Brainless

1.Obama's first election campaign add: " The 2012 election campaign is underway. This election will be decided not by what I do but by what you do". COMMENT:  Wow! Really? I kid you not.



2.CAIRO - Egypt's elections commission on Monday lowered its turnout figure for the first stage of a parliamentary election, blaming a counting mistake that skewed numbers published last week. "The accurate percentage of attendance in the first round was 52 percent, not 62 percent," Abdel Moez Ibrahim, head of the elections body, told reporters. He said members of the commission's secretariat made the error, adding that he "was very tired" when he gave initial figures at a news conference last week. COMMENT: Abdel baby, you get an "A" for honesty and  an "A+" for naivety.


3.Standing next to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the White House, Obama rejected an effort by Republicans in Congress to tie support for the $7 billion project to a payroll tax extension and insisted a final decision would follow a "rigorous" review process apart from politics. COMMENT: And the decision not to decide until after the elections is what exactly?


4.Syrian President Bashar Assad has denied responsibility for the killing of thousands of anti-government protesters. During the interview, the beleaguered Syrian ruler said that although he is president he does not “own the country, so they're not my forces.” COMMENT: And this fella is an educated doctor.....


5.Russian president Medvedev claims his twitter account was hacked. Whatever the case,  Medvedev's Twitter shocker reads: "It has become clear that if a person writes the expression 'party of swindlers and thieves' in their blog then they are a stupid sheep getting f****d in the mouth". The tweet was deleted soon afterwards. COMMENT: I was wondering whether sheep in Russia have to be married to commit such inappropriate acts? 


6.Saudi arabia has an anti-witchcraft unit.The unit, established in 2009, is charged with apprehending sorcerers and reversing the detrimental effects of their spells in the Gulf country.
When the severed head of a wolf wrapped in women's lingerie turned up near the city of Tabouk in northern Saudi Arabia this week, authorities knew they had another case of witchcraft on their hands, a capital offence in the ultra-conservative desert kingdom. Saudi Arabia takes witchcraft so seriously that it has banned the Harry Potter series by British writer J.K. Rowling. Abdullah Jaber: "In accordance with our Islamic tradition we believe that magic really exists. The fact that an official body, subordinate to the Saudi Ministry of Interior, has a unit to combat sorcery proves that the government recognizes this, like Muslims worldwide." COMMENT: What's to comment?


7.From Occupy Wall Street: "The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to fight back against the richest 1% of people that are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future". COMMENT: They must be applying for membership of the Muslim Brotherhood.


Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses - George Washington Carver