Time Is Running Out for the Arab World's Tyrants

[Ponder]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/opinion/31iht-edabdul31.html

 

[Erik]

Putting their life on the line...(click)

 

[Stavrogin]

I'm going to have to study up on what exactly is going on over there. I'm an American and don't know shit about world affairs. Barely know anything about domestic goings-on. Charlie Sheen fucking up the shooting schedule of Two and a Half Men puts fire in my belly. Thanks, Ponder!

 

[Hosh]

Sweeping change...won in brutally frustrating increments.

Now let's hope this is the "life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" kind of democracy...and not the "here's a KFC conjoined with a Taco Bell" democracy.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

I'm going to have to study up on what exactly is going on over there. I'm an American and don't know shit about world affairs. Barely know anything about domestic goings-on. Charlie Sheen fucking up the shooting schedule of Two and a Half Men puts fire in my belly. Thanks, Ponder!

I like the part in bold but must mention, many Americans know about world affairs. Charlie Sheen is just much more entertaining than millions of oppressed foreigners. No offense intended but we are just that shallow, sometimes.

 

[Stavrogin]

.... many Americans know about world affairs.

I humbly ask forgiveness and shall sally forth and seek out one of these fellow citizens on the morrow. Weather permitting. Wish me luck.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

...how the fuck do you sally forth? Hahahahaha!

 

[Stavrogin]

In this weather I just plow right in. Oh, I thought you are were talking about Sally Forth.

 

[mjp]

The idea that "time is running out for the Arab world's tyrants" is laughable. Who wrote that, a teenager?

In a few billion years, as the Earth is spinning into a cold, dead moon of the sun, the last two humans alive will be an Arab and a Jew, and they will be trying to kill each other as the last molecules of oxygen disappear.

Time is running out, no doubt about that. But not for tyrants.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Hey easy there on the teenagers.

Arabs and Jews will likely be at each others throat to the end but the Jew will undoubtedly be in a defensive posture.

I love this forum for it's educational value as well as the enlightenment, thank you.
sally (sal"²Ä“)

noun pl. sallies -·lies​

1. a sudden rushing forth, as of troops to attack besieging forces
2. any sudden start into activity
3. a quick witticism; bright retort; quip
4. an excursion or unusual side trip; jaunt

Origin: MFr saillie < saillir, to come forth suddenly, rush out, leap < L salire, to leap, spring: see salient

intransitive verb sallied -·lied, sallying -·ly·ing​

1. to make a sally
2. to rush out or come out suddenly
3. 1. to come or go outdoors
   2. to set out on a trip

 

[ROC]

English (like world affairs) not a strong point for Yanks, huh? :-)

 

[lewis hc]

To quote James Skelly, 'world leaders are all cunts, and there's fuck-all you can do about it'. I hope he's wrong..