This Just Keeps Getting Sillier

Recently, Rachel Ray did an ad for Dunkin’ Donuts. A still from the ad is pictured above. So, the ad ran, and then suddenly a conservative fox news blogger/commentator Michelle Malkin, flipped out because of the scarf Ray is wearing in this still, saying it was a “Keffiyeh.”

Michelle Malkin, wrote on her blog, “The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad.”

I’m glad she pointed that out because I was wondering why every time I saw this ad, right afterwards I thought “Man, I really want some donuts and also want to kill a bunch of jews.”

At first, Dunkin’ Donuts was like “Michelle Malkin, you’re a crazy f-ing bitch,” which, when translated into corporate speak, ended up coming out like this:

In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design. It was selected by her stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended.

But, I’ve been on enough playgrounds to know, one really annoying kid that nobody likes can start screaming and suddenly no one is playing four square and instead everyone is inside at their desks, sitting quietly. So, of course, Dunkin Donuts decided to go the route of the pussy, and pulled the ad. Michelle Malkin was of course enthralled and said this:

“I’m a dumb f-ing piece of shit with no life that sits around and studies the scarves people wear in donut commercials. I also kill babies and eat them.”

Actually, she didn’t say that. I made that up. She said some other stuff that basically meant that. Anywho, it’s not so much that I care about Dunkin’ Donuts, it’s more the principle that one whacked out idiot can actually get things pulled from public view. It sets a bad precedent. First it’s a donut commercial, then goes the porno, and with out even realizing it, it’s 8 p.m. on a Friday and we’re rushing to get home due to a government mandated pre-bedtime viewing of Touched By Angel. Extreme example, but it’s a slippery slope folks.

Anyways, I’m excited to see Michelle Malkin’s reaction to the new Dunkin’ Donuts promotion that’s happening later this summer.

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The Engineers Are Coming

Here is a picture of what a pissed off engineer will do if they had the minds to do it...notice the amount the check is made for! The check is made to Verizon, a company will known for ripping people off (maybe not as bad as Comcast)Finally, another reason not to hate smart people who are intimidated, but yet remain intimidated themselves.

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There Will Be Wonders

Here is a neat picture taken in Dubai, UAE....I was shocked to see all the new buildings and development in this nice and cozy part of the world. This ever changing city looks a lot better than I remember it from growing up there in the eighties and early nineties. The folks in charge of the city keep piling on neat projects such as man made islands, the tallest building in the world, the highest rated hotel on the planet, a skiing slop in the desert, and a theme park, large than the city of Orlando Florida. All these things make me wonder what would these guys do next?

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Hamas: A Slam Dunk

Here is a letter by one of Hamas most profilic minister of health. He is making the case how Hamas does not deny the Holocaust and more. I think they have done a better job here communicating the problem to the Western world, at least for those who listen. Regardless of my disagreements with many figures in the Palestinian leadership, I think this letter is a step in the right direction!


We are not engaged in a religious conflict with Jews; this is a political struggle to free ourselves from occupation and oppression

May 18, 2008 By Bassem Naeem
Source: UK Guardian

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As the Palestinian people prepare to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nakba ("catastrophe") - the dispossession and expulsion of most of our people from our land - those remaining in Palestine face escalating aggression, killings, imprisonment, ethnic cleansing and siege. But instead of support and solidarity from the western media, we face frequent attempts to defend the indefensible or turn fire on the Palestinians themselves.

One recent approach, which seems to be part of the wider attempt to isolate the elected Palestinian leadership, is to portray Hamas and the population of the Gaza strip as motivated by anti-Jewish sentiment, rather than a hostility to Zionist occupation and domination of our land. A recent front page article in the International Herald Tribune followed this line, as did an article for Cif about an item broadcast on the al-Aqsa satellite TV channnel about the Nazi Holocaust.

In fact, the al-Aqsa Channel is an independent media institution that often does not express the views of the Palestinian government headed by Ismail Haniyeh or of the Hamas movement. The channel regularly gives Palestinians of different convictions the chance to express views that are not shared by the Palestinian government or the Hamas movement. In the case of the opinion expressed on al-Aqsa TV by Amin Dabbur, it is his alone and he is solely responsible for it.

It is rather surprising to us that so little attention, if any, is given by the western media to what is regularly broadcast or written in the Israeli media by politicians and writers demanding the total uprooting or "transfer" of the Palestinian people from their land.

The Israeli media and pro-Israel western press are full of views that deny or seek to excuse well-established facts of history including the Nakba of 1948 and the massacres perpetrated then by the Haganah, the Irgun and LEHI with the objective of forcing a mass dispossession of the Palestinians.

But it should be made clear that neither Hamas nor the Palestinian government in Gaza denies the Nazi Holocaust. The Holocaust was not only a crime against humanity but one of the most abhorrent crimes in modern history. We condemn it as we condemn every abuse of humanity and all forms of discrimination on the basis of religion, race, gender or nationality.

And at the same time as we unreservedly condemn the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis against the Jews of Europe, we categorically reject the exploitation of the Holocaust by the Zionists to justify their crimes and harness international acceptance of the campaign of ethnic cleansing and subjection they have been waging against us - to the point where in February the Israeli deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai threatened the people of Gaza with a "holocaust".

Within 24 hours, 61 Palestinians - more than half of them civilians and a quarter children - were killed in a series of air raids. Meanwhile, a horrible crime against humanity continues to be perpetrated against the people of Gaza: the two-year-old siege imposed after Hamas won the legislative elections in January 2006, which is causing great suffering. Due to severe shortages of medicines and food, scores of Palestinians have lost their lives.

It cannot be right that Europeans in general and the British in particular maintain a virtual silence toward what the Zionists are doing to the Palestinians, let alone supporting or justifying their oppressive policies, under the pretext of showing sympathy for the victims of the Holocaust.

The Palestinian people aspire to freedom, independence and peaceful coexistence with all their neighbours. There are, today, more than six million Palestinian refugees. No less than 700,000 Palestinians have been detained at least once by the Israeli occupation authorities since 1967. Hundreds of thousands have so far been killed or wounded. Little concern seems to be caused by all of this or by the erection of an apartheid wall that swallows more than 20% of the West Bank land or the heavily armed colonies that devour Palestinian land in a blatant violation of international law.

The plight of our people is not the product of a religious conflict between us and the Jews in Palestine or anywhere else: the aims and positions of today's Hamas have been repeatedly spelled out by its leadership, for example in Hamas's 2006 programme for government. The conflict is of a purely political nature: it is between a people who have come under occupation and an oppressive occupying power.

Our right to resistance against occupation is recognised by all conventions and religious traditions. The Jews are for us the people of a sacred book who suffered persecution in European lands. Whenever they sought refuge, Muslim and Arab lands provided them with safe havens. It was in our midst that they enjoyed peace and prosperity; many of them held leading positions in Muslim countries.

After almost a century of Zionist colonial and racist oppression, some Palestinians find it hard to imagine that some of their oppressors are the sons and daughters of those who were themselves oppressed and massacred.

Palestinians had nothing to do with the Holocaust but find themselves punished for someone else's crime. But we are well aware and warmly welcome the outspoken support for Palestinian rights by Israeli and Jewish human rights activists in Palestine and around the world.

We hope that journalists in the west will begin to adopt a more objective approach when covering events in Palestine. The Palestinian people are being killed by Israel's machine of destruction on a daily basis. Nevertheless, we still see a clear bias in favour of Israel in the western media.

The Europeans bear a direct responsibility for what is befalling the Palestinians today. Britain was the mandate authority that handed over Palestine to Israeli occupation. Nazi Germany perpetrated the most heinous crimes against Jews, forcing the survivors to migrate to Palestine in pursuit of safety. We, therefore, expect the Europeans to atone for their historic crimes by restoring some balance to the inhuman and one-sided international response to the tragedy of our people.



Bassem Naeem is the minister of health and information in the Hamas-led Palestinian administration in Gaza.

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I had a Smart Cousin (I am not that myself)

PSUT students develop mobile phone application



AMMAN (JT) - A project by three senior engineering students from the King Abdullah II College of Engineering at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) ranked first in the mobile phone applications category at the first National Technological Parade, held at the University of Jordan this week.

The winning graduation project competed with more than 60 projects presented by all the Kingdom’s private and public universities, according to a PSUT statement.

The designed and developed prototype involves a system that graphs a heart electrocardiogram (ECG) using Bluetooth technology on a mobile phone or PDA.

The ECG graph can be captured and saved on the device itself, and it can be sent to a doctor or a specialised healthcare provider using the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), the statement said.

The system prototype is composed of three medical electrodes that are attached to the patient’s body, and a custom-made electronic unit designed for collecting and processing signals from these elecrodes for transmission to the mobile phone or PDA, to be displayed using a software application which was developed for this purpose.

This setup enables a patient to follow up with the doctor from any location covered by the cellular wireless network that offers data services, according to the statement.

The three students who designed the system are Mohammad Njoom, Mohammad Al Madhoon and Mohammad Khader, assisted and supervised by Ashraf Tahat.

Tahat, a faculty member in the PSUT communications engineering department, said incorporating this prototype location-based capabilities using GPS technology can help reduce the response time in emergency situations, which can be critical in saving human lives.

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More of Dumb Laws

There are all city and state ordinances, these were laws at some point of time in the respective place...

D.C.
• A D.C. federal judge has ruled that begging is a form of free speech protected by the Constitution. That means that mugging is free speech too, only more persuasive.
• In Washington D.C. it is illegal to post a notice in public which calls another person a 'coward' for refusing to accept a challenge to duel.
• It is unlawful for small boys to throw stones, at any time, at any place in the District of Columbia.
• The U.S. government says it's a crime to give false weather reports.





Oklahoma
• Alfalfa Bill Murray was a legendary legislator in Oklahoma around the turn of the century who became speaker of the house and governor. He was also a tall fellow, and nothing ticked him off more than going into a hotel and having short sheets on the bed. In 1908 he had a law passed that required all hotels in the Sooner state to have sheets that covered the bed and had three extra feet of linen to cover the head and feet. The so-called "Nine Foot Sheet" stayed on the books for several decades, until after Alfalfa went to his last resting place.
• A City Ordinance in Oklahoma, states that it shall be unlawful to put any hypnotized person in a display window.
• Ada: If you wear New York Jets clothing, you may be put in jail.
• Anyone arrested for soliciting a hooker must have their name and picture shown on television.
• Cars must be tethered outside of public buildings.
• Clinton: Molesting an automobile is illegal.
• Dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of three or more on private property.
• Females are forbidden from doing their own hair without being licensed by the state.
• Fish may not be contained in fishbowls while on a public bus.
• Harthahorne City Ordinance, Section 363, states that it shall be unlawful to put any hypnotized person in a display window.
• If she's not a virgin, it is okay, but the said person must be over 16. If both parties are under 18, then the law does not apply.
• In Broken Arrow, Oklahoma pigs less than 32 inches in length may be kept as pets provided there are no more than two in a house.
• In Bromide, Oklahoma it is illegal for children to use towels as capes and jump from houses pretending to be superman.
• In Oklahoma... Dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of three or more on private property. Oklahoma will not tolerate anyone taking a bite out of another's hamburger.
• In Oklahoma, people who make "ugly faces" at dogs may be fined and/or jailed.
• In Tulsa, Oklahoma the limit on kisses is three minutes (by law).
• In Tulsa, Oklahoma, it is against the law to open a soda bottle without the supervision of a licensed engineer.
• It is against the law to read a comic book while operating a motor vehicle.
• It is illegal to have sex before you are married.
• It is illegal to have the hind legs of farm animals in your boots.
• It is illegal to wear your boots to bed.
• It's statutory rape for a man over 18 to have sex with a female under the age of 18, provided she's a virgin. If she's not a virgin, it is okay, but the said person must be over 16. If both parties are under 18, then the law does not apply.
• No one may spit on a sidewalk.
• Oklahoma City: No one may walk backwards downtown while eating a hamburger.
• Oklahoma will not tolerate anyone taking a bite out of another's hamburger.
• One may not promote a "horse tripping event".
• Oral sex is a misdemeanor and is punisable by one year in jail and a $2,500 fine.
• People who make "ugly faces" at dogs may be fined and/or jailed.
• Residents are taxed for the furniture in their homes, and any other personal belongings.
• Schulter: Women may not gamble in the nude, in lingerie, or while wearing a towel.
• Tattoos are banned.
• Tissues are not to be found in the back of one's car.
• Tulsa: Elephants are not to be taken into the downtown area.
• Violators can be fined, arrested or jailed for making ugly faces at a dog.
• Whale hunting is strictly prohibitted throughout the entire state of Oklahoma.
• Whaling is illegal.
• Women may not gamble in the nude, in lingerie, or while wearing a towel.
• Wynona: One's mode of transportation must be tied up while not attended. Mules may not drink out of bird baths. Clothes may not be washed in bird baths.
• Yukon: It is illegal to tie a horse in front of city hall. While passing another vehicle, you must honk your horn.

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Compass vs. Narnia

I just got off the movie theater after watching the new Narnia movie. The book is based on the book by C.S. Lewis, who wrote about Christianity among other things. Clearly, this movie, its prequel, and upcoming sequel you can notice the references to then Christina faith all over. As little as I know the Christina faith from what I remember from my religion classes at BYU, I enjoyed the movies as movies and as spiritually uplifting experiences.

Last December, I have also seen "The Golden Compass", the other movies that was the atheists rebuttal for the C.S. Lewis. Written by Philip Pullman who reportedly said his book was written to "Kill God" I have also enjoyed this movie, and not because it kills God.

For me, these two movies go hand in hand because the Narnia is about faith and its essence. How the individuals have to rely on faith even thought, it might not work for them or even come a bit late. The Golden Compass on the other hand, does not take issue with faith, but with organized religion and its abuse of power. So in my opinion, they compliment each other, spirituality is personal, religion can be. I have always took issues with the "elites" of religious groups who prey on people's faith. and that is where Golden Compass scored hight with me. Narnia on the other hand reaffirmed that importance of faith, not the kind that tells you to follow blindly. Remember, I only saw the movies, I did not read the books so things might be different. I might not have learned anything new from both movies, but I have liked the visual feasts that both movies introduce.

P.S. I saw a clear analogy in my own mind about how the Narnians in their struggle are like the Palestinians, they get the shi* beaten out of them, and things come to the wire!

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