For refusing to wear a head scarf while in Saudi Arabia..

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You similarly cool with people wearing shorts and tank tops to the Vatican?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

+1

Her image was blurred out on television in Saudi Arabia.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Shoutout wholeheartedly endorsed. I was surprised people expected her to in the first place.

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I'm torn on this one.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

Good for her.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

find something else to tear your butt apart on. if a saudi arabian came here we wouldn't make them remove their clothes.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

Then you're one wet napkin, because it's pretty hard to be torn on something like this.

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It's disrespectful. I believe that you can make a political statement without doing it at the funeral of a world leader. I think we all would be pissed if someone disrespected Carter or HW Bush the same way in the next 5 to 10 years. On the other hand I agree with the statement she was making.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

I thought she was Muslim.

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It isn't disrespectful. Forcing her to wear one would be.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

"One of these things is not like the other..."

We were discussing Pre-K education in the Kasich thread.

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Why do you think that? Were these disrespectful?

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

It should be her choice. I said forcing her to wear one would be. Obviously, she chose not to.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

The forced subjugation of women that finds it's basis in the Koran, which is a book based upon the idle thoughts of a pedophile, are anything but respectful of females.

Under the kingdom's strict dress code for women, Saudi females are required to wear a headscarf and loose, black robes in public. Most women in Saudi Arabia cover their hair and face with a veil known as the niqab. But covering one's head is not required for foreigners, and some Western women choose to forego the headscarf while in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia imposes many restrictions on women on the strict interpretation of Islamic Shariah (shah-REE'-yuh) law known as Wahhabism. Genders are strictly segregated. Women are banned from driving, although there have been campaigns in recent years to lift that ban. Guardianship laws also require women to get permission from a male relative to travel, get married, enroll in higher education or undergo certain surgical procedures.

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It's funny that neither Condi Rice nor Susan Rice wore them either, but got no scorn. The continual need for some to nitpick the First Family never ceases to amuse me now.

I'm actually glad she took the stand. I'm really tired of certain hypocritical and misogynistic Muslims' playing the disrespected victim card. Especially those leaders in the countries that sponsored Al Qaeda & others for years but were never formally acknowledged as conspirators in terror.

In any event, there are exceptions in the cases of foreign visitors, especially visitors that aren't entering a mosque/religous site. But since it's FLOTUS, some don't seem to care.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

sounds like the queen is the reason women still arent allowed to drive in saudia arabia

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Not the worst idea!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Karen Lewis is ready for a meeting with the Saudi's.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Looks more like she's getting ready for the 'Wizzo the Wizard' cosplay convention.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

"Cookie!"

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Who's grandma had sex with Bozo?

I can't believe I'm doing this, but I'll support this shoutout.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Is she getting scorn though? I think most Americans think it's a great and powerful statement she made. She's certainly more high profile than either Rice.

Here's an example of why, even though my politics are liberal- sometimes radical- I just can't identify as liberal. The liberal goes on and on wailing about some fictional "war on women", mainly based upon the very human discussion about the morality of killing the unborn, while turning a blind eye to an actual war on women within an entire religion/culture that treats women as property.

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Communists are just people who are terrible at capitalism.

I see what you are saying here.

If a state says that a woman can't drive her body around, must cover up her body, cannot use her intellect and labor to earn money, etc, these are all treating a woman as property. I mean if a woman has no choice over her body due to state sanctions, then you are right JORR, she is nothing but property.

However, when a woman tries to control what happens with her body as it concerns pregnancy she doesn't have to worry about the state treating her as property, because that doesn't happen in the US. Oh wait, that is exactly what happens in the discussion of the morality of killing the unborn.

Oh, that old "laws off my body" canard again. The government has laws on everyone's body. Do you think you should be free to shoot heroin? LAWS OFF YOUR BODY!!!!

I'm very sorry that there are some indisputable biological facts and one of them is that female is the gender that carries the children. Maybe one day science can change that so men can enjoy the wonders of childbirth. Or better yet, maybe we can find a way for women to impregnate themselves. We're almost there. Now, we just have to sex all the fetuses and men can be eliminated!

What happens in a discussion on the morality of killing unborn children is generally someone spouting a religious based philosophy which is then followed by women who have had the ability to kill at will their entire lives shrieking about laws and their bodies.

But I'm an atheist. I don't believe anyone has to answer to God. And I fully understand what a complicated issue it is. If you have hundreds of thousands of unwanted children being born, that's a whole new can of worms. But I truly believe that some future society thousands of years down the road will look back on 20th/21st Century America as "that culture that killed its children".

So the next time someone shoots your neighbor down on the street, the next time hillbillies in Texas cheer an execution, the next time some woman throws a new born in the garbage, just remember, we've created a culture where life is cheap. And abortion on demand is one of the building blocks of that culture. So keep on cheering a woman's "right to choose" as your stock as a human being continues to drop.

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Communists are just people who are terrible at capitalism.