Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is best known for her signature hair style – an over-the-head braid inspired by poet Lesya Ukrainka.
When asked whether she visits a professional hairdresser, she responded that she does her hairstyle herself.
You can see more pictures of Prime Minister Tymoshenko here: http://www.tymoshenko.com.ua/eng/photo/
An armed group vandalized Caracas’ oldest synagogue, shattering religious objects and spray-painting walls in what Jewish leaders called the worst attack ever on their community in Venezuela.
Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro condemned the attack and promised it would be investigated, while reiterating his government’s opposition to what he called Israel’s “criminal” government.
“We respect the Jewish people, but we ask respect for the people of Palestine and their right to life,” Maduro said in a ceremony called to welcome home two Venezuelan diplomats expelled from Israel this week.
Let’s see what kind if investigation is actually carried out.
The question has to be asked – Did the outspoken criticism of Israel by the government of Hugo Chavez and the government controlled media lead to this attack and to the increasing anti-semitism taking place in Venezuela? Additionally, why include comments about the Israeli government in the condemnation?
“These declarations permeate society,” said Abraham Levy, president of the Venezuelan Confederation of Israelite Associations.
In a gut-busting display of championship eating, a man nicknamed Super Squibb has won WIP radio’s annual Wing Bowl in Philadelphia by downing 203 chicken wings in about 20 minutes.
For his efforts, 23-year-old John Squibb of Berlin, N.J., gets a car, a $7,500 diamond ring and a crown of miniature chickens.
For lots more on Wing Bowl 17 visit: http://www.610wip.com/
The Republican Party chose the first black national chairman in its history this week, just shy of three months after the nation elected a Democrat as the first African-American president.
Michael Steele, a self-described Lincoln Republican, takes the helm of a beleaguered Republican Party that is trying to recover after crushing defeats in November’s national elections that gave Democrats control of Congress put Barack Obama in the White House.
“We’re going to say to friend and foe alike: ‘We want you to be a part of us, we want you to with be with us.’ And for those who wish to obstruct, get ready to get knocked over,” Steele said after being elected.
We ought to be in for some fun times….
According to a report by Britain’s Daily Star and picked up across the net, First Lady Michelle Obama is believed to be pregnant and expecting her third child.
But according to celebrity blogger Perez Hilton: “This is completely unconfirmed and at this point just a ‘rumour’ but… we’re hearing the talk in (Washington) DC is that Michelle Obama is pregnant. Could this be true????? It’d be happy news! Hopefully it’s a boy!”
No comments from the White House … yet.
Spirit Airlines Flight Attendants want the company to pull a series of sexually suggestive advertisements, along with a new requirement they wear a patch advertising Bud Light on service aprons.
Some of Spirit’s ads invite customers to enjoy its BSD’s (big Spirit deals), DD’s (deep discounts) and “MILF” (many islands, low fare) specials — double entendres also referring to male and female anatomy and a crude acronym popularized in the 1999 movie “American Pie” that describes an attractive mother.
The employees also argue that the Bud Light emblazened aprons undermine their federal obligation to cut off drunk or unruly passengers, and are offensive to employees with religious objections to alcohol.
The apron space is available as part of Spirit’s larger push to sell advertising in any plausible format — including seat-back trays, overhead bins, napkins and cups.
Spirit is an “ultra low cost” airline and does not offer any complimentary snacks, beverages or checked bags, but they can offer some of the lowest fares in the sky – sometimes as low as $9.
What next? Optional seat belts, oxogen masks and life preservers?
President Obama has a message for Washington, based on years of Chicago winters: Toughen up!
A winter storm packed much of the Washington area in ice Wednesday. Schools throughout the region shut down — including Sidwell Friends, where Sasha and Malia Obama are enrolled.
Speaking at the White House the President said: ”As my children pointed out, in Chicago, school is never canceled. In fact, my 7-year-old [Sasha] pointed out that you’d go outside for recess in weather like this. . . . You wouldn’t even stay indoors. So it’s — I don’t know. We’re going to have to try to apply some flinty Chicago toughness to this town.”
Looks like Washington schools are going to think twice before calling a snow day. This ought to make Sasha and Malia popular with their new schoolmates.
Memo from Sasha and Malia: Thanks Dad.
Talk about strange bedfellows, this one takes the cake.
A political party representing Israeli Holocaust survivors joined forces with the pro-marijuana Green Leaf party for a run at Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. The Associated Press reports that the new party launched its campaign in a near-empty, underground, graffiti-filled nightclub in south Tel Aviv, pledging to pursue two primary goals: to financially assist elderly Holocaust survivors and to legalize the consumption of cannabis. The party platform also calls for expanded health care, protection of the environment and improved public education.
Yaakov Kfir, the party’s No. 2 candidate, said he has never experimented with drugs, but after learning much from his new colleagues was eager to try. “But only when it is legal,” he said.
Ohad Shem-Tov, the party’s 29-year-old, ponytailed leader, spoke of his new colleagues. “They know what it feels like to be persecuted for no reason. They can identify with us,” he said.
The party platform: http://ale-yarok.org/english/platform-2/
View the party commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFoimWJTroQ
Starbucks Coffee said Tuesday that it would stop brewing decaffeinated coffee after noon as part of a drive to save $400 million by September.
“For many of our stores, the demand for decaf is greatly reduced in the afternoon,” the company said in the statement. “With our current standard of continually brewing decaf after 12 p.m. regardless of demand, we have seen a high amount of waste.”
Decaf will still be available, but each cup will be custom brewed with a wait time of about 4 minutes.
What next? No skim milk?
Gimme a break!
With the economy in free fall, the currency plummeting and inflation and unemployment soaring, Iceland is set to appoint the world’s first openly gay woman as prime minister.
Johanna Sigurdardottir, the 66-year-old Social Affairs Minister, is the pick of the Social Democratic Alliance Party to lead the interm government.
“She is a senior parliamentarian, she is respected and loved by all of Iceland,” said Environment Minister Thorunn Sveinbjarnardottir.
Talk about breaking the glass ceiling – in Reykjavík it’s gonna be shattered!
