As IF Times

link IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn feared political enemy would pay woman to allege rape | Mail Online.

This guy must have some talent.  In advance of  his arrest for assaulting a hotel maid, he predicted that his political enemies would ensnare him in just such a scenario.  Not a bribery scandal, which would be more likely for a man in charge of the ‘world’ bank, but in a sex scandal.  Hmm.  When the dust settles after this scandal is all over, he will likely be out of a job, so perhaps he can set up a booth at a circus where he can guess people’s weight for  a dollar. 

As to why Dominique still has a job is also bizarre.  People are pressing him to resign.  Resign?  Why don’t they bring in the Donald to pass the news on to him? You’re fired!  Predictably, the French are all in a huff about the treatment of poor Dominique, claiming entrapment and abhorrent treatment of M. Strauss-Kahn.  Yes, the hotel had sent up a young female chambermaid to clean his room on purpose, fully knowing that this would inspire Strauss-Kahn to jump out of the bathroom naked to attack her.   In fact, at Rikers prison, where he is being held, he has an area all to himself, away from the rest of the riff raff, so he actually is getting preferential hospitality.  Of course, at Rikers, his room will be cleaned by a burly janitor named Zeke.

While the media are moralizing over the regrettable behaviour of Dominique, who was acting like a sex tourist in the Philippines, his biggest faux pas is that he is cheap.  Even though a member of his country’s Socialist party, the one that is for egalitarian distribution of wealth, he is probably paid more money in year than he can possibly spend on champagne and caviar.  In addition, his travel and living expenses are all picked up by the people so that staying at The Sofitel in New York at $3000 per night is no hardship.   The fact that he would rather try to cop a freebie from  the chambermaid rather than spend a few hundred bucks on a professional is not only stupid and criminal, it is cheap!

A guy who makes a living spending other peoples’ money and is supported by the state couldn’t bring himself to pay for a service which he obviously needed.  Fo’ shame.  In honour of M. Straus-Kahn, we’ve penned an ode to his adventures in New York, to be sung to the melody of Dominique by the Singing Nun of ’60’s fame:

Dominique-a nique-a-nique

Loves to chase the hotel maids

He flaunts, his gallic charm,

But they do not like his ways,

So he has to run away

Dominique has lost his charm…

link Osama Bin Laden had not left room where he was shot for last 5 YEARS, claims wife | Mail Online.

Here’s something no one has considered.  Bin Laden wanted to be found and killed. 

This is as logical as any other of the theories surrounding his masterful hiding for over 5 years and subsequent discovery.  According to revelations by one of his 3 or 4 wives living with him all this time in the large house in Pakistan, they never left the walls of the gulag style compound…in all that time!  How is this much different than being imprisoned in the federal hoosegow in Joliet for example? 

Paranoia had to be Osama’s normal state since literally the entire world was looking for him.  From sophisticated spy satellites, to night vision monitors to orphan boys delivering newspapers, there was the possibility of detection at any time.   He wasn’t allowed any telephones or cable or satellite service, so amusing himself on Facebook was out.  He was constantly surrounded by smelly men with guns who were likely humorless stooges.  In his darker moments, I’m sure he was reminiscing about his privileged, rich and comfortable youth.  “What was I thinking?!”, he must have asked himself a million times.  Of course he was trapped.  He couldn’t just retire and pass on the leadership reins to the next fanatic.  There is no retirement resort for ex-terrorist Jihad leaders.   There was no upside in being the world figurehead of terrorism if there were no perks.  Directing terrorism from inside a walled prison for 5 years was probably not in the original plan.  When news got to him that Al Gore was being wined and celebrated as a visionary worldwide, it must have eaten him up.

Near the end, the reality of living with not one, not two but up to 4 wives in the same place had to take its toll on the poor guy.  ” You never take us out”, ” Is Fatima prettier than me?”  “You never take out the garbage” etc.  The constant refereeing of cat-fights among his wives must have wore him down.  Five years of this while looking at the same stone walls would drive anyone insane.  Even with 4 real life wives, I’m sure he was musing about the 72 in the hereafter.   He saw giving up as his only out.  When the Navy Seals broke in, he may have been relieved for a split second until he realized that he was wanted DEAD or ALIVE and they were ignoring the Alive part.   The truth will come out eventually.