Posts Tagged ‘Gordon Brown’
Am I prettier than Palin? You betcha! Thanks to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Let’s keep it congenial… Sarah Palin’s former beauty queen competition is entering the political scene.
Put down the phone!!!!!!!!! It’s a cancer-causing death machine!
A big-oted deal… Gordon Brown gets his poor British self in trouble.
The modern and controversial building that houses the Scottish parliament, referred to as "Holyrood."
This week marks the first of our dispatches from our foreign correspondant on assignment in Europe.
Yes…that’s right…we have a foreign correspondent….well, okay… she is a college student on an exchange semester in Scotland.
But she is overseas.
It might be April now, but March Madness still has its grips on the staff here at USDemocrazy! You’ve heard of the Sweet Sixteen, the Elite Eight, the Final Four, but what about the Group of Twenty?
OK, so we misled you. We’re not talking basketball anymore… we’re talking world economic crisis!
You might have heard about this big conference that’s going on in London right now, a meeting of the Group of Twenty (or G20, for short). The G20 is comprised of the leaders of the 20 most important countries in terms of economics and money and stuff, including the U.S., the European Union, the U.K., France, Russia, China, and all their cronies. They’re over there this week to talk about the world’s financial funk .
Reuters put together a fact sheet on the G20’s meeting and its purpose. Apparently this is kind of a big deal, and we know that because pretty much everyone seems to be talking about it!
And we all know, where there’s world leaders, there’s protesters. Though police in London have been preparing for protesters for a while now, things still boil over sometimes. In the City of London (the financial district), there’s been yelling, riot gear, and window smashing!
Now, this ain’t no vacation in London for these guys, let’s get that straight. There’s a lot of plans for global economic salvation being tossed around, and not lightly. It’s more like these plans are being thrown into each other’s faces. Not nice…
So, President Obama appeared with England’s Prime Minister Brown to try and present a unified front, and to quell the fears of failure. Then, Mr. President sat down to talk arms agreements with Russia (as in weapons, not Michelle Obama’s).
If all that weren’t enough, Obama found some time to schmooze with the Queen of England (the real one, not Helen Mirren). Trying to get on her good side, Obama and the First Lady gave Her Highness an iPod. We’d pay money to see the Queen strolling around with ear buds in!
We’re all wondering how the G20 meeting will turn out in the end, as we’re all interested in not seeing the world plunge into a depression. And so we’re wondering if you think that a group of such important world leaders can agree on a cohesive and effective plan. Well, do ya?
