Showing posts with label scandal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scandal. Show all posts

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Jon Stewart Breaks Rick Sanchez Silence, Responds

Hey, I'm funnier and more telegenic!
It's always jaw-dropping when someone accuses another one of bigotry and THEN he uses one of the oldest libel tricks in the book. Now we now for sure how intolerant minorities can be (Not that there wasn't too many examples to start with). Mr. Sanchez looks like a whiner that couldn't take the heat and stand any of Mr. Stewart's jokes.

On the other side, it would have been a better (and healthier) debate to talk about political bias in the news and entertainment outlets, but it won't happen any soon.

On the brighter side, Mr. Sanchez has got a letter of recommendation for Al Jazeera.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Ingrid of the Jungle

A Dr. sipmac translation (original text taken from Tijera Press)

"This should never have happened. Everything was so crystal clear in my mind: Larry King, Oprah, then the Nobel Prize, best-selling books about my captivity in Spanish, English and French, a major motion picture in Hollywood, the Awards ceremony, negligence lawsuit against the Colombian state, the presidency, and then ... " Perhaps I exaggerate, but more than one of these things certainly thought Ingrid Betancourt during and after his captivity. The story of her mighty tantrum originated because she didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize says a lot.

Accustomed as we are to their miscalculations, it took us completely by surprise the obvious: writers Serge Scotto and Eric Stoffel, teamed up with illustrator Richard di Martino and prepared between July 2008 and December 2009 the perfect blow to the arrogance and ambition of the former hostage, a comic satire of her well known behavior in and out of captivity. A simple idea, but it never ocurred until now in this proud land of "humorists".

Currently scheduled to go on sale one week before the captivity memoir "There is no silence that does not end", the graphic satire and is already an Internet sensation. The web forums are full of prospective buyers, willing to buy a Spanish version.

Yet to be known is if the parody will be successful in France, where there was certainly a lot of backlash, and saturation with everything having to do with Ingrid Betancourt; but is almost certain that it could be completely successful in the country that loves to hate her. Meanwhile, she continues with its strong levels of unpopularity, which I doubt can be alleviated with an exclusive interview with reputed writer and intellectual Héctor Abad. Even Larry King at its best couldn't have been able to rescue her image. Another gaffetastic miscalculation.

We should recall that her first miscalculation was to enter a combat zone in spite of the warnings.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Yep, Obama's looking for a New Nobel Prize!


Dear Abby:

I'm the president of a very powerful nation that doesn't deserve that power at all. Until now, I did manage my best to make my country become another one among the others, from kowtowing to foreign monarchs and assorted despots, to offering kind gestures to undeserving tyrants and finally, by running the economy into the ground by creating permanent humongous deficits and rising the unemployment to European levels, all in the name of equality and spreading the wealth (just like my wife recently did with the taxpayers' money in her Europe vacation. The PIIGS are truly in desperate need).

I thought my people would appreciate all this (after all, I am the smart one), but no! All those ungrateful peasants are still clinging to their guns and their religion (Apparently, they didn't get Mr. Hawking's pleasant news: there's no need for a God for the universe to exist). No matter what my independent media does, these hicks don't want to listen to them but only to their own fellow hicks. And, as you might know by now, the race card is already maxed out.

Oh, this weakness of mine! I need to grab attention and recognition, and I deserve all the recognition and attention I can grab. I can't truly understand why my global audience systematically try to tie me to all the environmental fiascoes when I promised that with all my sacred legislation the oceans would recede. You might be fooled thinking I've got all the absolute congressional majorities needed to pass any piece of legislation, but I assure you it is all those darn Republicans that are blocking my initiatives.

Abby, I need a break. So I decided to launch my new inspirational book for children in October. 'Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters', full of profiles that will draw all the attention and admiration I need to nurture this weakness of mine. And maybe this way I will win another Nobel Prize this year (Two years in a row -- In your face, everybody!). The more I think about it, the more I tremble because of the brilliance of my plan. The people will be seduced again to vote democrat in November by reading my shining prose (it will be mandatory in schools, for sure), and I will keep my majorities in Congress.

Oh, dear Abby; I thought I needed your help, but as usual, this is not the fact. Thanks anyway. As a token of my appreciation of you, I think you may keep this letter. Who knows how much insight it might give to my future biographers (and autobiographers).

Very truly yours,


The One

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Dear One:

There's a pair of very special clothes I think would suit you for your new Nobel Prize acceptance ceremony...

Monday, August 9, 2010

Cool Investment Opportunity in New York: An Islamic Gay Bar


Greg Gutfeld, the libertarian hero of Big Hollywood and Fox's Red Eye, is looking for investors for an interesting project a propos of the new mosque at Ground Zero: an islamic gay bar.

Why? In spite of the protests of the 9/11 victims' relatives, and in spite that it was thought this decision was in extremely bad taste, it was approved by a New York City community board the building of a mosque near the site where the Twin Towers collapsed and +3.000 people died right before the eyes of the entire world. Well, Mr. Gutfeld thinks this is a game we can play, too.
First of all, Dr. sipmac would like to know what GLAAD and NOW think about this. Will they be supportive? If they are afraid of the fatwa (as Dr. sipmac is), will they support Gutfeld (and the LGBT and straight potential customers of the bar), at least under the table? BTW, should women wear burqa-style clothes in the new bar? Could we draw the prophet everytime we drop there if we want it? Could sip watch the Super Best Friends, 200 and 201 episodes from South Park in there? Could Dr. sipmac watch those episodes without censorship? In a nutshell, will sharia law still apply in a muslim gay bar?

Could the Islam culture and religion be reinvented in the meanwhile?


Anyway, count me in.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Barack Obama must be held accountable for the Gulf Oil Spill

Before you go to another website, I kindly ask you to consider a few verifiable facts, and I promise you that I will provide the links. Consider this:

The oil spill must have started as early as April 20th this year. Well, it was a known fact already on May 6th, that the U.S. goverment was not accepting foreign help on the dreadful incident. Iran, as implausible as it sounds, offered help, besides others. It is fairly evident that with joining efforts with all the countries willing to help, the task of cleaning would take less time than by the U.S. alone. Firms as the Jan De Nul Group could be of great help if properly requested.

The situation is still not getting better, and to top it, almost at the same time, as Obama is going golfing (he's golfing a lot more than Bush), the BP CEO is going sailing. By now it is clear that both the president and Tony Hayward are as clueless in PR as they can be. The "let them eat cake" is superfluous by now. Whose ass should be kicked, we know that already.
(...) Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal (...)
That was said by none other than presidential hopeful Barack Obama himself on June 3, 2008 (He sure didn't know those words were going to haunt him forever). Instead of looking for the real causes and solutions, Mr. Hope-and-Change is looking how to involve more politics in such an hour. Remember, a good 100.000 barrels are estimated to be thrown into the ocean every day. I don't know much about what BP is doing, I concede (that is, not counting the oil filtration machines the Beyond Petroleum farce is buying from Kevin Costner - no joke!), but this no acceptance of help truly enrages me.

There is still a lot of people talking about the brilliance of Barack Obama. Some would say that passing the Health Care Bill grants him a great place in American history alone. They might be right, but for the wrong reasons. Stiff defenders are already giving up. I don't care how much bulletins are posted on Deepwater Horizon Response, the approach of the U.S. goverment was flawed since the very beggining. I won't speculate, this blog is not the place for conspiracy theories. But sacrificing the environment, people and the economy in the name of a cap-and-trade legislation, thinking the bigger the spill, the more easy is to pass the law, is downright criminal.

BP used the motto "Beyond Petroleum", presenting itself as a green company. It never was that way. BP was only trying to please the environmentalism movement. Environmentalism is loaded more with wishful thinking and good intentions than real solutions. In a nutshell, cap-and-trade legislation would bring the entire global economy down. Let's get realistic. Please don't sell us more fraud and fear, and we will start to consider what to do next.

Barack Obama sold himself as a postpartisan, compentent, cool and rational president. Until the oil spill I was very reluctantly giving the benefit of the doubt, but giving it anyway. After what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico not anymore, I might add. Barack Obama must be held accountable for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, not for causing it, but for making it intentionally worse.

Paul Maršić has ranted.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Climategate 4: Phil Jones Confesses to Climate Fraud


To the global warming family: please man up, fess it up and take it up. Stop hurting science the way you are doing it now.
That's what Dr. sipmac said a few days after Climategate exploded over the thick hubris cloud of anthropogenic global warming supporters (AGW). Little by little, it is happening. Don't need to be too judgemental. You'd have to grow a pair to admit that kind of wrongdoing. Nobody's gonna give you a medal for that, people are gonna spit after they hear your name for years to come, your only reward is going to be the possible last line of your bio/epitaph: and in the end, he did the right thing. Virtue is its own reward.

Now, just read it and breath with relief.



Dr.sipmac has ranted.
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Monday, January 11, 2010

The incredible and sad story of the candid Elizabeth and the monster John


"Game Change" is the name of the game. A payload of dirt for McCain, Palin, the Clintons, the Edwardeses, and yes, the Obamas. It's coming down fast! The first victims of this avalanche of filth, are, for sure, the children of a lesser god: John and Elizabeth Edwards. For the first time in history, we can watch, word for word, page by page, how a big political campaign imploded, thanks to the hubris and the stupidity of their leading emptyheads. Hey, don't take my word for it! Read it from here, or buy the book.

And the monster? Just read it and weep:
As for Elizabeth Edwards, she is reportedly now urging John to accede to Hunter’s demands and take responsibility for his paternity of Frances Quinn—a dramatic and no doubt painful turnabout from her position eighteen months ago. Confronted then with the Enquirer photo of her husband cuddling Hunter’s baby, she insisted to Palmieri that she still believed he was not the father. “I have to believe it,” Elizabeth said. “Because if I don’t, it means I’m married to a monster."


Monday, January 4, 2010

Lisa Simpson, do something about it!

Once upon a time, a $ 21 talking Teen Barbie dared to say “math is hard”. Then she got immediatly lambasted for perpetuating the unfair sexist stereotype of women being not interested in studying math or (gasp!) sciences. That was 1992, not the dark ages, by the way. Lisa Simpson then took action in two ways since then: her first bold move was to produce her own doll Lisa Lionheart in 1994. A few seasons later, she disguised herself as a boy to keep on learning real math in 2006. What an intrepid girl, eager to learn and question the so-called conventional wisdom!

Now in 2010, we have the brand-new inaction figure Berkeley High’s School Governance Council, daring to say “science is hard for blacks and latinos. Let’s cut science classes for good!

Oh, the humanity! As Bob Parr once said, the Governance Council is looking for new ways to celebrate mediocrity. The children aren’t scoring too well in science? Then kill the lab classes and use the money for something more “critical” (!). Level the students to the lowest common denominator, what a great education policy.

Now the Berkeley School Board has the last word in this highly educational mess/travesty.

The full plan to close the racial achievement gap by altering the structure of the high school is known as the High School Redesign. It will come before the Berkeley School Board as an information item at its January 13 meeting. Generally, such agenda items are passed without debate, but if the school board chooses to play a more direct role in the High School Redesign, it could bring the item back as an action item at a future meeting.”

Lisa, you are Dr. sipmac’s most-hated Simpson character, since the time you rejected 12 million dollars from Monty Burns on the grounds of being “bloody money”, because he got his fortune back by destroying the environment. Did it ever occur to you that you could have used that money to fix the harm done? You may have a high IQ in your mind, but your common sense must be somewhere else.

To be fair, from time to time you do the right thing instead of annoy your viewers. Now, this is the time to do it again, since you’re more known than Dr. sipmac. People pay more attention to you. And there’s plenty to denounce: incompetence, patronizing racism, and yes, sexism, too. What is meant to happen at Berkeley school couldn’t be more damaging to the youth and the ideals of education if they were announcing they were going to teach alchemy instead of science lab classes.

Dr. sipmac has ranted

Image taken from luiscordero.com

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Thursday, December 17, 2009

She-Wolf means classy, for once

Dear Gossip Journalist:

It is said that Colombian showbiz is too bland: not a serious scandal can be found here like in other latitudes (For that we would look into the political section of the newspapers). A little pot, a little coke, some cheating around, a blurry sex tape and that’s all. The lack of really explosive material doesn’t mean the Colombian gossip journalists are somewhat more considerate and caring than their peers around the globe. The paparazzi crowd is still a new thing; relatively speaking (the first time they worked effectively in the 90’s was when they caught Miguel Varoni cheating on his then wife, Patricia Ercole – Aura Cristina Geithner cried on TV), but the gossip columns distilled venom from the very beginning.

So, what to do when a big Colombian celebrity, with worldwide fame does not give an opportunity to embarrass herself? Act in a more wicked way with every single petty detail of her life.

  • Does she come from that dreadful region full of riffraff and not the capital city? Somehow a type of a hick? Then mock her and imply by that her imagined shortcomings, even if they are stereotypes bordering on hate speech. After all, people there and in the capital city still don’t know what hate speech is. You can call it gossip.
  • When she left the country did she lose her accent? Tell then she sold out to the Argentineans. Hey, most

    of us do not know it, but it is relative easy for natives of that region to lose their particular accent (even if they do not want it) once they travel outside the country for a long time.
  • Did she build a school for the poor children of her city? Is she an advocate for education? Point out she isn’t cool enough give a free concert in Cuba.
  • Did she go to Oxford to give a lecture about education? Remain silent about it then!
  • Is her last CD named Loba/She-Wolf? We hit the jackpot! Loba means a lowbrow woman. She was asking for it. Really.

There’s no way to avoid it. You can’t please everybody, and there are newspapers and magazines to be sold, websites (ahem) to be filled with any kind of mindless drivel and so are the TV channels and radio stations. Otherwise, how would they eat without reporting anything newsworthy?

Sip doesn’t approve or agree with everything Shakira, but he knows when unfair is unfair. Tearing her to shreds makes you maybe make a living, but it does not amuse me. For instance, there are still witnesses that can recall a young Dr. sipmac proclaiming that the girl singing Magia was going to be great. What does suppose to mean? Sip followed her career closely, and thinks this time her newest album is a pretty good one. It was a stroke of genius to bring back unexpectedly the funk/disco into the mainstream with She-Wolf. For this time Loba/She-Wolf means classy.

That said, dear Gossip Journalist, you can go on with your mockery again. Ah, Dr. sipmac does not know Shakira personally, nor he receives any kind of compensation from her.

Very truly yours,


Dr. sipmac
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Monday, September 28, 2009

An Open Letter to D.A. Jack McCoy

In the war on crime, one of the worst things that uses to happen is bringing politics into the administration of Justice. Using the political prism for consideration, serious charges are likely to be trivialised and disminished, giving the opportunity to an offender to walk free, just because he is the darling of a movement or political party or has the right ideological sympathies. Fortunately, there are people that still consider that a crime is still a crime, especially when the defendant pleads guilty. These are their stories.

Ka-chunk!

Dear Mr. McCoy,

for many years I’ve been a big fan of your fine work as a District Attorney in New York City. Your genuine desire for see justice done, is enough for a remarkable person like you to keep on going for almost twenty years. And despite your well known personal flaws, you are still an inspiration for your co-workers and the audience, deserving all the respect you get.

In this order of ideas, we just saw on the September 25 episode which conviniently re-ran Saturday night, “Memo from the Dark Side,” how you were willing to prosecute the people responsible of torturing in Abu Ghraib, up to the one and only, the former VP Dick Cheney. Your message may be disgusting for some political interests, but very clear: Torture is a punishable crime, no matter who commits it, no matter for which interest it was committed.

That gives me confidence to ask you to prosecute and convict Mr. Roman Polanski, the celebrated film director, for the rape of a 13-year-old girl on the night of March 10th, 1977, in Los Angeles, California. For reasons I can’t comprehend there is a lot of outrage in France, Poland and the United States, but just because he was arrested in Zurich (Switzerland), before he, the accomplished filmmaker, was going to be honored with a lifetime achievement award. Facing extradition already, this should be a no-brainer for you after your last case: he already pleaded guilty, but fled on January 1st, 1978, to London, so that any previous agreement he reached with the early prosecution should be null and void by now.

Not your jurisdiction? Please, for someone like you, used to find and use tenuous rationales to charge defendants before they can walk, this should be easier than falling from a tree. Please don’t let this sex offender get away with rape. If necessary, police detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson of the S.V.U. would be of great help.

Thanks in advance for your great victory. According to the “ripped from the headlines” policy of your series, I’m confident that I will see justice prevail in an yet-to-be-shoot-but-sure-to-be-shoot episode.

Very Truly Yours,


Dr. sipmac
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