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Tuesday Open Thread | 214 comments (213 topical, 1 editorial, 1 hidden)

I dunno about joking about the Holocasut at a memorial service but doling out money to yourself and your mates from various front-organisations is pretty much standard operating procedure for party apparatchniks the whole world over. I bet every country can list a few of those.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 02:46:44 PM EST
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Re: Tuesday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

However, when it comes out, someone usually resigns. Here our hero left a meeting with a party boss, and declared to the assembled media: "There is no Zuschlag affair!"...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 02:54:25 PM EST
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Re: Tuesday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

Between unpopular neoliberal reforms and protecting all of their scandal heroes, one wonders why the Socialists wonder that they are down in the polls.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 at 02:56:31 PM EST
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