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This segment aired last night. One of the show hosts, Bob Beckel, said the following, which I have transcribed verbatim.

"We know now. There has been enough research done. We know that-- bottom line: In the Muslim communities around the world, they do not like us. They recruit people from poor areas and they try to turn them into terrorists...

In case you are wondering why we don’t celebrate Earth Day in Lebanon, it’s because we have so many forests and green areas and no pollution whatsoever. To be honest, I am not expecting anything from the government but it’s weird to have a Green Party in Lebanon that has no activities online or offline on that day.

Beirut, today, at 7:03:42 PM (local time) When I moved into this place, I had an unbroken sky-line. Well, you can see the rest of that story in this picture;  One-million dollar apartments and over. I hope one big fat earthquake will all bring them down. Sorry about that folks, but I want my view back. My building is from the fifties, when they still spent money on quality, and I assume my building will survive this super-quake.

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Al Arabiya mentioned yesterday that the woman who was puffing on a cigarette on a Middle East Airlines (MEA) flight was taken into custody upon landing. One of the blog’s readers mentioned that the plane did an emergency landing and handed the woman to the police.
It would be interesting to know if she was jailed or fined or banned from traveling. I hope she didn’t just get a warning and walk out.

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I know it’s a bit cliche but I enjoyed it. In fact, I think such videos and promoting Lebanon’s diversity in general could be useful to attract tourists. It’s definitely better than the current Ministry of Tourism commercials.
Established on August 6, 2006, ADYAN is a Lebanese foundation for interreligious studies and spiritual solidarity, with Christian and Muslim founding members. [Link]

[Meat the Bun]
It looks like we have a new burger place in town. Has anyone tried it yet?
PS: I am not sure if this place is anyhow related to [Meat the Fish] which opened in February 2013 also.

Ok, so being friends with DJ Base has its perks when you’re in LA. In between Coachella weekends, we often rub shoulders with the Hip Hop industry’s finest like Snoop, Wiz, The Game, DJ Skee, Crooked I and most recently Mann.

I start and end my days on several pages and engines. I wrote about LebaneseBlogs.com the other day, and today, while checking my Google News page, the stark difference between the articles tagged with “Lebanon” made me shake my head in a bitter-sweet acknowledgment of the differences between these 2 Lebanons.

Picture taken from NowLebanon
Update: Here’s a link to the price list [Here]. Thank you Yasmine!
It would be interesting to see if this technology will pick up in Lebanon. I am not sure how much it costs and there’s no mention of the prices on the Bakery’s [website], so I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

way to go!

After completing the seven summits project in 2006 and the three poles challenge in 2009, Maxime Chaya is up for a new adventure in around 3 months from now, rowing the Indian Ocean.
Maxime’s journey will start in Western Australia and ends Mauritius off the east coast of Africa. And once the boat he’s boarding departs, there will be no way to turn back since the wind at that wind will prevent it from doing so.
You can check all about this new adventure on this website RowingTheIndianOcean.com.

After the bomb attacks in Boston Monday, President Barack Obama hesitated to call them acts of terrorism. Obama and his officials soon rectified their conscious error, but the president’s reaction told us much about his refusal to define events in such a way that he might become a prisoner of his response to them.

São Paulo – Starting on May 3, Brazilians may see paintings, manuscripts, letters, documents, original notebooks and even personal objects of Lebanese philosopher, poet, painter and enthusiast Gibran Khalil Gibran. An exhibition at the Latin American Memorial should show the items, brought straight from Gibran Museum, in Bicharré, Lebanon. According to Lody Brais, the president of the Brasil-Lebanon Cultural Association, which organises the fair, this is the first time the material will be shown in Latin America. The Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Association is promoting the exhibition alongside Gibran National Committee and Gibran Museum. The organisation’s objective is to rescue Lebanese culture in the country and tends to work on themes that unite Brazil and Lebanon.

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Crime is on the rise in Lebanon and few officials are blaming the Syrian refugees who are now over 400,000 in Lebanon only. To be honest, I think the blame is first on the Lebanese authorities who were unable to control the borders and did not set up proper areas for the refugees. We’ve been blaming refugees for our own failings for tens of years now without taking any proper measures.

(ink on paper + digital coloring حبر على ورق + ألوان رقمية)
Woman: " Sweetheart, I give up. It seems that you need to sit with your thoughts. Frankly, I pity your thoughts."

This video was shot 2-3 kilometers out of Jounieh.

Thank you Lynn