Uribe gets booed at Georgetown U.

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“I swear to you, the terrorists are the FARC and the ELN!”

Heh. Looks like someone’s not going to be allowed to forget his narcoparamilitary violent past so easily, after all…

The former president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, was booed on Thursday by a group of students at Georgetown University, in Washington DC, where he had come to teach his first class as professor of International Leadership Practices.

A group of students, calling itself the “Adios Uribe Coalition”, invited the ex-president to leave with placards reading “Ciao”. They had met by way of e-mail, according to Caracol Radio. “We are putting out a call for six or more students who are prepared to be arrested for sabotaging the class from within,” read one of the e-mails.

Already within the lecture hall, a student from Ecuador accused the ex-president of being “a perfect assassin” before Uribe could resolve any doubt that the young woman might have had. Then the girl asked him about the “hundreds of extrajudicial executions committed by your government”, whereupon the former president replied with “an historical argument which dates back to the 1920s,” according to the student.

The US press been an echo to the polemics surrounding Uribe’s contract as professor of the university, even though, according to the LA Times, “not everyone on campus was happy with the presence of the ex-president of Colombia”. Various messages from students, addressed to Dean Anthony Clark, reflected that, according to the paper.

“Uribe created the ‘Convivir’ paramilitaries during his time as governor of Antioquia, a group which later became the AUC (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia),” recalled a student, who criticized the fact that “Georgetown is legitimizing Uribe and his legacy by giving him an opportunity to present himself before the students”, considering that “it’s an offence to the thousands of victims of his administration and for the human-rights communities in the United States and Colombia.”

Translation mine.

This hasn’t made the lamestream media yet; I googled. The closest thing to it I could find was this Peruanista entry from three years ago. So, obviously, this has happened before. (Gee, I wonder why.)

Sure must suck to be you, Alvarito. And it sucks to see the media being such fucking toadies, too. But it’s nice to see students holding you accountable, even if they don’t succeed in getting your war-criminal ass kicked out of the country or into a nice, cushy cell at Club Fed where it belongs.

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Here come da commies!!!

I’m gonna retire the Stumpy Cat for a moment here, and let Our Man in Black take over:

BTW, Mike has a show blog now, too, which I’m gonna ‘roll shortly.

And while we’re on the topic of blogs that should be on your ‘roll, and commie-pinko socialists, please welcome the kick-ass Dr. Sherry Wolf to the blogosphere. At long last, socialism for the United States–REALLY.

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Stupid Sex Tricks: This’ll put Weight Watchers out of business…

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…at least with the menfolks. (I always knew that pic would come in handy, somehow, somewhere…)

Fat is fun! At least, that’s the word from Turkey this week. Researchers at Erciyes University in Kayseri have just completed a yearlong study correlating body mass index (BMI) and male sexual performance. Their findings: Men with excess body fat last longer in bed. In fact, heavier men were able to make love for an average of 7.3 minutes, while slender men could count themselves lucky if they held on for a mere 108 seconds.

The reason? Female hormones. Men with excess fat showed higher levels of the female estradiol sex hormone. This substance apparently disrupted their bodies’ natural “male” neurotransmitter chemicals and slowed their progression towards orgasm. Ironically, the less masculine their bodies appeared, the better lovers they proved to be.

The scientists compared the BMI and sexual performance of over 100 men who were being treated for sexual dysfunction with 100 other males who lasted longer during sex. They found that men suffering from premature ejaculation were on the whole thinner and fitter than their “better endowed” brethren.

Sure this isn’t just a ruse to get the fat dudes more lovin’? I mean, 7.3 minutes isn’t exactly enough to make most women’s earth move, if you know what I mean. And since we ARE visual creatures too (surprise!), well…

Reality check, fellas: your best bet is still to watch what you eat and get enough exercise. Diabetes will rob you of your performance, as can heart disease. And obesity increases the likelihood of both problems. In fact, a sexual slowdown is often the first sign of either disease, so if you’re a lot fatter than you used to be, and find yourself lasting much longer than you used to, you will want to see your doctor and get tested.

And oh yeah: eat sensibly, don’t smoke, and do, do, DO get some exercise every day. You’re more likely to get laid if you look and feel your best, and it’s as true for men as it is for women. That’s something no study will ever contradict.

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Good luck with that tour, Alejandro…

…because something tells me you’re gonna need it, if this is any indication of the reception you’re bound to get in Venezuela:

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Basically, the mediocre Spanish singer is asking Chavecito for permission to enter Venezuela. (You may recall that he got a shirt from a fan reading “Chávez Sucks”, not so long ago. And he was not at all shy of waving it around like a flag.)

Well, Luigino Bracci, who blogs here, took exception to that and cordially invited Sanz to stuff a hot potato down his pants. (Or words to that effect. How many people north of the Río Grande eat yucca, anyway?)

And he’s far from alone in that sentiment; other Venezuelan tweeters were equally vocal, and they got retweeted over and over and over again. Given that the Venezuelan twittersphere has gone rojo rojito since Chavecito got on the tweeter, that’s a lot of pissed-off little birdies who think Sanz sucks.

Alejandro Sanz might want to purchase a pair of kneepads, if he doesn’t already own any. He’s got a LOT of grovelling ahead of him. And I do hope he likes the taste of mierda, because he’s gonna be eating it three squares a day.

EDIT, Wednesday the 8th @ 5:47 PM: Ha, ha…look who I scooped. I had this post up two days ago.

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Honduras coup redux: Bananas in pajamas, part 2

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So who says history never repeats? First the robber barons of corporate media oust a legitimately elected president of Honduras, and now they threaten to do the same with a more dubious one who still follows in his predecessor’s footsteps a bit too closely for their liking…

The president of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, reiterated on Monday that he had received threats, along with offers of “pajamas”, alluding to the coup d’état that toppled the former president, Manuel Zelaya, in June 2009. Zelaya was taken prisoner by the military and expelled from the country in his pajamas.

“Some people think they can scare me. They threaten me and even offer pajamas,” said Lobo, who is embroiled in a controversy due to the assignment of a television frequency to the government. The frequency is being claimed by a businessman in a court case.

Lobo had previously denounced telephone calls telling him to “buy a good pair of pajamas”.

The controversy over the frequency of Channel 8 dates back to 2007, when the National Telecommunications Commission of Honduras initially conceded the frequency to businessman Elías Asfura, but later handed it to the government.

Various media, the Communications Media Association of Honduras, and the Honduran College of Journalists, have expressed support for Asfura, but the government has defended the congressional decision to assign the frequency to the state.

Translation mine.

If you think you’ve read this story before, you probably have. (More than once, I might add, since the same was tried, with less success, in Venezuela, before and after the termination of RCTV’s over-the-air licence.) Communications media were not just instrumental to the Honduran coup of last year, they were behind it right up to their eyeballs. Go to Machetera now, and keep clicking and reading.

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Guess who’s gonna lose on September 26?

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I’ll give you a broad hint: It’s the ones who have no platform, and nothing but stupid gimmicks.

An opposition candidate in next month’s Venezuelan legislative elections is holding a breast implant raffle to fund his campaign, he said in a newspaper interview published Friday.

“The raffle is a legal method. We decided on breast implants because we wanted to target a specific public sector,” Gustavo Rojas told El Universal.

“Raffle tickets on sale now: win a breast implant operation for yourself or your partner,” Rojas announces on his website.

The interview does not mention either the cost of a breast implant operation or how much money Rojas expects to get with the raffle.

This guy is with the right-wing Primero Justicia party. “Justice First” is actually not very justice-oriented, if they have to resort to this kind of sexist pandering. They’ve resorted to other pandering in the past, promising to clean up the garbage and fight crime. And what did they do when elected?

NOTHING.

The Caracas barrio, Petare, has a Primero Justicia mayor, Carlos Ocariz. His cops are more interested in repressing Chavistas, and the bright yellow garbage bins–the PJ party color–are overflowing, with no sign of a pickup truck in sight.

Guess who’s gonna lose the municipal elections of the 26th? The party with the biggest boobs, that’s who.

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Music for a Sunday: One for my Spanish-speaking friends

This is a rare find, and I was so happy to see that someone put it on YouTube:

A pretty damn decent translation of “Nights in White Satin”, performed by the selfsame Moody Blues. I hope nobody snickers at their mispronounced Spanish. I’m just amazed and delighted that this song even exists in Spanish at all!

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Wankers of the Week: Eleanor Rigby memorial edition

Music, maestro…this is going to be a musical wankapedia!

All the crazy people…where do they all come from? I don’t know the answer, but this list is where they belong. Ah, look at all the crazy people!

1. Pamela Fucking Geller. Making the world safe for crazy Islamophobes and irony-impaired Nazi-symps everywhere. Isn’t she wonderful? Isn’t she brilliant? Isn’t she just such a humanitarian? Isn’t it time she were locked up in a nice rubber room by big men in white coats? Honestly, this woman reminds me of the three lonely old hate-mongering cuckoos from Mother Night, who made common cause over a hatred of a common enemy. And those unreformed Nazis who made her their pet Jew do, too.

2. Billy Fucking Roper. Alan Berg died in a hail of terrorist bullets so that white-power terrorists (and bank robbers) like Bruce Fucking Pierce could have a “viking funeral”. Oh, the humanity. And since when do “martyrs” die of natural causes? Even if it’s in a “ZOG” prison, that’s not martyrdom. If you really want to give the bastard a Viking funeral, tie together some logs, put the corpse on it, set the thing on fire, shove it into the middle of a bog, and wait till it sinks. It’s cheap, and it’s plenty authentic. I doubt very much that he merits any of the accoutrements of the original ship burials, such as slaves buried alongside.

3. Godfried Fucking Danneels. Silence is golden, especially when it’s the fortunes of the Vatican that are at stake. After all, someone’s got to pay damages to all those clerical sexual abuse victims. And in this case, the abuse was INCEST as well. What could make the church look worse? Silence is golden, golden, but still my eyes can see…

4. Bill Fucking Keller. A Muslim community centre at Park 51: unacceptable. But a church for hate-mongering bigots? Apparently fine. Where is the outrage?

5. The Fucking Fraser Institute. Canada’s one-note wonder stink-tank is churning out free-market crapaganda like there’s no tomorrow…and if we take their glurge to heart, there WILL be no tomorrow. Running schools like businesses turns children into commodities. And worse yet, what happens when a private school–business–fails? Worst of all, look at the product they turn out. Conrad Fucking Black was privately educated, and he’s our biggest corporate felon. He got his start in kleptocracy by cheating at school and selling cheat sheets to his classmates. This is what’s “competitive” to Fraser & Co.? DO NOT WANT.

6, 7, and 8. Greg Fucking Gutfield, Erick Fucking Erickson, and Matt Fucking Drudge. You know things have gone through the Looking Glass when the far-right is collectively yearning for a Dear Leader who appears to have sprung straight from old Joe Stalin’s loins. Funny how none of them ever screamed about Dubya’s effeminacy when he choked on a pretzel and fell off his mountain bike. At least His Barackness isn’t embarrassing them by doing anything as stupid as THAT. Last time I looked, guys, real men wore bike helmets. (The brain is a sex organ too, and it’s bigger than the gonads.)

9. Rand Fucking Paul. Well, at least he finally confirmed my suspicion that when you scratch a flibbertigibbertarian, you find a fascist. Or in this case, a whole heap of tainted fascist MONEY. No wonder he was so keen on letting business owners get racist all over their clientele.

10. Thilo Fucking Sarrazin. The swastika may be illegal in Germany (and rightly so), but fascistic pseudoscience is apparently still allowed. And worse, assholes who subscribe to it manage to rise to high places in the banking sector. Who’s a bigger wanker than Thilo? The other bankers, for not condemning him.

11. Jason Fucking Kenney. What’s with the red-baiting? What fucking decade is this? Hello, Jason, are you aware that the Cold War is long over? And should a man who’s still in the closet go around accusing political opponents of being “on the extreme edge of the left and not in touch with reality”, when his own party is now on the extreme edge of the right and, judging by its hatred of all things factual, scientific and statistical, DEFINITELY not in touch with reality?

12. Andy Fucking Coulson. Wow, who knew that Tories on the other side of the pond were just as sleazy and unethical as their namesake counterparts over here? Those who voted for these punks obviously didn’t. And now look how their surveillance society is mutating. Shocking, innit? This could be in store for us, too, if the Harpocraps get another term in office. Or if the Liberals and the NDP keep kowtowing to them.

13. Brian Fucking Ross. So, I take it that false-alarm terror tale was just a dry run for some real news, then?

14. Michael Fucking Reagan. The only thing worse than Glenn Fucking Beck’s lunacy is watching someone else suck his schlong for it. And unfortunately for Glenn, Michael, and the Ghost of Michael’s Dad, the Founders were very explicit (in the Treaty of Tripoli) that the US is not a Christian theocracy. Meaning, “under God”, that phrase appended to the Pledge of Allegiance during the McCarthy era, is null and void, and that all this talk of losing one’s way is nothing but a cloud of ill-smelling breath.

15. Sarah Fucking Palin. Yes, she’s every bit as shallow, harpyish, rude, vindictive, and just plain nasty as we’ve long suspected she was. And then some. It doesn’t surprise me a bit that those who have worked for her are “broken, used, stepped on, down in the dust.” Unfortunately, the same is also true of her much-trumpeted kids. The least she could do is pay them for the trouble they go through on her behalf.

16. Concerned Fucking Women of America. You know you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel when you’re scouring the silly, trashy gossip mags for evidence that older women + younger men = EVIL. I am
so tempted to make jokes here about how badly these “women” (who at one point were headed by a man–are they still?) need to stop being so damn “concerned” and just get laid. Preferably by a cute young guy. But everyone knows that that would not only be cruel, it would be absurd.

17. This crazy fucking bitch right here.

18. Garry Fucking Breitkreuz. Oh sure, the long gun registry is about “public control”. Just like motor-vehicle licensing. I guess Garry has never heard those four little magic words that turn a “law-abiding gun owner” into a raving, murderous gun nut: I want a divorce!

19. Csanad Fucking Szegedi. Nazis: Hungary still has them. Also amnesia: Remember the last time a European government rounded up Gypsies and put them in concentration camps? The Jobbik yobbos don’t.

20. Tim Fucking Pawlenty. My best friend and his partner are glad to be back in Canada, and no wonder. If they were still living in Minnesota, they’d have to raise their two teen sons under a governor who subscribes to wingnut birth control–that is, abstinence-only sex ed, a program that everyone knows does not work.

21. Jan Fucking Brewer. Somebody call the embalmers! A corpse has lost its head! No, wait, false alarm–it’s just the fascist zombie governor of Arizona, shooting her desiccated mouth off again. I guess they’re not sewing shut the lips of the dead anymore. Pity. They pop open in those desert winds!

22. David Fucking Limbaugh. Did you know that the Pigman has a brother? And that the guy’s a conspiracy nut? It’s totally true!

23. Sharron Fucking Angle. A lunatic? A hypocrite? Oh shit, there’s no reason why she can’t be both. After all, she’s a teabag!

24. Tony Fucking Blair. How was he NOT a wanker this week? At least he got some eggs and shoes out of the bargain. Meanwhile, countless Iraqis lost their lives.

And finally, to all the up-close and personal wankers who pooped, peed and ejaculated here this past week. I’m not going to bother going over what they left behind; if their mothers didn’t teach them to clean up after themselves, that’s not my fucking responsibility, any more than it’s my job to blow sugar up their asses. You’ve probably seen them; if not, just look for entries where there are comments, and enjoy. As for the trolls, I have just this to say:

Good night, and get fucked!

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Heroes for Today: All hail Ruza Pavlovic!

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If you were as sickened as I was to hear that some brain-damaged bastard had made a video of an unnamed girl throwing a bucketful of puppies into a river, you can now take a deep breath and relax. The dogs are safe, thanks to the quick thinking of a 75-year-old pensioner in Bosnia, who was on her way to work in a potato field when she “heard them fighting for their lives”, according to the Swedish paper, Aftonbladet. Ruza Pavlovic is a hero, and I’m hoping there’s good reward money in it for her; she could certainly use it until she can find new homes for those pups.

Meanwhile, the villains have apparently been found, although they are still unnamed:

The name of the girl, who is a juvenile, has not been released. But she was found after tips were received from animal protection groups in the country, London’s Telegraph reported on Friday.

Police said the girl’s parents will now be questioned.

The underage girl is from Bugojno, a central Bosnian town with a population of approximately 50,000.

A girl who claimed to be the one from the video posted a separate apology video on YouTube, CNET reported. She identified herself as Katja Puschnik.

Under one video frame, the apology said, “I would like to appologize for my behavior. The puppies belonged to my grandma and she told me to get rid of them because they were only 3 days and were ill. They had parasites from their mother. I didn’t knew exactly what to do so I thrown them in the river because it was a short death. I did not want to make them suffer. I am really sorry for this 🙁 “

The video apology has since been removed, and the girl’s identity could not be verified.

Velimir Ivanisevic, head of Sarajevo animal group SOS, said he was told the original video was filmed by the girl’s brother.

“It is a mirror of society and the fact that young people are doing such things shows how they have been raised,” Ivanisevic said.

The 44-second clip shows the young woman smiling as she picks several puppies out of a white bucket and viciously tosses them into rapidly moving river. At one point the girl exclaims “whee.”

“Whee”? What a thing to say when animals are suffering.

Katja (or whatever your real name is), I hope you don’t have any kids when you grow up. I’d hate to see what you’d do to THEM.

And if you’re smart, you’ll kick in all your allowance to Ruza Pavlovic, who is struggling to look after the dogs you tried so callously to kill.

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River crossing, Pakistani style

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Srsly, even without monsoon floodwaters raging beneath you, this is crazy dangerous. Do NOT try this anywhere, kiddies.

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