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Explaining religious rights to Palin

A community activist asked for a commentary explaining why U.S. Muslims should have the right to build a mosque in Manhattan. The activist added that the written piece must be "...something Sarah Palin can understand...."

So here is my take:

"America protects freedoms. American Muslims are American too. Therefore, American Muslims should enjoy freedoms. Now let's go hunting some wolves and then to Palin's backyard to keep an eye on Russia. Down with the communists. Shoot the terrorists. It is certainly Obama's fault. God bless America."

Steve Bridges as "President Barack Obama" / PART 1 - Comedy & Magic Club Jan 2010 (v. funny)

Watch part 2 and other impressions of past presidents

So what would an Israeli or an Arab do if an insect falls in a cup of coffee?

After posting my earlier blog post, several people told me that they did not immediately read it because they thought it was some scientific article, judging by the original title.

So I decided to add the words "an Israeli and an Arab" to make sure people get the joke.
Yes, I am a trained engineer, but I am not the one to write boring scientific articles, especially not on my personal blog. :)

So now that you know what the joke is all about, go ahead and read it:

What happens if an insect falls in a cup of coffee?

What happens if an insect falls in a cup of coffee?

Here is a modified version of a joke I received today. I had to share.

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What happens if an insect falls in a cup of coffee?

The British will throw the cup into the street and leave the coffee shop for good.

The American will get the insect out and drink the coffee.

The Chinese will eat the insect and drink the coffee.

The French will order a new cup, refuse to pay the bill, but will still drink the first cup (and then brag forever about the free 2 cups of coffee he got that day)

The Arab will probably not even notice it since he is used to it from being at Arab coffee shops


The Israeli will:


(1) Sell the coffee to the American and the insect to the Chinese.

(2) Cry on all media channels that he feels insecure and threatened.

(3) Accuse the Palestinians, Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria, Iran and the Islamic world of using germ-weapons.

(4) Keep on crying about the shop owner being anti-Israel and a pro-Palestinian terrorist sympathizer.

(5) Ask the Palestinian President to stop planting insects in the cups of coffee.

(6) Re-occupy the West Bank, Gaza Strip, build a "museum of tolerance" on top of Muslim cemeteries to educate them about tolerance, and ban Muslim males from praying at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to ensure that no insects are secretly collected for such illegal use.

(7) Demolish houses, confiscate lands, cut water and electricity from Palestinian houses and randomly detain Palestinians without charges, enforce a complete siege, install an apartheid wall, set-up check points to search and humiliate every Palestinian, and throw illegal White Phosphorous bombs on Palestinian neighborhoods to teach them a lesson (oh wait, they already do all of that)

(8) Ask the United States Congress for urgent military support and a loan of one million dollars (which never gets paid) in order to buy a new cup of coffee and to treat all those Israelis shocked by this incident... (of course, our Congress will gladly indulge)

(9) Ask the United Nations to punish the coffee-shop owner by making him offer free coffee to him till the end of the century.

(10) Last but not least, accuse the whole world to be standing still, not even sympathizing with the Israeli Nation, and then, in protest, withdraw from the World Conference on Racism in Durban.

Time for a joke: Has this happened to you?

Has This Happened To You?
(I can't take credit for this joke, but i thought that we can all use some laughs amidst all this election and economy craziness. Depending on who wins the election, we might not get a chance to laugh for another 8 years!)

1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time.... I know where my watch is pal, where is yours?

2. People who are willing to get up to search the entire room for the T.V. remote because they refuse to walk to the T.V. and change the channel manually.

3. When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too" That's right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?

4. When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they?

5. When people say while watching a film "did you see that?". No, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the floor.

6. People who ask "Can I ask you a question?".... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?

7. When something is 'new and improved!', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, so it couldn't be new.

8. When people say "life is short". What's up with that? Life is the longest thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that's longer?

9. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?