Pray for the People of Turkmenistan; Their Leaders Come to St. Louis for Advice
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| Borat: Not a Turkmen. He's a Kazakh. Duh! |
As Daily RFT has just learned, St. Louis played host last week to a cadre of dignitaries from Turkmenistan.
The group was here to survey our government and educational system and meet with officials such as Alderwoman Phyllis Young and former State Senator Harry Kennedy -- among others. As St. Louis Core, the website of Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed, proclaimed:
St. Louis Core also noted such factoids as:
- the official language of Turkmenistan is Turkmen (though Russian is the "language of inter-ethnic communication")
- Turkmenistan is mostly desert
- the Central Asia country is roughly the size of California with 4.8 million people
Left out of the description, however, was this tidbit from the Transparency International: Turkmenistan is 13th most corrupt country in the world.
What's does that mean?
It means our Turkmen guests should have felt right at home with St. Louis' corrupt senators, representatives and police.
Who knows? Perhaps we did teach them a thing or two after all.
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