Posted on 02/15/2003 7:35:59 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:40:22 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
For more than a decade, Cancun, Mexico, has been party central for the boozed, be-thonged and besotted boys and girls of spring break. But this year, the drink-till-you-drop college crowd will find less-indulgent hosts.
A majority of the Caribbean resort's hotels, bars and clubs that cater to the student trade have signed a ''civility agreement'' to enforce laws that in past years often were ignored, officials say. Among them are bans on underage drinking and public nudity.
(Excerpt) Read more at usatoday.com ...
I removed the Canadian flag from my profile page.
I felt it's presence there was sending the wrong signals.
Here's a letter from an Iraqi physician for your perusal:
I write this to protest against all those people who oppose the war against Saddam Hussein, or as they call it, the "war against Iraq". I am an Iraqi doctor, I worked in the Iraqi army for six years during Iraq-Iran war and four months during Gulf war. All my family still live in Iraq. I am an Arab Sunni, not Kurdish or Shia. I am an ordinary Iraqi not involved with the Iraqi opposition outside Iraq.
I am so frustrated by the appalling views of most of the British people, media and politicians. I want to say to all these people who are against the possible war, that if you think by doing so you are serving the interests of Iraqi people or saving them, you are not. You are effectively saving Saddam. You are depriving the Iraqi people of probably their last real chance get rid of him and to get out of this dark era in their history.
My family and almost all Iraqi families will feel hurt and anger when Saddam's media shows on the TV, with great happiness, parts of Saturday's demonstration in London. But where were you when thousands of Iraqi people were killed by Saddam's forces at the end of the Gulf war to crush the uprising? Only now when the war is to reach Saddam has everybody become so concerned about the human life in Iraq.
Where were you while Saddam has been killing thousands of Iraqis since the early 70s? And where are you are now, given that every week he executes people through the "court of revolution", a summary secret court run by the secret security office. Most of its sentences are executions which Saddam himself signs.
I could argue one by one against your reasons for opposing this war. But just ask yourselves why, out of about 500,000 Iraqis in Britain, you will not find even 1,000 of them participating tomorrow? Your anti-war campaign has become mass hysteria and you are no longer able to see things properly.
Locum consultant neurologist, London
183 posted on 02/15/2003 10:35 AM EST by lodwick (I hope war breaks out soon so we can relax.)
Speaking of hedonism, Blubba's back in Beverly Hills, having been sighted ... buying a $10,000 art deco pin at Frances Klein Estate Jewels on Rodeo Drive, presumably for his wife, Hillary ... Page Six
Presumably, indeed.
The Mpls. Red Star Tribune should be all excited. Their hero is coming to town:
The former president will make his first post-presidential public appearance in Minnesota on April 13 at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park. "He's a world leader, he's an ex-president, he's a charismatic political figure, and we just thought it was a great opportunity," said Marlys Badzin, program chairwoman of Beth El's annual fundraiser.
During 2001, his first year out of office, Clinton earned $9.2 million giving 59 talks for fees ranging from $28,100 to $350,000, according to disclosure reports. Badzin declined to divulge how much he will be paid for his April speech. link
I think it's presanec was offending certian ones who post on FR.
The principal of opposing war by the good British public is being received warmly by Iraqis both inside and outside Iraq. This principle reflects a great level of sympathy towards Iraqis and a desire to spare them the misery of another war. On the other hand by doing so, the British public is missing the point, especially since inside Iraq the people are definitely FOR it! The level of their suffering is beyond anything that British people can possibly envisage let alone understand his obsession to develop and possess weapons of mass destruction. Do the British public know that it is normal practice for Saddam's regime to demand the cost of the bullet used in the execution of their beloved family members, and not to even allow a proper funeral?
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Why is it now that you deem it appropriate to voice your disillusions with America's policy in Iraq, when it is actually right now that the Iraqi people are being given real hope, however slight and precarious, that they can live in an Iraq that is free of the horrors partly described in this email? Whatever America's real intentions behind an attack, the reality on the ground is that many Iraqis, inside and outside Iraq support invasive action, because they are the ones who have to live with the realities of continuing as things are while people in the West wring their hands over the rights and wrongs of dropping bombs on Iraq, when in fact the US & the UK have been continuously dropping bombs on Iraq for the past 12 years.
It's going back on the profile page and next to the US flag!
doggoneit! It belongs on my profile page!
Billie, I'm going to be sending more freepmail to you in a few minutes. :^)
Now you have Freepmail! :^)
BTW, I mailed Billie and I'm gonna havew that flag replaced.
It'll wave proudly along side of the American flag.
Sickening must read.
Besides, I just finished wading through this drivel about the looniest Clooney. This guy is one sick puppy. Seriously, I don't think his brain is capable of any sort of reality.
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