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No i-Pods for Kim Jong IL

 
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charlieDD



Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Location: Seoul, Korea

PostPosted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:11 am    Post subject: No i-Pods for Kim Jong IL Reply with quote

Had to be the first to get this one on the board!


WASHINGTON - The Bush administration wants North Korea's attention, so like a scolding parent it's trying to make it tougher for that country's eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters.

The U.S. government's first-ever effort to use trade sanctions to personally aggravate a foreign president expressly targets items believed to be favored by Kim Jong Il or presented by him as gifts to the roughly 600 loyalist families who run the communist government.


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Woland



Joined: 10 May 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sometime after the 2008 elections, a book about Bush will come out in America. It will be entitled, "America: The Asshat years," only because plays on Dumbya will be seen as too rude for the public.
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Maserial



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Woland wrote:
Sometime after the 2008 elections, a book about Bush will come out in America. It will be entitled, "America: The Asshat years," only because plays on Dumbya will be seen as too rude for the public.


Would 'America: The Patrick Bateman Sessions' be considered insensitive? (That it would be idiotic is a no-brainer.)
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Woland



Joined: 10 May 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maserial wrote:
Would 'America: The Patrick Bateman Sessions' be considered insensitive? (That it would be idiotic is a no-brainer.)


Nah. Patrick Bateman was definitely too stylish for the Bush years.

Have you ever read Will Self's Swiftian satire of the Thatcher years, "My Idea of Fun"? That may be a better model, "The Ian Sessions". With Karl Rove as The Fat Controller.
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