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| Red on red? Chavistas turning on Oogo |
| 2007-12-18 |
| Link worth a visit for the hopeful hero's salute from the AP photographer and the Herald's photo editor... After suffering a defeat on proposed constitutional reforms, President Hugo Chávez's administration will face a new battle: the growing denouncements made by chavistas about official corruption in Venezuela. Many officials and activists who support Chávez on many levels have made statements against corruption and inefficiencies in the administration, which they consider ''rampant,'' and they are demanding measures to deal with this phenomenon. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #8 It didn't help poor King John that his dashing older brother kept getting taken captive while Crusading, and needing to be ransomed. Or that his mama made it clear to everyone she liked Richard best. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-12-18 15:32 |
| #7 Oogo now wants to crack open Simon Bolivars crypt and find out what really killed him (the evil empire) cause that TB deal is so lame. I'm serious. |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2007-12-18 15:03 |
| #6 Anon2u: Yes, King John; son of Henry II and brother of Richard the Lionhearted. He was confiscating properties right and left, and spent half of his reign in a snit over one thing or another. His barons rebelled, and made him sign the Magna Carta to protect property rights and legal due process. See the book, "Magna Carta", by an author with the unfortunate name of William Swindler. It ought to be lurking in the lower stacks of your local library. It's written for middle schoolers, is clear and concise and ought to be required reading in every high school. Also, for your literary pleasure, from Ogden Nash. "The Lamprey" Lampreys are hagfish. There. I've said it. I know of just one item to their credit. The early English had good cause to love them: Wicked King John died of a surfeit of them. |
| Posted by: mom 2007-12-18 13:12 |
| #5 As Instapundit pointed out a while ago, when tyrants fall, they tend to fall suddenly, and fast. |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-12-18 10:24 |
| #4 Welcome to the communist party. It is like the mob. All the bosses get a cut with the size of the cut depending on their rank. The regular people get diddly/squat. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-12-18 09:47 |
| #3 Ready the tumbrels and the guillotine? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-12-18 08:11 |
| #2 COUNTERRORISM BLOG > IRAN PUSHING INTO NICARAGUA. LT intents [investments] of IRAN, VENEZUELA unclear. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-12-18 02:57 |
| #1 In Chicago parlance - Where's mine? --- But for some odd reason, Prince John and the Magna Carta pop into my head - geez, I hope it was John........ |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2007-12-18 02:00 |