The Pop Culture of Gus Lequerica

While many people are having problems with their budgets, the big O! not not Oprah but Obama it’s spending like never and even more than W (not that I’m a fan of George Bush but I’m amazed about his hypocrisy because he said that he was going to spent less than his predecessor) It’s being reported that Obama broke the record for any first year President by spending US$3.5 Trillion in his first year and yes that’s only in personal expenses while W. spent 1.8 Million which makes me wonder if Obama has really felt the economical crisis. With that money spent there could be more jobs and more educational institutions which all of these expenses make me wonder if Obama it’s related to Gerald Ford?

In the most recent edition of the New Yorker, the President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe Velez was figured in the newest edition of Portraits of Power. The photograph Platoon said that Alvaro Uribe is a very reserved guy who don’t feel comfortable posing to the cameras and he was rather a shy guy opposite to the Head of State persona he shows to the media. It’s quite interesting Platoon commentary because he is not the only one to think that about Uribe where many people question his nature as a figure of power.

How do you call an ignorant black man? It’s simple according to Tupac Shakur an ignorant black man is a nigga and that is what the Mayor from Vallejo, California Mister Osby Davis is a simple nigga by the remarks he say about the LGTB community; it’s extremely ignorant that a man of Osby age says something like that because he lived the days of the Civil Right Movement where all black men where treated wrongly by the color of their skin and now he’s applying the same judgment of prejudice that was saw half of century ago but instead of the color of the skin this ignorant man choose to attack by the way a man or a woman express their love, that’s bias on the maximum potency coming from a man who hasn’t done anything; much similar as the Governator who are just jokes in politics. That’s the same reason people should start paying attention to who they vote for because when you have a bigot in the office there are going to be problems to take him or her out of the electoral job.

By the way the “Mayor” offered some vague apologize and said that he’s not going to speak about his faith again but the damage is already done and we Mister Osby we know what kind of looser who you are. Check the video here .

El primer viaje por esa región del actual presidente de E.U. busca ajustar las relaciones comerciales y recaudar fondos para la misión de Afganistán, entre otras cosas.

Dicen que una semana es mucho más que siete días en la vida de un presidente de Estados Unidos. Pues Barack Obama le dedicará ocho a su primer viaje por el Lejano Oriente, una gira destinada a ajustar las relaciones comerciales, recaudar fondos para la misión de Afganistán, definir estrategias para el desarme nuclear de Corea del Norte y discutir sobre el cambio climático.

Y aunque ha menguado su rol, E.U. sigue siendo un jugador importante en la zona y se presenta como garante de la seguridad asiática mediante la combinación de 75.000 soldados en Corea del Sur y Japón, y el patrullaje de las aguas regionales.

Sin embargo, no será un paseo triunfal. Ya en la primera etapa, se verá las caras con Yukio Hatoyama, el recién posesionado Primer Ministro japonés y a quien muchos llegaron a comparar con el propio Obama por su obsesión con el “cambio”.

Por mucha sintonía electoralista que manifestaran en en el pasado, ahora no les queda más remedio que defender intereses contrapuestos.

La prensa nipona le recuerda estos días a Hatoyama lo que firmó en su programa electoral: que los marines estadounidenses se marcharían de Okinawa después de más de medio siglo y que Tokio desplegaría por fin una política exterior autónoma (ver nota anexa).

Los dos dirigentes hablarán de ello, aunque se espera que a puerta cerrada para no dejar una sensación de desacuerdo.

Hatoyama, por cierto, retiró el mes pasado el apoyo logístico que prestaba a las tropas aliadas en Afganistán y, a cambio, acaba de prometer 5.000 millones de dólares en asistencia.

La siguiente etapa de la gira será Singapur, donde Obama asistirá al Foro de Cooperación Asia Pacífico (Apec) y se encontrará con líderes de las dos orillas, incluida una nutrida representación de Latinoamérica.

China, plato fuerte

Justo después llegará el plato fuerte: cuatro días y tres noches en China. Primero en Shanghái y luego en Pekín, se reunirá con los líderes del Partido Comunista para tratar, antes que nada, las polémicas comerciales y monetarias.

Ahí todo lo que digan importa, ya que el intercambio comercial entre E.U. y China es el mayor del planeta. “Se trata de la relación más relevante del mundo y creo que ambas partes tienen claro que sus intereses son complementarios, no competitivos, excepto en el caso de los recursos”, opina David Shambaugh, autor de más de 20 libros sobre la política de E.U. en Asia.

Pero se prevé que hablen de muchas más cosas: del pulso sobre el cambio climático, de Birmania e incluso del Tíbet.

Luego irá a Corea del Sur, donde el tema será el programa nuclear norcoreano.

In a country filled with contradictions in the law system as is Colombia is amazing that gay and lesbian unions are accepted, it’s another story when they law speak about adoption as well the public in general. To only way to know a country is by living in it and even with all the progression in terms of law it is a difficult place to live because unless you have money you will have certain stability in your life otherwise is going to be another story.

It’s difficult to describe Colombia because in many ways the laws are made in base of emulation of the European and American laws but applying them in the practice is another story. One of the recent cases in the country relies on a mother who has a daughter who was conceived via in-vitro fertilization and the mother is a lesbian who has been in a steady relationship over the past 5 years. She went to the Antioquia ICBF (Colombian Institute of Family Welfare by the abbreviation in English)  only to found that the Headmistress of the institution will contest the rule of the First Tribunal of Rio Negro to avoid the rule in favor of the couple.

The headmistress Elvira Forero argue that a family is only constituted by a mother, father and their children not by a same sex couple; even so if the worse situation happens the victim will be the child of the couple because she won’t be able to have the social benefits from her adopting mother and even so the headmistress argue that lgtb couples can’t adopt because of the Infancy and Adolescence law that explicitly says about how a family should be constituted and what privileges they have as a “conventional family”. So in one point of the balance there are some social progress in the country but at the end they are hollow because there is not welfare for anyone or social security for a couple that wants to give a safe home to a child.

Douchebag President of Venezuela exposed his latest idea to save energy (after he depleted the funds of the Nation entirely) that people should go if they want to go to the bathroom in the early morning with a flashlight and he even said that everyone should have one flashlight in their night-table just in case they want to go to the bathroom.  He even so far to state that business should generate their electricity and that the government is going to track people how spend too much energy.

Sure like if you have one but there are no words to say how much you have drowned a country in the shit you have created.

With all the political and social progress in Europe maybe Ukraine didn’t noticed that in almost the rest of the countries of Europe gay and lesbian can adopt but it seems Ukraine is one of the few exception because if you are gay and/or single and above 45 years old you can’t adopt so ask that to Sir Elton John who wanted to adopt an Ukrainian 2 years old boy named Levi who is HIV positive, which the singer met in a visit to the country a few months ago and was enchanted with the little champion.

But, Ukraine authorities as soon knew that Elton is a gay man decided to negate the adoption process because he is gay, above 45 and in Ukraine civil unions between to people of the same sex aren’t recognized at all thus by consequence they can’t adopt or have the same privileges they have in countries such as United Kingdom or the Netherlands and even an undeveloped country as Colombia in South America recognize same civil unions (under certain jurisdiction) so I guess at the end the Ukrainian Officers decided that it was better for an HIV positive boy to live and die in an orphanage rather to be place with a loving couple who could made his last years more easy and joyful only because the people that wanted to adopted him were two men. Shame on you Ukraine!.

Equator is going to open dialogues with Colombia after one year and a half when the Equatorian Government broke relations with La Casa de Nariño after the incident where the Colombian army invaded Equator’s soil to capture a chief of the Colombian Guerrilla; the opening to the start the dialogues was given by Counselor Fander Falconi.

According to Falconi the dialogues will be taken on September 22 of 2009 in the context of the next assembly of the United Nations, where the points that are going to be taken are going to be the commons and differences of both countries regarding political divergences and economic support but Falconi didn’t gave specific details about further topics that are going to be discussed.

The situation started after Colombia went to Equator soil in the border between the two countries to destroy a F.A.R.C. setting that was in Equator due by those days Equator was a sanctuary to the terrorist group due the relations between Equator’s president Rafael Correa and Hugo Chavez President of Venezuela who is a supporter of the terrorist group. During the invasion from Colombia one of the leaders of the F.A.R.C. “Raul Reyes” was killed by the Colombian army but the mobilization wasn’t authorized at the moment and that was the reason Equator broke relations with Colombia, but after one year and 6 months it seems that everything is starting to cool down.

Nutcase Republican Congressman it’s again rambling against the Democrats and Obama, again citing that the Democrats are Fascist and want to turn the United States in a Totalitarian Government this time he said to the Online Athens Newspaper”He has the three things that are necessary to establish an authoritarian government,” Broun said. “And so we need to be ever-vigilant, because freedom is precious.”

As he did when comparing Obama to Hitler and the Soviets last year, Broun cited a speech Obama gave in Colorado during the campaign last July calling for “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the military.

Get a life Paul we know that you are piss off because a black Democrat won and not a sexy Republican momma as Palin.

Hasbeens Jane Fonda, Eve Ensler and Danny Glover will boycott the Toronto International Film Festival due to a program honoring Tel Aviv’s 100th anniversary, called City to City.

The program aims to spotlight 10 Israeli films, yet activists have signed their name to a letter aimed at festival officials claiming that Tel Aviv was built on violence, ignoring the “suffering of thousands of former residents and descendants” as countless Palestinian villages were sacrificed.

But, not everyone agrees with this stance!

Oscar-winning documentarian, Rabbi Marvin Hier believes this act is “an attack on the heart and soul of Israel.”

He says:

“People who support letters like this are people who do not support a two-state solution. By calling into question the legitimacy of Tel Aviv, they are supporting a one-state solution, which means the destruction of the State of Israel. I applaud the organizers of the festival for celebrating on the 100th anniversary of Tel Aviv. If every city in the Middle East would be as culturally diverse, as open to freedom of expression as Tel Aviv is, then peace would long have come to the Middle East.”

I have one title for this photo Stoney Chavez because I can’t see other reasonable explanation for this dynamic duo to get along; so, maybe Oliver Stone is trying to get publicity by associating to this chimpanzee who is the so called Fail Loon Meme Frog Perez Hilton President of Venezuela because his career is on decline but now the situation gets interesting Chavez wants to go to the premier because he’s the star of the ass licking documentary, (yep this smells like personal interest) which is about the rise of the leftist movements in Latin America and Chavez well Chavez is the lead.

Chavez said that his cabinent is valuating the time to go on a world tour that will go from Iran to Russia… yeah like if in Russia they really want you, you are just the guy who buy their second and third hand scrap for thousands of dollars and then you start saying that you are going to war with the weapons the Russians consider obsolete. This movie looks more like a spoof of National Lampoon not a freaking documentary.

California Governor and husband to Maria Kennedy Shriver Arnold Schwarzenegger paid a tribute to late U.S. Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy, who died on Tuesday. Ted, a Democrat, the last brother to be alive of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy died at age of 77 after an arduous battle with brain cancer.

“Most importantly, he was the rock of our family: a loving husband, father, brother and uncle. He was a man of great faith and character. Teddy inspired our country through his dedication to health care reform, his commitment to social justice, and his devotion to a life of public service.
“I have personally benefited and grown from his experience and advice, and I know countless others have as well. Teddy taught us all that public service isn’t a hobby or even an occupation, but a way of life and his legacy will live on.”

This is the second death in the Kennedy Family, a few days ago Maria’s mother passed  away.