melicieuse: KJ you're forgetting the "ooohhh look how pretty and good we are"
KJ: Maybe it is because they don't want OTHER people to advertise, so they just steal the spot. It isn't about "hey, we are here" it is about "hey, it's only US here"
Dave: Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I watched the commercial: why? I loved the idea and I think it was brilliantly and simplistically implemented. I just couldn't figure out how G
Amr: well.. its much worse here! europeans tend to be nosy aaaannnddd very curious to see your stuff! -- add to it, the dialy question: cut or uncut. urggghh
Rula A. : Loved your post.. I haven't been to US before but in Canada they have 4 kinds of washrooms.. Men,, Women,, family,, Handicaps.. In the family one they mostly shower semi
ياسمين حميد: The Recipe please!
3ala2: I totally agree with...the more annoying that I was facing the same problem when I was in UAE. for Me I wasn't bothered of what I've seen (I was not impressed :D I'd love it maybe if the l
Hamdanism: I still see no point of this nudity "liberalism". I Agree, if it's anything; it's really disturbing.
علي صمادي: جورجوسوف هو شخص نادر ان نجد مثله هذه الاياموجورج ما بغني عشان المصاري ولا شيجورج حاب يضل اسمه مرف
almondjoycie: That sounds good! Shawarma is definitely better than any burger. Well, I wasn't leaving the house today, too cold, brrr. So I made homemade hummus. It wasn't bad, but A
kinzi: Yummy! Wonder how Mira does with Shwarma flavored milk? 
Marvin: It worked for the Germans in WW2, it works for Obama now. No wonder no one pays attention anymore. 
Qwaider: LOL Rula, yes I've seen that. Sad thing though, I used to love Billy Mays he died last year in the middle of his show "Pitch men" which I used to followSubzerob
subzero: "I would rank this a notch below Google Wave! Finally someone has produced something worse than google wave!"As you cant rate a product before it is officially launched
Rula A.: OMG how stupid is that!! A total money-waste.. I've blogged about something like this: href="http://lolitarulez.blogspot.com/2010/01/as-seen&#
Julie: How Jordan wiped out 15-20,000 Palestinians during black september.Oh, sorry, you wanted bad things about Jordan.
CENIMA: Harry Potter is starting to be boring , Avatar & Twilight Saga are better ! also this movie "Spiderwick" is not that bad , it's a great movie to watch
afaf: well, i wont buy ipad, even if they add to it making phonecalls, cuz can u imagine urself talking through that thing....so awkward....but i agree with u, iphone is cool and sexy too...
Ellendt: Different scholars have got a lot of life problems but despite of this they still have to write the expository essay. But at this time they shouldn’t worry about it, because they will use your brigh
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sonnet: Have a lookwe need to announce everyonehttp://shayunbiqalbi.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_28.html
One: Can You add:People who link your patriotism to how perfect you think Jordan is!!!
Nas: God...as much as i abhor responding to this stuff, but what the heck, it's been a slow week.The point of this exercise, if you will, wasn't to ignore all the bad stuff 
Dee: THANK YOU for this post, as soon as i suggested we start with what needs to be fixed about jordan and then later make a list of what has been fixed instead of saying general things that can b
Barbie Jones: What a beautiful and accurate sentiment.I sense that you have the making of a great father.May grace be upon you and your family.
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melicieuse:KJ you're forgetting the "ooohhh look how pretty and good we are"
KJ:Maybe it is because they don't want OTHER people to advertise, so they just steal the spot. It isn't about "hey, we are here" it is about "hey, it's only US here"
Dave:Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I watched the commercial: why? I loved the idea and I think it was brilliantly and simplistically implemented. I just couldn't figure out how G
Amr:well.. its much worse here! europeans tend to be nosy aaaannnddd very curious to see your stuff! -- add to it, the dialy question: cut or uncut. urggghh
Rula A. :Loved your post.. I haven't been to US before but in Canada they have 4 kinds of washrooms.. Men,, Women,, family,, Handicaps.. In the family one they mostly shower semi
ياسمين حميد:The Recipe please!
3ala2:I totally agree with...the more annoying that I was facing the same problem when I was in UAE. for Me I wasn't bothered of what I've seen (I was not impressed :D I'd love it maybe if the l
Hamdanism:I still see no point of this nudity "liberalism". I Agree, if it's anything; it's really disturbing.
علي صمادي:جورجوسوف هو شخص نادر ان نجد مثله هذه الاياموجورج ما بغني عشان%
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There is no such thing as learning freedom, there is acceptance of the "other" which can be learned..Time is the factor here along with education...
Unless we fight for our freedom, we don't deserve it.
Divide and conquer, cooptation, coercion and hungering people alongside with the politics of fear is things our "leaders" are experts at..
Salam
Lets take Jordan as an example here, before we demand that right which is protected by the constitution which gets violated daily by the very people who suppose to be protecting it ( i.e., the government ) people should learn tolerance first, accepting and respecting the others, take Jordanians vs palestinians issue, there are IGNORANTS on both sides and after 50 years of living together and melting into each others, people still fall into the government's scare, divide and conquer tactics, people are still not willing to accept others, and not willing to learn from recent history and tolerate each others, gevernments live and survive on our differences, and unless we sort out these differences and begin to understand that we all in this together, and your palestinian nieghbour is no different in any shape or form or loyalty than your Jordanian nieghbour, we will always be deprived of that right, because we always give the government the excuse and reasoning to take that right away from us.
For example, if I am a proponent of freedom of speech, I have to accept the fact that everything that will be said will not be personally acceptable. For instance, many people use freedom of speech to blast God or Jesus, which is personally offensive to me as a Christian. And while I may not like it, I must respect the fact that they have the right to say...and believe...what they like. As a tolerant person, my only recourse is to exercise my freedom of speech in return.
On the other hand, we just finished hearing about a debacle in Sudan about a teddy bear named Mohammad. This, and similar instances, generally include violence and physical action as a result of intolerance to what is being said.
We are not ready for freedom of speech. But at the same time, we should not totally open it for everyone because it will cause chaos.
I suggest that freedom of speech should be considered relative to a combination of factors such as a person's IQ and authority/power they have.
An incredibly expressive picture says it all.
No, we're not ready for freedom of speech because we barb wire our mouths with two six hundred feet tall fences of what WE and only WE think is right towards others mainly, which varies from too lame to excessively sick! and the fear of judgment.
Who ever expresses his TRUE mind will be hit by a thousand tomatoes and stones.
The day the fear of being thrown at and the fear of listening to what ever is different STOPS...the day we'll be ready!
WRONG! Jordanians, like all people, have among them good honorable Jordanians and corrupt Jordanians. The regime choses to surround itself with the sort of Jordanians hat reflect its values. And when the regime chooses, WE jordanains are not asked for our opinion. We have no choice the "idiocracies that rule us" so I have no ideas where you come up with the part that we do so "willingly giving up all our rights"
From rigged elections, to a joke of a constitution, Jordanians have no say whatsoever in charting their own destiny and in how they are being being ruled. The Americans and before them the British decided.
Dave, the level of tolerance of opposite views in Jordan is similar to that in US if not better. So please stop blowing smoke. If I speak up against Israel in US I will pay dearly. If I speak up in support of Arab resistance, I will be called supporter and sympathizer of terrorism and I will lose my job and I will be blacklisted. Fact is, there is more tolerance of opposing views in Jordan than there is in USA. As a matter of fact, you will find israeli and American war criminals roaming the streets of Arab countries like Jordan without much protest. But someone from Hamas or Hizboullah will be locked without charges in Guantanemo-like conditions in US or Israel.
So please, I beg you, don't judge us. you have not earned the right to do so. you are responsible for some of the worst violations of human rights in the middle east, directly or indirectly. And you have not even condemned them. I find that extremely troubling.
Dave, the level of tolerance of opposite views in Jordan is similar to that in US if not better. So please stop blowing smoke. If I speak up against Israel in US I will pay dearly. If I speak up in support of Arab resistance, I will be called supporter and sympathizer of terrorism and I will lose my job and I will be blacklisted. Fact is, there is more tolerance of opposing views in Jordan than there is in USA. As a matter of fact, you will find israeli and American war criminals roaming the streets of Arab countries like Jordan without much protest. But someone from Hamas or Hizboullah will be locked without charges in Guantanemo-like conditions in US or Israel.
So please, I beg you, don't judge us. you have not earned the right to do so. you are responsible for some of the worst violations of human rights in the middle east, directly or indirectly. And you have not even condemned them. I find that extremely troubling.
I think you need to re-define tolerance. I speak up against regularly against Israel's human rights violations in America. Even in print. Even with Zionists. No one has said a word. Well, one guy said I had Stockholm syndrome. :)
What would help this region be better prepared for freedom of speech is to understand that we can disagree without lowering ourselves to name-calling and personal attack of those who have a different belief or opinion. Nothing will change as long as this is business as usual.
"No one has said a word"
It is not because they are open, it's because your voice have no impact. Be sure that if you have followers and many people started listening to you, you will be silenced(you know Anti-semitic)..
In my own school a jewish professor was denied tenure and also was removed because of his views...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/arts/11depa.html?ex=1339214400&en=ed585a1989381dc7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
The states are becoming more like us, which is sad.Lets just hope that the american people will be able to make the right choice in the next elections...
Also you claim that tolerance levels in Jordan are similar to those in the US. As Kinzi stated, that statement is a bit of a stretch. And I hope you've lived in multiple countries as I have, including the US, in order to back up your claims.
And as a proponent of free speech, I accept your differing views (even if I don't agree with your accusations) without resorting to name calling or slurs.slurs
It appears to me as if the whole world, not just our puny little splash on map, is not ready for free speech.
But we should never stop trying. That's what we must do
kinzi, why do you complain about repression in jordan when it's your democratically elected governments who support and protect and bless the actions of our regime and other despotic, failed Arab regimes.
Mohanned, I actually have quite a voice and quite an audience. And, I should add I have had many heated arguments, and have changed some minds. No one has ever said a word about "firing" me over it, should be a better way of putting it.
I, too, hope for a better outcome in the next election.
It doesn't matter if you want to speak in support of Hitler, Maotsetung, Stalin, abortion or against god. People don't have to accept what you say. It's just like that. We're all adults and we should just say whatever we want whenever we want without any fear of prosecution.
PS, I agree with "The caller", this is ONE GREAT POST!
Dude, you're on a row, what's going on? Excellent progress in your style and topics.
Believe me, give Jordan freedom of speech for only 24 hours and people will burn each other alive!
freedom of speech as many of people out there understand it is having the right to freely curse Palestinians and blame them for every single thing happening here! And the opposite argument applies for the other Jordanians from Palestinian origin..
This proves my point, tolerance is an essential element to argue your case, you can't blame all americans because of what George Bush and his gang do, same argument Dave made, you can't blame all Moslems because of what Bin Laden did, Americans paid a heavy price to defend their right to speach, and they earned it with blood, what have we done?
your understanding of tolerance is so flawed and unbalanced. there is no tolerance towards people who support and fund genocide. I don't know who vote and who did not vote for genocidal Bush, TWICE. This is not some hide and seek game.
And if you count all the killings blamed on bin laden and all the so called muslim terrorists and extremists, they won't add up to a small fraction of the genocide the US and its mercenaries committed in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Chili, and Vietnam.
tolerance applies in all other cases, but in genocide? I DON'T THINK SO.
So when the Jews tolerate Nazis, and when Blacks tolerate Skinheads, we can speak of tolerating genocidal imperialists.