Strauss-Kahn

[SeattleUte]

stranger than fiction (regardless of what really happened)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/ny...efense.html?hp

[Babs]

stranger than fiction

and yet entirely rational, no doubt.

[landpoke]

This is bizarre. Vegetarian breakfast and lunch. Veal dinner. WTF?

[Jacob]

Powerful man rapes woman hotel worker in hotel room. What's so strange about it? Seems like I've heard this story before...in Eagle Colorado.

[SeattleUte]

and yet entirely rational, no doubt.

lol excess of rationality can take you from being the leading candidate to become the next president of a great highly civilized democracy with exquisite tastes to a U.S. prison.

Yikes. I should re-evaluate my mantra reason is my shepherd.

[TripletDaddy]

If this guy were zwecktrational, he would be a free man right now.

[Goatnapper'96]

stranger than fiction (regardless of what really happened)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/ny...efense.html?hp

I couldn't be the only one who thought of this great cartoon character when reading the details of the victim's claims. The frenchies are all the same!

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEdBndu0YUM"]YouTube - Pepe Le Pew[/nomedia]

[myboynoah]

I couldn't be the only one who thought of this great cartoon character when reading the details of the victim's claims. The frenchies are all the same!

YouTube - Pepe Le Pew

LOL, I knew it would be either you or IPU who would use this to defame la France, "a great highly civilized democracy with exquisite tastes."

This whole thing reads like the script to some Law and Order episode, right down to hauling the guy off his Paris-bound flight ten minutes before take off. He's moving on to Rikers now.

[Guest]

So Dominique Strauss-Kahn, John Edwards and Arnold Schwarzenegger walk into a bar...

[myboynoah]

So Dominique Strauss-Kahn, John Edwards and Arnold Schwarzenegger walk into a bar...

Isn't Al Gore better known for agressive unwanted sexual advances in hotel rooms?

[SeattleUte]

LOL, I knew it would be either you or IPU who would use this to defame la France, "a great highly civilized democracy with exquisite tastes."

It was a joke.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Sexual assault is reprehensible, but considering only the facts we have, the thing that angers me most at the moment is that this scurrilous character, who suckles at the governmental teat (all governments who finance the IMF, and no doubt the U.S. is the biggest contributor), was staying in a $3,000/night hotel suite. That alone merits a lengthy stay at Riker's Island, ideally in a very small cell with a very large, libidinous guy named T-Bone.

[falafel]

Sexual assault is reprehensible, but considering only the facts we have, the thing that angers me most at the moment is that this scurrilous character, who suckles at the governmental teat (all governments who finance the IMF, and no doubt the U.S. is the biggest contributor), was staying in a $3,000/night hotel suite. That alone merits a lengthy stay at Riker's Island, ideally in a very small cell with a very large, libidinous guy named T-Bone.

I heard on NPR this morning (I think it was NPR) that the IMF has a special rate for that hotel room - $800 a night. Does that make you feel any better?

[PaloAltoCougar]

I heard on NPR this morning (I think it was NPR) that the IMF has a special rate for that hotel room - $800 a night. Does that make you feel any better?

Somewhat. Give him a bigger room at Rikers Island, with a couple more roommates.

[oxcoug]

I heard on NPR this morning (I think it was NPR) that the IMF has a special rate for that hotel room - $800 a night. Does that make you feel any better?

Given the IMF's role in imposing austerity on struggling economies - only a little.

I mean, I can get a pretty badass hotel room in NYC for $400. Why anyone else needs one more badass than I find for that rate, I don't know. Esp when you're the head of the organization that's in charge of downsizing pensions in Greece and Ireland. And I seriously doubt that this special IMF rate comes w/o any costs to the IMF.