And the official Muslim garb that Mahatir designed for Malaysian women is pretty, if polyester.Stealth oppression!
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 03, 2005 5:02:47 am PDT #2737 of 10002
What is even happening?
tommyrot - Oct 03, 2005 5:02:49 am PDT #2738 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I don't suppose anyone know what Yule's coefficient Q is? Or does?
For those times when just one efficient isn't enough?
tommyrot - Oct 03, 2005 5:09:50 am PDT #2739 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hmmm...
two lawyers representing witnesses in the Plame investigation have begun to surmise that Fitzgerald is now weighing a criminal conspiracy charge against a group of senior White House officials.
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Who would those officials be? The list of possible candidates is long and includes Rove, Libby, Ari Fleischer, Cheney and -- if Stephanopoulos and his source are to be believed -- the president himself. The Post says that Fitzgerald could make his prosecutorial decisions as early as this week.
So it's possible Cheney - and Bush himself - may be charged with criminal conspiracy.
Volans - Oct 03, 2005 5:11:59 am PDT #2740 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Stealth oppression!
It wasn't terribly stealthy at the time. He designed an official Malaysian garb for men also, but (at least the couple years I lived there) most men didn't wear it.
More burqa trivia: a few years ago Ethiopia made it legal for women to have their official ID photos (like passports) taken while wearing the full head covering. Most Western nations protested this as rendering the whole point of "photo ID" useless, but Ethiopia said that women weren't comfortable having their naked faces photographed.
I should look that up to see if they ever retracted it.
§ ita § - Oct 03, 2005 5:12:40 am PDT #2741 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Muslim modesty garb doesn't have to be ugly. Hell, judging from Morocco, it doesn't even have to be modest.
We went home with some women we met on the train in Algeria, and as soon as they got in their gate (not door, gate), they dumped the djellabas to reveal shirts and jeans underneath.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 03, 2005 5:13:13 am PDT #2742 of 10002
What is even happening?
It wasn't terribly stealthy at the time.No, I mean the polyester. In Malaysia's climate? Oof.
Cashmere - Oct 03, 2005 5:15:37 am PDT #2743 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Muslim modesty garb doesn't have to be ugly. Hell, judging from Morocco, it doesn't even have to be modest.
We went home with some women we met on the train in Algeria, and as soon as they got in their gate (not door, gate), they dumped the djellabas to reveal shirts and jeans underneath.
Iranian women have been pushing the envelope for years. The chadors and headscarves are getting colorful and stylish (and shorter) and beneath them are designer clothes, jeans and 'spensive shoes.
Emily - Oct 03, 2005 5:16:25 am PDT #2744 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Most Western nations protested this as rendering the whole point of "photo ID" useless,
Well, yeah, kinda.
Jars - Oct 03, 2005 5:23:50 am PDT #2745 of 10002
For those times when just one efficient isn't enough?
Excellent. I hope I get an A.
Some of my family in Malaysia wear baju (baji?), but are thankfully too classy to wear polyester ones.
bon bon - Oct 03, 2005 5:28:23 am PDT #2746 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
That Miers thing was out of the blue. And yeah, how tone-deaf do you have to be to employ political patronage NOW?