Music for a Sunday: Best jazz tune EVER.

Seriously…isn’t it just?

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Economics for Dummies: A winter soldier speaks out on war and racism

Mike Prysner of Iraq Veterans Against the War hits the nail on the head:

“Our real enemy is not the ones living in a distant land whose names or policies we don’t understand; the real enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s profitable, the insurance companies who deny us health care when it’s profitable, the banks who take away our homes when it’s profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands away. They are right here in front of us.”

Thanks to David Blomstrom for sharing that link on Facebook!

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Since when does Santa’s sleigh come with missiles?

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Kiddies, help your weak-eyed Auntie Bina out. Does that look like a sleigh to you? Nope…no reindeer. But what are those black things under the wings? Sure look like missiles to me…AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, if I’m not mistaken.

Respected Venezuelan journalist Eleazar Díaz Rangel picks apart the Colombian defence minister’s snippy comments about another big, red-clad, real-life Santa Claus. Story from Ultimas Notícias, via Aporrea:

After the declarations of Colombian defence minister Gabriel Silva, and those of General Freddy Padilla, who denied all responsibility for the denounced incursion of an unmanned military plane over military targets in the Venezuelan state of Zulia, news agencies reported: “Neither Silva nor Padilla clarified whether any Colombian military bases had equipment like that described by the President of Venezuela, nor whether they received it as part of the co-operation agreements with the United States.”

The two high-level functionaries did not dare to deny the existence of unmanned planes in any of the seven bases now controlled by the US, nor did they make any reference to whether Colombia had received any such aircraft.

Among unmanned drone planes, the RQ-1/MQ-1 Predator, built by General Atomics to replace the F-16 Falcon in 2001, stands out. The plane weighs about 500 kilos, can stay aloft for up to 24 hours, and cover thousands of kilometres.

This new craft, along with carrying out reconnaissance missions, “has the offensive capacity of carrying two Hellfire missiles”, which it can fire with great precision.

According to the manufacturer’s promotional material, on one occasion, in Iraq, in response to an attack by Iraqi rebels in a zone where US forces could not enter, a Predator plane located the target and, in order not to destroy the building where the sniper was hiding, fired a missile through a window and thus hit its mark.

Planes like these are currently being used in Afghanistan, Yemen and Iraq, and were also used in Bosnia, Serbia and Yemen in the past. Their missiles have a range of up to 7 km. Germany has the Luna X 2000 drone; in Spain several models are being tested (Alba, Alo, Diana and Siva); Ecuador acquired several Searchers, with 20 hours of flight time at 200 km/h.

Former Venezuelan defence minister Gen. Raúl Baduel announced on January 31, 2007, that since the US embargo on military sales to Venezuela, “military aviation advanced a project on unmanned planes”. In Argentina, the “Guardian” is currently under development.

With Predator drones, which are surely controlled and directed by US militaries from the ground, if it were true that Colombian intelligence knew the exact location of guerrilla chiefs alleged to be in Venezuela, they would not have had to use an air attack like the one on March 1 of 2008, when a FARC camp in Ecuador was bombed using an air-launched missile, whose advantage was surely that it did not leave behind any “footprints” to betray its origins.

It is said that those which Colombia has can only fly up to 40 kilometres.

Translation mine. Linkage added.

Kiddies, your Auntie Bina is gonna go waaaaaaayyyyy out on a limb here and conjecture that if you believe in the 40-kilometre-range of Colombian missiles or drones, especially in light of those seven gringo bases, you might as well believe in Santa Claus.

And ditto if you think this is all harmless, or just part of the War on Drugs.

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Wankers of the Week: Boxing Day edition

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Or in the case of the faildude above, should that be boxer shorts edition? Whatever–here’s this week’s list of people who hung a bit too far out of their pants and frightened Santa’s reindeer. I have just the lumps of coal for YOU, my uglies…

1. Tom Fucking Coburn. With “prayers” like his, who needs satanism? PS: Watch out what you pray for, teabaggers, you just might get it.

2. Ted Fucking Klaudt. No way am I respecting the supposed trademark on the name of this wanker. You rape foster kids, you don’t get to keep your name out of the news, much less force people to pay for the privilege of using it to identify you as a child abuser. Oh, and get this: He was elected in South Dakota on a “family values” campaign. Nice values you got there, Ted!

3. Katherine Fucking Cole. Shit, who cares if Hispanic kids are being born with fatal defects? Why not expand that toxic waste dump? Of course your toxic waste dump is “safe”–for Anglos!

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4. The entire fucking Harper SupposiTory gummint. While Afghan prisoners are being tortured–by OUR troops as well as Afghan ones–guess who’s swilling eggnog from the federal trough?

Man, would I ever love just ten minutes alone with Harpo. I’d feed him some ‘nog, all right, but there wouldn’t be any eggs in it. Just milk of magnesia. And castor oil. Ah yes, good ol’ ugh-nog. Just like Great-Grandma used to do when the kids were behaving badly.

5. Lorne Fucking Gunter. Another humanity-hating grinch I’d like to feed ugh-nog to. Only in his case, I’d feed it to him up the back way, if you know what I mean.

6. Tyler Fucking Bridges. Not only does he have trouble spelling Lula’s name, he also has trouble telling who’s a former guerrilla in Latin America, and above all, tying all that into some contorted point or other he’s straining to make. Now we know why the Miami Hairball bounced him. A picture of Tyler’s logic follows…

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7. Stephen Fucking Harper. The Fail is strong in this one. And it’s the only thing that is. In all other respects, Little Stevie Blunder is a gormless wimp. And nowhere was that more in evidence than in Copenhagen.

8. Sarah Fucking Palin. To all her other wanks, we can now add a new one, and the most scandalous of all: Abortion cover-up FAIL! No wonder she’s scared shitless of bloggers. They have a funny way of ferreting out just what she does not want found.

9. Mike Fucking Francis. Harnessing Santa to the “War on Christmas” and “let’s kill Hugo Chávez” memes? I don’t care if it was done in jest, it’s still a wank from where I sit. Colombia and the US are the aggressors against Venezuela, and that’s no laughing matter. And only a dipshit would try to make it out to be funny.

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10. Bart Fucking Stupak. His name lends itself to “stupid” plays so well, does it not? Well, here’s something else it will soon lend itself to: Being equated with that of Benedict Arnold.

11. The Fucking US Treasury Department. Do you seriously think a blank cheque to Fannie and Freddie is such a good idea when it’s the people being foreclosed upon who are hurting the most, need the money more, and are asking for much, much less? Somebody in Washington does. That somebody, whoever he is, needs a whole sack of coals–dumped over top of him till he smothers.

12. Whoever the fuck is responsible for putting this dude on a terrorist watch list–and then not watching him closely enough, much less preventing him from flying. Way to defeat the purpose, ya fuckin’ wankers.

13. Monica Fucking Crowley. Whine, whine, WHINE. First this dumb blonde and all her fellow FUX Snoozers pump the biggest Miserable Failure EVER, and now they complain about the guy who’s tasked with cleaning up after him–and Katie Couric (who is hardly a liberal, by any but the loosest definition) for accurately pegging the teabaggers as rude, whiny, whipped-up louts? Where the hell were they when the same uncivil crowd was calling every leftist a terrorist? Oh yeah, I forgot…they were kneeling in front of Dubya’s open fly, doing for him what the other Monica, the not-so-dumb brunette, did for Dubya’s predecessor. And whipping up the rude, whiny louts. AND calling every leftist a terrorist.

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And finally, to the Wankin’ Yank of Bremen, IP # 92.228.147.32. I don’t know what possessed him to jerk off on not one, but two of my entries. And on Christmas Day, yet. Maybe Wanker #13 inspired him. Or maybe he thinks he has to do his part in the Fictitious War On Christmas, and that wanking over strangers’ blogs is it. But it’s clear from the splooge that this one’s a racist, an anti-intellectual, a polluter, a teabagger and a moron (did I just repeat myself? I think I did. Oh well.)

I also don’t know what the hell he’s doing in my ancestral country, and in the fair Hansastadt (although I have a fair idea of what he does there in his spare time–something involving lots of beer, trenchcoats, parks and little kids, no doubt.) He’s exactly the kind of Scheiß-Ami my German homefolks deeply despise, and one of these nights, on his way back from the beer hall, he j
ust might get his ass deservedly kicked by the Town Musicians. But just in case they don’t come through, here’s his male-supremacist e-mail–as you can see, he’s all talk and a small cock.

Good night, John Boy–and get fucked.

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito’s Christmas message

And there’s a new “Baby Jesus” being born in Venezuela this holiday season–a mission to promote maternal and child health.

The original Jesus would approve.

Feliz Chavidad, mis amigos.

PS: Here’s a little something for everyone–a gift of music from a gifted young Venezuelan woman who died recently, much too soon. But she left a legacy worth keeping. RIP, Solimar Cadenas.

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Meowy Catmas!

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My best friend just sent me this, and I just had to share. Happy LOLidays!

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Grandma got WHAT?

BTW, this one’s got a nifty back story. Who knew that an eggnog-swilling grandma could be so profitable?

And no, this is NOT Pee-Wee Herman:

…although he DOES have that kind of vibe going on.

BTW, this song’s got a fun back story, too.

Have yourselves a campy little Xmas, kiddies. Aunt Bina is off to take a long winter’s nap.

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Copenhagen flops, Evo is tops

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Hey Barack, how’s it feel to get pwned by the Little Injun That Could?

Bolivian President Evo Morales announced today that a world conference of social movements is to take place in Bolivia, as a response to the failure of the 15th Summit on Climate Change, recently held in Copenhagen.

“The problems of climate change are directly linked to the irrational development of industry,” said the president at the celebrations for the 49th anniversary of the foundation of the Culpina municipality, in the region of Chuquisaca.

Morales said that he has requested technical and scientific arguments to support a large-scale international mobilization to defend the environment, especially water.

The meeting will take place on April 22, which is the International Day of Mother Earth.

“It will be a great meeting where we’ll be able to come up with solutions for the problem of climate change,” the leader said.

He regretted that the summit held in Copenhagen had concluded without reaching any important agreement. However, he noted that the event was an opportunity to break the hegemony of industrialized countries attending the gathering.

“If we don’t make important decisions now, our children and the generations to come will be faced with serious problems,” warned the president.

He pointed out that the Bolivian world conference of social movements will be aimed at finding options for guaranteeing food for the peoples, in view of the famine that is affecting different parts of the world.

Notice that this is not a summit of heads-of-state, who, as we’ve seen all too clearly from Copenhagen, are prostrate to moneyed interests and are thus in no position to take leadership on this key issue. Instead, Evo is calling for social movements and scientists from around the world to come together and come up with actual working solutions, not just more non-binding wimpy “agreements” that don’t even look good on paper.

And if you wonder why this was called by Evo and not, say, his bigger, louder pal Chavecito, consider one of the things he himself mentioned: water. It’s been a hot-button issue in Bolivia for many years now, and no wonder: first the moneyed interests (the same that are sitting on Washington’s neck right now) privatized Bolivia’s water, right down to the rain; then, a coalition of social movements, including the coca farmers led by Evo back when he was just a shit-disturbing union leader, booted Bechtel out of Bolivia (and their pal Goni the Gringo, too); and now, with global warming destroying the glaciers the indigenous people rely on for water, once more they can’t afford to take this life-sustaining resource for granted. (Remember, we’re talking about a landlocked country, and half of it is in the relatively arid Andes.)

Evo, who comes from the Altiplano himself, knows as well as anyone how precious water is in Bolivia; they can’t just pump it out of the sea, and they can’t rely on reservoirs because it doesn’t rain heavily enough to sustain them in all parts of the country. In the Altiplano, their lakes are fed by Andean glacial meltwater, and that source is rapidly draining away! So, now we understand Evo’s urgency on this matter, don’t we?

Looks like Evo is taking a leadership role yet again. Some people could learn a lot from this guy…and not just on how to dress, either.

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Short ‘n’ Stubby: Christmas Eve Eve edition

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Merry Not-Quite-Christmas! Here’s what’s blipping on Aunt ‘Bina’s ol’ radarscope tonight…

Oh noes, that evil Chavecito just decided to “rename” Angel Fallswith its original, indigenous name! Horrors! Why must these nasty brown Venezuelans get so uppity and insist on being all sovereign and insubordinate to the anglo foreigners? Is that any way to treat your ex-overlords?

Matt Taibbi gives David Brooks an atomic wedgie. Yeow!

Aw, the ooky corruptocratic paraco-government of Colombia believes in Santy Claus. Isn’t that cute?

The Inter-American Press Barons’ Association is getting nowhere in Venezuela and Bolivia, so now it’s training its crosshairs on Ecuador. No, they NEVER learn.

Oh noes, Venezuela has signed another oil deal with China! BTW, China/Venezuela trade has increased 13-fold since 2003 but guess who’s misreporting that as a mere threefold?

And just as I thought he would be, boli-bourgeois bankster Eligio Cedeño has been sprung. Of course they’re not interested in deporting him, any more than they would the CubanaBomber; he’s bringing “home” all that ill-gotten dinero he stole from the people of Venezuela. So of course the only charges against him are the usual illegal-immigration wrist-slaps. (What–did you think he was gonna get the impoverished-Mexican treatment? Silly gringos.)

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“Holy shit! Oh my God!”

A once-in-a-lifetime sighting, caught on camera from an Air Canada flight to the Bahamas. The space shuttle can’t be seen, but the fireball from its engines, and the smoke trail, are clearly visible.

BTW, some moron left this comment on the site:

the space program is a cinical ploy by desperate big government liberals who want to push their science onto our children in their public schools. WAKE UP AMERICA. real americans everywehre are realising america’s days are numbered now that an islamic marxist is our president. TIME TO SUCCEED FROM THE UNION

…thus proving just why more public education is so desperately needed by our neighbors to the south–to combat the McCarthyite idiocy (and the plague of bad spelling) that’s so rampant among the teabaggers. Yeah, the space program–which has been in place since Eisenhower signed NASA into existence in 1958–is all Obama’s doing. He’s out to warp your mind and destroy you with science! Unga bunga inga binga bunnnnnggggga…

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