Saudi King Abdullah dead - state TV
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If JFK were president today and paying homage...
"We choose to honour Abdullah. (interrupted by applause) We choose to honour Abdullah on this day and do the other things (in the ME), not because they are easy, but because they are hard,.."
"We choose to honour Abdullah. (interrupted by applause) We choose to honour Abdullah on this day and do the other things (in the ME), not because they are easy, but because they are hard,.."
If you die of natural causes do you still get the virgin package or is suicide bombing a prerequisite?
My question has always been, why would anyone want the virgin package? A little experience, in my experience, can go a long way! Lol.
Next time I'm in Canada my dear I'll be sure to visit with the gooey stuff.
Sweet!!!
yeah, but look at the people who are wanting the virgins. They wouldn't know what to do with someone who knew what to do.
They can only do what they know with women who have never been allowed to use their brain. If the women have nothing to compare them to, then they can't fail. Their egos wouldn't be able to handle that. It's why they insist on blowing up things. They're classic text book cases
Kind of like macoo, huh?
Yeah, I'd prefer a guy who knows what to do with the strawberries & whip cream, or who's not above making me some waffles, or who tries to seduce me with maple syrup. I mean, you just have to love the weirdness in that! Lol
Yeah, well since that post it is you guys keeping the dead fuker alive forever more.
Now you have a younger version of the same bull****. Their only hope for a civilized life is to be rescued by ISIS, no youtube man in the street interviews from there to see how that would go over.
Then from behind your back you pull out the UN Human rights docs that now has to be implemented as uyniversity grads are the new 'poverty level' guidelines as there will be a BMW in every name of every citizen as soon as they can drive legally at the age of 6. Harsh treatment like that will keep the people in line for 100 years, easily. In hindsight Itan and Afghanistan kind of 'jumped the gun' bu reading them and agreeing right there on the spot but due to lack of contingency plans like that the wars and **** that followed since then is 'part of the plan' that has that unfolding as the 'great leap forward' that results in a era of calm in the region, first calm in the magical figure of 100 years to the day. (might be another 100 years before that is the only version left)
There couldn't be a more hypocritical or nauseating spectacle, the old king of the brutish terrorist kingdom of Saudi Arabia dies.
And western leaders fall over themselves praising him.With Britain's David Cameron even ordering that flags be flown at half-mast. (link is external)
While our disgusting Prime Minister Stephen Harper blubbers sympathetically. (link is external)
A foul despot has just passed on, and the Western world is singing his praises. Speak no ill of the dead? There are always exceptions to that rule. And King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, one might have thought, should be a glaringly obvious one.
We may never again have such an opportunity to observe the West’s paramount value—hypocrisy—showcased in glitter, tinsel and neon quite so spectacularly. In the UK, the government has ordered that all flags be lowered to half-mast. US Secretary of State John Kerry sucks hard enough to implode. Here at home, our Prime Minister sings Abdullah’s praises: “…the monarch also undertook a range of important economic, social, education, health, and infrastructure initiatives in his country.” Just another Economic Action Plan, with a few severed limbs and rolling heads. What’s not to like?
Under this bloated tyrant, women have been arrested for the crime of driving. A blogger has been sentenced to ten years and 1,000 lashes for cautiously endorsing mildly liberal values. But these are, comparatively speaking, mere peccadilloes, a few national idiosyncrasies.
During Abdullah’s kingship, assisted by countless parasitic family princelings and a tame and compliant judiciary, a reign of terror has prevailed. There have been mass arrests of dissidents since the Arab Spring. Atheists have been declared “terrorists,” emptying that label further of any meaning. Amputations are routine. Surgical paralysis has been ordered in one egregious case. And there are enough beheadings to sate the most seasoned ISIS psychopath. In Saudi Arabia, you can be publicly decapitated for such “crimes” as sorcery, false prophecy and blasphemy. Between 2007-2010, there were 345 of them. And the numbers have surged in recent years.
Hypocrisy abounds on the Right side of the aisle, too—now they’re saying pretty much what this post is saying, but as a stick to beat Obama with. They would like us to forget this sort of thing:
Recall, also, that 15 of the 9/11 flyboys were Saudi, but somehow Bush got away with continued support for the Saudi regime, and the double-thinking Right commentators were silent.
Weigh the official rhetoric against the reality: this time, our Western leaders are making it childishly easy. Abdullah’s death is one of the best teachable moments, in fact, that I can recall. This vile creature squatted on his people, one of the worst dictators we could ever conjure from a fevered dream. We’re all for freedom, of course, when it comes to state-defined “enemies.” But when it’s friends, anything goes: our governments judge by a completely different standard, if “standard” is the proper word, when access to oil or geopolitical strategic advantage is concerned. There is no act too heinous to be wished away, no viciousness that cannot be airily excused.
We’ll get no phoney ambassadors of religion showing up to criticize the treatment of Saudi Arabia’s Shia minority. Our government’s oh-so-pious defence of human rights abroad will vanish into thin air. Saudi Arabia is an ally, its dearly departed leader a “moderate reformer.” He supposedly offered women a public role (they were permitted to run in meaningless municipal elections), but they were still not allowed even to be behind the wheel of a car. He had thirteen wives, but, we are assured, no more than four at once.
None of the West’s fawning will be any surprise to students of Realpolitik, of course. But for the majority who dutifully swallow all the nonsense about “terrorism” that our governments spew by the barrel, and profess moral outrage when they are directed to do so, the current period of state-sanctioned mourning for a monstrous criminal who ran a mediaeval torture-state for a decade might be a welcome wake-up call.
There is surely a limit to what such excruciating political cognitive dissonance can bear. Isn’t there?
And western leaders fall over themselves praising him.With Britain's David Cameron even ordering that flags be flown at half-mast. (link is external)
While our disgusting Prime Minister Stephen Harper blubbers sympathetically. (link is external)
A foul despot has just passed on, and the Western world is singing his praises. Speak no ill of the dead? There are always exceptions to that rule. And King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, one might have thought, should be a glaringly obvious one.
We may never again have such an opportunity to observe the West’s paramount value—hypocrisy—showcased in glitter, tinsel and neon quite so spectacularly. In the UK, the government has ordered that all flags be lowered to half-mast. US Secretary of State John Kerry sucks hard enough to implode. Here at home, our Prime Minister sings Abdullah’s praises: “…the monarch also undertook a range of important economic, social, education, health, and infrastructure initiatives in his country.” Just another Economic Action Plan, with a few severed limbs and rolling heads. What’s not to like?
Under this bloated tyrant, women have been arrested for the crime of driving. A blogger has been sentenced to ten years and 1,000 lashes for cautiously endorsing mildly liberal values. But these are, comparatively speaking, mere peccadilloes, a few national idiosyncrasies.
During Abdullah’s kingship, assisted by countless parasitic family princelings and a tame and compliant judiciary, a reign of terror has prevailed. There have been mass arrests of dissidents since the Arab Spring. Atheists have been declared “terrorists,” emptying that label further of any meaning. Amputations are routine. Surgical paralysis has been ordered in one egregious case. And there are enough beheadings to sate the most seasoned ISIS psychopath. In Saudi Arabia, you can be publicly decapitated for such “crimes” as sorcery, false prophecy and blasphemy. Between 2007-2010, there were 345 of them. And the numbers have surged in recent years.
Hypocrisy abounds on the Right side of the aisle, too—now they’re saying pretty much what this post is saying, but as a stick to beat Obama with. They would like us to forget this sort of thing:
Recall, also, that 15 of the 9/11 flyboys were Saudi, but somehow Bush got away with continued support for the Saudi regime, and the double-thinking Right commentators were silent.
Weigh the official rhetoric against the reality: this time, our Western leaders are making it childishly easy. Abdullah’s death is one of the best teachable moments, in fact, that I can recall. This vile creature squatted on his people, one of the worst dictators we could ever conjure from a fevered dream. We’re all for freedom, of course, when it comes to state-defined “enemies.” But when it’s friends, anything goes: our governments judge by a completely different standard, if “standard” is the proper word, when access to oil or geopolitical strategic advantage is concerned. There is no act too heinous to be wished away, no viciousness that cannot be airily excused.
We’ll get no phoney ambassadors of religion showing up to criticize the treatment of Saudi Arabia’s Shia minority. Our government’s oh-so-pious defence of human rights abroad will vanish into thin air. Saudi Arabia is an ally, its dearly departed leader a “moderate reformer.” He supposedly offered women a public role (they were permitted to run in meaningless municipal elections), but they were still not allowed even to be behind the wheel of a car. He had thirteen wives, but, we are assured, no more than four at once.
None of the West’s fawning will be any surprise to students of Realpolitik, of course. But for the majority who dutifully swallow all the nonsense about “terrorism” that our governments spew by the barrel, and profess moral outrage when they are directed to do so, the current period of state-sanctioned mourning for a monstrous criminal who ran a mediaeval torture-state for a decade might be a welcome wake-up call.
There is surely a limit to what such excruciating political cognitive dissonance can bear. Isn’t there?
Being somewhat critical of the way we have started doing business I would not put it past them to delay the announcement of the death as the group could have just chartered in from France's wake gathering. Same crowd, different reason, still it would leave a bad taste in the mouth of most people.