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...Chavez has also taken to attacking senior Catholic prelates lately. The Associated Press on Tuesday cited an item on state-run news agency website quoting Venezuela's President assailing Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras, who had been critical of Chavez recently. "Another parrot of imperialism appeared, this time dressed as a cardinal. That's to say, another imperialist clown," Chavez reportedly said...
Your best pick-up line: If you were a pirate, would you put your parrot on this shoulder...or this shoulder...
...growing. One of the possible replacements: Marine General Jim Jones, a former Commandant of the Marine Corps and head of European Command. Jones is a savvy Washington political player who was quoted in Bob Woodward's book State of Denial warning his friend Pace not to be a "parrot" for the Bush Administration...
...force from his relatives. Also, a scientist who inadvertently crosses his genes with that of a chimp and creates a talking monkey. And some other scientist who comes up with a gene-therapy treatment that makes irresponsible people more mature. Had enough? No? There's a transgenic parrot that does math and quotes old movies...
...were being killed in the hundreds trying to rescue it." His 6ft.4in. frame nurtured a majestic scorn, whose clipped syllables instantly evoked centuries of institutionalized English sarcasm and sadism in the form of teachers and civil servants. He could apply this furious condescension to petty bureaucrats, a cheese or parrot shop customer, a professional arguer - almost anybody...