The Mark Of The Beast
W-HAT has happened to Tony Blair’s forehead?
The premier’s policies may have caused a few noses to wrinkle in Labour ranks, but now the PM has developed the mother of all furrows on his brow.
Observers at the TUC conference were startled to spot a giant W etched on his skin. To some the wrinkle may be a sign that in troubled times the PM is growing ever closer to George W Bush and becoming Tony Dubya Blair.
I reckon he’s put his mark on him as some kind of weird, pre-joining the Carlyle Group fraternity rite. Ridiculous, you say? Well, it wouldn’t be the first time…
NYT Nov 8, 1967
Branding Rite Laid to Yale Fraternity
Special to the New York TimesNew Haven, Nov. 7 – A Yale fraternity accused by the student newspaper of burning its initiates with a brand will have its fate decided Friday by student fraternity leaders.
The fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, could face the temporary closure of its house and a $1,000 fine resulting from alleged violations of rules previously passed by the Interfraternity Council, which consists of Yale’s five fraternity presidents.
The charges against Delta Kappa Epsilon were made last Friday in a Yale Daily News article that accused campus fraternities of carrying on “sadistic and obscene” initiation procedures.
The charge that has caused the most controversy on the Yale campus is that Delta Kappa Epsilon applied on “hot branding iron” to the small of the back of its 40 new members in the shape of the Greek letter Delta, approximately a half inch wide, appeared with the article.
A former president of Delta that [sic] the branding is done with a hot coathanger. But the former president, George Bush, a Yale senior, said that the resulting wound is “only a cigarette burn.”
[My emphasis]
Bush loves him some torture. Torture is mmmm-good. Tony doesn’t mind it either. Seems their little torture club now has its own brand.
Read more: Bush, Blair, Torture, Branding, War On Terror
