you know what really grinds my gears?

Two words: Fucking gossip.

I have heard a few things lately though not of much significance, it's just gossip gone wild. Somebody said to me that I had been bragging about my husband's cooking, and that he had cooked the entire Thanksgiving feast, and he even made a glaze for the turkey that was comparable to none. Anyone who knows us well knows beyond the shadow of any doubt that my husband CANNOT cook. In fact he is not allowed within 20 feet of any heat-generating appliance for his and others' safety. This rumor is the latest to be circled around, the last one was next near to slander, started by none other than my stupid zio-bitch of an ex-neighbor. It was said that I had done unspeakable acts of pedophilia, even on my children. I was so appalled that I nearly put my fist through a plate-glass window. I realized soon though that she was a fervent supporter of Israel, and that her kind are notorious for this type of insidious defamation. How do you think they get their army to kill innocent defenseless Palestinian children and turn around and portray them as bomb-building terrorists? How the hell you think they manage to spin it to a point so that the international community will buy it? These people are the scourge of the earth really. I can see them doing it to an entire race of people because they have an agenda to push--they want the land, but to do it to a woman who is barely known in the city she currently resides in? I have no real effect on what goes on in the local scene, and there really is no gain from defaming me. It's not like I have any real power, so my guess is that she did it just because she knew she could, and that's the most vicious sort of act. Arbitrarily defaming someone is near to criminal, especially where children are involved. So all I got to say is that this woman who said this about me is three things.

She is a pothead.

She is a pill-popper.

She is a drug dealer.

I've seen all three with my own two eyes and now I say this because I feel like it. I feel better now.

You know what else grinds my gears?

Old people. They are usually the starters and the spreaders of gossip.

I pray when I get old that I have more purpose to the remainder of my life than to get involved in someone else's.

LOL

Baby pics--again

These are of my other twin Falasteen. Her name means "Palestine" in Arabic. She was born at 6:15 pm on June 24, 2008. They look so much like their dad. They have his fingers and feet. They also have his ears and lips. They also have his appetite, especially Falasteen.  She eats like a horse. It takes Maysoon about 20 minutes to finish her bottle, but Falasteen finishes in about 5. They are chubby wubbies, like their daddy and mommy. Hopefully they'll grow out of it, I know I didn't!

Baby pics

These are of my oldest twin, Maysoon. She was born at 6:14 PM on June 24, 2008. Good grief they're gettin big!

An idiot royale

Recently financial strain, busy schedules and my crashed computer have kept me from posting like I'd like to but I had to drive all the way across town to write this cos it's so idiotic it's got to be true. Life has funny ways of showing us who's worth your time and who's not and this is one of those times life showed me a piece of waste that deserves all he gets.

Recently I went with someone to this guy's house to watch some tapes and found myself on his computer. I was checking my emails and trying to see if my husband had contacted me through the net seeing as he lost his phone. He hadn't sent me emails, but sometimes we communicate through social networks like myspace or facebook so I proceeded to check those out as well to see if he had sent me anything. No sooner that I had logged on the dude was watching me communicate with my cousins and got pissed that I was talking to Middle Eastern people. Forget the fact I'm Arabic too, and my cousins are hard working tax-paying productive citizens who don't do anything bad, but he had to insist I was visiting with terrorists. He told me he didn't want any Arab shit on his computer and when I tried to explain what I was doing he shouted at me as if I was a dog that peed on the carpet. I abruptly logged off and left the house, next to tears because of this racist act. Here's the zinger though--the person I was with, rather than trying to console me and reassure me that this act was a rare occurrence, actually chastised me for being upset!! I was floored. It's like a big rock just came down and landed on my pride and crushed it right before my eyes. I went back home and thought about it, and called my cousin and friends to vent. After I had spilled every last thought onto the floor I realized something. Me and my associates might be Middle Eastern, which isn't the most savory group of people in this society right now, but we had something that these two people do not have--a meaningful life. When you must degrade an entire people based on zero evidence to back your claims just to take focus off your asinine actions and bad habits, you don't have much to live for now do you? Sadly so many people I meet think like this, and they publicly bash Arabs and anything related, yet their lives are so fucked up they can't manage their own vices it makes me wonder if they are jealous of Arabs because so many are far more successful than they have been, it's like they walk into an Arab-owned gas station and pick up a Playboy, then start bitching coz the store's owner is Arab and go on an on about how their kind can't be trusted when the real issue should be them lamenting that they are so lame that they can't get a girlfriend so they're reduced to buying this porno mag and going home to jack off to a fantasy they'll never have, hence perpetuating the evident humiliation and adding more embarrassing behavior to their mile-long list of failures that eventually leads up to an obscure and enthusiastically welcomed death  due to over-consumption of alcohol and pork products. Ha. While the Arab goes home to his wife and his children, one of whom will inherit his successes and go on to lead a similarly successful life and ensuring his family's prosperity and security, and ultimately, their survival. My hope is that idiots will die off due to their own idiocy and reckless behavior and bad lifestyle choices. And what will be left is the rest of us, free of the woes that plagued our past generations, among those being racism.

Then, and only then, can we live peacefully. 

You know what really grinds my gears?

People who can't take what they dish out. Lately I've been getting some major drama from my husband's old wife's mother, and I frankly can't take it anymore. That arrogant bitch thinks just because she is old that I should just do what she says without question, or take her abuse without complaint, when in actuality, I never asked that cunt to come into my life, and I definitely didn't ask her to insinuate herself where she doesn't belong. And when I remind her of this very obvious fact, she chalks it up to either I am disrepectful or rude or just a racist. It's true I told her that her daughter and my husband would have never made it together because he's Arab and she isn't, but take a fucking look--I'm with him not her so evidently that's the truth! It's also true I told her that Palestinian men should only marry Palestinian women and vice-versa, but that's my opinion and I hold to it for political reasons. I don't have to explain a goddamn thing to that bitch because she isn't MY mother. She's some stupid ass stuck up skank that thinks because she got a nice sweet pension and never has to work again and lived her life in California that she's somehow better than everyone else on earth. And evidently people have let her believe that, except for me. I come along and I don't give a flying fuck what she thinks she is no better than me and I won't give her the respect she demands because she doesn't return the favor, she just kicks me around like garbage. Now some people would ask why am I in contact with her whenever she isn't related to me, and she's only causing problems? Answer is---I DIDN'T invite her, she just INSINUATED her fat ass into my life, and she's STALKING me like a fucking serial killer, and even though I've made it more than clear that she is not welcome in my life she still keeps insisting, and because the fat cow is in Jordan and I'm in US, I can't do much in the way of restraining orders, but as soon as she gets to the US, believe me I will be slapping her big fat fried-chicken eating overweight ass with one so fast it will make her head spin. I don't like people who can't get it through their thick ass skulls that they are not wanted in my life, and if it takes legal means to get that message across, then I'm game for that. I just wish she'd leave me alone or better yet-DIE due to all the trans fats in her arteries.That would be a fitting departure for her, and while she's at it, take that skank daughter of hers with her. That woman is fucking crazy as well, trying to pass off her bastard offspring as my husband's when she knows it was a one night stand baby. Or worse she was high on something and woke up pregnant. Either way the only babies my husband has are mine. My babies are healthy and very active. Her baby has eczema. Palestinians don't get eczema. That's not his kid. I hate liars and worse I hate con artists. And both those women are the cons of the century. I wish they'd both just die. Let me and my hubby live in peace. They just want to make hell and I am not going to put up with it. They need to shut up and get out. No more bullshit. Out already. What's sad is they can't take the reality of the consequences of their actions. But I will remind them of who's wrong. Even if it takes me posting it on their foreheads with a stamp attached to my closed fist. Intifada style.

An AM post--I should be asleep!

4:30 AM is a very strange time for me to be up, but yet here I am awake but wanting to fall asleep. I spent the early morning hours killing termites, thye've seemed to take a liking to my living room lamp shade. I found my bug spray and went stir crazy on the lil bastards and obliterated them totally. I then vacuumed up the remains and came to the computer. I don't know why the hell I'm still awake but maybe its because I have no air conditioning and every time I go to sleep I wake in a puddle of my sweat and a major stomachache. Being pregnant is very hard on the human body, and my core temperature is slightly elevated due to the hormones. Having no A/C is hell in itself, in 93 degree weather it's really hell, and pregnant on top of all that it's nothing short of a nightmare. It's life though and I can make it through because it takes a strong person to raise a family and this is my proving time. If I pass this test, I will officially make it into the mother's circle. But first I need to sleep. I'm exhausted.

Molokhia (Egyptian Greens Soup)

Molokhia (Melokiyah, etc.) is a traditional dish in Egypt and Sudan -- some people believe it originated among Egyptians during the time of the Pharaohs. Others believe that it was first prepared by ancient Jews. Molokhia is a mucilaginous, nutritious soup made from a type of greens, known as molokhia or Jew's mallow (also called Nalta jute, Tussa jute, Corchorus olitorius), which is found throughout Egypt, the Levant, and similar climes elsewhere. Dried or frozen molokhia greens may be obtained from Middle Eastern or Asian grocery stores worldwide.

What you need


six cups chicken stock

one pound fresh molokhia leaves or frozen molokhia leaves (thawed) -- or -- a similar amount of spinach; stems removed, cleaned, rinsed in cold water, and patted dry (frozen molokhia is usually already cleaned and chopped)

one tablespoon tomato paste (optional)

one hot chile pepper, cleaned and chopped (optional)

one bay leaf (optional)

one small onion, finely chopped (optional)

black pepper, to taste

two tablespoons olive oil, butter, or any cooking oil

several cloves (or more) of garlic, minced

one teaspoon ground coriander

one teaspoon salt

one tablespoon fresh coriander leaves (also called cilantro) or fresh parsley, finely chopped (optional)

juice of one lemon or a teaspoon vinegar (optional)

ground cayenne pepper or red pepper, to taste (optional)


What you do

Chop the molokhia leaves as finely as possible. This should leave them bright green and slightly slimey. In Egypt, the perfect tool to finely chop molokhia leaves is a makhrata -- a curved knife with two handles similar to the Italian mezzaluna. (Get one of these kitchen cutters and you'll love it so much you'll be using it by the light of a half-moon!) Some Egyptian cooks prefer to cut the molokhia leaves by rolling them into a tight bundle and using a very sharp knife to shave them into thin slices. Over high heat, bring the chicken stock to a near boil in a large pot. Add the molokhia, stirring well. Add the tomato paste, chile pepper, bay leaf, and onion (if desired), and black pepper, continuing to stir. Reduce heat and simmer. The molokhia will simmer for about twenty minutes. (Allow an extra ten if frozen molokhia is not completely thawed.) After the chicken stock and molokhia have simmered for about ten minutes: heat the oil (or butter) in a skillet. Using either the back of a spoon in a bowl or a sharp knife on a cutting board, grind the garlic, ground coriander, and the salt together into a paste. Fry the mixture in the oil for two to four minutes, stirring constantly, until the garlic is slightly browned. After the garlic has been browned and the molokhia is nearly done (after it has been simmering for about twenty minutes and has broken down to make a thick soup), add the garlic mixture and the oil it was fried in to the simmering molokhia. Stir well. Add any of the remaining optional ingredients that you like. Continue simmering and stirring occasionally for a few more minutes. Adjust seasoning. Serve immediately, hot. Molokhia soup is often served over boiled Rice and sometimes with boiled chicken.


**Molokhia is prized for its mucilaginous quality, a quality which spinach lacks. If using spinach, the addition of a few tender okra pods, very finely chopped, will serve to thicken the soup.
If using dried molokhia, rub the leaves between your hand to crumble them into small pieces, moisten these with a few spoonfuls of water then proceed with the recipe. Frozen Mulukhiya is sold already cleaned and chopped, ready to use.
The fried garlic and coriander mixture is known as ta'lya (ta'leya, ta'liya) and is used in many Egyptian dishes. Some cooks leave out the salt; others add the onion and/or the tomato paste to the ta'lya. The ta'lya can also be added to the molokhia earlier.

A richer Molokhia Chicken soup can be obtained by boiling a pound of cut-up chicken meat in the chicken stock before adding the molokhia leaves. Some cooks add a bit of cardamom or cinnamon.

Well, it's morning now, and I've been up for a couple of hours. I already want to crash out again, but I am waiting for my husband's friend to come by to deliver some news to me about my hubby. He got sent to Jordan a few weeks ago, and I miss him like hell. My phone is off now I just dont have the money to afford it right now. Gas and food take a higher priority in my household, and that is just about sapping the average American's income. I could bitch and gripe for hours about this, so I think I will. I wish there was some way to lower these prices, I am sure there is but nobody wants to do it. I don't understand. Mostly my political expertise is limited to the Palestinian cause and equal rights, so I am no expert as to why this shit is going on. It seems though that regardless of the rising cost of living, these damn corporations are churning out commercials like never before. I sit at the TV and I'm like,"I don't got the money to buy this shit!" and my neighbors do the same. Regardless of the stimulus checks it seems to become ever harder to live these days, and I blame Bush. He's an idiot, managed to turn a surplus into a deficit in record time, and even he isn't as rich as he was when he came to power, or so I've heard. Shit he's got more money than I do! Share the wealth GW! If you wana waste money, let me do it for you. I'll buy everything I need first, then I'll buy everything I see. Well after I buy what I need for my family, Bush will be bankrupt!!! That's what you get when you got twins on the way. The whole bank is drained in record time. But I wouldn't give these babies up for the world, motherhood is a very enlightening experience, and I am repulsed at anyone who'd disagree. The only major stress is finances. That's it...but everybody has that. I hope this economic crisis gets better. If not, my life and my family will be really really...well...not in good shape.

America the Pitiful

In the greatest country in the world, where diversity is celebrated and lives are daily improved, there lies a slimy sludge at the bottom of the placid pond we call America. It's not clearly visible, and if you don't know what to look for, you'll miss it, however you step in it every day, you track it into your home, and even your kids are exposed. Many of you contribute to it's growth every day, some voluntarily, some inadvertently, but all who do not speak out are feeding it. This sludge has been here for hundreds of years, but has taken different forms when the climates suit it. However in modern times, we have been provided with the tools to eliminate this sludge, but yet we do not use them, we sit idly by, and why? The answer is simple, because it is easier to sit and watch it fester and grow than to work together and rid the nation of it. As well as the fact that, sadly, many Americans are so bored with their lives that watching this filth spread is considered good entertainment, and many subject their kids to it as well, further perpetuating its continuity. What is this sludge? This sludge is called RACISM. The forms it has taken over the years have been well documented through history, and the keepers, the spreaders, and the starters of it are the media and the sickos who dominate it.

This sludge recently manifested itself in the form of Islamophobia and anti-Arab sentiment. It was small and subtle nuances at first, but has quickly grown into the most disgusting and alarming creature to date. Yet so many feed this creature with a willingness that makes me question the humanity of the average American. What started this is a mystery, what it will result in is nothing short of utter chaos. As an American of Arabic descent, I am regularly asked if and when I will explode myself into a million pieces, and my family receive stares and points when we venture out into the great unknown to do menial things such as buy food, clothes, go to the movies, cook out, you know....HUMAN THINGS. Things you do, your mother and father did before you, and your children as well as their descendants will do for millenia to come. Yet ours is always subject to unwanted attention and scrutiny. Sometimes criticism and intimidation follow. In laymans terms we can't take a shit without our neighbors counting the kernels in our turds. Any way you slice it, this is wrong. This is racism. This is immoral. This is pitiful.

This is un-American.

My family came here from parts of West Bank and Gaza to make a better life for their children, thinking that though Israel did not want us, the United States would gladly accept us, you know, the whole “bring me your tired, your weary” thing. Well they were as tired and weary as it gets! It’s bad enough these poor people have had to go through what they did, but their children must endure worse! My grandmother on her deathbed said to me that America isn’t the country she came to over 30 years ago, nor will it be that way again. She apologized to me for this, and told me to ‘go out there and fight the good fight’ wherever that may be. Now that I am about to be a parent myself, I’ve felt the sting of the racism against Arabs that permeates this society even more intensely than before, and am ashamed as an American and a Palestinian that I will not be able to raise my Palestinian/American children in a peaceful and comfortable society, and am further disappointed that people like Malkin are given a platform to justify this racism which my children will endure, not to mention that the fact that this may escalate is ever-so-evident, especially if John McCain becomes President. My brother-in-law, a Palestinian immigrant himself, actually forsees internment camps in the future for us….which is disappointing, as he has contributed hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to this administration, which might ironically be used later to detain and torture him and his relatives, I can’t even bear to think about that plus the fact that my children might grow up in one of these camps as well as myself….it’s really a far cry from what the founding fathers had envisioned.
I am disgusted that a corporation like Dunkin(which many of it’s franchises are actually owned by Arabs) would stoop to this level when they could have just been more grown-up about it and thought this through. Nobody is going to boycott them because of that scarf, it’s evident it’s not a keffieh, keffiehs don’t look that rough! Plus Americans consume junk food at an alarming level….Dunkin wouldn’t be affected, plus it’s Rachael Ray, who’s known much more for her food than fashion, and Americans generally identify her with that. Let’s face it….there’s no threat I think they were just doing what almost 90% of America has done over the past 8 years—making mountains out of molehills. And it’s people like Malkin that spearhead the campaign.

Racism should not be acceptable in any form. If it were Jewish people being insulted, there’d be weeks of firestorm about it till someone payed up–literally. If it were blacks, there would be rallies and demonstrations, as well as many high-level religious figures making a fuss and dominating the airwaves for weeks upon weeks, they wouldn’t let it rest. However it wasn’t—the people attacked were Arabs. Not just any Arabs–Palestinians! So this will get maybe a few days of attention and will fade into history like every other anti-Arab action in the past. Even the rape of that 15 year-old girl and the murder of her ENTIRE family got less publicity, while the Natalee Holloway fiasco still gets attention to this day. The fact is, if you’re Arab, you’re not human. Live with it, nobody gives a damn. I have one question–who started this? What fuels their ideology? Really this is a question. I’ve been asking it for a long time. If someone can answer me please tell me. I’d like to know what was the spark that started the flame. It’s not terrorism because this started long before that, it was something else, and I will keep digging till I find it and obliterate it from history forever. Racism in ANY form is unacceptable.
And that’s JUST what this is–in it’s most classic and obvious form to date. And it should NOT be present in America. Haven’t we come so far to go beyond this?

Apparently not.

It’s time for a change.

Rachael Ray is a Palestinian Terrorist!!

This article here was sent to me by one of my friends in another site, I posted it the best I could, removed the errors, and left it as is. However the level of racism contained in this article is not removable, and is quite alarming at best. As an American of Arab descent, I am outraged and royally pissed off that such a fuss could be created by the words of a major political blowjob. Honestly I think someone should shoot that bitch. She's a waste of sperm and egg.

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Does Dunkin’ Donuts really think its customers could mistake Rachael Ray for a terrorist sympathizer?

The Canton-based company has abruptly canceled an ad in which the domestic diva wears a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress worn by Arab men.


Some observers, including ultra-conservative Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin, were so incensed by the ad that there was even talk of a Dunkin’ Donuts boycott.
‘‘The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad,’’ Malkin yowls in her syndicated column.
‘‘Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant and not-so-ignorant fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons.’’
The company at first pooh-poohed the complaints, claiming the black-and-white wrap was not a keffiyeh. But the right-wing drumbeat on the blogosphere continued and by yesterday, Dunkin’ Donuts decided it’d be easier just to yank the ad.

Said the suits in a statement:

‘‘In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design. It was selected by her stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial.’’ (In case you’re wondering, the stylist who selected the offending scarf was not Gretta Enterprises boss Gretchen Monahan, who appears on Ray’s TV show as a style consultant.)

For her part, Malkin was pleased with Dunkin’s response: ‘‘It’s refreshing to see an American company show sensitivity to the concerns of Americans opposed to Islamic jihad and its apologists."
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For anyone who may think my opinions are out of context, go and research this skank. She's the cunt who stated that it was acceptable for Japanese Americans to be interned in concentration camp-like detention centers and vehemently advocates reviving them to place Americans of Arab descent into for "security reasons". She even wrote a whole book on it. We're not dealing with a normal lady here, she's a threat to our security, especially if you speak Arabic. Here in Dearborn, nobody wants to kill anybody, and nobody wants to pay a price for something they didn't do! Get off our backs and go pick on someone else!!!