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2003-07-23 Home Front

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Posted by growler 2003-07-23 3:01:03 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Idiot me, I forgot the link.

Posted by growler 2003-7-23 3:04:19 PM|| 2003-7-23 3:04:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Since when do NGO's tell the President who he can nominate? Tell these dinks to go jump off a bridge, Dubya. If the comittee wants to nuke him, they can damn well put it on record.

Posted by mojo 2003-7-23 4:09:15 PM|| 2003-7-23 4:09:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 True story re Jean AbiNader: There was a Kuwaiti businessmen's group doing a tour of the US a few months after liberation. It came to attend a luncheon at the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations. At the last moment a delegation of Moroccan businessmen visiting Chicago (unconnected to Kuwaitis) was invited to attend the luncheon, as well. Panic!! Few if any of the Moroccans understood English well enough to benefit from the various speeches and hobnobbing to be done post-luncheon. A Moroccan-American called me and asked to help out in interpreting. No problem. Free lunch and fun. AbiNader spoke, as a rep of his own business consultancy. His Arabic was/is basically nil. As an icebreaker, he told a joke (in English) about 14th St. in DC, or if not that particular street, then another. I don't know DC well, but this section of town was the "redlight district", or as he put it, "a-hiee a-chaa-al-hamra" It doesn't really translate that way in Arabic. (Not to be prudish, but I didn't/don't know the proper term in Arabic for the part of town where the girls hang out) The only Arabic he spoke the whole speech. The joke bombed, thank goodness. Great use of Arabic, Jean!!! Just to let you know, I told the Moroccans at my table you said something stupid that decent people don't repeat. These were rich, hard-working Moroccans and good guys on top of it.
SO, Jean, you were clearly unfit to speak at that luncheon. Your dislike of Pipes is commensurate to your love of money and how you can position your "Institute" i.e. business venture to get consultancies. You sound almost Jew-like. BTW, folks, Pipes is Jewish.

Posted by Michael 2003-7-23 4:24:26 PM|| 2003-7-23 4:24:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Not Jew-like, Michael, that's Jesse-like

Posted by Frank G 2003-7-23 6:18:16 PM|| 2003-7-23 6:18:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 This is really unfortunate and a victory for the cause of radical Islam. I used to live in MA and I cringe every time I hear gass-bag Ted Kennedy make one of his idiot remarks. Why don't they just nominate James Zogby or some other puppet spokesman of these Muslim propaganda groups if they're not serious about understanding the threats against us?

Posted by Dan 2003-7-23 6:59:37 PM|| 2003-7-23 6:59:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Nah... Kennedy was just recalling the waitress-sandwich assault at La Brasserie he and Dodd pulled... now that was a riot!

Posted by DANEgerus 2003-7-23 11:54:04 PM|| [http://www.danegerus.com/weblog] 2003-7-23 11:54:04 PM|| Front Page Top

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