Posted on 02/08/2008 6:29:59 PM PST by llevrok
Dubai is an interesting place. There are many, many foreigners there. This includes lots of women that go clubbing every night, European women, usually in small groups. They are what I call “kept women”. They are there at the behest of their Arab sugar-daddies, that pay for them to be around when it’s desirable to have a beautiful young woman on their arm. They don’t want to marry them, or live with them, they just want them around. Obviously these men have a lot of money.
That hotel in the picture is supposedly the world’s only six-star hotel. It’s head-and-shoulders above everything else, anywhere. I hear they have a great brunch, and though it costs way over a hundred bucks to visit the hotel for brunch it’s worth it.
The roads are all dusty with a very fine dust from the desert. There are lots of fancy cars and fabulous apartments. The labor force is almost all foreigners. The local men dress in white robes with black headbands; a “Dishdashah”.
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Dubai is a big playground for Europeans — lots of vacationers there from the EU. Lots of clubs, all with alcohol of all kinds. Many clubs are frequented by foreign prostitutes, and alcohol is available in all of them.
Despite all this it doesn’t surprise me that they have such a low tolerance for drugs. The locals are hypocrites of the highest order. They also have a very different view of women, and women tourists should always travel in groups to avoid being assaulted and raped by local men who think their western dress means they are fair game for anything, including kidnapping and rape.
The article does suprise me in the sense that the evidence is so flimsy — makes me think these people were selected for extra screening for some reason — maybe they suspected they were Jewish (no that’s not a joke). The customs there is not any different than most places, at least to the extent I have seen.
Farsi shares about 40% of its vocabulary with Arabic....not too much in common in with German.
I know a graduate TA at my university who’s been to Dubai and all over the Middle East. She says the people in the UAE, Dubai especially, loved Americans.
I don’t doubt that — we protect them from their neighbors who might have designs on their oil. Besides those that work there, not too many Americans are vacationing in Dubai. It’s in Europe’s back yard though, relatively speaking.
They also train the flight attendants for Emerates Airways in Dubai — all different nationalities of mostly young women. I was eating in a hotel restaurant when a graduating class had their big dinner in the same restaurant — I could hardly chew from having my jaw on the floor most of the time.
If you are looking for Emirates Airways flight attendants I highly recommend the Irish Village Pub. It’s on the back side of the tennis stadium and right across from Emirates’ training facility.
Um... weighs less than a gram of sugar? As opposed to weighing less than a gram of something else?
Oh, er, GRAIN, not gram. Forgive me, my monitor sucks.
You and Oh Black Obama think alike.
I am against pot, but I try not to disparage anybody. NO ad-hominem attacks. Let’s get into logic, common sense, and some basic debating principles.
You have used a normative expression [”should” “should be” etc, those types of statements that deal with “what ought to be” etc.]. I clearly understand those types of statements. OK, we have a civil disagreement as to what is right, and as to what is wrong. Fair enough, without getting into scientific details.
Under the First Amendment, you are entitled to your opinion, and yet, I humbly disagree with your stated opinion.
I am not picking a fight, I am just letting you know where I stand on this specific issue. We may hopefully, politely, “agree to disagree” on this. Civil society requires polite, civil disagreement on key issues. Now that is where voting comes into play.
The LAW is different, however. IF you are arrested, remember that the LAW is key, not just someone’s opinion. You may need to contact an attorney if you get caught with what you call “pot”. I would “highly” [ha-hah!] recommend that you (assuming that you do this, just an assumption, correct me if I am wrong) retain an attorney to plead your case, if you are arrested.
Usually technological gadgets aren't as sensitive as the dogs are. However, if I remember back from my college days what a gram of pot looks like, I would think that 0.01 gram would be noticeable, and even in tiny quantities the stuff stinks until it dries out.
You wouldn't be able to just smell it on someone, but if you searched them carefully and found a tiny little bud, you might know what it was from the smell. Then they could test it to make sure.
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