Couldn’t Help But Notice (032607)
Even a bunch of sixth graders can see through globaloney (HT NewsBusters).
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Hugo Chavez’s Worker’s Paradise more closely resembles a Stalinist hell on earth with each passing day, complete with Uncle Joe’s language:
President Hugo Chavez announced Sunday that his government’s sweeping reforms toward socialism will include the creation of “collective property.”
….. Chavez ….. said his government would move to expropriate large ranches and farms spanning more than 300,000 hectares (740,000 acres) and redistribute lands deemed “idle” to the poor under a nationwide agrarian reform.
Since the reform began five years ago, officials have redistributed over 1.9 million hectares (4.6 million acres) of land that had been classified as unproductive or lacked property documents dating back to 1847, according to a recent government census.
Critics say reform has failed to revive Venezuela’s agriculture industry, which does not produce enough food to satisfy domestic demand. The government has been forced to import food amid shortages of staples such as meats, milk and sugar.
Doncha just love the way the Associated Press uses the “critics say” technique? Folks, the ag industry either has or hasn’t been revived; it’s objectively either true or false, and not a matter of opinion.
So Chavez wants to bring the wondrous results of Zimbabwe’s land takeaways to his country. Though Venezuela’s oil revenues will probably defer the day of reckoning, what we’re seeing is a human rights and economic calamity in the making.
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Interested-Participant blogs on Lauren Maggi’s guilty plea for spitting on a soldier last November in Syracuse, NY. She says she’s sorry, is a registered Republican who voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004, and that she overreacted to a personal domestic problem unrelated to the recipient of her spittle. The punishment for her crime was not disclosed. A commenter (about the 5th) at the underlying syracuse.com blog story says she’s “a registered Liberal” (which is a political party in New York). Oy vey.
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You can’t escape the possibility of having your identity stolen, even after you die. The good news is that the bill collectors haven’t figured out how to contact heaven (or the other place) to hassle you over stuff you didn’t buy or money you didn’t borrow — yet.
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Return of the Conservatives: “It doesn’t take a village, it takes a Remington.”
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Bottomed out? Existing home sales rose by the largest percentage in three years (Weapons of Mass Discussion, as usual “blames Bush”). The same article reports that year-over year home prices dropped for the seventh straight month. That doesn’t square with the 1%-plus price appreciation the government’s Office of Housing Enterprise Oversight has reported during the last two quarters.
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The news relating to this group of “300″ is not about a movie.
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Catching up: Prayers for Elizabeth Edwards and Tony Snow.
