Storm over bottom (rectal)swabs at APEC meeting (Bangkok)

[doxieone]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1517&e=7&u=/afp/apec_food_offbeat

Storm over bottom swabs for Thai catering workers at APEC
Fri Oct 17, 7:38 AM ET

BANGKOK (AFP) - A flap erupted over medical checks for catering workers at the APEC (news - web sites) summit in Thailand, who were required to submit to rectal swabs to determine they are disease-free.

Chefs and waiters at the 16 hotels hosting world leaders attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit have undergone the checks to ensure they are not infected with typhoid or other parasites.

An opposition MP slammed the tests, saying he had received a complaint from an executive at one of the hotels.

"It's over the top," Akapol Sorasuchart told Friday's The Nation newspaper.

(snip)

Thailand's top chefs are among those rustling up the kingdom's best cuisine for political heavyweights attending the summit including US President George W. Bush (news - web sites), his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao and Russia's Vladimir Putin (news - web sites).

[Pale_Rider]

1. I guess the staff is not being trusted ...

... to wash their hands. Anyway, its fool-hardy to even drink the water in Thai hotels.

[doxieone]

3. I take it as meaning they think someone will be deliberately

infected with a disease in order to expose Bush and the others.

[aquart]

7. I took it to mean they plan to bugger the staff.

After all, what are the peasants there for?

[doxieone]

2. A western standard????

"We have never had rectal swab tests before. This is the first time, but we won't complain because we know this is a western standard," said a public relations official from the Grand Hyatt Erawan, where the United States delegation is staying.

[pink_poodle]

16. Ugh!!!!! One more reason not to go to dinner with Bush!!! -nm

:

[xray s]

4. Bend over....

...Bush is coming to town....

[liberalmuse]

6. LMAO!

It's only fair. We've been getting it up the ass for 3 years now...

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. _____ TOO Funny !!____

. . Does Juniour get his butt checked too ??

[liberalmuse]

5. Some things are better left unswabbed...

how about just making sure they wash their hands thoroughly? Wouldn't swabbing rectums increase the risk of spreading disease? What I wouldn't give to read the headline, 'Bush Finds Q-Tip Floating In Soup'.

[arwalden]

15. In Other News... WH Officials Report A Deluge Of Q-Tips Being Mailed To...

... George W. Bush. The Secret Service is busy sealing, categorizing, and labeling them for an investigation.

[phoebe]

20. damn you..I'm choking.gasp..

LOL now

[PartyPooper]

9. Headline should read: "Bush visit is under the bottom and over the top."

I wonder what they will do when they actually realize Junior is a parasite?

:eyes:

[kodi]

10. gracious me, they must use some really weird-ass cooking utensils there.

this sounds like a script from South Park

[tlb]

11. " Queer Eye for the Security Guy?

Bravo might pick it up for 12 episodes !

[grasswire]

12. why don't they...

.....just freaking teleconference?

This is crazy. How many gazillions of dollars is this costing us?

We have a lotta nerve swabbing butts when it was a Bush who puked out his stomach contents on the Japanese PM.

[saigon68]

13. No he snuck under the table and barfed his guts out.

I saw the tape of this-- it was one of those rolling on the floor laughing my ass off moments. Yikes

[retread]

14. It makes sense. Bush IS a rectal swab!

*

[yankeeinlouisiana]

17. This is one of the strangest things

I have ever read. If they're so concerned why don't they just submit a stool sample?? (I can't believe we're talking about this!) I would never submit to such an exam. A western standard? How embaressing.

[donsu]

18. mice to test food and rectal swabs to test the kitchen staff .............

mice and rectal swabs

Thailand people must feel double slapped.

after the bushgang leaves they will have to decontaminate to get rid of that criminal corporate smell.

[kodi]

19. finally an apropos name for dubya.."the rectal swab president"

.

[DoYouEverWonder]

21. If you're the choosen one

Why do you need to worry about your food? Won't god protect him?

[JM]

22. NY Post: Bush Rectal Swab Reveals...

brain matter...

Later,
JM

[susu369]

23. Please, I cannot stop laughing

these recent stories from bu$h*'s trip are tripping me out:

"U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites), who likes to give nicknames to others, is adjusting to the one Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi gave him: "Beef Man".

"It's better than 'Chicken Man'," he laughed on Saturday to reporters in Manila.

Koizumi played host to Bush to dinner in Tokyo on Friday and after a sumptuous multicourse meal that included Japanese beef, the prime minister remarked on the president's fondness for beef."

[snippy]

24. This sounds like a job for Senator Santorum.