News blackout

[sabotabby]

Still no interwebs at home (we're looking at about two weeks before I'm back online), but from what I gather:

Commandante Ramona and Irving Layton are dead.
Ariel Sharon is still alive.

Life isn't fair.

(More later: I have a lot of posts to read through.)

Comments

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Yes, but not very alive.

Here is a picture of a Rutabaga, which for situations like this is the Iconic Root Vegetable:


rutabaga

[sabotabby]

You just made my day.

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

All I ever wanted was sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads. Thanks for making my dreams come true. :`(

[reverendgraham.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure being "alive" at this point will end up being of any great comfort to him. I can think of no more appropriate way for him to while away his remaining years or decades on this earth than in quiet incapacitation, thinking about what he's done, while his aides wipe drool from his chin and shit from his diapers. i think that would be grand.

[sabotabby]

I was sorta hoping that would happen to Pinochet, too.

Mind you, I'm not entirely sure he'll be thinking, per se.

[lovableatheist.livejournal.com]

I personally would like to see Pinochet put on trial for the whole world to see and then get convicted and sentenced to serve time in jail with every other "common criminal" in Chile. I think it would be a good final humiliation before he suffers a hirrible, horrible death after slipping and crakcing his skull open while showering in jail.

[sabotabby]

That'd work too. I just don't think it's ever going to happen.

[fugitivesaint.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way about most of the Bush Administration. I have this hope that one day i will turn on NPR and hear the heart attack that kills Dick Cheney has come a'callin'. That would be grand. *crosses fingers and whispers "Impeachment, impeachment, impeachment", in a mantra of frustration*

[sabotabby]

Haha. He'd just get a new heart.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

If Sharon is considered alive I think I'd rather be dead.

[sabotabby]

Aww, don't say that. He'll die eventually.

[jhfurnish.livejournal.com]

He needs someone to help him. I nominate the huge manitee.

[sabotabby]

Manatees are awesome.

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Bummer to all of it.
As for Pinochet, the Bush andmin, Sharon and the like: heart attacks, strokes and comas (oh MY!) are much too easy. But hell, I thought Reagan got off too easy. "House of a Thousand Corpses"... that's more what I'm thinking.

What do you think about the whole "Delegate Zero" thing??

[sabotabby]

They're bad enough alive; I'm not sure we need them to be undead.

I'm not sure what to make of the name change, although it's mildly catchy. And it has the ring of the anti-authoritarian about it, not that any of them were ever particularly authoritarian. I suspect he knows what he's doing.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

I hope he regains just enough cognitive ability to be aware of what's going on around him, and be totally frustrated at how helpless and incapable he is.

I hope that if, by some miracle there will be some moves towards a more-or-less just resolution to the conflict, he will be around to watch impotently from his nursing home as everything he has worked for all his life is unpicked.

I hope he has a returned Palestinian refugee as his nursemaid for the final months of his life.

[sabotabby]

You are a twisted soul, but also very fair, I think. ;)

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

Wait, when are they dead?

Also, I wonder if we're going to do with Ariel Sharon what we did with Yasser Arafat: "He's dead!" "No, he's not!" "Well, yes, he is!" "No, he isn't!" "Aw, shucks, I think he really is, this time"