Yeah and that's why they invite that "infidel" Tiger Woods to play golf there.
Posted on 03/12/2006 2:59:23 AM PST by PrinceOfCups
LOL!
Oh, the irony!
I wouldn't count your chickens so quickly.
There are millions of good, mainstream Republicans (like maybe about 80-perent of them, in fact) who are still steamed at the President Bush and some Republicans for even defending this deal, and are thinking twice about offering support this Nov.06.
I understand that you see everything through your perspective, but considering that an unheard of 60-80 percent of the American public hated this deal, do you really think Prez GWB and the GOP are gonna gain?
I agree with you regarding all the Astroturfing here. It has been interesting.
Yeah and that's why they invite that "infidel" Tiger Woods to play golf there.
Same goes for any form of marketing. With product reviews and discussion forums out there, if you could spare a few bucks to have even just one or two people getting your message out, you'd probably want to do it. So I just assume some here, I am sure a tiny minority, are paid. Nice gig if you can get it.
Aw hell, I got this far before I realized you weren't talking about the Democrats in Congress..
People who spout "free trade" as an excuse for this ports deal really crack me up!!!
Consider this, my friend: IT IS ILLEGAL FOR AN AMERICAN TO OWN A BUSINESS IN DUBAI/UAE (outside the very small free trade zone).
It clearly states so on the UAE website. NO foreigners may own more than 49-percent of any business or company, and all companies must be owned and operated by an UAE citizen national.
So much for your vaunted "free trade."
I wish that every congressman who fought this deal would be forced to read this editorial. Thanks for posting it. Last week I heard James Carafano (Dr. James Carafano Senior Research Fellow, Defense and Homeland Security, Heritage Foundation) say that he was asked to testify before the congressional committee that stampeded this deal. He said that only the chairman was in the room when he and two others who were in favor of DPW started their presentations, so they were asked to submit their reports for the Congressional Record, and no questions were asked of them.
I did not have a very high opinion of congressmen in general, but after this debacle I am just sick, thinking about them.
I believe that they truly have no knowledge of international shipping at all. Now they are talking like they are going to set up something like our lovely airport security in our ports. They don't even see that airport security happens at the loading end, not the offloading end.
"The United States Constitution divides foreign policy powers between the President and the Congress so that both share in the making of foreign policy."
from State Department web site
http://fpc.state.gov/6172.htm
I'm not sure if the Dubai deal falls under the category of foreign policy, but it seems congress can stick itself wherever it wants to. *look of dismay* :-(
Uh the saudi's kicked us out while the UAE has been very helpful. Ask Gens. Tommy Franks and Peter Pace, and now the US Congress have slapped them in the face.
Don't feel bad for him, others are even worse off. Take me, for instance. Why, I'm reduced to having to enter my posts in raw ASCII, using a telegraph key! That's after I've toggled in a bootstrap loader into the front panel of my S-100 8080 computer, which runs a pared-down copy of KA9Q, allowing me to SLIP onto a low-rent backalley entrance to the Internet.
My monitor is a burned-in green phosphor NTSC (RCA plug composite video) that won't give legible text unless I use it in 32 column mode!
And, after I've decoded the HTML in my head (you don't seriously think there's a web browser for an 8-bit CPU with 8KB RAM and no disc drive, do you?), I have to buffer my copy to a cassette drive, using an ancient "Tarbell" interface!
Oh, the humanity!
So, don't feel sorry for him -- and, don't even feel sorry for me! The guy next-door has to access the Internet using a paper cup and string! He has to decode Bell 103 modem tones in his head!
You know all these things are true, because I -- a collection of black dots on white background -- tell you they're true. And forget all that crap about how, "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog" -- that's all propaganda, propaganda, I tell you -- from D.U.! And say, wouldn't YOU feel better there, anyway?
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since some Congressmen have taken on the role of Secretary of State...
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I saw a brief snippet of Senators quizzing Secretary of State Rice last week. They would probably have been embarassed to talk to their maid the way some of them (Kerry and Boxer/Finestein) spoke to Dr Rice.
Saudi Arabi also demanded that we leave. Thats why we are in the other gulf states.
They aren't acting childish, they played by the rules in their business takeover of P&O, but become a scapegoat to ignornat knee jerking.
Well anyway you can believe people who think they kill terrorists from behind a radio microphone(weiner(savage) or from behind a laptop(malkin).
I'll believe Generals who have actually fought the WOT and beleive them when they say the UAE is an ally on the WOT.
How are they acting childish? These folks are money people. Business do merge. They want to invest and make sure the rules are not changed in the middle of the game. The UAE folks just are not interested in owning Taco stands here. Plus there is an element of Pride. Thats to be expected.
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