Rumors are flying around that Hugo Chavez is dead. Is he a Saud? Well, maybe in a way he is.
Chavez’s Information Minister says “There’s nothing abnormal or extraordinary occurring.”.
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1. c:“There’s nothing abnormal or extraordinary ocurring.” Que lastima. Hugo es el candidato perfecto para infierno. Hell has been cheated.
May 30, 2005 - 4:33 pm 2. PeterUK:Roger
“There’s nothing abnormal or extraordinary occurring.”
Sounds very like “He is in a stable condition”.
May 30, 2005 - 4:39 pm 3. Buddy Larsen:Abnormal is what you call an American ex-president interfering in the legal process of a review of a rotten stolen election. Somebody call Preacher Jimmy, let him run back down there and fix everything again.
May 30, 2005 - 5:11 pm 4. Homer:Why does this sound like a punch line from South Park to me.
May 30, 2005 - 5:14 pm 5. Terrye:First the old Saudi man and now this. I wonder….
He has been saying people were out to get him, maybe he was right.
Oil is $50 a barrel and those poor folks just keep getting poorer. Why are communists so incapable of meeting people’s basic needs? I know they are socialists and all but with oil at these prices even a South American strutting el Presidente should be able to feed and educate the population.
May 30, 2005 - 5:33 pm 6. PeterUK:Zarqawi,Fahd and now Chavez,is somebody reading the Godfather?
It is also rumoured that the CIA ordered thousands or berets,bicycles and striped pullovers and the CIA station chief in Paris has been found in possession of the Democrats Ballot Stuffing Handbook.
May 30, 2005 - 5:54 pm 7. Mark in Mexico:Relax, everyone. El Universal (in Spanish) says that Chavez appeared on live TV late this afternoon to say that he attended the Brazil/Venezuela world volleyball leage game on Sunday and then decided to go visit his 7 year old daughter in Barquisimeto, wherever the hell that is. He said he canceled his Sunday show because of the volleyball game.
Just a little weird that no one in his government had the authority to tell the Venezuelan people where he was.
May 30, 2005 - 6:08 pm 8. chuck:If Castro goes, people are going to start looking for the death ray projector.
May 30, 2005 - 6:12 pm 9. Terrye:Mark:
Well so much for the cocaine induced heart attack.
better luck next time.
May 30, 2005 - 6:28 pm 10. Buddy Larsen:Mark in Mexico, right, it sure doesn’t sound like a healthy political structure. I feel sorry for the Venzulanos; they don’t need this guy at all, no way.
May 30, 2005 - 6:50 pm 11. richard mcenroe:Well if and when Chavez is dead, the one thing we’ll know for sure is that the CIA and State Department had nothing to do with it. Hell, if they couldn’t shaft Bush out of the White House when he turned his back on them, they damn sure can’t unseat some Third World dictator…
May 30, 2005 - 8:43 pm 12. Sandy P:Terrye, rumor has it Hugo’s setting up an unaccountable side account for anything he wants to do.
May 30, 2005 - 8:59 pm 13. Sandy P:Geez, timing is everything, via Cap’t Ed:
CQ reader BR brings an unusual document related to the House travel kerfuffle to my attention. It appears that Caitlin O’Neill, who works for Nancy Pelosi, forgot to file her disclosure form (PDF) for a trip she took to Havana, Cuba. O’Neill, who BR says is the granddaughter of former Speaker Tip O’Neill, identifies the purpose of her trip — as an official duty of Congress — as “religious education”.
Has religious education become an official government duty? What would Pelosi’s allies at the ACLU say about that?
That’s not the end of the unusual aspects of this trip. Expenses totaled almost $1400 for the five-day trip to Havana, including $400 for meals. Of course, the American taxpayer didn’t get stuck with this bill, which is the reason O’Neill and Pelosi had to file the disclosure. The entire cost of O’Neill’s trip was borne by the Universal Life Church.
This is where the questions really start. From reading its website, the ULC doesn’t require much in terms of religious education for its membership or its clergy. In fact, the church openly states on its website that it grants ordination on line, instantly, for free:….
May 30, 2005 - 9:02 pm 14. Buddy Larsen:Hillary’s latest financial scandal–despite Dick Morris telling us that she had to’ve been in on it–had zero legs. I think the Dems just ‘get to do’ these things.
May 30, 2005 - 9:25 pm 15. Fausta:Caitlin O’Neill, who works for Nancy Pelosi, . . . identifies the purpose of her trip — as an official duty of Congress — as “religious education”.
Trip to Cuba for “religious education”!
hahahahahahahahahaha
Maybe “religious education” for whatever form of santerÌa Fidel practices?
How perfect that someone in Pelosi’s staff could come up with that excuse.
Thank you for the link, Roger! I’ll keep you all updated. I haven’t read the news but that last bit about Ch·vez presiding over a Minister’s session even had a picture of him. Nothing new in El Nacional yet.
May 31, 2005 - 4:57 am