Posted on 11/02/2006 4:26:57 PM PST by Brian Mosely
it's still there .. with a disclaimer at the bottom of the page
http://upenn.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2049465&id=602111&l=2fdc8
College kids do stupid things .. But one would think an adult like the President of Penn would know better and tell this kid what he was doing was wrong
This was a party that she gave
Agreed. Those kids aren't exactly getting the best mentoring and leadership examples are they.
http://www.saadsaadi.com/
Yall gotta go to the website,,note the visit to Syria.
This guy just might be a real problem.
bump
You don't get it.
How old are you DUde?
The President of a university has a higher standard expected of her than a bunch of kids having a party.
But I still think you don't get it.
I'm probably old enough to be your father and I don't see whats so worth getting upset about. She wasn't the one wearing the dumb costume. Honestly though doesn't it get tiring having to manufacture outrage over something trivial every day of the week?
He grew up in Syria... he has pics from a recent trip back.
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~ssaadi/saadsaadi/syria.htm
Sure doesn't look like it
You aren't old enough to be my father, believe me.
You don't get it at all.
My opinion regarding this is probably skewed, because a good friend of mine who is a staunch conservative sent me a photo of his Halloween costume this morning by email. He rigged it out of computer parts and stuff to look like a suicide bomber and he wore it at work that day. He had an added prop, a book with a fake book jacket which was "Jihad for Dummies."
It cracked me up, because I know him and I know how much he hates the terrorists. I told him he was lucky he wasn't emailing me from Guantanamo today, but it did amuse me, especially with the book prop.
It was ridicule, not sympathy for the terrorists. Maybe this situation here was slightly different. I don't know. It's normal to hate the terrorists, but it's not always wrong to ridicule them, either.
Showing up as someone scary from the distant past (Ghegis Khan or Nero) or as someone mythical (vampires or ghosts) is one thing. Showing up as a murdering, anti-Jewish, anti-American murderer is beyond the pale, especially since some of the guests might have relatives who might be targets of suicide bombers.
Personally, I think that this should be publicized far and wide in Pennsylvania, and Ed Rendell should be asked what kind of people he has in his state university system.
Imagine if he had been seen by someone who lost a loved one to a suicide bomber in Iraq or Israel.
Being the political person that I am, I think that an effort should be made to publicize this and hang it around Ed Rendell's neck. Swann could use some help.
.....especially given that he's Syrian.
As has been said before, "Have you no decency, sir?!".
That phrase is uttered by an idiot to defame a patriot and permanently ended one of the most successful counter-intelligence operation against the USSR in Cold War history. The effects of this failure is still evident today by all the liberals and socialists infesting America.
FYI.
Put in that context, Miss Marple, it was in poor taste. Seeing my friend in it, and not considering its potential impact on anyone else, was funny to me because he's the last person who'd be considered a sympathizer.
When my son ships to Iraq next year, it will be far less amusing to me, but I still understand that the motivation was to ridicule.
My local Philly radio guy started his show off tonight about this story
http://www.thebigtalker1210.com/
I'm with you.
Halloween costumes are supposed to be scary.
Pretty good job, if you ask me.
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