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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    12/23/08

    In reply to Arab Leaders Shower Condoleeza Rice With Gifts, Have Obvious Crush
    I like that Jaques Chirac was the cheapest: he gave Bush an after-shave kit!


    I love the French.


    From 2004:


    According to the State Department's records, Abdullah also gave the Bush family two sets of diamond and white-gold jewelry by the exclusive Italian jeweler Bulgari and an $8,500 mantel clock "elaborately detailed in silver and gold vermeil."


    Abdullah's gifts also included ornamental daggers with ivory handles, worth $1,500, for chief of staff Andrew Card and national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice; a miniature silver sword for Secretary of State Colin Powell, worth $1,500; and a small golden statue of a horse for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, worth $700.


    Russian President Vladimir Putin gave Bush the second-largest single gift: a book of original watercolor portraits of the 43 U.S. presidents, bound in red velvet studded with precious gems. It was valued at $45,000.


    French President Jacques Chirac, an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, nonetheless gave Bush $1,900 in gifts, including a set of Christian Dior cologne, after-shave lotion and soap ($133).


    [seattletimes.nwsource.com]

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    12/23/08

    In reply to Arab Leaders Shower Condoleeza Rice With Gifts, Have Obvious Crush
    And she wasn't even expected to be a prince's sex slave for the summer!
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    Image of SinisterRouge SinisterRouge
    12/23/08

    In reply to Arab Leaders Shower Condoleeza Rice With Gifts, Have Obvious Crush
    A virtuous woman has a price far above rubies.


    Except Condi isn't virtuous. Just sorta Satanically evil.


    How is this allowed?

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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    12/23/08

    @SinisterRouge:


    " A virtuous woman has a price far above rubies."


    Uhmm.. Of COURSE. She got DIAMONDS and EMERALDS as well. The total package price was raised significantly above that of just the rubies.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/23/08

    @oyvehisyou: I would do just about anything for emeralds, save for studying war.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    12/23/08

    @BookishLookish: Good to know ones own price.
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    12/23/08

    @oyvehisyou
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    Image of Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
    12/23/08

    @BookishLookish: One more time.. I've always said that I'm not virtuous-just over priced.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/23/08

    @oyvehisyou: And adorable!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/23/08

    In reply to Arab Leaders Shower Condoleeza Rice With Gifts, Have Obvious Crush
    It's pretty perfect actually. Rice gets beautiful "gifts" because the primitive patriarchal nature of a country that the relatively corrupt and hypocritical American government tacitly endorses sees her as weak and materialistic, able to be bought for a couple of shiny things "like all women". Then after having received these gifts from the dictatorial rulers of these countries that the US tacitly endorses, she has to return them to the federal government, who will then perhaps sell them back to those same rulers for a sum of money that might go towards staffing a hospital that takes care of America soldiers wounded in a fight against terrorist militias receiving full aid and support from the OTHER side of these governments.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    12/23/08

    @Pope John Peeps II: Peeps, wow.


    Give the rest of us a chance at some Commies, sometime.

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    Image of Omitofo Omitofo
    12/23/08

    In reply to Arab Leaders Shower Condoleeza Rice With Gifts, Have Obvious Crush
    Every kiss begins with.... Condolezza?


    BARF, is anyone else sick of those Jane Seymour commercials featuring the ugly "open heart" necklaces?

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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    12/23/08

    @Omitofo: They look more like a heart blown apart. A tacky overpriced break up gift after the wife finds out you've been schtupping the secretary?
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    12/23/08

    In reply to Arab Leaders Shower Condoleeza Rice With Gifts, Have Obvious Crush
    "Flower petal motif"?


    Oh Abdullah, you sly dog!

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    Image of dharm12 dharm12
    12/23/08

    In reply to Arab Leaders Shower Condoleeza Rice With Gifts, Have Obvious Crush
    i hope she got to wear them on a couple of occasions before handing them over to the GSA. such a shame...
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    12/23/08

    @dharm12: Everything I know about public officials accepting gifts from foreign rulers, I learned from watching "No Way Out".
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    12/09/08

    In reply to Girls Drinkier than Usual These Days on Demon Rum, Alcopops
    It's not so much that drinking = feminist, it's that these none-too-rare 'Oh noooes! Girls are drinking booze, too? What of the temperance movement? Who will guard the vaginas and tend to hungover men?' pieces = sexist.
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    Image of rocknrollunicorn rocknrollunicorn
    12/10/08

    @HeatherNumber1: Oh Christ, thank you for saying something not knee-jerky or ridiculous. I am grateful you ended this thread of really insulting comments.
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    Image of ObtuseIntolerant ObtuseIntolerant
    12/09/08

    In reply to Girls Drinkier than Usual These Days on Demon Rum, Alcopops
    I will go stand in the huffy "so not cute or cool" corner on the drinking issue, for men and women alike. But then I lived with/dated a couple of "adorable" alcoholics. I find drunk-behavior even more disgusting than high-behavior.
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    12/08/08

    In reply to Girls Drinkier than Usual These Days on Demon Rum, Alcopops
    I need a drink
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Girls Drinkier than Usual These Days on Demon Rum, Alcopops
    Hey barkeep, make that two beer tits and a vodka tonic. With lime, please.
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    Image of bigleggedwoman bigleggedwoman
    12/08/08

    @bjonston: I could use a couple of those myself.
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    12/08/08

    @bigleggedwoman: Me two.
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    Image of Unfun Unfun
    12/08/08

    In reply to Girls Drinkier than Usual These Days on Demon Rum, Alcopops
    Actually, I was just thinking today how many of the First Wave feminists came out of the temperance movement.


    And wondering, what the FUCK they were thinking?


    Susan B. Anthony didn't live to see the 19th Amendment passed, which is very sad. But I daresay she'd be happier not knowing what drunken sluts we've all become. So thanks, Susan, for paving the way for my sloppy drunken ways. I owe you a cold one.

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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    12/08/08

    In reply to Girls Drinkier than Usual These Days on Demon Rum, Alcopops
    Once I saw a photo of my estranged wife with some new guy on Facebook. What did Cheap Shot do to deal?


    Drink everyday for 2 weeks solid.


    It worked. I got over it.

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    Image of DillonChryseis DillonChryseis
    12/08/08

    In reply to Girls Drinkier than Usual These Days on Demon Rum, Alcopops
    I;m a New Yorker who moved to California several years ago. I had no concept of having a meal or any social interaction without having a drink. Found myself at a party on top of a hill at a beautiful home overlooking the pacifc ocean. It was the rare moment similar to going to the most exclusive home in the Hamptons, only to find that the host is a member of AA and no liquor would be served. Suddenly I looked around and discovered that this party could hardly be described as a party at all. Conversations were boring and strained. All the party needed was a little vodka! My drinking has been modified because we drive a lot here, but I so cherish the mood enhancer of our lives. Live well, drink cocktails!!!
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    12/09/08

    @DillonChryseis: If only you'd arrived ten minutes earlier when the waiters came by with their trays full of Oxycontin.
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    12/08/08

    In reply to Girls Drinkier than Usual These Days on Demon Rum, Alcopops
    I acn't feel my fningers either.
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