For all of my dear Canadian friends–I post this in your honor. :- )
Can they do that? December 30, 2005
This sounds awfully fishy to me. Has anybody else heard of this? It seems to my (legally uneducated) social conscience that there ought to be something Constitutionally wrong here, but I can’t put my finger on it…
Too funny, eh? December 30, 2005
For all of my dear Canadian friends–I post this in your honor. :- )
Can they do that? December 30, 2005
This sounds awfully fishy to me. Has anybody else heard of this? It seems to my (legally uneducated) social conscience that there ought to be something Constitutionally wrong here, but I can’t put my finger on it…
What would you do? December 29, 2005
Take a look at what landed in my husband’s inbox today.
Is chivalry indeed dead? How can this poor woman not get anyone to help her? Sigh…life is so hard.
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From Nadia Arafat
202, Kamel El Shennawi street, Garden City, Cairo, Egypt.
Attention dear,
In The Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful
Aselamu Aleikum.
Forgive my indignation to contact you through this medium without prior notice. I am Mrs Nadia Arafat, the wife of late Fathi Arafat brother to Yasser Arafat) who just died on Wednesday 1st December, 2004. In military hosptal cairo egypt.
It did not take more than 48hours after his demise when I was contacted by his security firm in Asia as his next of kin. Before his death, he entrusted many documents to me and told me to let things be since he knew that he would die considering his cancer ailment. One of those documents bore certificate of deposit from the said security firm that contacted me in London.
Hence I`m requested to correspond with them in the shortest possible time to avoid the demurrages that will accrue following the death of my husband as nobody except me can attend to such transaction. Thus I`m contacting you so that you can help me to retrieve this clasified deposit from the security firm and for safe keeping pending when it will be convienient for me to travel out of Egypt. All eyes are on me now and as such I will not like to attract any attention now either by monetary transactions or by international travel.
As a result, I request you to reply to me as soon as possible so that we shall know the way forward and how to streamline issues and procedures towards the successful retrieval of this clasified deposit which bear the sum of US$ 25.5 Million, I`m quite convinced that this classified deposit is enough for any investment of ones choice in a life`s time.
Endeavour to keep this mail very secret even if you are not keen to cooperate with me as I beseeched you.
Please send your reply to my private e-mail address nadia2004@cosmo.com
Regards
Mrs Nadia
Finally! December 29, 2005
Amidst all of the admittedly important but usually depressing and rather over-reported news, here is something that is worth blogging about.
I must admit that I appreciate the ire directed at Barbie dolls. There’ll be none of that kind in my house, let me tell you. I had them growing up, and while I did have all the pampering accoutrements, usually they were getting driven around in army trucks or thrown at each other as missiles across the playroom. Or they rode My Little Ponies off the edges of steep cliffs. 
That one was especially fun.
So while I know that Mattel isn’t producing American Girl dolls out of any altruistic longing for a less neurotic girlhood, I’m still glad to see this kind of toy available. The only thing that I find mildly disturbing is the presupposition that “innocence, playfulness, and imagination,” as the author puts it, are assumed to be limited to children. OK–so sometimes life stinks, and often it’s really hard, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a jaded from here on out. The ability to simply enjoy life and all that is has to offer doesn’t have to end with age, and it ought not vanish with the coming of experience.
What would you do? December 29, 2005
Take a look at what landed in my husband’s inbox today.
Is chivalry indeed dead? How can this poor woman not get anyone to help her? Sigh…life is so hard.
—————————————-
From Nadia Arafat
202, Kamel El Shennawi street, Garden City, Cairo, Egypt.
Attention dear,
In The Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful
Aselamu Aleikum.
Forgive my indignation to contact you through this medium without prior notice. I am Mrs Nadia Arafat, the wife of late Fathi Arafat brother to Yasser Arafat) who just died on Wednesday 1st December, 2004. In military hosptal cairo egypt.
It did not take more than 48hours after his demise when I was contacted by his security firm in Asia as his next of kin. Before his death, he entrusted many documents to me and told me to let things be since he knew that he would die considering his cancer ailment. One of those documents bore certificate of deposit from the said security firm that contacted me in London.
Hence I`m requested to correspond with them in the shortest possible time to avoid the demurrages that will accrue following the death of my husband as nobody except me can attend to such transaction. Thus I`m contacting you so that you can help me to retrieve this clasified deposit from the security firm and for safe keeping pending when it will be convienient for me to travel out of Egypt. All eyes are on me now and as such I will not like to attract any attention now either by monetary transactions or by international travel.
As a result, I request you to reply to me as soon as possible so that we shall know the way forward and how to streamline issues and procedures towards the successful retrieval of this clasified deposit which bear the sum of US$ 25.5 Million, I`m quite convinced that this classified deposit is enough for any investment of ones choice in a life`s time.
Endeavour to keep this mail very secret even if you are not keen to cooperate with me as I beseeched you.
Please send your reply to my private e-mail address nadia2004@cosmo.com
Regards
Mrs Nadia
Finally! December 29, 2005
Amidst all of the admittedly important but usually depressing and rather over-reported news, here is something that is worth blogging about.
I must admit that I appreciate the ire directed at Barbie dolls. There’ll be none of that kind in my house, let me tell you. I had them growing up, and while I did have all the pampering accoutrements, usually they were getting driven around in army trucks or thrown at each other as missiles across the playroom. Or they rode My Little Ponies off the edges of steep cliffs. That one was especially fun.
So while I know that Mattel isn’t producing American Girl dolls out of any altruistic longing for a less neurotic girlhood, I’m still glad to see this kind of toy available. The only thing that I find mildly disturbing is the presupposition that “innocence, playfulness, and imagination,” as the author puts it, are assumed to be limited to children. OK–so sometimes life stinks, and often it’s really hard, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a jaded from here on out. The ability to simply enjoy life and all that is has to offer doesn’t have to end with age, and it ought not vanish with the coming of experience.
Hello Again December 22, 2005
It’s been sooooo long since I’ve posted, that I suppose I ought to begin by posting my sincerest apologies.
OK, with that out of the way, here’s a funny piece of news for the day. I was picking the the NY Times yesterday, and I came across this.
Read it all the way through to the end, and tell me if you don’t think his plan is backfiring. Personally, I think they should follow Mr. Mousawi’s plan.
Hello Again December 22, 2005
It’s been sooooo long since I’ve posted, that I suppose I ought to begin by posting my sincerest apologies.
OK, with that out of the way, here’s a funny piece of news for the day. I was picking the the NY Times yesterday, and I came across this.
Read it all the way through to the end, and tell me if you don’t think his plan is backfiring. Personally, I think they should follow Mr. Mousawi’s plan.
