“Here’s to you, Mr. President. Happy birthday!”
Posted on 02/09/2009 4:13:24 PM PST by GOPGuide
It is the 85th birthday of President Mugabe this month and the zealots of his Zanu (PF) party are determined that it should be an occasion that their great leader will never forget.
In recent days they have been out soliciting “donations” from corporate Zimbabwe and have drawn up a wish list that is scarcely credible in a land where seven million citizens survive on international food aid, 94 per cent are jobless and cholera rampages through a population debilitated by hunger.
The list includes 2,000 bottles of champagne (Moët & Chandon or '61 Bollinger preferred); 8,000 lobsters; 100kg of prawns; 4,000 portions of caviar; 8,000 boxes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates; 3,000 ducks; and much else besides.
A postscript adds: “No mealie meal” — the ground corn staple on which the vast majority of Zimbabweans survived until the country's collapse rendered even that a luxury.
Those who prefer to give in cash, not kind, are invited to send “donations” of between $45,000 and $55,000 to a US dollar bank account in the name of the 21st February Movement, a youth organisation controlled by Zanu (PF) and named after the date of the President's birthday.
Western diplomats and aid workers were stunned when shown the list. “It's just appalling. It's like they are either completely oblivious to what's happening in their country, or completely impervious and just don't care,” said one. “It's shocking and obscene,” said another, who noted that lobsters were unobtainable in Zimbabwe and would have to be flown in.
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I’m sure he will get a birthday card from our White House.
You know what the saddest part is? If you polled Zimbabweans, I’ll bet a majority of them would STILL swear they were worse off when Zimbabwe was Rhodesia.
Such a waste.
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Jimmah Carter and Andrew Young practically slobbered over this animal. Black African government baby!
No wanyu beef?
Where’s that sniper from “Clear and Present Danger”, when we all really need him?
“It’s shocking and obscene,” said another, who noted that lobsters were unobtainable in Zimbabwe and would have to be flown in.
Well, you don’t expect them to walk all that way, do you.
Oh, I await that joyous day when Mugabe is hung by the heels
from a lamp post. Where is Jimmy Carter and the “Rev.” Tutu
NOW???
obama eats wagyu, or guano, or whatever it was...
while Kentucky freezes.
What was it Mrs. Zero had for lunch at that swanky hotel during the campaign that totaled around $425? Lebanese caviar and lobster salad? Someone had better find out so the U.S. version of this headline will be ready for 2010 or thereabouts.
“Here’s to you, Mr. President. Happy birthday!”
This nineteen-year-old ex-cheerleader (now an Air Force Security Forces Sniper) was watching a road that led to a NATO military base when she observed a man digging by the road.
She engaged the target (i.e., she shot him). Turned out he was a bomb maker for the Taliban and he was burying an IED that was to be detonated when a US patrol walked by 30 minutes later. It would have certainly killed and wounded several soldiers.
The interesting fact of this story is the shot was measured at 725 yards. She shot him as he was bent over burying the bomb. The shot went through his butt and into the bomb which detonated; he was blown to pieces. The Air Force made a motivational poster of her.
Well this is how the people there choose to live- its their “Cultural Preference”
Who are we to impose our culture upon them?
-sarc-
this was the argument against liberating Iraq/Afgan
“obama eats wagyu, or guano, or whatever it was...
while Kentucky freezes.”
Then runs around America begging for more of our money to fund his Thug regime.
Also..I cannot find anywhere that Obama has sent any ‘prayers or offers of aid’ to Australia since a deliberately set fire swept through killing hundreds of their citizens. It is just shameful.
Some things are unchangable.
The maggots will eventually feast on what is left of this despicable beast.
And not soon enough.
ROTFL!
Wonder how much the UN will chip in for the birthday celebration.
I know, it's surprising isn't it, especially with him being a christian
and all.
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