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poor georgie's almanack:
The Standard Common Core of Amazon's new whiz-bang smart phone is in the text.  Its promos ignore the fact that it also takes calls from your mother.  (Today's convoluted pun.)

Infer whatever you want.

poor georgie’s almanack:
Armed planes from carrier USS Bush flying over Iraq today can’t use smart bombs because they don’t have enough intelligence.

Killer idea.

poor georgie’s almanack:
A killer idea. 
Travel Weekly reports that last month Syria launched a new campaign promoting tourism

The combo please

poor georgie’s almanack:
I suppose we’d be better at keeping the world safe for democracy if we knew the combination.

Near-sighted visionaries

poor georgie’s almanack:

Idiot (noun): anyone who claims to know what “we” should do next in the Mideast or Ukraine.

Seat belts are not enough

poor georgie’s almanack:

Control freaks. 

Here and there, those speeding societies backwards refuse to use the other two rear-view mirrors.

The F word

poor georgie’s almanack:
The F word. Feckless.
Someone struggling to write a sentence including the word feckless.

Omelet couplet

poor georgie’s almanack:
Hens deserve more respect.
They give up their children and their thighs
so we can emit our satisfied sighs.

Boom Boom

poor georgie’s almanac:

After bombing of his cavalcade, Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah said said he was undeterred, undeterred.

Snowden

poor georgie’s almanack:

Pop goes the weasel:

When the Russians finally put pressure on Snowden to spill his guts.

cheer up

poor georgie’s almanack:

Pessimism is such a downer.