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"Skewing" Hunter Thompson's persona? There's an interesting concept.

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Buried four inches deep into your ear, more likely than not.

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"grease for the wheels of geopolitics"

So <i>that's</i> why Karimova has people boiled. All this time, I thought they had oil.

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<blockquote>Her letter to Obama requests a face-to-face meeting with Karimova senior and praises Uzbekistan as a stable government and strategic partner.</blockquote>

You know who else led a stable government?

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That statue replaced a Soviet-era statue of Marx, which seemed germane to the topic at hand.

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I think Hitler invaded Russia at about the time the Soviets opened the tomb. (Cue theme from <i>Twilight Zone.</i>)

But yeah, Tamerlane was a real charmer. Just the sort of noble statesman you'd want to erect a statue to, and re-brand as the Father of your Country! As a comic-book dictator, Karimova hits every note so perfectly that only someone as over-the-top as Sacha Baron Cohen could swing the Charlie Chaplin role.

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The last statue of Stalin was removed last year. <a href="http://enews.fergananews.co..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://enews.fergananews.com/news.php?id=2096&amp...">http://enews.fergananews.co... Now what will Karimov and his daughter use for inspiration?

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