Posted on 02/10/2011 3:00:38 PM PST by mewykwistmas
Yemen's opposition has drawn tens of thousands of people to the streets to rally against three decades of autocratic rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, but by noon the protesters quietly vanish.
Many head straight from the streets to the souk, or market, to buy bags stuffed with qat, the mild stimulant leaf that over half of Yemen's 23 million people chew daily, wiling away their afternoons in bliss, their cheeks bulging with wads of qat.
"After I chew I can't go out. When I chew qat, the whole world is mine. I feel like a king," said Mohammed al-Qadimi, a student who has attended Yemen rallies but said it would be hard to motivate himself to protest all day.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
KJV (3) - sorcery, 2; witchcraft, 1;
1) the use or the administering of drugs poisoning
2) sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it
Revelation 9:21
Nor did they repent of their murders, their sorcery, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
Reminds me of the scene in “History of the World Pt.1”, armed with Mighty Joint..... I always liked the guy shooting the arrows straight up in the air once he is stoned.
Soooooo......load up a few crop dusters with a couple tons of California sinsemilla, light the fuse...fly a couple dozen passes over downtown Cairo.....Riots resolved. Just remember the Doritos and Mountain Dew for afterwards.
I wish it was in vending machines at work.
Soma......
The left has insinuated itself into government very successfully since it convinced millions of Americans to stupefy themselves watching stupid reality TV shows......
‘We support a qat-free Yemen.’
If you read the book or saw the movie “Black Hawk Down” it would be better to say, after chewing qat, the Yemeni Day of Rage becomes a Week of Homicidal Zombies.
Yes, drug addiction is slavery. ...especially pertains to those who don’t know that they’re changed and addicted (pot smokers).
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