Comments on: ¿Qué Pasa?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:51:56 +0000

The problem that US administrations don’t seem to get is that the countries of Central and South America don’t trust us because we have been messing around down there for almost two centuries and the results never seem to be good for the people who live there.

Hugo Chavez would be gone a hell of a lot sooner if we stop talking about him and reacting to his silliness. Fidel only lasted because the US opposed him.

By: oldwhitelady

oldwhitelady — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:42:24 +0000

I think it’s some stupid notion to piss off Chavez. It would be annoying to him because of our sticking our fingers into another South American country’s pie. We (our govt) can’t seem to keep our hands to ourselves.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:35:02 +0000

Point taken, Frederick, but a trade agreement isn’t going to help combat that problem.

By: Frederick

Frederick — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:02:45 +0000

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IF28Ad01.html

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:56:05 +0000

The gossip columnists of twenty years ago were better sourced than today’s news media. All they do today is read press releases. You could once rely on NPR and PBS, but those days are gone.

All of this technology has resulted in less information and more propaganda.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:21:29 +0000

Grumps, now you know why I don’t listen to the network news anymore. I turned on CNN on my Sirius for a few minutes the other day and almost drove off the road myself listening to the reeking propaganda I was hearing. I *knew* it was propaganda because I’d spent a few days researching what they were talking about and knew the actual facts, but if that’s what everyday Americans are subjected to every day, no wonder the nation acts psychotic — they’re like rats who are issued electric shocks at random during their wanderings through the rat maze. If you perform this experiment upon actual rats, you’ll find that the rats then turn aggressive, start just jolting around at random doing nonsensical things, and otherwise behave, well, psychotic. Seems this is what our media has trained our general public to be like too. Sigh.

So my radio now stays stuck on music, and I get my news off the Internet where I can check a half dozen news sources from at least five different countries about any news event to sorta strip the propaganda out and get to what may be the facts. Sad that I gotta do this, but man, the U.S. media just reeks…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:47:00 +0000

Colombia has its own national security issues: drug gangs, the FARC, the less than warm relationships with its neighbors, but these aren’t US problems, and the US getting involved generally makes things worse.

Colombians still haven’t forgiven the US for stealing Panama through the fake revolution so we could build a canal, so relations will never be “toasty”.

By: Jack K., the Grumpy Forester

Jack K., the Grumpy Forester — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:36:22 +0000

…thanks, Bryan. Clearly we have gone well past the point where the shrub and his gang are just mailing it in. Mrs. Jack K. refuses to listen to Gee Dub, turning the radio off or the TV to another channel at his first uttered syllable and I should probably adopt the same approach, because I nearly drove off the road when I first heard him make that “national security” claim for the CFTA….