IN AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD

11/27/2009

IN AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD

So what is common between the upside down world of Dubai and the world of Tareq Salahi. Much more than you think.

If you have never heard of a show called, "the Real Housewives of----" count your blessings. It is a show about foul mouthed ghetto-trailer trash( you may wish to reverse the order here) overly made up and overtly stupid newly rich morons who don't mind making an ass of themselves on national television. Tareq and Michaele Salahi apparently and perfectly fit the bill.

So does Dubai, and in a perfect irony, as the Salahi' crashed a White House party, in the manner of the all newly rich, Dubai defaulted on her debts, Salahi's are bankrupt too.

Prostitution is a time honored profession for those who have fallen on hard times. So as Mr. Salahi and spouse tried to sell their services to a production company, so did Dubai, become a brothel for the rich of the gulf and other countries, and just as hooker does not ask where your money came from, neither did Dubai. If you had money, no questions were asked. The middle east new money rich found an air and a cover of respectability, apparently no one talked about the flesh trade and the flaunting of Islamic code, from his name Tareq Salahi could also be a Muslim himself, what could Al-Queda say, does terrorism it self not increase prostitution, yes, it does, indirectly, but it does so. I am not talking here figuratively, in Dubai there are prostitutes from four corners of the world and the local fare also, from Lebanon, Russia, England, Korea and the Philippines, and your desire be for Halal Islamic flesh then from Pakistan, Bosnia, Iran, Iraq, and surely Saudi.

Just as Salahi and spouse risked going to jail for fame, Dubai risked being exposed for the farce it had been all along, a whore house for the rich. Out of oil money and broke Dubai sold a dream to those seeking high rewards for little efforts, the thieving bankers and the Arab potentates who were about to become rich when the oil hit three hundred dollars a barrel, and when the banking failed and the oil fell, Dubai went under water. At least their ancestors once knew, (it was only sixty years ago) how to find pearls in the scum of the seas.

In two thousand five I proposed to Mr. Bush about legalizing prostitution. I was ahead of my time again. It is not so bad after all, Ted Haggard, Jimmy Swaggart , Elliot Spitzer to name a few were consumers, Spitzer paid eight thousand an hour for his girl, then we have compensated dating (Korea), Japanese teen dating (Enjo Kosai) are considered respectable, heck British research scientist , "Belle Du Jour" even blogged and then bragged about it, so did the Muslim teen genius Sufiah Yusof.

There are pitfalls though, as in the case of the 71 year old in Dothan trying to trade his broken washer for sex, and the thirteen year old in Mobile getting busted for solicitation, and the classic case of the two seventeen year olds who went to the police because they got paid with a rubber check.
And before we laugh too hard at the fool sin Dubai about their financial mess, we must remember the condition our own condition is in.



LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE