Sunday, June 7, 2009

Around the World

1) Looks like Obama may have made an impression in Europe after all.

2) In the “good news/bad news” department: the FBI has arrested a treasonous husband-and-wife team who spied for Cuba. The problem is, they got away with it for 30 years. As Allahpundit would say, an “exit question”: what are the odds that, if convicted, they will one day be pardoned by President Obama?

3) The fastest man alive: an American tourist in Australia, who was late getting aboard his train, jumped on and rode on the outside as the train sped through the outback.

4) Hezbollah has been defeated in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections. Look for the defeated party and its foreign sugar-daddies to carry on politics by other means.

5) It is one of the great ironies of our time that people who have shoved their heads up where the sun doesn’t shine seem to see nothing but the bright light of a new day.

4 comments:

kc said...

1) ...the big winner was the rightist Freedom Party, which more than doubled its strength over the 2004 elections...,b>campaigned on an anti-Islam platform,/b>.

In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders' anti-Islamic party took 17 percent of the country's votes, taking four of 25 seats.

Jobbik describes itself as Euro-skeptic and anti-immigration and wants police to crack down on petty crimes committed by Gypsies. Critics say the party is racist and anti-Semitic.


Of course they're racist. Aren't all RWDB capitalists racist?

3) Do you think a bit of frostbite and hypothermia enough to teach this kid a lesson about the rest of his "instinctive decisions?"

5) I don't usually use this acronym, but OMG! Does that thing look like a hamster habitat, or is my brain more muddled than usual???

richard mcenroe said...

"It is one of the great ironies of our time that people who have shoved their heads up where the sun doesn’t shine seem to see nothing but the bright light of a new day."

That's the methane backup detonating.

RebeccaH said...

Before climbing into his limousine in the Pompidou Center's underground parking garage, Obama shook the men's hands, then posed for a group photo.

"It's fantastic. What a beautiful souvenir!" exclaimed a beaming Daldoss.

He said he has worked in motorcades for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush without ever getting such hands-on gratitude.

"The others were nice but not more than that," Daldoss said. "I retire in a few months. This is a magnificent mission."


Of course, what M. Daldoss fails to realize is, Clinton and Bush were politicians working their jobs, and Obama is a publicity-hound seeking love and approval.

richard mcenroe said...

"... what are the odds that, if convicted, they will one day be pardoned by President Obama?"

As opposed to the odds, say, that they will be hired to ghost his next book?