Saturday, April 22, 2006

Freedom on the march!

It's a big day for laughably dysfunctional Third-World war-zones, as both Iraq and New Orleans choose new leaders. As an added bonus, there's an outside chance that at least one of them won't be a hopeless incompetent who covers his constant cock-ups with despicable ethnic hate-mongering.

Probably too much to hope for New Orleans, tho'.


Mayor Ray "Chocolate" Nagin, yesterday - the man who introduced the phrase "Thank Allah for Louisiana" into Arabic.

9 comments:

The Aunt said...

Would you rather have an incompetent or a crook, like France, or Italy?

Now I think about it, yes, perhaps the crook every time.

Ivan the Terrible said...

Down by the bayou, one generally gets both for the price of one...

Anonymous said...

The po-faced venality of the republicodemocrans in the states is no fun, just annoying. A bit of balkanization would pep things up no end. Split the union up into competing bana republics. I want to see lots of gold epaulettes and saluting. These things need to be done with a bit of panache.

Anonymous said...

Incidentally, if you look up 'South American Dictators' on Wikipedia, the top result is this. I want one.

Ivan the Terrible said...

Looks like a sweet ride, Rob. Ford tried to fight back with the Kamikaze, but those weenies in Marketing renamed it the Pinto instead.

SheBah said...

HaHa Ivan - you are the eternal optimist - unless there is a seismic change in history, the political cock-ups will continue. Competant politician is an oxymoron.

SheBah said...

competent .....even

Ivan the Terrible said...

Hmmm. Speaking of competence, Blogger won't let me publish this morning for some reason. Just talk amongst yourselves for the time being...

The Aunt said...

That's exactly what Scaryduck said....

Ivan?

Want to explain?