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The Trappings of PowerBy lex, on March 24th, 2010
March 24th, 2010 | Tags: Small Stuff | Category: Small Stuff
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So glad you found this article! I was LMAO when I saw it.
He reminds me of Salam Daher, AKA “Green Helmet Guy,” one of the first Middle-Easterners made face-famous by AP.
Maybe Ol’ Beady Eyes will off this guy after seeing all the notoriety this guy is receiving.
Think he spends myuch time in front of a mirror just practicing?
That guy has more aiguillettes than all the aides at the Pentagon combined.
I didn’t know Billy Mays had an Iranian cousin!
I suspect he has job security only so long as he can maintain concentration. Perhaps Mr. Official Iranian Salute Guy and Billy Mays use the same concentration fortifier?
Now do you believe in reincarnation?
He doesn’t look real. Do you think Iran has some sort of nuclear-powered robot following Ahmadinnerjacket around? Is it a plot from the tiny little man to people his cabinet with automatronic minions?
And sweet good lord, I had no idea he was so positively Napoleonic in stature. He’s a hobbit (with no offense to the Lady of Lex’s house).
Well at least the guy CAN salute. In DC got tired of seeing senior officers and flags that did little more than wave away a gnat for a salute. After one COC at the Navy Yard the VADM was reviewing the PAO photos and stated that Monday morning 0900 flag briefing at NavSea (he had 12 others working for him) would include salute training. then he and the deputy proceeded to rate surface warfare vs aviators vs subs vs supply/PAO types. It was a hoot. I’m sworn to secrecy on which community was tops and which was bottom.
I guess Ray Bans aren’t on the list of prohibited sale items.
Actually, the Ahmadinejad’s salutathorian (to coin a word) not only closely resembles the current President Iran, he is physically positioned in very close proximty to Mahmoud.
Novel excuse for a handy body double, unless the president is not in fear for his life.
Lex, did you know you have Google ads pimping romance novels now?
I blame FuzzyBear.
Byron, here in SC they are known as “torn bodice books”
I thought they were “bodice rippers.” And yes, I’m sure it’s all my fault–All that swooning I did while flying.
Is that what they call it now?
Yup,
As BillT said over at my blog, “I’ve been sick while in the air, but I’ve never been airsick.”
That’s my new story, and I’m sticking to it!
As BillT said over at my blog…
BillT? Bill*T*?!?
Gettin’ awfully *formal* since you scragged Carlo, ain’tcha, kidlet?
…and that’s “scragged” — as in, “shot out of the sky”…for those of you who thought Austin Powers was funny.
ads? people still see ads on the web?
It’s all the drooling Lex has been doing over different aircraft…
Well, The One does it better, what with having TWO salute guys. And this random thought occurred to me… since the Islamic Republic has done away with the necktie (that bourgeois relic that represents sumthin’ evil, though I’m not sure WHAT) on all dignitaries great and small, why does the Iranian military still retain ‘em as part of the uniform? Odd, that.
Why does this remind me of the Evil Bert? He shows up *everywhere!*
Does anyone here remember that Mr. Obama showed so little skill at saluting during his only Dover, Delaware visit to receive the bodies of our fallen soldiers [just a photo-op, guys; nothing important] that his handlers scheduled some intensive salute training for him afterward.
He still doesn’t do it very well …
Marianne
Madame, please forgive, but upon further photoanalysis, a quibble: That thar is the new Deemocratic “git-er-done” karate chop. “I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.”
“Deemocratic”???
Shouldn’t that be “Demon-Kratic”?
Dim-o-Cratic. It’s the latest in gadgets that will chop, dice and puree your household income at the push of a botoxed button.
Creative! But painful. Reminds me of when I was a little kid, saw the Vegomatic on TV, didn’t know what else to get Mom for Christmas, and suckered in. The quickly hidden crestfallen expression on her face still causes a pang that taught me about gadget salesmen to this day. For all you Moms out there, I’m so sorrryyy…
The job security only lasts until the mobs finally break down the palace gates and drag the little worm Ahmedinejad out by his heels and hoist him up on the gallows while they beat him to death. Then they go for the saluting devil who is always in the photos with him.
Too bad.
Subsunk
Salute Guy will fake them out — he’ll re-arrange his fruit salad (see pic 2) and the crowd won’t recognize him.
SG really should flog his batman for that faux pas…
All I have to say is someone HAS to be the “Salutatorian” and give the follow up to the valedictator.
Geez, I was wondering what Ringo did in his spare time.