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Showing posts with label Failed Nations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Failed Nations. Show all posts

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Beggars Can't Be Prosecutors

10 Americans in Haiti Charged With Child Kidnapping
A Haitian attorney says 10 Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the Jan. 12 earthquake have been charged with child kidnapping.

Edwin Coq says the Americans also are charged with criminal association. The 10 appeared in court Thursday and were whisked away to a jail in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince.

Coq attended the session and has represented the group here.
Oh my. It seems we've misplaced some of those foreign aid checks with all the zeros on them. Perhaps some more reasonable charges would help us find them...

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Friday, May 8, 2009

Finally!

Mexico Scrubs Itself Clean To Combat Flu Outbreak
Mexico is scrubbing itself clean to battle the new H1N1 flu, taking unprecedented precautions in restaurants, public transport and museums that officials hope will take hold once the health crisis passes.

In a country where poverty often prevents basic hygiene and many people wrongly believe a shot of tequila or a squeeze of lime juice will kill microbes, a sudden and urgent education in epidemiology is taking hold.

"This is breaking with a paradigm. I think there will be a change. It has been an important lesson for society," said Dr Pablo Kuri, an adviser to Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova.

The swine flu virus has killed at least 44 people in Mexico and two in the United States and infected more than 2,000 people in 24 countries, triggering fears of a pandemic.
Later is better than never I suppose...

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Monday, April 13, 2009

Mexico's Got Some Nerve...

Mexico Slams Burger King For 'Whopper' Of An Insult
Mexico is protesting what it says is a whopper of an insult.

An advertisement for Burger King's chili-flavored "Texican" burger that has run in Europe shows a small wrestler dressed in a cape resembling a Mexican flag. The wrestler teams up with a lanky American cowboy twice his height to illustrate the cross-border blend of flavors.

"The taste of Texas with a little spicy Mexican," a narrator's voice says.

The much-taller cowboy boosts the wrestler up to reach high shelves and clean tall windows, while the Mexican helps the cowboy open a jar.

Mexico's ambassador to Spain said Monday he has written a letter to Burger King's offices in that nation objecting to the ad and asking that it be removed. Jorge Zermeno told Radio Formula that the ads "improperly use the stereotyped image of a Mexican."
Hahahahahaha! I must disagree; I think BK quite properly used the "stereotyped image of a Mexican".

I gotta say though, Mexico has some nerve considering this, and this, and this, and this.

Mexicans: they can dish it out, but they can't take it. My advice? Tienes que relajar, amigos.

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

You Can't Take It With You

Somali Pirate's Body Washes Ashore With $153,000
Five pirates drowned Friday when their small boat capsized after they received a reported $3 million ransom for releasing a Saudi oil tanker. Local resident Omar Abdi Hassan said one of the bodies had been found on a beach near the coastal town of Haradhere and relatives were searching for the other four.

"One of them was discovered and they are still looking for the other ones. He had $153,000 in a plastic bag in his pocket," he said Sunday.
Worth more than he ever was alive...

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Monday, December 29, 2008

Who Knew?

Somalia's President Quits After 4 Years In Power
Somalia's president resigned Monday after a four-year term in which his Western-backed government failed to extend its power throughout a country crippled by infighting and a strengthening Islamic insurgency.

Abdullahi Yusuf's resignation, which comes amid deepening international pressure, could usher in more chaos as Islamic militants scramble for power — even though the government controls only pockets of the capital, Mogadishu, and the seat of parliament in Baidoa.
Wait, wait, wait a minute... Somalia had a President? Goodness! If he hadn't resigned we might have never known.

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Monday, December 15, 2008

Bad For Business

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Turn The Pirates Into Pieces Of Eight (Or More)

Pirates are expected to a record ransom [sic] of more than $10million for the release of the Saudi oil supertanker hijacked off the Kenyan coast, as the spate of hijackings gathered pace with two more ships seized today. [...]

Pirates in the area have now attacked more than 90 vessels this year and successfully made more than £60 million from ransom demands.
They want ten million dollars? Fine. I say we pack ten mil of Monopoly money into a missile and send it over. We may lose a tanker, but it'll put a big question mark in the minds of the next group that thinks about hi-jacking a ship. Another good idea would be to heavily arm decoy ships and let them sail around and wait for a group of pirates to get close enough to flambé. Okay, I know that's troublesome when the lives of the innocent crew are stake, but one thing we shouldn't do is pay anymore ransom demands. It's like giving a defiant toddler ice cream for throwing a hissy fit, it only encourages their behavior.

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Monday, October 6, 2008

Target Practice

Somali Pirates Stand Ground as Foreign Ships Surround Them
"If we are attacked we will defend ourselves until every last one of us dies," Sugule Ali, a spokesman for the pirates aboard the Faina, said in an interview over satellite telephone from the ship, which is carrying 33 battle tanks, military weapons and 21 Ukrainian and Latvian and Russian hostages. One Russian has reportedly died, apparently of illness.
Look fellas, I know you have a lot of weapons and hostages but between the U.S. Navy and the Russian navy... well, you're pretty much screwed and your weapon may not be used as flotation device.

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Monday, August 20, 2007

Frantic Tourists Try To Flee Mexico

At first I thought it was because the tourists had come to their senses and realized they were vacationing in a corrupt, crime-ridden, third-world, quasi-dictatorship, that all but officially invades it's neighboring country to help it's poverty stricken citizens flee north from their own broken nation so they don't stick around, get angry and foment revolution; but apparently there's just a hurricane coming.

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