Dude, where’s my forecast?

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Looks like today’s long-range calls for cloudy with a slight chance of “WTF, dude?”

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Bloodless coup in Honduras still churns bloodlessly along

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A Venezuelan from the 23 de Enero barrio in Caracas demonstrates his support for the people of Honduras.

Another day, another death in Honduras. More murder and mayhem against local media who dare to report the true facts of the Micheletti dictatorship…

Marco Antonio Canales Villatoro, nephew of the proprietor of the Honduran Radio Globo station, was assassinated on Saturday in the capital city of Tegucigalpa.

Canales Villatoro, 40 years old, was apparently killed during an attempted theft of his laptop computer as he left an evangelical church, by two men who came by on a motorcycle and shot at him.

Canales Villatoro was transported to hospital, where he died in the afternoon, according to a press release by the National Front of Resistance Against the Coup d’Etat.

Radio Globo is the only station in Honduras that transmits the words of the ousted president Manuel Zelaya, who returned to Honduras last Monday and remains in the Brazilian embassy. It is one of the few media outlets that has given coverage to the mobilizations of Zelaya’s followers.

The Front also denounced that some assailants broke into the home of Silvia Ayala, a congresswoman of the Democratic Unity party and a follower of Zelaya. A journalist and distinguished photographer, Esteban Meléndez, stated that last Wednesday, during a march of the Front, he was wounded by five rubber bullets as he was taking pictures of the soldiers who were acting against the Zelaya partisans.

In a telephone call, Meléndez said that as a result of the gunshot wounds, he was currently in bed with a fever.

Translation mine.

Radio Globo of Honduras is not to be confused with Globovisión, the far-right television station in Venezuela, which is extremely pro-coup and anti-democracy not only on its own turf, but as concerns Honduras, as well.

It’s obvious that the dictatorship has taken to murder as a means of intimidation, which is a sign of desperation on its own part.

And for anyone who thinks rubber bullets are non-lethal, wake the fuck up. Here are some pics (warning: gruesome!) of the damage that they can do, and some information (from Israel!) about why they are not acceptable as a method of crowd control. An infection causing fever is not unlikely, especially in a tropical setting such as Honduras. People have died of infection even from non-lethal wounds.

I hope Esteban Meléndez recovers, and soon. The resistance has need of all the help it can get, especially from photojournalists.

PS: The “bloodless” coup has also claimed its first female death since Zelaya’s return. Wendy Elizabeth Ávila died from the gassing she sustained one week ago, when police and the army used supposed tear gas to dislodge protesters from around the Brazilian embassy. She suffered bronchial spasms and respiratory distress. Bear in mind that tear gas was first developed during World War I, and intended for use as a deadly weapon. This is one more thing that should not be used for crowd control. Its ongoing use by authorities everywhere is one more manifestation of their gross disregard for human life and welfare.

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Music for a Sunday Night: The Enemy Within

This Rush classic has been in my head all day. Now, the haunting’s all yours:

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The siege of Tegucigalpa

Once more, The Real News nails it:

Al Giordano’s analysis of the situation is bang-on. It looks to me like Gorilletti and his thugs are trying to wear Zelaya out–either to kill or take him prisoner, or if that be impossible, simply kill the clock on his mandate. The fact remains, however, that there is NO constitutional basis for their overthrowing him, so the term-limit issue is essentially meaningless. Zelaya is the elected president, not Gorilletti. Free and fair elections can only happen if he is fully back at the helm. There can be no democratic hand-over from putschists to another leader, no matter who it might be. And in fact, knowing the putschists, they will probably prefer to rig any election that does happen, in favor of their chosen candidate. Which makes a sham and a mockery of the “democratic” veneer they are trying so hard (and failing) to cultivate.

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Cops Behaving Badly: How NOT to train your K-9 unit

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Good thing he got him in the side pocket and not in front, is all I can say…

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More Wankers of the Week: Values Votership in Action!

Oh man, this is sheer comedy gold:

Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Linda Putz (yes, she really IS a Putz!) and her grumpy old unnamed friend. The media were kind enough to come and give them publicity, and now they complain that it’s “rude and disrespectful”?

And hey! These guys are equal opportunity haters. Look who else they decided to bother:

And this, ladies ‘n’ gents, is why FUX is not the network to watch if you want to learn anything. The reporter-dude started out okay, saying he was there to do a job and report on the shindig (which is true, and which one devoutly wishes they’d always do–leaving out their usual cheerleading of course), but the grumpy old coot just keeps at him and at him, and in less than a minute, he CAVES IN.

This is journalism?

Actually, this is what’s called an “own goal”. Like I said, the “Values Voters” invited these people. They wanted the publicity. But then, when it looked like MSNBC was actually doing its job and reporting the inanities of the agenda, that’s what got the “polite and respectful” badge-wearers all riled up. The last thing they want is for the rest of the world to see what bag they really come out of. They want deferential toe-sucking and sugar-slopping, not honest reporting. (Or half-hearted attempts thereat, in this case…)

There really is no pleasing some people, eh?

(Thanks to Lloyd Dangle at Troubletown for digging that nugget up.)

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Wankers of the Week: Values Voter Circle Jerk edition

Ahem. Before we get on with the weekly wankapedia here, I thought I’d share a bit of wonkapedia with you:

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Yes, that’s from this year.

And these people think they’ve got the world’s progressive majorities “surrounded”? They may be shocked to learn just how small their circle jerk really is…and how many of their, uh, “weapons” are aimed at each other!

And now, the wankers, in no particular order:

1. Michael Fucking Schwartz. For as much as confessing that he’s a raving closet case, and that he started masturbating when he was 11–and it scared the hell out of him so much, he now resorts to OTHER forms of wanking to, uh, distract himself. And one of them is to pull his pud to fantasies of VIOLENCE. Thanks a buttload, Mike–we really needed to learn THAT about you. (All my gay male readers are surely just as creeped-out by you as I am.)

2. Carrie Fucking Prejean. Yes, of course God chose her–to go down as the biggest hypocritical idiot in the history of homophobia. Her prize?

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Yes, that’s right, folks–an eternal set of silicone Values Hooters! Because every boob deserves a booby prize–or two.

3. Todd Fucking Tiahrt. You’re committed to Scott Fucking Roeder, the triggerman in Operation Re-Skew’s assassination of Dr. Tiller? Brilliant idea, Todd. At this rate, the real values voters should get “Tiahrt” of you in no time! (And speaking of committed, you should be–both of you, to a max-security psych ward.)

4. Fucking rapturists. Why, oh why didn’t God see fit to disappear them all when they were conveniently gathered in Washington two weeks ago? It would have been so cool to see them all floating up, up and awayyyyy…like a balloon release, y’know?

5. Lila Fucking Rose. Such Christian charity. Now we know what HER values are: hate, hate, vindictiveness, and more hate. Good thing votes like hers will never be a majority. Otherwise, the US would be worse than Iran and Afghanistan combined.

5 1/2. SUZANNE Fucking ALL CAPS Nitouche also merits a dishonorable mention, for similar reasons. Don’t ask me how a woman can be such a misogynist; only trust that on the right, it is definitely possible. Must suck to be her; must suck to be the mirror she takes stabs at every day.

6. Sarah Fucking Palin, again. How many weeks has she been a Wanker, already? I’ve lost count. Let’s just give her a lifetime membership in the Wank Club; lord knows she’s probably been one all her life. But for the details on her latest foray into wankitude (in which, strangely, NONE of the attendees wanted to give their names), here’s an excerpt:

“She was brilliant,” said a European delegate, on condition of anonymity. “She said America was spending a lot of money and it was a temporary solution. Normal people are having to pay more and more but things don’t get better. The rich will leave the country and the poor will get poorer.”

Two US delegates left early, with one saying “it was awful, we couldn’t stand it any longer”.

Bet the walker-outers were rich, eh?

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7. Bud Fucking Norris. What if you held a Glenn Fucking Beck Day and nobody came? Just ask the current (and not likely to be re-elected) mayor of Mt. Vernon, Washington. He knows.

8. Fucking Dubya. Gone but not forgotten, thanks to yet another book detailing his dumbfuckery for all the world to see. And this time, it’s a doozy: Oh noes, Harry Potter books promote witchcraft!

Actually, all they promote is reading. Something Dubya only pretends to do, as we all know all too well:

This is what those “values” voters voted for. A clueless git who just sits there while the country goes up in flames. Sad, isn’t it?

9. Tamerlane Fucking Phillips. His sister comes out with a gut-wrenching shocker about incest survival, and he wants people to worship his long-deceased guru? Just goes to show you don’t have to be a fundie Christian to be a religiously whacked-out wanker with seriously skewed values.

10. Joe Fucking Lieberman. Yep, orthodox Jews wank too. This one’s preferred porn? Stunningly inept Nazi holocaust analogies. Which is really funny when you consider who his “daddy” was.

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11. Geert Fucking Wilders. Yeah, he made his hate-porn snuff film a few years ago. But he scared the piss out of a Kentucky high-school girl with it this week, so that gets him a place in the ranks of the wanks, too. (The as-yet unnamed teacher who chose to show it to a “leadership” class is also a fucking wanker. And so are all the classmates who are still ragging that traumatized girl.)

12. Steve Fucking King. So, same-sex marriage is a gateway to socialism? Bring it on, baby! (PS: Do you think he’s Teh Heterostoopid, too? I do!)

And finally, all the misogynists who scream about the evil that lies in the heart of “a woman scorned”. I’m sure you can explain this scorned male wa
nker
to me, then.

Good night, good gawd, and get fucked. Especially YOU, Jasper.

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The Assassination of Hugo Chávez: Colombian hitman tells all

And who was offering to pay for the hit? None other than Chavecito’s last opponent in the presidential elections, Manuel “Brave Sir Robin” Rosales, currently holed up in Peru, whining about “political persecution” while under investigation for embezzlement, among other things. Who’s really persecuting whom?

For more on the plot, clicky here.

And once more, it’s got to be said: If the Venezuelan opposition can’t field an honest, serious, non-criminal candidate, it deserves to fail until the end of time.

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Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa gassed with hydrogen cyanide

Manuel Zelaya denounces a murder attempt on the part of the putschists:

You can hear the people around him coughing and wheezing. Many are still affected by the gassing they suffered yesterday and the day before. There is also a call going out for the UN to send a toxicologist to examine the gassing victims, so as to determine exactly what poison gases they inhaled and how much.

As you can see, Mel is not crazy. He makes his denunciation, his appeal for UN intervention, and his remarks to his supporters in a very calm, rational, intelligent manner. In other words: He’s still very much himself, still definitely president of Honduras, and not about to give in to the coupmongers anytime at all.

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Anti-coup march in Barcelona, Spain

You can see placards written in Catalan, as well as the flags of other Latin American countries, in this solidarity march. (I see Bolivia and Colombia, how ’bout you?)

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