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You people are jokers

There is nothing on Power sef

looks like the same old naija talk-talk

priorities are just messed up. .kai

More From the runway, Phillip Limsee, Marc Jacobs, Rebecca Taylor

Dont you just hear the drums beating ^^^

Louis vuitton's inspiratïon this spring is "Africa"

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Current Trends for Spring, Will you try them

Dressssessssss!!!

There are naturally "blond" black people

i have never won blond weaves or wigs,

But i may dye my hair honey some time

Nothing wrong if done well and if it actually fits the person. . . .

Dont generalize your preference

Mr Supaman, its Uneme. . . and we are doing fine, thanks

LOL

Bare Hands. . . .

And some one is still asking if Nigeria is a failed state

LOLOL

ROTFLMAO

saw the pics on facebook,

omo i gbadun the driver jo,

Nigeria, everyday, new jokes

i dunno if it is a Failed state but it is as sure as hell a damned Funny state!!

LOL!

Thanx, till keepin the faith eh, . . how body

Vanity

hahaha

Captain America/Founding Father is now Ashamed of Africa

o kare o!

Gotta Love him!

so now everyone knows TED

Bill Gates, carry go!!

During last year's epic election campaign, Hillary Clinton said that in the White House "there is no time for on-the-job training". Joe Biden, too, remarked that the presidency was "not something that lends itself to on-the-job training". Both were aiming barbs at their then primary opponent. Mrs Clinton has since brought what she would refer to as her "lifetime of experience" to the role of Secretary of State, while Mr Biden has traded 36 years in the Senate for the vice-presidency. And the rookie they derided is President.

Now, the words of his former rivals are returning to haunt President Obama. After a distinctly rocky start to his presidency, he has admitted he "screwed up" and is returning to one thing in his political career that he has perfected – campaigning. In Elkhart, Indiana, today and Fort Myers, Florida, tomorrow, Mr Obama will try to seize back control of the political agenda with question-and-answer sessions with voters in two of the swing states that gave him victory.

Already, however, he is struggling, and the product he is now selling is not himself but a near-trillion-dollar economic "stimulus" package loaded with pet Democratic spending projects that has awakened slumbering Republicans in Congress and is now supported by barely a third of Americans. In between the Indiana and Florida stops, he will return to the White House for a prime-time press conference in which he will appeal directly to citizens and seek to rekindle the magic of his campaign.

Which President Obama will turn up remains to be seen. Last week, he began as a wide-eyed bystander buffeted by events as he lost his key confidant, Tom Daschle, amid an uproar over $128,000 in unpaid taxes for a chauffeur and limousine. Mr Obama and his advisers believed the oversight did not matter because the over-arching virtue of the new White House could not be doubted. He was wrong and seemed out of touch in believing that ordinary people would not notice the contrast between the practice of politics as usual and his campaign slogans against it.

The White House is now in damage-control mode. After Robert Gibbs, Mr Obama's spokesman, was lampooned by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show as a non-answering automaton in the mode of President George W Bush's press secretaries, former campaign strategist David Axelrod was dispatched to television studios to make the stimulus case. However, this was tinkering around the edges.

The American presidency is a platform without parallel, offering the incumbent a degree of instinctive deference and goodwill and a megaphone that will amplify his voice across 50 states and the world beyond. But it is also a lonely perch for the timid.

In the early days of his presidency, Mr Obama has seemed passive and uncertain. Instead of drawing up his own economic stimulus bill, he sub-contracted the job to Democrats on Capitol Hill. They opted to spend money on projects for contraception and beautifying the National Mall – their doorstep – and gave Republicans an plenty of ammunition against the package.

Slipped into the small print was a "Buy America" provision that sent shock waves through capitals from Brussels to Beijing and triggered fears of trade wars and a new American protectionism. It was hard for the President to defend a bill he perhaps didn't fully support himself. He neither championed the package as imperfect but essential, nor sought to make meaningful changes to it. Instead, he attempted to charm Republican centrists with his own personality and the trappings of the White House by inviting them over for cocktails and a Super Bowl party. It didn't work. Of 219 Republicans on Capitol Hill, only three voted for the bill. Introducing a $500,000 pay cap for some Wall Street executives was empty – and possibly counter-productive – populism.

Mr Obama cast aside his emollient talk to deliver the red meat at Williamsburg. It was an abrupt change of tone that will come with a price, just as the double standard of preaching about the evils of influence-peddling and lobbyists and then giving Mr Daschle a pass on his tax evasion will not be forgotten by many ordinary Americans.

"We lived it for two years, and we forgot it for a couple of weeks," Mr Gibbs remarked ruefully when asked about why Team Obama rationalised away their own principles because they wanted their old friend in the Cabinet.

The activists who formed the backbone of Mr Obama's election campaign appear less than energised. Few answered his call for house-party gatherings at the weekend to build support for the economic stimulus plan. Mr Obama could be forgiven a little nostalgia. Saturday Night Live gently ribbed him, imagining a national address in which he breaks off talking about economic gloom to say: "Remember election night. Grant Park in Chicago. Nice weather. Oprah. That white guy Oprah was crying on. Good times."

Governing, as Mr Obama is finding out, is not like an election campaign. Mr Bush's failures will give him some leeway and his transformative appeal remains potent. But making decisions and operating the levers of power is something completely new to him. And it shows.



By Toby Harnden

FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.

BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need.

FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.

PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.

CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.

DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

(Original source unknown . . . )

DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.

New York Times, November 26, 1991


I have seen yabs, but this one gotta hurt!!!

Saw the last Game

it was one sided,

Serena almost killed the poor top seed.

So Happy she Won it back.!!!

Maria and her strong face.lol

Irrelevant dork?

Somebody's son, Somebody's Father



it is well

It is actually worse than wat people can imagine, Seun.

It doesnt matter whether there is a sculpture or not

its all gone down in history, its etched in peoples minds

and the last time i checked, the Brits were throwing shoes at the BBC. LOLOLOLOLOL

As long as the people at the top keep benefiting from the mess that Nigeria is,

you can be assured that , no progress can or will be made.

Take a look at Femi Otedola, he just got a Sun Seeker,

generated from Generators,

i dont see how things would get better if these strongholds arent brought down

ooohhhh.


Mummy put me to sleep this weekend

hahahaha

that was one of the best piece of TV, i saw last year!!



Great!

I know Val gained weight, .

But dating Jolie

Politics now??

nawa o. . .

So MadMax?

Wow, this is serious. . . .

Thanks Sisi, but it seems like its only this Bayajidda thats available

and i heard hausa/fulani history was documented better. . . .

@Topic

ROTFLMAO, better dresser

ok ok,

Posh takes it away, she hardly gets it wrong

and as her name implies, her cloths speak it too

better dresser. .

I just watched Wanted, .

im still very , Angelina was too thin

McAvoy did not convince me at all, except for the loser part

ah well, i loved that they all died though, nice soundtrack too

oh my,

Me ya faru, Vesc nice touch eh.

Mr Faru, i. . . .

Oh well

@MadMax, so how do we get in touch?

@Topic,

Chris O'Donnell, i had a mad crush on him

same time with Keanu Reeves, i think it was the K-name, i love K-names

except err, Kola and Kayode. . . cos when i look at him now, arrgh.

Also Val Kilmer, where the heck is he now anyway.

@Topic,

Where they ever??