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Security and insecurity
Aug. 25th, 2005 08:35 pmHey 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.
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.
