Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Yeltsin’s Secret Memoirs

With Boris Yeltsin’s passing, his secret memoirs can be released giving us all a better insight into the mind of one the most significant historical figures of the end of the 20th Century. Some surprises about Yeltsin we know learn include:

  • Preferred fried eggs although usually ordered eggs scrambled because of societal pressure.
  • Had it “up to here” with those damn Uzbeks.
  • Nearly bombed Washington 3 times until someone covered up the big red button after Happy Hour
  • Big “Golden Girls” fan. Had every show taped. Not such a big fan of spin off “Empty Nest”.
  • Believed the workers means of production was inversely dependent on the market pressure from the urban proletariat. Really.
  • Turtles gave him the willies.
  • Couldn’t keep up to Clinton during G7 after-hours drinking games. Scored more with “the ladies” though.
  • Really just a regular, down to earth guy who happened to like crushing regional uprisings and imposing martial law on breakaway republics.

Links:
Former Russian leader Yeltsin dead
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/04/23/russia.yeltsin/index.html
http://www.xomba.com/yeltin_s_secret_memoirs

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Coulter and Imus: The New Odd Couple?

Shameless showbiz promoters are hoping to team Ann Coulter and Don Imus on a new radio show where they can take ignorance and thoughtlessness to the next level.
If two wrongs don’t make a right, then putting these two in the same room for our entertainment is a worse idea than sticking a rattlesnake down your pants to kill the wolverine you put there the day before.
Watch the right-wing harpy and classless boor handle such sensitive topics as:
· Paris vs Lindsey
· Why Obama will ruin America
· Sanjaya is the Devil
· Spring gardening tips
· Viginia Tech had it coming
· Gays in the WNBA: Who’s to blame?
· Retirement planning for people who are getting fired in a week
Seriously, does anyone (not wearing a white hood) think either of these two deserve a platform to spout?

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Senator’s Gone Wild: Presidential Campaign

Despite her high profile, and the deep pockets of major backers, Hillary Clinton barely out fundraised Barak Obama in the early part of the campaign. With a potentially larger pool of donors for Obama, Clinton is going to have to employ some more creative fundraising tactics if she wants to stay ahead of her closest rival:

  • Star in her own Girl’s Gone Wild video (although the cost for special effects might make it revenue neutral)
  • A “Baked” Sale, but instead of cookies and pies, sell drugs.
  • There’s always lottery tickets
  • Write another tell-all book about life with Bill, but this time, throw in some stuff about living at the Playboy Mansion and being captured by pirates.
  • Campaign in Canada to save on the exchange rate.
  • Try and get some of the Oscar money from Gore.
  • Win American Idol

Links: Obama raises $25 million, challenges Clinton's front-runner status
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/04/obama.fundraising/index.html

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Strange Terms for British Release

Iranian president Almenjani announced the release of captured British military personnel after extensive negotiations between Iran, Britain and the US. As part of the deal, an Iranian diplomat was returned to Iran from Iraq. That was not the only term the panel conceded:

  • Iranian Parliament to have unrestricted set access to “Girls Gone Wild: Tehran Spring Break” filming.
  • An end to tensions over Iran’s peaceful nuclear power program, or at least muzzle Bill O’Reilly for a while.
  • “Okay, I’ll let them go. Take you foot off my throat. Ack!”
  • Three free punches of Howard K Stern (or Howard Stern).
  • Increasing consideration for Tehran’s application for an NBA franchise
  • More Rock, Less Talk
  • Almenjani to join in next season of Dancing With the Stars.
  • Hillary Clinton to end all presidential campaign speeches with “Allah be Praised”.