Thursday, September 21, 2006

Ganging up on Hugo and other tidbits Funny how it is the Democrats that are coming out and defending Bush from Chavez' insults yesterday at the UN General Assembly. Despite Chavez saying he got along really well with Bill Clinton, today Clinton blasted him saying: "I think Chavez would be much more effective if he would say something that's true...You know, to me, that would be a much cleverer thing for him to do, where he'd really be doing something good, and he could say, 'I disagree with President Bush,' instead of calling him the devil." While Democrats like Charles Rangel was quite harsh saying: "You do not come into my country, my congressional district, and you do not condemn my president. If there is any criticism of President Bush, it should be restricted to Americans, whether they voted for him or not. I just want to make it abundantly clear to Hugo Chavez or any other president, do not come to the United States and think because we have problems with our president that any foreigner can come to our country and not think that Americans do not feel offended when you offend our Chief of State" While House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said: "He fancies himself as a modern day Simon Bolivar, but all he is an everyday thug...Hugo Chavez abused the privilege that he had, speaking at the United Nations," said Pelosi, a frequent Bush critic.”He demeaned himself and he demeaned Venezuela." EU representatives were not too happy either, calling Chavez's statements "undignified" Meanwhile, while Chavez gave Chomsky’s book Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance," a big boost in sales, Foxnews is reporting live that Chavez also killed the MIT linguist, saying he would have liked to have met him before he died. Chomsky is alive and well and it sounds like Chavez had not read the book until last week and knew little about him. I guess Chavez’ speech writers must be the same ones who write the speeches for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said three days ago in Caracas when referring to Simon Bolivar:” He was assassinated by the enemies of the revolution”, indicating that the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which killed the Liberator was somehow against his movement. This is revionisim at its best. Finally, pro-Chavez news sources like the Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias have said very little locally about Chavez’ insults against the US President and the outcry they have caused. Chavez repeated the word devil today in referring to Bush, but added alcoholic to the repertoire, simply refuting the position by those tried to aplogize for Chavez today, saying he did not mean what he said yesterday at the UN, "but was simply caught in the excitement of the moment". Yeah, sure! 7:14:52 PM    comment []

Follow Rosales' trail If you wnat to know what Rosales is doing, where he is and what the average Venezuelan says and thinks, stop a minute by Alek Boyd's page and read his daily posts on Rosales' campaign. Just think, doing this is a privilege that a pro-Chavez supporter could not do, as he would either be travelling outside the country bwith Cahvez or staying cooped up at the Presidential Palace, but seldom out in the real world. 6:26:51 PM    comment []

The true state of the country of the caring Hugo Chavez Funny how Chavez' stunt at the United Nations led so much traffic to my blog. You see, if you combine the words Chavez and Devil in any decent search engine, guess who is right at the top with many entries? Thus, I had a Devilanche of visitors as people tried to read more about what Chavez was saying about the leader of the country that buys the most oil from Venezela in the world. Fortunately I had made a post of the subject from work, which I rarely do, so that those arriving here could actually read about what happened. As usual, and as expected, we got our share of PSF's and superficial Chavez admirers, who came to tell us what a great guy he is for daring to tell it like it is.As if disliking Bush is enough of a reason for liking our autocratic President. Well, I will tell them what it is like here: While Chavez was talking about peace and the rights of people, he continues to neglect his own country where, since Chavez took over in 1998, 90,000 people have died on homicides as murders have tripled in these eight years Chavez has been President. To put it in perspective this is more deaths under the "caring Chavez" than in the armed conflict in Colombia (73,000), The Persian Gulf War (63500), the Chchen war (50,000) or the war in Afghanistan (33,000).And those who die come from the lowest social strata, the "pueblo" that Chavze claims to care so much for. Meanwhile, 44 Venezulans die daily in homicides as Venzuela has 40 violent deaths per 100,000 inhabitants per year, an achievement that can be blamed completely on the Chavez Government which has tripled the numbers in eight years by ignoring the problem as well as its total incapacity to attack it.Venezuela now has the dubious honor of being the number one country in the world in deaths by firearms according to UNESCO. Meanwhile, the country's judicial system, the cornerstone of Chavez accomplishments in the first three years in office can claim the following: --90,000 monthly crime complaints are filed and processed. --There are 98 cops per 100,000 people, less than one third of what is needed. --Prosecutors handle 3,000 cases monthly each --Judges decide on 1.6 complaints per hour --93% of homicides go unpunished. --Deaths by confrontation with police have increased by a factor of 5. --Kidnappings have doubled in eight years. --Over half the judges are temporary. Thus, our "caring", "daring" President spends his time abroad insulting others and accusing them of the same crimes he is responsible for in Venezuela: His total neglect for his people as he travels and has become an absentee President, who in the end cares only about his personal project and not the "peace", "rights" or welfare of his Venezuelans citizens. Hopefully, he will spend sometime here in the next few months and leave his US$ 83 million Airbus parked, stop buying more weapons, planes and helicopters and worry about and work for his own people. But I doubt it. The rest is simply a charade. But that is all we have seen for the last eight years. Ask what Vargas state is, what happened there in 2000 and what conditions are like today. Ask what inflation has been in the last eight months or in the last eight years. Ask what corruption is like at the highest levels of power. Ask how many corrupt politicians have been prosecuted. Ask what the fascist Chavez/Maisanta/Tascon list is. Ask who pays Chavez' campaign. Ask what the gag law is. Ask if the same person is the Minister of Information and spokesman for Chavez political party. Ask how many people have died in opposition rallies in the last eight years. Ask how many political prisoners there are. Ask who the El Llaguno shooters are and why they are free. Ask if Chavez' relatives owned so much land before he became President. Ask what has happened to the thousands of hectares of expropriated land. Ask how many military are part of the civilian Government. Ask how many fascist dictators Chavez has visited and embraced in the last eight years. Ask what happened to the 2.4 billionUS  dollars missing from the FIEM fund. There are hundreds of questions like this you can ask and the answers are all absolutely terrifying and horrifying. Just don't believe the charade. 12:04:27 AM    comment []