1 Chavez is just a tool of the U.S. military industrial complex. He's also grossly misunderstood.

2
Me and Hugo took a three minute shower together and I got little Hugo really squeaky clean.

Really saves on water use when you do it that way.

3

In which case I suppose we had better get ready for these kinds of emergency measures here in the United States.

You can count on it. You can also count on BHO selectively devaluing our currency as Chavez did recently. Even before rampant inflation hits.

The real shocka' will be when BHO begins confiscating the gold that so many Americans have invedted in.

4 invested

5

The real shocka' will be when BHO begins confiscating the gold that so many Americans have invested in.

Posted by: Socialistas

Why would he try? It's the wrong way to go about it if he doesn't want people to own gold for some bizarre reason.

6 Let them eat "green jobs" ... And what will they eat then?

Chavez's peasants are unarmed, just imagine if they had guns like in the USA.

7 Wouldn't be the first time the Feds have seized gold....

8

How about a little (selective) currency devaluation to go along with those blackouts? (tipped by commenter appropriately named "Socialistas")

From first-hand knowledge, the oil tanks and pipelines in Venezuela are in horrible condition.  They're literally rusting away in plain sight.

There will be an environmental disaster(s) soon.  And you can expect Chavez, like Dinnerjacket, to make a case for nuclear reactors even though they're a major oil producing nation.

9 jtrhtuyt5y76y06p ghgrwgT1S22E4R55TYG BG,MF BNN 

10 Chavez has "Harry Reid like" governing skillz.

11 The real shocka' will be when BHO begins confiscating the gold that so many Americans have invested in. Posted by: Socialistas Why would he try? It's the wrong way to go about it if he doesn't want people to own gold for some bizarre reason. Posted by: Iskandar at January 10, 2010 04:23 PM (sKPtW) Don't mind me, I'm just minding my own business back here.

12 hmmmm, i wonder if Obama gave Chavez a book....  Rules for Radicals perhaps?

13 Wouldn't be the first time the Feds have seized gold....
Posted by: Techie

FDR thought he had to do something about prices. Obama's never shown any interest in deflation or inflation. So again, why would he try to confiscate gold. Put me to some knowledge here.

14

Wouldn't be the first time the Feds (and Romans, Germans, Italians, Russians...) have seized gold...

Gold investors.  What a super easy way for BHO to go for REDISTRIBUTION GOLD! The crises they're creating will demand it -- "to save the nation"!

15 Unless of course your sound energy policy is to drive coal companies out of business and say you're replacing it with magical green technology. What, you don't like magic? You have to believe!

16 Hydro power isn't "green".  You'll set off hours of eco-bitching about drowned valleys, loss of free-flows, altered habitats, etc. by bringing up hydropower in certain company.

17 Chavez Takes a Page From the Rahm Emanuel  Cloward-Piven / Ayers "Crisis" Playbook

18

Is this blog suffering an energy crisis too? Jeez, the pages are taking like five minutes to load now and have been all day.

19 It's not easy being Green

20 You lied to me Kermit.  You said it was easy to be Green in a Honda commercial.

21 Why can't the grid be a fucking man and provide Chavez with adequate electricity?

22 America has pretty much tapped out every drop of Hydro we can.  Specifically, the Tennessee Valley only gets about 7% of it's electricity from Hydro.  That's more than the national average.  There aren't many, if any, rivers or reservoirs that you can dam and actually have the benefits come out on top any more. 

Venezuela gets 2/3rds of it's power from Hydro... speaking of eggs in one basket.

23 We could do a bit more hydro.  In Michigan, they're falling over themselves to decommission and remove perfectly serviceable dams.  Sure, they won't solve the energy crisis, but taking away dams that already exist strikes me as asinine.

24 How do you have a two-tiered devaluation?

25 FDR thought he had to do something about prices. Obama's never shown any interest in deflation or inflation. So again, why would he try to confiscate gold. Put me to some knowledge here. Posted by: Iskandar at January 10, 2010 04:35 PM (sKPtW) Well, once they notice inflation getting out of hand in 2011, & the Mothball Media finally decides to report it in early 2012, he's going to have to do something to look strong for the election. Why not go for the FDR comparison, after all he got elected to four terms.

26

In Michigan, they're falling over themselves to decommission and remove perfectly serviceable dams

The dams require maint. and mgmt. Maybe someone took note that Detroit is using far less power these days, and they have multiple reactors ringing the city. People are literally hunting pheasants and rabbits in abandoned subdivisions there these days.

Jeff Daniels and Dearborn can only do so much. /

 

27 /point
/laugh @ venezuela

You fuckers elected him.  gratz!

As far as the US goes, I have my well, generator and 80 gallons of gasoline I rotate out, 4k rounds of ammo, M4, shotgun, M1A, 9 pistols, 38 acres of cleared fields of fire.

Bring on the zombie apocalypse, bitches.

28 With yearning envy, Turbo Tax Timmy and Superpresident Earflaps McWafflewanker gaze at dreamy Hugo, admiring the manly resolve to devalue the Venezuelan currency, without the unaesthetic obstacles of law and common sense. With an authoritarianism that could please Tommy "Dictator Chic" Friedman, Hugo shows his protegé in the Oval Orifice how to destroy wealth on a truly massive scale. The Superpresident looks on, his arm around Timmy's shoulders, saying "We've got to try this here sometime. We'll need trillions of the folding stuff anyway, and you're perfect for the job because I know this much about you, Tim: You won't sweat the details."

29 Testing 1-2-3.....

30

How do you have a two-tiered devaluation?

ALSO: How about a little currency devaluation to go along with those blackouts? (tipped by commenter appropriately named "Socialistas")

31
As far as the US goes, I have my well, generator and 80 gallons of gasoline I rotate out, 4k rounds of ammo, M4, shotgun, M1A, 9 pistols, 38 acres of cleared fields of fire.

I was looking at some property listings the other night, and saw one that, while a bit too far from home to be ideal, had a feature that makes me salivate: its own supply of natural gas!

32 DIT: Paraná and São Francisco rivers mainly.  But there is lots of still undeveloped hydro capacity all over the Amazon.

33 Venezuela Says Its Jets [twice] Intercepted U.S. [war] Plane

and yet, millions of ahem Americans do business with CITGO daily. I smell sulfur in their 52% brains!!!

34 I taught Chavez everything he knows!

35

As far as the US goes, I have my well, generator and 80 gallons of gasoline I rotate out, 4k rounds of ammo, M4, shotgun, M1A, 9 pistols, 38 acres of cleared fields of fire.

Always good for a chuckle.

ATF

36 Why not go for the FDR comparison, after all he got elected to four terms. Posted by: The Dread Pirate Neck Beard

Well, because FDR actions accomplished nothing. And, correct me if I'm wrong,  FDR's campaign platforms didn't include "Hey, I made people turn in their gold!"

I be curious to know if there are actually economists that believe adjusting the price of gold daily and/or seizing it did anything.

37 My friend in Venezuela bought an air conditioner for $240 a couple of weeks ago.  It is now $469.

I'm pretty sure at least one of the turbines at that dam is in sad shape as well.  I forget who said "No one does industrial accidents like the Russians" but it sounds like Venezuela is on the edge of having a grand turbine failure like their mentors.

As can be expected, he expects solvent businesses to absorb the fallout of his policies, or else:

“The bourgeois are already talking about how all prices are going to double and they’re closing their businesses to raise prices,” Chavez said in comments on state television during his weekly “Alo Presidente” program. “People, don’t let them rob you, denounce it, and I’m capable of taking over that business.”
(Bloomberg article on Drudge)

38 I give  Hugo a solid B+. Let me be clear, he'll need to be a little more creative ( aka destructive) in order to raise that GPA.

39 "The real shocka' will be when BHO begins confiscating the gold that so many Americans have invested in." They'll take 401K's first.

40
funny how we never hear how the Venezuelan peeps feel about Chavez and life in Venezuels

41

#33, ah, ok. I wasn't quite clear on that.

Last time I was in Sao Paulo, they had a blackout they blamed on the Plate generation system, it hit about 2/3 of Brazil that night. I remember making it back to my hotel and going to sleep with the windows open (it was hot) and the light switch in the "ON" position.

Kind of a rude alarm clock at 4am when the power came back on.

42 The Shitty Ads are killing this site, why do I bother to donate, when I also get shitty ad servers jumping me and killing the performace

43 Well, because FDR actions accomplished nothing. And, correct me if I'm wrong, FDR's campaign platforms didn't include "Hey, I made people turn in their gold!" I be curious to know if there are actually economists that believe adjusting the price of gold daily and/or seizing it did anything. Posted by: Iskandar at January 10, 2010 05:13 PM (sKPtW) Well, I'm not saying it make sense sense, but I can picture the little hamster wheels spinning in their heads. I see the Smartest Administration Ever as a sort of political cargo cult who thinks that by taking enough bits of the right administration's policies they can become that administration when needs be.

44 I see burning cars by the Venezuelan utes, soon and maybe a hanging upside down aka Mussolini.........oh and many rocks thrown at his carcass. Good times, good times!

45 @ 36:  "Always good for a chuckle."

How so?  Seems t' me like a pretty good job of preparing for the obvious.

46 See, Dave, you are just being plain silly.  The problem is that Chavez has been too closely aligned with the Bush-Cheney Cabal.  All they have to do to remedy the situation FOREVER is move to the LEFT of where they are now.  And maybe Nationalize HealthCare.  Issuing every Dog a License would prolly help too.....

47 DIT@43: I think they call it that since the Parana is a tributary of the Plata.  It could have been one of those US Northeast blackout things caused by a single event in that system.  Sorry about the bold italics...

48 When is a blog a slog?

49 Yeah, Hugo is doing great things for Venezuela.  Going to make everyone as poor as the people he claims to be helping.  Er.....just like Obama.

Of course there will be RICH people, after all, you gotta have someone in charge.

50 "With yearning envy, Turbo Tax Timmy..."

Going back and forth on calling geithner "Turbo Tax Timmy" or "Herbie the Dentist". Anyone else have an opinion and/or moniker for the embattled pinhead in question?

51

>>  Sorry about the bold italics...

Well, ok, this time, but you watch your ass pal.

52

Chavez Says HeÂ’ll Seize Businesses That Raise Prices

BHO-worthy!

53

So when do they start printing the ten million dollar bills they are gonna need to buy a loaf of bread?

54

I see burning cars by the Venezuelan utes, soon and maybe a hanging upside down aka Mussolini.........oh and many rocks thrown at his carcass. Good times, good times!

Do you have ANY doubt that BHO would come to his rescue?

55 It sounds good to me.

56 Oh, and don't forget about the "US warplanes" Chavez keeps seeing.

57 Do you have ANY doubt that BHO would come to his rescue? Posted by: Socialistas luv BHO at January 10, 2010 05:44 PM & well he should. Personally. 5 minutes late (or right when the crowd is looking for their next victim).

58 The Shitty Ads are killing this site, why do I bother to donate, when I also get shitty ad servers jumping me and killing the performace Posted by: bob_hussein_dole

For Pete's sake, download NoScript and shut the hell up already.

59

Oh, and don't forget about the "US warplanes" Chavez keeps seeing.

see #34

60 Chavez is an idiot, no way can he play on the world plane likes he wants.

61 His Russian made helicopters have fallen out of the sky so often, it has become a national joke. 

62
Chavez is an idiot, no way can he play on the world plane likes he wants.

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at January 10, 2010 05:57 PM (4G+Os)

Actually he's pretty smart. He imposes communism and the redistribution of wealth on everyone else while he and his inner circle of thugs get to live like royalty.

Good work if you can get it.

63
shitty ad servers jumping me and killing the performance


Cereal? What are you running, Intel 386?

64

Getting what you wish for at Berkeley

 

Berkeley High May Drop "White" Science
Labs 

65

41: They'll take 401K's first.

Count on it.  Argentina did it a couple of years ago (they're run by a personality-cult-like figure too, ya know).

The government will SAY that they're doing it to PROTECT us poor, unknowing citizens from "bad" investments in the stock market (or precious metals market...) so they will take our 401Ks and IRAs and iinvest them in "ultrasafe" T-bills.  (Why not?  They already "invest" our Social Security "Trust Fund" in "ultra-safe" T-bills, don't they?).

They will have to do this when Cnina stops buying T-bills  (or, worse yet, starts selling them off).

The rhetoric is already starting.  The Illinois Senate race is already dominated by charges over a College Savings Plan run by the state (and invested in mortgage-backed securities) that's lost over $150 million of taxpayer money.

 

It's just a matter of time.  Count on it.

 

66 Not surprising. I'm sure Hugo, Barry and Rahm are frat bros.

67
Was Mussolini as bad as Chavez?

68 Chavez/Obama economic policy at work:

Devalue currency at 50%.
Nobody can raise prices:  Bread still retails for 1 bolivar
Imported wheat and flour was .60 bolivar per loaf, now is 1.20 bolivar/loaf
Breadmakers now losing money, stop making bread. Food gets scarce.  Blackmarket goes crazy.  People starve. Less people, less food needed.
Problem solved.

Bonus: works for healthcare also.

69

From an article at Drudge:

"The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the worldÂ’s most eminent climate scientists.

Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013."

Bunch of denialists.

70
Why didnt you come to me like a f'cking man Danny Glover and tell me this socialism crap doesnt work?

71

Some chicken shit didn't shoot him when they could have, like in Chile, now millions suffer.

CIA fuck up again.

72 Psst, there's a very good chace that Chavez will be our Man of the Year!

73

A quick search on the intertubes show that there are no blacks in Searchlight, NV..

...I guess Harry Reid is very comfortable there

74 I saw a video on YouTube a while back that showed bands of Chavez's redshirted thugs roaming the countryside and confiscating farms and throwing people off land that had been in their families for generations. They were also looting all their belongings while mocking and sneering at them. Really heart-wrenching stuff but its the same crap Mugabe did in Zimbabwe which used to be the bread-basket of Africa, now the people there import most of their food and suffer under crushing inflation.

No surprise because socialist economist is pretty much an oxy-moron. The problem is, when you run out of the rich and middle class to leech off of the system breaks down. Communism has to have a symbiotic relationship with capitalism in order to survive and there is the irony.

The only adavantage Chavez has is he's sitting on top of a lot of oil wealth, but I heard not too long ago someplace that CITGO was losing gazillions of dollars now that it has been nationalized and the oil companies run off. Super market shelves are bare and the infrastructure is crumbling.

Not drilling for our own oil and importing most of it helps to keep little pint-sized dictators like Chavez in power and all the green jobs in the world ain't gonna change it.

75
Yesterday there was a post up saying Massachusetts most likely wouldnt certify Brown if  he gets elected until after the healthcare vote. Now I just read that Kirk is refusing to vacate his Senate seat even if Brown is certified until after the healthcare vote.

Today Paul Kirk told the State House News Service that he would continue to serve in the United States Senate until the health care vote is taken if Scott Brown wins the election.

“Absolutely,” Kirk said, when asked if he’d vote for the bill, even if Brown captures the seat. “It would be my responsibility as United States Senator, representing the people and understanding Senator Kennedy’s agenda and the rest of it … I think you’re asking me a hypothetical question but I’d be pleased to vote for the bill.”

76 My Spanish class is doing a "cultural focus" on Venezuela this week.  We're talking about the beautiful scenery, the vibrant culture, and...shopping, ironically.  The professor (who is from Spain) was excited to talk about how the malls are practically identical to those in the streets. 

Curiously, she also described Venezuela as a "democratic Republic," making no mention of the Evil Clown in charge.

77 --The lefty bastids have just about destroyed this country. They won't learn from Chavez either, even when his head ends up on a pole on some Main Street in Venezula. He'll become a true hero to them then. ------ See! See! I told you these guys incite violence!!!

78 i saw one of those greenpeace vans with a big no nukes banner on it. i pulled to the side and flipped the driver off. she started smiling and waving and then she got the biggest frown on her face when she realized i was giving her the finger. made my day. brainwashed libtards, never thinking about reality. people need cheap fuels to spur a struggling economy, how simple can it be. that's why i like sarah palin, girl next door type with common sense.

79 If 0bama is reelected in 2013, we can expect similar bullshit here.

80 More news on Chavez's socialist authoritarian regime:

http://tinyurl.com/yjv8way

81 According to Wikipedia, Searchlight is 0.69% black.

Given that there are only 576 people there, that means there are only 4 black people there.

82 #74:

QFT.

83 82 If 0bama is reelected in 2013, we can expect similar bullshit here it's all over.

FIFY

84 By the strangest coincidence my reloading buddy just dropped off 250 rds. of freshly minted .45 acp.  Reloading doesn't save as much money as it used to but , at least , we can find boolits without having to scour every sporting goods store in the area .
This ain't Venezuela ,,,,, yet .

85 86:

Well, yeah. Pretty much. :-/

86 Nothing spells success like commies engineering an economy into the crapper. I'm surprised that Hugo didn't say it was all Bush's fault.

87 Bush was more sulphery

88

Given that there are only 576 people there, that means there are only 4 black people there.

Or all 576 are light-skinned with no Negro dialect, unless they want to.  Or ...

89

By the strangest coincidence my reloading buddy just dropped off 250 rds...

BHO's coming after reloaders this year

90

Bush was more sulphery

Cheney told him to light a match, and open a window.

91

Memo to Michael Moore

CUBAN DOCTORS defecting to the U.S. via Venezuela.

92

No way the Democrats will ever be able to eliminate IRA's / 401k's...

In order to cause enough panic to get Americans to willingly surrender their IRA's / 401k's, the left would have to literally destroy the stock market and the economy in general....

Oh sh*t.... maybe that is their plan, after all?

93 Can anyone spell "Preventive Maintenance"?

Bet you big dollars that those turbines should have been replaced about the time Hugo got into office and started pissing money down the drain.

Turbines are NOT that difficult to maintain.  But they are a bitch to replace if they burn out first.

94

Can anyone spell "Preventive Maintenance"?

Venezuela nationalized companies and utilities years ago.  Real maint. stopped then. Turbines are the least of their many rusting worries.

95

Oh sh*t.... maybe that is their plan, after all?

Their plan is Cloward-Piven.  Their goal is a Socialist state.

96 Hugo is Exhibit A in how to turn gold into lead: elect a Socialist

97

No way the Democrats will ever be able to eliminate IRA's / 401k's...

In order to cause enough panic to get Americans to willingly surrender their IRA's / 401k's, the left would have to literally destroy the stock market and the economy in general....

I never said anythig about Americans willingly surrendering their IRA's...  You won't have a choice.  There will be big fanfare about protecting your financial security by investing only in ultra-safe bonds (read their PR about why the FICA "surplus" is invested that way, it's the same thing exactly), etc. etc.  Then they will just take your assets and replace them with T-bills. It's for your own good!

By the way, did you know that when they "invest" the FICA surplus in T-bills, the net result is as follows:

1) they spend the money

2)  they replace the money with an IOU - to themselves

3) they don't count it as part of the Federal deficit

Have you ever heard of someone loaning himself money?  Over the years, I've saved up every penny that I've earned at work - over $2 million!  Of course, when I have to pay the electric bill, I "borrow" money from myself, but I always write out an IOU, and I charge myself interest - prime rate, no less.  Any day now I'm going to retire on that $2 million; all I have to do is collect on that IOU...

Oh, wait.....

 

 

98 In Searchlight we don't have problems like this because everyone is light skinned, and speaks American dialect. We like it that way.

99 FUCK YOU!  DON'T DISS MY HUGO - HE'S FOR THE PEOPLE!