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<title><![CDATA[Tahun berkat lagi :)]]></title>
<link>http://raparsi.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/tahun-berkat-lagi/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Teringat sekitar tiga tahun lalu saat aku merayakan malam tahun baru bersama mama, bapak dan saudara]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://raparsi.wordpress.com/files/2010/01/1208566_new_year_2010.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-348" title="1208566_new_year_2010" src="http://raparsi.wordpress.com/files/2010/01/1208566_new_year_2010.jpg?w=51" alt="" width="51" height="96" /></a>Teringat sekitar tiga tahun lalu saat aku merayakan malam tahun baru bersama mama, bapak dan saudara2ku yang lain. Tepat jam 00.00 dan dentangan lonceng gereja di belakang rumah acara taun baruan keluarga dimulai. Masih teringat saat-saat ngikuti acara dengan mata yang masih merem melek karena ngantuk. Tapi kalau diingat-ingat saat ini, aku malah jadi merindukannya saat ini. Sudah dua tahun baruan aku lewati di kamar kostan sendirian. Cuma berdoa sendiri dan merenungkan apa yang uda dilewati selama tahun 2009, serta beberapa harapan di tahun 2010. <!--more--></p>
<p>Pada pagi harinya tepat di tanggal 1 Januari 2010, seperti umat kristen lainnya, aku juga pergi ke gereja untuk ibadah awal tahun. Hmm tentunya masih sendirian tanpa ada teman maupun saudara. Miris juga melihat diri sendiri duduk di bangku gereja di awal tahun baru karena biasanya setiap jemaat akan duduk bersama-sama keluarga dalam satu barisan bangku. Sepele memang, tapi itu cukup membuat kesendirian itu semakin terasa kental. Mungkin lagu tahun baru khususnya lagu buku ende &#8220;Nunga salpu taun na buruk i&#8221; atau apa la itu yang selalu dinyanyikan pada awal tahun baru terdengar sangat biasa di telinga beberapa orang atau mungkin kebanyakan orang. Tapi tidak saat itu, saat aku menyanyikannya di gereja. Ada suatu perasaan yang mengganjal sekaligus menyedihkan juga. Ada perasaan hilang saat menyanyikan itu tanpa ada suara mama, bapak, kakak, abang dan adek2ku di dekatku. Mungkin perasaan itu juga dialami oleh orang-orang rantau seperti aku yang tidak bisa pulang di saat natal dan tahun baru karena beberapa hal.</p>
<p>Namun ada beberapa sisi positif nya dari kesendirian itu di samping sisi kesepian dan kesedihan yang ada. Dengan kesendirian itu aku dapat merasakan bagaimana perasaan orang-orang yang bernasib sama denganku. Banyak juga orang lain yang bahkan tidak dapat menikmati atau paling tidak bersyukur atas tahun berkat yang disediakan Tuhan. Ada saja yang masih kerja seperti pak polisi, atau malah tidak peduli sama sekali akan hal itu seperti para pengemis dan gelandangan. Yang mereka tahu hanyalah dapat melewati hari esok dengan perut yang terisi. So aku masih bisa dan harus tetap bersyukur atas apa yang telah aku lewati selama tahun 2009 baik itu berupa berkat maupun pencobaan.  Dan tentunya tetap berpengharapan atas berkat-berkat lainnya yang akan Tuhan berikan di tahun 2010. Amin <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Selamat tahun baru saudaraku semuanya <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Natal Kelabu Lagi.. ??]]></title>
<link>http://raparsi.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/natal-kelabu-lagi/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hari Natal secara kalender masehi tahun 2009 telah lewat meskipun Natal secara kalender gerejawi mas]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://raparsi.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/beautiful-christmas-tree.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-345" title="beautiful-christmas-tree" src="http://raparsi.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/beautiful-christmas-tree.jpg?w=128" alt="" width="128" height="96" /></a>Hari Natal secara kalender masehi tahun 2009 telah lewat meskipun Natal secara kalender gerejawi masih berlangsung sampai tanggal 7 Januari 2010. CMIIW <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  Natal seharusnya membawa damai, berkat, sukacita maupun makna sesungguhnya bagi setiap orang yang merayakannya. Semoga kita semua mendapatkannya, oiya sebelumnya aku mau mengucapkan Selamat Natal bagi kita semuanya <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
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Tahun ini merupakan tahun keduaku tidak natalan di rumah bersama keluarga secara berturut-turut. Sama halnya dengan tahun kemaren aku merayakan natal sendirian di kota yang ramai namun terasa sangat sunyi bagiku di malam natal kemarin. Bahkan aku hampir tidak merasakan sama sekali apa yang dinamakan dengan sukacita natal itu. Semuanya itu menjadi semakin senyap saja karena tahun ini juga aku tidak bisa merayakan Ulang tahun mamaku untuk yang kedua kalinya sampai saat ini. Dan ini juga tahun kedua aku tidak bisa merayakan ulang tahun mumuku. Tragisnya lagi ketiganya jatuh pada tanggal yang sama yakni 24 Desember.</p>
<p>Tidak sampai di situ saja, ternyata adikku yang paling bontot masuk rumah sakit tepat di tanggal yang sama karena terkena diare, katanya se sudah akut makanya ampe masuk RS. Jadilah mamaku yang seharusnya merayakan ulangtahun dan malam natal menjadi gagal dan diganti dengan menjaga adikku di RS Medan ditemani kakakku. Mendengar itu tentu saja aku jd sedih dan ingin pulang ke rumah nemanin dan menghibur mamaku dan adikku. Tapi apa la pulak daya gak ada, cuti yang sudah minus satu, kejar target skripsi, dan ongkos pesawat yang menjulang tinggi menjadi penghalang. Yang bisa kulakukan hanya mengirim doa supaya adikku dewi yang sekarang masih dirawat di RS Siantar cepat sembuh dan mamaku tetap sehat selalu. Amin</p>
<p>Hmmm sebentar lagi juga akan tahun baru, tapi seperti tahun lalu aku kembali sendirian lagi melewatkan tahun baru kali ini. Rencana melakukan sesuatu pun blon terpikirkan sama sekali. Mungkin hanya menghabiskan malam tahun baru dengan menonton di kamar kostanku seperti tahun kemaren hehehehe. Semoga tahun baru kali ini lebih &#8220;seru&#8221; dari tahun baru kemarin <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Meet Uncle Hussein ft Black - Drama King]]></title>
<link>http://wsifz.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/meet-uncle-hussein-ft-black-drama-king/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[DOWNLOAD MP3 HERE Kali pertama aku mengenalimu Mahu bersama Raut wajahmu bersih Meyakinkan hati ini ]]></description>
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<p><strong><em>Kali pertama aku mengenalimu<br />
Mahu bersama<br />
Raut wajahmu bersih<br />
Meyakinkan hati ini<br />
Aku terpaut</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Semua dusta palsu<br />
Aku tertipu<br />
Keperibadianmu<br />
Berubah menurut nafsu</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Panggilanmu gelaranmu<br />
Baru ku tahu</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Lakon layarmu hebat<br />
Terpukau ku melihat<br />
Isi hati upahan<br />
Sampai bila<br />
Kau mahu tersesat<br />
Tidak kau penat<br />
Hidup penuh muslihat</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Mahkotamu Raja Drama</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Kau Masih berpura-pura<br />
Kata-katamu hanya propaganda<br />
Mengejar hijau ungu<br />
Mata kelabu<br />
Ini bukan kau yg pernah ku kenal dulu</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Panggilanmu gelaranmu<br />
Baruku tahu</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Kau bertapa<br />
Bagai maharaja di atas lembah<br />
Lakon layarmu yg terhebat<br />
Memukau mata melihat </em></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Rap...rap , all the Arap.......my first Rap-poem !]]></title>
<link>http://uprootedpalestinian.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/rap-rap-all-the-arap-my-first-rap-poem/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>When will that <span style="color:blue;">acrobat</span> from <span style="color:blue;">Rabat</span><br />stop pretending to having a <span style="color:maroon;">piece</span> from Oslo<br />instead of having any <span style="color:maroon;">Peace </span>, <br />in spite of Oslo.</p>
<p>All is<span style="color:maroon;"> well </span>,&#160; <br />that does&#160; end up in <span style="color:maroon;">Hell</span><br />therefore let us not believe in what says <span style="color:maroon;">Israel</span><br />and rather watch the <span style="color:blue;">miseries</span> in <span style="color:blue;">series</span><br />of the <span style="color:maroon;">deprivations</span> of the a <span style="color:maroon;">nation.</span></p>
<p>I tell you ,<span style="color:blue;"> Hamas</span><span style="color:#00007f;"> </span>got<span style="color:blue;"> class</span><br />and <span style="color:blue;">M. Abbas ,</span> <br />may anytime, kiss my<span style="color:blue;"> ass.</span></p>
<p>Rap , rap and a double-rap<br />we all shall <span style="color:maroon;">resist</span> <br />and face those<span style="color:maroon;"> </span><span style="color:maroon;">fascists</span>-<span style="color:maroon;">Zionists</span></p>
<p>Rap , rap and a triple rap<br />let us <span style="color:maroon;">lean</span> on <span style="color:maroon;">Jennin</span><br />to close the truth- gap</p>
<p>Rap , rap and another rap<br />let us <span style="color:blue;">all , recall ,</span><br />what happened to the other <span style="color:blue;">wall.</span></p>
<p>Rap , rap and no more crap<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">we</span> are the<span style="color:#00007f;"><span style="color:yellow;font-weight:bold;"> <span style="color:blue;">indigenous</span></span><span style="color:blue;">,</span> <span style="color:black;">the</span><span style="color:blue;"> notorious</span><span style="color:yellow;">,</span></span><br />the<span style="color:blue;"> </span><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="color:blue;">genuine</span><span style="color:#00007f;"> </span>and<span style="color:yellow;"> </span></span><span style="color:blue;">the religious </span><br />and they are not !!.</p>
<p><span style="color:maroon;font-weight:bold;">Lyrics by :</span><br /><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-weight:bold;">Raja Chemayel</span><span style="font-weight:bold;">, </span><br />rappist and not rapist .<br /><span style="color:maroon;font-weight:bold;">Music by :</span><br /><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-weight:bold;">Sherlock Hommos</span> , PhD<br /><span style="color:blue;">The Bhamdoun Philarmonic Orchestra</span><br /><span style="color:maroon;font-weight:bold;">Vocalist :</span><br /><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Moustafa Roosenbloom </span>, <span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tenor</span></span> 
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>When will that <span style="color:blue;">acrobat</span> from <span style="color:blue;">Rabat</span><br />stop pretending to having a <span style="color:maroon;">piece</span> from Oslo<br />instead of having any <span style="color:maroon;">Peace </span>, <br />in spite of Oslo.</p>
<p>All is<span style="color:maroon;"> well </span>,&#160; <br />that does&#160; end up in <span style="color:maroon;">Hell</span><br />therefore let us not believe in what says <span style="color:maroon;">Israel</span><br />and rather watch the <span style="color:blue;">miseries</span> in <span style="color:blue;">series</span><br />of the <span style="color:maroon;">deprivations</span> of the a <span style="color:maroon;">nation.</span></p>
<p>I tell you ,<span style="color:blue;"> Hamas</span><span style="color:#00007f;"> </span>got<span style="color:blue;"> class</span><br />and <span style="color:blue;">M. Abbas ,</span> <br />may anytime, kiss my<span style="color:blue;"> ass.</span></p>
<p>Rap , rap and a double-rap<br />we all shall <span style="color:maroon;">resist</span> <br />and face those<span style="color:maroon;"> </span><span style="color:maroon;">fascists</span>-<span style="color:maroon;">Zionists</span></p>
<p>Rap , rap and a triple rap<br />let us <span style="color:maroon;">lean</span> on <span style="color:maroon;">Jennin</span><br />to close the truth- gap</p>
<p>Rap , rap and another rap<br />let us <span style="color:blue;">all , recall ,</span><br />what happened to the other <span style="color:blue;">wall.</span></p>
<p>Rap , rap and no more crap<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">we</span> are the<span style="color:#00007f;"><span style="color:yellow;font-weight:bold;"> <span style="color:blue;">indigenous</span></span><span style="color:blue;">,</span> <span style="color:black;">the</span><span style="color:blue;"> notorious</span><span style="color:yellow;">,</span></span><br />the<span style="color:blue;"> </span><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="color:blue;">genuine</span><span style="color:#00007f;"> </span>and<span style="color:yellow;"> </span></span><span style="color:blue;">the religious </span><br />and they are not !!.</p>
<p><span style="color:maroon;font-weight:bold;">Lyrics by :</span><br /><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-weight:bold;">Raja Chemayel</span><span style="font-weight:bold;">, </span><br />rappist and not rapist .<br /><span style="color:maroon;font-weight:bold;">Music by :</span><br /><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-weight:bold;">Sherlock Hommos</span> , PhD<br /><span style="color:blue;">The Bhamdoun Philarmonic Orchestra</span><br /><span style="color:maroon;font-weight:bold;">Vocalist :</span><br /><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Moustafa Roosenbloom </span>, <span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tenor</span></span> 
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<title><![CDATA["Depicting Love in India’s Royal Courts" by Kavita Ramdya]]></title>
<link>http://bollywoodwedding.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/depicting-love-in-india%e2%80%99s-royal-courts-by-kavita-ramdya/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>&#8220;Depicting Love in India’s Royal Courts&#8221; by Kavita Ramdya in &#8220;News India Times&#8221; (1 January 2010 edition)</p>
<p>The V&#38;A exhibit “Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts” shows how depictions of love between royal couples evolved from the early 18<sup>th</sup> century to the mid-1930s. Anna Jackson, the show’s curator, describes how “never before has a show been devoted entirely to the rich material culture of the maharajas”. In fact, the subject of the maharaja is a neglected one in the art world. Anna and her team’s objectives in organising the show included breaking stereotypes of the raj as well as showing how the princes were respected and powerful patrons of art whether through the commissioning of royal-court paintings, Rolex watches for playing cricket, or jewel-encrusted weaponry.</p>
<p>The main intent of the exhibit is to serve as a history lesson for how India evolved politically from the early 18<sup>th</sup> century when the Mughal Empire was in decline to 1947 when Gandhi secured India’s independence. However, what struck me as most memorable in the sweeping show containing approximately 250 objects was the ways in which the raja and his rani’s relationship were depicted in paintings of the royal court, silent wedding videos, and black-and-white photos by avante-garde fashion and portrait photographer Man Ray.</p>
<p>Much of the show is dedicated to the idea of the procession because this was the method with which the king’s material wealth was put on display. Maharajas regularly commissioned works of art that showed the raja as central in a procession, whether to meet members of the East India Company or political allies. These processions were the equivalent, I came to realize, of watching New York’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, a Broadway show in Times Square or Cirque de Soleil in Las Vegas. Processions were not only a way for a king to show off his splendour but also a form of entertainment for observers eager to feast their eyes on fantastically creative objects of conspicuous consumption, often times designed and produced by European designers such as Cartier, Rolls Royce, and Luis Vuitton. This display of wealth was instrumental in reinforcing the raja’s power and influence among his subjects.</p>
<p>Having just published a book about Hindu weddings in America, I pondered the significance of the maharaja’s procession in relation to the baarat, a popular element in the Hindu wedding ritual where the bridegroom travels to the wedding site, often on a horse, surrounded by friends and family. What is the significance of this bridal custom in relation to the maharajas’ processions in celebrating religious holidays and court-related events? Perhaps the widespread tradition of the baarat, an element of the Hindu wedding ritual which until recently I didn’t consider having any religious significance, is in fact meaningful in light of the Hindu philosophy that life is organised into four distinct stages. Just like the royal king is seen to express his darshan as a superior being by displaying his kingliness via a procession, the bridegroom symbolically moves from the brahmacharya, student, stage to the Grihasthya, householder, stage via the baraat.</p>
<p>In these processions, royal women are invisible. Whereas the raja is often times depicted in the public sphere of the procession, the rani is only depicted in the private sphere such as the palace’s women’s quarters, hunting grounds and gardens. However, the Indian ruler and his wife are rarely depicted as sharing the same space. There is the occasional painting or drawing depicting the raja behaving intimately with a courtesan, but these works are meant to convey his sexual prowess, thus his manliness. His relationship with his wife remains private.</p>
<p>Just as royal women are conspicuously invisible in the courts, so is the evidence of their existence. The vast majority of material objects on display are ones used by the rajas. Many of these objects have an effeminate flavour to them; their splendorous qualities betray an element of girlish lavishness rather than mannish austerity. For example, a Jaipur sword and scabbard dated from 1902 is encrusted with diamonds and other jewels, making it impractical to slay enemies on the battlefield; instead, this sword was an instrument for displaying wealth rather than martial agility.</p>
<p>The central object in the vast exhibit and, ironically, the one which most powerfully indicates the raja’s position as, to appropriate a much-abused phrase in the contemporary fashion world, “fashion icon” is the Patiala Necklace. Commissioned in the mid 1920s, the necklace took three years to complete. It originally contained almost 3,000 diamonds and weighed approximately a thousand carats. Its size and weight make it impractical for any woman to wear. So it should have come as no surprise when, next to the necklace, the museum visitor can watch a rolling black-and-white video of a tall, bearded, heavy-set maharaja swinging his arms alongside his staff as he swaggers and shows off the Patlia Necklace draped around his neck. The ethereal collection of interwoven diamonds conjures the illusion of light rays emanating from the raja’s burly chest; the necklace, despite its mass, is as effeminate as the raja is brutish.</p>
<p>It is not until the early 1920s when “modern” maharajas emerge as multi-dimensional beings rather than models for manliness. These maharajas struggled with their dual identity as an English-educated, modern-thinking individual versus the pressure of maintaining a public image as Indian maharaja restricted by tradition. One of the most interesting displays in the exhibit is a photograph of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda wearing a traditional gown and turban side-by-side with another photo of the same subject in a three-piece suit and hat standing outside the Royal Courts of Justice. The repetitive theme of the procession, hyper-masculinity of the raja and sexually-vexed femininity of their purchasing habits display the move towards Modernity as a time characterized by a state of flux in gender roles and social mores.</p>
<p>Likewise, just as these maharajas began to challenge customary depictions of rajas, royal women emerge from the background and are instead the subjects of fashion and portrait photography by re-known artists such as Man Ray. The invention of photography is in itself an insidious yet visually-powerful influence in royal paintings. For instance, a work depicting Ram Sing II of Jaipur worshipping is amazingly realistic; worry lines from royal pressures and court feuds are woven into his face like waves in the sea. Additionally, the notion of “perspective” is appropriated as a technique utilized by palace artists who have been radicalized by court photography.</p>
<p>Man Ray’s playful yet dignified, accessible yet classy black-and-white fashion/portraiture photographs of Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Holkar II and his wife Maharani Sanyogita Devi of Indore are the highlight of the exhibit. After looking at hundreds of objects which illustrate the divide between the public and the private, adhere to the formality of royal etiquette, and honor tradition and customs over individuality and self-expression, these few photographs offer a brief yet oceanic respite.</p>
<p>Holkar’s slicked-back hair, 30-inch waist and dainty mustache place him in a historical period and Modernist mindset as different from his maharaja predecessors as the Krishna-designed Rolex cricket watch is to the Greek civilization’s Sun Dial. Holkar’s wife, Devi, has a slight wave in her shoulder-length hair reminiscent of 1930s film actress Marlene Dietrich. In Paris, specifically at Cannes, Man Ray photographed the royal pair playing games together, posing affectionately, and teasing one another. The photographs justify the couple’s and their contemporaries’ eagerness to live abroad where they can live both privately and publicly as man and wife without the burdens of custom and tradition weighing on them like the Patlia Necklace on a brutish maharaja.</p>
<p><a title="BW" href="http://www.bollywood-weddings.com" target="_blank">www.bollywood-weddings.com</a></p>
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<p>It is Christmas<br />Bethlehem is surrounded by a Wall<br />Gaza breathes via its tunnels<br />Kabul drowns in its own corruption<br />Baghdad´s Green-Zone has also a Wall<br />while it breathes only corruption.</p>
<p>It is Christmas<br />30 Million poor-Americans get finally a health-insurance<br />while Israelis who do all already have health-care,<br />get 20 Billion Dollars promised for their deficit budgets.</p>
<p>It is Christmas<br />Jesus,Mary and Joseph are locked inside Bethlehem<br />they cannot&#160;&#160; take refuge in Egypt , neither<br />because Mubarak has closed the borders in Rafah.</p>
<p>It is Christmas ,<br />The Whitehouse has a White-Christmas with a Black-President.<br />Ramallah has a President who cannot even rule his open-air-prison.<br />Copenhagen has booked success only&#160; in its Hotels-occupancy .<br />Tony Blair and George Bush are still walking free.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">It is Christmas</span> !!&#8230;..rejoice! ! rejoice!!<br />only Santa Klaus is happy&#8230;.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">and hopefuly&#8230;. .. you too !!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-weight:bold;">Raja Chemayel</span><br /><br style="font-weight:bold;" /><span style="font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;">Sherlock Hommos</span><br /><br style="font-weight:bold;" /><span style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;">Eng. Moustafa <img src="http://mail.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/22.gif" /> Roosenbloom</span></p>
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<p>It is Christmas<br />Bethlehem is surrounded by a Wall<br />Gaza breathes via its tunnels<br />Kabul drowns in its own corruption<br />Baghdad´s Green-Zone has also a Wall<br />while it breathes only corruption.</p>
<p>It is Christmas<br />30 Million poor-Americans get finally a health-insurance<br />while Israelis who do all already have health-care,<br />get 20 Billion Dollars promised for their deficit budgets.</p>
<p>It is Christmas<br />Jesus,Mary and Joseph are locked inside Bethlehem<br />they cannot&#160;&#160; take refuge in Egypt , neither<br />because Mubarak has closed the borders in Rafah.</p>
<p>It is Christmas ,<br />The Whitehouse has a White-Christmas with a Black-President.<br />Ramallah has a President who cannot even rule his open-air-prison.<br />Copenhagen has booked success only&#160; in its Hotels-occupancy .<br />Tony Blair and George Bush are still walking free.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">It is Christmas</span> !!&#8230;..rejoice! ! rejoice!!<br />only Santa Klaus is happy&#8230;.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">and hopefuly&#8230;. .. you too !!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-weight:bold;">Raja Chemayel</span><br /><br style="font-weight:bold;" /><span style="font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;">Sherlock Hommos</span><br /><br style="font-weight:bold;" /><span style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;">Eng. Moustafa <img src="http://mail.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/22.gif" /> Roosenbloom</span></p>
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<link>http://potrekonengsumenep.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/joko-tole-vs-agus-wedi/</link>
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<link>http://thismybisnis.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/chandragupta-raja-vikramaditya/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>India adalah negeri astrologi. Sejak zaman dahulu, astrologi selalu dianggap sebagai penting disiplin belajar. Legendaris raja-raja dan kaisar dari semua ras dan agama di India pelanggan mampu astrologi India. Mulai dari yang berani Chandragupta raja Vikramaditya Muslim yang terkenal Kaisar Mughal Akbar semua telah dicatat astrolog di pengadilan. Bahkan sebelum itu, astrologi Weda di India telah menemukan tempat yang signifikan. Empat Veda yang berbicara panjang lebar tentang berbagai aspek kehidupan, juga panjang lebar menjelaskan rahasia perhitungan astrologi.</p>
<p>Vedic astrologi biasanya berfokus pada siklus kehidupan. Its perhitungan astrologi didasarkan pada waktu dan tanggal kelahiran seseorang. Ilmu India kuno ini juga menekankan pada pengamatan yang tajam planet astral posisi dan lokasi, karena percaya bahwa planet-planet mempengaruhi kehidupan manusia. Dalam tahap-tahap awal, astrologi Weda percaya bahwa hanya bintang-bintang mempengaruhi kondisi kehidupan manusia.<br />
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Tetapi kemudian ia juga termasuk tanda zodiak, atau rasi bintang tertentu, dalam perhitungan parameter. Sistem tergabung 27 rasi bintang, di mana ada 12 zodiak tanda-tanda, 9 planet dan 12 rumah. Subbagian utama jenis ini adalah astrologi India Siddhanta astrologi, astrologi dan Hora Mundake astrologi. Setiap subparts ini juga memiliki beberapa braches atau kategori kecil. Pertemuan Weda India budaya dan tradisi Budha berbaur di berbagai proporsi dan menciptakan beberapa varian dari cabang ilmu pengetahuan Veda. Studi juga mencapai biara-biara yang jauh dari daerah Buddha tumbuh menjadi sepenuhnya berbeda jenis praktik astrologi.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Vennela]]></title>
<link>http://surprisedhits.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/vennela/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Vennela is a Telugu movie released in 2005. NRI a guy Deva Katta has directed this movie. Most of th]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://chakpak.com/movie/vennela/19103"><em>Vennela</em></a> is a Telugu movie released in 2005. NRI a guy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deva_Katta">Deva Katta</a> has directed this movie. Most of the movie moves in USA only. Because lack of proper star cast movie failed to attract the audience in first weak.</p>
<p>But the mouth talk gave life to this moviw and made it a decent hit. Raja, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharvanand">Sharvanad</a> and Parvati Melton were appeared in lead roles.</p>
<p>Naveen (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2190556/">Raja</a>) is an young guy completed his Engineering goes to USA to do hi MBA. There he meets an Indian girl called Pavani (Parvathi Melton) who is also going MBA. Naveen falls in love with Pavani, but surprises when he comes to know about her past life.</p>
<p>What are the problems Pavani has and how Naveen solved those is the main story.</p>
<p>Story line is a bit regular but director has given fresh look by adding fresh comedy. Songs was well shot in beautiful American locations. This is the first movie to <a href="http://chakpak.com/celebrity/parvati-melton/38136">Parvathi Melton</a> made her famous in Andhra Pradesh.</p>
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<link>http://uprootedpalestinian.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/the-first-lesson-in-theology/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<div style="text-align:center;">the name of <span style="color:#c00000;font-weight:bold;">Jesus, </span>on the walls of</div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">&#160;this Holy Monument , </span></div>
<div style="text-align:center;">is mentioned and repeated </div>
<div style="text-align:center;">more than on any other monument</div>
<div style="text-align:center;">in Jerusalem !!</div>
<div style="text-align:center;">or even more than</div>
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<div style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The <span style="color:#c00000;">First </span>Lesson in Theology :</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:left;">God is Allah</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Jesus is Issa</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Messiah is Massieh</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Abraham is Ibrahim</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Moses is Moossa</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Joseph is Youssef</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Mary is Mariam</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">The Holy-Ghost&#160; is&#160; Rouh el kodoss</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Elijah is Elias</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Peter is Boutros</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Michael is Michaeel</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Gabriel is Gibra´eel</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Marc is Morkos</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Evangil is&#160; Ingeel</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Thora is&#160; al Thowrat</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Satan is Shaytan</div>
<p>This is <span style="font-weight:bold;">not</span> only a lesson in language or in translations<br />it is about <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Islam and Christianity</span> which are <span style="font-weight:bold;">one</span> religion<br />with different applications and eventualy with variating rules.</p>
<p>At any rate all the mentioned figures are the same actors,<br />here and there&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>Never beleive anyone who tells you that there is<br />theoretical-nor any natural-anemosities.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Today Islam and Christianity are divided by the cultures<span style="font-weight:bold;"> only</span></span><br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">and by geo-politics , occasionaly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium;"><br /><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Raja Chemayel</span></span></span><br /><span style="color:#00007f;">an Arab-Christian who calls God , <span style="font-weight:bold;">Allah !!</span></span><br /><span style="color:maroon;">&#160;</span> 
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<div style="text-align:center;">the name of <span style="color:#c00000;font-weight:bold;">Jesus, </span>on the walls of</div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">&#160;this Holy Monument , </span></div>
<div style="text-align:center;">is mentioned and repeated </div>
<div style="text-align:center;">more than on any other monument</div>
<div style="text-align:center;">in Jerusalem !!</div>
<div style="text-align:center;">or even more than</div>
<div style="text-align:center;">&#160;in Notre Dame Cathedral,in Paris.</div>
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<p><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">
<div style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The <span style="color:#c00000;">First </span>Lesson in Theology :</span></div>
<div style="text-align:left;"></div>
<div style="text-align:left;">God is Allah</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Jesus is Issa</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Messiah is Massieh</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Abraham is Ibrahim</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Moses is Moossa</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Joseph is Youssef</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Mary is Mariam</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">The Holy-Ghost&#160; is&#160; Rouh el kodoss</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Elijah is Elias</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Peter is Boutros</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Michael is Michaeel</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Gabriel is Gibra´eel</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Marc is Morkos</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Evangil is&#160; Ingeel</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Thora is&#160; al Thowrat</div>
<div style="text-align:left;">Satan is Shaytan</div>
<p>This is <span style="font-weight:bold;">not</span> only a lesson in language or in translations<br />it is about <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Islam and Christianity</span> which are <span style="font-weight:bold;">one</span> religion<br />with different applications and eventualy with variating rules.</p>
<p>At any rate all the mentioned figures are the same actors,<br />here and there&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>Never beleive anyone who tells you that there is<br />theoretical-nor any natural-anemosities.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Today Islam and Christianity are divided by the cultures<span style="font-weight:bold;"> only</span></span><br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">and by geo-politics , occasionaly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium;"><br /><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Raja Chemayel</span></span></span><br /><span style="color:#00007f;">an Arab-Christian who calls God , <span style="font-weight:bold;">Allah !!</span></span><br /><span style="color:maroon;">&#160;</span> 
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<title><![CDATA[Rajamin's First Christmas Worship]]></title>
<link>http://plovea.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/rajamins-first-christmas-worship/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Allisa Yustica Krones</dc:creator>
<guid>http://plovea.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/rajamins-first-christmas-worship/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For GOD so loved the world, that HE gave HIS only begotten SON, that whosoever believeth in HIM shou]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><strong>For GOD so loved the world, that HE gave HIS only begotten SON, that whosoever believeth in HIM should not perish, but have everlasting life&#8230;</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><strong>John 3 : 16</strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc002521.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-742" title="DSC00252" src="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc002521.jpg" alt="" width="365" height="274" /></a>The last Saturday, for the first time in his life, Raja came to a Christmas Worship…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Waaahhh….bahagianya!!!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Christmas worship yang kami hadiri diadakan oleh perserkutuan Kristen Batak di lingkungan tempat tinggal kami. Dalam bahasa Batak, nama persekutuannya adalah Parsahutaon Dos Ni Roha <span style="font-family:Wingdings;"> <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Kami memang sudah mulai aktif dalam persekutan Kristen Batak itu sejak kami pindah ke rumah baru ini. Kami juga sudah aktif di gereja HKBP di kompleks kami (tiap minggu Raja ikut kami beribadah di gereja… tahun depan, kami akan mulai mengikutkan Raja untuk ibadah sekolah minggu <span style="font-family:Wingdings;"> <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </span> )… rencananya, setelah kembali dari Medan, kami akan secara resmi terdaftar sebagai anggota jemaat di situ… Thanks GOD… kami sudah sangat rindu untuk beribadah secara menetap di satu Gereja, dan kami yakin, Tuhan menetapkan kami di sini… untuk melayani-Nya di tengah jemaat kecil ini… amiin…. Itulah salah satu resolusi terpenting keluarga kecil kami untuk tahun depan… Melayani Tuhan, Pencipta alam semesta ini dengan lebih lagi….</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Ok…back to the topic. Rajamin’s First Christmas Worship.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Acaranya dimulai jam setengah tujuh malam. Gak kayak ibadah atau acara lainnya yang duduk di kursi, setiap acara yang diadakan di lingkungan batak selalu bertikar ria…termasuk di acara Natal kali ini…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Karena duduknya di lantai, Raja jadi merasa punya kesempatan beraktivitas kayak di rumah. Kalo di gereja kan duduknya di atas kursi. Jadi aktivitas terbatas. He couldn’t go down to his absolutely positively very favorit place to play… the FLOOR!!! <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Maka jadilah, sepanjang ibadah ni anak gak bisa diem… merangkak, merambat, trus kalo dibecandain sama orang langsung ketawa terbahak-bahak sambil tepuk-tepuk tangan. Duh, heboh deh… Sampe bajunya pun musti diganti di depan orang-orang karena udah keringetan banget saking gak bisa diemnya.</p>
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<div id="attachment_738" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 375px"><a href="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00274.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-738" title="DSC00274" src="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00274.jpg" alt="" width="365" height="274" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">nungging-nungging gini maksudnya pengen berdiri tuuuhhhh....</p></div>
<div id="attachment_739" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 375px"><a href="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00275.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-739" title="DSC00275" src="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00275.jpg" alt="" width="365" height="274" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hoorraaayyyy... feel free here!!!</p></div>
<div id="attachment_740" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 375px"><a href="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00276.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-740" title="DSC00276" src="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00276.jpg" alt="" width="365" height="274" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Papa..papa... let&#39;s play with me...</p></div>
<p>Eh, tapi ada ding, moment yang bikin Raja terdiam. Yaitu pas.. penyalaan lilin.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Ni anak terpana aja ngeliat lampu-lampu dipadamkan dan lilin-lilin dinyalain… Apalagi diiringi lagu O Holy Night… tambah syahdu aja deh perasaannya, he he…</p>
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<div id="attachment_741" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 375px"><a href="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00254.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-741" title="DSC00254" src="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00254.jpg" alt="" width="365" height="274" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">wow...i want to hold the candle too!!!!</p></div>
<div id="attachment_743" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 375px"><a href="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00256.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-743" title="DSC00256" src="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00256.jpg" alt="" width="365" height="274" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">lighting the candles..</p></div>
<div id="attachment_744" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 375px"><a href="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00258.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-744" title="DSC00258" src="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00258.jpg" alt="" width="365" height="274" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">wow...the candles are beautiful!!!</p></div>
<p>Ibadah Natal ini…adalah ibadah Natal pertama kami bersama Raja. Memang hanya sederhana saja, tapi semangat kekeluargaannya sungguh terasa…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Rasanya bersyukur sekali, Tuhan menempatkan kami di sini… dan kami diberi kesempatan untuk berada di tengah ibadah sederhana ini..</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Lewat ibadah ini, Tuhan mengingatkan kami tentang 2 makna penting melalui peristiwa Natal.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Pertama, kehadiran Tuhan Yesus sang Juruselamat merupakan sebuah awal dari rencana Tuhan yang paling indah, yaitu penebusan dosa seluruh manusia  sekali untuk selamanya. Dulu, manusia harus memberikan kurban penebusan dosa setiap kali melanggar hukum Tuhan. Untuk orang miskin, harus memberikan kurban burung tekukur. Untuk orang menengah, kambing atau domba. Sedangkan untuk orang kaya harus sapi. Setiap kurban harus yang tidak bercacat cela….</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Bayangkan… berapa kali kita harus berkurban dalam sehari??? Perlu dicatat, bahkan memikirkan sesuatu yang salah pun sudah termasuk dosa. Mungkin kita terpikir, toh selama rencana dan pemikiran belum benar-benar menjadi sebuah perbuatan, maka kita terhindar dari dosa&#8230; Namun tidak seperti itu. Sebuah pemikiran yang tidak benar terlintas saja, sudah merupakan dosa&#8230; sudah merupakan bukti ketidakbenaran manusia di hadapan Allah.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Tuhan pencipta alam semesta ini adalah Allah yang sangat suci dan kudus.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Sementara manusia hanyalah mahkluk yang fana. Tak mungkin perbuatan kita bisa mencapai standar Allah itu…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Tak mungkin jika hanya mengandalkan perbuatan kita semata maka kita akan beroleh tempat di Surga-Nya…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Allah tau…mengerti…dan peduli…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Sekedar kurban hewan tak lagi menyenangkan hati-Nya…apalagi DIA tahu bahwa di balik kurban itu, begitu banyak sikap hati yang sebenarnya tidak berkenan di hadapan-Nya… karena manusia hanyalah mahkluk yang penuh dengan keterbatasan. Hari ini kita berbuat dosa, menyesal, mohon ampun…dan besok kita jatuh lagi dalam dosa yang sama&#8230;.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Tuhan juga tidak bisa membiarkan satu manusia menghakimi manusia yang lain atau memberikan penghukuman atas apa yang dilakukan oleh orang lain. Karena sesungguhnya orang yang menghakimi sama saja dengan orang yang dihakimi. Tak ada satu manusiapun yang benar. Dan sesungguhnya manusia juga memiliki keterbatasan dalam menegakkan hukum-Nya. Manusia tidak bisa menilik hati. Kita tak pernah tahu kejahatan dan ketidakbenaran seseorang yang tersimpan dalam hatinya atau yang ada dalam pikirannya&#8230;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Sekali lagi… Allah tau…mengerti…dan peduli…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">IA ingin kita semua mendapat bagian dalam surga-Nya…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Karena itu, Allah sendiri dalam Tuhan Yesus Kristus turun ke dalam dunia. Karena itu, darah-NYA sendiri yang dicurahkan untuk menebus dosa manusia. Segala hukuman yang bisa ditimpakan pada kita oleh karena keberdosaan kita, seperti hukum cambuk..penyaliban&#8230;dan apapun itu&#8230; sudah ditanggung-Nya untuk kita&#8230;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Sekali. Untuk selamanya.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Penebusan yang berlaku bagi siapa saja yang mau menerima YESUS sebagai TUHAN dan Juruselamat…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Kedua, peristiwa Natal merupakan awal pengangkatan manusia yang berdosa ini menjadi anak-anak ALLAH, Pencipta langit dan bumi, Pemilik alam semesta ini… Kehadiran Tuhan Yesus di tengah dunia, pengorbanan-Nya di atas kayu salib, membuat kita manusia berdosa ini dilayakkan untuk memanggil ALLAH dengan sebutan BAPA…. Indah sekali kan? Pada akhirnya manusia yang penuh dosa dilayakkan untuk memiliki hubungan yang intim dengan Tuhan pencipta alam semesta yang sangat suci… Pada akhirnya kita dibenarkan di dalam DIA&#8230;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Terima kasih Tuhan Yesus…untuk semuanya…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Banyak hal indah kami dapatkan melalui ibadah sederhana ini. Dan sekalipun Raja terlalu kecil untuk mengerti, kami yakin..berkat Allah melalui kedatangan Sang Juruselamat juga berlaku untuknya… Tuhan Yesus juga lahir di hatinya….</p>
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<div id="attachment_745" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 284px"><a href="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00246.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-745" title="DSC00246" src="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00246.jpg" alt="" width="274" height="365" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Reading Nativity Jigsaw Book</p></div>
<div id="attachment_746" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 284px"><a href="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00247.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-746" title="DSC00247" src="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00247.jpg" alt="" width="274" height="365" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The pictures tell me the story of how JESUS came into this world</p></div>
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<link>http://plovea.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/our-awesome-baby-is-now-10m-old/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Allisa Yustica Krones</dc:creator>
<guid>http://plovea.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/our-awesome-baby-is-now-10m-old/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sejak tanggal 3 Desember kemarin, Raja sudah berusia 10 bulan. Gak terasa yah, less than two months ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00239.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-722" title="DSC00239" src="http://plovea.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dsc00239.jpg" alt="" width="365" height="274" /></a>Sejak tanggal 3 Desember kemarin, Raja sudah berusia 10 bulan. Gak terasa yah, less than two months later, we will celebrate his first birthday <span style="font-family:Wingdings;"> <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">His development?? Well, it&#8217;s very rapid!!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Udah ngerti yang mana foto papa, foto ompung, foto oma dan opa, dan tentu saja foto dirinya *<em>kalo ditanya, udah nunjuk-nunjuk pake jari telunjuknya</em>*. Di ruang tamu kami, selain dipajang foto pernikahan kami yang berukuran 20R, dipajang juga foto Raja dalam bentuk collage berukuran 16R.  Ni anak suka ge-er kalo ngeliat fotonya itu&#8230; He always smile out loud when he&#8217;s pointing to his pictures by his finger <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Udah tau kalo mo lepas celana trus disuruh angkat kaki kanan lalu kaki kiri *<em>dia bener-bener ikut sesuai perintah lho, “ayo..angkat kaki kanannya (kaki kanan diangkat)..kaki kirinya juga (kaki kiri diangkat)…”*. </em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Udah ngerti juga kalo habis pegang yang kotor-kotor mesti cuci tangan *<em>kalo habis pegang yang kotor, trus dibilang, “wash your hand” langsung ngeliat ke arah wastafel</em>*.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Sudah hapal banget sama kegiatan berdoa waktu bangun pagi, bobo malam, makan, dan mo keluar rumah.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Kalo dibawa masuk ke kamar untuk bobo malam, he will immediately point to the light sleep&#8230; Maksudnya minta supaya lampu tidurnya dinyalain dan lampu utama dimatiin. Langsung senyum lebar lho kalo lampu tidurnya udah nyala&#8230;. well he knows for sure the standard operating procedure before he&#8217;s sleeping <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Kalo mamanya pulang dan memanggil namanya dari luar pintu, langsung nyahut “Yieee….” Sambil minta si suster menggendongnya biar dia bisa membuka pintu *<em>ni anak udah tau lho menggerakkan handle pintu supaya pintunya terbuka</em>*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Udah bisa ngitung lampu. Antara ruang keluarga, ruang makan, dan dapur kami tidak ada sekat, jadi plong gitu. Masing-masing ruangan ada lampunya. Jadi kalo ditanya… “ayo Raja, itung lampunya… one *<em>nunjuk lampu ruang keluarga</em>*.. two *<em>nunjuk lampu ruang makan</em>*… three *<em>nunjuk lampu dapur</em>*” Nunjuknya sambil ngomong, “Ohtohhh..ohttohhh!! *<em>nulis ini sambil gemes sendiri ngebayangin Raja ber-ohtoh2 ria sambil memonyongkan bibirnya <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </em>” Trus kalo disorakin, “Raja hebaaattt!!!!” Langsung deh ketawa-ketawa bangga sambil tepuk-tepuk tangan atau pahanya <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Sudah tau, kalo burung itu adanya di luar&#8230; So, don&#8217;t ask about bird to him while he&#8217;s in the house, coz he will point to the outside and ask you to bring him out <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Udah numbuh gigi satu..and another teeth at the bottom gums and two more teeth at the top gums will arise soon <span style="font-family:Wingdings;"> <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Begitu juga dengan kemampuan berdiri. Dah makin jago lho, berdiri gak pegangan. Gak hanya di atas kasur, tapi di lantai juga. Sekarang malah udah bisa berdiri dari posisi nungging. Udah mau belajar jalan juga. Jadi kalo dipanggil, “Raja..come here…” sementara dia lagi berdiri, udah mau tuh berjalan ke arah kita. Tapi sayang, karena memang belom bisa, jadi yang maju duluan adalah badannya, bukan kakinya..jatoh deh <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />  <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Udah makin manja!!! Bisa-bisa pura-pura nangis sambil memejamkan mata erat-erat, trus mulutnya di-mewek-kan kalo keinginannya gak dipenuhi. Kalo lagi kayak gitu, trus diledekin..”Yeee…pura-pura banget nangisnya.!!!” Langsung deh malu-malu sendiri <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Udah bisa main-main mata. Matanya dipejam-pejamkan, sambil senyum-senyum nakal… hi hi…</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Udah gak ngedot lagi. Sekarang minum susu pake cangkir. Makanannya gak perlu dipenyet-penyetin lagi karena udah pinter ngunyah <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Anak mama dan papa memang sudah makin besar ya!!!</p>
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<link>http://fenilandbollywood.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/judwaa-sequel-being-planned/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>fenilseta</dc:creator>
<guid>http://fenilandbollywood.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/judwaa-sequel-being-planned/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Salman Khan, David Dhawan and Sajid Nadiadwala get ready to make Judwaa 2. Kareena Kapoor might play]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sectarianism in the land of the Cedars]]></title>
<link>http://uprootedpalestinian.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/sectarianism-in-the-land-of-the-cedars/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>uprootedpalestinians</dc:creator>
<guid>http://uprootedpalestinian.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/sectarianism-in-the-land-of-the-cedars/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Link Sectarianism is present in the social and political lifeof the Lebanon and is even in the unwri]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sectarianism</span> is present in the social and political life<br />of the Lebanon and is even in the unwritten-constitut ion.</p>
<p>Sectarianism is saturating the day by day life<br />so that it becomes invisible and indivisible. &#8230;.<br />and it replaces the breathing-air.</p>
<p>But then and again, <br />too much of anything , makes it absolute<br />and self-destructive.&#160; Like love and or alcohol&#8230;.. .</p>
<p>I shall give you an example :</p>
<p>One candidate running for an <span style="font-weight:bold;">&#8220;orthodox-seat&#8221; </span>in the parliament<br />is a member of an &#8220;all-<span style="font-weight:bold;">Maronite</span>-party&#8221; and ex-member of a dissolved<br />&#8220;<span style="font-weight:bold;">Maronite</span>-militia&#8221;.</p>
<p>This candidate won the elections in his district (for the <span style="font-weight:bold;">orthodox-seat</span>)<br />thanks to the overwhelming votes of <span style="font-weight:bold;">the Druzes </span>in that same district.<br />The Druzes voted for him under an agreement (a coalition) <br />with the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Sunni</span>-group of Hariri.</p>
<p>So there you have it :<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">An </span><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Orthodox</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;">-parliamentarian who is member of a </span><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Maronite</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;">-clan</span><br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">voted in power by the </span><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Druzes-voters , </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;">only</span><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;"> </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;">to serve the </span><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Sunnis</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;">-strategy.</span></p>
<p>This is not a fictitious figure&#8230;&#8230; &#8230;.but a real one !!.</p>
<p>And if you want to hear more confusing details ,<br />this &#8220;Orthodox-parliamen tarian&#8221; got less than 24% <br />of the<span style="font-weight:bold;"> Orthodox-voters </span>in his district.<br />Meaning that in practice he is only representing that <span style="font-weight:bold;">Maronite</span>-party<br />which , accidentaly ,does <span style="font-weight:bold;">not</span> even exist in his peculiar distric ,<span style="text-decoration:underline;">anyhow.</span></p>
<p>And if you think that is unfair or strange , you would be surprised<br />to know that this (Christian) Parliamentarian has ,during the civil war,<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">killed </span>more of his christian opponents , <br />than from his Muslim or Druze opponents.</p>
<p><span style="color:maroon;">Today , </span><br /><span style="color:maroon;">his own body-guards fear those people <span style="font-weight:bold;">only </span>from his own religion </span><br /><span style="color:maroon;">and even from his own sect.</span>&#8230;rather than anyone else.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sectarianism </span>,because it is<span style="text-decoration:underline;"> man-made</span><span style="font-weight:bold;">&#160; , is like Racism</span><br />and is not at all,&#160; natural !!</p>
<p><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-size:medium;"><br /><span style="font-size:medium;">Raja Chemayel</span></span><br /><span style="color:#0000bf;">non-sectarian and anti-racist</span> 
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<title><![CDATA[Sectarianism in the land of the Cedars]]></title>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sectarianism</span> is present in the social and political life<br />of the Lebanon and is even in the unwritten-constitut ion.</p>
<p>Sectarianism is saturating the day by day life<br />so that it becomes invisible and indivisible. &#8230;.<br />and it replaces the breathing-air.</p>
<p>But then and again, <br />too much of anything , makes it absolute<br />and self-destructive.&#160; Like love and or alcohol&#8230;.. .</p>
<p>I shall give you an example :</p>
<p>One candidate running for an <span style="font-weight:bold;">&#8220;orthodox-seat&#8221; </span>in the parliament<br />is a member of an &#8220;all-<span style="font-weight:bold;">Maronite</span>-party&#8221; and ex-member of a dissolved<br />&#8220;<span style="font-weight:bold;">Maronite</span>-militia&#8221;.</p>
<p>This candidate won the elections in his district (for the <span style="font-weight:bold;">orthodox-seat</span>)<br />thanks to the overwhelming votes of <span style="font-weight:bold;">the Druzes </span>in that same district.<br />The Druzes voted for him under an agreement (a coalition) <br />with the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Sunni</span>-group of Hariri.</p>
<p>So there you have it :<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">An </span><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Orthodox</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;">-parliamentarian who is member of a </span><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Maronite</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;">-clan</span><br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">voted in power by the </span><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Druzes-voters , </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;">only</span><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;"> </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;">to serve the </span><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Sunnis</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;">-strategy.</span></p>
<p>This is not a fictitious figure&#8230;&#8230; &#8230;.but a real one !!.</p>
<p>And if you want to hear more confusing details ,<br />this &#8220;Orthodox-parliamen tarian&#8221; got less than 24% <br />of the<span style="font-weight:bold;"> Orthodox-voters </span>in his district.<br />Meaning that in practice he is only representing that <span style="font-weight:bold;">Maronite</span>-party<br />which , accidentaly ,does <span style="font-weight:bold;">not</span> even exist in his peculiar distric ,<span style="text-decoration:underline;">anyhow.</span></p>
<p>And if you think that is unfair or strange , you would be surprised<br />to know that this (Christian) Parliamentarian has ,during the civil war,<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">killed </span>more of his christian opponents , <br />than from his Muslim or Druze opponents.</p>
<p><span style="color:maroon;">Today , </span><br /><span style="color:maroon;">his own body-guards fear those people <span style="font-weight:bold;">only </span>from his own religion </span><br /><span style="color:maroon;">and even from his own sect.</span>&#8230;rather than anyone else.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sectarianism </span>,because it is<span style="text-decoration:underline;"> man-made</span><span style="font-weight:bold;">&#160; , is like Racism</span><br />and is not at all,&#160; natural !!</p>
<p><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-size:medium;"><br /><span style="font-size:medium;">Raja Chemayel</span></span><br /><span style="color:#0000bf;">non-sectarian and anti-racist</span> 
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<title><![CDATA[Iraq gets a new constitution.....]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Link the new-faces of Iraq The Iraqi parliament has just agreed on the new constitution. Now&nbsp; ,]]></description>
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<div align="center">the new-faces of Iraq</div>
<div align="center"></div>
<div align="center"></div>
<div>The Iraqi parliament has just agreed on the <b>new constitution</b>.</div>
<div>Now&#160; , the division is set along the lines of faith</div>
<div>along the lines of sect and along the ethnic lines.</div>
<div></div>
<div>There are now :</div>
<div>three ethnic-Iraqs </div>
<div>and&#160;2 sectarian-Iraq</div>
<div>and five regional-Iraqs </div>
<div>and 7 recognised minorities.</div>
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<div><b>Thank you George Bush</b> , thank you Wolfowitz and Richard Perle !!</div>
<div><b><span style="background-color:yellow;"><i>Mission accomplished</i><span style="color:#cc0000;"> .</span>&#8230;.</span></b>indeed .</div>
<div><b>We have had once one Iraq&#8230;..and now there are three !!</b></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div>I remember&#160;the previous constitution</div>
<div>that never did mentioned the ethnic identities</div>
<div>nor was the religious belonging a matter of relevance&#8230; ..</div>
<div></div>
<div>The President was a secular-Sunni</div>
<div>with a Christian-vice- president</div>
<div>and a Shiaa-second- vice-President</div>
<div>not because of their religion but because of their talents&#8230;.</div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div>There was <b><u>one</u></b> Party , which has had some Short-comings,</div>
<div><b>but</b> this party was <b>modern,secular and republican</b>&#8230;..</div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div>Don&#8217;t you remember it ??&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. it was there until 2003&#8230;</div>
<div>and the Iraqi President was an ex-revolutionary,</div>
<div>anti-imperialist who build Churches and protected the Synagogues.</div>
<div></div>
<div>Funny !! </div>
<div>today that same parliament includes :</div>
<div>- war lords</div>
<div>- religious scholars (fanatic or not)</div>
<div>- tribal lords</div>
<div>- Mafiosos</div>
<div>- CIA stooges</div>
<div>- smugglers and common criminals,&#160;seeking immunity</div>
<div>- run-away-bankers</div>
<div>- mercenary-captains</div>
<div></div>
<div>The previous Parliament has not perfect ,</div>
<div>but at least those , above figures,&#160;were excluded.</div>
<div></div>
<div>If you ask me ,</div>
<div>I would say that George Bush fooled us</div>
<div>and that President Saddam is a dead Hero !!!</div>
<div></div>
<div>As they say in old western-cowboys- movies :<br /><i><b>&#8220;They hanged the wrong man &#8220;</b></i></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><i>Sherlock Hommos</i></span><br /></span><span style="color:#0000bf;">a Nostalgic-realist</span></div>
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<div align="center">the new-faces of Iraq</div>
<div align="center"></div>
<div align="center"></div>
<div>The Iraqi parliament has just agreed on the <b>new constitution</b>.</div>
<div>Now&#160; , the division is set along the lines of faith</div>
<div>along the lines of sect and along the ethnic lines.</div>
<div></div>
<div>There are now :</div>
<div>three ethnic-Iraqs </div>
<div>and&#160;2 sectarian-Iraq</div>
<div>and five regional-Iraqs </div>
<div>and 7 recognised minorities.</div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div><b>Thank you George Bush</b> , thank you Wolfowitz and Richard Perle !!</div>
<div><b><span style="background-color:yellow;"><i>Mission accomplished</i><span style="color:#cc0000;"> .</span>&#8230;.</span></b>indeed .</div>
<div><b>We have had once one Iraq&#8230;..and now there are three !!</b></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div>I remember&#160;the previous constitution</div>
<div>that never did mentioned the ethnic identities</div>
<div>nor was the religious belonging a matter of relevance&#8230; ..</div>
<div></div>
<div>The President was a secular-Sunni</div>
<div>with a Christian-vice- president</div>
<div>and a Shiaa-second- vice-President</div>
<div>not because of their religion but because of their talents&#8230;.</div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div>There was <b><u>one</u></b> Party , which has had some Short-comings,</div>
<div><b>but</b> this party was <b>modern,secular and republican</b>&#8230;..</div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div>Don&#8217;t you remember it ??&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. it was there until 2003&#8230;</div>
<div>and the Iraqi President was an ex-revolutionary,</div>
<div>anti-imperialist who build Churches and protected the Synagogues.</div>
<div></div>
<div>Funny !! </div>
<div>today that same parliament includes :</div>
<div>- war lords</div>
<div>- religious scholars (fanatic or not)</div>
<div>- tribal lords</div>
<div>- Mafiosos</div>
<div>- CIA stooges</div>
<div>- smugglers and common criminals,&#160;seeking immunity</div>
<div>- run-away-bankers</div>
<div>- mercenary-captains</div>
<div></div>
<div>The previous Parliament has not perfect ,</div>
<div>but at least those , above figures,&#160;were excluded.</div>
<div></div>
<div>If you ask me ,</div>
<div>I would say that George Bush fooled us</div>
<div>and that President Saddam is a dead Hero !!!</div>
<div></div>
<div>As they say in old western-cowboys- movies :<br /><i><b>&#8220;They hanged the wrong man &#8220;</b></i></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><i>Sherlock Hommos</i></span><br /></span><span style="color:#0000bf;">a Nostalgic-realist</span></div>
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<div align="center">Each clown&#8230;&#8230;. ..has some rights&#8230;.</div>
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<div>There&#160;was a lot of tumult </div>
<div>about one Dutch Parliamentarian ( Geert Wilders)</div>
<div>who produced a short-film called &#8220;FITNA&#8221;</div>
<div>some have found this film as an insult to Islam,</div>
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<div><u>I did not find it as insult to Islam</u></div>
<div>I only have found this film rather as </div>
<div><b>an insult&#160; </b><b>to cinematography </b></div>
<div>and to the real film-making .</div>
<div></div>
<div>If what Mr. Geert Wilder has &#160;made&#160;&#160;is called a &#8221; film &#8220;</div>
<div>then you may expect an Oscar for my video-holidays- film&#160;, next year.</div>
<div>Or the Seventh-Art is no more an Art !!</div>
<div>Or Banality has gained any value !!</div>
<div>Or the Zionists have reached the Dutch-Parliament !!</div>
<div>Or the Western world&#160;has ran out of cinematographic- talents !!</div>
<div>Or any combination of the above&#8230;&#8230;. ..</div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-size:medium;">Sherlock Hommos</span><br /></span><span style="color:#0000bf;">Film Director and Film critic</span></div>
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<div align="center">Each clown&#8230;&#8230;. ..has some rights&#8230;.</div>
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<div>There&#160;was a lot of tumult </div>
<div>about one Dutch Parliamentarian ( Geert Wilders)</div>
<div>who produced a short-film called &#8220;FITNA&#8221;</div>
<div>some have found this film as an insult to Islam,</div>
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<div><u>I did not find it as insult to Islam</u></div>
<div>I only have found this film rather as </div>
<div><b>an insult&#160; </b><b>to cinematography </b></div>
<div>and to the real film-making .</div>
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<div>If what Mr. Geert Wilder has &#160;made&#160;&#160;is called a &#8221; film &#8220;</div>
<div>then you may expect an Oscar for my video-holidays- film&#160;, next year.</div>
<div>Or the Seventh-Art is no more an Art !!</div>
<div>Or Banality has gained any value !!</div>
<div>Or the Zionists have reached the Dutch-Parliament !!</div>
<div>Or the Western world&#160;has ran out of cinematographic- talents !!</div>
<div>Or any combination of the above&#8230;&#8230;. ..</div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-size:medium;">Sherlock Hommos</span><br /></span><span style="color:#0000bf;">Film Director and Film critic</span></div>
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<div>Posted by Тлакскала at <a href="http://frustratedarabdiary.blogspot.com/2009/12/insult-to-cinematography.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr title="2009-12-07T19:57:00+01:00"><span style="color:#c3d9ff;">7:57 PM</span></abbr></a> </div>
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<div style="text-align:center;">&#160;All this in the USA !!&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. &#8230;&#8230;..</div>
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<p>&#160; <br />Recently the city of Las Vegas has replicated
<div>practically most of the ancient city of Venice</div>
<div></div>
<div>This way an American tourist could visit Venice</div>
<div>without leaving the USA.</div>
<div></div>
<div>Also there is a copy of the Eiffel Tower</div>
<div>in Las Vegas , too&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; &#8230;&#8230;.</div>
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<div></div>
<div><b>What if the City of Las Vegas would copy</b></div>
<div><b>the Old-Jerusalem- City ??</b></div>
<div></div>
<div>And in that case ,</div>
<div>they could also rebuild the Temple Of Salomon</div>
<div>which is not in Jerusalem today&#8230;&#8230;</div>
<div>and was never found neither .</div>
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<div>Instead of the ethnic-cleansing </div>
<div>of the original Palestinian citizens of&#160;the real Jerusalem , </div>
<div>the Jewish Tourists&#160;could visit a 100% copy of Jerusalem</div>
<div>and even go and live there , if they so wish.</div>
<div></div>
<div>And out of <b>nostalgia</b> for occupation and for discrimination and for evictions</div>
<div>and for check-points and for prisons and for deprivations , </div>
<div>I am sure that <u>Hollywood </u>could provide some actors dressed as Arabs </div>
<div>and the Jewish-tourist could shoot on them , or demolish their houses , </div>
<div>or drive a Bulldozer over their graves&#8230;&#8230; .</div>
<div>also they could undress them at some check-points.</div>
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<div align="center"><b><u>Solutions for the Middle East are plenty !!</u></b></div>
<div align="center"><b><u>one should only use his (or her) </u></b></div>
<div align="center"><b><u><span style="color:#0000bf;">creative-imaginatio n</span></u></b></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-size:medium;">Eng. Moustafa <img src="http://mail.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/22.gif" />&#160;Roosenbloom</span><br /></span><span style="color:blue;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Manager of New-Jerusalem- Resort , Las Vegas</span></div>
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<div><span style="color:maroon;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">PS :</span></div>
<div><span style="color:maroon;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">There is a huge architectural problem !!</span></div>
<div><span style="color:maroon;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">there are no Jewish Monuments in today&#8217;s Jerusalem</span></div>
<div><span style="color:maroon;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">to be copied in Las Vegas&#8230;&#8230;. ..</span></div>
<div><span style="color:maroon;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">but all the other sadist games </span><span style="color:maroon;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">could be copied .</span></div>
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<div>Posted by Тлакскала at <a href="http://frustratedarabdiary.blogspot.com/2009/12/lasvegas-jerusalem-and-venice.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr title="2009-12-06T20:00:00+01:00"><span style="color:#c3d9ff;">8:00 PM</span></abbr></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7198579165229695971&#38;postID=1000285705273180771" title="Edit Post"><span style="color:#c3d9ff;"> </span></a></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><img height="164" src="http://everystockphoto.s3.amazonaws.com/Vegas_Venice_water_268308_l.jpg" width="203" /> </div>
<div style="text-align:center;">&#160;All this in the USA !!&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. &#8230;&#8230;..</div>
<div></div>
<p>&#160; <br />Recently the city of Las Vegas has replicated
<div>practically most of the ancient city of Venice</div>
<div></div>
<div>This way an American tourist could visit Venice</div>
<div>without leaving the USA.</div>
<div></div>
<div>Also there is a copy of the Eiffel Tower</div>
<div>in Las Vegas , too&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; &#8230;&#8230;.</div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div><b>What if the City of Las Vegas would copy</b></div>
<div><b>the Old-Jerusalem- City ??</b></div>
<div></div>
<div>And in that case ,</div>
<div>they could also rebuild the Temple Of Salomon</div>
<div>which is not in Jerusalem today&#8230;&#8230;</div>
<div>and was never found neither .</div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div>Instead of the ethnic-cleansing </div>
<div>of the original Palestinian citizens of&#160;the real Jerusalem , </div>
<div>the Jewish Tourists&#160;could visit a 100% copy of Jerusalem</div>
<div>and even go and live there , if they so wish.</div>
<div></div>
<div>And out of <b>nostalgia</b> for occupation and for discrimination and for evictions</div>
<div>and for check-points and for prisons and for deprivations , </div>
<div>I am sure that <u>Hollywood </u>could provide some actors dressed as Arabs </div>
<div>and the Jewish-tourist could shoot on them , or demolish their houses , </div>
<div>or drive a Bulldozer over their graves&#8230;&#8230; .</div>
<div>also they could undress them at some check-points.</div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div align="center"><b><u>Solutions for the Middle East are plenty !!</u></b></div>
<div align="center"><b><u>one should only use his (or her) </u></b></div>
<div align="center"><b><u><span style="color:#0000bf;">creative-imaginatio n</span></u></b></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;font-size:medium;">Eng. Moustafa <img src="http://mail.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/22.gif" />&#160;Roosenbloom</span><br /></span><span style="color:blue;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">Manager of New-Jerusalem- Resort , Las Vegas</span></div>
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<div></div>
<div><span style="color:maroon;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">PS :</span></div>
<div><span style="color:maroon;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">There is a huge architectural problem !!</span></div>
<div><span style="color:maroon;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">there are no Jewish Monuments in today&#8217;s Jerusalem</span></div>
<div><span style="color:maroon;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">to be copied in Las Vegas&#8230;&#8230;. ..</span></div>
<div><span style="color:maroon;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">but all the other sadist games </span><span style="color:maroon;font-family:Comic Sans MS;">could be copied .</span></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
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