Archive for November 29th, 2009
Sarah Palin keeps gay men from dating in Chicago
We read a great piece on Sarah Palin today over at one of our favorite sites, www.Conservatives4Palin.com, that struck right to the heart of the matter regarding how unhinged Palin makes the Leftists. We have never, ever in our lives witnessed hate as strong as what these loons launch at her. It tops even George W. Bush and Cheney hate. It tops REAGAN hate. It’s unprecedented.
During Thanksgiving, all of us here did various volunteer assignments and stopped off for drinks here and there at various people’s houses, where we are always introduced as “our friend Sebastian, who is a Hillary Dem that likes Sarah too” or “Kevin, who is gay and used to be a Democrat but no longer after how they treated Hillary Clinton” or “Robby, who writes for that website and we can’t believe he wants to work for Sarah Palin”.
And, of course, the people introducing us know how much this will stir up, because the low-information fops in the room spill chardonnay all over themselves, like they would if Cheyenne Jackson was in the room and ripped off his face to reveal Bea Arthur. Their brains literally can’t process who’s standing before them. They’re just dumbfounded. And then, when they regain the ability to speak, they start talking about how stupid Sarah Palin is, how irrelevant she is, and whatever else Anderson Cooper or Rachel Maddow told them to say.
If she’s so stupid, so irrelevant, and has no future in politics, then why does she induce brain aneurysms in these people, at the mere mention of her name?
There’s a great line in the C4P article above that hits on this meme, asking how often the musings of irrelevant people on Facebook, no less, warrant joint sessions of Congress by the current president for rebuttal.
We all flash back to this last August when the Chicago Diner, a vegetarian restaurant on Halsted in Boystown, used Sarah Palin shamelessly to commit charitable fraud. At the Market Days Festival, while other restaurants had tip jars for their employees to solicit money from the crowd, the Chicago Diner decided to create fake “Sarah Palin Retirement Fund” jars that promised to give the money collected to Sarah Palin as she resigned her governorship and entered private life. Chicago Diner, a for-profit commercial enterprise, is forbidden under Illinois commerce clauses from misrepresenting itself as a “fund” for any purpose, though they refused to put a disclaimer on the jars clarifying the money was not going to Palin because, and we quote the manager we confronted about this, “then we would get less tips that way”.
When we talked about the Chicago Diner breaking the law and doing this last August, we caught a lot of heat for it in the LGBTQ community here in Boystown, with lots of nasty emails saying, “How can you stand up for Sarah Palin?”, “The Chicago Diner can do whatever it wants because we hate Palin,” and “It doesn’t matter if Chicago Diner is breaking the law because they are making fun of Palin and that’s good”.
It was crazy. The language the Left uses to lash out makes sailors blush. Marines have never heard some of the things these people toss around like so many non-dairy soy milkshakes. To think, they eat with those mouths. It’s a wonder they aren’t riddled with cankers.
We still get people who say, “Aren’t you those DeMcCrats for McCain guys? I hate you guys. If you are gay, you must be Democrat,” because we canvassed Boystown for McCain/Palin in 2008 (mostly for Palin). So, standing up for Palin against the Chicago Diner, standing up to Sidetracks and other bars when they play misogynistic anti-Palin videos, and pushing back against whatever Anderson Cooper or Chris Matthews’ latest missive against Palin is, has meant being on the receiving end of a lot of nastiness for us on our home turf.
And, honestly, we say BRING IT.
Read that C4P article, which references Ayn Rand a lot, too. One of the key points is that both Rand and Palin tapped into an innate goodness in America, a can-do spirit, an entrepreneurialism that’s so lacking in the Left. The more they attack Palin, or attack us for standing up for her, the more we realize how little in common we have with the Left at all.
Besides hating Palin, what do they stand for?
Besides hating Hillary Clinton in the primaries, what did they stand for then?
Besides accusing anyone who doesn’t support Dr. Utopia of being a racist, what do they ever really have to say?
Let them eat their hate sandwiches and drink their irrational milkshakes inside the Chicago Diner all day, coming up with new charity scams, or whatever it is they do in there, but we’re going to keep being voices against the Left’s sexism and misogyny here in Boystown, whether they like it or not.
At Thanksgiving, someone told us all that we’d forever be single as long as we kept supporting Palin. “This is different than Hillary,” they said, “because most gay men love Hillary. But they hate Sarah. If you keep supporting Sarah, no one will want to date you — they won’t be able to take it. They will go crazy.”
We don’t know if that’s true or not, and frankly don’t care. We went all-in with defeating Dr. Utopia back in 2007 and won’t stop until his socialist agenda itself is stopped. We’ve never left campaign mode, and have honestly, between the lot of us, dated more people than any of us could ever want to date, so we aren’t too concerned about that.
This nation is more important than that nonsense.
There have been a couple of guys some of us have liked who we’ve wanted to go out with, and then they said something nasty, out of the blue, about Palin. We’d stop them and say, “Well, actually, we like Governor Palin, and let us tell you why”. And then we would talk about her record as a reformer, her belief in controlled government, her mission to get this country energy independent. Their eyes would glaze and the two of us would realize we’d never even be friends, let alone anything else, but we’d make them listen to as much of the non-Matthews/Cooper/Olbermann take on Palin as we could cram in.
It’s what we plan on doing until such time as we can officially work for her campaign in 2012, at which point we’re sure the usual suspects around here will become completely unhinged again. We bet there will be more rocks through our windows and hate mail galore.
But so be it.
We went rogue long before going rogue was even a concept, apparently.
Something fun to do to Best Buy: force them to recognize every obscure and/or offensive holiday you can think of
Best Buy recently removed itself from places we’ll shop by placing Islamist holidays above Thanksgiving and Christmas in things it thinks are important to celebrate.
Best Buy was previously our go-to place for anything technical and electronic. The Mac we use to write this site is failing, so we’re saving up for a new computer, this time a PC, and we most likely would have bought that at Best Buy. Instead, we will be buying that new computer in 2010 at a store that does not promote Islam.
On September 11th, 2001, our friend Jane was killed by Muslims in the World Trade Center attacks. We will never forget this. Seeing a business so happy about Muslim holidays makes us want to shop elsewhere. You can do whatever you want, and shop at Best Buy if you choose. You can also say whatever you want about our decision, but shopping for us is an emotional experience. While we shop around for the best buys, typically, we end up going to stores we feel good about shopping in. Best Buy was always a good shopping experience, but now going there makes us remember how awful it was when our friend was murdered by Muslim terrorists. Frankly, there are better ways for us to spend a Sunday, or drop a few hundred dollars in the future.
Many people have complained about Best Buy’s promotion of Islam — but they are actually going about it the wrong way if they want Best Buy to buckle.
Best Buy was advised, clearly, by a Liberal, feel-good, globalist, consulting firm to add the Muslim holidays to the Best Buy calendar in an attempt to drive an uptick in certain areas that have heavy Muslim populations but aren’t maxed-out in terms of shopping at Best Buy. The consultants believed Best Buy could motivate the 4 million American Muslims to shop more, while offending less than 4 million Americans with the Islamization of its ads, resulting in a net positive for Best Buy.
The consultants also clearly prepped Best Buy for some blowback, telling corporate, most likely, to expect some hate mail for a while, but not to buckle to it.
So, here’s what we would do instead…and it could be a fun hobby for you, and good political organizing practice for the future, too:
(1) Research all Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu holidays that are currently not celebrated by Best Buy and insist, politely, that these holidays be added to the Best Buy calendar too, if Muslim holidays are now considered so important. This includes but is not limited to St. Francis Day, St. Margaret’s Day, St. Stephen’s Day, etc. It’s been years since we’ve been in a church, but we remember back in Catholic school it was ALWAYS a feast of some saint. We’re sure Best Buy could be forced to celebrate something 365 days of the year by going this route.
(2) Find obscure, pagan, nonsensical, offensive, and vulgar holidays and demand Best Buy celebrate those, too. Ancient feast days involving giant phalluses. Fertility festivals in Asia. Fuhrerstag. Sammhein. The Day Kronos Swallowed Zeus As A Baby. The Day Kronos Vomited Zeus Back Up. Flying Spaghetti Monster’s Birthday.
Completely swamp Best Buy with these holiday requests so that the Exec Board regrets it ever opened up these flood gates.
Accuse Best Buy of being racist for not celebrating St. Sebastian Day. Remember what Al Sharpton and Henry Gates teach us: it doesn’t have to make any sense that you call something RAAACIST, and it doesn’t have to have anything at all to do with race, just call it racist and you will get attention. If someone can get all the way to the White House doing this, surely it can be used to make trouble for Best Buy.
What will likely happen is that Best Buy will not make any sort of acknowledgement of the flak it’s getting, but will back away from the Muslim holidays in the future so that it won’t have to start celebrating The Flying Spaghetti Monster’s Birthday.
Personally, that’s it for Best Buy for us regardless of what they do. It means we have to now make a longer trip to get something electronic we need, but so be it. We vote with our dollars and our feet, and won’t for the life of us give a dime to Best Buy again.
Not telling you what to do, but telling you we’ve had all we can take of the coddling of Islam. We owe it to our friend Jane to make sure the terrorist crime syndicate masking as a religion is never given any more legitimacy on our watch.
A full frontal assault on the Race Industry is needed
Can’t wait to see how much hate mail we’ll get from Liberals for speaking the truth on this one, so here goes.
Today on the bus we had one of those Chicago moments that make us realize a full frontal assault on the Race Industry is truly needed, starting now, to reap dividends in 2010 and 2012.
The bus was packed with holiday shoppers — packed to bursting, actually, to the point where people were almost hanging off the side like it was New Delhi and not Chicago.
A black family was on the bus, with a very sick baby who was vomiting and passing gas loudly for a long part of the ride (in a movie, the baby would have been played by Eddie Murphy in a fat suit, swaddled in pink, encased in a giant stroller blocking most of the aisle).
There were four or five adults, and a few teenaged kids in the group (all of whom would also be played by Eddie Murphy in fat suits, because Eddie Murphy hates the world and wants to punish us all). One of the male adults thought the flatulence was hilarious, and the rest of the troupe agreed, laughing their heads off at the gassy, vomiting baby (which, we note, was allowed to puke all over the floor, with no effort made to clean it up and, truth be told, no evidenced concern for the baby itself, who was convincingly reenacting the Exorcist for long stretches of the ride down Halsted).
That man took everything on a very ugly turn and racialized what was already a gross and vulgar bus ride.
He started saying, “Oh, lordy, look at all these white people, all pretending they don’t smell nothing. ‘Oh, why, I never,’ they’re all saying and pretend they can’t smell she pooted. Ha ha ha. Pretend you can’t hear me too, ha ha ha. You white people are so stupid, ha ha ha. That baby pooted and y’all pretend it ain’t nothing, ha ha ha. White people.”
We would have quoted him verbatim, because we wrote down word for word what he said in one of the little Moleskins we carry with us at all time, but then we’d be accused of RAAACISM, surely, for accurately reflecting the poor grammar, expletives, and true spirit of his remarks. He was like something out of an old movie Liberals successfully got banned from the air — only he was REAL, and unfortunately a character we see walking around causing problems in Chicago ALL THE TIME.
How many times can something be “an unfair racial stereotype” when it’s TRUE, and you see it right in front of your face on the CTA in Chicago?
After we got off the bus, because we couldn’t take any more of this (the “pooting”, and the racism directed at white people from this black family), and decided to walk the rest of the way and get some fresh air, we thought about what would have happened if a white person (or, really, if an Asian or a Hispanic or Native American) had been talking about or making fun of black people on the bus the way the black family was making fun of whites. There would have been a riot, probably, with media choppers descended upon the scene, possibly air-lifting in Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson themselves.
Can you imagine?
What’s interesting is that we didn’t feel comfortable ourselves calling that loudmouth out on the bus. One of us wanted to, but was stared down by the rest, in that “Sebastian, don’t start another bar fight over misogyny” look given whenever Liberals in a room bring out a two-minute-hate about something and we stand up for whatever woman’s being dragged through coals that day. The impulse was to say to that black man, “Excuse me, but what does race have to do with anything here? People are being polite and pretending they don’t smell the baby’s flatulence or strawberry-pink vomit everywhere, because they know it’s not the baby’s fault and they don’t want to get into any argument with you, who is clearly looking for some kind of fight. People are tired, they just want to get home, and so they are pretending this little vignette’s not even going on in front of them. It has nothing to do with RACE, but manners”.
It’s also really about people not wanting to say boo to that family lest they be called RAAACISTS!, probably, because the terror of being labeled a RAAACIST has been applied so effectively in the last 30 years that families like the one on the bus use race as a weapon and enabler of bad behavior EVERY DAY. It works, so they do it.
They are, in fact, ENCOURAGED to behave this way by the “leaders of the black community”, such as Sharpton, Jackson, Henry Gates, Eric Holder, John Lewis, James Clyburne, Charlie Rangle, and our illustrious president and first lady themselves.
Maybe that was the whole point in that man saying, so the whole bus could hear, “Oh, you white people this and that”. He was clearly not a stupid person, was decently dressed, and looked like he had a job. He had sense enough to know that it was pretty bad they were just letting a baby spew strawberry-pink vomit on the floor of a moving bus, while the baby crepitated more than Oprah after chili day at Harpo Studios. We think part of what he did was pre-empt any sort of criticism of the family, by “calling white people out” and saying the things everyone on the bus was thinking about the baby so that no one could actually say them — lest he then call them RAAACISTS for saying anything bad about the black family’s bad behavior.
It’s like on a bad date when someone who’s fat or balding talks about how people hold his being fat and balding against him, so that if the person across the table from him at dinner goes there, that person would look insensitive and prejudiced.
Great psychology there.
We bet the Race Industry gives seminars on this stuff.
And all of this makes us wonder why a concerted, full frontal assault on the Race Industy itself has never been mounted.
Race cards all expired on January 20th, 2009 at twelve noon when the current president took office. It is no longer legitimate for any black person in this or any other country to claim they are being held back by anyone in power, when the person with the most power in the entire world is a biracial black-identifying man.
The MSM has promoted the idea that if you criticize our 44th president in any way, you are a RAAACIST.
If you think a black person is wrong in any way, you are a RAAACIST.
If you are the victim of anything a black person does — from vomiting on the bus, to muggings (of which we here have received TWO, one in New York and one in Chicago), to the crime spree black transvestites in the Center on Halsted Gang have been on in Boystown — then you are a RAAACIST for not appreciating how your victimizers are victims too.
You damn dirty RAAACISTS.
If we had YouTube capabilities and any skill at all in editing and design, we’d put out commercials we’d love to go viral that would tell the general public how okay it is to tell black people they are wrong.
One commercial could be the vignette above, with the crass Klumps family out for a ride on the bus, ruining everyone’s day.
The voiceover could say, “It is not racist to tell black people they are wrong. It is not racist to be disgusted by crass behavior. It is not racist to tell a loudmouth to SHUT THE F*** UP. The Race Industry is a fraud. Stop supporting it.”
This could be a whole series.
It is not racist to hire a more qualified person if the black applicant won’t do as good of a job as the white one.
It is not racist, if you are a waiter providing excellent service, to expect a 15% tip, minimum, from a black table the same as you would from every other table — and be upset when the black table stiffs you or leaves the equivalent of 5% instead.
It is not racist to clutch your bag tighter and cross the street if you see three big black guys in hoodies headed your way — this is, in fact, how you keep from getting mugged and having everything valuable you own stolen, as we learned here quite well in 2009.
It is not racist to tell a black person whatever they are complaining about has nothing at all to do with race.
Not everything bad that happens to all of us here in the course of a day is because we are gay. Some of it’s because we didn’t plan ahead well enough, didn’t do things we were supposed to do, and because we were lazy. Late for work? It’s not because we are gay that we didn’t get a space on the crowded bus — it’s because we didn’t allow enough time for that possibility. Overslept? It’s not because we are gay that somebody didn’t wake us up — we should have woken up our damn selves. Rejected by a hottie at the bar — it’s not because we are gay, or too gay, or not gay enough — he was just not that into us.
We believe Dr. Utopia receiving the affirmative action Nobel Prize was a tipping point for many people, whether they realize it or not. That was such a colossal joke, there are still those we know — educated people — who are CONVINCED it was honestly a joke, where The Onion somehow punked the world and no one in Norway bothered to correct it.
The national reserve of Race Industry-dependent white guilt was used up in 2008, which is something else many people (to their detriment, ultimately) don’t realize (paging Sharpton, Jackson, Gates, Holder, et al).
Couple that with the MSM fawning over Dr. Utopia as the greatest president in our history just because he is a biracial black-identifying man, and there’s a window of opportunity where people for the first time in DECADES could be willing to exorcise the racial boogeymen the Left depends on.
Standing up to the Race Industry will take guts.
We saw how hard this is on that bus ride. We had a chance there, in a small way, and didn’t want to make a scene.
But, just imagine if commercials like the one we talked about for YouTube really could be made, and actually put on real TV somehow. It would set off a cultural FIRESTORM. “You are not a racist for disagreeing with a black person”.
That’s such a simple concept, and so true, but it would absolutely be a stake through the heart of Liberalism (which depends not only on lockstep black voting allegiance, but the stranglehold racialized politics holds on many Americans who fear ever stepping even slightly out of line because they’d then be branded RAAACISTS).
Have you ever heard of the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR)?
Here’s an interesting article we clicked because we thought it was about Eric Holder and how terrible an Attorney General he is. In reality, it’s more about the US Commission on Civil Rights, a government entity we never knew existed.
The USCCR at first blush sounds like it would be something Leftists would adore, as it looks so similar to the USSR when acronymed like that. But, in reality, the USCCR is at the very least garlic if not Holy Water itself to Liberals:
The USCCR is something of an oddity. Created in 1957 as part of the Civil Rights Act, it conducts investigations, holds hearings, and publishes reports–about four a year–on the key civil rights issues it decides the nation is facing. (Half of its eight commissioners are appointed by the president, half by Congress, with not more than four allowed from the same party.) It has a minuscule budget ($9 million) and no power to enforce legislation. As Marcus explains, “Its sole power is the power of the bully pulpit. . . . It is the power to shame.” Today a majority of commissioners favor a “conservative” view of civil rights–opposition to racial preferences and adherence to a colorblind vision of the Constitution–which they believe mirrors the original vision of our civil rights legislation. The USCCR’s agenda includes voter fraud, the adverse impact of economic regulation on minority opportunity, school choice, and a number of other topics in conflict with liberals’ civil rights agenda.
We’re most interested in the voter fraud aspect of the USCCR, and will be looking into what it’s doing to combat ACORN.
But, additionally, it looks like the USCCR could also be an ally in the fight against the Race Industry in this country, too. We’re curious what the “number of other topics” could also be in the quote above: are these people a team of Van Helsings out battling a myriad of Liberal monsters, all on $9 million a year, with little to no publicity whatsoever?
If so, just imagine if the Tea Party and other activist movements could be the missing piece that gets the USCCR’s findings out to the public at large. The MSM is clearly suppressing the findings of the USCCR because they are at complete odds with what lunatics on the Left want.
Republicans and Independents should look into the USCCR, and if it’s as good as it sounds to us this morning, make sure we use it as a resource in all things going forward.
Sunday Open Thread: November 29th, 2009
What’s on your mind this Sunday?
We are now just 14 days away from the new national holiday of Obamamas, to be celebrated on December 13th with a lavish primetime special featuring the Charybdis of Lake Michigan herself, Oprah.
Have you started your Obamamas planning and party prep yet? That giant bathtub full of purple Kool-Aid is not going to make itself. Neither will the rice krispy unicorns. There is just enough time to get an empty suit dry-cleaned so it looks extra current-presidential for its display upon a bare aluminum pole in the center of your most prominent room, where it can be as ubiquitous and grating as television-loving Dr. Utopia himself.
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Switzerland has banned the construction of minarets at mosques. In other news, Switzerland is the only sane country in Europe with a verifiable spine.
Islam is not a religion. It is a crime and murder syndicate. It was started as an economic scheme by Muhammad to grab power and install himself as a religious leader. Though its history, Islam has used force and violence to expand itself ever outward in hopes of global conquest. Its followers praise the murder of nonbelievers and cheer in the streets when Muslim terrorists kill the innocent. Islam’s goal is to take over Europe, and we believe they have probably alread achieved that.
Will America allow itself to be next? Pretending Islam is not at war with the West is as foolish as believing in 1938 that Adolf Hitler was just a bad Charlie Chaplin impersonator with a bit of an aggression issue.
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Great Merciful Zeus, we forgot what it was like when the press actually reported the news and called Liberals out as the con artists and liars they are. Of course, it’s UK Telegraph doing this, not the American ObaMedia, but it’s a start.
They’re calling Climategate the greatest scientific scandal in 100 years. And if you read the article above, they frame things in a way we have not seen before: they say the root of what makes this scandal so BIG is that it was the small group of key scientists driving climate change alarm who were caught lying, fabricating data, and working in collusion to commit fraud.
This is huge.
We can’t imagine criminal prosecutions of some kind might not follow…perhaps leading even to Al Gore, another recent American Nobel Prize winner who we feel was less than deserving of the award.
Have regular Americans realized Anthropogenic Climate Change is a fraud?
If more articles like this in the Telegraph keep coming out – as we are sure they will – the American ObaMedia will be forced to report on this eventually.
One thing Americans hold in their craw and never let go is being lied to.
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Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse in Chicago right now, Scientology here is growing. Up until now, the Scientologists have been limited to a storefront…now they are taking over a whole building in Printer’s Row.
That’s really creepy.
And in the article, it seems Scientology has bought 70 historic buildings around the world to convert into its churches. By doing this, they move from storefronts where they look like crackpots into historic buildings that lend them instant credibility.
The only good side to all of this is that it feels like the pyramid scheme of Scientology will have to collapse under its own weight soon: the building and expansion is so massive, with so much money being put out there, that it will take a lot more money coming into the organization to sustain all this. There will indeed be a large increase in converts with these efforts…but Scientology was always really careful who it recruited before (rich, vain, stupid people, mainly, which made Hollywood such fertile recruitment ground).
Now, when they start going after greater numbers of people with less means to offer, the cult’s going to have a hard time controlling its membership. It’s one thing to keep a SWAT team on Tom Cruise at all times to make sure he never jumps ship (or couch). It’s another thing to watch hundreds (or, gasp, thousands) of Chicagoans.
If you read the story above, it’s nice a historic building is being renovated and put to use…but it’s just unfortunate Scientology is the one behind it.
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Does someone have time to pull Best Buy’s corporate contact information? Specifically we need physical mailing addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, emails, and names for the following people:
(1) Best Buy CEO
(2) Best Buy CFO
(3) Best Buy COO
(4) Best Buy VP Marketing
(5) Best Buy General Counsel
We think it would be a worthwhile exercise to keep those political skills sharp by contacting Best Buy every day letting them know how much you expect them to promote whatever obscure holiday you can think of that’s coming up, since Best Buy is now promoting Islam in its advertisements. Every day, there is some Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu or Flying Spaghetti Monster holiday that’s uncelebrated. If Best Buy wants to get into the Islamization game, it can get into some Spaghetti Monster recognition too.
A month of this should net results.
AND, added bonus, just think of all the obscure holidays we can learn about in the process. Just think of the multiculturalism!
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Have you been reading about Dubai’s financial default? This is worth a longer post to itself, but we’ve been wanting to get a few comments out there on this.
First off, one of the most spoiled and self-absorbed people we know has long been a major fan of Dubai. This girl goes on and on about Dubai and what a paradise it is, and how they are building all of these marvelous things and how the MidEast is the future and she wants to move there, etc. The girl is delusional…and part of us wishes she would move there, because she has no idea what she’s talking about.
Dubai is one of the largest owners of slave labor in the world. Who do you think is building all those grand construction projects? Slaves brought in from Pakistan, China, and India. Yes, we said slaves, because that’s what a person becomes when they are not paid for their work, not allowed to go home, and are forced to live in shipping crates sleeping five men to a bed in the desert heat while wealthy Muslims count all the gold they are saving by not having to hire actual labor. Dubai is a slave state, though no one wants to talk about it in the 21st Century. And that’s not even getting into all the blond Eastern European women (and some blond men) who end up in Dubai for other forced services. There are all types of slaves in Dubai.
What’s been most ridiculous to us, all along, about Dubai was how it thought it could be a big tourist and luxury resort destination. You just can’t have that in a Muslim country, because the religious laws are so strict and crazy that people get arrested and caned all the time for having sex on the beach, getting too drunk, or generally being obnoxious, which are all three things Westerners love to do on a NORMAL day, let alone a VACATION. The British who go to Dubai seem particularly predisosed to these kinds of arrests, with the British embassy being forced to tell these idiots that while they are in Dubai they have to behave themselves or face the consequences.
In Hawaii, Tahiti, Aruba, etc. as long as you don’t kill someone while carousing, you are pretty much golden. Just don’t drink and drive TOO MUCH. Try not to be blatantly naked in the middle of town TWICE in one day. Don’t eat anyone. Those are basically the rules.
In Dubai, if you talk too loudly you might offend Islam in some way, unknowingly, and be beaten on the spot. A woman might have a little hair blow from under her scarf and find herself raped in broad daylight, later charged with a crime for inciting the incident, since Muslim men cannot control their desires and a woman’s hair waving in the sea breeze is the real perpetrator of any sex crimes. And don’t even think about being gay, since of course no one in Islam is gay…if you’re caught with another guy the embassy might not ever know what happened to you.
No matter how many gorgeous and interesting things Dubai builds, Dubai will still be a place where all the above happens. Why would Americans want to fly all the way over there when they can just go to Hawaii and have more fun? If you are going to make that long of a trip, why not go to Tahiti and Bora Bora? For Europeans, going to Spain is so much closer. If they want to experience Islamic brutality, they can also go to Morocco or Turkey (Midnight Express, anyone?). The Caribbean’s also a nice destination for European tourists where they don’t have to deal with the barbarism threat while trying to have a good time in the sun at a beach.
And speaking of which, all those construction projects, all that slave labor, all those rushed building schedules…well, they’ve all resulted in massive amounts of sewage being dumped into the water, polluting Dubai’s beaches. That giant hotel that looks like a sail boat? Do you know the beach there is regularly closed, for months at a time, because raw sewage washes up right where the $10,000 a night hotel rooms are supposed to have reserved cabannas.
Dubai was always a disaster in the making…a modern, non-sailing Titanic built by egoists who thought they could do the impossible, while bragging about it to high heaven.
Funny how that works out.
