How many courts operate at all, much less issue verdicts, on Sundays?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

:shrug:

Not that I expect the Saddam Hussein situation to have any real impact on the election, but seriously. Sunday?

[riderinthestorm]

1. I believe the Muslim work week is Sunday - Thursday

Their days off are usually Friday and Saturday because of their religion

[Subdivisions]

5. Couple that with their mysterious disregard for Thursdays, and

you have yet another reason to admire Muslim culture. :D

[riderinthestorm]

10. Oops. Fixed!

:blush:

[Liberalator]

13. Work Week usually Saturday - Wednesday

The normal work week varies in the Mid-East. Qatar and a few others work Sunday through Thursday, with a Friday-Saturday weekend. In most other Middle Eastern countries (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, etc.), the work week runs from Saturday through Wednesday, with a Thursday-Friday weekend. The one-day shift was made, in part, to allow businessmen to communicate more efficiently with market partners in the West and the Far East. Friday remains a weekend day because it is the Islamic holy day.

[flyingfysh]

2. why would Sunday be special in Iraq?

Friday perhaps, but Sunday? Most Christians regard Sunday as special, and there aren't many of them there.

[Subdivisions]

3. Their Sunday is our Monday.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Okay then, explained. Thanks.

[wildbilln864]

7. but, but...

isn't our Sunday their Monday? Baghdad is 8 hours ahead.


on edit: I haven't paid alot of attention to the Saddam trial distraction. Forgive my ignorance please but, where is the trial being held?

[Subdivisions]

8. Now I'm confused!

[kurth]

6. Well, the U.S. Congress convened at midnight for Terri Schiavo

The Bush government is working hard for us 24/7, and their puppets in Baghdad share the same work ethics.

NOT.

[Gman]

9. So they can interupt Sunday NFL football

with the coverage/analysis.

[Bluzmann57]

11. Well if they interrupt football

there will be a lot of upset rednecks, including me. I mean it's a foregone conclusion that Saddam Hussein will be swinging at the end of a rope, so why analyze that? Let's watch my Packers go on to their third straight victory and get to the .500 mark for the first time since 2004.

[rzemanfl]

12. Damn terrorists! n/t

[IdesOfOctober]

14. CliffsNotes primer on Iraq

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workweek

Ides

[CorpGovActivist]

19. Even Easier Than Popping down to Harvard Square...

... huh? Doesn't even have to get bundled up against the cold.

- Dave

[IdesOfOctober]

20. The course catalog is even online now...

... and alums can even audit courses: http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/fasro/courses/index.jsp?cat=ugrad&subcat=courses

Looks like there's a healthy set of offerings on ethnocentrism. Maybe one of the courses examines the subtle differences between American and Iraqi cultures (e.g., workweeks):

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=harvard+course+catalog+ethnocentrism&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=harvard.edu&as_rights=&safe=images

Ides

[IdesOfOctober]

15. Maybe the verdict will be acted out by sock puppets, Mayberry...

... whaddya think?

Ides

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

16. ^^ 14 and 15 = "ignored" so don't bother posting more if the goal is to draw OP out n/t

[IdesOfOctober]

18. Even in Baghdad, on a Sunday, they can read about...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=halliburton+sec+extend+foreign+corrupt+david+smith

Honest skeptics tend to come forward and say, "I was wrong."

After all, that's part of the scientific method taught at Harvard.

Ides

[HuffleClaw]

17. anything to take the impending republican loss out of the news ?

funny though, considering the 'trial' has long since been exposed as a BushCo.-run stunt.