Pictures from Kuwait part one

My friend Mike is always asking for pictures from Kuwait. Okay, I guess I need to buy a digital camera. Until I do, I will just have to steal photos online.

So you thought the pyramids were in Egypt? Think again. We have our very own Hard Rock Cafe. Believe it or not we have the only dry one in the whole world. Imagine all of the joy that comes from a lamb bbq sandwich and an ice cold non-alcoholic beer!
Here are a couple of lovely Kuwaiti ladies, all dolled up and driving around town. Women can drive in Kuwait, unlike Saudi Arabia. Kuwait has one of the deadlest road systems in the world, so make sure you look both ways twice. Two years ago women also got the right to vote. They voted in the last election. Many women in Kuwait wear the hijab (head scarf). Some also wear the full veil. Others walk around in short skirts. They are many types of women here.

Finally, here is a picture from my favorite part of Kuwait, Kuwait City. You can see the Liberation Tower in the background. Kuwait City is where we go for more authentic Middle East cuisine and there is a nice souq (market) there as well. I was going to go tonight, but tomorrow might be Eid, so I thought somethings might be closed.

Well I will update this information later.

Cheerio

greetings from abroad

it has been a long time since i just sat down and wrote something. not much to write about really. no love affairs to report on. no deaths. no car bombs in my neighborhood. i also haven't gone out and adopted that black baby from malawi like i have always wanted.

of course i could always write about my 9 day holiday that i am currently on. but that would just make my friends at home mad, since they are probably working.

but anyway, we are having nine days off now for eid, the holiday that follows the ever-explosive month of ramadan (often referred to as a holy month). it is a nice time to relax. today i spent a good deal of the day at home, recovering from an upset stomach, reading a biography of Khrushchev, taking a really nice nap (my hand fell asleep and i had to shake it awake), and watching season five of "24." so all in all, a pretty damn good start to the day.

many of my friends are now travelling, but i am taking a travel vacation at the moment. i just want to relax in the apartment and just not worry about airplanes and cheap hotels. i have also been worried about my mom's health, so i might just have to pick up in the immediate future and head home. hope not though.

tomorrow is another day of vacation. hopefully ramadan will end on sunday. then i can go out and have a big breakfast. not like at cracker barrel, but a pretty good one nonetheless.

oh, and then there are the elections. i think the dems will do quite well. i am sure all of my friends in the states will be happy for that. then there are only two more shopping years until there is a new president. i am not sure who will win that one, though i expect to see al gore somewhere out there in the field. hillary, i don't don't about.

well that is me for today. now i have to go and run a mile and a half. i am hoping to regain my air force figure (without having to do all of that saluting).

cheerio.

Who's the puppet and who's the master?

Kim Jong Il just ain't too smart. He has decided to blow up an atomic bomb just as two major events were about to happen, that would drastically affect his regime. First a Korean, Ban Ki Moon, was just about to be chosen to be the Secretary General of the United Nations. So now North Korea has to worry about the South Korean's controlling the opinion of the whole world. So his timing there couldn't have been any worse.

Then to make matters worse, he goes and gets nuclear just as his allies in the United States, the Democratic Party, is about to get itself elected to both houses of the Congresses. His nuclear dreams might have affected their poll numbers, and dashed the hopes of "ex"-Communist George Soros in longterm plan for world domination. He and his boss, "ex"-KGB agent, Vladmir Putin, must be really kicking themselves right now. Of course, Uncle Joe Stalin probably felt the same way in 1950 when Kim's father went and started the Korean War. Then, though, Americans had a Democratic which had just finally freed itselves of their Communist masters and were under the secure tutelage of Harry S. Truman (or "the man" as I like to say. Now, we have a whole lot more to worry about. Of course, the Reds might still win after all.

So Kim Jong Il sure has a lot to think about before he goes out and does something stupid again.