That’s one way to secure a victory: Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro bans leading opposition parties from running in next year’s presidential election. You can damn well bet the Democrats are jealous over this. We’d bet it’s at the top of their want list. We’re also wondering why Jerry Brown isn’t dressing like this yet?
VENEZUELA PREPARES FOR WAR WITH U.S. WITH ‘RIFLES, MISSILES AND WELL-OILED TANKS AT THE READY.’ Seriously, Maduro the moron must be jealous the NORK fat boy is getting all the attention. We figure a real war with Venezuela would last about 5 minutes before they turned into surrender monkeys.
The Game Changed Last Night in Venezuela– and International Media Is Asleep on the job. Looks like Maduro is terrorizing the populace so he can do whatever he likes with no resistance.
https://youtu.be/vxbdzBYjAug
Venezuela Devalues Currency By 37% As Maduro Announces 62-Fold Increase In Gasoline Prices. Shouldn’t be too long before the peasants get their pitchforks out and storm Maduro’s castle.
Venezuela Declares Another Emergency: It Has Run Out of Food. In the socialist worker’s paradise everyone is equal. Everyone has jack shit.
Venezuela president declares ‘economic emergency.’ Sounds like a way to declare yourself President for Life. Create great shortages of everything, economic mayhem, declare an economic emergency and take over. Toss the people some bones and they’ll sit down and shut up. Kinda reminds us of Obama. Is the elimination of the middle class and the stock market dump the beginning of this? President for life?
Considering the fact that Venezuela sits on an ocean of oil, one would think they could generate enough electricity to keep the lights on. But no.
Considering the fact that Venezuela sits on an ocean of oil, one would think they could generate enough electricity to keep the lights on. But no, the South American nation is suffering an energy shortage for the second straight year. Hugo Chavez was unavailable for comment.
Bloomberg has the story:
Venezuela will ration power again this year, planning steps similar to those taken in 2010 amid an energy crisis, Electricity Minister Ali Rodriguez said.
“We’re going to reapply the measures we applied in Caracas last year nationwide, which punishes the wasting of electricity and encourages energy savings,” Rodriguez said in an interview on state television today. Any rationing measures require President Hugo Chavez’s approval, Rodriguez said.
Venezuela has struggled to boost energy-generating capacity to keep pace with an estimated 6 percent increase in demand this year. The consumption jump, if it persists, would require an additional 2,000 megawatts of new capacity a year, which is “unsustainable,” Rodriguez said.
All hail the glories of socialism! The lights are off, but nobody’s home.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Despite a PR and marketing blitz that had Oliver Stone on a whirlwind tour of Latin America, his latest documentary “South of the Border” has sunk like a rock at the Venezuelan box office.
Just when you thought Hugo Chavez had driven the people of Venezuela and the United States apart forever, something happens to bring them back together. In this case, it’s the two people’s intense dislike of Oliver Stone movies.
Variety reports the sad news of Stone’s biggest bomb ever:
Despite a PR and marketing blitz that had Oliver Stone on a whirlwind tour of Latin America, his latest documentary “South of the Border” has sunk like a rock at the Venezuelan box office.
Local observers in Venezuela have reported empty cinemas, indicating a stunning indifference to Stone’s pic, a documentary about South American leaders that devotes a hefty amount of screen time to the country’s President Hugo Chavez. In the 12 days after its June 4 debut, it grossed only $18,601 on 20 screens, according to Global Rentrak. Showings on mobile screens in rural areas (where Chavez has more popular support) have attracted crowds, but these screenings are free.
$18,601? That won’t even cover the corpulent Stone’s room service bill at the Caracas Hilton.
Source: Variety.com
Bill Maher is a moron. He always manages to sound relatively intelligent (yeah, yeah, we know, but please go with that concept for the purposes of this story) when he’s delivering a monologue read off a Teleprompter. But Katie bar the door when he’s left to his own devices.
Bill Maher is a moron. He always manages to sound relatively intelligent (yeah, yeah, we know, but please go with that concept for the purposes of this story) when he’s delivering a monologue read off a Teleprompter. But Katie bar the door when he’s left to his own devices.
Like yesterday. Maher turned into a babbling idiot when George Will challenged Maher’s ludicrous contention that Brazil is some kind of paradise where that evil petroleum is a thing of the past.
You owe us a big favor on this one. We could have shown you a six minute clip of this exchange, but we chose not to subject you to any more Maher than was absolutely necessary.
Some day, you will be called upon to repay that favor.
In Venezuela, they play a game called Here’s Hugo! that’s the opposite of Where’s Waldo? In Where’s Waldo? it’s very difficult to find the title character, but in Here’s Hugo! it’s damn near impossible to get away from the title character.
In Venezuela, they play a game called Here’s Hugo! that’s the opposite of Where’s Waldo? In Where’s Waldo? it’s very difficult to find the title character, but in Here’s Hugo! it’s damn near impossible to get away from the title character.
In this clip, Chavez is seen ranting about the evil United States. Nothing unusual about that. But please notice the channel indicator in the upper right hand corner. It shows that Chavez is on every channel. No matter what channel Venezuelans turn to, here’s Hugo.
Even Obama hasn’t managed to pull that one off. Yet.
Oh, he tried. Remember when he pressured all the networks to carry his primetime press conferences? But Fox finally said balked and aired its regular programming. And there was nothing Obama could do about it.
Our young President apparently has a lot to learn from his muy bueno amigo.
F/T: Weasel Zippers
Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez asked film producers to produce “socialist soap operas” because there’s just too darn much capitalism on television.
As his economy crumbles, Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez knows just what it needs.
He’s asked film producers to produce “socialist soap operas” because there’s just too darn much capitalism on television. He even offered to pony up some of those newly devalued Venezuelan bolivars to help spread the socialist message.
NewsMax.org has the details:
“A while ago, I was in Cuba and they broadcast soap operas there, not capitalist soap operas but with a social content, socialist” soap operas, Chavez told a group of filmmakers and scriptwriters guested on his weekly radio and television show, “Alo Presidente.”
“I’m going to ask that we make socialist soap operas (in Venezuela), instead of capitalist ones.”
The firebrand leftist leader offered government help to producers following his advice.
“We can also make good movies,” he added. “Not capitalist movies that are poison and incite our children to take drugs and even push them into crime.”
A little unsolicited advice, Hugo. Forget the expense of original productions. Just import Law & Order and save yourself some bolivars.
Source: NewsMax
Hugo Chavez hates Fox News, says their “minds are filled with confusions.” Congratulations, Fox. You know you’re doing something right when you’re loathed by a bombastic Communist dictator.
Congratulations, Fox. You know you’re doing something right when you’re loathed by a bombastic Communist dictator.
Looks like there’s no one left in Venezuela brave enough to tell Hugo Chavez when one of his ideas is stupid.
The Venezuelan strongman (we can’t bring ourselves to call him “President”) just launched one of the world’s most inexpensive cell phones. At just $15, it rivals the cheapest Asian phones.
The stupid part is that he named it the Vergatorio, which is Venezuelan slang for penis. He even made penis jokes at the public product launch.
Why, you may wonder, is the Venezuelan leader introducing a new cell phone and giving it an offensive name? Because he can. He recently nationalized the company that developed the phone, which makes him its new chief executive.
Makes sense to us. And we look forward to seeing Barack Obama introduce the exciting new 2010 Chryslers in the near future.
Update: While we didn’t name it after someone’s body part, the United States has a free government cell phone.
Source: Telegraph UK
Please allow us to talk out loud while we try to make sense of this:
When Hugo Chavez nationalized the oil companies in Venezuela and said he was doing it for the good of the country, that’s bad. But when Barack Obama nationalized the car companies in the United States and said it was for the good of the country, that’s good.
Here’s how CNSNews.com reports events in Venezuela:
The BBC recently carried this headline: ‘Chavez seizes oil service firms.’ The article describes how the president of Venezuela “sent troops to take over companies that provide services for the oil industry.” This is the kind of stuff which used to make headlines, back in the days when it was rare for central governments to take control of private companies. But, these days it passes almost without comment. Chavez didn’t try to couch the takeover in terms of TARPs or Stimulus Packages or Stress Tests. Chavez said, “This is a revolutionary offensive.”
Oh, just imagine the laughs these two amigos will share the next time they get together.
Unfortunately, the laugh’s on us.
Source: CNSNews.com
So much for that theory. Now it turns out that everybody and their brother wants an apology. Hugo Chavez evens wants us to apologize to the Japanese.
“It is very encouraging that the president of the United States called for the end of and the destruction of nuclear arms in the world,” Hugo Chavez told reporters in Tokyo, where he signed an investment deal with Japan.
The United States is “the planet’s number one nuclear power. It is also the only country in the world that dropped the atomic bomb,” Chavez stated. “At any rate, I think America should apologize to Japan.”
This, of course, is back to back to back with Fidel Castro demanding an apology and Iran lining up for one, too.
Let’s just apologize now. Japan, we’re sorry you attacked us and we kicked your asses in World War II. Venezuela, we’re sorry you were stupid enough to “elect” this megalomaniac. Iran, we’re sorry you’re governed by a group of 13th century lunatics. Cuba, we’re sorry Fidel Castro is still alive. And as an added bonus, United Nations, we’re sorry we ever rented you space in New York city.
Anyone else want an apology? Get in line.
Source: Iran Press TV via LGF
Yeah, well, if Hugo was so smart he could write his own speeches instead of just recycling Obama’s.
Source: Drudge Report
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has just called upon President Obama to help lead the world out of the global recession by joining the project of “21st century socialism” of which Chavez is the self-proclaimed leader.
Speaking to a group of workers in the Venezuelan state of Bolivar, their Dear leader directed this comment to our Dear Leader: “Come with us, align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism. This is the only path. Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States/”
Far-fetched? Not to Chavez: “Nothing is impossible. Who would have thought in the 1980s that the Soviet Union would disappear? Nothing is impossible. Who would have thought in the 1980s that the Soviet Union would disappear? No one,” he said. “That murderous, genocidal empire has to end, and some day there has to come a leader … who interprets the best of a people who also include human beings who suffer, endure, weep and laugh.”
Reporters and anchors in the newsrooms of America must be bewildered. On the one hand, it is music to their ears to hear the call to socialism here in America, coming on so strong and so soon after they collectively installed their president. On the other hand, there aren’t a lot of reporters reporting in Venezuela, now are there?
Source: Drudge Report
Hugh Chavez, the “elected” president of Venezuela, has been told by his doctor to stop talking in order to rest his vocal chords.
The loony leftist often delivers rambling diatribes that stretch on for five hours or more, putting enormous stress on his vocal chords and his listeners.
“I am a little affected by the intensive, continuous and permanent use of this cannon I’ve got here and the doctor has told me not to talk,” Chavez quipped to a recent audience.
Chavez’ throat is enflamed by the stress of giving dozens of rambling campaign speeches in which he frequently sings and shouts. He recently spoke before the Venezuelan Congress for nearly seven hours. On top of that, he also hosts a weekly TV show.
Imagine that. A president who goes on television every week and speaks endlessly. Looks like America really has become a third world country.
Source: Reuters
