►Iraq Leaving Home  September, 2007
 

Baghdad Burning ... I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend...                  
Two months ago, the suitcases were packed. My lone, large suitcase sat in my bedroom for nearly six weeks, so full of clothes and personal items, that it took me, E. and our six year old neighbor to zip it closed.

Ara Ashjian  I write these words while I say good-bye to you, my beloved Baghdad. I say good-bye while the pain and the grief tear my heart and fill my essence and feeling. You are the city which embraced my father and other Armenians who survived the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and provided them with shelter and means of living and comfort.

They are doing it right. If you put the larger sheets on the outermost string, the intimates and daily use clothes behind will never dry.

   An enemy hands you Coca-Cola!

I spotted a large banner on a building on the other side of the park. It proclaimed "Wrog podaje ci Coca Cole!" = "An enemy hands you Coca-Cola!" Wow, I realized that I was able to read it! But I did not understand it.
 

Corruption

►ON THE ROAD    

Tuesday, October 17, 2006  by Chinabounderess

Guys spitting in the bus!!!
Guys trying to grap your ass!!! (happened today)
Guys trying to steal something from your bag!!!
Guys trying to touch you!!!
Guys going frenzy in the bus!!!
Damn guys.
Fucking hate buses

► ON THE ROAD    

American cops in general are corrupt.
A few kids in my high school became cops. In high school these same kids were picked on, made fun of, given no respect. Now they got that badge and that gun . Phil Finland for Thought

►Traffic Police

There’s no chalk mark at the scene of the crime. Just a bankomat print-out registering the intersection where I was pulled over and shaken down for 400 Euro, one fine afternoon in August, by the Kaliningrad militsi.

►on Falomo Bridge Ikoyi  Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Òrò pa èsì je (matter kill comment)
My friend Dayo Ogunyemi took these pictures on Falomo Bridge Ikoyi yesterday. An appropriate caption defies me so over to you smart folks, how would you caption this, and in the nature of our hard to explain realities, how would you describe this. Funmi Iyanda

►Taxi  

  I have a lot of people comment on the niceness of my arse (Mary Ann, pedal cab driver in London)

       

    The Rise Of The Second Caliphate. Sunday afternoon over 100 thousand activists crowded into the Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia shouting "Allah hu Akbar" and denouncing democracy and secularism the attendees called for the return of a global caliphate, a one world Islamic state

 ► A Kiosk in Moscow                                                   KIOSK
Dinc Arslan
She looked at me as if I have come with a bloody club in my hands to rob her pathetic kiosk that served fried meatpies and other stuff that seriously harms human digestive system.

►Corruption  Government salaries in Tajikistan are well below the subsistence level and a public official, although formally employed, realistically cannot cope with the cost of living.  In this situation of “underemployment,” government employees (from doctors to teachers) often hold a second job

► Corruption                                                                                          

 ►Religion

 Freaks in action. Check out the portable speakers they carry. So god can hear them

...at least the religious police is the most popular security system in the Kingdom and their mistakes are very very rare and those who commit mistakes end up being punished and fired from job, they are unarmed (only few have sticks), they fought and stopped lots of crimes , they are highly capable in detecting Al Qaeda traitors and they saved many people, why none of these stupid anti-Islamic propagating media resources speak anything about the worst-popular security system in the Kingdom (THE TRAFFIC POLICE) whom always give Saudis tickets claiming that you were driving 150 km/h while your speed didn't even reach 110 km/h and at the end make you pay lots of bills for nothing ?

►Traffic Police

 Q:How do you get a Congolese driving license?

  A: You produce the cash after negotiating a fair price.

►ISLAM The tigress and the cleric

►Iraq Monday, August 27, 2007
My memories are fading away...
"I wish there is some thing I can do". This sentence I have been repeating a lot these days. Every time I ask about the situation in Iraq I become angry and sad because there is nothing I can do. I wish some one can tell me what can I do to save what is left in Iraq. I have left my house, my room and my cats that I know nothing about any more. When we left we didn't take every thing in the house with us because it is impossible, that house and every thing in it is a treasure, It was built 35 years ago, and now It is going to be looted just because it is empty and there is no one to protect it.

Some members of what is known as national guards are checking every house in Hay Al-Jamia, where my house is, these days. Do you know what will they do if they find an empty one?? They close the roads leading to it, bring a lorry and loot every thing in that house. That is what about to happen to my house and it's 35 years of memories.This is the army that the American government and the Iraqi government are helping to build, they brought every criminal, thief, and looser gave him a gun and send him to the streets, the new army together with the armed militias with the help of Iran, are destroying the country.
If the people who suppose to protect the country, are the ones who are destroying it. What future does Iraq still have??? Raghda

  ►150 dinars + no house = poverty and deprivation” —  ShaheedBH

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"Sharia by proxy" in Lagos State

Monday, August 06, 2007        We don crase patapata funmi

"Sharia by proxy" in Lagos State

Policeman: where are you coming from?
FunmI: work, we just dropped off a friend and are going home.
Policeman: So why you dress like this?
Bose and FunmI: like how?
Policeman: (shouting and waving a copy of PM News) una no hear wetin Fashola (gov of Lagos) talk abi? Una no hear?
FunmI: (keeping tight rein of rising bile and anger) hear wetin? 

►Speeders Get Advice Instead of Tickets  Arab News

DAMMAM, 8 August 2007 — As a traffic police officer approaches a car caught breaking the speed limit, the occupant of the car shifts nervously as he prepares an excuse that will hopefully save him from a traffic citation. However, instead of getting a ticket, the young offender is given a lecture on the dangers of speeding. This novel method of approaching traffic violators, is practiced by a police officer here who relies on educating violators with his short lectures and picture book of freak traffic accidents, the daily Al-Madinah reported yesterday. The police officer believes that talking with violators is much more effective than giving them fines.

►On the road Fatima   Group Effort to Clear Highway .I was thinking of what the response would have been like had I been in Iraq. People would have started backing up on the highway, driving 'wrong-side' as they call it, to get on their way home, or wherever they were heading. That was my first reaction, was there anyway I could back up to the exit I just passed.

►Healing Iraq The Airport "Prison". I don't want to enter the land of dogs "he meant Jordan" all I want is my money;all my money is there, and I want to draw it, but the dogs didn't let me in.

 ►Intolerance  "You don't believe in God?" he asked disbelievingly. "So you are an athiest!"

 "Pretty much," I replied.

►Zimbabwe

►Tramway to Heaven Tramway To Heaven
Not many people are aware that all Kaliningrad’s tram drivers are women. And drop dyev gorgeous they are too.copydude