Foreign Friendships

Miss Venezuela is Miss Universe 2008

Do Latinas rock or what?
4 out of the Top 5 were Latin but only one was Miss Universe: Miss Venezuela, Dayana Mendoza.
Gorgeous no doubt and yeah they should just cut the question part out because it doesn’t count much. Miss Dominican Republic answered the best by far but Miss Venezuela was obviously still up their [...]


Miss USA Falls AGAIN And Gets Back Up

JINX!
For the second year in a row Miss USA has fallen in the Miss Universe competition. Oh F’n well this is Miss Universe NOT Miss Perfect.
Miss USA 2008, Crystle Stewart, just tripped on her train and took a tumble after being announced in the top ten. Last year’s Rachel Smith also fell during the evening gown walk. I think we [...]


Sarkozy Starts His Own Club Med

 

Apparently the world needs more unions.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched a 43-nation Union for the Mediterranean on Sunday to help countries -as the French P puts it- ”learn to love each other.” Sarkozy says:
“Everyone will have to make an effort, as the Europeans did, to put an end to the deadly spiral of war and violence, that, [...]


How To NOT Fight A War

So, reports are flooding in from all around the world confirming that U.S.-led airstrikes a week ago killed 64 or 47 (depending on who you ask) people, most of them women and children.
While the US-led coalition has denied killing civilians -saying only militants were killed- it says it is looking into the allegations. President Hamid Karzai [...]


Seattle Girl Tried for Murder in Italy

Prosecutors in Perugia, Italy requested that Amanda Knox, 21, of Seattle; her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito; and Ivory Coast citizen Rudy Hermann Guede be tried in connection with the death of Meredith Kercher.
Kercher, a 21-year-old student from Leeds University in England, was found dead in November from a stab wound to the neck [...]


Video: Sarkozy Ends His Olympic Boycott

So the big bad boycotter is just a bad bluffer after all.
Nicolas Sarkozy will attend the Olympics after all.
We knew Sarkozy could never be serious.

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McCain Responds To Iran’s Missile Tests

John McCain also released a statement in regard to Missile Man’s musings in Iran today:
“The missile test indicates a number of things. It means that Iran continues to threaten the security of their neighbors in the region. The President of Iran, President Ahmadinejad, continues to state his nation’s dedication to the destruction of the State [...]


Missile Man Takes Off! Iran Tests Nine

Iran state media said nine missiles were tested in total today in response to what they say are threats from Israel and the U.S.
Gen. Hossein Salami, commander of the Revolutionary Guard ground forces, said:
“We want to tell the world that those who conduct their foreign policy by using the language of threat against Iran have [...]


McCain Jokes Cigarrettes A Way To Kill Iranians

In his best move since singing his Beach Boys rendition of “Bomb Iran,” John McCain took a stab at making a funny today over reports of rising U.S. cigarette exports in Iran, saying “maybe that’s a way of killing ‘em.”
In case you’re not laughing, John McCain added “I meant that as a joke, as a person [...]


White House Sorry For Bio Bashing Berlusconi

The White House has apologized for writing a “insulting” biography about Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. 
The four-page description of Mr Berlusconi, which has now been removed from the Encyclopedia of World Biography, said the Italian prime minister was “known for government corruption and vice” and referred to him as a man “hated by many but respected by [...]