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My Ramadan

Fiza Asar October 5, 2006

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#135 Posted by hamidm2 on October 8, 2006 10:37:02 am
Re: # 133

sorry hp,

..... but for some reason echo and masadi bring out the worst in me and this ramadan thing is getting to me too - it just goes on for ever .......... a bloody mary does sound good - celery is good for you ...... if you need some cheese, i am sure masadi will be happy to share
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#134 Posted by hamidm2 on October 8, 2006 10:33:24 am
Re: # 131

...laski, who ?.......... if i recollect right, he lived in the same era as henry ford ......... and a hundred years from now people will still be talking about henry ford ..... laski is nothing but a mere footnote in some obscure history book ............
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#133 Posted by HP on October 8, 2006 10:32:09 am
#127 by hamidm2

#126 by behram1

Most unfortunate posts by two enlightened people. I wish you had not decided to comment in this childish manner. You always want people to work for their money and that should be good enough. Your posts suggest to me that whatever your parents taught you was perhaps not enough.

I guess you did not learn one basic thing even after living for so many years in the US. You don’t advise people unless you are specifically asked for. I think your unsolicited advise to people as how to live their lives and what they need to do is not only condescending but shows atrocious manners that perhaps are a legacy of your middleclass self righteous upbringing in lower middleclass households...

Banter and pulling legs is okay but I think telling people what to do in their personal lives is horrible.
You two ruined my Sunday morning....No Bloody mary for me for brunch.




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#132 Posted by hamidm2 on October 8, 2006 10:11:09 am
Re: # 131

echo,

i think comparing masadi to godless marx is a little unfair - i don`t think he would appreciate it .............. he should be compared to other graduates of al-azhar, deoband and akora khattak who are now living in caves, or are the guests of the us government .......... i find the islamofascist fascination with dark places fascinating .......

..... now don`t put too much roohafza in your milk - maswak will not undo the damage
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#131 Posted by echoboom on October 8, 2006 10:02:26 am
aslam:64
I hope you know who Laski was.

From:
Karl Marx: An Essay (1922)
By HAROLD LASKI

.........................``
Marx`s London period is, creatively, the most important part of his career; but it was a difficult and tragic struggle for existence, and his work was accomplished only by heroic effort. For the first ten years, the family was hardly over the verge of starvation, and Marx had even to pawn his clothes for necessary expenses.
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#130 Posted by aslam644 on October 8, 2006 9:01:53 am
Re: # 128
echo
you haven`t a clue how marx lived he was a middle class bourgeiose, he was also a dirty old man who made his young maid pregnant and more or less disowned the child. what is it with these great men and their infatuation with young girls/women, marx, ghandi, etc.
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#129 Posted by hamidm2 on October 8, 2006 8:55:54 am


echboom,

``When some pathaans were not moved about water being denied to Husain and family, the orator said `` and they did not get Naswar for three days``...and the gathering burst into tears. `` .............. sometimes you look under a turd and you find a gem !!! :) .....
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#128 Posted by echoboom on October 8, 2006 8:33:10 am
Mr. Masadi
Quite impressive.

Your reply would fall on deaf-ears. In the mindset of these slaves the only ``progress`` in this world is bank-balance and a good lifestyle. These poor souls are jobbers, techies, coolies and they are definitely needed by society for humdrumwork.

You are really blessed.

Some of those who have left a mark on history & (and not lowlifes like Bill-Gates) and human thought Like Marx, Whitman , Thoreau [just add your own thinker, writer, philosopher or poet] lived even a more spartan life...and I know these Blacksheep think you wrote it to elicit ``sympathy``.

What else can one axpect from these ``techie`` type coolies.

To each his own. When some pathaans were not moved about water being denied to Husain and family, the orator said `` and they did not get Naswar for three days``...and the gathering burst into tears.

These good-life-charlies who would sell their mmothers for less, as their massa said, are those Naswar-pathaans.

Avoid them. Shun their company...but hurt them hard!
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#127 Posted by hamidm2 on October 8, 2006 7:28:49 am


Re: # 117


masadi,

this explains your anger and pain : ``I have to work 2 jobs to make ends meet, if I was unfortunate to have a family here and godforbid a kid, I would fall below the poverty line for sure``

...... why? .... what is wrong with you ?....... did i tell you about my sprinkler guy from district jhelum who lives in a 3500 square foot house and just bought a new monster truck and has kids at harvard and uof m?............. how did he do it without any education ?......... and all the 22-23 year old kids i know who graduated over the last two three years are making anything between 60-120K a year (and to my surprise some of them do have useless majors like sociology!) ...........actually, not to demean sociology, i do know one paki kid with a sociology major who has deferred med school for a year to work full time for a republican politician ............ heck, this summer my daughter, who is a sophomore and has a hard time getting up in the morning, made 500 a week doing `research` for a pr firm - it is dangerous work because she did get a few paper cuts ........... her indian friend at columbia made 1000 a week as an intern at an investment bank in ny city and now my daughter feels inadequate and incompent and blames it on her love for her parents - i did buy her a new i-pod to compensate her for the loss in income........... and two years ago, when things were good in michigan, we used to hire summer interns and pay them 20-25 bucks an hour - unfortunately we have fallen on bad times so i really can`t help you................ so what is your problem ? ......

........... and if i might add, jeff the bartender at my local watering hole makes 2-300 a night in tips and just bought a nice litlle bungalow in royal oak, which is a happening place for yuppies - his only problem is trying to juggle all the girls he insists on dating at the same time .............. and, not that this will help you, but they tell me (this is second hand information, of course) that strippers in this town are making a 1000 a day inspite of the downturn in the automotive industry when contract engineers are struggling to make 50 an hour ............... so, as i said before, what is your excuse ?............... you know that you are not black, do you? ...... so you don`t have to sit in the basement, feeling sorry for yourself, blaming the plantation owner and waiting for the cheese truck to pull up ............you are an immigrant in the land of opportunity .............. just go out and just do it !



p.s............... years ago, when my brother was whining about something or the other, my seventy seven year old father thundered, ``even at this age, i can walk out of the house in the morning without a chawani in my pocket and come home in the evening with a couple of thousand rupees; i can get a pile of dirt, another pile of bajri, sell it and make enough money to feed you good-for-noting louts who sleep till noon...... and i grew up in a mud hut and didn`t get my first pair of shoes till i went to school !``.............. of course my brother and i rolled our eyes and, for the umpteenth time, got ready to hear the story about how he had had malaria, and how how tulsi das the school master had carried him on his shoulders across the flooding kassi to take his eight grade exam .......... but he and nike were right : anyone can do it
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#126 Posted by Behram1 on October 8, 2006 7:17:10 am
Re: # 117 by masadi on October 7, 2006 9:18pm PT

Dear masadi:

Thank you for your reply. That is certainly heartfelt.

If you are doing so miserably, then all the more reason for you to get back to your muslim world and teach them all your values. Why do you not go back?

What is there for you in this US? You are a failure, and you love to teach a value system that is totally useless. Then, you should leave immediately, before a shrink is needed for your recovery.

{Like most others in America, I have to work 2 jobs to make ends meet,}

Not like most people from Pakistan, I disagree. I have seen those who came to be trained as a Jihadi to fight against the soviets, who were totally uneducated work two jobs, but not those who have established degrees from US.

So what has gone wrong with you. Besides, what is happening to those checks from the sale of your books? Maybe you need a marketing guy like Hamid, or tahmed, or myself, to set your life straight.

But, you must have to love this country first. Can you do that?

{ if I was unfortunate to have a family here and godforbid a kid, I would fall below the poverty line for sure as many do, or would have to pick up a third job, given the nature of the new low paying jobs being created-}

Now, here you are not allowing God to take care of your kid`s future. Do you not believe in your own rhetoric. How strange?

{ fortunately for now, I end up with a surplus, so I can buy more non-government cheese. That is the reality for most in the mass society in the usa.}

So, you are doing just fine. Good for you, and hopefully you reach the American dream. But, please spare us with your anti-west rhetoric.

Have you ever thought about getting employed as an HR person? I believe that this is an up an coming filed, with so much lack of talent going on in the west, and with your degree in sociology, you are a good fit in hiring for some company.

Please take good care of yourself, since I truly enjoy your posts.

Respectfully submitted,
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#125 Posted by ballukhan on October 8, 2006 6:42:09 am
the one eyed hook is certainly back making empty claims about `victory`.............wait till he gets incarcerated for incitement by the civil institutions of liberal democracies.......
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#124 Posted by masadi on October 8, 2006 6:15:07 am
tahmed writes <<< That is injustice!! >>>

What would a supporter of colonization, one who looks over the Atlantic Slave Trade and sees Western morality in it, one who supported the barbarous Iraq war, and supported Israel and the US in the recent destruction of Lebanon, know about justice?
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#123 Posted by tahmed32 on October 8, 2006 5:02:46 am
behram: you write to masadi `` no free government free cheese for your infested intellect. ``

That is injustice!! :-)
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#122 Posted by ballukhan on October 7, 2006 11:57:40 pm
Re: # 121

``as you can see the balance has been restored and exceeded on chowk, the bigots that were having a free run here before are losing on every front and are in retreat. Soon their masters will lay down their arms before the people and justice will rule, inshallah.:

Wow!! The Abu Hamza is back claiming ``victory``.......................and boasting of a future `victory`` ss well..........................Boy.....this guy is really keen to meet the black eyed one .............
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#121 Posted by masadi on October 7, 2006 10:29:58 pm
Zeemax mian as you can see the balance has been restored and exceeded on chowk, the bigots that were having a free run here before are losing on every front and are in retreat. Soon their masters will lay down their arms before the people and justice will rule, inshallah.
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#120 Posted by zeemax on October 7, 2006 10:16:53 pm
....contd..... I mean you would have more credibility in their eyes if you had fibbed and said you had not one but two sprinkler guys for your vast lawns!
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