The Washington Post has comical new details about the infamous, state-funded June, 2008 meetings South Carolina Sex Governor Mark Sanford set up in South America, to discuss TRADE, with potential “trading partners,” for whatever it is South Carolina produces. (Indigo.) Apparently his trip planners gave word to South American officials that maybe they didn’t really need to meet after all, when he gets down there, and sorry, he cannot go kill doves in the forest for several days, so so sorry, he just has to “make some calls” in Buenos Aires. MORE »

Done: Screen on the Green: Two wars, the housing bubble, pig AIDS, and waterboarding all seem to pale in comparison to DCers’ outrage over the end of Screen on the Green. There’s no other way to interpret this except that God hates all of us. MORE »

DOES THIS MEAN THAT IT HAS TO STOP?: “WASHINGTON - A Metro station manager and a Metro custodian were arrested on prostitution charges after an undercover transit police investigation found they arranged sexual trysts for money from inside the Dupont Circle Metro station.” Oh boy! Apparently the station manager was the contact on a flier advertising “sex trips” to Brazil. Are those still on, or do we get refunds? [Examiner]

Way back in 1957 — when John McCain was failing in college, the one that he visited today — he and some boys “sailed to Rio de Janeiro aboard a destroyer” in order to destroy Brazil. As John McCain wrote in his 1999 memoir, “My imagination could not have embellished the good time we made of our nine days in port.” That’s because he got laiiiiiiiiid! And then he went back to Brazil later to shtup her again, this Brazilian model. And then he went back yet again for even more sex. Does John McCain still go to Brazil to make this Brazilian gal? MORE »

Having to beg from Congress with those awful red-handed Code Pink hausfraus mocking you isn’t a very nice way to start your week, but Condi Rice got rewarded with a two-day fiesta in Brazil! Yay! Join the Condi Carnival, after the jump!

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While our very hungry president is supposedly back from his Latin American “please let me move down here” trip, the photographs remain. We just found a huge collection of pix from the Brazil jaunt, including favorites like the one above and some very spooky close-ups of the security details and presidential limos and all that. Details and a few samples, after the jump.

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This isn’t the usual Yanquee Go Home stuff — they really hate the guy’s guts. Why the rude welcome? For six years, the administration has ignored Latin America except for “punishing in some way those who disagreed with Washington, and decreasing funding for developmental assistance, child survival and health programs.” Starting wars everywhere, launching a failed coup against Hugo Chavez, congratulating the White House choice in a Mexican presidential election that was still in dispute, putting right-wing zealots in charge of U.S.-Latin American affairs … not since the Reagan-Contra days has Latin America had so many reasons to hate Washington. The 45-year-long U.S. embargo against Cuba doesn’t help, either.

But enough about these people and their problems. Are Brazilian protesters hot? Find out, after the jump.

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From Al Kamen’s column in this morning’s Post: MORE »