8-21-2006

8-21-2006
Amman Jordan
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I don’t think I have ever seen this much good morning America…it seems kinda odd that many of the things that I didn’t watch nor do in the US I seem to be doing and watching here…this morning when I was watching it they had these kids on the show who are competitive stackers (you know those kids with amazing hand eye coordination for something so worthless as stacking up plastic cups and then taking them down at record speeds) and so the guy newscaster or host whatever you wanna call him goes up to the boy and asks him “So is this sport “Asian” or is it American?” to which the boy responds “ No it’s American” and I don’t know why that question really pissed me off. I mean what would make him jump to the conclusion that it’s “Asian” (which I am taking to mean East Asian because you know all things that require vast amounts of speed and focus must stem from some sort of martial arts root that would naturally be “Asian”….stupid white boy…)

God this is sad…I’m turning into an ever more bitter person but worse yet I am fitting into the stereotype of a middle-aged suburban housewife…yet I am no where near the suburbs…Did I mention that I am watching Oprah as well : (

SOOOO lemme share with all of you how AMAZING Israel really is, true democracy indeed!!
I mean years ago they used to give all the Palestinian citizens hell on earth to get into Palestine, while all of us with foreign citizenship got in easily, while now it is the total opposite…I mean what is democracy and justice if you can not subject everyone to the same BS at one point in time…I mean I don’t blame the Israeli’s we do out number them so it takes time to subjugate millions when you are a few 100 thousand…it really is a hard job…

(Following source of information comes from my mom and sister who were turned back at the Israeli side of the border only yesterday)

Now it seems that a new law has been enacted which applies to all foreign nationals…which naturally Israel failed to inform any foreign nations with people who may come to visit the occupied territories…so it seems that in order for you to enter the occupied territories you have to have a family member that lives there and makes you a visa from the Palestinian authority and approved by Israel…but here is the kicker if you ask them where you can acquire such a “Visa” they tell you to go ask allah for one…hahaha they have such a sense of humor…Well when you call anyone in the occupied territories and ask them about getting this new visa everyone is just dumfounded and admits that they have heard of no such procedure…however if you wanna enter Israel for tourism you are more then welcome…why wouldn’t you be I mean lets face it that way the few thousand dollars you brought with you for your famil will instead go into Israeli economy…

The thing I find most fishy about this whole thing is why are they making it so easy for Palestinians to get in…I mean making it hard for foreign nationals makes sense…you don’t want them to find out what is really happening on ground zero…and you don’t want them to help out their families in any way…I mean that’s intuitive…but why make it easy for Palestinians to get in…they must have something up their sleeve and I haven’t quite been able to wrap my mind about what exactly…

So as it stands we still have no idea where the wedding is going to take place…Amman Or Ramallah…sigh…my poor sister

I think the best and most entertaining idea anyone has had yet was to have them get married one on each side of the banks of the Jordan river…her on the East and him on the West and have Aljazeera do it live on the air…