Comments on: Try This On For Size http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/ sex and politics Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:23:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: dr. filomena http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120502 dr. filomena Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:19:42 +0000 http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120502 I think the man was misunderstood completely. I am firmly convinced that he was merely trying to equip Mr. President with a shoe he could bang on a desk in the manner of Nikita Khrushchev in protest of a similarly inappropriate and misguided claim of American imperialism. Let's take a look at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-banging_incident" rel="nofollow">what upset Nikita back then</a>. The head of the Filipino delegation said: "It is our view that the declaration proposed by the Soviet Union should cover the inalienable right to independence not only of the peoples and territories which yet remain under the rule of Western colonial Powers, but also of the peoples of Eastern Europe and elsewhere which have been deprived of the free exercise of their civil and political rights and which have been swallowed up, so to speak, by the Soviet Union." I think the man was misunderstood completely. I am firmly convinced that he was merely trying to equip Mr. President with a shoe he could bang on a desk in the manner of Nikita Khrushchev in protest of a similarly inappropriate and misguided claim of American imperialism.

Let’s take a look at what upset Nikita back then. The head of the Filipino delegation said: “It is our view that the declaration proposed by the Soviet Union should cover the inalienable right to independence not only of the peoples and territories which yet remain under the rule of Western colonial Powers, but also of the peoples of Eastern Europe and elsewhere which have been deprived of the free exercise of their civil and political rights and which have been swallowed up, so to speak, by the Soviet Union.”

]]> By: boss http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120407 boss Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:37:49 +0000 http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120407 This is so funny, sho`em :) This is so funny, sho`em :)

]]> By: Adriaan http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120387 Adriaan Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:56:16 +0000 http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120387 With ex-American presidents as targets perhaps? With ex-American presidents as targets perhaps?

]]> By: pengovsky http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120377 pengovsky Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:05:03 +0000 http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120377 At the very least we'll see shoe-hurling events introduced during London Olypmics ;) At the very least we’ll see shoe-hurling events introduced during London Olypmics ;)

]]> By: Adriaan http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120318 Adriaan Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:00:24 +0000 http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120318 Do you think the journalist had been practicing? He seems pretty accurate for quick-fire throwing. If it wasn't for the obvious anti-Americanism perhaps a career as a baseball picture awaits? Do you think the journalist had been practicing? He seems pretty accurate for quick-fire throwing. If it wasn’t for the obvious anti-Americanism perhaps a career as a baseball picture awaits?

]]> By: pengovsky http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120309 pengovsky Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:56:41 +0000 http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120309 @Dr Arf: Hehehe, imagine him getting hit in the eye with a high heel ;) @Davor: And they said there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq! :mrgreen: @Dr Arf: Hehehe, imagine him getting hit in the eye with a high heel ;)

@Davor: And they said there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq! :mrgreen:

]]> By: Davor http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120307 Davor Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:45:10 +0000 http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120307 Killed by the smell? :) Killed by the smell? :)

]]> By: Dr. ARF http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120220 Dr. ARF Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:19:03 +0000 http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/12/16/try-this-on-for-size/#comment-120220 If that journalist had been Iraq's answer to Imelda Marcos, Dubya would have been dead before the Secret Service could have done anything about it. Where's the Pretorian Guard when you need them? :mrgreen: If that journalist had been Iraq’s answer to Imelda Marcos, Dubya would have been dead before the Secret Service could have done anything about it. Where’s the Pretorian Guard when you need them? :mrgreen:

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