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The Port Deal and Race was it a factor at all(Of Course Not)
The Emirates Economist | 03/12/06 | bayourant

Posted on 03/12/2006 7:51:11 PM PST by bayourant

Did Race play a role in the Port Deal discussions? The very charge is met by the likes of Sean Hannity and others with Righteous Indigination. In fact, to mention it makes you the true problem. Mark Levin in fact called a MAjor General a dirtbag over that charge. The below cartoons may be an issue now in the UAE. They are not cartoons about that ole darn prophet however. THere will be no boycotts over these but remember still they dont help things. The cartoonist just give us what we want sometimes. From MSNBC the following cartoon. There were many others that through the glory of the net are available to all.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bannedforlying; bayoukoolaid; dontlieaboutlevin; frplaystheracecard; goodriddance; lyingaboutmarklevin; markwho; ports; race; racepimping; terminals; uae; undeadthread
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To: Cboldt

Uh...okay.

I was using multiple words to fit the acronym..but would never come up with THAT...LOL

I guess I never got invited to the "cool acronym club".


101 posted on 03/12/2006 8:31:20 PM PST by Txsleuth (Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw)
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To: holdonnow

Do you think the 45 day waiting period was a good idea? do you think what congress did in killing it was bad ?


102 posted on 03/12/2006 8:32:16 PM PST by woofie
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To: holdonnow

are you mad at me for disagreeing with you on this?

Yo don't send me flowers anymore...

we just don't talk like we use to.....


103 posted on 03/12/2006 8:32:20 PM PST by eeevil conservative (beware of MR GRIM!)
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To: Rokke

If Martians had flown those jets into our building murdering 3,000 innocent people, I'd object to them as well. Racism has nothing to do with it. But just keep repeating your racist innuendos.


104 posted on 03/12/2006 8:32:27 PM PST by processing please hold (Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clinched fist)
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To: bayourant
Actually, the UNCLE TOM'S CABIN/ CAKEWAILK poster is NOT a racial pejorative; no matter what the NAALCP says. There were horrifically bad cartoons of Negroes, that you could have and should have used instead.

More to the point, though, would have been the political cartoons, that made the Irish look like apes in clothes, which would be closer to the ridiculous anti-Arab cartoon.

105 posted on 03/12/2006 8:32:49 PM PST by nopardons
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To: holdonnow
Ok, so you think the people are stupid.

Yes, I do; in case you're forgotten, that "majority of the American public" is the same "American public" that we've been calling "sheep" around here for the last eight or so years.

Now they're smart?

106 posted on 03/12/2006 8:32:52 PM PST by Howlin ("Quick, he's bleeding! Is there a <strike>doctor</strike> reporter in the house?")
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To: bayourant
I am late to this party but please provide the source for your claim that Mark Levin called Gen. Abizaid a "dirtbag."


Just Bring It!
107 posted on 03/12/2006 8:32:59 PM PST by sono ("If Congressional brains were cargo, there'd be nothing to unload." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: holdonnow
"The media fed them plenty of lines about Bush, and he won in 2004, didn't he?"

In 2004, Bush wasn't being attacked by Conservatives repeating the media's lies. In 2006, many conservative talking heads seem to be a lot more willing to jump on the lying media's hit parade.

108 posted on 03/12/2006 8:33:01 PM PST by Rokke
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To: woofie

Mark was FOR the 45 day review...


109 posted on 03/12/2006 8:33:08 PM PST by eeevil conservative (beware of MR GRIM!)
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To: eeevil conservative

LOL, I think you're great.


110 posted on 03/12/2006 8:33:11 PM PST by holdonnow
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To: Rokke

we understand the fact just fine, don't argue your point by claiming that the 81% of americans who opposed this port deal, the majority of republicans also - simply didn't know the facts. for weeks, you tried to win this argument by parsing words - "own", "operate", "lease" - it's not working.


111 posted on 03/12/2006 8:33:15 PM PST by oceanview
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To: Jim Robinson

Good riddance to the puke.


112 posted on 03/12/2006 8:33:27 PM PST by planekT (<- http://www.wadejacoby.com/pedro/ ->)
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To: holdonnow
Did I ever accuse anybody of racism when it comes to this deal?

I think not.

My arguments were very simple ~ (1) The propaganda piece, on the face of it, was patently false, and the facts of the deal were so different from what was portrayed, that no rational discussion could be made with people who believed the initial leftwing story. And (2) That due to our use of Dubai as a major center of ME operations, activities on our part that put our use of Dubai at risk actually endangered our troops.

The General is the one who accused you'all of racism, and I'm not the General!

113 posted on 03/12/2006 8:33:39 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: Howlin

Ok, they're stupid, you're brilliant. You've demonstrated that.


114 posted on 03/12/2006 8:34:06 PM PST by holdonnow
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To: holdonnow

BE STILL MY HEART!!

I sooo needed that!


115 posted on 03/12/2006 8:34:21 PM PST by eeevil conservative (beware of MR GRIM!)
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To: pbrown
"But just keep repeating your racist innuendos."

Please quote me where I said anything about racism. I'll wait right here.

116 posted on 03/12/2006 8:34:35 PM PST by Rokke
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To: Jim Robinson; holdonnow

Please don't pull this thread...

I think this is an arguement that needs to be had right now...and get it over with.

It is over, like Mark said....but, we need to work together against Schumuckie other antics...and we can't do that while letting this tear us apart.


117 posted on 03/12/2006 8:34:40 PM PST by Txsleuth (Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw)
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To: bayourant; holdonnow
FWIW, the contemporaneous comment made by bayourant on 3/9/06 can be found here.
118 posted on 03/12/2006 8:34:59 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: holdonnow

I would guess his first kindergarten teacher did that, and by the time he got to the third one they were constantly on him to wipe that smirk off his face.


119 posted on 03/12/2006 8:34:59 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: holdonnow

just for that I must change my tagline....


120 posted on 03/12/2006 8:35:13 PM PST by eeevil conservative (the GREATONE THINKS I'M GREAT!)
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