WTF Is It Now?!?

It's a pretty nice day, which means I really have to get my ass outside and do some yard work. But first - I see El Dorque's little coup in Venezuela didn't go over well for the BFEE, and people are noticing George of the Bungle's involvement:

Teresa Gutierrez of the International Action Center (IAC) said “the coup has all the markings of a CIA plot, much like the one carried out against the Chilean President Salvador Allende in September 1973.” Gutierriez pointed out that the “so-called strike leading up to the coup was really an action by the wealthy owners of the factories, aided by a corrupt sector of the trade union movement representing only the most privileged workers in the oil industry.”

Sara Flounders, a co-director of the IAC, said, “That the Bush administration has rushed to welcome the new Venezuelan government, despite its illegal and unconstitutional creation, is a clear sign that Washington was in on the coup from the beginning,” she said. “The Bush administration has targeted Chavez because he had an independent foreign policy. He was friendly to Cuba and he had the courage to criticize the U.S. war drive against Afghanistan."
(http://www.iacenter.org/venez_041202.htm)


Sightings 'n' Stuff:
Pair of bluebirds building a nest in one of the bluebird houses.
Bumblebees and white butterflies eating from the dandelion flowers.
The apple and plum trees are blooming!
Flock of pissed-off juncos going "wtf??" because the bear tore down the platform feeder last night, damn him.
Transplanted the rose bush from the back slope to near the fishpond.

Today in History

73 According to Jewish historian Josephus, 967 Jewish zealots committed mass suicide within the fortress of Masada on this last night before the walls were breached by the attacking Roman Tenth Legion.

1759 composer George Frideric Handel died in London.

1865 President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. (He died the following morning).

1828 the first edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language was published.

1912 the British liner Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began sinking.

1948 A flash of light is observed in the crater Plato on the Moon.


Two Dems with prominent genitalia criticize Snippy the Chimp's Mideast Efforts

Two Democrats, possible 2004 presidential contenders, challenged the White House's Middle East policies on Sunday, with one questioning why the administration had to be "dragged kicking and resisting" into peace efforts. "A great nation like ours should not be dragged kicking and resisting -- should not have to be pressured -- to the task of making peace," John Kerry said.

By pressuring Israel not to strike back, Joe Lieberman said, America's Dingleberry had "muddied" the moral clarity gained by the United States after the attacks.

"The bush administration has publicly and persistently pressured Israel not to do exactly what we have rightly done to fight the terrorists who struck us on September 11," Lieberman said. "The president risks losing the moral high ground and compromising our own war on terrorism." - Yahoo Nooze


the BFEE just don't get it, do they?

"We do hope that Chavez recognizes that the whole world is watching and that he takes advantage of this opportunity to right his own ship, which has been moving, frankly, in the wrong direction for quite a long time,'' said Condoleezza Rice, one of the Simpering Nincompoop's nursemaids.

She said Chavez "needs to respect constitutional processes'' during this tumultuous period in Venezuela, the No. 3 supplier of oil to the United States and the world's fourth biggest exporter.

"I hope that Hugo Chavez takes the message that his people sent him, that his own policies are not working for the Venezuela people, that he's dealt with him in a high-handed fashion,'' Rice said on NBC's "Meet the Press.''

"This is no time for a witch hunt,'' Rice said. Read more at The Guardian. What f*cking nerve. They don't seem to realize that thousands of us are thinking the same things about the Squatter-in-Thief and his handlers.