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Thursday, January 03, 2008
Kooky Lebanonese news update. As if I don't have my jet lag to deal with, I heard Marcel Ghanim say on LBC-TV that he will host next week Michel `Ubayd "who discovered a cure for cancer." I kid you not. It was on Kalam An-Nas. And how come those successive Lebanese discoveries of cure for cancer are only mentioned in An-Nahar and LBC-TV (both are right-wing, sectarian Christian, ultra-Lebanese nationalist, anti-Syrian (people), and anti-Palestinian (people) media). Oh, and Lebanese media are also bragging that some Lebanese have criss-crossed the South Pole on foot--the pictures provided look suspiciously similar to that area near the Westin Hotel in Vail, Colorado. Oh, and he waved the Lebanese flag. The nation is now in tears. No wonder I keep singing: And from the Window, I shall throw myself off to you, and from the window....