Month: April 2007

جمعية الصحفيين البحرينية تستنكر محاكمة البلوغر البحريني محمود اليوسف

ندعو الصحافيين للإحتشاد أمام المحكمة الجفير – جمعية الصحفيين البحرينية – الأحد الموافق 15 ابريل 2007 تدعو جمعية الصحفيين البحرينية جميع المنتمين للجسم الصحافي في البحرين إلى الإحتشاد والتضامن مع البلوغر البحريني محمود اليوسف، وذلك أمام المحكمة الجنائية الكبرى يوم غد الثلاثاء القادم الموافق 17 أبريل 2007 في القضية المرفوعة ضده من قبل وزير البلديات …

New Colours

Michael is out of it. So I suppose it’s high time I should be out of my sulking at his departure and get re-involved in the sport I love. Time to snap out of it! I’ve been prevaricating as to who should gain my support henceforth, the Prancing Horse has always been my favourite since …

Caught doing WHAT?

Whilst returning from a day at the circuit he penned at Sakhir to his hotel in the capital Manama, the German engineer was stopped by police on a motorway for exceeding the 100kph speed limit by 50kph, according to the Swiss newspaper Blick. Apparently Tilke was taken to the police station for no less than …

Distributing money with reckless abandon

Is the main modus operandi of this parliament, and further solidifies the opinion of not only their uselessness, but also their one-track mindedness which lost its compass. We read this in this morning’s papers: مكافآت للأئمة والمؤذنين تتراوح بين ألفين Ùˆ5 آلاف دينار مكافآت للأئمة والمؤذنين تتراوح بين ألفين Ùˆ5 آلاف دينار وافقت لجنة الشؤون …

What’s an “imbecile”?

I went looking, just in case my own understanding of the term is lacking somewhat, and this is one of the definitions (with plenty of synonyms) offered by UrbanDictionary.com: imbecile idiot moron retard stupid fool cretin dolt dumbass blockhead simpleton jackass dimwit dumb dunce retarded donkey ignoramus dope dummy half-wit jerk loser numskull tard ass …