Lemon Tree

Remember??!!


I'm sitting here in the boring room
It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon
I'm wasting my time
I got nothing to do
I'm hanging around
I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens and I wonder

I'm driving around in my car
I'm driving too fast
I'm driving too far
I'd like to change my point of view
I feel so lonely
I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens and I wonder

I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
I'm turning my head up and down
I'm turning turning turning turning turning around
And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree

I'm sitting here
I miss the power
I'd like to go out taking a shower
But there's a heavy cloud inside my head
I feel so tired
Put myself into bed
Well, nothing ever happens and I wonder

Isolation is not good for me
Isolation I don't want to sit on the lemon-tree

I'm steppin' around in the desert of joy
Baby anyhow I'll get another toy
And everything will happen and you wonder

I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree
I'm turning my head up and down
I'm turning turning turning turning turning around
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
And I wonder, wonder

I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see, and all that I can see, and all that I can see
Is just a yellow lemon-tree

Film ... Taweeeeel?

Think of this as a possible scenario:
Le General takes over the opposition, he puts all of the filthy syrian puppets under his wing, basically keeping them under control, while Seniora and the "sulta" work on building the New Lebanon. When the time comes, Le General takes over as president, and works along with the majority in the parliament, but for the sake of our democracy, they would come up with some "clashes". After all, he is the only politician in Lebanon calling for a complete fulfillment of 1559. He has the same economic program as Hariri, and almost the same political agenda.

In the mean time, Jumblat does the same for Hizbullah and Amal. He is their representative in the "sulta". For example, when Seniora comes to the States and abides by the laws of the New Order, economically and politically, Jumblat leads the way in showing skepticism and "fear of being led to an American plot for a New Middle East", Hizbullah and Amal show support and follow the same rhetoric, he backs off after getting certain "guaranties" from Hariri that Seniora has not made any deals under the table, and thus Hizbullah and Amal's position fades in the background, as they too got the same guaranties.

Nice?!!! Over-simplified, but but that's how they would explain it to Bush in the White House (!!).

Wa? Huh? UHHHHAAAAAA

OK you're pretty ... but you're so fuckin' empty I could fit a whole museum inside your head ... and you don't even have a big head to begin with.

Trafficking In Persons

I have written previously about the maltreatment of foreign workers (and specially workers from East Asia and Africa) in Lebanon. This report provides an insight into what difficulties these workers go through, and the hell they are sometimes forced to live in:

"In the course of my mission, I have found that a significant number of human beings, women in the majority, are trafficked into and within Lebanon. Unfortunately, their plight seems to remain unknown to significant parts of Lebanese society, perhaps because the victims tend to be foreign nationals or are considered to be of low social status. Lebanon's victims of trafficking are often invisible victims because they suffer in places that remain hidden to the public eye such as private homes or hotel rooms. Many of my interlocutors, including senior government officials, also acknowledged that widely held attitudes of discrimination on the basis of race, colour, ethnicity, and gender contribute to the prevalence of human trafficking. Social and cultural taboos preventing public discussion of issues related to sexual exploitation are also a factor."


The report was out last week, the question is, what will be done about it?

A List

-- Vladimir Ilych Lenin
-- Leon Trotski
-- Mustapha Ataturk
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara
-- Mahatma Ghandi
-- Nelson Mandella
-- Hisham Sharabi
-- Leo Tolstoy

*I am looking at this list several months after putting it here. It sounds terrible. I thought I'd delete it, but I decided to put a new one instead. So I will be doing so soon- hopefully.