Chavez kicks out DEA, submariners safe, etc.

man it's HOT! up here. in the arctic northlands we're not used to mid 80s (and we don't have air-conditioners). hot, hot, hot. and did i mention it's hot?

in the news today: the russian submariners that were trapped at the bottom of the ocean with their oxygen running out have been rescued. phew! i felt terrible for them. being a pacifist , i usually don't feel too bad for volunteer soldiers dying on duty but nobody deserves to die like that. npr had reported that two american robotic rescue subs were being flown in, but that absolutely everything had to go perfect in order for those subs to get there in time. good thing they didn't have to rely on the americans, because when they were finally rescued, the americans hadn't even left port yet. a british rescue team that left after the americans did, cut the sub free. really happy for those guys. the russians were funny too: as a gesture of thanks, they didn't charge the americans and british for refueling their planes or fly-over fees. lol.

at the other end of the world, hugo chavez again showed off his brass cajones (and probably shortened the time until his eventual, unfortunate "accident") by kicking out the united states drug enforcement agency, or dea for short, because they were spying on his governement. oh no: i'm shocked! not the dea... and since chavez realized that this whole 'war on drugs' contains about the same amnount of bullshit as the 'war on terrorism', he told them to get the fuck out of venezuela. here are some of his comments.

"The DEA was using the fight against drug trafficking as a mask, to support drug trafficking, to carry out intelligence in Venezuela against the government," Mr Chavez said.

"Under those circumstances we have decided to make a clean break with those accord," he added.

President Chavez also criticised the US policy on drugs for concentrating on the supply rather than the demand of drugs.

finally, in other news, peter jennings dead at 67 shows you again that cancer doesn't give a fuck how rich or famous you are. bad way to go...
nasa is going to keep us on the edge of our seats by delaying the return of the shuttle by another day.
oh yeah, and oil hit a new all time high of $63.- a barrel. peak oil, here we come.

and now for

FUCK YOU!

ariel sharon. also known as the butcher of sabra and chatila. the fact that the majority of his party is even worse than him doesn't make him any better.









FUCK YEAH!

cindy sheehan. mother of a us soldier killed in iraq. is camped outside of george bush's ranch in texas waiting until he will see her so she can ask him "why he killed her son, and what his 'honorable cause' is."