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I couldn’t be arsed (that’s supposed to be the “hip” thing to say nowadays – ask my daughter) so have a wonderful, peaceful, healthy and prosperous twothousandandsex!
Love you all.

and more than ready to fire:
Interviewer: “You have been accused of heresy by some places… some Internet forums.”
Ghada Jamshir: “So what? Even in mosques they accuse me of heresy. So what? You think that if they accuse me of heresy, it affects me?”
MEMRI
but wait, there’s more, in the above interview she lambasts the Shi’a for [...]

Or did they not get the memo, because middle managers are meddling once again? After emailing respective managers at the circuit to get their input as to why they can’t fill the stands and offering our brain-storming input to help in this national dilemma, I got shuffled into the system, put through the “proper channel” [...]

EGYPTIAN SYSTEM:
You have two cows. Both are voting for Mobarak!
DUBAIAN SYSTEM:
You have two cows. You create a website for them and advertise them in all magazines. You create a Cow City or Milk Town for them. You sell off their milk before the cows have even been milked to both legit and shaddy investors who [...]

نزع فتيل المشكلة بعد لقاء نائب رئيس الوزراء بالشيخ سند
المنامة – حيدر محمد، بنا
نزع أمس فتيل المشكلة التي أدت الى توقيف الشيخ محمد سند في مطار البحرين الدولي مساء الأحد الماضي بعد اجتماع استغرق ساعتين عقد في وزارة الشئون الاسلامية حضره نائب رئيس الوزراء وزير الشئون الإسلامية الشيخ عبدالله بن خالد آل خليفة ووكيل الشئون [...]

picture credit: Al-Watan Newspaper
What rule of law? It seems now that every issue we have in Bahrain is politicised and invariably turn to violence. Why? Do we not have any culture of discussion and dialogue to resolve issues?
It certainly didn’t look like it last night; a mob rioted at the airport, terrorising other users of [...]

Thank you all for your continued support and friendship.

After his success in securing the 2005 Thunder Arabia Formula Ford Championship Title, young Raed Raffii, the 16 Years Bahraini Champion is now on his way to the International World of Motorsport.
Raed tested on Saturday and Sunday in the Formula BMW Race car with Meritus Team, and was witnessed by Formula 1 World Champion Nigel [...]

Remember this? Well, leading businessmen had their inaugural meeting in which they announced the formation of their charity organisation and agreed on its objectives, which I am extremely happy to note is not just limited to traditional giving of alms, as the various charities and Islamist societies on the island have been doing for ages, [...]

In the year-end fun department:
It turns out that looking at the aggregation of billions of search queries people type into Google reveals something about our curiosity, our thirst for news, and perhaps even our desires. Considering all that has occurred in 2005, we thought it would be interesting to study just a few of the [...]