Assistant Manager/Cuba

Hours: 5 days/week rotating shifts

We are searching for an Assistant Manager for our McDonald’s restaurant located on the United Stated Naval base in Cuba. Candidates must have restaurant Management experience, posess a valid United States passport, and be willing to relocate to Cuba.

The outrage!  The United States continues to export its imperialism and torture around the world.  It’s pretty clear this is another torture tool used by the U.S.

You might as well make the job requirements to include the ability to pour boiling hot canola oil down the throats of Gitmo prisoners, stuff french fries under the finger nails of terrorists, and using milk shakes to water board the enemy.

These poor prisoners have been subjected to movie night, high tech fitness equipment, video games, and now this!  What’s next?  A Starbucks?  I can see it now making the combatants drink a grande half-caf cinnamon spice mocha with non-fat soy milk and telling them it has regular milk with fat.  Gasp!

-Gipper’s Ghost

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bbc.com – A former US congressman famously caught with $90,000 (£54,000) in cash in his freezer, has been sentenced to 13 years for bribery and money laundering.

William Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat who served for nearly 20 years, was convicted in August of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.

The 62-year-old was also found guilty of trying to get millions more for brokering business deals in Africa.

Prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence him to at least 27 years.

Jefferson’s defence lawyers had argued that he was acting as a private business consultant in making the deals, and sought a sentence of less than 10 years.

The veteran politician had been under investigation since the spring of 2005.

In August that year, FBI agents found the money in his freezer, wrapped in foil and hidden in boxes of pie crust.

Jefferson was voted Louisiana’s first African-American congressman in 1991.

He was re-elected in 2006 even after news of the bribery scandal broke, but narrowly lost his re-election bid in 2008 to a Republican rival.

This is one of the smartest politicians I’ve heard of  in a long time.  He was smart enough to realize that you never stuff bribe money into food containers that have an overwhelming odor like frozen burgers patties,  frozen fishsticks, or frozen chicken nuggets.  It’s pretty much a dead give a way that you’re some sort of criminal when you pass a $50 and it smells like tuna.  William Jefferson knew this and went with a virtually fragrant free pie crust box to stuff his loot into.

More money launders, embezzlers, tax evaders, and dirty politicians are caught when trying to pass a Benjamin and it smells like frozen pizza.  It’s a well known stat in the law enforcement community.  Look it up.

-Gipper’s Ghost

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Former Massachusetts first lady Kitty Dukakis are backing Rep. Michael Capuano in the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Max Kennedy (sorry Max couldn’t fit your mug in the line up), nephew of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Big Apple mayor Michael Bloomberg are throwing there support behind City Year co-founder Alan Khazei.

Rival Stephen Pagliuca also has won the backing of Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers and captain Paul Pierce.

Bleeding heart liberals backing other bleeding heart liberals.  Two employees endorsing the owner of their company.  Can’t say there are any surprises here.

-Gipper’s Ghost

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boston.com – The three challengers to Attorney General Martha Coakley have been eager for more debates with the perceived front-runner in the US Senate race, and they have asked for them pointedly — none more than Alan Khazei.

Khazei, after challenging Coakley on that point in a radio debate this morning, this afternoon turned to a different technique: Calling on comedian Stephen Colbert to come to Massachusetts and moderate a debate. Colbert, the host of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report,” plays a right-wing commentator on the show.

“Are you tough enough to come here to Massachusetts — the birthplace of freedom, the birthplace of our democracy — and moderate a debate up against four progressive Democrats?” Khazei asked Colbert in a video posted on his campaign website. “I’ll show up anytime, anywhere, any hour, any day.”

“So Stephen, are you willing to come?” Khazei asks. “I’ll be there.”

Khazei appeared on Colbert’s show as a guest in January to promote a national day of service on Martin Luther King Day.

“I believe Martin Luther King also said, ‘Follow the money,’” Colbert said at one point. “‘I’ve got my mind on my money and my money on my mind,’ is one of the things I believe he said.”

“I can assure you, Martin Luther King did not say that,” Khazei responded.

A U.S. Senatorial debate moderated by Stephen Colbert is a bloggers dream.   The resulting material will be endless. The debate out-takes will be hilarious and not in a flattering way either.  It’s without a doubt that at least one of these candidates, if not all,  will try to compete with Mr. Colbert’s wit and with that look totally foolish.  Case and point is the video that Mr. Khazei put together to bait Mr. Colbert into being the moderator. It’s a good idea, but poor execution.  A last second hail Mary, by a candidate seriously behind in the polls, that fell to the ground 5 yards short of the goal line.

If there is a God in heaven, please, please, please, please make this happen!

BTW – I appreciate the attempt at humor and if he actually gets Mr. Colbert to moderate it will be quite a coup, but could Mr. Khazei and his office look any less senatorial in this video?

-Gipper’s Ghost

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Separated at birth:, The Childcatcher (from the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), the most loyal servant to the Baron and Baroness Bomburst of Vulgaria, and Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post’s conservative columnist.

It could have happened!

BTW – When I first dreamed of being a comedy news blogger I couldn’t wait to make this comparison.