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Condi got to go back to the rumored land of her ancestors. No, not Russia, Africa! Her last trip there was a royal dud, but this time she brought along friends: the boss, his wife, Josh Bolten, etc., and she got to see the boss dance! She got a pretty sash! She got molested by scary natives! And then she got back and nobody cared. Relive the magic, after the jump…

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As the title of this feature tries so valiantly to assert, we don’t think that the Foreigns are really that different than from us. Sure, they jabber in weird languages and wear funny clothes, but when it comes right down to it, we all have the same basic set of human needs: we all want to get high, to have sex while we’re supposed to be working, to fake the deaths of our political enemies, and, of course, to live forever by extracting the organs of the healthy and powerless.

SCOTLAND: City council jobs apparently nonstop fuckfest

Lovely Aberdeen! This third-largest city in Scotland, lying at roughly the same latitude as Juneau and noted (by Wikipedia) “for its biting winds and driving rain, which sweep in from the north,” is a secret lair of government-sponsored overtime orgies! Or so it was claimed at a recent trial in which a city council employee claimed he was fired for reporting the on-the-job doin’ it. Fun quotes from the BBC:

Witness Pat Fraser said she could hear then director of leisure, Brian Woodcock [No, really. --Eds], and a female employee having sex behind a partition screen. She said it was during a bank holiday weekend. Ms Fraser, who worked in Aberdeen City Council’s sports and leisure department, said she was in the council’s offices with Mr. McNeil [No-neck guy who's suing, pictured] in 2004 when they overheard the intercourse. She said: “I heard them having sex. I could hear them moaning and groaning and the screen was moving. There is no doubt in my mind who was behind that screen or what they were doing.”

And because it was a “bank holiday” (which is like the UK’s version of a “holiday that you get off for no good reason, like Presidents Day”), everyone was getting paid double overtime! So you can understand why this McNeil fellow was fired for complaining. This despite the fact that they did their best him feel welcome in this workplace culture of constant sexing:

Earlier in the hearing, Mr. McNeil told the tribunal that on another occasion he had caught the female employee engaged in a sex act with Mr Woodcock. He said: “I came in [his office] and when he turned round and saw me he offered me a cup of tea and a slice of cake.”

O ungrateful whistleblower! How sharper than a serpents tooth! Fie, man, fie!

GHANA: Presidential election to pit druggie against corpse

Ghana’s going to be holding presidential elections in December, but that’s totally months away, so candidate John Evans Atta Mills of the NDC party is spending some “me time” in South Africa. (Hey Americans! Would you like some or all of your presidential candidates to currently be in a country several thousand miles away from here?) What with him being out of the country, naturally some rumors began to spread, thanks to rumor-mongering Websites (yay, technology!), that Atta Mills was actually dead. His phone calls to Ghanian radio stations have so far failed to quell the belief that he died of throat cancer, leaving his already troubled presidential prospects in doubt.

Meanwhile, the NDC has struck back with some unfounded rumors of their own! They’re saying that Atta Mills’ opponent, the NPP party’s Nana Akufo-Addo, has a big lead in the polls only because he’s using performance enhancing drugs. No word yet on what drugs exactly would aid in running for president (feel free to speculate wildly in the comments) but we feel that this is big talk coming from a party that’s trying to run a dead guy for president.

INDIA: New day of organ-selling freedom at hand?

So an organ-sales ring in India was broken up, in which over 500 desperately poor people either sold or were forced at gunpoint to donate various body parts for the illicit enjoyment of rich people in the U.S. and Japan, which, we’d like to emphasize, isn’t funny at all, even though the guy who’s running it, Amit Kumar, has been nicknamed “Dr. Horror.” But we did want to point out this bit from a news story on the subject:

Indian laws stipulate living donors can only provide a kidney to a blood relative or spouse. A donor could also be granted special approval to provide a kidney based on so-called altruistic reasons. Corrupt local authorities, however, often bend the rules for personal gain … Some argue the laws are too strict and have forced organ traders to go underground.

Ah ha, there’s the blame! When organ sales are outlawed, only outlaws well sell organs! Don’t force the Indian poor to go to back-alley organ purchasers! I’m sure a certain libertarian doctor/presidential candidate will have something to say about this. Human kidneys could serve as the basis for a currency if not enough gold is available!

BULGARIA: Government finds government innocent in drug trafficking case

The Bulgarian government’s attempts to foster Bulgarian industry are being questioned by the killjoy opposition party! See, the scenic Balkan country wants in on Eastern Europe’s #1 growth industry: synthetic drugs! (We’re not sure what constitutes “synthetic” — are they not into all-natural coke and weed down there?) And, seeing as you need to accept immigrants to do the jobs that Bulgarians won’t do, they got Serbian national Budimir Kujovic to start up his own little industry with hopes that soon when people think of getting high, they think “Bulgaria!”

Unfortunately, someone didn’t get the memo, and Kujovic got arrested. At that point it came out that he had gotten a hold of a legit Bulgarian passport despite the fact that he had been banned from the country for ten years in 2005. Awkward! But now the state prosecutor has announced that, whoever gave him that passport, it surely wasn’t the government’s fault. Everything’s fine! And kids, if you’re going to do drugs, be sure to do Bulgarian drugs.

Admit it, Wonketteers: you’ve been disappointed by the quality of U.S. sex scandals in recent weeks. Dickcember was a little flaccid, with even the whole Axis of Fun scandal only netting a skeevy Senatorial staffer who was quickly fired, so: BORING. Could it be that the cold weather is forcing our leaders to keep it in their well-insulated pants? Politicians from the tropics and the Southern Hemisphere seem to have no such restrictions on their naughtiness! This week, The Foreigns offers a smörgåsbord of political scandal, from the pederastic to the cinematic. MORE »

* Don’t fret, we wouldn’t let an idle summer week pass without a shallow poll. Thus, we proudly present: The Hill Intern Hotties competition. Since everyone already knows how this works, we’ll just let you speed along - boys’ poll here and girls’ poll here. In case you’re one of those “readers,” we’ve also got written testimonials for all the pretty girls and all the strong men. MORE »

[10:05] AnonymousHillStaffer: USA USA USA
[10:05] wonkette: YES
[10:06] wonkette: FUCK GHANA
[10:06] AnonymousHillStaffer: haha they just showed people in times square watching on the big screen
[10:06] AnonymousHillStaffer: there were like 20 people watching
[10:06] wonkette: ha
[10:06] AnonymousHillStaffer: because NOBODY CARES
[10:07] AnonymousHillStaffer: im watching on univision though so it seems a lot more important
[10:07] wonkette: of course
[10:07] wonkette: i wish i got the Ghanian networks
[10:08] wonkette: they’ll be burnin’ some flags tonight
[10:08] AnonymousHillStaffer: the coverage would be things like “death to america”
[10:08] AnonymousHillStaffer: or “courageous ghanans bring death to america–in soccer”
[10:08] AnonymousHillStaffer: haha
[10:08] AnonymousHillStaffer: i love when other countries burn our flags MORE »

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Being a White House correspondent sounds like a great gig. Several former WH correspondents have gone on to that Valhalla for print journalism, television. And don’t forget their glamorous gala, the White House Correspondents Association dinner, taking place on Saturday, April 29. (Speaking of which: Word on the street is that invites to the Bloomberg after-party are out now. Are you on the list?) MORE »