Monthly Archives: September 2008

Quotable: Lynda “Wonder Woman” Carter on Sarah Palin

These bracelets deflect bullshit too, bitch!“Don’t get me started. She’s the anti-Wonder Woman. She’s judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how they’ve got to live their lives. And a superior religious self-righteousness … that’s just not what Wonder Woman is about. … Continue reading

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You can’t fire me, I quit!

Ha ha…someone please tell Washington that they can’t expel an ambassador… A U.S. official said Friday that the United States is considering expelling Venezuelan ambassador in retaliation for the expulsion of the U.S. ambassador to Caracas.The move came after Venezuelan … Continue reading

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: No more diversions!

A catchy ode to the President of Ecuador and his putting a stop to all the bullshit and getting the house in order.

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Yankee Go Home, times two

So…Evo has ordered Philip Goldberg to pack his bags, and in solidarity, Chavecito has done the same with Patrick Duddy: President Chavez announced today that he has decided to send home the US ambassador, and has given him 72 hours … Continue reading

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That Hugo Chavez–so paranoid!

Um, yeah. So Chavecito’s always banging on about coup plans and other magnicidal nefarious plots being hatched against him? Well, now we know he’s not exaggerating or just making shit up. A little birdie sent Mario Silva, the host of … Continue reading

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WSJ turns self inside out over Chavez, unions

Ha, ha…the poor Wall Street Journal. When it comes to Venezuela, it doesn’t know which part of its britches to soil first. Should it slam unions, the usual conservative suspect for every economic thing that goes wrong anywhere? Or should … Continue reading

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Guilt by association, or, Let’s all soil ourselves over that evil Hugo Chavez yet again!

Some days, the media are just too transparent. Get a load of what pooped in my e-mail box today thanks to Google Alerts:The Russians Are Coming! Cuban Missile Crisis Part Deux! No shit, Reuters actually spells it out! And Turkey’s … Continue reading

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How Cuba deals with hurricanes

Lying as it does at the heart of the hurricane hot zone, Cuba has ample experience in dealing with tropical storms. Yet, in stark contrast to its equally hard-hit neighbors, it suffers few deaths. Maybe this is why:They are much … Continue reading

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Quotable: Gloria Steinem on Sarah Palin

This isn’t the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about … Continue reading

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Spanish TV lies about Georgia-Ossetia war, too

You can clearly see in this video that the footage was taken with a camera phone by Georgian troops on the attack in mainly-Russian South Ossetia (an ethnic cleansing mission, according to the Spanish subtitling about midway through), but the … Continue reading

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