Security and insecurity

[sabotabby]

Hey guys, look up! I'm no longer friends only. I'm friends mostly. I'm going back and making old entries public again. I feel far more democratic that way. So we're down to a Yellow/Orange alert now. It doesn't quite look as dramatic as my last f/o banner, though.

Anyway, Bugmenot.com isn't letting me into the National Post today, which is too bad; it looks like they have some utterly hilarious articles today. The photo gracing the cover today was possibly the most unflattering picture of Hugo and Fidel they could possibly find. The headline: A NEW THREAT IN LATIN AMERICA--AND HE'S GOT OIL.

Um...yeah, the Venezuelans have oil. Always have. The only difference is that now they're allowed to use a bit of the money they get from selling the oil. OH TEH NOOOES!

The article went on to talk about How Chavez Became Like Castro (I'm not exaggerating). Apparently they're exactly the same (even though Chavez was democratically elected...repeatedly) because they both used to be baseball players or something. In other news, they both speak Spanish.*

There's that word again -- the favourite word of the neo-cons. Threat. Because as much as I like him, a sensible person would probably conclude that Chavez is pretty harmless as far as world leaders go. I mean, that Pat Robertson guy? A little unhinged and homicidal. But Chavez? You'd have to be doing some fancy fabrications to convince anyone that he's a danger to Canada. (Then again, the National Post isn't a Canadian paper; it's an American paper published in Canada.) Still, the Aspers, like their masters to the South, want you to be afraid of this fellow because he's promoting a so-far successful ideological and economic alternative to global American hegemony. They throw the T-bomb around with nothing to back it up, and probably no one will notice.

Among the other articles is the promising headline: Bush praises sacrifice of Idaho military mom. Apparently, haunted by Cindy Sheehan, Bush has gone and got himself his own bereaved military mom! E-points to anyone who can find out her name. Bonus e-points to the first person who can dig up evidence that she's crazy and/or anti-Semitic.

That's about it for today, I guess. I think I'm going to go watch Land of the Dead across the street and maybe call the 700 Club again. That last call was a blast.

* And thank God! Because I used to play baseball in third grade, and were it not for my monolingualism, I too could be the next populist left-wing Latin American leader.

Comments

[threeliesforone.livejournal.com]

i told some of my coworkers about your 700 club call. you are currently a hero in the clinic.

[sabotabby]

Holy shit I'm a hero in an abortion clinic? Something is either terribly wrong or terribly right with the world.

[see-my-glock.livejournal.com]

Chavez does have Venezuelan oil now, which Cuba desperately needs - thanks to his [chavez] brilliant and incredibly successful doctors for oil program. Which probably has a real name that I am currently unaware of.

[sabotabby]

I think things are working out well for both of those crazy kids...


"No, really. Pull my finger."

[rote.livejournal.com]

That's one cute icon.

[sabotabby]

It's springheel_jack's. So's this one. He is brilliant.

[see-my-glock.livejournal.com]

and for the rest of the world. cuba has already exported 10,000+ doctors to many impoverished countries in desperate need of medical aid.

wow okay look at the sad socialist grasping at straws

[sabotabby]

Yeah, I know. While our government is busy bollixing up Haïti, Cuba's sending medical aid.

I don't agree with much of what Castro's done, but credit where credit's due.

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

And a higher literacy rate than either Canada or the US.

[see-my-glock.livejournal.com]

Damn straight. And don't get me started about Haiti >:(

[lovableatheist.livejournal.com]

at least with a semi-public lj, the chances of Chavez reading your journal have increased.

I think I might call the 700 Club tomorrow. I used to watch it a few years ago just to get mad. I still listen to Lowell Green, a local right-winger radio talk show host, for the same reason. I know I'm not the only person who listens to shit heads because they make them angry, but I don't understand why people do it.

[sabotabby]

Oh, I totally love reading things that will piss me off. I read almost as many right-wing blogs as left. I think it's important, politically, and it's funny as all hell to watch them foam at the mouth.

I don't think I want Chavez reading my blog, though. There's way too much Hugo fangirl stuff on it. I'd be all embarrassed.

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

My parents, (nice, kind and only occasionally bigoted) religious nutjobs that they are, watched the 700 club a lot when I was growing up. Apparently, as a 2 year old, I was an avid watcher of the show, and responded well to Pat Robertson's voice. This distresses me to no end.

As a sidenote, I recently pointed out that Robertson's amazingly heterodox theology condemns both my parents to hell. They looked uncomfortable and admitted that, yes, Pat Robertson is a nutjob.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

For your amusement (and possibly for icon fodder.): The Red Avant Garde shop. They got Constructivist posters (scroll down). Some are pretty weird - a communist lottery? And others you will love.

[sabotabby]

Screw icon fodder, I want a bunch of those posters. If not for this place (I have no wall space) for my new apartment.

War mom's name

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

Tammy Pruett

Re: War mom's name

[sabotabby]

Good job!

::hands over e-points and e-cookies::

[see-my-glock.livejournal.com]

The time has come, I am officially stealing this icon. I believe it is you who deserves credit for it? If not, please tell me who does.

[sabotabby]

I swiped it from nouveau_it_girl (sigh), and she didn't know where it came from.

[see-my-glock.livejournal.com]

Then I shall honor her with credit.

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

dude, it doesn't count when Republicans are anti-Semitic. Haven't you learned at least that much about American politics.

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

questionmark. at the end. more coffee now.

[sabotabby]

True, but I just want to write LGF-esque parody articles. ::hands you coffee::

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

is it sad that I thought of Lion's Gate Films before Little Green Footballs?

[sabotabby]

No...it's probably a sign that you're mentally well-adjusted, unlike me.

[ridiculicious.livejournal.com]

Is this Miss Negativity? I want to see dirty posts now.

[sabotabby]

It is, and stay tuned. Flippant Friday's post will be about fandom pairings or something.

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

in re: calling the 700 club - I think it would be hilarious to call in and pretend to be Presbyterian, and be all "So I know that you think I'm the antichrist*, but I was wondering if you could pray for my mom?"

* Mullah Robertson: "Presbyterians are the spirit of the Antichrist." Further Robertson "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."

[sabotabby]

Bwahaha! I wasn't sure whether I should say I was Catholic (like most of "Muslim" Venezuela) or Jewish (to be honest), and then I figured it wasn't their business to know, anyway. If they'd been trying to make a convert, they'd have done a piss-poor job. I thought part of the point of evangelical Christianity was to get people into the fold, not refuse to talk to them if they weren't the right sort of Christian.

Then again, why aren't I remotely surprised?

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

The anti-Modernist strains in the three major monotheisms* have that in common - they're often more interested in attacking others of their faith than in defending their faith/winning converts/actually living out their faith.

*for our purposes, Salafi Sunnism, Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and far-right Evangelicalism.

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to remember if The 700 Club has that fake news segment (as in real news read by fake newsanchors, like that alarmed-looking lady who says everything in an 'it's all so awful what's happening in those heathen lands' tone of voice) or if that's a different program I'm thinking of.

Anyway, if Chávez does get whacked, another Bolivarian will pop up in his place and I'll be rooting for former VP Diosdado Cabello. I mean, the guy's name means 'God-given hair'. How cool would that be?

[sabotabby]

Admittedly, I don't think I've ever seen The 700 Club. That's not the one where they pray for the starving African babies, is it?

"God-given hair"? This is my punishment for not speaking Spanish. Awesome.

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

Pat robertson did blame the Civil War in Cote d'Ivoire on Satan though. (well, Satan and Muslims, but that's about the same thign to these people.)

[azad-slide.livejournal.com]

did you hear about the stuff w/ Chavez and Iran?

[sabotabby]

It sounds like a neo-con wet dream. Has Iran been selling nukes to Venezuela? Sounds like Venezuela could use some.