Chávez anuló el día de San Valentín para decretar su "semana del amor" Como el festejo cae un día antes del referendo, el bolivariano lo pospuso.

Chávez anuló el día de San Valentín para decretar su "semana del amor"
Como el festejo cae un día antes del referendo, el bolivariano lo pospuso.

"Es que el 14 no habrá tiempo de nada nadita. Estaremos preparando la batalla", dijo. Vea el video con la insólita protesta.

La intervención de Hugo Chávez en la vida social de los venezolanos parece no tener techo. Ahora se le ocurrió suspender el día de San Valentín, el próximo 14 de febrero, porque sospecha que el electorado chavista puede llegar a desconcentrarse el día previo al referendo de la enmienda a través de la cual el caudillo bolivariano pretende eternizarse en el poder.

Por eso, el autócrata decretó "la semana del amor" a partir del 16 de febrero. "Como el 14 no va haber tiempo de nada nada nadita… Estamos preparando la batalla… A lo mejor habrá tiempo de algo, de un piquito, de algo por encimita", dijo en su tono informal habitual Chávez, durante un encuentro político en Caracas que fue televisado.

"Después del 15 celebramos la semana del amor. El 16, el 17, el 18, 19, 20, 21 y 22.. Y dele que son pasteles… Hasta el Carnaval", siguió el cuadillo bolivariano, como si hablase desde el living de su casa.

E incluso preguntó a los militantes presentes: "Levanten la mano los que piensan que el 14 habrá tiempo de algo alguito". Y todos los presentas, de camiseta roja, quedaron cruzados de brazos.

Una página web avisa cuándo las mujeres están con la regla o menstruando 'en esos días' para que sus parejas ni se acerquen

Una página web avisa cuándo las mujeres están con la regla o menstruando 'en esos días' para que sus parejas ni se acerquen
La ayuda que faltaba, desde un sitio donde ellas les pueden avisar a sus conocidos que no están de humor.
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Es “la primera página recordatoria del ‘síndrome premenstrual’”, es decir, un sitio de Internet donde las mujeres pueden registrar sus ciclos menstruales y advertirle a la gente que las conoce cuándo estarán irritables. La página propone soluciones… y ofrece un servicio de citas por si acaso.

Bajo la dirección “PMSBuddy.com”, el sitio de “Amigos del Síndrome Premenstrual (SPM)” ofrece una variante de soluciones que el hombre puede encontrar para lidiar con la semana anterior a que se indisponga su pareja, que van desde regalarle lencería para que no se sienta “inflada y poco atractiva”, hasta ofrecer otro sitio de Internet, para conseguir una cita online.

También hay un espacio para compartir historias –y sufrimientos- provocados por la “semana fatal”, como si se tratara de una comunidad online de veteranos de algún tipo de contienda bélica. De hecho, el lema del sitio es “salvando relaciones, un mes a la vez”, como si al saber cuándo sufrirá el SPM la mujer pudieran evitarse las catástrofes emocionales que ocurren en su momento de mayor volatilidad hormonal.

Muchas mujeres se deprimen debido al SPM, y otras se vuelven irritables o se sienten mal una semana antes de volver a empezar su ciclo. Pero la página ofrece un servicio para avisar prolijamente a todos los usuarios que las mujeres registradas estarán pasando por el SPM, para que nadie las contradiga… o se les acerque, para el caso.

Además, el sitio lleva una estadística prolija: 12 mil 102 mujeres registradas, y 413 usuarias que empiezan con su semana de SMP hoy. El objetivo final es avisarles a los hombres cuándo no interponerse en el camino de sus amadas pero especialmente irritables mujeres.

MSNBC to Launch Fucking Joe

MSNBC to Launch Fucking Joe

Just minutes after "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough dropped an F-bomb live on the air, MSNBC announced that it was re-launching the show to capitalize on its star's salty vocabulary.

"Starting on Tuesday, MSNBC's morning show will be known as Fucking Joe," said MSNBC spokesperson Carol Foyler. "We want to send the message that if you tune in to this show, you'll get a unique mix of breaking news and XXX-rated chat."

MSNBC's decision to reformat the show to accommodate Mr. Scarborough's weakness for expletives surprised many in the cable industry, especially since the show owes its origins to the cancellation of shock-jock Don Imus' ill-fated morning program.

But for Mr. Scarborough's part, the move to "porn up" his morning show came as no surprise.

"This move is a fucking home run and anyone who doesn't think so is a fucking cocksucker," Mr. Scarborough said, adding, "Fuck."

Around the cable industry, insiders expressed surprise that Mr. Scarborough had slipped into profanity while on the air.

"I never thought Joe Scarborough would be the first one to drop an F-bomb on that show," one observer said. "I thought it would be Andrea Mitchell."

Right-Wing Media Already Feeding Its Post-Election Anger

Right-Wing Media Already Feeding Its Post-Election Anger
An article in Sunday's Los Angeles Times takes a look at how the right-wing media is responding to Obama's victory last week. Already, it seems, the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have started to rile up their listeners/viewers by going after Obama. The relationship of Fox News and the Obama administration will be particularly interesting to watch, given that Fox News was cut out of the questioning at the first Obama press conference. As for Obama's harshest critics among fellow politicians, the New York TImes reported yesterday on how many of them have, for various reasons, rushed to praise him.

From the LA Times:

Opening his first post-election rant against the president-elect, Limbaugh launched in with a certain relish. "The game," he told his radio listeners, "has begun."

Sean Hannity, on the other hand, insisted on feigning a post-election detente, telling his Fox News television audience last week, "I want Barack Obama to succeed."

Didn't he think anyone would notice that, just a moment later, he was back parroting the failed campaign argument that Obama is a "mystery"?

"I fear [this] is the guy that has these radical associations 20 years ago," Hannity added, an odd way of demonstrating support for the new commander in chief.

Obama Dispatching Aides To Georgia Senate Race

Obama Dispatching Aides To Georgia Senate Race

Democratic officials confirm that Barack Obama is sending aides to help with the runoff senatorial campaign in Georgia, putting his post-election coattails to an immediate test.

Organizers who worked on behalf of the Illinois Democrat are heading to the Peach State to offer similar assistance to Jim Martin, the Democratic challenger who is facing a second-round contest against incumbent Saxby Chambliss after neither candidate received 50 percent of the initial vote.

The investment by Obama, confirmed by an official working on behalf of the Senate campaign, apparently includes "ground team" members as well as "online specialists and bloggers," and represents one of the earliest tests of the influence he can wield on the political landscape. A Daily Kos diarist first heard about the move from the Martin team.

It remains unclear whether Obama himself will appear in the state. His campaign put limited paid resources into Georgia during the general election, mainly during the waning weeks of the campaign, though Obama's registration efforts there were lauded for making the presidential contest in that state much closer than the historical norm.

Martin's race to replace Chambliss was even closer. The longtime Georgian Democrat finished with just under 47 percent of the vote to Chambliss' 49.8 percent. Because neither candidate was able to win a majority of the vote, the two will square off again on December 2.

While Martin will be assisted in the effort by the Obama campaign, Chambliss will be banking on GOP star-power to help propel him into office for a second term. Already it has been reported that Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin and John McCain will be either making campaign stops on the Georgian's behalf or providing volunteers and aide.

Names floated for top Obama jobs

Names floated for top Obama jobs

outsiders, including some Republicans, for top administration posts, according to Democratic officials.

Obama has signaled that he will make no Cabinet-level appointments immediately, and his deliberations are tightly held by his closest aides. But that hasn't stopped Democrats and interest groups from circulating lists and offering recommendations to the Obama transition team.

Some are surprising, such as former Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell as possible education secretary. Others are high-profile governors or members of Congress. Yet many are also little known to the general public — and may remain so.

Obama takes office Jan. 20. Some names often mentioned as possible appointees to top posts:

GM needs federal aid in coming weeks: chief

GM needs federal aid in coming weeks: chief

General Motors is in such dire financial straights that it needs to line up a federal aid packaged before president-elect Barack Obama takes office in January, the automaker's chief executive said Monday.

"This is an issue that needs to be addressed urgently," Wagoner told Automotive News, adding that now is the time to "overshoot, not undershoot" the level of assistance.

GM is willing to offer the government preferred stock, speed the introduction of fuel-efficient vehicles and set limits on executive compensation in exchange for financial aid, Wagoner said.

But Wagoner did not think it would be "a very smart move" for him to resign.

"It's not clear to me what purpose would be served" Wagoner said. "I think our job is to make sure we have the best management team to run GM."

On Friday the biggest US automaker warned it would run out of cash in the first half of next year and appealed to the US government for help to save it from collapse.

The company announced a third-quarter loss of 2.5 billion dollars and said it had burned through another 6.9 billion of cash during the three-month period, leaving it with cash reserves of 16.2 billion.

GM has said it needs cash reserves of between 11 and 14 billion dollars to cover the cost of its operations.

Wagoner said that while the company's cash burn in the fourth quarter should ease to one billion dollars a month, it will likely not be able to survive without government help.

GM has developed a turnaround plan which assumes that sales fall to 11.7 million vehicles next year from recent averages of around 15 million a year.

"I'd question whether the US industry as a whole could survive that without support," Wagoner said, adding that even with government help the automaker will have to do "significantly more restructuring" if industry sales stay that low.

Wagoner and executives from Ford, Chrysler and the United Auto Workers Union asked for the federal government to speed up delivery of 25 billion dollars in loan guarantees for the development of fuel-efficient vehicles.

They also requested another 25 billion in loan guarantees to support operations amid a sharp economic downturn which has pushed vehicle sales to a 25 year-low.

Democratic leaders in the US Congress called Saturday for funds contained in a 700-billion-dollar federal rescue plan for the financial sector to be diverted to the struggling auto industry.

Obama's chief of staff urged swift action Sunday to rescue the US auto industry, but declined to say whether Obama supported the appeal by Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid.

"As president-elect Obama has said throughout the campaign and as I think as recently as Friday ... the auto industry is an essential part of our economy and an essential part of our industrial base," Congressman Rahm Emanuel told ABC.