Today is a different day

عازز علي النوم طيفك على بالي

و في الليلة الظلماء يفتقد البدر

نفتقد طلة الحسين ، و نفتقد صوته الحنون و قدرته المذهلة على التماسك و بعث الثقة بالنفس في احلك الظروف

و كل الثقة بقائدنا ابو حسين، وحمى الله الاردن

The names, God bless their souls

You can also find them on http://www.alghad.jo/?news=55728

أسماء شهداء وجرحى التفجيرات الارهابية في عمان

التخصصي

الوفيات
مصعب أحمد خورما (32 سنة)، عمر عبد اللطيف حسين (49 سنة)، أشلاء مجهولة الهوية، أشلاء مجهولة الهوية.

الإصابات
الدكتور ظاهر سليمان هاشم (عراقي الجنسية)، إيمان خالد (عراقية)، وهبي جون (عراقي)، شريف عبد الغني الجلاد، محمد محمود السوباني.

المركز العربي

ثلاث وفيات
الإصابات
كارت فيلر (45 سنة، سويسري)، أحمد فتحي بخيت (21سنة)، حسين عبد الله الفاروق (29 سنة)، أكرم ماجد الشامي (30 سنة)، دينا غازي عقل (24 سنة)، سناء سامي شفافوج (52 سنة)، رنا عبدالله الفاروق 24 سنة, فادي يعقوب جريس 25 سنة, خلود كامل العتال, فارس انيس العلمي 22 سنة, فادي العشي, دينا عقل, غالب خضر محمد علي 53 سنة (عراقي).

الملكة علياء العسكري

الوفيات
بشار محمد حمد, جمال محمد محمود 37 سنة, باسم عبداللطيف نمر علي 47 سنة, فتاتان مجهولتا الهوية.
الإصابات
عرفات بشير عرفات 29 سنة, هاني وليد رضوان بركات 24 سنة.

الاردن

الوفيات
طفلة مجهولة الهوية, يوسف الحمصي, عارف عبدالرحمن زرقيه, عوني احمد يحيى, بيري باتسولانو 55 سنة (اندونيسي الجنسية), محمد احمد علي 42 سنة, ابراهيم عزمي مصطفى, هيثم مهنا عبد الكريم. فارس العتيبي الرنتسيس, حبيب خميس خلف (عراقي الجنسية), ثمانية اشخاص مجهولو الهوية.

الإصابات

عبد العزيز قاسم يوسف, أميرة عبد الرحمن دعاس, جهاد, فتحية دعاس, رندة يعقوب, سوسن ابو حليمة, صالح يوسف, عمار الكيلاني, محمد غازي العتيبي (سعودي الجنسية), محمد حسن ابو شنب, زياد جمال فارس, قاسم يوسف الامير, انس الاطرش, رولا العمر, بتول عوض, حسن خميس, بشار محمد دعاس.

مستشفى الشميساني

الوفيات
علي محمود عبدالله العلي 26 سنة, مثنى حسين عبدالرحيم مصطفى 35 سنة, الدكتور مازن سامي عباس 40 سنة (عراقي).

الإصابات
عمار محمود شاكر جودة, مصطفى العقاد, شريف شوقي (مصري).

المستشفى الخالدي

الوفيات
محسن طالب عباس (عراقي), ارقم حسن عبدالرحيم, احمد خضر حسن.
الإصابات
كرم عدنان نوفل 30 سنة, نبكي سترو 34 سنة (اندونيسية), هيلرا نقولا سام سبانج 66 سنة (المانية), ارت تربتون 76 سنة (المانية), ديتي وجين 64 (المانية), سمير علي فاروق 57 سنة, احمد علي شكري عطاري 28 سنة, يزن حسن مجاهد 20 سنة, زيد هاني المصري (اميركي), مالسبرجر برجني (المانية).

مستشفى ملحس

الوفيات

مجهول الهوية.

الإصابات
باسمة رؤوف الالوسي 62 سنة (عراقية), مروان عمر علي فاروق, فايز محمد سليم.

مستشفى الاستقلال
الوفيات
ميس محمد سليمان (رادسون)، علي حبيب نصر الشمري.(رادسون), فتحية احمد عبدالله عياش 55 سنة. (رادسون), دانا (موظفة في فندق حياة عمان), مجهول الهوية.
الإصابات
مجهول الهوية الإصابة بالغة.

المدينة الطبية

الإصابات
عصام جبر محمد 31 سنة, راكان العدوان 24 سنة.

سباع الليل منا تهاب...... و بالعوز سلاحي عالباب

I never thought I'll have so many enemies in my life, but today that changed.

I never thought I can hate people so much, today that changed.

I never thought I'd miss my country that much, but today I wanted to be there more than ever before, even if I was to be in that wedding in Raddison SAS or waiting in the Hyat Amman lobby.

For me and every Jordanian, many things have changed today,

But Amman will never change, and will stay the most beautiful city. We will not change and we will stay united to get those animals who tried to shake us, and we'll get those who sent them and those enemies who lived among us for years and years.

Any names please?

IF you know names of casulaities in the attacks today and you're 100% certain about it please let us know, I only know that my direct family members are Ok but we need to know about everybody else.

God bless Jordan.

People kept cheering for al Qaeda until it came and took away your own sons and daughters.

Some good old jokes!!

طفيلي اشترى حليب منتهي الصلاحية ، زور التاريخ و شربه

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سقطت طائرة تحمل عشرين شخصا فوق مقبرة في الطفيلة وقد تم انتشال سبعة الاف جثة ومازال البحث جاريا

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أربعة بخلاء لعبوا " مونوبولي " .. ما حدا اشترى
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شخص استعمل حبة فياغرا مغشوشة .. وقف قلبه
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غوراني راح عالسودان، صاروا يدلعوه هناك ابو شركس

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مرة طفيلي عم بركض... وقفله واحد بالسيارة ... حكاله: بتحب أوصلك?? حكاله الطفيلي: لا والله مستعجل
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وحدة بتحكي لصاحبها الطفيلي "عنجد مبين عليك هيك شجاع و بطل
فهو بحكيلها : ولك ما هو أنا كمان استشهدت بمعركة الكرامة
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ارهابي اتجوز ارهابية..... زفوهم بسيارة مفخخة

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شخص نادر تزوج إمرأة نادرة .. جابوا ولد مهدد بالانقراض

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طفيلي بقرا صفحة الوفيات، بحكي يا رب ما يكون اسمي معهم
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طفيلي إمّه تعبانة ، راح يجيبلها دوا من الصيدلية رجع لقاها ميتة...... قال : شوف البرادة

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واحد طفيلي لقي كنز راح يدور على الخريطة
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أصلع تزحلق ضرب راسه بالأرض تزحلق كمان مرة
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طفيلي سمع انو الدينار بدو ينزل فرط مصاريه نصاص
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A man was stopped by a female police officer for drunk driving.

After asking to see his license, the female police officer said, "Sir, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be held against you."

Swaying back and forth on his feet, the drunk muttered one word, "Breasts."
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The doctor took Dan into the room and said, "Dan, I have some good news and some bad news."

Dan said, "Give me the good news."

"They're going to name a new disease after you."
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I hate bluetooth, iPOD and fax machines

I feel soooo techonolgically challenged, i always ask for help if i needed to fax a paper, they always teach me how to do it but i fail to learn, i just stand helpless in front of any machine including the small calculaters that old men carry in their dakakeen.

The latest technological breakthrough i can reasonably use are Atari and a DVD player. I feel so ignorant when i see 16 and 17-yr old boys sitting and talking so enthusiastically about the newest cell phones and computers and these new iPOD and blue tooth or bluekhara i feel like an idiot,

i haven't bought a lap top yet because everytime i log into a computer i find 50 different laptops on the screen and i don't know what the hell is the difference between all of them, i get a headache and exit... that has been occuring for the past 15 months.

I feel so defeated .... Bill Gates.... I hate you big time

I'm still too sensitive

I'm not asking for a war against Israel, actually I'm against any war at least for the next 50 years, but not out of love or respect to Israel.

I still feel too sensitive and irritated to see how Israel established itself as a country over the broken homes and stolen lands of Palestinians who are now fighting for a flag and a land and some dignity.
I still feel irritated by a Europe that ultimately refuses adding any Christian flavor to its union, an America that is standing against any possible Islamic regime, but when it comes to establishing a Jewish-based country we heard no objections or condemnations.

I'm not pro-qaeda or pro-Hamas or pro-any extreme religious organization, including Israel. However I'm still too sensitive to Israel and its flag and will always consider it an occupier, never a friend. The way Israel was created out of nothing and the way palestenians were expelled from their lands is something the entire world should be ashamed of.

Absence of pictures in JordanPlanet

Probably you've noticed the seemingly minor change in JP a couple of weeks ago: No more pictures on the front page. Although the topics in general are becoming more interesting, but the front page of JP looks very dry, some 15-20 topics full of words, but no life, no excitement, nothing attractive. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease bring the pictures back!!

(P.S. that's one of of my very few posts without pictures)

Fart in the Dark

Every while and then I keep thinking of the philosiphy of farting. On Average a human being farts 14 times everyday. If i have a patient who's constipated I always ask him whether or not he farted, if he did it's a good sign the bowels are moving. If not... then hmmmm there's a problem because everyobody should be farting.


Some patients don't like the question although I always put it in a nice way "passed gas, flatus??" . An old man once felt really offended and turned the question back on me , to which i answered, "I just did".

The question which has been bothering me for two decades is why do people tend to fart more in the dark. The answer which makes most sense is that people tend to see farting as a shameful thing to do in public, despite the great feeling it brings (unless it's followed by an undesirable biological outcome) . Therefore, once the lights are out, the music begins, bommm bommm bommm chuck chuck ewww ewww bomm bomm chuck ewwww ewww

When I'm doing the long calls in the hospital I might be sitting next to another one writing orders and checking lab results on the computer, when suddenly I hear the voice "bomm bomm" and I look around in horror but to find someone beside me smiling "it's me dude"... 15 minutes later another missile and again "dude dude it's me stop looking jeeez".

The puzzle comes when someone you barely know farts really loud and you don't know what to do, shall I ignore it or just give him a smile enno weslatna 3ammo ya3teek el 3afyeh or pretend it's his way of saying hello and in that case lazem arodd el salaam bi salaam thaani agwa menno.

When you're with your friends you feel free to fart, otherwise they're not true freinds. However some farts will be remembered for years to come. Every while and then you can stop a friend and tell him "btzakkar man lamma ro7na 3al kal7a o lamma rje3na 3al bait daggena bi 3 kyaas gthameh o ba3deeha 7adertak farra3'et el 7umooleh bi wejhi??"

Everyobody farts so don't be ashamed of being a human being, just don't be too human in front of me and keep your farts to a minimum. However in case you're having a conversation and all what you're saying is stupid and doesn't make sense, fart. Fart immediately as people will remember this fart more than your stupid illogical words, as the Arabic proverb says "Law Fasait o ma Hakait".

Will The Real Rosa Parks, please do not stand up

Fifty years ago this lady was jailed for refusing to give her seat in the bus to a white man. That act of courage began turning the wheels of the civil rights movement, and the rest is history.

What amuses me is how this simple lady changed history by doing nothing. She didn't carry a gun and she didn't kill or hurt anyone, but she knew she had a right as a human being and she stood for it (although physically refused to stand).

Same did M.L.King, Gandhi, Mandela, but not so many others.....

Non-violence is always victorious.

Rosa Parks died last Monday at the age of 92.

I wonder how many prisoners today will be considered heroes fifty years from now.

Reega Reega Reega.... Faisali ya Hareega

Faysali Won Asia's Cup after defeating al-Najmeh from Lebanon 3-2


IT's the second most important championship in Asia, still we can say proudly that al-Faysali has won the most important championship in Jordan's history on the club level.

Amman .... Winter Time!!

One of the things to miss in Jordan winter time is having a hot hot Mansaf jameed karaki in cold weather, noses red, wearing a jacket and with you hands sliding into el-seder with boiling laban pouring over the rice and meat and you sitting among all people enjoying the orgasmic feeling which would last the entire day and seriously placing you and 5000 others at risk while driving back home.

Shawerma places are great places to go to, not only because you'll be about to have the best fast food ever made to date, but also because each shawerma place has a hallmark which you'll not forget. In Shawerma Reem - Mojamma3 Jaber there are always cats going in (sometimes not going out ooops) and young boys walking barefoot even at 1 am and begging for money. Once I bought one of them a sandwich but he refused to eat it although he looked deah hungry, and said he only wants money, kinda makes you wonder who's sending this boy at 1 am to beg.

And when it's winter time, raining and the charmful weather broadcaster Jamal El Mousa abo 3yoon khothor expects "thulooj 3ala el mortafa3at foog el 850 meter methel mortafa3aat 3ajloon wal shobak", the best thing to do is walk inside Gerard ice-cream and the ice-cream man would expect you to either ask for a change or wal3a but you'd surprise him ...."ma3lesh beddi skooob Nutella" :) .... Well that was before their Sa7lab era.

At the moment snow is expected , people go into a "91-war mania" or "any 29 Shawwal mania" and rush into grocery stores to buy as much bread and fool el-kasee7 as they can, but I would be home laying my big cold ass on the heater while my toes are freezing. In schooldays we would be down on our knees praying that night " our dear Lord o pleeeease let it snow we don't wanna go to school tomorrow".

Amman sweet Amman :)

The Unrecognizable Success

When HIV was first reported in human beings quarter a century ago, there was no treament for it. In the early 80s it was still that horrible virus which would kill anyone who would get it. Years passed and new treatments started evolving, and patients started living much longer and having better qualities of life.

The shocking fact is that if someone is now diagnosed with HIV, his/her life expectancy is unchanged given that he has good follow-up with physicians.


Although there's still no cure or vaccination for HIV, the advances in the treatment of its carriers over this relatively short period of time is just amazing.

Although scientists have been winning one battle after another in fighting HIV, and although they have saved so many lives, we still see many people complaining of how "all the research done on HIV" has been infertile.

Please don't be one of those.

Hypocricy??

We complain of our leaders, yet when the worst of them being trialed we resent it and consider it a humiliation to Arabs.

Maybe it's a humiliation to us that a foreign force has come from across the ocean and is changing our leaders... but to start with, we humiliated ourselves.

We had Iraqi people complaing of how brutal Saddam was, yet we were cheering for the leader who "struck Israel" and is willing to unify Arabs, and we now we treat him like a hero and we consider his daughter an angel even feeling pitty for her. Was she happy for the innocent girls who've been raped by her brother or the innocent citizens who did the mistake of their life and complained only once about their living situation to have their life ended in front of their children?

Saddam is not the only one who needs to go to jail, but this man deserves no pitty and no excuse can be found to defend him or his family.

Before someone else does it

Many Arabs were upset when Saddam Hussain was arrested, because it was a foreign force who did it. For more than two decades he oppressed his people and Iraqis were crying out for help but we didn't move, and I don't believe we have the right to complain at this point because we didn't help them when they needed it. Although it was all done for oil, but Americans did what Arabs should have done long time ago.

Many got upset when Rania al-Baz appeared on Oprah with her images as a tortured Saudi woman. Although she explained that this had nothing to do with Islam or its teachings but that part did not appear on TV. It was very clear how humiliating the situation of many women in Saudi Arabia was, but we didn't move. Maybe Americans will do, some out of compassion and others to use it as a way of targeting Islam, but they will do it.


We get upset when we hear international news channels covering stories of honor crimes in Jordan, and I get upset because it's a phenomenon spread most countries in the Middle East. However, I don't see any measures taken to prevent it, especially from the group of losers called the Jordanian Parliament-with great respect to some of its members- who voted against changing the law which sympathizes with whoever kills his sister.

Bottom Line: It's better be us who change it because if we didn't, one day others will.

Harroog

(Pictures Above: Jordanian schoolgirls protesting against honor crimes // Rania Arafat a victim of an honor crime- she was killed after she fled her home because her parents forced her to marry her cousin// Rana Hussaini- "the fighter" against honor crimes in Jordan// Saddam Hussain , not really related to hussaini :D// Rania al-Baz, before and after )

Arizona's Drunk Drivers

Two Arab girls in Mesa, Arizona were going home at 2.30 am, totally drunk, and they struck the motorbike of a 35-year old man, each with her car, killing him.

They stopped by the scene of the accident for a second, then fled.



If you want to drink, please don't drink and drive. If you drink and drive, try not to do it at 2.30 am. If you drink and drive at 2.30 am, please try to avoid hitting people. IF it happened that you hit someone and he fell on the ground full of blood, try to be responsible enough to call for help.
This is the lesson i got from this incident.


Some Links

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarep...-DeGainZ11.html

http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arab...sp?ID=5128&cat=

because there's no one left to pick them up

It's so heart-breaking to see the huge number of bodies of victims of the recent earthquake in Southeast Asia......

Nobody is identifying those bodies, probabaly because their families have become big white plastic bags as well.

If these pictures don't move you, you're not a human being.

It's getting too hot babe

America is the greatest country in the world, but not for football (i.e. soccer) fans....

Today was the day when tens of decisive matches were played and a bunch of teams qualified to the World Cup next year in Germany.

When i came here i ordered Fox Sports package - the 30 something channel package made me so excited until i figured out that only ONE channel (the international sports channel) often shows soccer matches. I cancelled the order.

I wish I can be in Jordan flipping different sport channels watching the tens of games that were played today instead of the World Poker Tournament or old men carrying playing "glool" but with sticks in what is called golf.

What I know is that some way somehow i will watch every single game in the World Cup next year, and if I have the will I will find the way !

Liberating Liberia

Liberia is heading towards its first presidential elections since civil war.

The front-runner is George Weah... remember this dude? He was the first African to be chosen as the best football player in the world , in 1995.

Othman el-Graiani used to talk about him in every single football match even if he wasn't playing, referring to him as Jurj Wayyyaaaaah :)

After ruling the world he's planning to rule his country.

His political experience in negligibile....

Liberia, just like most 3rd world countries, had many leaders who never lacked political experience, were so intelligent and looked presidential, however brought misery and corruption to their people and their country.

Maybe it's time now to choose someone who people just like.

Those men saved lives

Nobody could believe what those 2 men proposed 20 years ago, that peptic ulcer disease (qor7ah bi mi3deh) was caused by a bacteria.

Like many great discoveries, their theory was initially rejected, despite that one of them (Marshall) even infected himslef with the bacteria which caused him the disease , just to prove to others that his discovery was true.

As years passed by and more studies were done, their discovery started to make sense.

Noawadays antibiotics against that bacteria offer the best and most effective treatment for peptic ulcer, thanks to the efforts of those two men.

Today Australians Barry J. Marshall and Robin Warren won the 2005 Nobel Prize in medicine.

Love to the last sight

"Dr. Masayyat, please come as soon as possible... I don't think she'll make it tonight"

"Shoot" was the only thing i was saying as i ran to her room. I was so mad not only because someone was gonna die during my first call as a senior physician here but also because after more than a year they still can't pronounce my name right.


The patient was an old lady who had so many brain strokes in the past that became unable to move any limb, eat on her own or even talk for more than a year now. However she remained fully alert and seemed like she understood all what's going with her.

I was called because she wasn't breathing well and the nurse felt she was passing away. I went to her room and asked all the family but the husband to leave. I asked him to give her a kiss as that usually means it's the last kiss and asked him about what his wishes were regarding putting her on a ventilator if we had to. This 80-something old man was trembling and I couldn't really see his face from all the tears covering it, and he just said "I only don't want her to be in pain".


To me she sounded like someone with a failing heart, so i gave her some medications to relieve the stress over her heart and make her breath better. The good news is that she did well on those and her breathing improved.

So next morning I went in to check on her and I found the husband sitting there. This time I could distniguish his face and I remembered the old lady as the first patient I saw in America when I started last year. I could easily remember how her husband was always by her bedside in the hospital, how he would ask about the results of her blood test at 5 every morning before the docotors would come.

The only thing that lady could do is open her eyes and smile, and you I could see the old couple looking at each other and smiling like two young people just falling in love. They haven't spoken to each other in more than a year, no words, just looks and glances and smiles, but behind all of that was a strong relationship and honesty to stay with each other "in sickness and health", and love that would prevail till the last sight.

I know what Diego Maradona did this summer

Maradona lost 110 pounds over the past few months, after a prolonged stay in Colombia.

Currently many overweight Colombians want to do a weight-reduction surgery and even asking the government to pay for it in what's becoming known there as "Maradona's law"

I don't know if Maradona would thank his surgeon or just say it was "the hand of God" which helped him get back in shape!

Our women were not born only to cook magloobah.....

Jordan won the West Asian Football Championship , after defeating Iran 2-1 in the final match.
Two goals by Maysa2 Jbara, who was the top goalscorer with 9 goals in the championship.

Mabrook!

Oooooooo la la

Last month I went to 2 big shows in Vegas, the O show in Bellagio and The Blue Man Show in Luxor,
Hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on making the "O" show, mostly on the stage over which , under which, and beneath which the show goes. If you think of going to Vegas, make sure you reserve a few months in advance to find tickets for the show.

The blue man show is hilarious and really fun to see, and it seems like one of the best shows there. You can take photos with the three blue men who don't talk or smile!