February 2012

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It’s like it’s the 1970′s all over again, with our favorite war criminal Henry Kissinger being asked his advice by George Bush. No, this is not a joke, and yes, we may be fighting in Vietnam (thus Kissinger’s expertise). Christopher Hitchens asks a very relevant and poignant question: Will we never be free of the malign effect of this little gargoyle? (Watch out Chris, you may be next).

And in the tasteful right-wing bigotry of the day, Lauer on Limbaugh’s Michael J. Fox attacks: “Didn’t Rush Limbaugh just say what a lot of people were privately thinking?”. So a guy who has campaigned for Republicans in the past (Specter of PA) and is campaigning for Democrats in the current election is an ‘actor’? Oh boy! But nothing compares to Dennis Millers attack (albeit pretty funny) on Nancy Pelosi:

Now, I’ve worked in office scenarios before where a nimrod rose to a position of power in the office through mere inconsequentiality, and it drove me berserk. And I just know that every day I turn on C-SPAN, which, granted, is never, and see her wielding the wrong end of that gavel, it will give me Krakatoan shpilkes. To think that a C-minus, D-plus applicant like this, who no doubt would have been drummed out of the Mary Kay corps after an initial four-week evaluation period, might have a seat at the table of true powers, the speaker of the House, is absolutely insane.

I don’t mean to toot my own horn but, beep beep.

Capital Punishment Laws of the World; it looks like America has some wonderful company — I think I see Uzbekistan and China in there! And also everyone hates the French, it just takes some shock to figure it out.

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We are all enjoying our final days in Carazo before we go off to Managua.  I have officially cut my beard off so I am just with the mustache.  Before any of you doubting thomases naysay I will tell you that if it isnt guapo in the states, it sure as hell is guapo here!  Besides, all the guys in sector medio ambient will be rocking the mustaches so be ready for the photos as they come.  I tried to do a photo upload tonight but the odds were stacked against me and everthing went to shit.  Sorry.

 So I made dinner for my family last night and being that it was my first and only meal I was going to make for them I came out with guns blasting.  I bought some broccoli in the deparmental capital as well as some olive oil and set out to make pasta and broccoli.  Aside from having slightly overcooked pasta and no parmesan cheese, I thought it turned out well.  Culturally, I didnt really take my familiy´s needs into consideration because:

1. They had never seen broccolli before.

2. I didnt salt the shit out of it.

What blew my mind was that they were actually rubbing the broccolli down with salt directly out the container!  I mean, sea salt!  I wasn´t offended (if one of my friends had done that in the states I would have freaked), I thought it was hilarious.  My host-mom choked it down to be nice.  One learns…..

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Escape a genocide in Sudan and come to Atlanta! A good idea, sort of:

He was attacked, robbed, held at gunpoint, and the Atlanta police gave him a little business card that said “Citizen Complaint” or something like that, with a phone number on it. It was like the thing you’d be given after complaining about the sound of some party next door. That’s the kind of card he got for being attacked and held at gunpoint.

But the fairy tale ends well, because he gets to write a book with Dave Eggers! Get robbed and then have Dave Eggers write a book about you! It’s like the American dream, with vomit all over it.

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Macaca Man at George Allen rally:

And, of course, the video that started it all:

Way to go Georgey (part 2).

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Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’:

WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that “our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over.”

President-elect Bush vows that “together, we can put the triumphs of the recent past behind us.”

“My fellow Americans,” Bush said, “at long last, we have reached the end of the dark period in American history that will come to be known as the Clinton Era, eight long years characterized by unprecedented economic expansion, a sharp decrease in crime, and sustained peace overseas. The time has come to put all of that behind us.”

Bush swore to do “everything in [his] power” to undo the damage wrought by Clinton’s two terms in office, including selling off the national parks to developers, going into massive debt to develop expensive and impractical weapons technologies, and passing sweeping budget cuts that drive the mentally ill out of hospitals and onto the street.

During the 40-minute speech, Bush also promised to bring an end to the severe war drought that plagued the nation under Clinton, assuring citizens that the U.S. will engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years.

“You better believe we’re going to mix it up with somebody at some point during my administration,” said Bush, who plans a 250 percent boost in military spending. “Unlike my predecessor, I am fully committed to putting soldiers in battle situations. Otherwise, what is the point of even having a military?”

On the economic side, Bush vowed to bring back economic stagnation by implementing substantial tax cuts, which would lead to a recession, which would necessitate a tax hike, which would lead to a drop in consumer spending, which would lead to layoffs, which would deepen the recession even further.

Wall Street responded strongly to the Bush speech, with the Dow Jones industrial fluctuating wildly before closing at an 18-month low. The NASDAQ composite index, rattled by a gloomy outlook for tech stocks in 2001, also fell sharply, losing 4.4 percent of its total value between 3 p.m. and the closing bell.

Asked for comment about the cooling technology sector, Bush said: “That’s hardly my area of expertise.”

Turning to the subject of the environment, Bush said he will do whatever it takes to undo the tremendous damage not done by the Clinton Administration to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He assured citizens that he will follow through on his campaign promise to open the 1.5 million acre refuge’s coastal plain to oil drilling. As a sign of his commitment to bringing about a change in the environment, he pointed to his choice of Gale Norton for Secretary of the Interior. Norton, Bush noted, has “extensive experience” fighting environmental causes, working as a lobbyist for lead-paint manufacturers and as an attorney for loggers and miners, in addition to suing the EPA to overturn clean-air standards.

Bush had equally high praise for Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft, whom he praised as “a tireless champion in the battle to protect a woman’s right to give birth.”

“Soon, with John Ashcroft’s help, we will move out of the Dark Ages and into a more enlightened time when a woman will be free to think long and hard before trying to fight her way past throngs of protesters blocking her entrance to an abortion clinic,” Bush said. “We as a nation can look forward to lots and lots of babies.”

Continued Bush: “John Ashcroft will be invaluable in healing the terrible wedge President Clinton drove between church and state.”

The speech was met with overwhelming approval from Republican leaders.

“Finally, the horrific misrule of the Democrats has been brought to a close,” House Majority Leader Dennis Hastert (R-IL) told reporters. “Under Bush, we can all look forward to military aggression, deregulation of dangerous, greedy industries, and the defunding of vital domestic social-service programs upon which millions depend. Mercifully, we can now say goodbye to the awful nightmare that was Clinton’s America.”

“For years, I tirelessly preached the message that Clinton must be stopped,” conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh said. “And yet, in 1996, the American public failed to heed my urgent warnings, re-electing Clinton despite the fact that the nation was prosperous and at peace under his regime. But now, thank God, that’s all done with. Once again, we will enjoy mounting debt, jingoism, nuclear paranoia, mass deficit, and a massive military build-up.”

An overwhelming 49.9 percent of Americans responded enthusiastically to the Bush speech.

“After eight years of relatively sane fiscal policy under the Democrats, we have reached a point where, just a few weeks ago, President Clinton said that the national debt could be paid off by as early as 2012,” Rahway, NJ, machinist and father of three Bud Crandall said. “That’s not the kind of world I want my children to grow up in.”

“You have no idea what it’s like to be black and enfranchised,” said Marlon Hastings, one of thousands of Miami-Dade County residents whose votes were not counted in the 2000 presidential election. “George W. Bush understands the pain of enfranchisement, and ever since Election Day, he has fought tirelessly to make sure it never happens to my people again.”

Bush concluded his speech on a note of healing and redemption.

“We as a people must stand united, banding together to tear this nation in two,” Bush said. “Much work lies ahead of us: The gap between the rich and the poor may be wide, be there’s much more widening left to do. We must squander our nation’s hard-won budget surplus on tax breaks for the wealthiest 15 percent. And, on the foreign front, we must find an enemy and defeat it.”

“The insanity is over,” Bush said. “After a long, dark night of peace and stability, the sun is finally rising again over America. We look forward to a bright new dawn not seen since the glory days of my dad.”

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Santorum is defined as: The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. This definition was popularized by the American humorist and columnist Dan Savage, in 2003 and is named after US Republican Senator Rick Santorum from Pennsylvania.

It emerged after Savage reacted strongly to Republican U.S. Senator Rick Santorum’s controversial statements about homosexuality in an interview with the Associated Press published April 20, 2003. In the interview, Santorum classed gay sex together with incest, polygamy, and bestiality as deviant sexual behavior threatening society and the family. Santorum further stated that he believed consenting adults do not have a constitutional right to privacy with respect to sexual acts.

Outraged by Santorum’s statements, Savage challenged the audience of his column Savage Love to come up with a sex-related definition for the word santorum with the stated purpose of “memorializ[ing] the Santorum scandal […] by attaching his name to a sex act that would make his big, white teeth fall out of his big, empty head”.[1] After Savage published several definitions suggested by readers, a vote was taken among the readers of his column. Savage announced the winning definition in his June 12, 2003 column.

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