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Gilani orders all-out war on Pak Taliban
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Down Under
Oz PM 'threw a tantrum' with troops
WE ALL have bad-hair days, but Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is facing suggestions he did his block when his hairdryer failed to work during a quick visit to Australian troops in Afghanistan.

Nationals backbencher John Cobb, who was recently in Afghanistan on a defence visit, told The Age the troops were full of stories of a Prime Ministerial temper tantrum.

"Basically, he couldn't hook his hairdryer up and he chucked a temper tantrum or something," Mr Cobb said yesterday. "If it's true, it's amazing that you'd have a tantrum over your make-up when people are doing serious things over there."

But the Prime Minister's spokesman fired a rocket back in response, accusing Mr Cobb of peddling fictions created by a Liberal Party "dirt unit".

Mr Cobb's claims were "laughable, ridiculous and untrue", Mr Rudd's spokesman said. "If Mr Turnbull wants to practise gutter politics he should have the spine to use his own name, not the good name of our troops."
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Economy
After Bailout, GM To Move Jobs Overseas
Snip, duplicate.
Posted by: Wild Indian || 05/08/2009 17:59 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not only that, but the US taxpayer will be guaranteeing GM warranties on cars sold in Mexico. I assume that include much of Latin/Sourth America. The Canadian gov will be picking up their GM/Chrysler warranties.
Posted by: ed || 05/08/2009 21:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Tyranny officially comes to the US
“Put simply, this legislation would be used as a tool for a judge and jury to determine whether there is significant evidence to prove that a person ‘cyberbullied’ another,”
Posted by: newc || 05/08/2009 12:10 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So all you meanies here at Rantbug better watch it or I'll have you hauled off to jail!
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 05/08/2009 16:23 Comments || Top||

#2  What think you: would poor Mr. Justice be characterized as a bully or a victim under this legislation?
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2009 16:38 Comments || Top||

#3  This will NEVER be used to persecute political speech. That'd be as likely as the president appointing a tax cheat as treasury secretary.
Posted by: DMFD || 05/08/2009 18:17 Comments || Top||

#4  So all you meanies here at Rantbug better watch it or I'll have you hauled off to jail!

Actually, it simplifies our troll problem. Shoot your mouth off, get banned before any rantburg regular even has a chance to sink their teeth in.

Feelings preserved; no one gets upset. Like a lobotomy, like Obamanism...
Posted by: badanov || 05/08/2009 18:54 Comments || Top||

#5  So if I said something like, "Wow, Linda Sanchez looks like a fat fuckin pig", I could, like, be in trouble?
Posted by: tu3031 || 05/08/2009 18:57 Comments || Top||

#6  So if I said something like, "Wow, Linda Sanchez looks like a fat fuckin pig", I could, like, be in trouble?

If she was married to Mark Sanchez you could be...
Posted by: badanov || 05/08/2009 19:06 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2009-05-08
  Gilani orders all-out war on Pak Taliban
Thu 2009-05-07
  Sufi Mohammad's son killed in Lower Dir shelling
Wed 2009-05-06
  Mashaal: Hamas wants 10 year cease-fire
Tue 2009-05-05
  Pirates captured after attacking the wrong ship
Mon 2009-05-04
  Khaled Mashaal re-elected Hamas political leader
Sun 2009-05-03
  64 civilians killed in Lanka hospital attack
Sat 2009-05-02
  60 Taliban killed in Buner offensive
Fri 2009-05-01
  Taliban hold Buner town people hostage
Thu 2009-04-30
  U.S. missile strikes kill 10 in South Waziristan
Wed 2009-04-29
  70 militants killed in Pak operation
Tue 2009-04-28
  TNSM suspends talks with govt
Mon 2009-04-27
  Suspect in Bat Ayin attack in custody
Sun 2009-04-26
  North Korea reactivates its nuclear program
Sat 2009-04-25
  US may use daisy-cutters 'if Pakistan shows reluctance'
Fri 2009-04-24
  73 killed in twin suicide blasts in Baghdad


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