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2009-04-26 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Ahmadinejad Bribes Voters with Israeli Oranges
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Posted by mhw 2009-04-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Hee-hee-hee. :-D

Wonder how the guy who procured these oranges was excuted died?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2009-04-26 00:12||   2009-04-26 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Orange juice?
Posted by Seafarious 2009-04-26 01:10||   2009-04-26 01:10|| Front Page Top

#3 [groan] go to your room.
Posted by Steve White 2009-04-26 01:16||   2009-04-26 01:16|| Front Page Top

#4 And Granny Smith apples from Israel are sold all over the Middle East. Of course, they are off-sold from Turkey, which sells Azerbaijan pipeline oil to Israel. The pariah state also produces most Pentium processors used in the world.

Posted by Jans Wittlesbach2039 2009-04-26 07:13||   2009-04-26 07:13|| Front Page Top

#5 I never fail to understand this Bizarro world where something as simple as fruit is considered a luxury. Bribing voters with oranges?
Posted by gromky 2009-04-26 08:06||   2009-04-26 08:06|| Front Page Top

#6 gromky, when I was growing up in South Alabama oranges were a luxury to us. So were apples, grapes, strawberries, any fruit. The only time we got fruit was at Christmas.
Iran's economy is very bad so I doubht there is much money for people to buy anything but staples.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2009-04-26 09:14||   2009-04-26 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 They're only being bribed to show up at the rally, in the hope that will influence their vote. And they are being bribed with what everyone knows to be the very best, not the everyday fruit available from the street vendors.
Posted by trailing wife  2009-04-26 09:34||   2009-04-26 09:34|| Front Page Top

#8 

Fears that an Iranian ban on imports from its arch foe Israel was flouted by the sale of Jaffa oranges have sparked an inquiry in Tehran, reports say.

City authorities asked the judiciary to take action after the Israeli fruit was allegedly imported in boxes marked as Chinese, local media report.
Posted by john frum 2009-04-26 11:08||   2009-04-26 11:08|| Front Page Top

#9 BCC reporting they are counterfeit Chinese knock-offs of Israeli Oranges
Posted by 3dc 2009-04-26 12:08||   2009-04-26 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 I never fail to understand this Bizarro world where something as simple as fruit is considered a luxury. Bribing voters with oranges?

Up until the advent of wide-scale air transport, improved storage and distribution and other technology, fruit was seasonal in the US.
Posted by Pappy 2009-04-26 12:08||   2009-04-26 12:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Oranges used to be a great Christmas present in the US, pre-1955.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-04-26 12:14||   2009-04-26 12:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Even here in Donkey's Ass, China, you can find vendors selling all manner of fruits and vegetables. Oranges as a bribe...jeez
Posted by gromky 2009-04-26 12:28||   2009-04-26 12:28|| Front Page Top

#13 I remember christmases past, yes we did indeed get oanges and yes they were NOT easily available like today, also bags of pecans, (We had Pecan trees)and other odd fruit like Cocanuts, (Whole, Dad let us figure how to open them. No, hammers and a concrete floor did NOT work)and peaches a kiwi or two, and such odd stuff that's available everywhere today.
Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim  2009-04-26 14:38||   2009-04-26 14:38|| Front Page Top

#14 I love to bring a box of Clementines to winter parties. Festive and tasty!
Posted by Lampedusa Sneter1382 2009-04-26 15:44||   2009-04-26 15:44|| Front Page Top

#15 Dang, I must be a spoiled Californian. I live on what is bascially a fog-bound, wind-blown sand dune and yet we have almost a year-round growing season.
Posted by Gabby 2009-04-26 15:47||   2009-04-26 15:47|| Front Page Top

#16 Gabby, don't worry. The democrats in California are doing what they can to shut down all agriculture in California - things like cutting available water, etc. Eventually, California will import food just like Iran.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia  2009-04-26 20:58||   2009-04-26 20:58|| Front Page Top

#17 Yeah.
You know, it's sad. We can do the right thing by all -- help the fisheries, help the farmers and cities conserve and resurrect rivers like the San Joaquin -- but folks keep playing a zero sum game...where in the end nobody wins.
Posted by Gabby 2009-04-26 21:26||   2009-04-26 21:26|| Front Page Top

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