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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:16 AM
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Two wars, a shit economy, and the world frets over Miss USA's fully-clothed pole dance. Go figure.
Rima Fakih Stripper PHOTOS: Miss USA's Pole Dancing Past Revealed; Pageant Officials Investigate: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/rima-fakih-stripper-photo_n_579381.html

:shrug:
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Vinnie From Indy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:19 AM
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1. Bread & Circuses
Nero fiddled while Rome burned and all that!

Cheers Amerigo!
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:19 AM
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2. Such is the State of Humankind
T'was ever thus.
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maxsolomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:22 AM
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3. america's moral corruption turned a good muslim girl into a whore
fits the fundy muslim narrative quite well. they get to blame our secularism and feel persecuted.

exactly like fundy christians in america.

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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:22 AM
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4. It's a funny world...
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:23 AM
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5. Yeah, keep the masses dumbed down and ignorant as hell so they worry about
Edited on Tue May-18-10 11:24 AM by RKP5637
important things like pole dancing... that's just way too important to be concerned about wars, the economy and the future of this place loosely called a country. That's OK, a couple of prayer sessions will fix the country. The fundy christians know how to fix everything... after all, they talk directly to their god.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:23 AM
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6. At least its not a missing blonde in Aruba they're using as a distraction
Those tend to last way too long.
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:25 AM
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7. I'm still waiting for the movie, miniseries, prequel and podcast on that one
The average media-fed human never transcends above the level of a simple child, fascinated by the bright, shiny object waved back and forth across its face.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:31 AM
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10. Sad, but true
I can always tell when things arent going the way the PTB want, the MSM finds another Enquirer style story to run 24/7 so the real news never gets told.
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LiberalLoner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:26 AM
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8. Sigh. If I get a new body when I go to heaven, I want that one, and I want to be able to
pole dance like that. Hate being 49 and over the hill. :( Oh well. I had my time in the sun and actually took pretty full advantage of it at the time....
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:27 AM
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9. It was a local radio contest, she was never a stripper.
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:36 AM
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12. The freepers have compiled a list of Rima Fakih tinfoil hat conspiracy theories as long as my arm...
...I didn't post any of them here...to effin' crazy, even by MY standards. But the best one was that she was "installed" as Miss USA by Hezbollah, so that she could function as an "undercover instrument of their work."

You can't make this stuff up, folks.

Well...I take that back. SOMEONE made it up.

:rofl:
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 12:06 PM
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17. Lebanese-americans are all terrorists now? Who knew? Plus, she has
been here since she was 7 years old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima_Fakih

Oh Freepers.
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Cali_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:36 AM
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11. Go Rima!
Work it girl!
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 11:49 AM
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13. Which was performed in front of an all FEMALE audience
doesn't make sense does it, except the republicans don't want an Arab-American to win the title. Wonder how they would try to disqualify Miss Universe if she was Arab American.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 12:02 PM
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15. Isn't Miss Universe the next step in the contest?
If she wins, Freeper heads will explode across the continent.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 12:00 PM
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14. You know this is the culture that gave us the belly dance, which is
Edited on Tue May-18-10 12:02 PM by Cleita
performed at weddings and other festive occasions in many Arab countries. Years ago I befriended a Lebanese family. I worked with their daughter. They were very cosmopolitan and spoke French. We are so used to the nun-like images of abused and veiled women from the ME that we don't realize that many Arab women are quite modern and liberated in their thinking.
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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 12:06 PM
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16. The world isn't fretting over it
The world is shaking its collective head at America's collective insanity.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 01:00 PM
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18. The important story here is the racism of those who oppose a Muslim winner.
That IS an important issue, no matter how silly the contest leading to the win.
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 01:03 PM
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19. SHE'S A TERRAIST !11!!!!!!111!
:crazy:
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