Miss Universe blogs her "Incredible" trip to Gitmo. Your mouth will fall open with this one.

[trumad]

Guantanamo Bay

This week, Guantanamo!!! It was an incredible experience.
We arrived in Gitmo on Friday and stared going around the town, everybody knew Crystle and I were coming so the first thing we did was attend a big lunch and then we visited one of the bars they have in the base. We talked about Gitmo and what is was like living there. The next days we had a wonderful time, this truly was a memorable trip! We hung out with the guys from the East Coast and they showed us the boat inside and out, how they work and what they do, we took a ride around the land and it was a loooot of fun!
We also met the Military dogs, and they did a very nice demonstration of their skills. All the guys from the Army were amazing with us.
We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting.
We took a ride with the Marines around the land to see the division of Gitmo and Cuba while they were informed us with a little bit of history.
The water in Guantanamo Bay is soooo beautiful! It was unbelievable, we were able to enjoy it for at least an hour. We went to the glass beach, and realized the name of it comes from the little pieces of broken glass from hundred of years ago. It is pretty to see all the colors shining with the sun. That day we met a beautiful lady named Rebeca who does wonders with the glasses from the beach. She creates jewelry with it and of course I bought a necklace from her that will remind me off Guantanamo Bay :)
I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful.
I was back in NY on Wednesday and on Thursday I did some paper work at the office and went out for dinner. On Friday I flew to Miami for the weekend because I had a photo shoot for the magazine People en Espanol. So hopefully I might be a little lucky and have some time off to take the sun for a while :)


Posted by Dayana
http://www.missuniverse.com/missuniverse/blog.php

[cali]

1. wow. what an idiot. impressive.

[Javaman]

26. yes, an impressive idiot.

total disconnection and is fed a daily diet of fox news talking points.

once again (Miss) America shows its blind stupidity.

[lukasahero]

46. It's Miss Universe and the young woman is from Venezuela - not America

Damn people, let's not let a little thing like facts ruin our fun, huh? Good grief, we sound almost as ill-informed as she is.

[Javaman]

55. meh, I make no claim to stating facts.

why let a good ill informed judgment be ruined by facts! LOL

[T Wolf]

2. What kind of sick idiot goes to prison and raves about it? Beauty pageant stereotype fulfilled.

[Solly Mack]

3. Damn. And I say again for emphasis...Daaamn

[ChairmanAgnostic]

23. a fellow blacksmith I knew was from the south.

He managed to put three syllables into that word.
da YA um.
I can't do it justice like he did.

[arcadian]

4. It's sick the way beauty pageants have exploited children like that.

:P

[Kerrytravelers]

5. Oh! (giggle, giggle, squeak) Oh fun! (squeal) I tried the rice pilaf in the prison! Yumm-o!(bounce)

Giggle*giggle*jump*and... squeal.

[JuniperLea]

9. You forgot to flip your hair!

Hair flipping is critical when you jump and giggle... squealing deserves a full head shake, however. Thank Goddess for mouse and hair spray... that damp coastal air, well, you know.

[Gemini Cat]

22. Like, OMG!!!111!!!oneoneone

You nailed it.

[JuniperLea]

6. Gosh! It's not so prisony after all...

How sweet... sounds like your typical South American resort!

:eyes:

She probably thinks water-boarding is a form of surfing.

[Blue_Tires]

7. not very politically astute for someone from Venezuela....

[Lydia Leftcoast]

66. Maybe she's from one of the wealthy right-wing opposition families

:shrug:

[dem629]

8. Holy crap. How long before the right-wingers use this as "evidence" that Gitmo is just fine?

[JuniperLea]

10. 3... 2... 1... . eom

[Blue_Tires]

11. since the thread calls for it:

[dem629]

15. I see a Photoshop contest here. Hmmmm. A giggly Miss Universe among the prisoners?

[Harry Monroe]

29. Hubba, Hubba,...

...um what was the post about again? Oh yeah, how vapid she is! Damn you sidetracking my mind like that!

[dem629]

12. Here's the "contact" page in case you don't follow the link on the OP.

http://www.missuniverse.com/missuniverse/email.html

"Fill out and submit the information below to contact Miss Universe® 2008, Dayana Mendoza. Send her a message or just say hello."

Heh.

[Kerrytravelers]

21. Done.

She should be ashamed, but I doubt she has enough sense.

[Inuca]

13. "how the RECREATE themselves with movies..."

pathetic

[lukasahero]

45. You do realize English is not her native language, right?

Obviously she is lacking in the political awareness arena, however, making fun of her English skills is unwarranted (unless, of course, you speak Spanish better than she speaks English.)

[Inuca]

51. Actually I had no idea what her native language is

Sorry. Did not put much thought into it, not worth it. It just sounded too funny, that's all.

[Echo In Light]

14. Greed based, superficial, moronic corporate culture "values"

[WriteDown]

56. She's from Venezuela...

This seems very unlikely. She knows what paradise looks like.

[EFerrari]

57. She's from the Venezuelan oligarchy. Apparently she does and it's Gitmo.

http://www.borev.net/2009/03/miss_universe_visits_guantanam.html

[WriteDown]

64. How do you know that?

Do they have a special tattoo or something? :eyes:

[EFerrari]

69. You know, you're right. I'm jumping to conclusions. The fact is

that's who qualifies in those contests in that region. My aunt was Miss El Salvador around 1950. She was very beautiful but had she been just any beautiful girl, she would never have won.

[Bacchus39]

70. beautiful=oligarchy is that the conclusion???

then again, Miss Choco won Miss Colombia a few years back so its not always the case. other than that, I have little knowledge of the socioeconomic origins or political persuasions of beauty contestants. and in Venezuela, beauty is an industry. but some just need it to be the case I guess.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Reminds me of Miss Michigan who appeared in "Roger and Me"

when asked whether she supported the workers about to lose their jobs when Roger Smith was going to close the Flint plant. She made Britney Spears look like a Rhodes Scholar (had no idea what Michael Moore was talking about) and ended her comment by asking for the support of everyone as she competed in Miss America.

[dem629]

17. Worse than Miss Teen SC?

This is too good not to post for the 1 millionth time. Sorry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

[liberalhistorian]

49. OH. MY. GAWD.

Ya know, I'd never actually seen that before; I don't give a shit about beauty pageants and never watch them. I'd heard of this and heard of what she'd said. But to actually see and hear it like that-holy SHIT, that's just, just......well, I don't know, I don't even have words for how fucking unbelievable it is. Even for a vapid beauty "queen."

Just WTF was she babbling about anyway? I watched it three times and I still can't figure it out.

[rrneck]

18. Crystle?!

:banghead:

[no_hypocrisy]

19. Donald Trump produces Miss Universe. They don't have a stringent

intelligence prerequisite.

[Brother Buzz]

27. Isn't a stringent something the girls slap on their face to tighten the skin and stretch the smile?

:shrug:

[spoony]

61. lol. I thought it was what you call the back of a thong

[Stevenmarc]

35. It's the next Mrs. Trump pagent

[alsame]

20. Please tell me this is a joke. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

28. Maybe someone jumped the gun

I understand the first of April is tomorrow.

[tigereye]

24. um, ok...

:banghead: :wtf: Ignorance truly is bliss, after all.

[NeedleCast]

25. This Makes My Brain Hurt

[w8liftinglady]

30. OK..I know that was stupid...but have you seen the charities she supports?

Latino Commission on AIDS
Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS
Gay Men's Health Crisis
The Foundation for AIDS Research
God's Love We Deliver
Cable Positive

She's not all bad.

[NeedleCast]

37. Not to diminish this, but what support does she give them?

[EFerrari]

59. I'd like to see her tax return.

:)

[DutchLiberal]

31. I would have forgiven her if she at least had been real hot...

But unfortunately...

[davsand]

32. Guantanamo Bay is ALSO a naval base.

Before you bash her too much, she might have been touring the naval base rather than the prison...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base


:shrug:


Laura

[dem629]

36. Read her post.

"We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books."

:shrug:

[kctim]

39. Finally, an intelligent response

If you read her ENTIRE post, instead of just one sentence, you can clearly see that she toured the base and met our soldiers and toured the island and met some of the locals. It was alot of fun and beautiful.
All she said about her visit to the detainees was that it was very interesting. A very neutral PR response. Nothing more, nothing less.

People are judging and demeaning her simply because she is not promoting their own personal views of "how it really is."

[Egnever]

63. The media said it was wrong dont ya know

You betcha!

[Stevenmarc]

33. They had this waterboard thingy and boy did it do a nice job making my tiara all sparkly clean

[monmouth]

34. Call NCIS right now!!! I want an episode of this with DeNozzo (sp?) as the escort...n/t

[Gin]

38. once they empty gitmo...I predict some rich banker builds condos

on the site...base on her description of how wonderful it was to visit there...

she needs to spend some time as a prisoner there to "recreate" for a while

[mod mom]

40. Is this a joke or was the blog removed? I went to the link but couldn't find this.

[dustbunnie]

43. HAH! You're right! It's gone now, but was definitely there earlier.

The sudden traffic must have alerted someone with more brain cells that her Gitmo musings were not something to promote.

[mod mom]

44. here is a link to the NYT, who picked it up:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/miss-universe-visits-guantanamo/?hp

[EFerrari]

60. Not a joke. n/t

[KamaAina]

41. And they served us chicken, like, every single night!!!

:sarcasm:

[GoneOffShore]

42. Followed your link - None of what you posted is there.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

68. It looks as if they removed it and replaced it with a statement by the USO

primly saying that their mission is to entertain the troops.

I guess Miss Universe's statement was too ditzy even for them.

[acmavm]

47. What a Ditz.

edit: I was in a state of absolute shock and mortification when I typed the above. What the fuck, this is what we end up with after all the struggles? No damn wonder women are't making any headway on this planet.

[Sabriel]

48. "And the cavity search was soooooo cool!"

Sounds like someone needs to cash her reality check.

[Name removed]

50. Deleted message

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[cboy4]

52. I bet she would love going to see the eye-rack, and such as ...

[Mad_Dem_X]

53. "Such a relaxing place"

What. The. FUCK?!

[PLR_Writer]

54. "recreate themselves"

Re-education camps?

[EFerrari]

58. And *this* mentality is exactly what some of us are talking about

when we try to describe the elite in Venezuela that kept everyone else poor and miserable for hundreds of years. As BoRev says, countries have revolutions for a reason.

lol

[spoony]

62. They replaced it with a press release

"March 31st, 2009 - Statement by Paula M. Shugart, President of the Miss Universe Organization regarding Guantánamo Bay blog entry by Miss Universe, Dayana Mendoza:

The Miss Universe Organization has had a longstanding relationship with the USO (United Service Organizations). All three titleholders (Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA) have participated in many USO goodwill tours to visit the men and women in uniform who serve our country around the world.

...Dayana Mendoza’s comments on her blog were in reference to the hospitality she received while meeting the members of the U.S. military and their families who are stationed in Guantánamo."

etc.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

65. Do Miss Universe aspirants have to take a negative IQ test?

:wow:

[Mz Pip]

67. She didn't want to leave...

Sheesh, she made it sound like a trip to Disneyland.

[Bluebear]

71. "Two fruits!"

[Ilsa]

72. Oh, those lucky prisoners, getting to live on the beach! Will someone

give her a fucking clue?