The Russian government needs money. Luckily, Russia’s finance minister Alexei Kurdin has found the perfect solution to ensure that budget shortfalls don’t force cuts in the services the government is able to provide its people (like health care). Smoke. A lot. And drink alcohol. That too. “If you smoke a pack of cigarettes…
Read the rest of this entry »Jimmy Carter is not dead, nor is he too busy building houses or building houses out of old peanut shells, because reportedly he is headed to North Korea, presumable to secure the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes, an American who has been imprisoned by the regime there. Current U.S. diplomatic policy is to not engage the rogue [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Haiti’s Electoral Commission rejected Wyclef Jean’s bid to run in the next presidential elections. The former Fuggees rapper was not on the list of the 19 approved candidates. His candidacy was rejected beause he didn’t meet the residency requirements of having lived 5 consecutive years in Haiti prior to running. Although he hasn’t lived [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is generally not a big fan of the west. While recent years have seen Ahmadinejad identify the west’s military, economic, religious, and cultural practices as sources of its despicable inferiority, this past weekend saw him identify a new enemy in the west’s obviously satanic arsenal–cephalopods. Evidently tired of having his holocaust [...]
Read the rest of this entry »At a private meeting of ministers in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, the Afghan President, according to Camelia Entekhabi-Fard’s sources said that Western countries involved in Afghanistan were like “a stick in our ass that won’t allow us to sit properly,” and “it is our mistake to let them get involved so deeply.” That’s interesting, the Karzai [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Last week, a friend called me from Kabul. He’d been jolted awake in the middle of the night by the sound of heavy gunfire. “Kidnappers stormed a house in my neighborhood, and then got chased out,” he told me. “People were shooting AK-47′s along the street in front of my house.” My friend is [...]
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