May 2012
5 posts
Aiyah Saihati: Saudi: The Gulf Union Summit →
aiyah1:
It isn’t surprising that the Gulf Union Summit won’t yield serious results. The smaller states with denser income per capita have more to lose. If they need military protection, the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) already has a pact intact. If all else fails in that regard, renting the US army ala…
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Augustine
Probably would have been amazing! First he was absolutely brilliant, and he fully believed in making beautiful memories as a gateway to the soul. He seems like a sensitive bad boy, and we all know what that means! But then, he found God and started to feel bad about all of his licentious acts and had to refrain from sins of the body. Damn Catholic guilt!
waiting for a train
When Gandhi was asked why he travelled second-class train, he famously said because there was no third. Gandhi’s class, or SC, transported last year 3x India’s population. This is how India travels.
Spring turning, the agrarian nation eagerly took a week off, to go home to lob Holi colors & imbibe cannabis. I had to be in Varanasi. Travel was squatting room only. I could travel SC, sans...
July 2009
1 post
June 2009
63 posts
Four-lettered Free Speech
“(W)hile the particular four-letter word being litigated here is perhaps more distasteful than most others of its genre, it is nevertheless often true that one man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric.” - Justice John Harlan, Cohen vs. California.
Freedom of Speech, FTW!
i want. http://bit.ly/7LP8j …and my birthday is coming up as well. just saying.
how twitter literally killed a girl. http://bit.ly/BVd4B (via @christophernull)
RT @nytimes: Apple’s Secrecy on Products and Top Executives http://bit.ly/1wj9IX and CEO’s health http://tinyurl.com/lsp9zl
usama: 1, junebug: 0! boom muthafucka!
RT @austinist: Traffic on Mopac near 360 is backed up as authorities investigate a suicide at the greenbelt, says @statesman Blotter
RT @nytimeskristof: Women marginalized in Iran, yet ubiquitous in protests. Best explanation:education! 65% of univ students are women. #fb
#iran http://www.iranwristband.com
RT @JTSampson with this tweet i control the elections of iran. dance, puppets.
“the vice guide to shagging muslims”…i know, wtf! published in 01, how’d i miss this?http://bit.ly/PFCps
Ef summer.. always hotter than is worth doing anything and 9/10 weekends you end up by kids in tshirts at yet another barbecue. bit.ly/MY7Na
rt @haaretzonline: VIDEO Border Policemen film themselves abusing Palestinians http://bit.ly/rqRkd
Why is twitdroid pushing an update every other day?
rt @gopgreenhouse: “Just heard Obama is going to impose a 40 percent tax on aspirin because it’s white and it works.”<3 republican racism…
craving some al baik. http://bit.ly/iiIWK :(
six flags files chapter 11, won’t close down though. http://bit.ly/XVbWr …aand wsj: http://bit.ly/jppbu
spent sunday evening “discovering” honky-tonk and two-stepping. fail.
Chucks are a gret way to deconstruct your attire. But in a good way! #fb
RT @bccocx Wishing I was on a farm in Tennessee #bonnaroo
RT @NightCulture Tittsworth in austin tonight!
fifth highway wreckage sighting of the weekend. <3 dallas
i am now facebook.com/usamasyed! damn you facebook.com/usama!
dallas highways are evil :(
starbucks kills migraines!
on my way to dallas for a wedding. #fb
rt al jazeerah @AJEnglish: Recession ‘forcing girls into work’: http://tinyurl.com/m94zb2
alright kids. tornado sweeping through the atx… head for the basement!
final destination realized… woman who doesn’t board doomed air france flight, dies in car crash days later: http://bit.ly/7BNE0
apple secrecy fail: http://bit.ly/QAEQC
i call dibs on facebook.com/usamasyed… http://bit.ly/NZjiu
Finding a ride to Dallas is so old school!
Pooping is so old school!
Brazil scores! And leads 2-1!
thank you aljazeera sports for streaming the game without problems. brazil wins!
failing at streaming the brazil paraguay world cup qualifier game :(
day trip to garfield, tx… kayaking, swimming and slipping on the colorado river. #fb
spending pint night admiring meticulous precise docs. someone (not me, the person(s) in charge of tumblr docs) deserves a pat on the back!
was supposed to go to dog and duck, but am stuck creating a consistent html and css theme for my blog. how cool am i tweeps?
twitters roast: http://bit.ly/144uFO
meet @famousfarah, the cat lady!
Obama’s speech, a postmortem
John V Whitbeck dismembers Obama’s admittedly beautiful Cairo speech in an Op Ed published in Saudi Arabia’s leading English language newspaper, Arab News:
President Barack Obama’s much anticipated speech in Cairo was truly astounding.
After all the months of lead-up and hype, few could have imagined that this speech would contain nothing of substance…
t-mobile customer service just hung up on me! at least they’re not as bad as at&t, and calling me a liar?