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Look at these fools. They are the Leaders of Earth, for real! These are great meetings, because all the leaders get to wear some ridiculous native-garb costume so they look like a bunch of nerds at a Star Trek convention, in Iowa. Oh wait, that’s the other World Leader Meeting, right? Ha somebody forgot to tell the guy up front, today is not funny Arab headdress day. Oh and whoops, somebody forgot to tell Ol’ Mushmouth in the middle row that today is not turban day, either. So hard to coordinate! Remember that one time Dick Cheney showed up at a Holocaust memorial service at Auschwitz and thought it was “dress like a snowmobile mechanic” day? [White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy]
Notice that Prime Minister Harper is missing. Apparently he was in the bathroom. That’s a little embarrassing. . .
American dentisty…still the best in the world.
I guess if you’ve got all the money you get to wear whatever you want.
Notice that most of the Socialists chose to stand in the “Stability” section vs. the “Jobs” section.
“Just last week, in a frigid, snow-dusted Washington, Cheney sat outside through the entire inauguration without so much as a hat and without suffering frostbite.” Robin Givhan, Washington Post
What does the above tell you? Not human. 350 heart attacks & immune to frostbite. I hope he’s
immune to the fires of HELL.
I have to say, I kind of love the huge smiles Michelle and Barry have in every picture. It shows that we’re a confident, optimistic nation, or at least one with a high standard of dental care.
Barry Sotero’s secrek tELEprOMpteR ALSO HAS MUSLINterroist KenYAN MIND-RAYS that make oTHERS LOOK away from yur kommy MEssiah!!1!!1!1!!!!!!111!
And who’s giving Merkel the shoulder rub off camera?
Where’s President Fernandez de Kirchner? Because she’s gorgeous (corrupt and stupid, but awful pretty). I just want to see Obama and Fernandez de Kirchner and make all those ugly old men go away.
Or Obama and Fernandez de Kirchner and Merkel. FANTASY THREEWAY HOSILF!
Canuck13652: Ha ha. I was wondering why the picture had only one pasty white guy (Gordon Brown)
[joke about English dentistry]
I also miss Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi. Again, a corrupt simpleton, but hot as hell.
They’ve all saved the economy by giving a trillion to horribly ineffective instituitions! Or was it somebody else? A notorious Queen-toucher, perhaps. Read how our economy was saved:
http://tr.im/i9Ib
I think Barry just saved a lot of money on his car insurance.
IceCreamEmpress: HOSILF? __ __ __ I’d Like to F…?
Damn, our Barry does take a good picture.
I can haz trillions in stimyoulus?
What the hell is it with Americans and smiling?
And Silvenito Berlussolini - always trying to put himself at the center of attention.
And Sarko - *clearly* checking out some nana beyond the frame.
Obama is happy because his sans serif font has taken over the G-20.
Who’s the other negro? Why’s he looking at his shoes? Does he know he just doesn’t measure up to our Barry?
IceCreamEmpress: How come I never knew about Fernandez de Kirchner? Wow! She makes Michelle Bachman look like a frumpy baby farmer and she makes Sarah Palin look like Mitch McConnell in drag.
Do we need “better” Democratic women in office? Mary Landrieu is kind of cute and I have a little bit of a crush on Debbie Wasserman Schultz, but no real Demo-Hotties come to mind.
Check out this G20 Summit pic at Huffington. It looks like a sitcom promo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
In other news..they also say there that Krugman said anyone making over 75K should be in jail. Gotta luv Paul!
One Yield Regular:
“What the hell is it with Americans and smiling?”
We’re happy as a general rule. Wait until you get to know some Australians. They’re even perkier.
Terry: Hella yeah. That’s why we elected him. Also, is it too much for the LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD to look at the camera when the pic’s taken? Barry, at least, knows what’s expected of him.
And what’s the native garb for Chicago?
Canuck13652: By himself?! That’s not conservatism I can believe in.
Lula looks like he just cut one!
IceCreamEmpress: IceCreamEmpress: Okay - new game: Which World Leader Would You Like To F…?”
I’ll go first: being the Bearbloke that I am, I’ll take Lula (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva), front row, far right in picture - even tho’ he’s pretty pretty much a socialist…
Barry is SO CUTE!
How can you not smile when everyone (that matters) loves you?
Red Zeppelin: Danny Glover, I think.
Everyone else is wondering who farted.
Looks like somebody got a spit shine from Michelle before his first school picture….
If you play it backwards, it says, “Paul is dead.”
El Vista:
“Do we need “better” Democratic women in office? Mary Landrieu is kind of cute and I have a little bit of a crush on Debbie Wasserman Schultz, but no real Demo-Hotties come to mind.”
Dems do fine in terms of the men, though. Martin O’Malley, the governor of Maryland is HOT and he plays in a Celtic rock band. Hubba hubba.
El Vista:
They don’t make em like Bella Abzug anymore.
TGY: It’s 1)dark suit, 2)fedora and 3)a tommy gun…
Clearly only Barry has gone through a school system that punishes its students by making them take class pictures annually.
Oh, my God! OH MY GOD!! THERE’S A TERRORIST IN THE FRONT ROW!!!!!11!!!!1!!! Run, Barry, run!
Oh, my double God WAIT! BARRY IS A TERRORIST TOO!!!!!!!!11!!!!!1!
Bearbloke: Head of State I’d Like to Fuck. HOFILF.
Nerdalicious: In the HuffPo pic, Medvedev looks like one of
Putin’sLenin’s “useful idiots”…Obama is smiling because he’s got no pants on and the two guys behind him are fondling his asscheeks. Just look at them and tell me I’m wrong!
I like that “Dress like a snowmobile mechanic day” Because why would a snowmobile mechanic dress any differently than any other mechanic? I think you re very funny Ken Layne. And laughing out loud is my favorite thing.
Nothing seemed to symbolize the Bush/Cheney years like Cheney at the Auschwitz Memorial. “It’s a solemn occasion that everybody should treat with the respect it deserves, eh, what the fuck do I care? And if anybody complains, I’m Dick Cheney– eat it.”
loquaciousmusic: OH MY DOUBLE-PLUS GOD! Who’s the dope in the back row fiddling with his glasses? “Is that camera on?”
this looks like class picture day.
I love that Obama, even during very serious occasions, looks genuinely happy to be America’s President.
Canuck13652: Isn’t that Harper at the far right of the middle row, just to the right of the black guy who’s looking at his shoes? He’s also grinning, but because he’s not as cool as Barry, he just looks dorky rather than radiant.
I had no idea Omar Sharif was a member of Saudi royalty, and a dour one to boot.
Mr. Layne, to what do we owe the pleasure of pissing in our pants at work due to your posts all day?
I suppose Medvedev would have been uncomfortable if Yulia Tymoshenko of Ukraine was in the room. I’d be uncomfortable too, in an “is it hot in here?” sort of way.
loquaciousmusic:
We don’t call them “terrorists” anymore. I think the term is now “Allah Challenged”
Peace!
Are they going to have to black out all the middle fingers, like they did for 5-6 jokesters in my middle school class picture?
ZOMG WAKE UP SHEEPLE THAT IS SO NOT NOOBAMA BUT A CARDBOARD CUTOUT THIS IS THE FACE HE WILL WEAR WHEN WE ARE ROUNDED UP INTO RACIALLY INTOLERANT INSENSITIVE CONCENTRATION CAMPS BY THE SHVOOGIES
Bearbloke: HuffPo: COME for the G-20 stories, STAY for the puzzling account of Kathy Ireland’s horrific weight gain.
Obama: Smile everyone!!
Everyone Else: oh shut the fuck up
There are too many women in that picture.
IceCreamEmpress: And it’s not like Taro Aso is fantastically competent, either. Koizumi got my eternal respect with his fantastically weird and cryptic final presser (”I am different from you”).
No question, but the original Sgt. Pepper’s cover was much better.
why’s the phone call in the back row so important, did michelle obama touch his wife?
IceCreamEmpress: She’s even into threeways.
But if I have to add Merkel, I’m turning off the lights and requiring the Ilsa the Storm Trooper outfit.
Nerdalicious: Hu Jintao is too cool for this shit.
That huge poster behind them looks like a fucking Obama campaign poster.
Red Zeppelin: Lula looks like a lathe operator who can’t believe he’s actually a part of the G20. And notice he’s on the far left (their left). I love the guy.
But WTF? Did they not let the girl in? And excuse me, but why is Howard on the fucking telephone? How damn important does Mr. I-Speak-Fluent-Mandarin think he is? Oh, he’s playing the eyeglasses? What a dork.
And for real eye candy, why no Pres. Correa of Ecuador. Hot, hot, hot.
And is it just me, or has Barry sounded like he had a cold through this whole excellent adventure? Or did Rush L. pay someone to have the teleprompter read–”speak as if you have a cold.”
Josh Fruhlinger: oh my heavens no. That guy looks like some dorky northern European or something. Harper is a) much pudgier b) has bigger hair and c) is not capable of smiling unless he’s being presented with a bowl of kittens for his supper. (Okay, the latter is Dalton McGuinty, but who’s counting?)
Just cos he’s pasty white doesn’t mean he’s from Soviet Canuckistan1!!1!!
See here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/politicalbytes/2009/04/harper_in_privy_session.html
IceCreamEmpress: I have deep suspicions of any Argentine leader with a German name…
IceCreamEmpress: Word.
Ah, I think Barry looks cute with that big grin. It makes me want to do dirty things to him. Which really isn’t different than any other time he does anything at all.
Hey–I think I just counted 21, and that’ with no kraut lady. WTF?? Who’s the gate crasher?
shortsshortsshorts: If the White House said they didn’t design this poster, I’d believe it as much as the Bush White House’s explanation of “Mission Accomplished”. Although it could be imitation/flattery.
Most of these things belong together
Most of these things are kind of the same
Can you guess which one just doesn’t belong here?
Now it’s time to play our game!
It’s time to play our game!
why is the only woman at the fucking summit cropped out of the photo? g20 looks like a total sausage fest.
4tehlulz: Bearbloke
Yeah Hu isn’t down with thumbs up smiling shit. “Rest of G20 Summiteers Fat, Lazy & Hepped Up On That Legalized Marijuana, Me Hu, I here to wook on evil plot with Medvedev to subjugate the woold.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Bearbloke: I’m imagining dumbya at the summit calling Medvedev, Medivac or some such.
Did you all hear Prez talking smack to Queen about China & Russia? Gotta luv Prez’s smackdown humor!
AnnieGetYourFun:
I think our Barry might just have gotten a little last night, what?
Canuck13652: I thought Roman Catholics (aka “Traitors to the Crown and Church Of England”) like McGuinty weren’t allowed to serve the Crown as part of Her Imperial Majesty’s Colonial Government in the Royal Dominions of Upper and Lower Canada and the Atlantic Provinces?
Min: American spelling…ALSO
SayItWithWookies: Isn’t Barry smart? and where from Osama came from? oh…thats my PM of India Manmohan Singh…
and guys forget about Merkel…and Fernandez…u guys havnt seen Michelle, president of Chile…
No one turns their back on the red & white headress dude! Check out Sarkozy, Brown & the burley man at the end of the 1st row. They definately want to keep him in full eye shot!
tulfjvzvxlxj: Actually there are two…(Read: Germany and Ar’hen’tina)
[cut to shot of QE2 bopping to Stevie Wonder on her new ipod]
Tommmcatt: If you took your girl on an A-list weekend in Swingin’ London, you’d get some sexytime too!
Josh Fruhlinger: that’s Jan Peter Balkenende of The Netherlands, not be confused with Those Netherlands. I’m pretty sure by the hairline that the black dude who stepped in dog turds is Kgalema Motlanthe, interim president of S. Africa. And bonus black guy above him is Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, who is there to be arrested for human right violations, I guess. No idea.
I swear that’s the back of Monica Lewinsky’s head where the guy right front has his hand resting.
WTF??/ WTF??? In the retake on Huffpo I count 30 of them! 30! Are they letting any loser in the class pick for the G20?
I don’t know what the prez. of Lichtenstein (I give up trying to spell it) looks like. Did they let him in? Or the guy from Belgium? And in the interest of diversity, why no Nordic types? Norway’s PM is kind of hot.
I guess I just don’t get the G20 and The New World Order.
snideinplainsight:
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Prez should have given Queen a silver framed pic of an IPod.
snideinplainsight:
On Princess Di’s grave
Bearbloke:
“Her Imperial Majesty’s Colonial Government in the Royal Dominions of Upper and Lower Canada and the Atlantic Provinces”
That must get tiresome to type or write out, especially when your fingers are all cold from being at those upper latitudes and all.
DustBowlBlues: The EU Commmish…Jose Barroso…He crashes EVERYTHING…any meeting that starts with the letter ‘G’, Davos, WB/IMF Meetings, you name it, he crashes it
i thought strong black men weren’t supposed to smile?
IceCreamEmpress: If you like spray on tanner
Nerdalicious: It’s called “How I Fucked Your Emerging Market.” The series is a superhero drama-comedy. Obama is a schoolteacher for “special students”. Determined to get through to them, Barry takes them on field trips to the “ForeignLand” through a series of flashbacks. The TV Guide summary for each episode is “We Should Be Smiling - We Could Be One of These Fucked-Up Countries.”
This pic would be more fun if Barry had Sarkozy in a headlock giving him nuggies.
Mr. Todd: Balkenende is a real people-person…
I followed the link to the White House site and there’s an interesting photo set from Biden’s trip to Latin America. Joe chatting folks up, Joe at the microphone (his native habitat),etc, then one very interesting one where he’s walking with a protocol officer past Chilean military people saluting. The uniforms of the Chilean military look a bit German. Like early 1940’s German. Like they could be extras in Hogan’s Heroes German.
Ken, Ken, if the Palin affair has taught us nothing, it has taught us that those things are called snowMACHINES, not snowmobiles. Also.
american mutt: It’s allowed if they’re the President of the United States - check yr rulebook…
Rukasu: spelling r hard
Mysteries solved:
Dominique Strauss-Kahn (IMF), Ban Ki-moon (UN), Pascal Lamy (WTO), Abhisit Vejjajiva (Thailand), Italian Douchebag (Italy), Meles Zenawi (why are you there, indeed), Kevin Rudd (Aus.), Taro Aso (Japan), jose Manuel Barroso (EU), Manmohan Singh, Racip Tayyip Erdogan (Turkey), Hopey, Medvedev, Kgalema Motlanthe, Balkenende, Lee Myung Bak (SKorea), French dude, Saud al-Faisal who is foreign minister, Hu Jintao, Braveheart, and Industrial Lathe Man of Brazil.
why do i know this? good question.
and since we’re on the topic, i’d nail Abhisit, since the Thai lady-boy is the closest thing to a woman in this picture.
Terry: Just try writing it out a few hundred thousand times on government checks!
Terry: where do you think all the Nazis went after dubya dubya 2? Hmmmmm?
OMFG! But have you SEEN this G20 Picture? It needs to be on a T Shirt IMMEDIATELY:
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/1287/slide_1287_19245_large.jpg
Bak looks like he’s trying to stifle a poot. And failing miserably.
Mr. Todd: ‘Industrial Lathe Man’? That’s Lula - say it… “Lu-la”, aka Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - check him out, he’s not just another pretty face…
Caption:
Guess who farted ?
problemwithcaring:
brillante
…..And Prez is also a Tech gadget aficionado. He gives dignataries & New World Order leaders High Tech “toys” that really are spybots.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Terry:,Rukasu: see above - Bearbloke:
NoWireHangers:
Yeah upost, Problem with Caring made up a sitcom for that pic. It is a laugh riot. We could post on that treasure for a year at least.
It’s so cute! On the live teevee thing Lula is holding Hopey’s hand and insisting he chats up Kevin Rudd with him. Just so cute. Rudd looks like he is loving being the popular guy in the moment.
And when Hopey talks about emerging economies, why always China and India and never Brazil?
NoWireHangers: They all want to make devil horns behind Hu’s head SO BAD.
Bearbloke: dude, i know who he is. Paul Krugman +75lbs. I fantasize about him most nights.
NoWireHangers: It’s a promo shot for the new Sitcom “Four Guys and a Teleprompter”
NoWireHangers: Boy band!
Rukasu: If you like spray on tanner
We’re talking Heads of State here, so I’m not being overly picky. Fernandez de Kirchner gets big ups for not being paunchy or pasty or bald–the tanorexia and “Desperate Housewives” highlights aren’t even noise to the signal.
On the live teevee thing Lula is holding Hopey’s hand
I’ll be in my bunk.
Is anyone from ACORN in the pic? No, silly–the ACORN is behind the teleprompter writing lines for Hopey.
SayItWithWookies: Damn your eyes!
IceCreamEmpress:
You mean Glenn Beck’s “doom room”
Stability and Growth?
Which is it, Masters of the Universe?
Terry: Of anyone is Congress, I’d probably do Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin.
NoWireHangers: It’s the promo art for Three Crazy World Leader Guys about three world leader dudes and their Asian landlord. It’s like Three’s Company with Barry as Jack, Medvedev as Joyce, and Silvio as Suzanne Somers. Which makes Hu Jintao Don Knotts. We should probably not tell the Chinese about this.
El Vista: Have you forgotten Janet Reno so quickly?
Mr. Todd: ghey!
TGY: “And what’s the native garb for Chicago?”
Dark pin stripe double breasted suit.
Fedora with a 4″ brim.
Violin case.
JamesMichaelCurley: Wayyyyyy ahead of ya! You owe me a coke… –>Bearbloke:
JamesMichaelCurley: Makes sense.
Also, if any pic was in need of blingy, this is one.
assistant/atlas: I just want to second the hotness of Ms. Herseth-Sandlin. She can join my cabinet anytime.
Bearbloke: The dope in the back row, as you call him, is the svelte, silver-haired Australian PM, Kevin Rudd
tulfjvzvxlxj: Actually, there should be at least two women, Merkel, and Kirchner.
Looking good, Barry!
Bearbloke: He’s only my favorite world leader. Know how Democrats like to prove their cred by bragging they were the first person in their family to graduate from college (like me, for instance). Lula was on Fareed Zakaria’s show and said he was the first person in his family to graduate–from Elementary school! He went to a trade school with an academic element. came up through the union and is famous as a great strike leader.
I understand, however, that if you speak Portuguese, he’s like listening to Bush speak English. Hurts the ears.
That said, he’s Slumdog Samba makes good.
As my final farewell to the world leaders of the G20–Was Pres. Zapateria of Spain in the photo? (You know–the guy John McCain thought was head of a Mexican drug cartel in heelarious radio interview).
I think Z’s kind of hot, but in a New World Order, G–Let-anyone-in kind of way. That’s not the same as George Clooney, Clive Owen kind of way, of course, but still . . .
Where are the women?? Oh . . . I remember, they’re for later, right?
jilly: How dare you question our post-feminist world?