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Obamas Give Queen Elizabeth an iPod
Ponca City, We love you writes "What did the Obamas give Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday when they arrived at Buckingham Palace? An Obama aide reported the queen was given an iPod loaded with video and photos of her 2007 trip to the United States, as well as songs and accessories. She also received a rare songbook signed by the composer Richard Rodgers. The gift issue had come up after Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the White House last month. Mr. Brown gave Mr. Obama a pen holder carved from the timber of an anti-slave ship, receiving in return a DVD box set of American movies, igniting a torrent of criticism in the British press. According to news reports, the queen gave the Obamas a silver-framed signed photograph — a gift she gives to all visiting dignitaries."
Seems April 1st had a lasting effect on the quality of /. posts.
For the truly humour impaired, that was not funny or a joke. But it tried to be.
Christ Slashdot, this is not news.
ilovegeorgebush
Jackson:
In 1835, President Andrew Jackson declared his disdain for the international bankers:
"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out... If people only understood the rank injustice of the money and banking system, there would be a revolution by morning." .
There followed an assassination attempt on President Jackson's life [by a double misfire of the assassins pistols prevented his death] soon thereafter. Jackson had told his vice president, Martin Van Buren, "The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me...."
Jefferson:
"I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
-- Jefferson made in a letter to John Taylor in 1816
"Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.."
-- Jefferson 's comment to John Wayles Eppes
I don't get it.
-1 Retardant
Technically, murder-suicide does not violate the golden rule.
q: What did the ***** give the queen?
a: My iPod!
explanation: Because he's a *****, he stole the ipod
That nigger stole my bike, too!
You can say nigger here, you know.
Well apparently I am "humour impaired". Nice to know...
You mean the parent post prevents fire? Wow!
We give a fark what one rich guy gives to some even richer ho bag? If I want this garbage I will go over to Daily Mail thank you very much.
Yes, the Prez's Blackberry security is a valid thing to talk about on Slashdot, but this submission seems like a setup for political bashing or royals bashing or just plain stupid gossip and simply has no fucking place here.
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This is why Mr Tard-e McTardison samzenpus' submissions are no longer going to be displayed to me.
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