While thanking the people who made it possible for Barack Obama to get to the White house, we should not forget Jack Ryan. Ati who, you ask? This is the guy who hired a cameraman to hound and bark questions at Obama in the 2004 Illinois senate race. The tactic backfired, and showed voters Obama’s composure. Ryan, a Republican like the incumbent, then withdrew due to a scandal involving foreign sex-clubs and his ex-wife. The rest is history.
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Everyone is falling over themselves to test the US, now that there is a new man almost in charge. First, it was the Russians sabre-rattling with plans to put missiles near Poland. Next, our pals in Iran issued a threat to the US army. Good thing President Bush kissed and made up with North Korea’s Kim Jong Il or he, too, would be taking his eyes off his stash of porn long enough to polish a few missiles.
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It was only a matter of time before more people started coming out of the woodwork to claim a piece of Obama. A newspaper has claimed Barry has Tanzanian blood flowing in him as well because Barack Obama Sr’s grandmother was from a village in Tarime. What next? A second wife seeking a role as an Illinois political activist?
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An American animal charity is offering Sh2 billion prize to the first person to come up with a safe, effective and practical non-surgical way to sterilise cats and dogs. There’s a grant twice as large for promising proposals.
Given the winning method has to be a permanent single-dose method that works equally well in male or female animals, conspiracy theorists fear a winning method could be adaptable to other animals — perhaps people. Yikes!
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And finally...
A New Zealand rape victim drove her rapist to a police station when he fell asleep in his car after assaulting her. The attacker met the woman at a bar and later drove her to a park where he raped her in the back seat of his car. After the attack, he allowed her drive but fell asleep, so the woman drove him to a police station where he was arrested.
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