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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Rep. Conyers caught reading Playboy on an airplane
He appears to linger on an article titled "La Chatte" by Maureen Gibbon.
I guess I won't be posting a picture to go along with this article. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 11/24/2010 14:52 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  --Shame on him, while his wife is away on 'vacation'..
Posted by: Tom--Pa || 11/24/2010 15:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe he was pretending to read Playboy but really reading Das Kapital.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/24/2010 15:37 Comments || Top||

#3  What's wrong with reading Playboy while da wife is on vaca? Maybe she was reading Cosmopolitan on her way.

I don't get it. :-)
Posted by: twobyfour || 11/24/2010 17:30 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm sure he was reading the Jazz section.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/24/2010 17:53 Comments || Top||

#5  I kind of thing of him attracted to more this (slightly NSFW) type.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/24/2010 18:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Article sez the pic & video were first posted by a "journalist" called Charlie LeDuff. While I think Conyers is a race-hustling dirtbag pol who probably belongs in a jail cell, LeDuff's also a prime scumbag, even by MSM standards.
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) || 11/24/2010 21:58 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Nato is ‘mafia’ and Obama a ‘snake charmer’: Castro
Nato is a “military mafia,” the war in Afghanistan is “genocidal” and US President Barack Obama deserves the prize for the “best snake charmer” who ever lived, Cuba’s Fidel Castro said Monday.

In an article published in response to the Western alliance’s weekend summit in Portugal, the former Cuban leader called Nato an “aggressive institution” that ignored “billions of persons suffering from poverty, underdevelopment, shortages of food, housing, health, education and jobs.”

Castro, 84, communism’s most visible living figure, led Cuba from the 1959 Revolution until he stepped down for health reasons in 2006, handing over the presidency to his brother Raul.

Castro called Nato “a bird of prey sitting in the lap of the Yankee empire,” that was used by the United States to wage “the genocidal Afghanistan war.”

He brushed off ambitious plans unveiled at the Lisbon summit that would have Western leaders press Kabul to take over security by 2014, predicting they would eventually “hand over power to the Afghan resistance, in defeat.”

The United States is “going through a difficult phase as the result of its war exploits” and using its “enormous media resources to maintain, dupe and confuse world public opinion,” Castro said.

“Obama already admitted that his promise to withdraw US soldiers from Afghanistan may be postponed… After the Nobel Prize, we would have to award him with the prize for ‘the best snake charmer’ that has ever existed.”
Posted by: tipper || 11/24/2010 13:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fidel should have his own blog.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/24/2010 14:43 Comments || Top||

#2  He's got one out of two.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/24/2010 14:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Wow Castro must have been a McCain guy?
Posted by: flash91 || 11/24/2010 18:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Castro, 84, dynastic communism's second most visible living figure after Kim Jong Il, destroyed the Cuban economy from the 1959 Revolution until he stepped down for health reasons in 2006, nepotistically handing over the crown to his brother Raul.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/24/2010 19:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Looks like Fidel's just another true believer with a case of buyer's remorse. Get in line with the home grown commies, El Jefe. Just be aware that it's a long one...

January 22, 2009

Fidel Castro broke his five-week silence to praise US President Barack Obama as a “man who is absolutely sincere”. But the former Cuban President added that “despite noble intentions, there are still many questions to answer”.

His remarks were disclosed by Cristina Fernandez, Argentina’s President, who met the former Cuban leader during a four-day visit to the communist island. Mrs Fernandez said: “Fidel believes in Obama. He told me he had followed the inauguration of Barack Obama very closely, that he had watched the inauguration on television all day. He had a very good perception of President Obama.”
Posted by: tu3031 || 11/24/2010 20:10 Comments || Top||


Great White North
"I'm interested in eating my cookie!"
That was the reply from Stephen Duckett, Alberta's top Health Services official when reporters asked him about the Province's failing health care system. In case you were unaware, Canada's single payer health care system is drowning in red ink and wait lines.
Posted by: Beavis || 11/24/2010 11:11 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The alternate health care is growing stronger in Canada. Doctors I understand are contracting with individuals. This would be for the ones able to pay. They are trying to put the care back in health. Government interference will impede service.
They should be compensated for the years of education and continuing education. License fees, insurance and hospital affiliation.
Posted by: Dale || 11/24/2010 19:37 Comments || Top||

#2  The alternate health care is growing stronger in Canada. Doctors I understand are contracting with individuals. This would be for the ones able to pay. They are trying to put the care back in health. Government interference will impede service.
They should be compensated for the years of education and continuing education. License fees, insurance and hospital affiliation.
Posted by: Dale || 11/24/2010 19:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Oops! and I studder at times also.
Posted by: Dale || 11/24/2010 19:39 Comments || Top||

#4  I had a visit to Britains NHS last week...

Now it wasn't all bad, but most of it was.

Some of the staff were good, however it was obvious:
Bureaucracy was hampering
The processes were there but not right.
The flow through the building was all wrong
The queues were too long
There were too few staff
The Organisation wasn't there.
Noone was on the ground seeing the big picture, everyone was just fire-fighting.

Exactly what you'd expect seeing the incentives/structure. No wonder it kills so many. My initial contact with the first-line nearly killed me.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/24/2010 21:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Noone was on the ground seeing the big picture, everyone was just fire-fighting.

You have to watch out for that Noone guy, he causes problems everywhere he goes!
Posted by: Secret Asian MAn || 11/24/2010 22:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Can't I eat my waffle?

I see a pattern here.
Posted by: KBK || 11/24/2010 22:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
11 Dem State Legislators Switch Party, Giving GOP Control of More Chambers
Posted by: Frozen Al || 11/24/2010 11:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Do NOT trust them.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/24/2010 20:39 Comments || Top||



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