1. Whenever I’m talking to my friend X in public, and a beautiful woman passes by, he could be in mid-speech, and he would stop and stare at her from head to toe until she’s out of sight (think of the scene in cartoons where the eyes are popping out), then he would inevitably turn [...]

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US Modifies Surface-To-Air Missile To Target Objects In Space
The US sent official diplomatic notice in January to over 200 countries announcing that one of its spy satellites (US-193 / NROL-21) would soon drop out of orbit. The bus-sized satellite was launched in 2006 by Lockheed Martin using a Delta-II rocket. It lost power [...]

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Prologue: On reading this post written by Fadi, I started thinking about racist jokes, and how some don’t seem to understand why they can be offensive. Others insist they aren’t because someone from the race being ridiculed laughed at it, or repeated it. Others still will tell those offended they don’t have a sense of [...]

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This morning my Heating Fuel distributor (Abu Nabeel) called me about 30 minutes before he was scheduled to arrive. He explained that prices went up last night, and that 1000 Liters would cost 563JD ($794) instead of the usual 323.5JD ($456). It was like hearing someone had died, when they had been sick for weeks [...]

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