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Saoud

...we rule.

About Me

I AM PALESTINIAN. I love life and the people who live it. I especially love Emily, the love of my life! By the same token, I have little patience for people wasting my oxygen. If you are a mouth breather and still think George W. is the man, do us all a favor.....

My Interests

Emily, life, love, friends, reading, sports, the gym, politics, singing, dancing, letting go...http://ffrf.org

I'd like to meet:

...Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Elizabeth I, Napolean Bonaparte, Benjamin Franklin, Benedict Arnold, Steve Young, people who think for themselves and look beyond the "truth."Idiots, good ol' boys, hicks, down home folk, etc., need not apply....

Music:

Led Zeppelin, Prince, Hendrix, Miles Davis, Slayer, Lyle Lovett, Marvin Gaye, Dead Can Dance, Iggy Pop, Billy Idol, Harry Connick Jr., U2, Batlord, The Dixie Chicks, whomever wrote the theme to the Odd Couple, etc...

Movies:

Control Room, 2001 Space Odyssey, The Color Purple, 12 Monkeys, Lord of the Rings, The Crying Game, Dazed and Confused, The Fifth Element, Willy Wonka, Bootie Call, and a whole bunch more that I can't think of right now, etc...

Television:

Al Jazeera, Discovery Channel, ESPN, TLC, The Daily Show, Countdown with Keith Olberman, Pushing Daises, Boston Legal, Studio 60, Battlestar Gallactica, House, My Name is Earl, The Office, Seinfeld, Reno 911, Ellen, Ninja Warrior, anything that's NOT Fox News, etc...

Books:

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, I Robot, Stupid White Men, The Dictionary, that one book about that one thing that happened that one time, etc...

Heroes:

My wife Emily, my mother, father, sister, and my wife Emily....

My Blog

The State of Things to Come:Israel steps closer to state sanctioned apartheid&..

The State of Things to Come:Israel steps closer to state sanctioned apartheid&..Palestine Monitor25 July 2007 Last Wednesday, July 18th, the Israeli Knesset overwhelmingly approved a new and unprecede...
Posted by Saoud on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:47:00 PST

...standin' up for my peeps.

More rights than one might think Some Americans believe that Muslim women are oppressed by their religion, forced to cover themselves completely, denied education and other basic rights. It is true th...
Posted by Saoud on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:10:00 PST

Iraq: A War For Israel

Iraq: A War For Israel By Mark Weber The United States invasion of Iraq in March-April 2003, and the occupation of the country since then, has cost more than three thousand American lives and many te...
Posted by Saoud on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:35:00 PST

Dirtier and dirtier. Patriotism Manufactured.

Army ordered Tillman's uniform burned within hours of death SAN FRANCISCO - Within hours of Pat Tillman's death, the Army went into information-lockdown mode, cutting off phone and Internet connection...
Posted by Saoud on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:18:00 PST

Torture: Read it in the Israeli press

Thanks to the Israeli press, people in Israel are informed regularly about their government's mistreatment of the 4.5 million Palestinians under their rule. Most of the information regarding the occup...
Posted by Saoud on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:50:00 PST

Schnaiberg Papers: The Mental State of George W.

  Schnaiberg Papers    ALLAN SCHNAIBERG Professor of Sociology & Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research Northwestern University George Bush's "irrational" consi...
Posted by Saoud on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:27:00 PST

When Liberals Rule The World

When Liberals Rule The World Stats say the GOP is dying. But red-staters are breeding like drunken ferrets. Who wins? By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Here's the good news...
Posted by Saoud on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:02:00 PST

Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations

Human RightsWeekly Report on Human Rights ViolationsReport, PCHR, 23 March 2007..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue to...
Posted by Saoud on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:49:00 PST

From the (Hackensack) River to the Sea

From the (Hackensack) River to the Sea: Activists protest settlement real estate sale in New JerseyAndrew Muhab El-Kadi and Abraham Greenhouse, The Electronic Intifada, 1 March 2007On a sunny but chil...
Posted by Saoud on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:42:00 PST

Why Have So Many U.S. Attorneys Been Fired?

February 26, 2007Editorial Observer - New York TimesWhy Have So Many U.S. Attorneys Been Fired? It Looks a Lot Like Politics By ADAM COHENCarol Lam, the former United States attorney for San Diego, is...
Posted by Saoud on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:37:00 PST