Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Mashallah!

Is Arabic for "The will of God" and is used to describe happy events (usually). For example a woman comes home with a new baby, you would fawn over the baby and exclaim "Mashallah".

Well, today we witnessed just such an event. The landing of the space shuttle. We managed to put people and many tons of equipment into space and bring them back down safely. Mashallah. Yes, the disasters that hit the program in the past are also part of that will.

Just think if Bin Laden had his way Eileen Collins the shuttle commander on this flight and who landed this flying piano back to the earth would be in a burqa locked up in her house.
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