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All over the liberal blogs Byrd was raked over the coals for his views in the 1940's. He was ignored because of it. You shouldn't be shocked when 5 years after your own denigration of him, nothing's changed.
All of you claiming to not know what a TV is and yet gushing advice about the rest of us. You sound like Catholic Priests giving sex ed.
Marinated in the tears of the unborn. Ummmmm.
Well lets parse that. First off it's not a country. It's the personal property of the al Aziz ibn Saud clan lead by the ~5000 Princes who run it. Everything is literally their property and subject to their whim.
There are about 6 million foreign workers who don't have any civil rights, 9 million men age 15-64 (total) and 10.4 million people age 14 and under. Even if most of the men are double counted that doesn't leave a lot of women (according to the CIA factbook there are 7 million women aged 15-64. The number of women who are 17? - 29 has got to be something under 2 million people.
They are building as fast as they can. Which is also why we're home to the fastest growing illegal populations in the country. Office parks are sprouting up like mushrooms and they stay vacant while new parks all around them also go up. Commercial development in NC is up 12%. 3 large malls have gone up in Wake county alone, coupled with a population growth of 8%CGR.
Women driving is not green. It's good they can't do it.
But doing nothing never stopped some half drunk hack from the BBC to breeze into Gaza declare himself a war correspondent and proceed to sit in a garden smoking hashish while his stringer ran around in the streets doing all the heavy lifting, either.
Wasn't there some discussion that Ron Brown's plane might have been shot down only a few months prior to that?
Was the first black man to be elected President really ISN'T a Muslim. I would have called that one. And women? Yeah I would have you put down around 3rd or 4th on the list.
Caused by graft and shoddy construction rushed to roll out. Followed by the obligatory Government declaration of "How dare you shame us!!!" followed by actual threats of the Chinese government canceling the Olympics while they are in progress, followed by the Chinese government expelling many international athletes followed by riots in the streets, tanks in the streets, a few dozen dead and a general cacophony of noise.
Liberals will blame America. Salon readers will declare their undying love of the PRC as well as their life long refusal to own a TV to watch the Olympics.
Likewise the basement of the Louvre must be returned to Egypt.
He'll have a steady supply of new activists to fight The Man.
Why you don't point out that many Chinese feel that Tibet is a vital part of China full of rich history. As much as the Palestinians believe Jerusalem is theirs or the Serbians lay claim to Kosovo.
The Serbians torched the Bosnian national library and with it more than a thousand years of irreplaceable Bosnian culture and history.
Surely Injya must be awarded the Olympics as reparations for that. And Egypt - Conquered by Napolean, when are we going to kiss them on the cheek and give them free time traveling unicorns that fart money for that?
I think the real story in a few years will be the 20xx South Africa Olympics. That will be the one where indignant western Liberals call for and get the outright ban of the US, Israel and all the non communist non Muslim western countries.
By the by if you're waiting for riots, the London Olympics, with the Wahhabi funded largest Mosque in the world going up next door and already they're starting to make noises about forcing the Brits to make the Olympics Sharia compliant, would be a great place to start.
A midlevel fund manager on Wall St. makes $12 million. VP's at my Fortune 50 non financial company make that.
I'm guessing you want them stripped naked and flogged then burned at the stake or something reasonable like that? Maybe cut off a hand a-la Sharia?
They all sat on their fat asses blogging to each other for 5 years instead of doing anything useful. I bet if 300,000 protested across the street from the White House for a month we would have bailed on Iraq years ago. But then we would have needed mobile iPod recharging stations and free wireless and no one wanted to pay to provide that service.
So unless the GOP discovers a crack baby somewhere, there's not a lot they can do against him. As of this week this election is no longer about politics at all. It's about warm fuzzy feelings we have about the racial divide in America.
It now appears started her career in professional cock sucking as an underage teen and has now bootstrapped that into what goes for celebrity nowadays. If she heard you feeling sorry for her she'd laugh.
Luckily we have the internet where revisionism and falsehood rule the day and 'history' is whatever you can post somewhere. Instant truth, instant history. This is why many schools are disavowing Wiki as a source and the internet generally. We don't care about history or accuracy or truth or reality. We care about our own agendas.
I'm sure, walter, that the Rev Wrights of the world have 'proof' that the lightbulb, the airplane, the printing press were all invented in Africa thousands of years ago.