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Festive Left Friday Blogging Too: Cartoon of the day

April 30, 2010 — Sabina Becker

“Monsters and monsterettes, time to vote!”

Chavecito is now tweeting. From his Vergatario?

(Courtesy Aporrea.)

UPDATE: Yes, Chavecito has invited Evo and Fidel to come tweet with him. No word yet on whether they will.

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Canadian comedy is eerily prescient–and better than US news

April 30, 2010 — Sabina Becker

Dave Foley of The Kids in the Hall anticipates Glenn Beck, back when the latter was still mumbling drunkenly behind a 7-11 store somewhere. Keitho (when he’s on, he’s really really on) points out the eerie parallels.

And yes, the paranoid hysteria is being whipped up against Russia again, and “killer bees” (i.e. the Latin American left, which was always independent of Moscow–and yes, even Cuba had its squabbles with Teh Russkies). So this is even more eerily prescient than even Dave and Keitho could know.

See, this is why we export so many comedians to the US. We could export political commentators, too; trust me, when Jon Stewart is their number-one newsman, they’d never know!

Posted in Artsy-Fartsy Culture Stuff, Canadian Counterpunch, Crapaganda Whores, Fascism Without Swastikas, Teh Russkies. 2 Comments »

Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito thanks his tweeps

April 30, 2010 — Sabina Becker

And where better to do it than in his home town of Sabaneta, in his home state of Barinas, with his amigo Evo alongside as they inaugurated an education centre?

In just 48 hours, and with only two tweets to his “candanga” name as of the publication of that note, Chavecito had already racked up over 100,000 followers. Not too shabby. Better than that douchebag Juanes in a similar timespan, I’ll bet.

And he’s a lot less garrulous on the tweeter than Keith Olbermann snarked that he’d be, too.

PS: No, Evo’s not on yet. I checked. There are about half a dozen payasos impersonating him, though. Can’t find the real El Ec, either.

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Stupid Sex Tricks: Don’t tread on me

April 30, 2010 — Sabina Becker

No, seriously, don’t:

It’s supposed to be a coiled snake, but from this distance, who can tell?

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Stupid Sex Tricks: Ur doin it rong

April 30, 2010 — Sabina Becker

Cute doll. But can it do this?

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The Parliament Hillbillies

April 29, 2010 — Sabina Becker

Finally, our lovely government in its true colors:

Starring Stephen Harper as Jed, Jason Kenney as Miss Jane, Rahim Jaffer as Mr. Drysdale, Vic Toews as Granny, John Baird as Jethro and Helena Guergis as Ellie May.

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ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG!!!

April 29, 2010 — Sabina Becker

Eva Golinger has just informed the Facebookers that Chavecito is now on the tweeter. His handle is @chavezcandanga.

Now I’m gonna have to sign up for yet another social-networking time-suck (sigh, grrr), if only so I can figure out how many times I can write “te amo” in 140 characters.

Life’s a beeyotch.