President Swap

Hello America. This is Europe calling. Congratulations for your new President! Better days are ahead for you. How about we swap Presidents with you for a year? It'll be like a student exchange, an erasmus study abroad thing or a library book loan. We'll return him to you. It's a good deal for us because so long as we don't have to vote for him it's the only way we can ever have any kind of non-White President here. Don't worry, we'll dress him well Benetton style using the old maverick beauty of European Democracy. As always, we'll let America take the wheel while we sit comfortably in the back seat. Yes we can...Swap. Old European farts!

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Discount to Kill. Only in America!!

How do you know if the price is right in America? You count the dead bodies. I love the ironies in free-market capitalism practiced only in USnA. The seller gives a deadly discount thinking this will help his business when it actually hurts it. If the buyer's dead the only one who gets new business is the funeral services company next door and perhaps a few lawyers to deal with the lawsuit to the seller for giving out the deadly discounts in the first place. In America people work hard and kill for a discount. Of course, when they do that the only thing that gets discounted is the kill. In the Middle East foreigners work hard and we the locals kill time or if we have too much of it then some of our diehards kill foreigners. It's Kill (the store's) Bill vs Kill (the) Rolex (guys)!

People in the USnA think of us as terrorists but the USnA has now its own new breed of terrorists. The Al Qaedas kill to right what they mistakenly think as wrong. The American Discount Terrorists kill to get the price right, or never get it at all if they end up dead! So how do you know if the price's right in America? You check the obituaries first :)

Did you notice that no one ever reports the deadly price of the toy over which people got killed in America? Was it that cheap really they didn't want more people to get killed?? :))

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No new hero. Another mindless crime. Whatever happened to that toy in the Toys "R" Us store last night? Someone must grasp it and live with it for a while.

Come on imagine you're the wife. You spot the ridiculous low price of $XXX.99 for the toy and you know it'll make your kid very very happy to have it. You've been waiting outside the store since 4am on a Black Friday and you're almost ready to cry when you come across this great discount first. You go get it but another woman gets her hands on it too.

Your husband draws his weapon to fight for it but gets killed in the process. He gets killed for a fucking little toy in front of his wife and kid. You're fucked up so your first concern must be to make sure your husband didn't die in vain. What must your instant reaction be just like you saw it in the movies? Try and secure the toy of course!!

In order to do that you must grab your dead husband's gun fist and then shoot at the wife of the other guy who already grabbed her husband's gun and is ready to shoot back at you. Your little brad who lost his toy keeps crying "Shoot Mama, Shoot! Shoot that Bitch!!"

But according to the news you didn't do that. The shooting didn't go on. And that's because someone must have taken the toy away and there's no toy to secure. So your husband did die for nothing. What do you do when your husband dies for nothing? You go crazy, totally ballistic and that's when you start shooting the Bitch out of excruciating range!!

But according to the news that didn't happen either. You didn't shoot the Bitch. You didn't shoot the sheriff either. Not even the deputy. And why's that I ask? That's because women in America don't carry their own weapons like their husbands do.

That is so unfair, so politically incorrect and so sexist. Women should carry their own weapons and be able to shoot the sheriff and the deputy. Ask Sarah Palin who was ready to go on a hunting spree with Sarkozy and without a dick and a black guy to block her way she would have done it.

But at least the foxy Miss Alaska Governor could take up the French wolf's offer because she had a gun and great hunting-vision glasses too. All women in America aspire to the same rights and glasses don't they? :)

So fax your complain to the NRA today! Women should carry guns too, it's not fair that their husbands get killed for nothing. Female gun ownership must be better regulated. With the black guy in charge now there is no better timing for more regulation. Under the law, women in America should also carry guns and not just in the movies.. :P:P:P

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curious to know if benjamin (un)button(ed) lolita?

the story is brilliant and the movie is perhaps a very smart way to sneak in 'lolita' back into america but from the front door this time. as you know, the story of lolita is the story of an old man falling in love with a little girl. it was judged too immoral to be allowed to be seen in america. the brilliant trick with the benjamin button movie was that they convinced people that an old man could develop a connection with a young girl because he was a little boy inside. if old-looking is not same as old yet all old men are old-looking and if all old-looking old men develop into little kids anyway as they age, then what's to stop old men now from openly pursuing hidden lolita dreams and sexual desires? did benjamin unbutton lolita? i think so.

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The defeat (?) of American-style capitalism

Nobel prize economists are saying that this economic crisis will eventually pass but a big loser will be support for American-style capitalism. Does this mean that if the crisis happened during the Cold War the Soviet Union would have been the winner now? That's scary, isn't it? I'm curious to see what most people believe could have happened. If this crisis took place during the Cold War, do you believe that...

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How to improve literacy in America

How about passing a law that makes granting a driver's licence to a teenager conditional on finishing high school on a good grade? No diploma, no licence. Just a thought.

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China's Umbrella

When I think of China's rise, I think of the umbrella metaphor. The Chinese never ask for reassurance that they are a global power. They know they are or they know they will get there. How that will happen is fascinating to me. My sense is that China sees the United States as an umbrella under which they will rise peacefully but some day they will fold the umbrella down and step forth as number one. Can we imagine a world where the Chinese are clearly number one?

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What's your impression of Obama's beliefs on war?

My impression is that Obama doesn't believe in war and wants to stir the world in that direction. That's not to say he doesn't believe in the use of force to go after terrorists in Pakistan. From his speeches and interviews, however, I rarely get the impression that in the back of his mind he seriously contemplates an attack on Iran or North Korea as the right policy, even if forced into that situation. Excluding another direct attack on America, I have the feeling Obama might be the first President to end his term(s) without presiding over a war.

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