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Here's a transcript of the Chavez speech and a link to the video.
He called Bush the devil. Bush is the devil.
He called for resistance to American imperialism. He said Bush sees extremists everywhere. He said the American people want peace and its government doesn't. He said Bush is trying to impose his own model of democracy on other governments by violence and he wondered what kind of democracy that could be. He said Bush calls the worthy Evo Morales of Bolivia an extremist.
He was very jovial and eloquent.
I like Chavez okay: we'll see whether I can keep liking him or not (I'm a little wary of being overenthusiastic about politicians above the level of state representative -- I guess I have to see them in the grocery store before I think I can know them and their self-interest well enough to trust them farther than I can throw them. Plus, Chavez has done some dodgy things in the past)
Over at Scalzi's Whatever, he predicted the right wing's heads would explode seeing Chavez with a copy of Noam Chomsky's book (which he urged everyone to read) calling Bush the devil. And . . . there they are, exploding all over his blog.
Has anybody in the US been paying attention to the fact that Latin America is increasingly laughing at the US's notions of hemispheris hegemony? In different ways, of course.
Edit: the BBC has nothing on its site about Evo Morales more recent than April.
Just file this away in your important-but-fermenting section of your mind: Latin America is doing a lot. Latin America is electing native and creole leaders who question why they have to take guff from the US. Mexico is basically in a state of civil war (Hugo Chaves, Evo Morales, Lula, Lopez Obrador isn't but that's where his power base is). I think it's best described as a cold civil war, because it's armed skirmishes and political maneuvering rather than all-out battle with tanks -- oops, got that wrong, there were armored vehicles on the streets in Oaxaca last month.
On another front, Gloria's ill today. I'm working on a bit about engineered "embryo practitioners," that is, people whose job it is to incubate babies. I don't think I'm predicting anything: it's just an idea. I think it's about how taking on the job disrupts the character's relationships.
finally: why does Livejournal allow me to drag and select sometimes if it's not going to allow me to drag and select other times?
He called Bush the devil. Bush is the devil.
He called for resistance to American imperialism. He said Bush sees extremists everywhere. He said the American people want peace and its government doesn't. He said Bush is trying to impose his own model of democracy on other governments by violence and he wondered what kind of democracy that could be. He said Bush calls the worthy Evo Morales of Bolivia an extremist.
He was very jovial and eloquent.
I like Chavez okay: we'll see whether I can keep liking him or not (I'm a little wary of being overenthusiastic about politicians above the level of state representative -- I guess I have to see them in the grocery store before I think I can know them and their self-interest well enough to trust them farther than I can throw them. Plus, Chavez has done some dodgy things in the past)
Over at Scalzi's Whatever, he predicted the right wing's heads would explode seeing Chavez with a copy of Noam Chomsky's book (which he urged everyone to read) calling Bush the devil. And . . . there they are, exploding all over his blog.
Has anybody in the US been paying attention to the fact that Latin America is increasingly laughing at the US's notions of hemispheris hegemony? In different ways, of course.
Edit: the BBC has nothing on its site about Evo Morales more recent than April.
Just file this away in your important-but-fermenting section of your mind: Latin America is doing a lot. Latin America is electing native and creole leaders who question why they have to take guff from the US. Mexico is basically in a state of civil war (Hugo Chaves, Evo Morales, Lula, Lopez Obrador isn't but that's where his power base is). I think it's best described as a cold civil war, because it's armed skirmishes and political maneuvering rather than all-out battle with tanks -- oops, got that wrong, there were armored vehicles on the streets in Oaxaca last month.
On another front, Gloria's ill today. I'm working on a bit about engineered "embryo practitioners," that is, people whose job it is to incubate babies. I don't think I'm predicting anything: it's just an idea. I think it's about how taking on the job disrupts the character's relationships.
finally: why does Livejournal allow me to drag and select sometimes if it's not going to allow me to drag and select other times?
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(I've just reread this and realized I may have missed part of your concept, the "engineered" part. Do you mean people modified in some way specifically for this job? If so the below is less relevant.)
The base concept is not new, but they almost never are. I don't recall offhand this particular spin on it.
Heinlein used it in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" in 1966. Wyoming Knott worked as a professional "host mother" after her first marriage broke up due to a deformed child. Part of the reason she went into that field was the idea of having the healthy babies she thought she couldn't have naturally.
There was some story where there was a passing mention of someone who was a host mother, and she was caught smoking and that broke the contract. Maybe it was John Varley or Spider Robinson. And I recall a real world case something like that a few years ago.
David Brin had a nasty little story about a future where women's wombs could be used for producing commercial or industrial products. I think it was in his collection "Otherness", probably titled "Piecework".
(My apologies if I've blathered on with irrelevancies.)
- Captain Button
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I had to bite my tongue to keep from saying out loud to the screen, "Probably the same things he did before the oil prices were so high, you dipwad."
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