a small dose of reality

Among the treaties is an agreement that Venezuela will attack the United States if the United States forces Iran to stop it's nuclear enrichment program.  Why was Hugo even let into this country to speak at the UN?  Oh...free speech.  Oh...Chavez is not an American Citizen.  Oh...the UN is not the United States.  Oh...the UN is in the United States and could be closed down tomorrow. 

To me the whole UN deal is an example of America showing interest in and shoveling more money into the rest of the world.  The gratitude of course is not there, but that is not why America does it.  There are a lot of things the United States does because they are the right thing to do.  I bet we would even defend France again.  Huh?  But there you are.

Chavez has been entirely out of line during this visit. 

Despite tepid relations with Bush, two House Democratic leaders and a long-serving senator took exception to remarks by Chavez, who twice has called the U.S. president "the devil" while delivering remarks in New York City this week.

"Don't 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," New York Rep. Charles Rangel said in remarks delivered on Capitol Hill.

On Thursday, however, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi did criticize Chavez.

"The manner in which he characterized the president demeaned himself and demeaned Venezuela. He fancies himself a modern day Simone Bolivar ... But he is an everyday thug," said Pelosi, D-Calif. Bolivar was a statesman known as "the Liberator" for leading Venezuela's revolt against Spain in the early 19th century.

With Iranian nuclear aspirations gaining notice, it's worth directing attention to the growing relationship between Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez. The Reagan administration repulsed Soviet efforts to set up camp in Central America. Iranian designs on Venezuela perhaps deserve similar U.S. attention.

The warmth and moral support between Ahmadinejad and Chávez is very public. The two tyrants are a lot more than just pen pals. Venezuela has made it clear that it backs Iran's nuclear ambitions and embraces the mullahs' hateful anti-Semitism. What remains more speculative is just how far along Iran is in putting down roots in Venezuela.

In September, when the International Atomic Energy Agency offered a resolution condemning Iran for its "many failures and breaches of its obligations to comply" with its treaty commitments, Venezuela was the only country that voted "no." Ahmadinejad congratulated the Venezuelan government, calling the vote "brave and judicious."

Three months later, in a Christmas Eve TV broadcast, Chávez declared that "minorities, the descendants of those who crucified Christ, have taken over the riches of the world." That ugly anti-Semitic swipe was of a piece with an insidious assault over the past several years on the country's Jewish community. In 2004, heavily armed Chávez commandos raided a Caracas Jewish school, terrifying children and parents. The government's claim that it had reason to believe that the school was storing arms was never supported. A more reasonable explanation is that the raid was part of the Chávez political strategy of fomenting class hatred--an agenda that finds a vulnerable target in the country's Jewish minority--and as a way to show Tehran that Venezuela is on board. Ahmadinejad rivals Hitler in his hatred for the Jewish people.

It's tough to tell whether Chávez is a committed bigot or whether his anti-Semitism and embrace of the mullahs are simply a part of his calculated efforts to annoy the Yanquis. But it doesn't make much difference. The end result is that the Iranian connection introduces a new element of instability into Latin America.

In his efforts to provoke the U.S., the Venezuelan no doubt hopes that saber rattling against imperialismo can stir up nationalist sentiment and save his floundering regime. That view argues that the U.S. would do best to ignore him, but it's not easy to ignore a Latin leader who seems intent on forging stronger ties with two of the worst enemies of the U.S., Ahmadinejad and Fidel Castro.

At the rate the two president einsteins are going they will be invited to move to Cuba when they are overthrown...better yet they should be outsourced to a "black torture prison".

Jail friends waiting for their new bitches to arrive

copywrite 2006 - Barry G.

Dictator Chavez flew in for this momentous occasion.  Jello officials reasoned that since Cosby's image has been continually tarnished by casual sex, extramarital affairs and bastard children while Castro is recovering and eating pudding in bed. He even held up the day's paper in a picture for the press to show that he's really still alive.  Castro is just a more appealing person now and will increase pudding sales.

I will send you all the pudding you can eat mi amigo.

The amigos were also observed exchanging this "unknown device"

In a last ditch effort to gain yet more attention prior to bumping off and going straight to hell, Castro has had his henchmen kidnap Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah and stash him at Gitmo of all places, complete with dog collar of course.

ABRACADABRA...I AM A NORMAL PERSON....NOT

Talk about your sweet feel good story:

HAVANA — Elian Gonzalez sent a note Sunday wishing a speedy recovery to "my dear grandpa Fidel".  "We send you this letter to let you know that we are worried about your health," Elian, now 12, wrote. "We hope for your speedy recovery and take the opportunity to wish you a happy birthday, may you have many more."

Little Gary Coleman also sent a note:  "I hope you die you tall man.  You are a height bigot.  If I wanted to I could grow a better beard than you."

I have been fervently watching the news wires waiting for the imminent bumping off of the bearded yahoo and then I ran across this:

Fidel Castro died in 1981, and was replaced by a look-alike CIA plant. The dictator ate tainted shellfish and died. CIA infiltrators wasted no time in covering this up, and installing an agent named Alexis Papagos to impersonate Castro, and run the country. This information comes  via Cuban national, Igor Davidovich Martinez.

Why, then, does the U.S. government maintain the embargo against Cuba? "The CIA is turning a great profit by selling contraband Cuban goods on the black market," says Martinez, "and they don't want to give that up." The CIA sees to it that the embargo stays.

What tipped Martinez off? Before 1981, the real Fidel Castro nearly always wore a military uniform. After that year, "Castro," really Alexis Papagos, appeared more often in civilian clothing.  

This prompted Martinez, and several others to start digging. Of those who discovered this deception, only Martinez remains alive.

The plot almost failed. A few people in 1981 heard of Castro's death, and began a rumor that he had died of syphilis, but the CIA quickly made those people, some of them Americans, Disappear. They needed the world to think that Castro was still alive.

Government tight-lipped over Castro; Cubans edgy - a fashion statement?

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's government stayed tight-lipped over ailing leader Fidel Castro on Wednesday, keeping nervous Cubans waiting for fresh word on his condition and for the brother to whom he handed power to appear in public. 

State-run media repeated a message from the previous night quoting the 79-year-old president, who stepped aside temporarily on Monday, saying his health was stable but that a verdict on his recovery from stomach surgery would take "many days." 

There was a small increase in police presence in poorer parts of Havana and communist neighbourhood groups said that "rapid response groups" used to put down riots in the past had been activated. 

Some Cubans with relatives in the security forces said military and other uniformed personnel had been mobilized in barracks and police stations as a precaution. 

"Our guns are oiled," said one neighbourhood organizer, Rolando Gomez, 75, in Havana's decaying downtown. The committees are usually unarmed. 

"We're putting the people's war into practice," he said. 

Castro has not been seen in public since July 26 and the scant information about his condition has sparked rumours among exiles in the United States that he could be dead or merely running a "dress rehearsal" for his succession. 

His defence minister brother Raul, 75, has not appeared in public since Castro handed him the reins of the ruling Communist Party, the post of commander in chief of the armed forces and president of the executive council of state. 

Castro's latest statement said he could give few details on his health due to the threat to Cuba from the U.S. "empire".