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| Kimmie Goes Yatching | |
| 2011-08-19 | |
Kim "has been enjoying water sports like yachting" while staying at a villa in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, the source said. People in Hwanghae and Gangwon provinces, meanwhile, are suffering the aftermath of disastrous floods. The floods have left an estimated 23,800 North Koreans displaced and 1,320 sq. km of farmland, twice the size of Seoul, submerged or washed away, according to the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency on Aug. 9. Based on these figures, the North has held out its hand for aid from the international community. But Kim has not been seen in public doing anything about flood recovery. Of 15 public activities in July, half were dedicated to his personal pleasure -- five attendances of performances, two banquets, and a visit to a zoo. The rest were routine so-called on-the-spot guidance tours -- four to model factories and farms and two to military units. In August, he was only seen in public once, visiting the February 8 Vinalon Complex -- a factory making low-grade synthetic fiber -- which is near the holiday villa, according to an Aug. 8 report. Kim spends more time at his various villas around the country than in Pyongyang. Kenji Fujimoto, Kim's personal sushi chef for 13 years, said he spends about 300 days a year in his villas. They are usually in a compound of about a dozen buildings. The first is reserved for Kim; the second for the Kim Kyong-hee, his younger sister, and her husband Jang Song-taek; the third for party department chiefs; the fourth for his personal secretaries; the seventh for a medical staff; and the tenth for staff. They also have movie theaters, horse tracks, basketball courts and swimming pools. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 this country needs...a Staff Sergeant in full battle rattle How about a Colonel from Florida Congressional delegation? One who knows Nuts. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-08-19 08:46 |
| #2 But...but...Obama is the MESSIAH...oh, I am so confused. Can you just imagine what they guy with an Obama bumper sticker is going through right about now? Three kids and a Lab retriever to support and no job. And if you are a college boy...hey, you wern't going to pay back that Student Loan anyway now were you? And if you are Black ( EXCUSE me "African-American") they foreclosed on your house two years ago and you never had a job anyway. But you DO have a T-shirt with Hope and Change on it. Try wearing that in the street and see how fast your neighbors comment....even though they have one too. And poor Obama has to come up with a Jobs plan and write that big speech for September....since he's not stupid and he knows Blah-Blah ain't gonna cut it anymore....what do you think he thinks about when he looks at that .38 in the bedside table drawer? Make no mistake...let me be perfectly clear.....let me say this about that... half of the American Electorate were S.T.U.P.I.D. and perhaps still are. Kimmie goes yachting and Obama is at Martha's Vinyard. And all the candidates in the GOP lineup are about as individually appealing as zoo animals in the monkey house. Congress is full of nutless clowns. I mean, really. And Reagan is dead. You know what this country needs...a Staff Sergeant in full battle rattle.... and a Platoon who can turn on a dime. |
| Posted by: de Medici 2011-08-19 08:41 |
| #1 Yeah, but how does it compare to Martha's Vineyard? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-08-19 06:21 |