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    Default Our Government is a Joke...errrr "riddle"

    Barack Obama met with the Queen of England. He asked her, "Your Majesty,
    how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can
    give to me?"

    "Well," said the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround yourself
    with intelligent people."

    Obama frowned, and then asked, "But how do I know the people around me are really intelligent?"

    The Queen took a sip of tea. "Oh, that's easy; you just ask them to answer
    an intelligent riddle." The Queen pushed a button on her intercom.
    "Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?" Tony Blair walked into the
    room and said, "Yes, Your Majesty?"

    The Queen smiled and said, "Answer me this please, Tony, your mother and
    father have a child. It is not your brother and it is Not your sister.
    Who is it?" Without pausing for a moment, Tony Blair answered, "That would
    be me." "Yes! Very good," said the Queen.

    Obama went back home to ask Joe Biden, his vice presidential choice, the
    same question. "Joe, answer this for me. Your mother and your father have
    a child. It's not your brother and it's not your sister. Who is it?"

    "I'm not sure," said Biden. "Let me get back to you on that one...." He went
    to his advisors and asked every one, but none could give him an answer.
    Finally, he ran into Sarah Palin out eating one night. Biden asked,
    "Sarah, can you answer this for me? Your mother and father have a child
    and it's not your brother or your sister. Who is it?" Sarah Palin answered
    back, "That's easy, it's me!"

    Biden smiled, and said, "Thanks!" Then, he went back to speak with Obama.
    "Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle. It's Sarah
    Palin!"

    Obama got up, stomped over to Biden, and angrily yelled into his face,
    "No! You idiot! It's Tony Blair!"


    ....AND THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT'S GOING ON WITH OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

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    LOL. Old joke, but it is still funny.
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    LOL. Old joke, but it is still funny.
    I figured it could be. By the time they make their rounds on the internet to you, it is likely about a 1000th rendition. A poke at Joe Biden with Sarah Palin was too good to pass up for me.

    Call me weak...

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    Tony Blair hasn't even been prime minister anywhere in Obama's glorious reign, and he's generally considered to be one of the worst prime ministers ever.
    Last edited by FUCK THE POLICE; 02-07-2011 at 01:22 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    LOL. Old joke, but it is still funny.
    Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister well before Obama became President.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tom prendergast View Post
    Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister well before Obama became President.
    The UK was just stereotyped out of existence twice in one ignorant statement. That speaks well of Sarah Palin's intellect.
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    The UK government is run by the queen and Tony Blair is still PM, derp derp.

    There've actually been two PM's since he was forced to resign for being such an awful PM five years back.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Fetus View Post
    1. Kill yourself.

    2. Who said the UK government was more efficient than the US one?

    3. Kill yourself.

    4. The queen doesn't run the UK government.

    5. Kill yourself.

    6. The prime minister is chosen by the party which wins the most seats in government in an election according to the rules of the party in question, not by a riddle.

    7. Kill yourself.

    8. The reason we run a terrible government is because all conservatives have failed to kill themselves.

    9. Kill yourself.
    Humorless college robots don't get laid.
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tom prendergast View Post
    Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister well before Obama became President.
    Humorless Brits are just sad shadows of the normal Brits. And they also don't get laid.
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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    - -- The Buddha

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    I'm sorry USA.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Humorless Brits are just sad shadows of the normal Brits. And they also don't get laid.
    If the population of the USA was laid end to end, they wouldn't shoot each other so much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tom prendergast View Post
    If the population of the USA was laid end to end, they wouldn't shoot each other so much.
    I would rather think that would make things worse, what if my end was by Dixie, I am pretty sure he would eventually shoot me...

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    If it turned out all the politicians were clones would that change anything?

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