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Kevin Rudd Stimulates Brothels With His Package
AUSTRALIAN leaders Kevin Rudd works the economic miracle with his impressive package:
Posted: 24th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Wade Saunders: When Journalism Research Turns You Into A Paedo
SWIFT boater Wade Sanders was all for John Kerry in 2004. He called the enemies of Kerry “chicken hawks” –the term is meant to indicate that the person in question is cowardly or hypocritical and/ or “an adult male who behaves in a sexual and often predatory manner towards adolescent males”.
Guess what. Go on:. Guess…
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Posted: 23rd, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
George Bush’s 1,001 Reasons To Love America And Bronze Horse
IT’S not just shoes that friends of George Bush want to shower him with. Here’s the list of things Bush scored this season:Foreign Gifts to White House Staff.
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Posted: 23rd, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
A Look Inside The Russian President’s Plane
HEREUNDER is a peek at the interior of the Russian presidtial plane, as was used by the country’s first president Boris Yeltsin.
All aboard Gold Air:
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Posted: 23rd, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comments (2)
The Thick-Soled Model 271 Is The Bush Shoe
WHEN Muntader al-Zaidi tossed his shoes, he did not throw just any shoes. As Bloomberg reports:
Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) — The shoe hurled at President George W. Bush has sent sales soaring at the Turkish maker as orders pour in from Iraq, the U.S. and Iran.
The brown, thick-soled “Model 271” may soon be renamed “The Bush Shoe” or “Bye-Bye Bush,” Ramazan Baydan, who owns the Istanbul-based producer Baydan Ayakkabicilik San. & Tic., said in a telephone interview today.
Anorak recommends the curly toed Ottoman slipper, it being the only shoe that comes back to the shoe tosser.
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Posted: 22nd, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
The Age Of Obama Is Sponsored By Rick Warren’s Evangelical Industries
PREACHER RIck Warren will bring in the Age Of Obama.
“You don’t have to see eye to eye to walk hand in hand.. I have many gay friends”
And he’s just as sure on his position on other religions:
When it came time for questions, a woman stood up, proclaimed her Judaism, and asked Warren if she was going to burn in hell. He paused before responding–and then answered her question the only way it could be answered. Yes, he said to audible gasps.
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Posted: 22nd, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comment
Good God Godo Gordo It’s Gordon Brown At Christmas
“GOOD GORD,” declares the Mirror as it interviews Gordon Brown, the non-celebrity celebrity leader, who knows people who are.
In the year Gordon Brown has made his political comeback, he has learned one big thing – to listen.
Arctic Monkeys. Ruth Lorenzo. Slipknot. You name it, Gordon has listened to it.
As he sits in the living room of his Downing Street flat he is listening to the sound of his children playing with Buzz Lightyear lasers. He listens to his two-year-old son singing Happy Birthday after a friend’s birthday party.
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Posted: 22nd, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (2)
Blagojevich Seat For Sale
BLAGOJEVICH’S seat is for sale, or hire and return…
Posted: 21st, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comment
Caroline Kennedy Would Not Vote For Caroline Kennedy
WHEN the Kennedy’s buy Time magazine, Caroline Kennedy will be its person of the year, if she asks nice enough. In the meanwhile, the Daily Gut wonders if she’d even vote for herself:
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Posted: 21st, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Dick Cheney Teams Up With Bin Laden For Nostalgia Show
VICE President Dick Cheney says capturing Osama bin Laden is something the Bush administration “clearly would love to do” in the last few weeks in office.
Speaking on “Fox News Sunday” Cheney says bin Laden has been holed up in “such a way that there are questions about whether he is even running the al-Qaeda operation”.
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Posted: 21st, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
US Forces And Allies Step Down Hard On Zaidists Weapons Of Mass Destruction
FOLLOWING the arrest of the shoe tosser of old Baghdad, the allies have been clamping down on the usual suspects – those evil doers suspected of going about with Weapons of Mass Destruction on their feet!
All suspects will be taken to a park on the outskirts of Reading and held in a large tent until further notice.
In the meantime, citizens are advised to report any bizarre behaviour, look out for anyone in size 24 shoes an above, and on no account to smell the flowers worn in buttonholes or get into these people’s cars…
Zainab’s Shoes: For All Your Iraqi Shoe Needs
Iraqi Shoe Chucker ‘Munty’ Muntadar To Play For England
Look It George Bush, He’s Got Saddam’s Head
Iraqis Shower Bush With Free Shoes
The Top Eight Show Thowing Moments
Muntader al-Zaidi And The Ten Worst Protests Ever
Posted: 20th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)
The Thrice-Cursed Enemies Of Kim Jong-Il
FROM the desk of the Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Il, aka Kim Jong-Not-Ill-In-Any Way-But-In-Rude-Health-So-Watchout, of North Korea, and not that of Gordon Brown:
Heading: “S. Korean Puppet Plot-Breeding Group’s Anti-DPRK Sabotage Moves Disclosed”
Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) — The moves of the puppet plot-breeding group of south Korea to sabotage the DPRK have recently reached an extremely reckless and dangerous phase. A spokesman for the Ministry of State Security of the DPRK issued a statement Thursday in this regard.
Ahem:
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Posted: 20th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Zainab’s Shoes: For All Your Iraqi Shoe Needs
ZAINAB’S shoes – Iraq’s number one discount footwear emporium.
Sponsored by Start Right
Posted: 20th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Fining Drinkers On Trains That Sell Drink
LISTEN to this plans to make trains safer and see if you think it will works, a trumpeted by the Sun:
“Yobs terrorising train passengers are to face a £50 on-the-spot fine under laws to be unveiled today.
“Cops will be given new powers to slap fixed-penalty tickets on anyone caught smoking, drinking or causing a nuisance on trains.”
Yes, these would be the same trains that run a bar service, sometime on a trolley that appears as if by magic.
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Posted: 20th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
Gordon Brown’s Top Predictions For 2008
GORDON Brown’s Top Predictions for 2008: The City
Speech given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown at the Mansion House, London, on June 16, 2004:
“What you as the City of London have achieved for financial services, we as a government now aspire to achieve for the whole economy.”
So far, so good…
Posted: 19th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
They Only Come To Praise Obama In The WaPo
THE Washington Post is offering readers the chance to salute Barack Obama and get their names in the paper of record:
The Classifieds team is giving readers the chance to send a personal message of congratulations to President-Elect Obama that can be read by millions. The announcements can be placed though the call center or online, with prices starting at $10 for the combo. TWP anticipates about 2,500-3,000 announcements will be posted, to appear in the January 20 inaugural issue and live online from today until President’s Day. This is a floating section, but users can find it via print and online promotions and through the global search bar.
One thing:
“All ads must be congratulatory in nature. The Washington Post reserves the right to reject any notice.”
Someone get a coded message together and slip it in, please…
Posted: 19th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Kevin Rudd Is Home To Spend Christmas With Your Wife
LOTS of pictures of dark-suited and smiling Gordon Brown doing his impression of where’s Wally amid all the fatigues-clad troops in Basra.
“Your courage is legendary,” says Brown, before reading aloud the preface for his book on courage in which not one squaddie features.
It could be worse. Australian leader Kevin ‘Digger for Victory” Rudd is wowing his Boys in Afghanistan.
To cheer up our troops for Christmas, says Kevin Rudd:
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Posted: 18th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
The Making Of America’s Political Lords
IT’S a good job America has free and fair democracy and not nepotism and ruling houses:
Rod Blagojevich’s favorite pick for his local Ilinois Senate was widely regarded to be Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., the son of a someone or other.
In New York, Caroline Kennedy, daughter of so-and-so and niece to him and the bad driver is in the fray. If she gets the nod, she’ll take over from Hillary Clinton, wife to whatshisface.
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Posted: 17th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Obama’s Spliff Of The Year
BARACK Obama is Time magazine’s man of the year.
After the hype, when does the reality begin?
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Posted: 17th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
2008: Gordon Brown’s Non Celebrity Celebrity Year
GORDON Brown is not a celebrity. And that’s good.
Says Gordon Brown, serious politician:
“I think we’re moving from this period when, if you like, celebrity matters, when people have become famous for being famous. I think you can see that in other countries too – people are moving away from that to what lies behind the character and the personality.”
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Posted: 17th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (3)
Rod Blagojevich Is A Non-Republican
ROD Blagojevich is a Democrat. Unless you tune into the BBC , where he is a fmphusmph:
Following on from Laban’s post, I was listening to Radio 4 the day before yesterday at about 6.15pm. There was quite a lengthy discussion of Governor Rod Blagojevich’s corruption without, yet again, any mention of what party he represented.
The BBC is not alone. The Sydney Morning Herald’s Anne Davies manages to write about Rod Blagojevich without mentioning that Blagojevich is a non-Republican.
Blagojevich is of no politcal affiliation:
In the James Bone’s piece for The Times, and when Blago is the “Governor of his [Obama’s] home state”.
If Blago were a Republican, would his politcal party be as ignored?
Posted: 17th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Look It George Bush, He’s Got Saddam’s Head
LOOK our George Bush! Pretzel? No. Seqway? No. Pushike? No. It’s a head – Saddam’s head…
Spotter: Tim Hayman
Posted: 16th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comment (1)
Former Taiwan President Kicked In Arse And Supporters Rip Wig Off Lawmaker
WHILE Obama waits for the other shoe to drop, Su Ansheng, a member of a group promoting unification between Taiwan and China, kicks her country’s former president, Chen Shuibian in the backside.
The boy named Su kicked Mr Chen at a court hearing in July.
Last week, Mr Chen was indicted for embezzlement and money-laundering together with 13 other defendants, including his wife and son. The prosecution alleges that Mr Chen obtained $45 million in bribes.
Chen has his kickers. But he has his supporters, too.
One of that number, Huang Yung-tien, snatched the wig off the head of Kuomintang lawmaker Chiu Yi.
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Posted: 16th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
The Top Eight Show Thowing Moments
GEORGE Bush is missed by a shoe. Then another shoe. Sign him up.
Anorak’s looks at some other shoe throwing notables:
Shoe Powers
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Posted: 16th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
George Bush Hurls
GEORGE Bush salutes the shoe tosser of old Baghdad:
Martha Raddatz: Let’s start with what just happened. And that is someone threw a shoe at you, whether it’s an Iraqi reporter?
President Bush: Yeah, I think it’s a reporter. At least that’s what they told me on the way out, that it’s a person who works in the Iraqi press, stands up and throws his shoe. And it was amusing. I mean, I’ve seen a lot of weird things during my presidency and this may rank up there as one of the weirdest.
On the other hand, I do remember when the president of China came to the South Lawn, and a member of the press corps started yelling. I think it was Falun Gong slogans at the Chinese president. So this happens and it’s a sign of a free society.
In a free society you throw shoes. In America you hurl insults in a foreign language so that the goons don’t know you’re saying.
Anorak can only marvel at how free Nazi Germany was as its peoples went one better then shoes and insults and lobbed bombs and tanks at everybody…
George Bush – you’ll miss him when he’s gone…
Posted: 15th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
