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charlieDD
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Location: Seoul, Korea
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:11 am Post subject: No i-Pods for Kim Jong IL |
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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 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:14 am Post subject: |
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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

Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Location: The Web
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:46 am Post subject: |
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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 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:10 am Post subject: |
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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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