October 14, 2007

More of Michael’s Work

For those of you who follow Michael’s work, he has begun to branch out recently, and post on other sites. I tried to encourage him to focus his attention solely on clusterflock, but it appears as if that sort of energy can’t be contained.

Here are two recent examples:

A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man said in an interview published Sunday that he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work.

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“In any country, if you don’t have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development,” Rice told reporters after meeting with human-rights activists.

“I think there is too much concentration of power in the _______. I have told the ________ that. Everybody has doubts about the full independence of the judiciary. There are clearly questions about the independence of the electronic media and there are, I think, questions about the strength of the ____,” said Rice, referring to the _______ parliament.

comments

  1. Michael Grant Smith on October 14th, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    Deron has uncovered one of my semi-automated news templates. Here is an excerpt from the latest story I am working on. I won’t release it until I uncover, or satisfactorily fabricate, the truth:

    “What we have here is an example of the majority party, the __________ , and the opposition, the ____________ , engaged in their usual __________ ,” spokesperson __________ said off the record. “Every effort has been made to act in a bilateral way, yet ____________ still _________ everything up.”

    It all started when ___________ , senior advisor to _________ , sent emails to various __________ about _______ special interests. Mr. __________ later denied having sent the emails, and insisted that the subject matter was not ________ , but was pertaining to just how _______ the ___________ and ___________ really were.

    “I have never given __________ to _________ or any other _________ , but I can tell you this,” said Mr. ___________ the __________ , “If I did choose to be _________ and __________ , I would ___________ better than any man, woman, or donkey you ever imagined. But I’m not, so I don’t.”

  2. Deron Bauman on October 14th, 2007 at 10:41 pm

    thank you, Michael.

    is that on the record?

  3. Cindy Scroggins on October 15th, 2007 at 10:01 am

    Ah, the imagined donkey. Such wistful thoughts….

  4. Michael Grant Smith on October 15th, 2007 at 12:55 pm

    Yes, Deron, you can quote me on that.


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