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2006-01-21 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Steve White 2006-01-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 About 1,500 tribesmen in Mohamand tribal district bordering Afghanistan held another rally against the airstrike. Hundreds of people also held demonstrations outside mosques in the eastern city of Lahore, near the border with India, after regular Friday prayers.

Geez, wen do they ever have time to werk?

Posted by Besoeker 2006-01-21 12:20|| 2006-01-21 12:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Geez, wen do they ever have time to werk?
Posted by: Besoeker 2006-01-21 12:20

You just scored the $1000 prize! The demands of their religion impede their ability to be productive. Praying five times a day, in a certain direction, all that attending Mosque services, all those restrictions telling them what to do and how to do it, stifle productivity and ingenuity. It was ok for tribal nomads, but totally impossible for industrial productivity. It's an anchor that holds them down and keeps them from competing on a national scale, much less a worldwide one. I'm sure .com has more to say.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-01-21 16:10|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-01-21 16:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Lol, OP... Well, at Aramco they don't do diddley-squat, lol. They had, in the "bad old days" when time cards were required, a column for prayer-time. It counted as work - heh - and, of course, no one ever checked to see if they actually went to one of the moskkks scattered all around Aramco. Now they don't even have to lie about it - no time cards, at least among the office-worker types. Mebbe they're still lying about it out in the field, lol.

Add to this the facts that:
1) They are 1/2 day ahead of the US (GMT+3)
2) They call Thurs & Fri the weekend

When you think about it, there are only a couple of hours, 3 days per week, when they overlap with the East coast of the US, none with the West coast, yet they do tons and tons of business here, buying shit, training, you name it. The answer? Junkets. Lots and lots of junkets to the US. Hard to believe, lol, but they're far less efficient than US oil companies - and man that's really saying something, lol.

Posted by .com 2006-01-21 17:12|| 2006-01-21 17:12|| Front Page Top

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