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2005-08-02 Arabia

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Posted by Steve White 2005-08-02 00:11|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 bye fahd! sleper well an doen let teh bedbugs byte. :)

Posted by muck4doo 2005-08-02 00:43|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-08-02 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Let's send Jimmah Carta...

Posted by Raj 2005-08-02 01:00|| 2005-08-02 01:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Time to Say Goodbye

Posted by BigEd 2005-08-02 01:04|| 2005-08-02 01:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Muck : He's beyond the bedbugs now. We're talking worms & maggots...

Posted by BigEd 2005-08-02 01:05|| 2005-08-02 01:05|| Front Page Top

#5 hoper tehy dont get sik ed. ima haten wen aminals hert. :(

Posted by muck4doo 2005-08-02 01:08|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-08-02 01:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Another note regarding the directive to the regional tribal leaders...my guesstimate is that the princelings are busy playing the ultimate game of Liars' Poker, with the future of Arabia and the heart and gonads of Islam at stake. They are not done carving up the booty, and they do not want to tip their hands with public displays of fealty from the tribes just yet, especially with all the infidels and Arab potentates hanging about. The tribal leaders must be courted, carefully and in confidence. PD might call this wasta. The princes have been waiting their entire lives to play this hand.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-08-02 01:58|| 2005-08-02 01:58|| Front Page Top

#7 For the analogy-deficient among us (like me), could you explain what liar's poker is?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-08-02 02:02|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-08-02 02:02|| Front Page Top

#8 One more thought: The reason ol' Fahd had to "die" in August was to give the royals a plausible excuse to tell the tribals to stay home..."Yasss, it's much too hot for you to make the trip, please stay home and drink cool tea..."

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-08-02 02:02|| 2005-08-02 02:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Here's a quick and dirty explanation of Liar's Poker. The website wouldn't let me cut and paste, heh.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-08-02 02:07|| 2005-08-02 02:07|| Front Page Top

#10 The Saudis all, and I mean everyone with a steady job, go on vacation for much or all of August. Those who used to read The Religious Policeman are aware of this custom. Those that can afford it leave the country. Lebanon and the Med used to soak up much of the outflow, but the West and, recently, the UAE skim off the big money, these days.

Posted by Phumble Ebbomotch4624 2005-08-02 04:47|| 2005-08-02 04:47|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm reminded of something my Soviet History professor said. (This was back in 1979, he says, showing his age, when we still had the USSR.) "The USSR has never solved the succession problem." There was no mechanism for an orderly transition of executive power. Thus, Lenin croaks, and you have a struggle between Stalin and Trotsky; Stalin kicks off, and you have the struggle between Beria and Krushchev and Brezhnev, and so on . . . .

This is hardly an original thought, but that pronouncement is true, not only of the old USSR, but of tyrranies in general.

Saudi Arabia has the same issue. There's no orderly mechanism of succession, which is why Fahd has been on the ventilator so long.

Might be popcorn time.

Posted by Mike 2005-08-02 06:44|| 2005-08-02 06:44|| Front Page Top

#12 I suspect they kept Fahd "stable" until the question of succession had been decided. I wouldn't be surprised to hear news of a couple of car accidents on the way to the funeral, maybe even a few people suddenly being discovered to have died in the last month.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-02 07:27|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-02 07:27|| Front Page Top

#13 Oh, RC! You're a suspicious guy! ;-)

Posted by Bobby 2005-08-02 12:11|| 2005-08-02 12:11|| Front Page Top

#14 This isn't nice, but I'm gonna post it anyway:

Don't you ever laugh as a hearse goes by,
For you may be the next to die.
They wrap you up in a big white sheet,
And cover you up from your head down to your feet.
They put you in a big black box,
And cover you up with dirt and rocks.
All goes well for about a week,
And then your coffin begins to leak.
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
The worms play pinochle on your snout.
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose,
They eat the jelly between your toes.
A big green worm with rolling eyes,
Crawls in your stomach and out your eyes.
Your stomach turns a slimy green,
And pus pours out like whipping cream.
You spread it out on a slice of bread,
And that's what you eat when you are dead.

Posted by Mike 2005-08-02 12:59|| 2005-08-02 12:59|| Front Page Top

#15 Could be worse, could be a sealed coffin with little free O2. That's slower, but way grosser.

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-02 16:17|| 2005-08-02 16:17|| Front Page Top

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