Triple Frontier

This is the tentative title of Kathryn Bigelow’s next movie. She directed the multiple Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker, which I still haven’t seen.

Triple Frontier is about the border region where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay intersect. The area has been notorious for smuggling operations and possibly terror financing (according to the U.S. government). The movie hasn’t even been completed yet, and already the Powers That Be from Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina are pissed off at her.

You Go Girl.

Those countries’ tourism industries are concerned that this movie could discourage tourism. Shades of Enemy of the People; or Jaws for that matter.

Officials from the three countries are saying they’ll refuse to cooperate in the production of the movie.

Argentine Tourism Minister Enrique Meyer said:

“We discussed this subject with Paraguay's tourism minister and the governor of Misiones [an Argentine border state]. We all agreed that we were deeply indignant when we discovered that this project seeks to negatively portray this region shared by three South American countries.”

Here are some more links to Triple Frontier.

Brazil to U.S.: “I’m Not Your Houseboy Any More”

For generations, our Latin American colonies did exactly what we told them to do, when we told them to do it — if they knew what was good for them. This was God’s Will.

But now some of these natives are getting all uppity on us.

How can we build Coalition of the Willing 2.0 — or would that be Son of Coalition of the Willing — if them darkies won’t yell “How high, Sir?” when we yell “Jump!”

Hillary Clinton was in Brazil, trying to drum up support for international sanctions against Iran. But Brazil wasn’t bending over this time. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said:

“It is not prudent to push Iran against a wall. The prudent thing is to establish negotiations.”

Brazil is a voting member of the U.N. Security Council, so it was important for Clinton to whip up the proper hysteria against those crazy Muslims. But Silva responded to Clinton with:

“I want for Iran the same thing I want for Brazil: to use the development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. If Iran agrees with that, Iran will have the support of Brazil.”

In other words — Appeasement. Negotiating with terrorists!

Well, Plan A didn’t work. Now we move to Plan B: Iran has Weapons of Mass Destruction! Iran has close ties with Osama bin Laden! Most of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iran!

The Pope: “Life is Sacred Until You're Born”

The Pope is touring Latin America. Right now he's in Brazil, lecturing on the sanctity of life. Well, certain stages of life anyway. In a country plagued by poverty and overpopulation, his top priority is making sure every fetus gets to be born.

Once they’ve been born, a lot of Brazilian children live their entire lives on the street. They make good scapegoats for the country’s problems, and thousands of these children have been tortured and murdered by death squads and corrupt police departments.

Aren’t these murders just as horrifying as abortion? To express his moral outrage at the torture and murder of these street children, the Pope said…let’s see, what did he say…hmmm…it's gotta be in here somewhere...uuhhh...this might take awhile...