dagblog - Comments for "Saudi Arabia has been scrubbing its textbooks of anti-Semitic &amp; misogynistic passages" http://dagblog.com/link/saudi-arabia-has-been-scrubbing-its-textbooks-anti-semitic-misogynistic-passages-33718 Comments for "Saudi Arabia has been scrubbing its textbooks of anti-Semitic & misogynistic passages" en BYOB now means "Bring Your http://dagblog.com/comment/299225#comment-299225 <a id="comment-299225"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/299217#comment-299217">then there&#039;s this kinda thing</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>BYOB now means "Bring Your Own Bonesaw" - we'll see what kind of take-up they get, but I see Dubai as relatively safe among the expat golddigger crowd. This isn't Lawrence of Arabia riding camels across the desert trying to take Aqaba - they're just yuppies trying to fly in and make a few above-average bucks, no big risk takers.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 31 Jan 2021 10:17:07 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 299225 at http://dagblog.com then there's this kinda thing http://dagblog.com/comment/299217#comment-299217 <a id="comment-299217"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/299208#comment-299208">No, not too late. They</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>then there's <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/business/gm-zero-emission-vehicles.html">this kinda thing on the horizon</a> which might start cutting into the gravy train for all citizens, maybe the kids should be learning a little bit about how the rest of the world thinks and then OIC</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Saudi Arabia lays down Dubai challenge by luring multinationals <a href="https://t.co/EkK1HMme9U">https://t.co/EkK1HMme9U</a></p> — Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1355797832582705156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> <p>I imagine they are thinking about how those folks wouldn't all fit in the old Aramco western compound and continuing the Wahhabi segregation plan is just not gonna work anymore?</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:43:15 +0000 artappraiser comment 299217 at http://dagblog.com No, not too late. They http://dagblog.com/comment/299208#comment-299208 <a id="comment-299208"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/saudi-arabia-has-been-scrubbing-its-textbooks-anti-semitic-misogynistic-passages-33718">Saudi Arabia has been scrubbing its textbooks of anti-Semitic &amp; misogynistic passages</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>No, not too late. They measure eons past the Caliphate to the time of the Prophet. Any improvement is an improvement.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 31 Jan 2021 07:29:50 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 299208 at http://dagblog.com