Blogging the democratic revolution
Overview: According to the document released by the Iranian government, a polling station for the presidential elections in Iran was located near me in Tucson, Arizona at the Southern Arizona Association for Visually Impaired (SAAVI). I drove there around 9am and the receptionist confirmed that, indeed, voting would be from 3pm-7pm. I arrived back on the scene around 4pm with my camera and notepad in hand and entered the polling station. After a brief look around, I asked the man in charge, the “poll monitor,” if I could interview him about the polling process, telling him that I am a…
ABC is reporting that a grenade was tossed at President Bush as he addressed thousands gathered in Tbilisi, Georgia. Guram Donadze, spokesman for the Georgian Interior Ministry, said no hand grenade was thrown close to Bush. “This is an absolute lie. This did not occur,” Donadze told The Associated Press. Officials from President Maikhail Saakashvili’s office were not immediately available for comment. Georgia’s security service has been merged with the Interior Ministry. The White House referred the AP to the Secret Service for comment. ABC is best known for its hard-hitting expose of American Idol. UPDATE: Confirmed, but it was…
I’m tempted to pontificate on the cult of personality and the nature of totalitarian regimes. Never mind that. Just click here.
… among the Chavistas and the white coats are calling. Just another sunny day in Caracas. Read it here and here.
He just doesn’t get it, does he? Just picture what the people in that room were thinking. Just when you thought the revolution had gone dead in Venezuela, this thug reminds you there is still reason for one out there. He never lets you down. Miguel has a photo of Hugo Chavez pontificating away at this, and notes his Parisian-tailored custom suit. Don’t miss this picture here. UPDATE: And Alek Boyd has an actual video of the grotesque spectacle here. (Scroll down on the page, and look for the item bylined ‘By Hugo Chavez.’ Indeed.)
I grew up despising Jerzy Urban, the Polish communist party spokesman, whose lies dropped out of his mouth like an loaded dumptruck . It turns out the fat creep isn’t done yet. Today, he weighed with a new pile of hate for the Pope on his passing, still spewing garbage after all these years. Read it here.
Back at Columbia, my roomate was a Cuban-American lawyer. She insisted that if you are a lawyer, it is an absolute that you can write. All lawyers know how to write, she added. If law school can teach you one thing, it is the capacity to write well. But now an apologist for Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez named Eva Golinger, who says she’s a lawyer, has taken to writing malevolent – and sub-literate – gibberings full of raging personal attacks against noted investigative researcher Alek Boyd. Her suspect activities have been exposed by Boyd, and she’s reacted like a cornered…
That is what I wondered when a question was posted to me about him. Hello,because my experiences I hate the term revolution,I prefer movement,the only revolution I love is American in 1776,every other is similar to French. But I love to see criminals overthrowed. What is your opinion on Justin Raimondo -and similar libertarians-,his opinions on Kirgyz,Iran,Lebanon,etc. he is a lazy idiot or even worse? Well, I didn’t really know who the commenter was referring to so I had to Google the name. It’s also ironic that today, just after hearing about him, he sent me some traffic by linking…
Poor girl, she is totally warped. It isn’t her fault though. She honestly isn’t much into politics, so she doesn’t fervently research what she reads. I emailed her right after the assassination of Hariri and asked her what she thinks, and here is her reply: Anyhow, you know that i lived in lebanon for 4yrs and a bit! and i was very heart broken to hear what happened for more than one reason. 1- Rafik al hariri i knew on a personal level, well not me but he is friends with my parents and he helped me get thru aloth…
Val Prieto, who writes the more-than-excellent Babalu Blog, outlines an old story for Cuban-Americans – the blindness of those who will not see Castro’s atrocious tyranny. Miami Cubans, more so than many exiles on the freedom fighting frontier, run into these dictator-worshipping jackasses all the time. Val’s exchange with one of them is worth reading here.
In another installment of my series “Crazy People,” some of the people who comment on Maidan topics are rather creepy and unintelligible. While I like Maidan itself, one guy got rubbed the wrong way — a little too easily — when I wouldn’t compare Iraq and Ukraine. Start at the top and read downward. Let me know what you think in the comments, but here is a sampling: Your brief comments in the reply you didn’t have time for are shallow and condescending. Your web site indicates you’re all over the place, an ideologue. Do you have detailed, specific knowledge…
I changed my “emails” category to “crazy people” to encompass a broader array of posts. And here we have it. I was alerted to the Santiago Times publishing my short little letter to the editor, when I ran across one of the craziest things I have read in recent times: A LATIN AMERICA FREE FROM THE UNITED STATES (Feb. 10, 2005) To the Editor I have long wondered when the day would come for Latin America to break out of the economic prison built around it by the United States. Today, the United States in its greed for world control…
I got this email from my friend Yasmin in Jordan. Can anyone explain to me how someone could feel so strongly this way? Robbie robbie robbie…. dear Robbbie, wht freedom are you talking about??? have you ever evn come close to live in this part of the world , you cant even imagine what these ppor people are capable of and deprived of!! Yes i agree completely that Bush needed to invade Iraq for the only fact of removing the son of a bitch Saddam…… and then he should’ve gotten the hell outta there!!! your telling me weapons of mass…