Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts

Friday, March 11, 2011

All the News, Fit to Print or Otherwise.

News stories which would be great if only they were true:

Irish economy calmed by announcement that government will dip into Strategic Pot-of-Gold Reserve (SPGR).

Irish government hopes to attract more foreign tourists with new Pot-of-Gold Give-Away Promotion. Irish Tourism Bureau spokesman says, “We are placing one at the end of every rainbow, and each one is guarded by an Irish Marine.”

Foreign Tourists in Ireland declare, “Irish Tourism Bureau is full of crap. These pots of gold are really hard to find.”

New study finds that Tunisian and Egyptian senses of superiority dangerously on the rise as Libyan uprising devolves into civil war.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cautions the population of Iran, “Don’t even think about it.”

Uprising in Tunisia forces Americans to briefly pretend to care about Tunisia.

Libyan refugees flooding into Ireland, scouring countryside searching for pots of gold. Irish Marine regiment reportedly overrun. Said one marine, “They are twice as tall as us!”

The International Association of Globe and Map Makers (IAGMM) formally requested that Tunisia and Egypt remain their counties. Said an unnamed IAGMM source, “We could really use the extra money.”

International community shocked – shocked! - to learn of decades of human rights abuses committed under Libya’s Gaddafi regime. Said one United Nations spokesperson, “Now that it will be only a hollow symbolic gesture, we will begin investigating.”

White House announced on Friday a new American policy toward Libya called “The Maturity Doctrine.” Said the President, “Why don’t we all just calm the hell down, okay?”

Republican House leadership proposes alternative Libyan policy called the “Let’s-Indiscriminately-Start-Handing-Out-Guns-and-Money-to-Pissed-Off-Third-World-Populations-because-That-Has-Never-Caused-a-Problem-for-Us-Before Doctrine.”

OPEC announces hike in oil prices due to cancelation of “Two and a Half Men”.

Charlie Sheen announces high rate of dissatisfaction with everyone and everything that is not Charlie Sheen.

American Society of Registered Warlocks (ASRW) releases a statement, “Charlie Sheen has not been paying his annual membership dues.”

Gas prices on the rise because OPEC knows Americans don’t distinguish between North Africa and the Middle East.

New study finds that people who only read Justin Bieber’s Twitter feed significantly better informed about world events than those who only read Sarah Palin’s Twitter feed.

Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin loses bid to appear on “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader”.

Pop star Justin Bieber tells reporters, “It is really disturbing the amount of time and energy that the press commits to covering my every word and hair style while so many important and historically relevant events are taking place around the world. It speaks to something fundamentally flawed and manic about the mass American consciousness and it needs to be addressed.”

Governor of Wisconsin unveils new plan to take rights from minorities, gays, children, puppies, unicorns.

New public school budget proposal by the Governor of Wisconsin strips funding for books, desks, food, heat, students. Said the Governor, “I pledge that within the next ten years the great state of Wisconsin will have the dumbest and most poorly educated students in all of the United States.”

Wisconsin teenagers respond to cuts in educational funding by releasing statement saying, “ :( “

The Council of American’s Tech Hipsters (CATH) has declared that the recently released iPad 2 is, “The most stunning human achievement since the first iPad” and that it is “better than curing Cancer would have been.”

American Cancer Society releases a statement saying, “We are pleased that the brightest and most talented minds in America are working for Apple and Google, as they have made it significantly faster and easier for Cancer patients all around the world to find funeral homes and discount caskets.”

Japanese earthquake/tsunami awakes slumbering giant lizard creature, which has gone on the rampage in Tokyo, destroying numerous buildings. The Japanese military has dispatched its giant Moth man creature to restore order.



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** The editors here at Standardkink have already donated to the Japan Tsumani Relief Fund or whatever the hell that email was that we got this morning, so calm down and recognize that the Godzilla joke was just too perfect to pass up **
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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Free-dumb.

Free-dumb
by james bezerra


It is strange to see
that democracy
is spreading all across my TV
in lands by the desert and lands by the sea

While concurrently,
and also on my TV,
I see
the former Defense Secretary,
good old Rummy.

He is out whoring for his new book.
His glance is still steely,
but in his look
I see a new arrogance; almost celebratory.

Because, you see,
he seems to believe that he -
and W. and Rice and Cheney -
were right about democracy
and people who live by deserts
and people who live by the sea.
As if the fact that people want to be free
was a secret and only he’d had the key.
As if – through protests in Cairo and riots in Tripoli –
he’s finally getting his just desserts.

As if all those bombs we dropped
were loaded full of liberty
and we just never hit the right Iraqi.
As if all our American supremacy
and psychic energy
had radiated out and never stopped.

As if democracy
was time-released
on the Middle East.
And while Iraq may have proved a quagmire,
there is certainly much to admire
in the streets of Cairo and on the shores of Tripoli.

It seems that Rummy
doesn’t seem to see
that Facebook fomented more revolutionary
fervor than did the American military.
He seems to think it might
be possible that by taking the fight
to Bagdad, we somehow got our righteous might
spattered all over every country in the arid Middle E.

I look at old Rummy -
his hair is still perfect and gray -
as he says on TV
that nothing can get in the way
of democracy.

Even – I want to say -
the dictators to whom we give money?
Or our tear gas they spray
at their own citizenry?
It seems like maybe we have been in the way.

But Rummy,
he doesn’t reply to me,
he just smiles implacably
and hocks his book
and there in his look
I can see
the self-satisfied glee
as he congratulates himself for the bravery
that it took
to spread liberty
and Democracy –
with its big shimmering D -
to every cranny and nook
of the backward Middle E.

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Wednesday, February 2, 2011