Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

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Self-Medication

by Seraphine Khorana on November 2nd, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Self-Medication

I’m going to concentrate only on positive influences. Starting tomorrow. I’m going to burn sage and eat chocolate.

People are just fed up with the Obama administration – that ‘hope and change’ thing, said retail manager Nadine Leder in Milwaukee, Wisconson.
Quotation from Republicans poised for big gains by Andy Smith, Reuters.
(Yes, people are fed up with that “hope” thing. It’s horribly tiring.)

Participants who tested positive for depression consumed an average of 8.4 servings of chocolate per month.
Quotation from Depression and Chocolate: Self-Medication or Perpetuation? by Charles Bankhead
(Only 8.4 servings per month? That surely must be a misprint.)

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Know Thyself

by Seraphine Khorana on March 20th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Know Thyself

Everyone thinks they know themselves. After all, we live in the back alleys of our minds smelling the same soup every day. But how self-aware are we really? Are we like my Uncle Clem who seems mindless that his house smells like dog urine? Do we get so used to ourselves that we can’t smell what is obvious to everyone else?

While Washington poured billions into propping up the banks and financial institutions that brought our economy to its knees, the Chinese spent their stimulus billions on an epic 19,000 miles of new railroad track. Nearly half of that total will go towards completing a web of more than 42 inter-province hyperspeed rail lines that will link almost every major city in the country. The fastest of the new trains travel at 229 miles per hour. So China comes out of the economic crisis with a rail system that will be the envy of the world.
Quotation from Graydon Carter, Wild on the Street, Vanity Fair

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Love Drunk

by Seraphine Khorana on July 2nd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Love Drunk

Why do politicians make the worst decisions?

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford: Mistress is ‘soul mate,’ but I want to fall back in love with wife (New York Daily News)

I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light – but hey, that would be going into sexual details…
Quotation from Governor Mark Sanford, written in an email to his “soulmate” Maria Belen Chapur

He was writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids.
Quotation from Jenny Sanford, on her husband’s mysterious “disappearance”

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The Italian Job: Cultivated & Prepared

by Seraphine Khorana on May 4th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
The Italian Job: Cultivated & Prepared

I heard rumors that this may be Paula Abdul’s last season as a judge on American Idol.
Note to the Fox Network: I’m available!

Berlusconi’s Wife Wants to File For Divorce (Reuters)
Silvio Berlusconi’s Wife Attacks His ‘Shameless’ Election Stunt (Times Online)

She stood by him when he phoned adult sex lines. She remained by his side after he employed a topless model in his Cabinet. She even forgave the relentless flirting with women a third his age.
Quotation from The Times Online
(His wife disagreed with his plan to field “young attractive showgirls” in the European Parliament elections)

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Blind Diplomacy (children rule the world)

by Seraphine Khorana on April 19th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Blind Diplomacy (children rule the world)

The United States is boycotting a United Nations Conference on Racism because Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will address the plenary on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Instead of avoiding the conference, the U.S. should attend, listen and speak out against racism and hate. The world needs meaningful dialogue, not more “lines in the sand.”

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interwar period, appeasement of Fascism.
Quotation from Barbara Tuchman, If Mao Had Come to Washington in 1945

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Quotation from Tony Benn

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Karmic Benevolence

by Seraphine Khorana on November 11th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Karmic Benevolence

What goes around comes around. But be careful, because you don’t want to be caught looking the wrong way when it happens.

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?
Quotation from Will Rogers

In anticipating the unexpected, there are at least four political events in the Middle East that could make Obama’s hair turn prematurely white, quite apart from a terrorist attack. These include:
1. The collapse of the Palestinian Authority.
2. A Hizballah takeover of Lebanon, either through next year’s parliamentary elections or via extra-legal means.
3. A succession crisis in Egypt, a vitally important country with an octogenarian president and no open, transparent, and accountable system for the transfer of political power.
4. News of unexpected nuclear “success” by Iran.
Quotation from In Transition: The Obama Administration (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

It is against the law in San Francisco to wipe one’s car with used underwear, or to walk down any street if you are “ugly”.
Taken from Dumb Laws in California (DumbLaws.com)

Just think how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are even stupider!
Quotation from George Carlin

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The New Mrs. O

by Seraphine Khorana on November 10th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
The New Mrs. O

I never have been a fan of combat pants. Sure, sometimes someone catches my attention wearing them, but it is never the pants themselves that attract me.

They tell me that it all was too rapid. That’s not true between Nicolas and me. It didn’t happen rapidly. It was immediate… I know you don’t get married in an instant and that even more, we were in the spotlight. But lovers, you know, have their own sense of time… I wished to marry him right away. I felt that with him nothing bad could happen, Nicolas isn’t addicted to power and that’s what makes him courageous. I love being with him more than anything.
Quotation from Carla Bruni, on marrying French President Nicolas Sarkozy

Behind the Scenes on Election Night. (Following the Fashion of Mrs. Obama on Mrs-O.org)

Love lasts a long time, but burning desire, two to three weeks.
Another quotation from Carla Bruni, France’s First Lady

The French President’s Lover (The New York Times) “People always secretly hate the rich and beautiful,” said Long Nguyen, the editor of Flaunt magazine.

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