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it's brown skin that's the problem here.

No, Howlin, it's not, and you should know better. This is about violence, security, and the appearance of impropriety. It has nothing to do with the color of their skin, because last time I checked, they were pretty much the same color as you and I.... they just tan darker. Maybe it is a religion thing, I dunno... but the UAE has not had a great track record on human rights, terrorism (Bangledesh has done more to arrest leaders in the W0T than the UAE has), and propogating extremism.

NOW, that doesn't mean that they can't change, however, they have changed VISIBLY for the Islamic Radicalist movement in the past six months, and that is what has had ME spooked, at the very least. Both of their leaders died in January.... and then in February, this? It doesn't look right. We don't KNOW who's in power over there now... and we don't know what they are going to do. But we do know of the presence of Madrassas teaching Wahabiism, and we know of the wholesale wiping out of textbooks to be replaced with 'sanitized' versions. All within the last 4 months.

Caution should have been exercized at the very least. Why Congress didn't wait the 45 days, I don't know. I just know that on the outside, this whole thing looked like a hornet's nest, and that's what we got. I am happy that it appears to have an amicable solution. Even if it involves Halliburton! *laugh*

And you're damn right they better do something about immigration, and how!

You'll have to pardon me, as I have been here seven years longer than you have.

I know who is against what and why they're against it.

Doesn't matter how you dress it up, that's what it's about.

And there will be NO meaningful immigration legislation -- why, you ask?

Because the public doesn't want it.

See how that works?