Musings from Southern New Mexico

Month: January 2016

Misión cumplida

I just found out via Esquire that noted escapee “El Chapo” has been captured. Tweets from the Mexican President were included in the article:
chapo_tweets
The top one caught my eye. This is not the first time I have seen the phrase “Misión cumplida.” But, in recent years, I have mostly seen or heard it in English, in reference to a single event:
mission_accomplished
We will see if they are equally accurate.

An Almost Certainty in the Bush Administration

Today on Twitter, someone I follow referred to former Vice(*) President Dick Cheney as “Evil Dick.” I recently got a new phone. As such, I spent an inordinate amount of time creating new ringtones for various alerts. These two items collided in my head and produced an image I couldn’t expunge for the rest of the day.

The phone number of this man:
evil_dick
was stored on scores (perhaps even hundreds) of cellphones in the Bush White House. It is all but certain that the owner of at least one of them used, for his “Dick Cheney” ringtone, the opening of:
body_count
Body Count’s “Evil Dick.”

In writing this, I hope to expel this imagery from my mind.

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