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How come the U.S. is giving control of 6 of its most important seaports to the Arab Republic? I have a bad feeling about this ....

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 00:17 (twenty years ago)

the arab republic eh?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

yeah, and apparently the arab republic has enlisted the aid of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and Arafat's propped up corpse. Sounds like trouble.

― matlewis (matlewis), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 00:26 (twenty years ago)

O that wacky BushCo

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 00:28 (twenty years ago)

arab republic = united arab emirates?

it ain't gonna fly

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 00:30 (twenty years ago)

float, whatever...

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

What are they gonna do, fly a boat into a building or something?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

hello spruce goose

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Time to call...

http://www.popimage.com/reviews/pics/xpresidents.jpg

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 08:34 (twenty years ago)

"pepe k, the assassin"? That doesn't strike me as a moniker that gets you much assassin work.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Dubya's getting itchy, and is threatening to veto anything to stops this.

Bill Frist is agin' it.

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

i totally want a job working for these dudes, so i can retire to dubai.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

right here, dudes:

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

There a spaceport on that thing?

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

i dunno if it's there, but someone's makin' one in dubai, right? didn't i read something to that effect the other day?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

ah, here we are

http://abcnews.go.com/images/US/417d8477-7193-4428-b5d6-94bd98fd834b_sp.jpeg

A day after Space Adventures announced it was in a venture to develop rocket ships for suborbital flights, the company said Friday it plans to build a $265 million spaceport in the United Arab Emirates.

The commercial spaceport would be based in Ras Al-Khaimah near the southern end of the Persian Gulf, and the UAE government has made an initial investment of $30 million, the Arlington, Va.-based company said in a statement.

And they're gunna charge folks $20M for a lift.

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)

For $20m I better get two weeks in space and a harem.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

The reaction among the rightblog world to Bush threatening the veto has been terribly amusing. As Mary Ham sez over on Hewitt's site, "Now he learns to use a pen?" The only one who seems to be trying to argue Bush's side a bit so far is Goldberg and even that's pretty much conceding what a flop this is.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:54 (twenty years ago)

(And while I hesitate to create a live link to freerepublic, http: // www. freerepublic. com /focus/f-news/1582953/posts has some amusements.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:56 (twenty years ago)

Jack Cafferty weighs in

― kingfish, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

Wait a minute,

Dubya...Dubay...DUBAI!

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

nice little rundown of responses

― kingfish, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

bush might be the guy i'd side with this time.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

all i'm seeing from people on the news is "why, two of the 9/11 hijackers came from UAB! they're untrustworthy!" i mean, how far from the middle east do people have to be until they stopped getting used as boogeymen?

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

bush is being awfully adamant about something that looks so terrible for him. have fun digging your grave, mr president!

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

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