From Pyongyang to the Nile: Durable Kims, Rising Sons of Guns
When Kim Il-Sung died many moons ago, he bequeathed North Korea, its land and its people, to his pudgy son Kim Jung-Il.
Kim Jung-Il was long expected to bequeath the Democratic Socialist People’s Republic of Korea to his older son, Kim Jung-Nam. Now reports are surfacing that Kimmy (the elder) is planning to hand over power to his youngest son, Kin Jung-Oon, for now.
In Egypt president Hosni Mubarak was appointed by Anwar Sadat as vice president. After his assassination in 1981, Mubarak became president. Mubarak was widely knows in the Arab world as (La vache qui rite), the laughing or grinning cow, after a famous brand of French spread cheese (no, it tastes like real cheese, not like the c--- called Velveeta). He was called that because he that was what he did during meetings: he just grinned at Sadat. He always grinned at meeting under Sadat. He also nodded his agreement with everything Sadat said. But after becoming president he was called that mostly behind his back.
Now he is reported to prepare his youngest son Jamal (Gamal)to inherit. He has refused to appoint a vice president, a very irresponsible thing that could lead to chaos when he dies. Unless he is already dead but neither he nor anybody else knows it, yet. (In that case how would we find out? don’t tell me it is the odor, stupid).
Before that Syria’s Hafez al-Asad bequeathed the country to his younger son, after his elder son died.
Libya’s Qaddafi is probably planning to hand over, after he dies, to one of his son…
And these guys are not even monarchs…yet.
Cheers
mhg
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