Mister Humanitarian?
If we followed Venezuela’s example I’m sure we’d have the same stellar results. Is it Capitalists who murder Venezuelans thruout most of their history for behaving as if they had a Bill of Rights?
Posted by Oink
11/19/2005 at 09:51 AM
AssWipe Chavez used Socialize Medicine to keep power. Castro sent Cuban Docs with 30-year-old medical equipment for free Venezualians’ doctor visits, with no co-pays, and the locals felt blessed. Darn tricky Chavez and Castro.
I would give up my freedom for a free doctor office visit, I mean who wouldn’t?
Posted by Z Woof
11/19/2005 at 10:13 AM
America on losing end of Chavez’s chess game
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Morris R. Beschloss
Special to The Desert Sun
November 13, 2005--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Venezuela’s autocratic President Hugo Chavez is on a roll. Although once jokingly referred to as Fidel Castro with oil, Chavez’s Marxist economic policies are increasingly checkmating America’s attempt to establish a Western Hemispheric Trade Authority.Once targeted for completion in 2005, it’s now questionable whether this ambitious initiative will ever be realized.
As the Western Hemisphere’s most important oil producer outside of the U.S., Venezuela has enjoyed unprecedented economic expansion for the past two years. The powerful thrust behind this growth has been the 3 million daily barrels that this OPEC power’s oil fields generate. But unlike other Latin American caudillos, including Castro, Chavez has used the current combination of oil volume and prices to spread his populist policies into institutions benefiting the bulk of the Venezuelan population.
Surviving a failed coup attempt, and a recent recall vote, between which he twice displayed massive voters appeal, this former Air Force officer has combined the classical Marxist strategy of state ownership with a virulent anti-American policy that has manifested itself in several ways:
In addition to blocking President Bush’s hemispheric free trade strategy, Chavez has ordered the divestiture of half of its $50 billion of foreign and operational reserves from U.S. treasury bonds and banks and transformed them into deposits at the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ These Venezuelan People Are Losers ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
I love it when Venezuelan babes scream, “Out-Law Private Property.”
We had a Venezuelian kicker for the Tampa Bay Bucs and he couldn’t hit a 29 year field goal.
He is now gone, thank God. Remember, soccer is not a sport.
Football is a sport.
Posted by Z Woof
11/19/2005 at 12:11 PM
Remember folks...if you want to keep money out of Comrade Chavez’s filthy hands, then DON’T BUY CITGO!
Okay, I’m usually late to the party spotting the numerical crap that reporters suck up and
mindlesslywillingly regurgitate....up to 1.2 million gallons of discounted heating oil will be offered, for a total savings of $10 million…
I’m not thinking that heating oil, while expensive is that expensive. Do the math, it would have to be selling at $8.33/gallon now and be given away free to achieve that kind of a savings.
Perhaps they’re considering propaganda value.
Kerr: Reporters were mentally slow that day. Usually they would say something like “a 300% discount” or ”15/9ths of the original price”. Very similar to “One homeless person dies every 15 seconds”. How on earth did we miss 2,102,400 dead bodies lying on our streets every year?
I also enjoyed the graphic of the stock market the local paper ran, with fractions like 6/8ths.
Posted by Oink
11/20/2005 at 09:51 AM
I firmly believe that reporters exercise a selective “mental slowness” should it serve their agenda.
Didn’t the stock market, until very recently, make their fractional prices in eights? You don’t expect the paper to reduce fractions, do you? That’s why they’re “journalists” and not engineers.
Not always selective. They would be appalled if an ‘educated’ person did not know Shakespeare. But they need help with calculating 30% of 1560. And ‘468 is 30% of what?’ is Quantum Mechanics to them.
One reporter wrote that limestone is ground-up dinosaur bones.It actually got published.
Posted by Oink
11/20/2005 at 10:27 AM
Nice work with the math there, I sniffed it but checked it with the calculator.
They probably still wonder what one measures with a slide rule and why a tape measure isn’t easier to use.
Yes, I do know carpenters do arithmetic and simple geometry with tape measures. I’ll bet that the reporters would be amazed, though.
I was amazed. A carpenter know that a triangle of sides 3,4,5 HAD to contain a 90 degree angle. I had to think ... yep! Pythagoras sez 9+16=25. Some of these ‘hillbillies’ are very competent and smart.
Posted by Oink
11/20/2005 at 11:20 AM
Jimmy Buffett said, “Let’s start with something simple, like 2 + 2 ain’t 5”
Posted by Z Woof
11/20/2005 at 12:47 PM
Yeah, I had a former carpenter tell me about some of the tricks of his trade. They don’t really need protractors on most jobs, they know how to lay it out with linear dimensions. I don’t know if most of them had ever heard of Pythagorus or his theorem but they sure knew how to work it. He told me that some guys could figure their pay on a framing square. I didn’t ask how that worked, I was afraid he’d tell me.
OCM: You are the worst Republican too. You haven’t got your “Card” yet.
Do we have to draw you a picture?
Posted by Z Woof
11/20/2005 at 06:02 PM
