Now Im getting po'd. First Newt, Buchanan next, then Coulter and now Marketwatch.com is biting my material.
Halliburton's guy in Dubai
....reads the headline. I will have you know that The Aurora although not an "individual" enjoys legal juristic status and is fully copyrighted. We have rights damn it. So stop being a slave to a page in my rhyme book.
Ive long used the line that I have "a guy in Dubai" because well I do. The Donkeyhue (actually its the Mc side not the O's) Clan runs deep in the Middle East and they are constantly trying to recruit me to go work with them. Its not as easy an offer to turn down as it may seem.
They grossly overpay, there is no income tax, the strip clubs are jam packed with Ruskies and Ethiopians (big fan of half moon cookies), and its always sunny; but on the downside its also always sunny to the tune of a hundo plus degrees, the booze laws are needless to say... prohibitive (apparently they give non-citizens a pseudo-debit card allowing you to purchase x amount of alcohol per week/ month, and once that's done well you're done) but more importantly its the Middle East even if it is just good ol friendly Dubai. With my mouth and temperament, you'd see me on CNN within a week in an orange jumpsuit trying to headbutt some camel banging terrorist with my lifeless bloody Ichibod Crane torso.
Which brings me to Halliburton. I don't care if they are relocating to Dubai, I ain't happy with it but its their right as a corporate entity. However just as I opposed the ports deal I oppose this in the sense that all military and security sensitive contracts should be rendered null and void immediately and any and all tax breaks abolished upon their incorporation in the UAE. If they want to get all french toast on us; well that's fine, but certain business should be handled exclusively by American corporations. Period. I understand that Dubai are our "allies" but if we cant trust them to price check ships in our docks then they cant run our military support efforts either says I.
...and that's that.
EE-Aw!
3 comments:
Hi, expat, the Aurora Borealis was chosen as the Wikipedia picture of the year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-03-05/News_and_notes
Of more interest to you may be the article Hash House Harriers, available through the page "hhh", possibly also through "rugby":
Hashing began in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1938, when a small group of British colonial officials and expatriates, Cecil Lee, Frederick "Horse" Thomson, Ronald "Torch" Bennett, and a British accountant of Catalan descent Albert Stephen Ignatius Gispert(A.S Gispert), a casual group who would meet after work on Monday evenings to run, following a paper trail, through the environs of Kuala Lumpur to get rid of the excesses of the previous weekend. There was another member of the group, John Woodrow, who is rarely credited as one of the founders as he left Malaya after the war to return home to his family in Scotland....The goals of hashing, from a 1950 club registration card for the Hash House Harriers in Kuala Lumpur are:
To promote physical fitness among our members
To get rid of weekend hangovers
To acquire a good thirst and to satisfy it in beer
To persuade the older members that they are not as old as they feel
...The organization of the Hash House Harriers is completely decentralized, with chapters (also commonly called kennels). It has more than 1700 groups, with at least one Hash in virtually every major city in the world meeting on a weekly or regular basis.
Cool picture.
But youre beginning to freak me out.
Not only do I have a post in the hopper about the Aurora Borealis, well technically its about solar radiation.
...but Im also 'ashing for the first time up a volcano on St Patricks Day.
You had me at "headless torso".
I soooooo **heart*** the Aurora.
xooxox janeoxoxoxo
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