Oct. 8th, 2003

rone: (quiet)

i am moonSHINE
and i lose ya

It's the third time i've listened to Doolittle today. I'm good and pissed off about this whole Ahnuld thing. It's embarrassing. Did i hear you correctly, California? You want to be donkey-punched?

Si no aprenden por las buenas... por las malas, entonces. Tarea de imbéciles.

rone: (Default)

i am moonSHINE
and i lose ya

It's the third time i've listened to Doolittle today. I'm good and pissed off about this whole Ahnuld thing. It's embarrassing. Did i hear you correctly, California? You want to be donkey-punched?

Si no aprenden por las buenas... por las malas, entonces. Tarea de imbéciles.

rone: (quiet)

This is just like when Ecuadorians voted to elect Abdalá their president, and i'm sure there are similar examples elsewhere (Berlusconi, maybe?). People all over the world, it seems, are a sucker for a good showman with ambitious delusions of grandeur and minimal qualifications.

Marion Barry was re-elected after getting caught smoking crack, you say? Abdalá Bucaram fled the country and went to Panama after, while serving as mayor of Guayaquil, he was caught embezzling funds from the city funds. He was later given amnesty, returned, ran for president, lost, incurred new corruption charges, fled to Panama again, returned after the charges were dropped, ran for president again, and won on a populist platform. Upon victory, he went back on just about everything he'd promised, and not quite 6 months after he took the presidency, he was removed from the presidency by Congress due to "mental incapacity". He fled for a third and, i hope, final time to Panama 5 days after his removal.

I doubt it'll end as badly here, but only because of how badly it ended over there.

rone: (Default)

This is just like when Ecuadorians voted to elect Abdalá their president, and i'm sure there are similar examples elsewhere (Berlusconi, maybe?). People all over the world, it seems, are a sucker for a good showman with ambitious delusions of grandeur and minimal qualifications.

Marion Barry was re-elected after getting caught smoking crack, you say? Abdalá Bucaram fled the country and went to Panama after, while serving as mayor of Guayaquil, he was caught embezzling funds from the city funds. He was later given amnesty, returned, ran for president, lost, incurred new corruption charges, fled to Panama again, returned after the charges were dropped, ran for president again, and won on a populist platform. Upon victory, he went back on just about everything he'd promised, and not quite 6 months after he took the presidency, he was removed from the presidency by Congress due to "mental incapacity". He fled for a third and, i hope, final time to Panama 5 days after his removal.

I doubt it'll end as badly here, but only because of how badly it ended over there.

rone: (evil)

Noted recording artist Orrin Hatch introduced a joint resolution to the Senate in July "that would allow anyone who has been a U.S. citizen for 20 years to run for president." While he proposed this before Ahnuld announced his intention to run for governor, you gotta wonder if it's outside the realm of possibility that people in the GOP already knew that he wanted to do it. Anyway... we're back to "Demolition Man": escapist fluff or chilling prophecy?

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Noted recording artist Orrin Hatch introduced a joint resolution to the Senate in July "that would allow anyone who has been a U.S. citizen for 20 years to run for president." While he proposed this before Ahnuld announced his intention to run for governor, you gotta wonder if it's outside the realm of possibility that people in the GOP already knew that he wanted to do it. Anyway... we're back to "Demolition Man": escapist fluff or chilling prophecy?

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