Teabreak
Because some things are best said with discretion.
Friday, September 17, 2004
Iraq Blog counting ~ Iraq blogs counted and linked. To add your blog, please contact Salam Adil or Abbas Hawazin.
هذا الموقع يهتم بفهرسة المدونات العراقية باللغتين العربية و الانكليزية, لاضافة مدونتك يرجى مراسلة سلام عادل او عباس هوازن
مدونات باللغة العربية
- ملجأ العامرية
- دار الحنان
- ملجأ الجادرية
- محمد سنبه
- موسيقى الكائن
- كلمات أردت أن أقولها
- ضي أوطاني
- *سطيفان*
- منظمة الرصد
- بغداديات عزيز الحجية
- حبيبي يا عراق
- خالد القشطيني
- شعاع العصر
- عبير عبد الغفور
- أزهر مهدي
- أنت حر
- هارت روز
- سوالف خاتون
- متهجولون في الغربة
- أبو الحسن: السياسة و المجتمع
- سوالف خاتون
- سما اللامي
- الشاعر حبيب السامر
- الشاعر رياض البكري
- حمامة من بلاد الرافدين
- علي الحمداني
- محمود الراوي
- أمير المكاميع
- أبو حسوني
- إرشيف طالب عجوزي
- Arido مسند أريدو
- Free Human حاتم عبد الواحد
- Ali العراق من الخارج
- Poor Iraqi
- Iraq The Land of Sand And Ash
- Peace Angel
- Atheer al-Iraqi
- زوايا أشوريه
- I Miss Iraq
- أحمد الكاتب
- حكايات رجل يعيش في بغداد
- دربونة
- شلش العراقي
Culture
- aliraqi
- Dialogues of the Present
- Iraqi Art
- Iraqi Cookbook
- IRAQ.IR blogs *Bloghosting*
- Iraqi Linux Group
- Iraqi Music
- Iraqi Writer
- 4iraqis
- Kufa Gallery
- Kurdit Group
- Kurdit Group ~ Phorum
- shakomakoNET *MAG*
- Streamtime *WEB CAST RADIO*
- Streamtime Backup
- The Not The Northern Iraq Forum
- Wacky Iraqi
Reference
- Ajeeb ~ Arabic Translation
- Bitter Lemons
- Burt's Iraq Notebook 101.1 FM
- Earth View
- Electronic Iraq ~ A News Portal
- Electronic Frontier
- Friends of Saddam
- Future Portal ~ Many Links
- Google News
- Humanitarian Assistance Report
- Iraq Body Count
- Iraq Daily
- Iraq Net
- Iraq Occupation Watch
- Iraqi Civilian War Casualties
- Iraqi FIAS
- Iraqi Sites Guide
- IraqWar
- One Look Dictionary Search
- Snopes
- Spinwatch
- Technorati ~ Blog Services
- The Iraqi Taxpayers' Bridges
- Today In Iraq
- From Baghdad To New York
- The Iraq Foundation
- Words from Iraq
- Zeyad's List
Previous Posts
- Part Two of Interview with Simona Torretta
- American Friends: We Are Afraid To Email You!!
- Held Hostage?
- "There are four"...Un Pont Per Baghdad
- Do i talk alot?
- Blogs New & Censored.
- Got an hour?
- Changed my blog
- Circle
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Sites Archive ~ memoria
37 Comments
Where is the cake?
Cake or no cake - I really like the picture!
yes, emigre you're so right. yet sometimes emotions are an appropriate mechanism to purvey reality, not only how one's feeling. i am so upset about the kidnapping now...after reading the guardian article by klein and scahill...then hearing democracy now today. sometimes there's no time to sleep. people need to know about this... ugh...
so, ok. i relent, give me some tea. i can always use some. i need to relax badly. i'm juggling my synapses.
scones, must have some scones!
Hi. I think this is a very relaxing and wise post! It sure does remind me, as I write for 3 blogs, to take some time for myself! Thank you! Oh, BTW, ignore those who do not have the capicity to understand anything deeper than...well...a 15 second commercial. I'm sure they are nice people, just wrong!
Lol, it only takes someone to say "cake" and someone else to say "scones" ~ then abracadabra ~ guess who shows up. Jeffrey, we missed you. Share more of your wisdom with us, i beseech thee.
(Ihath, you have all the best pickup lines).
Jeffrey --
Why don't you offer something more relevant to this post?
No comments on the quality of the drawing? Doesn't the limited palette of greys and beiges induce a sense of tranquillity? Personally, I find the hesitant lines on the spoon remeniscent of wavery sunlight off a metal edge, and that the slight incorrectness of the drawing of the cup enhance the feeling of the 'cupness' if you will. Also, the situating of the main articles close to the bottom of the page adds a sense of weight to the composition, enhancing the stillness of the mood. The more I look at it, the more I like it.
And then Jeff splatters liquid shit across the comments page.
A pity that a man of his claimed intellect doesn't have anything more to offer. So, in the spirit of things nasty, here is a reply:
LOL!
Yet more irrelevant crap tossed by Jeffrey into the air ...
Yeah, well, my nuts are easy to grab, although the same cannot be said for another, unnamed individual who might best be described as "scrotally challenged". Perhaps I owe this individual an apology ... it was not nice to puncture his precious pride, and to extract his latent feelings of inferiority with my sweaty, oily, manly fragrance.
It is with a degree of sadness that I witness your projection of the image of superiority onto one that is clearly an enemy. (Sad because I know that this means that you will never stand and fight, to receive the butt bashing you so richly deserve.) Even more worrying are the sexual undertones to your rant, where in your mind, the big bully runs off with all the gals, leaving you clutching your raisins. This says to me that you cannot think objectively, that you view the world through the prism of "the biggest ape gets to mate with all the females" ... this is something that I have picked up in your writing before. You are projecting *your* mindset onto me, and, unfortunately I don't work like that.
Where you see the Iraqi war as a means to unleash your frustrations and rage on a people that cannot fight back, as a means to enhance your own self esteem, I see the war as a moral outrage whose apologists must be challenged and crushed wherever they are. Quite frankly, I think if I get a good butt kicking it would be a good thing, because it would mean that my thinking was flawed, and that I have learned something new from the experience. Hence, grown.
You, on the other hand, avoid serious debate like Dracula avoids sunlight because you know that the premises upon which your argument is based are wrong, and thus you know that further damage to your remaining self esteem is imminent. You are set in your ways, and averse to changing your established ideas.
(And, I doubt that Alvaro and Khalid are "getting into line" for anything. They seem quite capable of holding their own against your feeble efforts ... )
Please, take my advice. Get a wife, a girlfriend, or a rent boy, and find a hobby other than "kick the dog". Honestly, believe me when I say not all guys have bigger dicks than you, (really, that is a common male mental misconception) and that there will be somebody who appreciates you for who you are, not for the Alpha male mask you put on when the big boys are out of town.
Crap, I'm going soft on you.
How embarrassing.
Lolol. Jeffrey, as i said, we missed you. No one more then --Bruno--, who barely uttered a croak in your absence. Oh all these frog princes! What am i to do!
Now that we had some tea and done the madatory polite chit chat with Jeffery, I think we should do some juicy gossip. What good is a relaxing tea break without good gossip? So, does anyone have good gossip to share?
Yes I have a gossip
Salam Pax was yesterday on BBC, and he was bold, not a single hair on his head, guys he is really ugly and need to work out.
lol
poor salam. i've heard too much blogging has that effect, your hair falls out and you get puffy under the eyes. but really, maybe it was just a poorly lit studio?
I think the bald looks good on men. I mean 100% bald. It looks daring.
I keep threating to shave my head but my husband won't let me.
I saw that the Jarrars are looking for sponsors to come to the States. Jeffrey, why don't you sponsor them? HA!Raed apparently got denied a visa because whoever was sponsoring him decided not to because they feel he is "anti-semitic"....that is what his blog said anyway....
ihath, you must have great bone structure to be contemplating it.
i think i've passed the age threshhold for completely shaving my head. suave on a famous weblogger and hip on a teen chick, but i'm neither and i just don't think i could carry it off now.
Jeffrey you crack me up. "10-step de-baathification program!!"
Yes I was amused by Raed's post as well....he can't stand America yet he wants to come here....I guess he'll have to marry "The Letter N" (How pretentious! Give me a break!) to get into America!
Gee Emigre, you flatter me. I am blushing. I just think that the bald head would be so liberating. It would make a strong statement like "I don't care what I look like" or "I am anti fashion industry chick". The whole Sinead O'Connor effect.
I'M NOT YOUR BABY
(Music by U2, Lyrics by Bono, Performed by U2 and Sinead)
From the cd The end of violence
It's a beautiful day today
Everything is going my way
Even the words doing what I say
Oh babe...got to get away
To be impossible isn't that difficult
In the city you're invisible
When you come from a small town
Everything is alright
Everything is alright
I'm not your baby please
Is the US running Operation Paper Clip II?
That may be a way for the Jarrars to get into the country.
For those who don't have a clue, the US
during and after WWII ran Operation Paper Clip, where they smuggled NAZI scientists into the country to
keep them out of Soviet hands. Which I have no problem with, since there are times when unfortunately you have to go with the lesser of two evils. Those NAZIs
helped us make it to the Moon and helped to nullify a greater evil Communism.
As far as the Jarrars go, consider their strong Baathist and Anti-American leanings with the Pics and writings to prove it, it would be a complete disgrace for them to be given Visas, when there are millions of more needy Iraqis, whose lives would truly benefit
from being in the US.
I made blueberry muffins today and they go well with
sweet tea, since the blueberries are a bit tart. I use brown sugar instead of white sugar in the muffins, because once you've had brown sugar baby, you never go back. Nah, it's because the molasses works well with cinnamon in the muffins.
Good point Mister Ghost. I would be surprised if the Jarrars get into the US with that last name being tied to Hamas (i.e. Nasser Jarrar killed in 2002, leader of the militant wing of Hamas).
do you remember the Lou Reed perfect day lyrics?...
Oh it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging x2
*to self* i hope he bakes muffins better then he does conspiracy theories. a half baked muffin is an embarrassment, even for a spook.
"we" are exchanging pleasantries, not "slinging". i am tolerant but not stupid.
Emigre,
Did you see the movie "Heaven, both the leading woman and man charcters shave their heads towards the end of the movie. They look so cute together after that. After seeing that movie I tried to convince my husband that both of us should shave our heads but he refused. I still like the idea.
As for food, I like sushi. Just give me raw fish please.
lol, some people just look great with no hair on top.
as for fishy i tend to agree, sushi with halfcooked tuna ~ eww.
unless it is seared, seared tuna is ve-ery nice.
Lol. Jeffrey is starting to repeat himself again, somebody shove another scone in his mouth.
Jeffrey,
I took it that the Jarrar's wanted to come to America to "enlighten" us about Iraq. I think Raed just wants a way over here so he can be with his beloved "Letter N".....as I said, he should just marry her, then he could get over here to the "Great Satan"...maybe he could...then again, maybe not....
Here is their ceremony:
"Do you "N" take thee "R" to be thy lawfully wedded...."H"?
"Do you "R" take thee "N" to be thy lawfully wedded..."W"?
Good grief!
Julia
Jeffrey, where N lives is irrelevant. She is out of your league.
Jeffrey,
No apparently Niki lives in California! Can you believe that? Her English is way too good which makes me think her family is from Iran but I bet she was born over here.
Julia
Yes I think we can assume that "R" is Raed. That is what is so ridiculous about it when you read her blog. We KNOW that her name is now Niki from reading Raed's blog yet she still calls herself "N" and we know that "R" is Raed so why does she pretend we don't know who she is talking about?? Could be that she is a fan of Riverbends and she is ripping off her style of writing. You know how River always refers to relatives with letters. Like River's brother "E"....Dumb!!
Raed's blog though is better than a soap opera. I mean how many girlfriends has this guy had since we became aware of him back in Salam's blog? I think three....maybe four...I'd have to go back and check Salam's blog again. And each one of these girlfriends of Raed's ends up dumping him and he gets all distraught on the verge of suicide....then miraculously he recovers only to "find love again."....HA! Like I said, its a great soap opera via blogdome.
Julia
Ahhhh. You are so right "J". Perhaps I'd better not talk about such things. shhhhh
Julia or ("J^")
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Nice drawing.
- Ben.
Thanks Ben.
Just cleaned up a few of Jeffrey's comments. Before anybody gets in a pickle about it, a brief explanation;
Jeffrey dug up and posted several personal speculations as to a certain webloggers identity and location. This is bad taste and unacceptable behaviour, especially considering a related party to said certain weblogger is currently being held hostage.
Damn! Sorry, I had to leave early, but I'm back now!
Any scones left?
Just this cranberry one - but somebody has taken a bite out of it ... yech!
Some people never finish what they start. I wonder why?
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