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Someone benefits from your C girlie... YOUR HUSBAND LOL.. You are like a teenager still GROSS GROSS GROSS GROSS... LOL LOL LOL LOL

Is that honestly true and proven? Some women were telling me at work C-section leaves a nasty scar you can't get rid of and she said she can't show her body now - Then doing it other than C-section you lose your...elasticity ?

That's someting I forgot to ask and I was curious -- Anybody got some input on that

You just dont have the trauma to your body that pushing out a 10 pounder does. Gees. I couldnt sit down for 2 weeks...Its muscle trauma but your body is still the same in other places LOL

I'm not ready to discuss or hear about this part of pregnancy yet. Can we just talk about cake again?

you mean you don't want to practice by grabbing your lower lip and pulling it over your head?

what the... LOL

In Christianity it is the same way as Islam (althought you would not know it because there are soooo many "hypa-christians) You are not supposed to DATE.....You are not supposed to be alone with the oposite sex either and all mingling is supposed to be in groups to avoid trouble. When a christian decides he or she is ready for marriage than they are to choose a suitable partner based on what they have found out about him/her and the perspective spouses family through the group get togethers. The get togethers could be church functions, school functions, family functions etc..... and i supposed even a family fix up would fall into that category too. At least that is the way it is supposed to be.....one thing I personally like about muslims faith is that people actually practice it! I really admire and love that!

THANK YOU!! intelligent woman... I hate when people say oh your chrisitian aren't you allowed to date...####### it's nowhere written in the bible

Um that same person pm's me (with others) when some member on the board is arguing with me?? Okkkk....but this is an online forum for visa and regular chit chat about MENA related subjects why are some people getting into everyone's business?? If you speak freely on this forum alot of things get twisted up and misunderstood cause everyone on here is not your friend it's people who give off Ein or jealous of you. Stupid people on here don't bother me cuz they wouldn't have the guts to say it to my face. Some of the people bickering about me are my grandmas age so I don't even bother saying anything. I think everyone should take that to their hearts. It's a computer what prevents people from acting civilized towards you so I'd be honored somebody saves up all your information in their head and remembers you and then posts wierd random stuff about you back on this forum. "If you have haters you're doing something right."

We're smart for not messing with Saudi's - America would be WIPED OUT . I can't even think about that if this country was in war with Saudi :o

Hey everyone, just popping in to say hello from Algeria! We are hqving q greqt time so far. Amed,s family is so gracious. I will give details when I get back next week. Happy Tuesday!

i wanna be there now miss my dad and spouse

Does anyone know if that Myth, pouring regular coca cola on a car eats off the paint? (I don't know what kind of cheap paint tht is) I heard it does the same thing to your teeth eats up the enamel?

present and accounted for............

Coffee in hand and ready for my own personal crisis. Heading to VJ Prayer Circle first, then so SS, then to Oasis.

Hope you all have a good day.

Jackie

OH OH OH I almost forgot: Public Announcement

Please, any hump day pics of camels....no teeth plz! Only serious camels...not the smiling ones

This photo translates to la illah illa allah mohamd rasol allah it's pertaining to prophet mohammed

I doubt just jackie knew and understand what she posted

It is offensive to moslems, seeing it does have a photo of some sort of man and quran arabic writing on the "###" of a camel...I don't know why it was posted up but it could anger alot of members. Just giving you heads up

hahaha i hate going in the summer too- so many bugs I wouldn't take my child out in the summer those mosquitos come inside the house all the time. Half the summer nights before going to bed my spouse was on the bed and couch in our room killing all the bugs ycuk!

Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the

affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it

amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.

OMG I am going to make sure habibi has plenty of bananas or at least their skins laying around next time I'm in Palestine. The mosquiots over there ate me alive and they are as big as my head!!! I never seen ones so big in my life, arab blood must be tasty for them to become so big, lol

as for who has to eat the banas.....well, my husband loves bananas so I will not have to work too hard to get him to eat them. I am not extremely fond of them but when he comes back and awnts a baby I will be:)

ughh I hate bananas so much, but I'll eat em when I get pregnant!

If you love your fiance you should wait Nouri, as others said Time it's in God's hand and he won't give you anything in bad timing always the perfect time. He knows what's good for our lives. Take care to yourself in the meantime. I also suggest calling senators and explaining the problems and ask if you can submit any kind of proof that can help your case. I don't know so much about AP but I can say you are strong for hanging in there. God bless

no matter how many people Bush hand picks I still don't see how he 1 person could have so much control on matter vs everyone else around him who brain washes him with true and false matters. He's the president, this is his country why would he want to hurt it? This is his fore fathers land he will do all to protect it AS HE KNOWS. We as a people might not agree but Bush did what he thought was right because of other peoples STRONG voted opinions and thoughts that were spoken out. It's like ants, if you don't destroy the Queen then they will keep multiplying, there's no way to calm a group of people down without going to the source. I believe that's what they were trying to do against terrorist/threats. Like Charles said, Bush probably wasn't exposed to all that information. As a kid when you wanted to play with your friends you'd lie sometimes about doing your hw to Mom so you could just go. The same thing with officials around in the government they lied to Bush to get what they thought was correct at the time and to make him see things in the light they were seeing. He's a person, a father, husband, etc.. I don't see how he could be seen as anything close to being a God of a country and satisfying everyones complaints.

People are so clueless when it comes to the workings of the machine.

Bush, is nothing.

Proof:

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization...inst_Terrorists

House : On September 14, 2001 bill House Joint Resolution 64 passed in the House. The totals in the House of Representatives were: 420 Ayes, 1 Nay and 10 Not Voting (the Nay was Barbara Lee - D-CA).

Senate: On September 14, 2001 Senate Joint Resolution 23 passed in the Senate by roll call vote. The totals in the Senate were: 98 Ayes, 0 Nays, 2 Present/Not Voting (Senators Larry Craig - R and Jesse Helms - R).

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act

# Passed the House on October 24, 2001 (Yeas: 357; Nays: 66)

# Passed the Senate on October 25, 2001 (Yeas: 98; Nays: 1)

Your precious Democrats are 50% responsible for all of the problems "Bush started", all of the money "Bush wasted", and all of the economic problems "Bush caused".

If they really wanted to, they could have stood up and done something ... but look at that - did they? Nope. Nothing.

3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization...olution_of_2002

Now they woke up, a little. We've still got 1/3 of them sleeping at the switch - or should I say - with their heads up their a**es.

If you want to point a finger at someone who authorized Operation World Police & blew our taxes on pork & cronies - *cough* congress. They write the laws. The legislative = lawmakers. Bush just signs - really - he's not all that important. Remember, the United States has 3 EQUAL POWERED BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT: The Judicial, The Legislative, and The Executive.

Two branches failed miserably. One was just hopeless. You, as a citizen, have a good deal of control over WHO represents you in the Legislative branch. You vote for your representative. Here in New Britain, we had a Bush cronie as a rep - guess what happened to her? We tossed her out. We knew she was a good-for-nothing pile of trash - and she got put in her place, out on the curb. Too often - people are looking the wrong way when they point the blame. Bush is a screw-up, given - but Congress was twice as bad - they empowered him.

Know how your country works. This is why things are going to hell here. Too many people are sleeping ... wake them all up. Vote. Seriously ... vote in EVERY election - we all saw what happens when people don't vote. It'll keep on happening if you stay home.

On voting day - staying home is your personal approval of the problems we face.

THANK U KYAN WAN!!

hello

i received a message offering the possibility of a meeting in Tunis, would you like please to provide me with more details about the issue.

faithfully yours

diego

real name: moncef

uh oh.....

The person who I was talking to understood me so what else is there to explain?

Does anyone know or heard about if you rather use breast pumps vs direct breastfeeding does it break bonding between mother and baby?> or is it considerably the same?

my baby is totally bonded to me because of breastfeeding .. but she will suck from a bottle as well which is a very good thing .. we only give her breast milk though .. we found that other milk makes her throw up (infamil with iron)

Oooh that is a very smart move, I'm pretty sure anything not natural shouldn't be fed to the baby. I think that's why kids are at a healthy stage vs when growing up as an adult and being able to eat whatever.

Does anyone know or heard about if you rather use breast pumps vs direct breastfeeding does it break bonding between mother and baby?> or is it considerably the same?

You pump because you have to be away from your baby, not as a substitute. Some people even pump milk for premature babies to help them. But its really not one or the other. You pump to store milk so you can be away from your baby and your milk doesnt run out and then you store the milk

babies love their momies if they pump or dont pump ...they even love their mommies if they are bottle fed. Somehow all babies survive

I just found out about a baby thats still breast feeding at 8 years old> Well she isnt a baby anymore. I am not sure how I feel about that. I dont judge her but um.. I think 2 years old is my limit for sure. Although I know some 30 year olds that would love to breastfeed.. ( ok I AM KIDDING)

ughh you are so wrong for that lol omgg

I heard its good to breast feed a baby as long as you can for brain development.

I was at a party with friends and family couple of years ago and this 3 year old we were playing with was so cute but he suddenly smothered his face happily in my chest and was smiling I was like wow...he even tried to open my shirt I'm hoping for breastfeeding not something he saw somewhere else--everyone (only friends were there) started cracking up insanely I felt so violated. I couldn't breastfeed an older kid at an age that could walk and go to school.

I did post a reply but I guess my computer didn't process it through or what not.

Well actually that quote about America admiring the Middle Easts challenges that was Bush's quote not mine! Probably some confusion - it wasn't my words.

I wouldn't have ever used the word "admire." "Appreciate"? Sure.

I didn't disagree with you at all actually.

I didn't think you did.

America back in the days wow...I would've loved it the way the older generation explains memories to me. That was American brotherhood right there compared to these days.

Let me share an old-timer memory with you, if you don't mind.

I graduated from high school 28 years ago. After graduation, I tried college, but my choices (at the time, as I saw them) were limited to teaching, nursing, or being a secretary. Now, know that we had just come out of the Civil Rights movement (my family fled the rioting in Detroit), as well as the Women's Liberation Movement, and the Iranian Hostage Crisis. I was full of hope for my own female future, however the educational opportunites weren't there. Sure, I could have been a teacher, answering to a male principal, or a nurse, answering to a male doctor, or a secretary, answering to a male executive, but, because I paid attention to the world around me, I just didn't want to doooooooo any of that.

So I muddled through with chump jobs and actually fashioned a decent living for myself. However, what was missing was the college degree I always knew I wanted. So, I took two teenagers along with me to university. While I was there, I was in classroom after classroom with brilliant and ambitious young women. Those same young women never - never, never! - knew a life where there wasn't a possibility they could be anything or anybody they wanted to be. Their future was in their own hands, not in someone else's. THAT was when I truly understood and appreciated those who had struggled before me because I wasn't seeing "hope" for a future in these young ladies as it wasn't about hope at all, it was about equality and opportunity being a fact of life. And this is my hope - my dream - for women everywhere. It's because of my own hopes and dreams for my sisters that I decided to become an educator.

Again, if you don't mind, there was another transformation that came out of the Women's Liberation Movement, that being MEN demanding equal rights. Yes, in the female dominated professions (teachers, nurses, and secretaries), men decided if women could do it, they should be able to do it, too. The end result was men working alongside women and demanding changes (wages, working conditions, RESPECT) within those professions and those changes did come to fruition.

What I was saying though, there is a growing population of young crowds in the Middle east who (probably a minority I'm speaking of) they want to westernize their countries. To give more freedom to people it can actually hurt a country if you think about it out of context. That could be a big problem in the Middle East region because what religion is followed by majority over there - Islam .

What problems are we facing today - terrorists i.e. Bin Laden sending a video to Bush- If your country embraces Islam we will embrace USA if not we will continue to kill all of you. What are Terrorists aim? to destroy anything Western or "haraam" as they keep in mentality. They are not for anything American, European, Canadian, etc..

I understand what you're saying, however, I have to take this discussion back to the point that we Americans have faced, fought, and overcome that same struggle internally. One of the most valuable lessons I took with me from university is the knowledge that what they teach in high school text books is not necessarily what really happened. By that I mean we were taught the Puritans fled England because they wanted religious freedom and, in a high school student's mind, that means the freedom of religion (and from religion) that we enjoy today. But that's not what happened. Instead, Puritans fled England because religion wasn't strict/conservative enough for their tastes. It is because of that desire for pure (think "Puritans") Biblical life our nation saw atrocities such as the Salem Witch Trials, censorship, the subjugation of women and children, etc. Puritan Settlers were no different than today's Radical Islam - they both wanted and want the exact same thing: living strictly by a Book in a, yes, male-dominated society.

Thankfully there were a few who were willing to travel abroad and have open dialog during the Enlightenment. Had that not happened, I believe, we would be wearing long black dresses with white collars and bonnets to this very day.

I believe that's what happening in the middle east. The advent of the internet made the world smaller and one no longer has to take an ocean journey (for months) to interact with another. I honestly believe the middle east is very much on the verge of experiencing its own Revolution.

American culture it's more free - freedom of speech, women working in businesses being head CEO's there's no limit for women in USA, Homosexual Rights to marry in certain parts (you have em everywhere but it's not legal in Arab countries), etc..

I don't know that it's necessarily more freedom as much as it the acquisition of the ability to choose. That's what's missing in those hard core Islamic nations - choices.

You're response was extremely inspiring. I'm thinking right on the dot with you. We can only hope/pray for the Middle East They'd understand America wasn't bad or against them, we're just all trying to find a solution to benefit everyone. I admit we do have a barrier of Americans and Arabs who are discriminating towards each other. That's why this whole thing is carrying on.

What I was saying though, there is a growing population of young crowds in the Middle east who (probably a minority I'm speaking of) they want to westernize their countries. To give more freedom to people it can actually hurt a country if you think about it out of context. That could be a big problem in the Middle East region because what religion is followed by majority over there - Islam .

What problems are we facing today - terrorists i.e. Bin Laden sending a video to Bush- If your country embraces Islam we will embrace USA if not we will continue to kill all of you. What are Terrorists aim? to destroy anything Western or "haraam" as they keep in mentality. They are not for anything American, European, Canadian, etc..

I'm confused here. You don't want the young middle easterners to be able to have a vote because they'll westernize the middle east but at the same time you say that freedom will be a problem because they are all muslim. Then you say that terrorists aim to destroy all things western.

So......following that does that mean you agree with the terrorists since you don't want the younger middle easterners to be able to vote and westernize the middle east? And if you think Islam is such a problem why did you marry a muslim?

That was a totally misunderstanding on your part. I'm not speaking in a rude manner just honest cause that's not what I said at all. I'm not gonna get into that. The more you explain on the MENA boards the more chaotic it gets.

Does anyone know or heard about if you rather use breast pumps vs direct breastfeeding does it break bonding between mother and baby?> or is it considerably the same?

That's exactly what I'm saying, babies aren't like that forever you're gonna miss these days when they cry to be with you when theyre are older - only their spouse can make everything in the world better for them!! Enjoy motherhood!! money/work/cleaning/cooking isn't anything it comes and goes, age doesn't it goes and goes and goes like memories

My mom got onto my elder brother when we baby sat my cousin - she said holding babies too much will give the mother a hard time bc she can't do anything the baby won't stop crying until she holds the baby. She won't be able to do her day to day daily work. She later admitted she would let him (my bro) cry in his crib so he would get used to not being held or being spoiled! I can't let a baby cry I'm weak in that.

sure I will read it again to try to understand better

Thank you. If you have any questions about what I've said, I'm happy to answer them.

What I was trying to do, and maybe I didn't do such a good job, is point out that - historically - the United States was founded by conservative (extremely conservative) Protestant Christians. It's taken a couple of hundred years to move away from that.

I did post a reply but I guess my computer didn't process it through or what not.

Well actually that quote about America admiring the Middle Easts challenges that was Bush's quote not mine! Probably some confusion - it wasn't my words.

I didn't disagree with you at all actually. America back in the days wow...I would've loved it the way the older generation explains memories to me. That was American brotherhood right there compared to these days.

What I was saying though, there is a growing population of young crowds in the Middle east who (probably a minority I'm speaking of) they want to westernize their countries. To give more freedom to people it can actually hurt a country if you think about it out of context. That could be a big problem in the Middle East region because what religion is followed by majority over there - Islam .

What problems are we facing today - terrorists i.e. Bin Laden sending a video to Bush- If your country embraces Islam we will embrace USA if not we will continue to kill all of you. What are Terrorists aim? to destroy anything Western or "haraam" as they keep in mentality. They are not for anything American, European, Canadian, etc..

American culture it's more free - freedom of speech, women working in businesses being head CEO's there's no limit for women in USA, Homosexual Rights to marry in certain parts (you have em everywhere but it's not legal in Arab countries), etc..

Wow I can only imagine and dream what you're feeling now! Congrats-

Leaving it to the Arab people (common citizens and leaders) isn't a good idea because most are young and a minority of these young people probably want to change to American lifestyle there to free themselves of that burden to follow "Cultural ways".

What, exactly, is the "American lifestyle" and if the people don't get to choose for themselves who do you suggest should do it? I'm not picking on you but I think you've opened the door for interesting discussion.

America's dealing with a people who see in black and white (I am one who sees black and white only in many ways) haram or clean it's from respect and usually Religious matters so it won't be easy to change Arab regions. I do hope Women's rights advance a little bit more because Arab women are not limited to anything if they study hard and remain respectable. It can help with the Arab economy if they let women work to help provide for their families also like it's done in Western culture. Maybe there won't be a need for prostitution (for those minorities) if there are respectable positions offered to Women and their rights.

Let's not forget that America freed itself from religious zealots in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Prior to that, the only people with rights were white, Protestant, property owning men. Oh, wait. I forgot - those same men made the rules and they made the rules to benefit themselves. It took the turbulant '60s for those same rights to be afforded to anyone else (yes, women were still legal property of their husbands in the 20th century). Still, there is plenty of evidence to support the statement Americans don't have full equality, across the board. My point is we have just been through this all ourselves, and that's quite likely why, as you said, Americans appreciate the challenges the Middle East faces.

I think you should read my post again to understand my opinion better. I didn't understand how you came to all those conclusions. I'm honest I really don't see what you're complying with. Of course it's a clean conversation I won't take otherwise.

No, actually I read what you wrote several times to make sure I understood it. I won't read it again. There's no need. But you might want to read what I wrote again because, for the most part, I WAS AGREEING WITH YOU.

Want to try that again?

sure I will read it again to try to understand better