Air France - disinfect planes from Arab Countries.
I rode an Air France Plane from Jeddah Saudi Arabia to Paris, and another plane from Paris to Detroit.
The interesting thing was on the flight from Jeddah, the flight attendant walked through the aisle upon departure spraying some sort of insecticide/disinfectant up and down the aisles.
No such behavior was exhibited on the Paris - Detroit flight.
What does this mean? I don't know. You tell me!

GW and McCain: One and the same
Wit, greed, strategy

See for yourself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c

Hey guys if you haven't yet, give your share and become an Obamaniac!

https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/HQvidmatch?match_campaign_id=10&source=20080624_SH_ND

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India's Reliance talking with DreamWorks

By RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM, Associated Press Writer Tue Jun 24, 3:34 AM ET

MUMBAI, India - India's Reliance Entertainment and other investors are in talks with Hollywood's DreamWorks SKG to raise as much as US$2 to create a new movie venture, two people familiar with negotiations said Tuesday."

I guess with the currency exchange to the Rupee, two bucks goes a long way

The "Judge sides with Duke: Your football team stinks" story is
located at http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3455278

So its official by virtue of court decision, Duke sucks!

“Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.”

--Vernon Law

Just setup a facebook group for Jeddah Expats. Hopefully we can get enough people that it becomes a useful resource.
If you are contemplating coming out here, best bet, at least for the first three months, is to have your company/employer make all your arrangements, that way you can take your time in getting settled.

I sent Dunkin Donuts a complaint letter saying I was outraged by their pulling Rachel Ray's ad. They sent me the pathetic response two emails below. I sent the below followup. If you have time and are interested, please contact them as well. Use the same customerservicereply@... address. Don't forward my message, just type your own.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Omar Haydar <>
Date: Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: Case# 5060690 - Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin Robbins, Togo's
To: customerservicereply@...


Your response only strengthens my feelings against you unfortunately. Is it each time someone complains about some aspect of your advertising, you throw away all the millions you spend and pull the ads? Very very sad. If someone from the KKK complains that an ad has an african american in it, do you pull the ad? This is the same type of blatant racism. Shame on you!

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:15 PM, <customerservicereply@...> wrote:
Thank you for sharing your comments. We always appreciate hearing from our customers. The intent of the online ad featuring Rachael Ray wearing a paisley silk scarf was to promote iced coffee. Given the surprising and truly unfortunate interpretation of this ad from some of our consumers, we decided to pull the ad and replace it with another as it is no longer serving its intended purpose, which was to simply promote our iced coffee---nothing more, nothing less.

At Dunkin' Donuts, we value all of our customers and remain steadfastly committed to making your experiences with us both memorable and pleasant. Thank you, again, for making us aware of your concerns; it is appreciated