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Brundle_Fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:48 AM
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BREAKING NEWS: U.S. official tells AP that North Korea's Kim Jong Il may have suffered stroke
Source: MSNBC

BREAKING NEWS: U.S. official tells AP that North Korea's Kim Jong Il may have suffered stroke

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26622075/
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mr_hat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:49 AM
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1. How will we know?
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:54 AM
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7. He'll Golf a 19
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ohio2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:17 AM
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16. and bowl a 300...again
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ohio2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:12 AM
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13. We will know if he is a public "NO SHOW" for the 60th anniversary party next week
Edited on Tue Sep-09-08 09:14 AM by ohio2007
He loves being in the limelight.

Is his 2nd oldest ready to become #1 or will the inner circle shake things up ?
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:51 AM
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2. I thought the latest was that he was dead & had been for months
or longer, relying on doubles to carry of the ruse. Oh, that's right he's hanging out with Osama bin laden, sharing his portable dialysis unit in a cave in Afghanstan....:eyes:

I don't believe anything our "government" reports any more.
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:06 AM
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10. Oh gosh, I posted that article from Drudge.
I thought it was too funny.
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sharp_stick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:52 AM
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3. Although that would make me very happy
hasn't he "suffered" all sorts of maladies reported by "US officials" over the last 10 years? The only way I think we'll find out about this is when his cronies have installed the next disgusting despot.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:52 AM
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4. K to the J and I & L Kim is in the Hissy
Where is the voice monkey when we need him?
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seasat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:52 AM
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5. You mean Il is ill?
Sorry. I couldn't resist.

Who will be his replacement if he passes away?
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:53 AM
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6. Kim Jong Il is Ill?
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 08:57 AM
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8. It aint over until '10,000 weeping cranes descend from heaven to carry him up', or some such crap...
as reported by North Korean media.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:07 AM
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11. It's more likely that 10,000 weeping cranes will peck the bugger to death.
...or lift him up and drop him on a rock.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:23 AM
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17. I'd rather see them bugger the pecker to death
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ohio2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:16 AM
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14. That was a great propaganda film they put out but the south Korea
analysis was pretty interesting on just how mindless those folks really have become
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:03 AM
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9. Kim Jong Il ill. Too too bad bad.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:11 AM
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12. What is interesting about this is not his impending death.
Karma has long cried out for this or worse. No, it is what will follow. China just took it's many thousands of years old emperor system and put a Mao/Stalin spin on it, complete with warlords(PLA). Korea took its ancient royal system and put a Kim/Stalin-at-his-worst spin on it. In the NK version, it was all built around a quasi-divine cult of personality.

What comes after The Kim Dynasty is gone will be most interesting.
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Alter Ego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:16 AM
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15. Kim Jong Illin'
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 09:50 AM
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18. I'm so ronry...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7074447351811006615
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insleeforprez Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 10:18 AM
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19. Woot.
I hope is death is long and painful.
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 10:34 AM
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22. insleeforprez?
Interesting idea!
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 10:21 AM
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20. Why is my first thought on something like this always CIA?
Any other leader of almost any other country I think nothing of it. Except for certain South America countries plus Iran and a couple of others my first thought is always CIA.
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jdadd Donating Member (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 10:30 AM
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21. My first thought was similar to yours....
"I wonder how we did this"...:toast:
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Andreas Baader Donating Member (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:05 PM
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23. U.S.: Kim Jong Il may have suffered stroke
Source: msnbc

SEOUL, South Korea - There was no sign of Kim Jong Il at a closely watched parade Tuesday marking the 60th anniversary of North Korea's founding, as a U.S. intelligence report said he may have suffered a stroke.

A U.S. intelligence official said there is reason to believe Kim Jong Il, 66, is sick after he failed to show up at the national celebration. That official and another U.S. source spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

In a broadcast monitored in Seoul, Korean Central Television showed North Korea's No. 2 leader and other officials atop a viewing stand. Kim Jong Il was not shown.



Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26622075


Interesting.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:05 PM
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24. I'm gonna bet the North Koreans claim it makes him even stronger.
And he can how defeat his own bodyguards if they all bum rush him at once and that he can swim ten times as far in the river now.

I love the North Korean Press. My money is that Fox News is taking notes as we speak.
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Andreas Baader Donating Member (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:05 PM
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30. I saw where...
I saw where the first time he ever fired a gun he put 10 bullets one right after the other through the center of the target, from more than 100 meters away.
He's like superman.
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:22 PM
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31. I believe they actually teach the citizens..
that he invented the toaster and the jet engine. I guess once you've got the toaster down, the jet engine is a breeze.
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jpertello Donating Member (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:05 PM
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25. If he dies they'll never even tell their citizens
And even if they tell them they'll claim he's still their leader. It's a weird country.:eyes:
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progdonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:05 PM
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26. probably use stand-ins like Hussein...
Only instead of being used as decoys, they'll be used to keep up the appearance that he's still alive.

Sure, the rest of the world will know it's a total crock, but North Koreans won't have a clue.

This of course reminds me of the classic SNL: "Generalissimo Fransisco Franco is still dead! Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow!!!"
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:05 PM
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27. Kind of like Cuba?
Had to be said :).
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:05 PM
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28. Kim Jong Il is Ill?
:shrug:
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Tarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 12:05 PM
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29. Just like his cousin, Menta Lee Il
(from Letterman)

:)
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ohio2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 06:48 PM
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32. LOL. that was worth the price of admission alone
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 11:31 PM
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33. Well I'll be praying for him
maybe i'm not supposed to pray for that kind of result. :shrug:
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