Chavez taunts US with oil offer

President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela hit back vigorously at calls by an ally of President George Bush for his assassination by offering cheap petrol to the poor of the US at a time of soaring fuel prices.
In a typically robust response to remarks by the US televangelist Pat Robertson, Mr Chavez compared his detractors to the “rather mad dogs with rabies” from Cervantes’ Don Quixote, and unveiled his plans to use Venezuela’s energy reserves as a political tool.
“We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor communities in the United States,” he said.

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From CalNurses via the Rock and Rap Confidential listserv

There was “No Sympathy” for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Sunday night as he sought to turn a Rolling Stones concert in Boston into a fundraiser only to be picketed by registered nurses from California, Illinois and Massachusetts outside the stadium and loudly booed by thousands of rock fans when introduced inside.

Inside sitting nearly alone in his private box, Schwarzenegger must have been looking for Wild Horses to drag him away. Hundreds of fans held up the CNA signs. When Stones lead singer Mick Jagger welcomed the governor, he was lustily booed, and even Jagger mocked Schwarzenegger noting “As a matter of fact, he was seen out in front of Fenway Park tonight raising funds by scalping tickets and tee-shirts.”

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From Lefti on the News

Camp Qualls, the pro-Bush camp in Crawford, Texas.

This picture is straight from the web page of the National Review Online touting the existing of “Camp Qualls”, about which we are told: “Granted, the site is much smaller than the anti-Bush crowd, but it’s growing each day.”

I guess the crowd is still in the process of amassing! For the record, there are three pictures on the web page. None of them shows a single human being!

(For more on the pro-Bush “crowds” which are garnering such attention, see this previous post.)

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President George Bush started his summer vacation on August 2, 2005.  As Bush enjoys his holiday and Cindy Sheehan and hundreds of others continue their vigil outside his Crawford ranch, 66 more American Soldiers have been killed in Iraq. The number of Iraqis killed remains uncounted.

They need a vacation too!

Support our troops - Bring them home now!

BushVacationBodyCount.com

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Robertson says ‘take him out’ didn’t mean assassination

Uh huh, well “assassination” does mean assassination, much as this Master of Lies would like to twist his own words.

“If he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it,” said Robertson on Monday’s program.

Pat Robertson is a businessman, and a quite wealthy one. Forget his pretend Christianity. When he’s not getting enough press, he often says something lunatic, thus garnering lots of attention and attacks. Then he, no doubt, sends fund-raising appeals to his True Believers saying he’s being savaged by hordes of godless commie gay drug addict porno-peddlers in black helicopters.

Fleecing the flock is his business.

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The biopsy results came back yesterday for Sue’s mom. Her cancer turns out to have been a quite rare, much less aggressive form. They got all of it all during the operation, with none detected elsewhere. This means no chemotherapy. Sues’ mom is still floating in the air, as are all of us.

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State Department spokesman Sean McCormack called Robertson’s remarks about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez “inappropriate,” but stopped short of condemning them.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said the Pentagon isn’t in the business of killing foreign leaders, but he also did not denounce Robertson or his remarks.

Goodness, we don’t want to upset the bloodthirsty lunatic fringe, do we? And check this, Robertson appears to be living in another solar system.

Getting rid of Chavez would stop Venezuela from becoming a “launching pad for communist influence and Muslim extremism,” Robertson said.

Chavez is not socialist (although he wants to move things in a socialist direction) and saying there is Muslim extremism in Venezuela is laughably ignorant. Yet the White house does nothing to slap Robertson down.
If Robertson had said that while in the U.K, they could deport him

U.K. Home Secretary Charles Clarke published the criteria for deporting or excluding foreigners considered to be encouraging terrorism, stepping up a crackdown on people who preach hate after last month’s bombings in London.
The list of `”unacceptable behaviors” includes expressing views that justify, glorify or foment terrorist violence.

Finally, this

The Rev. Jesse Jackson called for an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission, just as it did when Janet Jackson’s breast was exposed during a Superbowl broadcast. “This is even more threatening to hemispheric stability than the flash of a breast on television during a ball game,” he said.

All of this makes the ANSWER LA reportback from the World Festival of Youth and Students in Venezuela even more relevant. 30,00 attended the festival last week.

A.N.S.W.E.R. Forum - Reportback from Venezuela
The Bolivarian Revolution and Fighting U.S. Aggression
Friday, August 26, 7:30 pm
1800 Argyle Ave, #410, Los Angeles

Eyewitness report from the World Festival of Youth and Students

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Front page, L.A. Times

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is benefiting from millions of dollars raised by a network of tax-exempt groups without revealing that the money comes from major corporations with business before his office. The groups are run by Schwarzenegger’s closest political allies, who also represent some of California’s biggest interest groups. Unlike the governor’s many campaign funds, the nonprofits are not required to disclose their contributors and can accept unlimited amount.

The politically tone-deaf Arnold continues to embroil himself in yet more controversy.

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