February 28, 2006
Hugo Chavez might well be a dead man walking.The Chavez government, an avowedly leftist regime that is quite open about its loathing for the Bush Administration, has now [added Connecticut to the list of states to which it supplies subsidized energy assistance][1]._Venezuela, where per capita income is about one tenth that of the United States, will provide 4.8 million gallons of heating oil at a 40 percent discount to Connecticut households that qualify for state home heat assistance, state officials said."This heating oil assistance fills an unfortunate, profoundly important need for our citizens -- and is consistent with our laws," said Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal in a statement released on one of the coldest days of the winter in the Northeast United States....Rep. Joe Barton (news, bio, voting record) of Texas, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has expressed concern over whether the sales are "part of an unfriendly government's increasingly belligerent and hostile foreign policy" toward Washington._Note that selling fuel oil to American states now counts as a "belligerent and hostile foreign policy," which is to say that it cuts into the grotesquely criminal "profits" the frat pals of President Bush are carrying off by the trainload under the "conservative" model of the "free market." (Those "profits" totalled more than $10 billion last quarter, for those few readers not mesmerized by American Idol.) By any rational measure, the Bush Administration is the largest and most successful criminal conspiracy in human history; if there were an honest U.S. Attorney left in the country--there isn't--the whole sleazy bunch, starting w/ President Bush and VP [Cheney's-Got-A-Gun][2], would under a RICO indictment.You won't hear a peep of protest from the slobbering halfwits who elected these gangsters over the ongoing looting of the Treasury. Instead the faceless clones that now govern the country will gear up to take a run at Chavez, and the slobbering halfwits will obediently line up for the latest Two-Minute Hate. The capos in charge of the United States are completely powerless to apprehend or kill Osama bin Laden--and why should they want to?--but you can bet yr Bible that they're thinking vy, vy hard about Hugo Chavez.Chavez is doomed by petrogeology and his own inadequacies: Venezuelan crude is of only middling quality and has a high sulpher content, and Hugo is a long way from being the brightest bulb in the chandelier. Chavez is fat now only because of the high prices imposed on the marketplace by our Vice President and his criminal cronies, and because he benefits from rabid public support generated by our President's comically ineffectual efforts to depose him. He has little to worry about from official Washington, which has already made a fool of itself w/ an attempt to overthrow him: The US intelligence establishment, now fresh and shiny after the Bush purges, is a model of political and religious orthodoxy, but they suck at the intelligence business and would probably need help from the French even to kill themselves, let alone a foreign head of state.But Chavez hasn't just flipped off the Bush administration--he's flipped off Big Oil, and Big Oil has been issuing marching orders to the United States government for the past six years. Terrorists flying planes into buildings don't attract Big Oil's malign attention--9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to the oil business--but a crazed leftist head of state undercutting their price-fixing is truly dancing w/ death. If Big Oil decides it's had enough of Chavez, Venezuela will be looking for a new president before the end of the year.I'm betting on a plane crash, or p'haps a "nationalist uprising."--SLEAZEWATCH: The minor revolt launched by the Army and the Department of Defense over paying for hookers for the VP's pals is over. More than $200 million in Halliburton charges questioned not by terrorist-lovin' Dems, but by the Pentagon's own auditors, are going to [paid w/ taxpayer dollars][3].About $9 million will be withheld, so one or two major GOP donors will have to lay off the blow for an afternoon, but at the end of the day, DOD did what it was told, dropped its pants and put out for an outfit that makes the Genovese crime family look like the Red Cross.Ahh, the beauty of the free market. [1]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060227/pl_nm/energy_usa_venezuela_dc [2]: http://rickdavismusic.com/cheneysgotagun.mp3 [3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060228/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/halliburton_iraq_3
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scary_manilow (anonymous) says...
Note the large shipments of used fighter jets America sent to Chile as a "loan"...Too bad, too, cuz I like poor, doomed Hugo.Just another day in Panama, er, Nicaragua, er, I mean, you know...
February 28, 2006 at 1:33 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
OnShakedown (Chris Tackett) says...
look at what Bush has allowed to happen to our country! Why in the hell does connecticut have to get charity from venezuala? Isn't it the US gov't's job to take care of its citizens?
And all you folks that voted for Bush, don't blame the gov't for not taking action here. Blame Republicans, because the way Republicans control things now, the dems can't even find rooms to have meeting without Republicans giving the okay. And even then, they get their mics cut off if they talk too much.
It will take decades to reverse the damage Bush and the neo-cons have done to this country.
February 28, 2006 at 4:41 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
cfdxprt (anonymous) says...
Beautiful use of "Two-Minute Hate".
February 28, 2006 at 5:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
wbabbit (Will Babbit) says...
Honestly, I don't blame republicans for anything bush does.
I blame the millions of democrats and centrists that didn't vote. Every time I meet another person that didn't vote I say "so bush is YOUR fault." I don't care if you're voting for the lesser of two evils, it's the LESSER.
March 1, 2006 at 3:17 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
lazz (anonymous) says...
"Isn't it the US gov't's job to take care of its citizens?"
Good one, OnShakedown ... almost had me going there for a second ...
March 1, 2006 at 10:52 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
quinno (Patrick Quinn) says...
Here's all you need to know: The monkeys in Washington will extend the "Patriot" Act today, and no one will even be impeached, let alone hanged.
A study published today suggests that about one American in 1,000 knows that freedom of speech is a Constituional guarantee. We're governed by criminal monkeys because monkeys, by and large, are brighter than American voters.
The same study suggests that a majority of the population can name at least two family members on THE SIMPSONS.
If there any doubt remaining, the question has been definitively settled. George Orwell was the greatest writer of the 20th century.
March 1, 2006 at 11:32 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
subsalr (Don Mittelstaedt) says...
I think you are probably right. And I'll bet at least 51% of the 1,000 or so people who have actually read him would agree, unless of course it would be politically incorrect to do so.
March 2, 2006 at 3:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
quinno (Patrick Quinn) says...
!
March 2, 2006 at 6:03 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
cfdxprt (anonymous) says...
subsalr - WORD! (if I could bold things on the blogs, the word would be bolded there...)
My favorite authors all come from the last century, they'd be: Orwell, Burgess and Vonnegut, in no particular order (that'd be hard to figure out). Orwell because dude got it right (as much as we'd have to admit that 1984 is fast approaching), Burgess because he came close, and has mad vocab, and Vonnegut because he writes about such things, but can have me on the floor laughing while doing so. In the end democracy, at least as an American institution is f'd, it shall soon be a semi-police state if not worse. They all wrote about that, and how the federal gov't (subsitute equivalent here, being 2 authors are British) would control everything.
Quinn posted that it sucked that the patriot act is going to be renewed. I have railed and railed against the p-act, but lately it doesn't bother me that much. From what we've seen the prez will do whatever he wants, so bills coming out of Congress don't really matter. I pass the Simpson's test, and a lot more, and every day I'm getting as pissed off as Quinn about where we're headed to.
March 3, 2006 at 11:55 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
tomking (Tom King) says...
The only way things will change--that the outdated, now-corrupt institutions we've created can be erased to make room for new world systems--is through complete collapse of the status quo. It will be painful, probably cataclysmic, but it needs to happen. Bush is just the person for the job.
March 8, 2006 at 10:42 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )