tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post115697184357318448..comments2023-09-29T06:58:20.125-07:00Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: Lebanon is, like, so *OVER*BadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-1157031185643963262006-08-31T06:33:00.000-07:002006-08-31T06:33:00.000-07:00Hey, don't be knocking Liberia. I'm due to be rec...Hey, don't be knocking Liberia. I'm due to be receiving US$20million any day now from a long lost, unknown relative there that was killed in a tragic plane accident years ago (minus 27.3 percent for my new banker friend).<BR/><BR/>Dave<BR/><BR/>P.S. Yeah, right. ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-1156995394036230742006-08-30T20:36:00.000-07:002006-08-30T20:36:00.000-07:00Come to think of it, I was thinking of Liberia.Come to think of it, I was thinking of Liberia.BBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323188240580782454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-1156981039108699092006-08-30T16:37:00.000-07:002006-08-30T16:37:00.000-07:00Actually, until Israel bombed it and blockaded it,...Actually, until Israel bombed it and blockaded it, Beirut was the tourist hotspot of the Middle East. It's where the wealthy elite of the repressive Arab states would go to drink, party, and have sex with nubile young women and the occasional nubile young boy. If the sign said "Welcome to Lebanon. Fuck you." it most probably meant that prostitutes were available there (heheh!). <BR/><BR/>Hey, you remember all those foreigners evacuated during the first week of the war? They were vacationing there. It was a peaceful, pretty country with one heck of a night scene, lots of fine restaurants including the most French restaurants outside of Paris, and generally a nice place to visit other than the far southern part where Hizbullah and Israel kept tossing rockets and bombs at each other, but everybody was sure that the situation there would eventually get worked out. <BR/><BR/>Instead, Israel decided to take out the rest of Lebanon because they had a problem with one group running their own mini-state in the south of the country... and proved why Lebanon couldn't disarm Hizbullah -- because if Hizbullah could hold off the IDF for over a month, it certainly could take on any military force that the rest of Lebanon, half the size of Israel, could put together. <BR/><BR/>-BTBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-1156978776933107532006-08-30T15:59:00.000-07:002006-08-30T15:59:00.000-07:00Will it ever be over? I wonder. I recall reading i...Will it ever be over? I wonder. I recall reading in some book (or on the web, it gets fuzzy after a while) some years back about a man that went to Lebanon.<BR/><BR/>At the entrance to a little hotel was a sign that said, "Welcome to Lebanon. Fuck you."BBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323188240580782454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-1156978553679167122006-08-30T15:55:00.000-07:002006-08-30T15:55:00.000-07:00it's not even close to over, and the bushies that ...it's not even close to over, and the bushies that were so concerned about not returning to "status quo" can claim that they did not do that. they haven't managed to attain "status quo" yet. or even a reasonable facsimile of it.The Minstrel Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00697821546165315014noreply@blogger.com