bombs planted in car tyres , liquid bombs planted in the camps, and hot off the presses a bomb planted at the Greek Orthodox Archbishopric in Saida.

Doesn't our seed catalogue carry a wide and exiting amount of variety this year?

The Persian Question

Apparently whether we like it or not, our fate has now been linked with that of Iran. Ya farhet kalbna. As if we didn't have enough problems on our own frontiers, we are now to pay and suffer for whatever happens in a country that is thousands of miles away.

The biggest fear of course is if Bush & Co are idiotic enough to bomb Iran. The Israelis will do their utmost to encourage this. If Iran is bombed, then Hizballah "7hay-jen jnounon" and Lebanon will probably be sacrificed for "the cause".

As it is Ahmadinejad has now informed us that Iran and Lebanon are two limbs on the same body, with Lebanon apparently being the wounded limb. In my opinion, on this body, Ahmadinejad is an altogether different appendage.

The Lebanese take over the Calendar

I'm starting to mix up all the calender days now, we have March 8, March 14, Feb14, Dec 1, & March11. Anybody still interested in March , you better hurry up, the dates are going fast, however we would like to point out that there are several months complaining that they are being totally ignored.

addendum 6.3.07: yes , an addendum at the top of the post, having re-read this after a month, I feel this post really needs a warning that it is a "bit much", even for me, so only read on if you're a "true blue" ...

Feb 14th


Here we are again. I can't believe it's been two years since they killed him and all those with him in that convoy. He wasn't perfect and like any human, he made mistakes, but nobody in their right mind can deny that this man loved his country and made a huge effort to pull it out of the pit it was in after the civil war.

I wonder what he would have thought of the state we are in now?

I haven't been watching future TV much lately mainly because I think they have lowered their standards down to those of the poisonous Manar, but today I switched it on and listened to a song where the lyrics included "I didn't tell you that I loved you" which may seem soppy but made me cry. About a couple of years before they killed him I saw him walking in down-town, he seemed very approachable with very little security detail then, but I didn't have the gumption to go up to him to say thank you for all he did for this country. I thought I would get the chance some day but I was not allowed that chance. I really regret not going up to him that day.

So here goes nothing: if there is any way you can hear me
....thank you.

Another Day Another Tragedy


What can you say about this country? Tragedy after tragedy after tragedy. When will this ever end? How much are we supposed to bear?

Shou kein khasson hal nas illy 3ala hal bassat el-yom?
Allah ysa3ed hal balad ala hal mijermeen illy mkhabayeen baynatna w-nawyeenlna 3al-sharr.

As for who did it and why, well there will be major discussions and denials and accusations, each of us will have their own opinion, my prime suspect would be a syrian agent, yours will depend on which side you belong. None of the opinions will bring back those who died.

Should they by some sort of miracle ever find out who did it, I hope they execute him by strapping him down on a bus and then setting it on fire, just so that he has a taste of what he inflicted on other people.

Shoot-out at the Border

I'm not sure I'm really supposed to be happy when a shootout occurs, but I am about this one, good for our army for showing the Israelis that they won't be able to maneuver as they please. Whoever gave the order to shoot should be promoted!

In other news we would like to thank Iranians for their donation of Grad Rockets that should now be put to good use by our under-supplied Lebanese Army in fighting the Israelis, thanks for the free weapons bozo's, and may all your future "presents" be intercepted and "donated" to our Legal and Official Lebanese Army. Hizballah has asked for the rockets "back", ha ha ha, dream on .......

The next Date on the Calendar....

We are lucky enough in Lebanon to know when the next disastrous event in the near future of our country is likely to occur.

The next date on our Disaster Calender has now been chosen, and yep, as you all may have guessed, it is February 14th, which is a combination mourning/romantic day in Lebanon (or as I like to say, the morning is for Harriri and the evening is for Habibi).

Herein lies the problem: I, as a random supposedly free citizen of this country greatly affected by the death of Rafic el-Harriri, would like to go downtown sometime during the day, to read al-Fatiha or say a prayer at the graveside on Martyr's square.

As we all know, Martyr's square has been commandeered for the last "few days" by Hizballah and co. , who have stated that they will in no way leave so that the M14 or anybody else can come over and say a prayer or whatever. So now we are in a bind:

-if you go down, you are blamed for forcing a face to face confrontation and any resulting violence that may ensue.

-if you ask them to leave for the day, they will claim you are trying to steal back martyr's square from them, or worse that you have achieved "points in the game" by making them clear out

-if you decide to sit at home, then you are a weakly coward and see: they've scared you into submission.

-also they have volunteered to mourn for him in our place "because they care just as much" , so you should have nothing to complain about, he will be mourned, just not by you

So what to do now???

Er....is somebody going to tell those idiots in Hamas and Fatah that by killing each other the only ones that are benefiting are the Israelis?

Well, what can one say when one's country is slowly sliding back to civil war?

Nothing. Its all out of our hands now, the thugs and hooligans have taken over. The rest of us will stay at home and pray for it to be over, like we did last time.

So Nasrallah, and Aoun, you still want to escalate? more than this? In case you're going to claim later that you had no idea what would happen (like you claimed this summer) let me be the first to tell you: if you escalate more than this our country will be dragged back into civil war. And no fatwa from you or anybody else will be able to stop it. Maybe if you hadn't brought the people to the streets this could have been averted. Maybe if your strikes didn't involve lighting fires to provoke the other side this could have been averted. Maybe if this stayed between the politicians (or even just downtown Itissam -imagine, I am now longing for the time of the downtown blockades) instead of moving into people's neighbourhoods this could have been averted.

So now the zo3ran on all sides are out and loving it. Snipers are killing university students in the streets. Rioters are rampaging downtown. Civilians are being killed left and right. And for what? For some idiot to claim he won all the points in his argument.

Well allow me to say my fuck you's before I go to bed

Fuck every person in this country who owns a weapon and is not in our army.
Fuck any politican who sends any of his followers into the street for whatever reason.
Fuck those followers for being so easily led.
Fuck every sniper, may you be caught and thrown off the top of the building you are holed up in you piece of chicken shit
Fuck every fire-lighter whether be it a wheel or an office for the side you don't agree with
Fuck every politician who utters the word escalate

Fuck this idiot who still has hope for her country despite everything. I wish I would just give up and accept the inevitable. Sadly, my brain won't let me so I have to be tortured every day with the if only's and the maybe's.

The Army

I don't know why all the fuss about the army's behaviour, each side is actually blaming the army for acting in collusion with the other side. This of course means that the army actions were totally centered.
I think the army were acting under very stressful circumstances and the fact that civil war did not break out on Tuesday was mainly due to them standing there and preventing it from happening.

If Nasrallah thinks civil war didn't break out because of the indibat of his Indibat, then he is more delusional that I think. But my favorite crazyman of the moment is Orangina who says that the strike was a success (despite reports of between 5-8 people dying- of course to him they don't really matter as long as it gets him to the chair) because 90% of the people didn't go to work. He unfortunately was ignoring the fact that those who were FORCED to stay at home despite wanting to go to work shouldn't count in his delusional equation. Yay for their clean and honest politics!

Up in Flames


Beirut is up in flames. As if we didn't need any more pollution now we have to contend with the burning tires and rubble bussed in to close off our streets.

I wonder if these people understand that they are encroaching on someone else's living space? Would they accpet the March 14ers "peacefully" burning tires in Dahieh and not say anything?When they protested downtown, they claimed they were facing off with the government , is there a government ministry I don't know about on Mar Elias? Corniche el Mazraa? El- Raouche?

Is this the kind of democracy they are meaning to educate us about? The kind where I don't want to let you go to work.school.university and therefore I will enforce my will on yours since I don't care that you want to go to work. school.university. You do as I say or I'll burn the house down?

They've repeatedly told us how clean they are and how dirty we all supposedly are. Well look above you at the skies you blackened with your own hands, and tell me how clean we all feel today.

Halutz just resigned because of Lebanon. Does that mean in a few years time they'll make him prime-minister? That's their usual pattern!

In the meantime, Hizballah have warned that they're going to block off all the major roads in the country. I'm assuming they mean all the major roads where they don't live, because God forbid, their areas get a feel any of the "I3tisam" crap, I'm sure the Dahieh will have open thoroughfares.

In the meantime, Iranian parlimentarians are protesting against Ahadinejad because of Iran's poor economy. Where is all their oil money going I wonder? Perhaps Ahadinejad and Khamineii should concentrate on fixing their own country instead of interfering in mine.

The Question

I was wondering , with all this talk of compromise (or lack of it), what is the single most important issue in the negotiations for each side? What I mean is, if you go ask a M14 and an M8 supporter: if you had to choose one non-negotiable issue that would be green-lighted for you , what would it be?

For me personally, it would be the International Tribunal. Everything else is negotiable (some issues more easily than others).

What would that one essential issue be for a March 8 supporter? The weapons? The electoral reform? That specific president?

I know this is too simplistic an approach, but it would be interesting to know.

The calm before the storm?
Judging by the less than stellar Ministry demonstrations, the opposition seems to be loosing steam but have arrived at this point without achieving any of their objectives. I find this slightly worrying since Hizballah are at a point where they won't (or can't) take no for an answer. What are they going to do next? Peaceful demonstrations have not worked and the opposition have threatened to take it up a notch . What's that notch entail? Have they reached a point where they are cutting off their nose to spite their face? Have they reached a point where they will take down the whole country because their demands have not been met?

How long is this shit going to go on before BOTH SIDES COME BACK TO THE TABLE AND COMPROMISE?

Today's Examples of idiots on both sides....

Hizballah/Manar for choosing Hmadeh as the one who apparently pointed out the location of Nasrallah to the Americans and Israelis during the war, I mean ha ha ha you idiots, out of all the M14 you could have chosen you pick this one?

and

Jumblatt for his ridiculous accusation that Hizballah was involved in the assassinations, thanks J', we really needed more shit-talk out there in the air, the crap already floating around apparently wasn't enough.

Our eternal thanks to all these wonderful politicians for trying to bring us closer together as a people.......

Eid Mubarak, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
May the new year bring peace to Lebanon and peace of mind to the Lebanese.

New TV's Idiot Employees


So these wonderful " journalists" decided to break in to Siddiq's Apartment to run their own investigation on the Harriri Murder. Apparently Brammertz isn't doing a good enough job and they wanted to give him a hand. They didn't see the guy stationed by the security forces with instructions to watch the apartment who took pictures of them breaking and entering. They didn't bother with gloves, leaving their fingerprints all over the place. They also decided to take a few choice documents and videos from the apartment.

All this I can understand. They're just your basic garden variety idiots (I'll ignore conspiracy theories for now). What I don't understand is the uproar against them being arrested: apparently arresting them violates the "freedom of the press". I didn't realize freedom of the press meant freedom to break the law, become thieves, and tamper with evidence in an ongoing criminal investigation.
Hooray for our twisted interpretations of freedom, it's what's keeping our country so "civilized".

Finally the truth straight from his mouth.......


The real reason Hizballah took the streets as described by Nasrallah himself to Al-Arabi Newspaper.....

دعونا نسألكم بصراحة سماحة السيد، يبدو للمراقبين أن المحرك الأكبر خلف تحركاتكم كمعارضة هو موضوع المحكمة الدولية الخاصة بقتلة الحريرى، ترى هل تخشون هذه المحكمة؟ وهل موضوع الثلث الضامن هو محاولة استباق لإجهاضها؟ -- أجاب: دعنى أصارحك وأصارح الأمة كلها، لقد كنا أول من وافق على هذه المحكمة من حيث المبدأ، ومازلنا نوافق ولكن طالبنا بأن نضع ضمانات وضوابط حتى لا تتحول الى سيف مصلت على رقاب اللبنانيين وأداة ابتزاز وحصار للمقاومة.. ضمانات للبحث الفعلى عن الحقيقة فى جريمة اغتيال الشهيد رفيق الحريرى والتى تهمنا وتهم كل الشرفاء فى لبنان والمنطقة ربما قبل أن تهم أغلب فريق 14 آذار الذين تاجروا ولا يزالون يتاجرون بدم الرجل، ولأذكر لك هنا واقعة محددة لتعرف من خلالها كيف يفكر ويخطط الأمريكى لاستثمار هذه المحكمة لمصالحه ولمصالح اسرائيل فقبل أيام من رحيله غير المأسوف عليه أكد جون بولتون المندوب الأمريكى فى مجلس الأمن لأحد الوزراء اللبنانيين صرح لنا هنا السيد نصر الله باسمه ولكننا لن ننشره احتراما لرغبة السيد وقال له نصا: أعطونا قرار المحكمة وموافقتكم عليه نعطيكم رأس حسن نصر الله وزمرة المعارضين من السنة والشيعة والدروز وغيرهم فى أقل من أسبوع واحد، طبعا الأمريكى سيتمكن من ذلك حتما بالتلفيق والتزوير والتدليس وعبر المؤامرات كما هو حاصل فى العراق وغيرها من بلادنا التى نكبت به، حاولنا عبر الحوار الشاق أن نحصن قرار المحكمة ذات الطابع الدولى بضوابط وطنية لا تسمح باستغلاله إلا أننا فشلنا، وأمام ذلك وأمام غيره من ممارسات الحكومة اضطررنا للنزول الى الشارع والى فرض مطالبنا عبر الوسائل الديمقراطية.

Ana bikrah Isra-eel wa ba7ib Amr Moussa.......


Mr Moussa is leaving, having disclosed very little about his meetings. He promises us a solution within two weeks......one can only hope. There's a new formula in the works (10+1+19) and talk about meetings regarding the tribunal, and something about removing the guy who still thinks he is president. I wonder why Mr. Moussa is leaving at this critical juncture? Probably, he just needs a break from Lebanese Politics. It is well known to be detrimental to your health if not taken in small divided doses.

In the meantime, PM Sanioura is in Russia which begs the question of what is the use of surrounding someone in the Serail when they can "escape" whenever they want.

I've noticed less coverage of downtown and other Lebanese problems lately, it seems the world is getting a little bored with us.

And now for something completely different ....

Jean Claude Rabbath of Lebanon won the gold medal in the men's high jump at the Asian Games in Qatar! YAY!

Good for him, we're totally proud!