Some of my best friends are ex-ragheads…
Unbelievable that communities, let alone countries, let religious zealots (better known as fanatics, I call them bully-boys) control their lives to the extent they tell you what you can and cannot enjoy on your television set in the privacy of your own abode.
In Algeria, the most popular television program, “Fame Academy”, an equivalent to "Idol", has been banned as un-Islamic by the Society of Peace.
It would seem the contestants, men and women, live in the same building somewhere in Lebanon, and interact with each other. The women appear with their heads uncovered, wearing western-style clothes on the LBC Network (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation) program which is the most popular program in the Arab world with over 80 million viewers tuning in every week.
One religious leader, Aboudjerra Soltani, who has probably never enjoyed a single day in his entire life, claims the program is, “a toxic import from the west” and a “provocation against society that attacks moral values”.
Hey Aboudjerra, get a life!
The contestants take lessons in music, singing, fashion, dancing, make-up and hair-styling, making them potential candidates for happy, normal people.
There is more to this story than first realised. It would seem, because of the time-slot of the programs, restaurant owners, from Rabat to Damascus, are angry because Fame Academy is shown around dinner time, so business is down.
And get this, the Dean of the School of Islamic Law and Sharia at Kuwait University has passed a fatwa condemning the program; the Kuwaiti Parliament has even discussed legislation to “protect” public morality for the show, plus, articles in the Saudi press have called the building where the contestants live “a whorehouse”.
Come on boys, fess up! All youse blokes wearing towels on your heads know what a whorehouse is, and all this from men who don’t like their women naked when having sex.
The sky is falling…
Living in Tehran can be troublesome at the best of times, but it has recently come to light the worlds policeman (the United States), is gearing up for military strikes against Iran for having the dream of becoming a nuclear nation.
The man, Republican Senator John McCain, who is front-runner to succeed George W, is advocating military intervention to stop the government from making atomic and nuclear bombs, and the president doesn’t want to leave office with this impending threat hanging over America’s head.
The Iranians see things differently though. They feel that nuclear technology is their inalienable right, and it is, as long as this technology is used for peaceful means and allowed to be monitored by the United Nations.
So be warned, strategists at the Pentagon are busy drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran’s proposed nuclear sites, as a last resort to the development of nuclear and atomic weapons.
So, if you live anywhere in Iran, keep your eyes glued to the heavens, you never can tell when the sky really will fall.
Embrace the bosoms…
Elizabeth Clark, a very pretty intelligent woman is making money “hands over fists” teaching business executives how to flirt in a “radical, possibly revolutionary, certainly fearless” departure in business management.
Liz is the first Flirt Guru that encourages one to “embrace the bosoms” and “compliment the breasts” in this day of political correctness (a true definition of Oxymoron’’), law suits and sexual harassment claims.
What brave new frontiers await us up the corporate ladder?
Addressing a group of executives wearing a low-cut dress, complimented with fishnet stockings, a g-string (she told us that) and a cheeky grin, Liz is teaching the “art of flirting” and, her services do not come cheap, £2000 Stg. for four hours teaching.
It would seem her message has really caught on as her next stop is Geneva, and then the world. Just keep in mind, when staring at a women’s breasts, blink every once in a while, it helps. Also helps if you have a bucket and a sponge to take care of the drooling!
And finally, on a day when no news is certainly good news…
I want to take a complete quote from an Apple Computer advertisement back that aired back 1997, and is a code as to how I have lived and will continue to live my life…
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing that you can’t do is ignore them, because they change things.”
Unknown ‘97
Unbelievable that communities, let alone countries, let religious zealots (better known as fanatics, I call them bully-boys) control their lives to the extent they tell you what you can and cannot enjoy on your television set in the privacy of your own abode.
In Algeria, the most popular television program, “Fame Academy”, an equivalent to "Idol", has been banned as un-Islamic by the Society of Peace.
It would seem the contestants, men and women, live in the same building somewhere in Lebanon, and interact with each other. The women appear with their heads uncovered, wearing western-style clothes on the LBC Network (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation) program which is the most popular program in the Arab world with over 80 million viewers tuning in every week.
One religious leader, Aboudjerra Soltani, who has probably never enjoyed a single day in his entire life, claims the program is, “a toxic import from the west” and a “provocation against society that attacks moral values”.
Hey Aboudjerra, get a life!
The contestants take lessons in music, singing, fashion, dancing, make-up and hair-styling, making them potential candidates for happy, normal people.
There is more to this story than first realised. It would seem, because of the time-slot of the programs, restaurant owners, from Rabat to Damascus, are angry because Fame Academy is shown around dinner time, so business is down.
And get this, the Dean of the School of Islamic Law and Sharia at Kuwait University has passed a fatwa condemning the program; the Kuwaiti Parliament has even discussed legislation to “protect” public morality for the show, plus, articles in the Saudi press have called the building where the contestants live “a whorehouse”.
Come on boys, fess up! All youse blokes wearing towels on your heads know what a whorehouse is, and all this from men who don’t like their women naked when having sex.
The sky is falling…
Living in Tehran can be troublesome at the best of times, but it has recently come to light the worlds policeman (the United States), is gearing up for military strikes against Iran for having the dream of becoming a nuclear nation.
The man, Republican Senator John McCain, who is front-runner to succeed George W, is advocating military intervention to stop the government from making atomic and nuclear bombs, and the president doesn’t want to leave office with this impending threat hanging over America’s head.
The Iranians see things differently though. They feel that nuclear technology is their inalienable right, and it is, as long as this technology is used for peaceful means and allowed to be monitored by the United Nations.
So be warned, strategists at the Pentagon are busy drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran’s proposed nuclear sites, as a last resort to the development of nuclear and atomic weapons.
So, if you live anywhere in Iran, keep your eyes glued to the heavens, you never can tell when the sky really will fall.
Embrace the bosoms…
Elizabeth Clark, a very pretty intelligent woman is making money “hands over fists” teaching business executives how to flirt in a “radical, possibly revolutionary, certainly fearless” departure in business management.
Liz is the first Flirt Guru that encourages one to “embrace the bosoms” and “compliment the breasts” in this day of political correctness (a true definition of Oxymoron’’), law suits and sexual harassment claims.
What brave new frontiers await us up the corporate ladder?
Addressing a group of executives wearing a low-cut dress, complimented with fishnet stockings, a g-string (she told us that) and a cheeky grin, Liz is teaching the “art of flirting” and, her services do not come cheap, £2000 Stg. for four hours teaching.
It would seem her message has really caught on as her next stop is Geneva, and then the world. Just keep in mind, when staring at a women’s breasts, blink every once in a while, it helps. Also helps if you have a bucket and a sponge to take care of the drooling!
And finally, on a day when no news is certainly good news…
I want to take a complete quote from an Apple Computer advertisement back that aired back 1997, and is a code as to how I have lived and will continue to live my life…
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing that you can’t do is ignore them, because they change things.”
Unknown ‘97
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