Re-blogged from Alexander McNabb's 'Fake Plastic Souks'

I'm told that the al-emarati blog, although it looked as if it hosted several bloggers, was all the work of one man, a person who many bloggers will know as A Blessing in Tragedy. Sure enough, it certainly seemed that way stylistically, veering between interesting comment and bilious ranting. You'd start to worry about the stability of someone capable of that range in commentary rather than fiction.Chadi Abou Nohra, , Fake Plastic Souks, May 2010

You should read the whole article.

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The ruler of Dubai is off to pull another coup d'etat.

Dubai ruler 'serious' about 2020 Olympics

Hats off to this brilliant group of overpriced strategists that came up with this idea of hosting the 2020 Olympics in Dubai. Whether Dubai eventually makes a bid to win or simply use it as a leverage to attract and regain investor(s) confidence to bail them out of the mess they knowingly got themselves into, could be anyone's guess.

Personally, I would prefer Dubai demonstrating its seriousness rather than the flip side but like they say in this day & age, achievement 'by hook or by crook' is the name of the game between winners & losers.

And so begins one man's tale in this continuing episode known as 'survival of the fittest'.

'It's nice to have a vision but it's even nicer to bear it into fruition' - Notre Dame

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The first, early December 2009
The second, early January 2010

Motivation: Power & legal tender

Under ordinary circumstances, I would have bought all this (leaning false bravado) talk about Arabian gesture of generosity that so many ignorant asses vehemently amplify but these aren't ordinary circumstances. They stopped being ordinary, the day Dubai beamed to the whole world, seeking a postponement on their loan payments. I wonder where were those so-called Arabian (you watch my back, I watch yours) gestures of brotherhood & generosity then?

Right now, it looks like someone, all along, had a gun pointed at someone with the biggest smile in the world, all set finger on the trigger when pulled had a bang banner popping out instead of lead.

So much for Russian Roulette.

And it worked too, like a charm!

Dubai's latest flashy icon, the 150+ tower just got rebaptized BK in a frenzied game of Russian Roulette.

So much for all those hokey gestures of brotherhood & generosity.

Mohammed bin Rashid may have put Dubai on the map but it came at a price tag and all the more for wrong reasons.

The moral. Gone are all those glorious days when brotherhood was the rule of the day. Now, it's mostly a world where (a) dog eat dog is the order of the day.

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Three captures of The Yas Marina Hotel, Abu-Dhabi, courtesy The Plastic Poet at the UAE Community Blog


I wonder what the owner & designer had in mind when this project was still on the drawing board!

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To sum up the homo sapien state of mind in this day & age;

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American Thinker's take on Megan's case;

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Somebody ought to tell this dude to STFU!

In continuation to my earlier labels (iPhone-related), personally I think Apple should just stick to their ideas of developing screwed-up crappy software.

Oh, and while they're at it, to leave the hardware stuff to the pros!

And if they don't like what I just said, they can stick it where the (insert a /classy/ expletive(s) here) and enjoy!

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