Washington Babylon — July 18, 2008, 11:06 am
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Karl Rove does not have the time or inclination to testify before Congress
but he did manage to fly off to the Ukraine last week to appear as a panelist at a glitzy international conference. The event was sponsored by Yalta European Strategy (YES), an “international network established to promote the development of a just, free and prosperous Ukraine.” YES’s board includes Viktor Pinchuk, one of the top Ukrainian “oligarchs” and son-in-law of former President Leonid Kuchma (and also a donor to the Clinton Foundation).
Rove appeared on a panel with Democratic consultant Bob Shrum. Click on this link and scroll down for pix of Rove having a fine time even while choosing to ignore a congressional subpoena.
More from Ken Silverstein:
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Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)
A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”
The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.
