Funmurphys: the Blog

Storms of a Different Kind

Katrina isn't the only storm out there. In Australia, a high ranking opposition politician was forced to resign his party position because of a, and I quote "boozy night out". Apparently the lad had a few too many, made a racist remark about the Malaysian wife of another politician being a "mail order bride", and not content with that, started propositioning and manhandling female journalists. Sounds like he has all the political skills to be a politician in Illinois.

And in Russia, the foriegn ministry apologized because Senators Lugar and Obama were briefly detained (if you're not the one being detained, that is) after visiting a nuclear site. Senator Hagel was also briefly detained in a separate incident while trying to leave Russia. Just think what life is like for the average tourist (and citizen), and they're not even a totalitarian dictatorship anymore. Old habits die hard, I suppose.