Qatar: What P Should Write About

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Dear Mr. Curmudgeon,

I would have read this but for the subtitle. But that's just me....You who recently called a flurry of
TRP review links and other remarks--some trivial, I'm sure---SPAM....just sent around a picture
Of a pig eating ice cream. 
Here, Ms. Adams, almost a foundational member, I guess, wanted substance and many agreed, it seems. 
But, as I bothered to overargue, I want the ice-cream eating pig and Everything else. 
What I don't have time for is repeating what you don't believe even as you read it now since it must have been nothing but spam when you first didn't read it. 
But that's just me.


foundational member I understand

Sent from my iPad

On Sep 24, 2013, at 7:40 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/human-rights-in-qatar-092413
> 
> In 1992, in preparation for the World Cup's run here in the United States, I spent two weeks in Qatar, where they were playing the Asian Zone qualifier. My hosts were perfectly amiable, and they made sure we all were taken care of very well.  And I left hating a society more than I'd ever hated a society in my life.
> 
> I spent two weeks there and never saw a Qatari do any actual work. I met Americans who worked the oil fields. I met a Brit whose skiffle group once lost a battle-of-the-bands to John Lennon's Quarrymen, but who was in Qatar to teach the emir how to play snooker. And I met a terrific young Filipino kid, tending bar at the Marriott -- when you're going to have Americans to pump your oil. undiscovered loopholes in the Koran's prohibitions against alcohol magically appear -- who knew two things about America: Guns 'n Roses and Michael Jordan. What I later found out was that this kid stayed in Doha because his employer had confiscated his passport. This, it seemed to me, was as clearly a parasitic plutocracy as could be imagined.
> 
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