The obscenity-laden "chou" that Hugo Chávez and Alvaro Uribe put on in Mexico made its way to CNN's main page.
You know you've hit rock bottom when the Cuban President ends up playing peacemaker. The only thing missing in this surreal summit was Peter Sellers yelling: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room!"
Sad.
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A video would be priceless.
Unity for Dummies
" at a closed-door luncheon for heads of state attending the so-called "Unity Summit"
the funny-sad-absurd part is that it took place at a Unity summit
Your tweetstream was terrific...
Juan,
The string of tweets you put up about the summit on Twitter yesterday was hysterical. Just kept me laughing...Thanks!
thanks :)
The whole thing is pathetic.
The continents' geekiest dweeb-of-a-President calls him a coward to his face, and all he can summon is a lame "vete al carajo," and immediately his mommy Raul has to come to his defense.
This pretty much settles it - Chavez has a vagina.
that is
male chauvinism.
Take your 'Chavez has a
Take your 'Chavez has a vagina' back fast JC, or all women will destroy you...
You are much better off saying that he has no balls, which more accurate anyway
Cut the sleep-deprived some slack
Yeah, that was a very regrettable choice of words. I'd cut him some slack, though...guy slept like 10 minutes last night.
Sleep deprivation leads to chavetization
then.
And just to think Juan once was the empathic, thoughtful Kathy.
that settles it
you guys have no sense of humor.
Katy
Katy.
Katy.
Katy.
You guys forgot about Katy?
Katy will not be forgotten.
Katy will live forever in our minds and hearts. And in JC's virtual vagina.
Vagina Lover
Its not that I dont have a sense of humor, its that you are insulting vaginas in general....
Trujillo-Betancourt
This reminds me of what I read on Trujillo and Betancourt at OAS meetings: the latter shouting "dictador!" to the first one and the first one retorting "maricón".
Pity there is no video, it would probably get more hits than "Por qué no te callas?"
Compra de electricidad
Esto afectara la compra de electricidad a Colombia?