Defensive Driving... ummmm

[eumelia]

Yeah, it's been three years and I get to do a twelve hour course (three meetings, four hours each) where I get to be bored out of my mind in order to get my license renewed.
Blah, what a waste of time!
But at least they don't fall on University hours, two classes are on Tuesday which is a free day and the other is on Sunday when I finish classes early.
So it's not all bad.
Other than, you know, it being a complete waste of time!

But oh well, I'll survive and barring any really negligent and crappy driving on my part (unlikely since I'm a defensive driver in any event and hate driving like I'm in a race for my life) I shouldn't need to go to one of these ever again.

And onto something completely different; On the 4th of March Wafa Sultan was in a debate with Tal'at Remieh on Al-Jazeera: Video with translation on MEMRI-TV.
I really admire Wafa Sultan going up against the culture she left, really going into their faces and saying what needs to be said. I don't agree with her politics as such (because she's a bit of a neocon), but I think she needs to be listened to, she's another voice which is often silenced in the Arab and Muslim world, not only as a moderate but also as a woman.

Comments

[aesiron.livejournal.com]

You're a defensive driver? When did this happen? I remember your navigational suggestions much differently.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Navigation and swearing aside :), I don't drive like I own the road... which in this country pretty much means I drive defensively. I rarely speed and even if I do it's usually not a whole lot more than the limit anyway.

I say that I drive on the road like everyone wants to kill me and I try not to kill anyone... that's pretty much my motto.

[apemanmaldonado.livejournal.com]

Not much chance of Muslims listening to anything from Wafa Sultan. There are few if any commentators more reviled in the Muslim world then Wafa Sultan. I don't know if you watch any US news shows but when they bring people like those from the Westboro Baptist Church, the people who say God hates fags and protest at funerals, that is pretty much how Muslims see Wafa Sultan on a show. When I was Muslim I remember hearing people saying she was an Alawi. I'm not saying I agree with any of the attacks on her but as you can see from that clip a lot of it was posturing on the other side, probably Muslim equivalent of the O'Reilly Factor.

Plus anything coming from MEMRI won't help, I posted a clip from MEMRI once about an Islamic practice called mut'ah and was criticized for getting my information from "The Zionists."

[tamara-russo.livejournal.com]

מותק, אף אחד לא יבקש ממך לנהוג בשיעורים האלו, אל תשלי את עצמך.. את יכולה להיות מסוממת, שתויה, להירדם באמצע, לקרוא ספר, להפריח בועות סבון או לרוץ ערומה ואף אחד לא ישים לב אליך אחרי שנרשמת.

טוב, אולי אם תרוצי ערומה, אבל כל השאר...

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

מן הסתם אני לא באמת אנהג שם.

אז אני אביא את החומרים לקריאה למבחנים... לפחות משהו טוב יצא מכל החרטה ברטה הזה.