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Kerry to Spend $10 Million to Fight 'Gender-Based Violence'
2013-09-24
[WEEKLYSTANDARD] The State Department today announced that John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 would spend $10 million "to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in humanitarian emergencies worldwide."

"Secretary of State John Kerry announced Monday the provision of $10 million in funding for a new U.S. initiative, Safe from the Start, to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in humanitarian emergencies worldwide. Secretary Kerry emphasized that in the face of conflict and disaster, we should strive to protect women and girls from sexual assault and other violence," reads the State Department blurb.
Posted by:Fred

#15  OK, I had to look it up...



...I do believe I see a slight resemblance.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2013-09-24 15:43  

#14  Also sprach dass cassowary

*Applause*
Posted by: Pappy   2013-09-24 15:05  

#13  Yeah, Ebbang....I knew that.
Posted by: tu3031   2013-09-24 13:45  

#12  Any bets on whether this includes abortions for sex selection?
Posted by: Jaising Creque9323   2013-09-24 13:19  

#11  He just whip out his checkbook?

From reading just the headline, that's what I thought. But reading the article it looks like he's gonna spend government money...tax money...other peoples' money. Maybe he should ask Teresa if she wants to pony up some of that Heinz money.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2013-09-24 12:19  

#10  Perhaps he took out a second mortgage on his yacht.
Posted by: Bobby   2013-09-24 11:49  

#9  He just whip out his checkbook?
Posted by: tu3031   2013-09-24 11:15  

#8  Now, datsa pome.
Posted by: Fred   2013-09-24 10:46  

#7  #2 What happened to the sequester?

Sequester pour vous, but not for nous.

Also this totally OT bit of public OCD:

Atop John Kerry, Secretary,
Visionary emissary,
In a hairy topiary
Of an aspect funerary,
Sang a merry cassowary:

"Pursuing my itinerary,
Winging far across the prairie,
Wending up an estuary,
Past an ancient Cemetery,
Wandering very weak and weary
Back across a tributary,
Looking for a perch, an aerie,
Or a tree, perhaps that cherry...
No, there is my sanctuary
Spot for me to rest and tarry!

"I landed softly, sedentary,
On the coiffure unitary
Of altitude extraordinary,
Like the head-dress honorary
That crowns cigar-store statuary.
One moment he was stationary,
The next he up and sang, unwary,
A bittersweet, morose canary:
'Oh, to be a Legionary,
That my exploits military,
Mercenary, sanguinary
(certainly not imaginary!)
Might inspire the commentary
Literary, salutary,
Of an ink-stained functionary:
Sing my prowess legendary!
For I am far from ordinary,
Always there when things get scary,
Chasing down the adversary,
Cuz I'm a hunter, not a fairy!'
Here he stopped and sipped his sherry."
Also sprach dass cassowary.

Just a footnote cautionary:
Of poetic fowls be wary
If ye rimes be arbitrary
See a bird apothecary
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2013-09-24 08:40  

#6  Hitting the tip jar for $20. I stole the Kerry in a beret image and used it here:

http://forum.ebaumsworld.com/showthread.php?366534-Kerry-to-Spend-10-Million-to-Fight-Gender-Based-Violence



Posted by: jpal   2013-09-24 08:34  

#5  Dear Nancy, you were saying there was no where else to cut in the budget?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-09-24 08:26  

#4  Don't forget all the administrative expenses. They'll be lucky to get condolence emails. Feel good politics.
Posted by: Dale   2013-09-24 07:46  

#3  There's a girl in my son's class (3rd grade) who beats up all the boys and calls them wusses, Mr Secretary.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-09-24 04:42  

#2  What happened to the sequester?
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-09-24 00:17  

#1  Yep, pissing 10M in the winds
Posted by: texhooey   2013-09-24 00:06  

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