¬†¬†¬†¬† From the Jewish Talmud “Ethics of the Sages” . “Better be the tail of a lion,than the head of jackals”. (Head jackal of the whole pack versus one lion and you should prefer to be the lion’s tail).

Just¬† ask Al Gore if he has thelast laugh. His former boss Billy Clinton isn’t even the head of jackals, maybe a hind leg at most!

 

¬†¬†¬†¬† A pack of jackals, after a day laying out on their tuchess by the beach, buy¬† 4 cases of beer, ice em up (hard labour), rent a few videos, later maybe a card game or 10, each jackal calls the wife of his friend jackal to say “Rex is still working late at the office (how about a date tommarow?)

Even the very jackal who runs with you shoulder to shoulder, tongue out while you chase for dead carion would just as soon sink his fangs into your jugular vein if you falter once only!

While the Royal “King of the Jungle” thinks, considers, takes his time and utilizes his strength and wisdom in the craft of bringing down his prey for the lion cubs, and the older lions.¬† His tail is attached to his body which is manuvered by the brain in his head, even all movements of¬†¬† his…..tail.

¬†¬†¬†¬† ¬† “Lion, king of beasts”.¬† One mature female or male lion has the whole forest in fear, in awe, it moves sagely,with grace and agility built mainly upon experience and knowlwdge of it’s strength.

¬†¬†¬†¬† The “Jackal” similar to a dingo, close to the hyena, they are wily and quick but move in packs, constantly suspicious of their fellow jackals. They eat dead flesh left from what the lion left, the lion’s share.¬†

     So what is better to be a junior senator in the Illinois State Assembly, or the President of the gigantically large country of Libya?  (Check your map, it is a biiiiig country in North Africa).

The current ruling jackal is trying to combine 100 non-aligned countries” to force their will on the United Nations.¬†¬† Lets look again at the “tail of the lion”. The lion being the United States of America. Its tail,¬† who signed on as a tail, doing his job as a junior senator of the Illinois State Assembly is now ruling king of the jungle and when he talks at the U.N.¬† its¬† his way, or he’ll take his baseball, bat and you won’t have any game.¬†

¬†¬†¬†¬† ¬†When the Ruler of a large pack of jackals rants and digresses earlier at the U.N. he was just a buffoon on the world’s stage.

¬†¬†¬†¬† I won’t call this one immoral and a sponsor for terrorism while looking the other way at state terrorism on a monumental scale, no country or human is completely right¬† or moral.¬† It seems that “might makes right”. Even a large pack of jackals in number will be afraid to attack a virile, healthy lion, and if is a female lioness they had really be careful!

¬†¬†¬†¬† What is all this to do with” hookah”?

¬†¬†¬†¬† I was reading “Urban Dictionary” of slang that I’d seen many times online, but didn’t realize that members can edit or add words, definitions etc.¬†¬† Its a fantastic site with hundreds of thousands of slang words.¬†¬† When I saw how minute and detailed I checked out in their search engine for “hookah” also “narghila”.

¬†¬†¬†¬† 2 people only wrote very short definations of “hookah” and both basically stated that the hookah is used in modern countries to smoke un-mentionable substances.¬† For that their are so many types of hand crafted or manufactured bongs, chillums, pipes etc in the many thousands.¬†¬† They are small, cheap usually and fit¬† a pocket sizewise and money wise.

¬†¬†¬†¬† I only wish there were half the variety of hookahs made.¬† Was I going to¬† let them get away with this?¬† What if 18 year old Jeffrey tells his visiting Grandma that he’s going into his room “to smoke shish on my hookah”.¬† Well “shisha” she’ll think is hash shisha and “hookah”, “I’d better look that up” says Granny.

Something only a person plainly misinformed would say hookah=drugs.¬†¬† Its a known fact that hemp variates like “Mary Jane” of Tijuana or hash have potent and drippy resins which leave residues and eventually in quick time ruin the metal inside of the hookah shaft, also ruin the hookah taste for good.¬† The most flavoursome shisha tobacco when smoked in your hookah after drugs will taste baad and a lot like metal.

     This and that all the major hookah forums will kick you out for good if you mention drugs and hookah in the same sentence, page or during your lifetime.

¬†¬†¬†¬† So I had to be the “tail of a lion”.

¬†¬†To the “Urban Dictionary” she flies, and will understand that Jeffrey is a druggie???

I remembered the “Ethics of the Sages” edict which is true, not just good advice¬† :

“It is better to be the tail of a lion, than the head of the jackal pack”

             

look up: http://www.urbandictionary.com/confirm.php?code=eb177fa524¬†my definition written for “hookah” http://www.urbandictionary.com/confirm.php?code=eb177fa524 Urban Dictionary is the dictionary¬†YOU wrote. “Define your world¬†¬†”¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† word of the day browse add edit remove mugs book live chat blog random A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # new ¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† Hookah “Hookah” is the Hindi-India word for “water-pipe”, used for smoking “shisha-tobacco” mainly all over the world today and is a gigantic online business. It spread from India to China,Persia all the Middle East and the Balkans. Today its universally found and can be bought to smoke at home, or smoked publically in a hookah-lounge where friends gather at tables can drink,eat and smoke. Obviously this goes to explain that the use of smoking Marijuana,hashish,etc in ahookah would not be done in a public hookah lounge. Its also a true fact that the said hemp products let out resin residues which ruin the metal shaft of the hookah after a certain ammount of smoking,besides making it smell and taste like M.J. instead of the very fragrant hookah tobaccos (shisha).Online can be bought more than 100 different shisha-tobacco company’s brand, each with 5,15, sometimes 60 or more flavours. The 2 Hookah styles are “Egyptian” more commonly found with a male head (the top of the metal smoking shaft portrudes and the ceramic or enamal bowl fitting on top is female, or “Syrian” with the top of the shaft a large hole and the ceramic tobacco bowl has a male portudence which fits the shaft. In Syria,Lebanon,Iraq and much of Iran the “Syrian style” is used while the rest of the world, Asia,North America,Russia,Australia,Europe,South America normally buy “Egyptian style” hookahs. ¬†¬†¬†¬† 3 main parts of the hookah: glass base (“Shisha” means glass in Old Persian) which is flat on the bottom and half or a bit more filled with water in which the smoke from the ceramic bowl (under hot coals) is sucked down the metal shaft and into the water where it cools and flows up the hose into the mouth where it is enjoyed either inhaled or not. ¬†¬†¬†¬† A gigant majority of the hookahs sold today on the Western market are made in China Mainland. Even in Turkey,Egypt,India, the North African countries, all who prided themselves formerly on handcrafted hookahs buy in the bulk of thousands from Mainland China and re-sell to tourists. Though of course there are the older hookahs mostly formerly made as objects of art. Czech and Bohemian glass makers blow hand crafted specially made and cut high grade chrystal hookah bases. There are companies in China who make an over the shoulder aluminum walk-and smoke hookah and there is the company in Czechia which makes 5 amazing types of pure silver,gold or high intensity metal and jewel state-of-the-art totally modern scientifically engineered hookahs for the well to do. ¬†¬†¬†¬† There are 4 major hookah forums online each with 6,000-10,000 members the volumn of traffic amazing besides many smaller hookah forums. “I just got my new Egyptian (style)” hookah” in the parcel post! Why don’t you come over tonight and we’ll chill out ?” ¬†¬†¬†¬† “My dog loves the second-hand smoke when I smoke my “hookah”. He hears the hubbly-bubbly sounds and runs over for a long sniff. “that would be perfect music to smoke hookah and relax” by Ras Majnouni on Sep 23, 2009tags: hooka,hookah,narghile,narguile,hubbly bubbly,shisha,waterpipe ¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† Many Thanks to “Urban Dictionary” and¬† the not so humble author of this above page thrin published (me)

 

 

 

This being the Holy Month of Tishrey starting Friday night for Jews & Rammadan which is at it’s peak already for Muslims I would like to bless all our Muslim and Jewish readers.

To the Jews :

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To Muslims :

الشهر مبارك

 

ŸÉŸÑ ÿ?ÿßŸÖ Ÿàÿ£ŸÜÿ™ŸÖ ÿ®ÿÆŸäÿ±

 

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1824 First-Hand Hookah in Calcutta,India :¬† (okay, I made a review on this book in which their is a large chapter on hookah smoking by the Rich Sultans and in every day India society as well–see link above)

I do take credit for “finding” this original art print some years back in a portfolio of Occidental Middle-East art motif`s, and it naturally gets its way onto many other online hookah¬† blogs and sites!! Why not,¬† half the fun of smoking a hookah are the shisha tobacco¬† “PipeDreams”.

A cigar smoker might imagine himself as a suave businessMAN jet-setting accross the globe, a Briar Pipe smoker is either Hugh Hefner in his hea, or Grampa tamping down his wad while watching the Thanksgivingday Parade on TV. 

We hookah smokers are Sultans,Sheiks,Nomads of the desert.¬† (For me that’s not hard, as my Israeli village is in very close view of 5 Arab villages in on the other hills accross from us, and we hear the delightful call to prayers by the Muze’en 5 times a day. (Reminds us to pray our 3 times—though from a very young age I was educated to love the prayers and we didn’t have Minnarets nearby. Its just more exotic¬† atmosphere!¬† Maybe like a Little League baseball player imagining that he’s Derek Jeter stepping up to the plate.¬† Does Derek Jeter own a hookah? Anyone know?¬† He went to the same High School that my American cousins did in Michigan . Well my cousins had to finish school and Derek Jeter’s parents are both educators, besides, no High School team, no college team no minor league, no MLB.I even send him my cast offs :

      

with his schedule playing everyday for 10 months, who has time to find the best? But Derek decided he’s just “one of the boys” at heart and has a new realtionship with this guy here, some soccer-football player from¬† out in Europe. Anyone know who he is and if he smokes hookah? (Okay, I’ve seen David Beckham play quite a lot only jiving).Should someone buy a pink bat for Derek?Alex Rodriguez is “smart” either he has something to catch or pass on besides a baseball, or he’s worried that David has (he won’t touch him without his gloves).

As the famous country song goes “No one knows what goes on behind closed doors”.

How do these people make their social schedule? Between movies,photo shoots for the magazines, TV talk-shows, writing volumn 4 of their biographies, visiting their families, mom & pop, little sis& bro, signing photos or baseballs? I know the baseball players do lots of time visiting in hospitals from bed to bed, doing fund raising dinners.¬†¬† So how does Jessica Beil get a date for¬† tonights¬† red-carpet¬† “Walking-the Dog”?¬† Simple. She calls her Social Subscription Hotline, where they pay $32,000 a month to get set up with Mr.Right. “Hello, this is number #426. I’m in the mood for a sportsman tonight, no, no NFL Football players, how about hockey or baseball, I would prefer he’s white, but if you get Derek Jeter than 50% Caucasian is fine….”

My biggest worry is running out of charcoal or shisha for the hookah.

¬†¬†Don’t kiss the ones with the veils or you are dead- they are all men .¬†¬† You’d wear a turban and veil if you were out in the blazing sun at the center of the equator, and the blue color is¬† to ward off against¬† “the evil eye”.

Berber Women

¬†Before you ask yourself¬†¬†¬† “Why has this chump of a hookah blogger added the film scene to watch?”¬†¬†¬† let me assure you, as a hookah smoker you are in for a treat!¬†¬† I don’t want to give anything away.

¬†¬†¬†¬† This scene is un-typical to the rest of the film, which centers on the Berber Sahara Desert nomads and their struggle against European and later American Empirealism, and¬† while Sean Connery in his earlier days dominates all the other film’s scenes, here he is only a small part. (Watch the rest if you want, its terrific).

     But as a HOOKAH smoker, get a pipe ready and watch this, you  will be in for the shock  of your life!

(Do I dare give away enough to persuade you to watch?)     The  hookah portion is in the last 4th of the clip, but if you miss the beginning of this scene 8, you will miss my whole point which is  :

“Hookah smokers are cool under pressure”

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kHlO3f8IWQ

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¬†I would suggest seeing all of this 1975 film which is done in very good taste, is exciting all through.¬† Don’t let the fact that it was done 35 years ago throw you. Technically its great, the photography is superband the story fascinating.¬†¬† A good chance to see the Berber Nomad’s side of the story.

From :¬†¬† “The Wind & the Lion”¬† starring Sean Connery

¬†¬†¬†¬† This film besides being historic and¬† scenic¬† shows the nobility of the Berber nomads who¬† are the main tribesmen in the Sahara.¬† When you think “Desert Nomads”¬† think Berber.¬† They are not classified as Arab, but are Muslim , though they¬† fought quite hard against Islam in the beginning.

From info by the downloader to YouTube  :

¬†“In 1904, Morocco is the source of conflict by the powers of Imperial Germany, France, and the British Empire, all of whom are trying to establish a sphere of influence in that country.

 Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli (Sean Connery) is the leader of a band of Berber insurrectionists     opposed to Sultan Abdelaziz and his uncle,     the Bashaw of Tangier, whom Raisuli sees as corrupt and beholden to the Europeans.    

¬†He kidnaps Eden Perdicaris(Candice Bergen) and her children, William (Simon Harrison) and Jennifer (Polly Gottesman) from their home, after murdering Sir Joshua Smith, a British friend of Eden’s.

Raisuli then issues an outrageous ransom,     deliberately attempting to provoke an international incident in order to embarrass the Sultan and trigger civil war.

Back in the United States, President Theodore Roosevelt (Brian Keith) is struggling for re-election, and decides to seize the kidnapping as both a political tool (coining the phrase “Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!”) and as an effort to flex America’s military muscle as a new power – despite the protests of his cautious Secretary of State, John Hay (John Huston).

The American Consul to Tangier, Samuel Gummere (Geoffrey Lewis), is unable to negotiate a peaceful return of the hostages, so Roosevelt sends the South Atlantic Squadron, under the command of Admiral French Ensor Chadwick (Roy Jenson), to Tangier, either to retrieve Perdicaris themselves or to force the Sultan to give in to Raisuli’s demands.

 Over the course of time, however, Roosevelt finds himself gaining more and more respect for Raisuli, thinking of him as an honorable man who just happens to be his enemy.

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Get an Arab scarf- so many patterns and colours to choose from at “Smoking-Hookah.com”

http://www.smoking-hookah.com/category/35001/

An amazing music video by the Finnish heavy metal-classical musicians who are all long haired and blonde dressed as Tuareg Berber nomads playing cellos in the desert with the gorgeous Linda Sunblad singing and a mystic ending fits well here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Y7nys00dk