Weird weird weird looking display!

Does anyone understand the title of this post?

I’v heard about those shows that the Commando unit in the Lebanese army is doing all over Lebanon and some of the acts are honestly disgusting and disturbing, noting that there are lots of children watching this show.

Via +961

According to the police report, obtained by the AP, Fakih was initially stopped when officers noticed the 26-year-old speeding and weaving through traffic in Detroit early Saturday morning.

Cops say Fakih “immediately identified herself as Miss USA.”

According to the report, Fakih took a breathalyzer and blew more than TWICE the legal limit — once blowing a .19 and then a .20. The legal limit in MI is .08. [Link]

Let’s see if she has a good “wasta” that will keep her from doing some jail time.

[Picture Courtesy of NowLebanon]

With all due respect to Shiites in Lebanon who perform or agree with the self immolation tradition, but is that really the best way to commemorate Ashoura day? Can’t you symbolically reproduce what happened without turning it into a bloodshed? Is it rational to have young children at such events?

I thought the Shiite political parties took a decision to stop this tradition. Not only this is unacceptable and sends out a very bad image of Lebanon, but it’s life-threatening for those who do it and is a complete waste of blood.

When I called WISE back in October to ask about the new internet speeds and how they will be implemented, I was told we have to wait till December. I called again yesterday to see what happened and was informed that those with WISE machines can’t be upgraded to more than 1M connection and that this will cost 50$.

So basically the government issued a decree under which the minimum speed is 1M and WISE’s highest speed is only 1MB. Therefore everyone with a WISE machine is screwed and has to pay extra to get DSL now.

I am still on my 512K connection until I figure out what to do.

[YouTube]

Why is she secretly asking about her loan? Is it a shame to get a personal loan or a matter of national security?

Operations have resumed at the Zahrani electricity plant, which will return to its full capacity starting Monday morning, Electricite du Liban announced Sunday, after media reports said contacts between Premier Najib Miqati and Speaker Nabih Berri had managed to resolve the crisis. [Naharnet]

Expect less electricity cuts starting today.

Middle East Airlines chairman Mohammed al-Hout on Sunday said that the pilots had suspended their 5-day strike “without preconditions or promises and commitments from the company’s administrative board.” [Naharnet]

I disagree with the pilots’ decision to suspend their protests without preconditions, but that’s what Hout is saying, so we will have to wait and see. No one will ever take them seriously again if they just dropped their strike and got back to work.

It looks like Mr.Loghat is providing them with the slogans. I hear he’s been “shoffing” at H&M a lot lately.

Via LeTaktouk

Lebanon was plunged into darkness Friday after employees shut down the Zahrani power plant in southern Lebanon after receiving threats from the local municipalities and street thugs, revealed Electricite du Liban in a statement on Friday.

Lebanon has consequently lost 37 percent of its power production seeing as the Zahrani plant provides the country with some 430 megawatts of electricity, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday. [Naharnet]

I don’t know who’s responsible for the threats and who decided to shut down the power plant, but someone needs to fix this problem asap.

It looks like Lebanese women were so bomb they scared him away.

After barely a month of opening Star Chef, they closed it down. I was told they finished shooting for Fatafeat’s show but it is hard to believe they worked for a whole month only to open for 2 weeks.

I heard this morning on the radio that George Michael had been struck with potentially fatal condition pneumonia. He remains in intensive care, and that his bf is a Lebanese.

His name is Fady Fawaz and he is a Lebanese-born celebrity hairstylist based in London.

I wonder if we will see the happy couple in Lebanon one day. The police will probably arrest Fady for being gay.

After a long night of partying and drinking (or any other time), here’s the list of things you have to inform the Valet parking about at Zaatar w Zeit:

- Wallet: Why I leave my wallet in the car unless I forgot it?
- Sunglasses: Do I need them while eating my man2oushe?
- Money, SLR camera, Laptop: Who leaves his car to the valet and all those items are inside?
- Gun: Seriously?

My question to VIP Valet Parking:
Why do you care about what I leave in the car if you are not responsible for the loss of any item?

The MEA pilots are still on strike even though the strike was supposed to end yesterday. My wife went to the airport today and turns out her flight out of Beirut Airport was canceled and she was stranded there along with hundreds of other passengers. I managed to book her on a Jazeera Airways flight back to Kuwait but I have no idea if MEA will refund her ticket or not.

I didn’t have a problem when the pilots were delaying all the flights by two hours. I actually was effected by their strike and they had my full support on it. But completely canceling flights that’s a completely different thing. While a two hour delay is a hassle, canceling flights is a life changer. It has a much bigger effect on everyone. Imagine you’re on vacation somewhere around the world and your flight back to your home has been canceled. I’ve never been in that situation and I hope I would never have to. They had a lot of support from passengers and people when they were delaying flights by two hours but by canceling all the flights I believe they’ve lost all the support they had including mine. I was with the pilots before, but I’m not anymore.

Note: It’s interesting that I couldn’t find any news on this strike neither on Naharnet nor Daily Star.