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Kuwait Election : Someone has to Rain on our Parade .. ( BBC )

May 18, 2008

As i said in a past post ( on the collaboration blog 5-q8 ) the act of voting is a victory for democracy

But as always , someone has to come and Rain on our Parade
BBC posted news about the Kuwaiti Elections and this part really piss me off

Excluded from the ballot were foreign expatriates, who make up the majority of Kuwait’s 2.9-million population, and military personnel.

Excuse me ? why did they go out of their Way to point out that Expatriates do not Vote , What country does let Expatriates Vote in their Election ? do England do it ? The guardian List foreigners workers at over 2 million , did they vote on the last parliament Election in England ? i don’t think so , else there would have been at least couple of polish parliament members in the English parliament

Do Foreigners vote in US Election ? as far as i know till they get the nationality their vote is not counted else there would have been larger number of Hispanic in congress ?

I advice you all to contact the BBC using this Form

just write something in Comments like this

It is obnoxious and appalling that you talk about expatriate as not voting in the Kuwaiti Election when it is a none issue as no country in the world allow Expatriate to vote unless they are nationalized , was this point mentioned when reporting the latest election in England or the presidential race in United State of America ? or was this point specially raised to paint the Kuwaiti Election with negative image ?

or any comments about the story that come to your mind

and post the URL of the story Above

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16 Comments »

  1. good job dude, and I’ll send an e-mail too

    also it’s ruin not rain

    Comment by EXzombie — 19/5/2008 @ 12:12 am

  2. nope its Rain on my Parade , thats the expression

    Comment by Forzaq8 — 19/5/2008 @ 12:16 am

  3. Forza is right, its ‘rain on our parade’ not ruin, its a saying…

    Comment by hilaliya — 19/5/2008 @ 1:07 am

  4. I don’t think expatriates vote in ANY country!

    BBC has also been annoying us because of their biased reporting of the US elections - all Obama Obama Obama and only negative toward Hilary and McCain. Like what do they know????

    Comment by Intlxpatr — 19/5/2008 @ 2:46 am

  5. Thats just ridiculous !

    Emailing NOW!

    Im linking this post if u dont mind ;> so my readers can email as well.

    Comment by Delicately Realistic — 19/5/2008 @ 3:17 am

  6. Thanks for the link. I did my part :)

    Comment by Yousef — 19/5/2008 @ 6:19 am

  7. انا أقول ال ب ب سي كلها هنادوه و باكستانين الي حسبالهم ان الجنسية البريطانية تغير اصلهم

    حدق دفين في قلويهم

    Comment by Purgatory — 19/5/2008 @ 8:17 am

  8. “The majority of Kuwait’s 2.9-million population is made up of expatriates, who do not have a vote. Military personnel are also ineligible to cast ballots.”

    did they change the wording already?

    Comment by eshda3wa — 19/5/2008 @ 1:21 pm

  9. wow, so your considering the national assembley elections a parade ?

    its the same members, even worse… since certain a**holes bacame members…

    the whole national assmbley isn’t worth looking at, and then you post about three posts…

    Comment by big.moe — 19/5/2008 @ 3:28 pm

  10. one more thing

    your on the verge of losing a frequent visitor to this blog..

    so shape up these posts ok !

    PS: change the lame security words…:p…

    Comment by big.moe — 19/5/2008 @ 3:30 pm

  11. seriously wtf is with the security words ?

    i mean “kings”

    wow, u really lost me now

    bye forever..im gonna empty my browser’s history, i dont wanna see the name “forza” :P

    Comment by big.moe — 19/5/2008 @ 3:42 pm

  12. WTF!!! Big Moe have some respect, but yeah security words are kinda lame

    Comment by TAT — 19/5/2008 @ 3:43 pm

  13. you have some respect and pull yourself out of this blog

    TAT, get a life and stay out of this blog

    Comment by big.moe — 19/5/2008 @ 3:44 pm

  14. not everyone gonna wag your tail or dance to your beat Moe are you using “Big” to compensate for things!?! poor you

    When your ready to ride with the Big Dogs you bite!!! all you doing is barking up the wrong chain mumbo jumbo haji baji turn off your engine loyalty to the queen bullshit you spouting don’t matter here bitch

    Comment by TAT — 19/5/2008 @ 3:51 pm

  15. ntlxpatr
    i know , kinda strange , but i got a response from BBC

    Delicately Realistic
    great

    Yousef
    great

    Purgatory
    ممكن

    eshda3wa
    seem so , i got a copy of the old article anyway

    big.moe
    ٌRaid on my Parade is a phrase
    I’m not sure whats up with you ? , the blog isn’t for me to gain popularity or make money , there are better methods and ways to run the blog to achieve that but thats isn’t what my motive for blogging , its for sharing my thoughts .
    whats your problem with security word ? they aren’t there to make you happy they are just there to be random words to ease up the spam

    TAT
    again with lame security code , its just random words i mostly came up while playing world of warcraft , mostly will change when i play a new game

    Comment by Forzaq8 — 19/5/2008 @ 4:26 pm

  16. first, i demand that the security words make me happy.
    second, if your security words are inspired by games then they really are lame.
    third, the expression is rain, not “raid”.
    as for tat..

    get a fucking life and stay away from this blog

    and to both of TAT and Forzaq8, waaaakeeee uuuupppp :P

    Comment by big.moe — 19/5/2008 @ 5:52 pm

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