We have a great matal in Lebanese: meen jarrab al mjarrab kan 3a2lo mkharrab… It means you are crazy if you keep trying to use something broken!

Everyone is talking about opening a new page with Syria but they are still the same old regime since 40 years! I wish to see our problems with Syria solved and to have a normal relation with them, but I don’t think it will happen in our life unfortunately and I am almost 100% sure that Syria will abuse us again and be a bad neighbor like they have been all the time.

I don’t believe that a magical change will happen and suddenly the same old regime will start to respect Bkerki’s wishes for Lebanon independence, or respect the UN resolutions and the UN court for Lebanon, or tell the truth on the fate of our political prisoners, ETC… ETC… I hope I am wrong but I don’t think so, Syria is Syria with the same old Baath mentality, their idea of a nice gift is sending us Fate7 Islam from their jails, or giving us rockets to fight their war while they negotiate over our bodies, or creating this fake Papa Noel – Papa Michel with a Syrian costume and the Baath traditional song SKITOUUUU instead of HOHOHO.

It is all an obvious fairy tale, but we are forced to sit and watch it and believe it will be real this time because our government did not respect our vote in the last election. If Syria screw us again, we should not blame Bashar, we should blame Hariri and Hezbollah and all the Syrian elves like Aoun and Frangieh. Until we find out what will happen at least we can be proud of Bkerki and Patriarch Sfeir who is the only Lebanese to know when and how to visit Syria!

Anyway forget Syria and Merry Christmas!

PS: but don’t take gifts from this guy they suck!

PAPA MICHEL – SKITOUUUUU!

The picture of Saad Hariri shaking hands with the butcher of Damascus is a very sad sight for any free man Lebanese or not Lebanese, it reminds of Walid Joumblat shaking hands with the butcher senior Hafez after his own father was killed by the Syrians (but we should check with Nasrallah maybe he will also say that it is the Americans who killed him?).

The only funny part of this trip is about all our stupid politicians who were hoping to be part of the “Wafed” to Syria, every day on the news they ask those ass kissers will you accept to be part of the delegation to Syria and they will all say yes I don’t have a problem to join the delegation (haram they are all so nice and open minded hehehe), but today Hariri went alone to Syria with his brother only!

Al shou Hariri was received in “Qasr al Sha3eb”, wleh ayya sha3eb haida, ya 7aram I wonder if the symbol of the palace is a big boot on the head of the people. Today I thank God that I grew up in a free society, you have to experience freedom to know what it is worth, it is not enough to work in the USA and eat Mc Donalds burger to know the value of freedom, in Lebanon and in the Middle East freedom is not free, you have to make a big sacrifice to taste it, you have to fight the mighty Syrian army for 100 days in Achrafieh and break the head of Hafez Assad to know its real taste, you have to throw a shoe at Bush in Iraq, you have to fight Israel out of your country like in the year 2000, you have to force the Syrian occupation out like in 2005, I LOVE this freedom more than I love myself because without it life has no meaning!

Now as a Lebanese citizen all I can do is stay faithful to the memory of all the martyrs and freedom fighters until all the problems with Syria are solved, we should not visit Syria before the major problems with them are solved, no one with self-respect should kneel to a killer.

This is why Bachir created the Ouwet, this is why the Ouwet doesn’t belong to any person no matter what his name is, the Ouwet belongs only to the Lebanese who love freedom and know its value. Wa inna Allah ma3 al Sabireen

I took this picture last week when the weather was still nice, the army (or Dife3 Madani?) have been flying this helicopter every day since few months ago, it look like they are training for fighting forest fires, it has a bucket under it (satel mayy ) but now in winter there is no forest fires so I think they should attach a mamsa7a and mekenseh to clean the streets in the winter time

This way if you call them on the CB radio “Fire Unit 116 are you there? over and out!” they will not answer 10-4, they will say Yes Madame

I am just kidding good luck to this unit to save the 2 remaining trees in the whole country!

Do you ever wonder how Karim is so good at reading the complicated regional strategic geopolitical situation of the Near Eastern quagmire casus belli under supercallifragallistical expealidotious conditions? It is very simple, he sees it all clearly through Bashar’s rear end, as you can easily see below (notice where the Middle East is located from that view point)

And when it is really confusing he takes a deep anal-ysis through the Persian Penins-ula. This is the only way to see that sila7 al Mouqawama is a good thing for the Christians!!!

We all know that in Lebanon the best rumors you hear are when you are getting your hair cut I was at the “Salon” on Tuesday (Monday they all close for some reason!) and I had nice long conversation with my barber m3allem X (not the same Mr. X from the Hariri investigation So we talk about a lot of things, first politics of course, then the high prices of things, then about women (they are so pretty in Lebanon!) and many other things. And many times other customers also participate in the discussion (first they wait a little time without saying anything because they want to make sure what is your political color and when they make sure you are pro their side then they start to talk

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When you ask Hezbollah what is their agenda, they tell you it is to liberate Cheb3a and protect Lebanon from Israel. Then you hear that:

1. Egypt caught them smuggling weapons to Gaza
2. Yemen accuse them of training the Shi3a rebels
3. Kuwait accuse them of recruiting people to destabilize the regime
4. UAE expel 100 of their supporters for funding them with money earned in UAE
5. Iraq accuse them of leading or training the Shi3a resistance groups
6. Their military commander lives in Syria and is assassinated in Damascus

Is there ANYTHING Lebanese left about this Iranian tool??? Is the whole world lying and only Hezbollah are honest nice guys??? What is the benefit for us from all this bad publicity and terrorist reputation??? If Hezbollah only care about Lebanon what the hell are they doing in all these countries!!!????

Anyone ever hear that LF supporters are caught putting a bomb in Damascus?? Did Kataeb ever get expelled from Qatar or Oman?? Anyone hear of Hariri “salafists” accused of something bad in France???

What is next from Hezbollah?? the Vatican will expel the Bishop Haddad for spying for them? If they are more outside Lebanon than inside it then why they don’t turn their gang to a travel agency and make a honest living for a change?

This weekend was the unofficial “soft opening” of the new souks of downtown Beirut (1st picture = souk entrance on saturday), the official opening is soon (I am not sure when exactly) but when I was walking in the souk with my friends the first thing that we wondered is when will Nasrallah make the “grand opening” for this new part of downtown (2nd picture = size of grand opening).

The souks are nice but all luxury shops for tourists and rich people, the old souks had both the luxe and the normal shop for Lebanese and tourists from all classes to shop in them but this is not the case anymore. There will be a “phase 2″ of the souks that is starting construction right next to this phase 1, it will be more on the side of the sea front, I think also luxury stores.

Conclusion for me: it is a new shopping center that is mostly for “Khalijieh” (rich people from the Gulf) to shop in it when it is open and for March 8 to make tents near it when it will be closed. But it is nice and in the open air not a closed mall so it is worth visiting.

1989: Aoun sends his cowards to beat up the head of the church because Patriarch Sfeir supported Taef to end Aoun’s stupid losing wars. Result: Bkerki stayed the salvation of Lebanon and Aoun is kicked out of his hideout in Baabda and runs to another hideout for 15 years.

2009: Aoun claims the head of the church has joined the LF political party (hehehe that is great I love it!) because the Patriarch wants to respect the wish of the people like it is done in the entire world where if someone lose an election for one position he doesn’t get appointed to a higher position against the will of the people. Result: La abwab al ja7im wala hal bhim will stop Bkerki from protecting the land and the people of Lebanon, Aoun and his followers will have to “to2o ou mouto” (the children language they understand) because Bkerki is a red line in your faces.

Aoun started as sa2it 3askarian in his wars then he became sa2it akhla2ian in his attacks on Bkerki and his ugly language and behavior, then he came back from France to be Syria’s dog and he became sa2it siyasian, and 2 months ago we made him sa2it intikhabian.

This is the past but what will happen in the future? Well I think in the near future even the medication will not help Aoun anymore from becoming totally sa2it 3a2lian, so all the hope and the pressure will be on Gebran Bassil to pass the Brevet in 2019 so he will not be men al rasibeen anymore. Go Gebran Go you are the only smart one who knows how to talk in the Tayyar as Aoun always says in his interviews, all the hope is on you! :-s

Aoun came back from his vacation even more crazy than before, I was hoping he would rest at some clinic for the insane and maybe they will change his medication, but there is no improvement at all it is even worse, here is some hallucinations from his speech to Al Jazira:

1..Israel is giving support to March 14 majority because Israel said it doesn’t want Hezbollah in the government. So by Aoun’s logic, all the people who like to eat Falafel are Israeli agents because the Israelis love Falafel too.

2..Patriarch Sfeir is not elected by the people so he has no right to talk about politics and the constitution of Lebanon. But Nasrallah and Fadlallah are elected by the people so it don’t bother him when they interpret the constitution and decide for all of us when to make war and who has the right to have weapons. And of course Walid M3allmo is elected by the people of Syria so he has the right to interpret the Lebanese constitution and talk about internal Lebanese politics this don’t bother Aoun, it only bothers him when Patriarch Sfeir talks about the politics of the country that Bkerki played the first role in creating.

This is all after he said few days ago that he will not talk to someone (Hariri) who doesn’t want to dialogue with him (What???)

You can see the other priceless wisdom of Aoun on the Al Jazira website, but if you really want to see his state of mind read the details of his speech on the Tayyar site, it is a combination of someone who was not given the right medication (like his comment #2 above) and maybe he also ran away from the clinic before the finish the treatment so he didn’t get enough medication (like comment #1)

I think next time Aoun should not waste time on treatment anymore he should go to Disney Land, it is not only a place for children it is also great for Looney Tunes! Aoun can hang out with Yosemite Sam, they are both Looneys and they have the same anger problems and they even look and act the same way!

The minister of Power Stealing Mr. Alain Tabboulian warned us about tougher rationing of our electricity, “JUST LIKE EVERY YEAR” he said!!

I thought the ministers of Taghyir and Isla7 are better than the others because they can fix everything they put their hands on, so why now Mr. Habboulian is saying the problem will stay JUST LIKE EVERY YEAR??

He said that we don’t have enough money to expand our electrical production, but we all know his allies 2ashraf 2al nas are the most ones who don’t pay for electricity and we see on TV every year the collectors of the company complain that they are beaten up if they go to the holy Mouraba3, so why his excellency doesn’t stop this stealing so the company makes money and buy new equipment? Why Tabourian you don’t give your collectors a taboureh to climb and cut those illegal lines? Start with Achrafieh if you want, we don’t have a problem with it, but do it in all Lebanon, or is also the electricity stealing a red line for the resistance??

So far we have Isla7 in the Telecom ministry that make the cell phone lines cheaper but worse than before, and in the Power ministry we have promises of tougher rationing and no improvement. Is it still the fault of Hariri?? If it is Hariri always then why you keep insisting to get in the government he is forming??

This power ministry has been with the opposition groups since 20 years, wayniyeh el dawlehhhhhhhhhhhhhh???

Today Senator Ted Kennedy was buried at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia USA, may he Rest in Peace. He spent 47 years in the US Congress where he proposed over 3000 legislation and passed many hundreds of laws, most of them were to help the poor and to give better rights to Americans, for example:

* Laws for Civil Rights to end race discrimination
* Laws to give rights to women and protect them from violence
* Laws to protect children and help them get education
* Laws to help immigrants and refugees
* Laws to improve Healthcare and help disabled people

When he was alive he was called the Lion of the senate because he worked so hard and so honest to help people (so it is easy to see the big difference with the Lion of Syria who throws poets in jail and suicides his political opponents).

In his personal life Ted Kennedy is known for some irresponsible behavior he made that caused great harm to some people, but nothing I know or read about him shows he wanted to harm someone on purpose, he made some bad mistakes but he also made many great achievements to give people more rights and more freedom. I wish we have 1 Ted Kennedy in Lebanon instead of 128 Gilberte Zouein.

But for me the best thing about Ted Kennedy is his humour, he was a very funny man and very MODEST even if many many people worship the Kennedy family. I was lucky one time to see him speaking at a political event and he told many funny jokes about himself and his brother President John Kennedy. He was never angry that he did not become president and he said in a joke “I don’t mind not being president, I just mind that someone else is president” (so it is easy to see the big difference with the arrogant wanna-be president who never make us smile and who blocks the country for the eyes of his son-in-law)

Ted Kennedy is called the greatest senator of his time by all his colleagues and by many Americans, some complexed people don’t like to hear that hard work and sacrifice and dedication for something can earn you a title like Majdou Loubnan 2ou3tia lahou, but Ted Kennedy is an example of this greatness, and no one today dare to take it away from him. May he Rest in Peace for all the good he has done.

This is a picture I took of him at his speech.

HAHAHAHA I LOVE THIS GUY!!!

I wish I can meet him I will invite him to breakfast every morning so I can start my day with a smile [YouTube]

Another nice press conference by the General, the funniest points are:

1. For the eyes of Joubran Bassil we won’t form a government
2. Joubran despite his young age is a great freedom fighter
3. If you attack Joubran Bassil you attack the General
4. Lay off “honik shaghleh” in the Tayyar (he did not specify what is the honik shaghleh, I assume it is Joubran since he is defending him)
5. God help the one who will mention anything about Aoun and Bassil and Tayyar

I just want to say that I agree with #1 and #4, just look at the picture you will see from Joubran eyes that Bashar will not form a government without him, and really we should lay off and stop touching him in public it’s not polite.

Every once in a while the official LF site publish some analysis from a newspaper or from their own writing that give a scary picture of the current events and they always succeed to scare many people because we see many comments on this blog that show the same fears, and also I see many people in my day who repeat the same story in different ways. For example, few weeks ago when Amine Gemayel met Sleiman Frangieh they published an article “God please save me from my friends” and then we start to see comments on the blog insulting Amine Gemayel and talking about big conspiracy, but few days later all the LF officials say this is a very good step that will pave the way for LF-Marada reconciliation so all the insults and stories quickly disappear. Today the new fear is about isolating LF and “repeating the scenario of 1993″ of putting Geagea in Jail, so already we see some hard comments starting to appear. It is not only the LF site that do this it is also some days the Kataeb site, and of course it is every day the Tayyar site the kings of scare tactics and science fiction

There is a simple solution for this problem: people use your logic. If someone in March 14 becomes friend with Bashar the Ass it means they can put Geagea in jail? Who is this genius who is writing this analysis? Where are the 30,000 Syrian troops and Mokhabarat to do it, where did all the other March 14 allies go? This is not 1993 and it is totally stupid to say it is the same time and circumstances, so please stop panicking and use your logic. There is also a better solution: to fire the writers who like to make this drama, but maybe then we will become too boring compared to the Star Wars website where little angry orange creatures are always right but all other races are wrong and corrupt. So I think maybe our best solution is still to just use our logic.

In more simple words, please don’t blow things out of proportion

I like to think that I am not old yet but some things are starting to make me feel old for example I am from the generation of FLIPPER and ARCADE games we used to go to the VIDEO STORE to play these games we didn’t have them at home and we had to pay coins to play if you start to lose the game you can not start again because you will lose your money you have to keep trying to win, this is the big difference with the Atari and Playstation you can press the RESET button and restart your game when you want (I was still a kid when Atari came out and I was so happy to have it at home but it was not the same excitement and atmosphere as the Video Arcades!)

I am seeing many people who are pro-LF or pro-Hezbollah or whatever who want to press the reset button every time they lose, we saw it in the election with March 8 supporters and we saw it now with March 14 supporters about Jumblat. There is something even more funny it is the ones who insist that there is no March 14 anymore and if we don’t switch to March 8 we will be screwed, this is like saying hey PS2 sucks dude you should get a PS3 it’s AWESOME

I wish everything was so simple when we try a game we don’t like it we go buy a new one, but if you look at what happened to the Palestinians when they panicked and left their home you will see that the fate of a country is not a game, it is much bigger than all the events we are seeing, the only game is Jumblat (he is a modern FLIPPER ) but our 1000s year existence is not a game and we survived many tough times because we are not defeatist. We are not occupying other land like Israel is doing and we are not oppressing people like Khamana2i is doing and we are not assassinating people like Bashar the Ass is doing, it is strange that these dictators are holding their ground in their tough time and surviving it but we want to give up our right because we are tired?

OK so I don’t want to preach like old people so I will only say one more thing to anyone feeling down about the situation in Lebanon, when I want to listen to politicians like Jumblat I always use the ipod potty (see the picture below), it helps me a lot and I think you will find it very cool

When we want to understand why something went wrong in our life today, we say that even Jesus who picked only 12 followers had 1 betray him (Judas) and 1 renounce him (Peter), so of course it is not strange if we have something like it happen to us. But sometimes we forget that Jesus was crucified by Rome yet it is Rome that disappeared and he stayed until today, he was accused of blasphemy by the Jewish authority but his peaceful teaching survived and replaced the old hard teachings of the Jewish.

Why Jesus won in the end, simply because his teaching was right for humanity and they were wrong, but I am sure that when he was being betrayed by Judas and taken to the Romans, someone (like our friends from March 8 on this blog ) took him aside under one of the olive trees and whispered in his ear “Ya Yasou3 shou baddak bi hal shaghleh, 2il Amerken ra7 yeterkouk w bukra Boutros Bayk byenkrak, sma3 men hal da2en ou 3mellak wara2it tafehom ma3 hal Rouman, 2ana halla2 be7kilak ma3 2il General Pilatus wou mna3mil 2ettisalat bel sayyid Caiaphas iza bet soff ma3na men 3ayyinlak John wou Matthew bel wizara 2il jdideh”

In this picture there are 3 types of people, there are the ones who believe in something good for humanity and are ready to sacrifice their life for it, there are the ones who don’t believe in anything so they swing from right to left to save their interest, and then there are the worst of all three, the ones who have bad principles but are proud of them and against any change (like the Jewish Rabbis who accused Jesus).

You think that today Jumblat is the worst form of politics because he has no principles, but there is actually much worse, it is the the ones who are proud of their bad principles, like Sleiman Frangieh who is proud to be the follower of Assad the dictator, or Hassan Nasrallah the follower of Khamana2i the backward Neanderthal, they talk openly about their servitude and they are proud of it, even when they and their masters and their principles all belong in the trash.

We are taught to welcome back the lost lamb, we are taught to forgive the one who hurt us if he wants to repent, but we are also taught to keep going no matter who gives us the kiss of betrayal or denies us before the sun rise in the morning. For the followers of the stupid doctrines of dictators and freaks, don’t waste your time rejoicing at our loss and crying at our gain, look inside you at what you are following and make the right choice, it is never too late to save yourselves.

Mabrouk for your gain (we are happy for you not jealous, at least now you know you are not Gods you are humans who want the majority even if it is from Jumblat joining you)