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June 1, 2007
Now We're In For It
Annoyed over US sanctions, the ambassador from the genocidal Islamist regime in Sudan John Ukec Lueth Ukec held a news conference Wednesday at which he declared that nobody is dying in Darfur, the 400,000 reported dead being a figment of American imaginations. Then he got serious. Raising a bottle of Coca-Cola as if it were a baby with a gun to its head he growled:
I want you to know that the gum arabic which runs all the soft drinks all over the world, including the United States, mainly 80 percent is imported from my country. […] I can stop that gum arabic and all of us will have lost this.
Gum arabic is used in soft drinks. Apparently Ukec Lueth Kookec was telling us that if we insist on trying to stop the supposedly imaginary genocide, he'll deprive us of soda pop.
But why would we want to stop it anyway? According to Shamnesty International, our regime is just as evil as his.
Hat tip: The Consumerist, on a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 1, 2007 8:26 AM
Comments
This is good ;-)
Maybe we'll all stop drinking so much soda... we're an overweight country anyways
LOL.
Posted by: MoleOnABull at June 1, 2007 9:03 AM
What a tool!
Posted by: Sam Houston at June 1, 2007 9:03 AM
Thanks for the tip.
Posted by: V the K at June 1, 2007 9:03 AM
good, take it away - i'm sick of seeing the soda vending machines at school and finding that one of my kids paid a dollar for a mountain dew rather than eat lunch. then with the other fifty cents, they'll pool it with another kid's fifty cents and buy another kid who's on free lunches a mountain dew!
Posted by: nanc at June 1, 2007 10:56 AM
No blood for Gum Arabic
Posted by: Cindy Sheehan at June 1, 2007 11:13 AM
So, they ban the export of gum arabic and the price of coke goes up a few hundred percent. Great! I've been looking for a way to quit that stuff. Willpower didn't work, perhaps punitive pricing will...
I demand a tax!
Posted by: Archonix at June 1, 2007 11:52 AM
They can have my gum arabic when they pry it from my....
ah, whatever.
Posted by: NudeGayWhalesForJesus at June 1, 2007 2:58 PM
Self imposed economic sanctions.
Man to cops, "Don't shoot or I'll Kill myself!"
Posted by: G. Scott at June 2, 2007 2:10 PM
