Venezuela Shows Us How Great Socialism Is

Hugo Chavez rang in the New Year in Venezuela by rationing electricity. The government there owns damn near everything and the people are dirt poor. The country is a huge oil producer but is unable to generate much electricity because it depends on hydroelectric generators and there has been an ongoing drought.

So, Chavez celebrated the new Year by limiting the amount of electricity that businesses can use, what hours they can be open and what other items can use electricity and when (billboards, casinos, etc). There are penalties for businesses that do not comply with the order.

This is the Socialist nation that the liberals love so much. Penn, Obama, and a handful of others have all been down to kiss Chavez’s ring (or a lower and posterior part of his anatomy). He is held up as a great leader by the liberals who want our country to follow the path of Venezuela.

It is not hard to imagine being like Venezuela with Obama and his government taking over one private business after another. Obama took the lead of Bush and got government involved in the banking system (should have let them fail) and then moved on so that now we all own car companies. How long will it be before Obama is snapping up other private businesses? The government is already working on telling business how much executives may be paid. It is not a far stretch to get to the point where government is running everything (health care included). It happened in Venezuela and liberals love that place and its dictator.

If we have to ration anything then it should be food and water. Liberals get none until the crisis is over.

Never let a good crisis go to waste…

Big Dog

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Obama’s Smart Diplomacy Gets Him Equated To Bush-Satan

A few years ago tin horn dictator Hugo Chavez, Sean Penn’s buddy, followed George Bush at the UN and before he spoke Chavez said that he could still smell sulfur. Chavez of course, was calling George Bush Satan and that did not sit too well with me. Not because it was Bush but because it was the leader of my country. Americans can say what they want about their leaders but crack pots from other countries are not entitled to do so and when they do they should be taken to task. A bullet through Chavez’s skull would be appropriate.

Obama danced into office talking up Hope and Change and the idea of smart diplomacy. He vowed to speak to tyrants such as Chavez without precondition. This, in the world according to Obama, will make them love us and make things better.

Hugo Chavez was in Copenhagen (ironic that a huge oil producer was greeted so warmly) and he made his sulfur remark once again. This time though, it was directed at Barack Obama.

Three years after Chavez likened Bush to the devil during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the socialist strongman tore into Obama, claiming Friday that “it still smells like sulfur in the world.” Fox

It was wrong when Chavez said this about Bush and it is wrong when he said it about Obama. Chavez is in no position to equate our leaders to Satan when he has run his country straight to hell. The true Satan incarnate is the person who uses force to squash dissent in his own nation, who nationalizes everything and who keeps his people in abject poverty. That person would be Hugo Chavez.

I have no problem with Americans who feel this way about their leaders because this is OUR country and we have a say in it which is a very huge difference between us and the Venezuelan people under Chavez.

This tin horn jackass needs to die of something close to lead poison.

I must say though, Mr. Obama how is that smart diplomacy working out for you? How does kissing the backsides of people like Chavez working out? Perhaps if you had shown some testicular fortitude when Chavez insulted this country he might have a little more respect for you.

There are some leaders who do not understand diplomacy that does not come at the end of a gun.

Chavez is one of them but he should be at the end of a rope.

Big Dog

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American Jews Voted Against Israel’s Interests

The Jerusalem Post is reporting that National Union chairman Ya’acov “Ketzele” Katz sent a letter to Rahm Emanuel telling him not to forget his Jewish roots. This comes after Emanuel had an exchange with an unidentified American Jewish leader in which:

Katz claims that in a private meeting with the unnamed leader, Emanuel said, “In the next four years, there will be a peace agreement with the Palestinians on the basis of two states for two peoples, and it does not matter to us who is the prime minister.”

Isn’t that just wonderful? Who is the United States to tell Israel there will be a two state solution when Israel opposes that? The United States has no right to tell another country what they will and will not do. However, this administration is anti Semitic and does not have Israel’s best interests at heart.

Obama pals around bowing to Kings and rubbing elbows with Muslims while ignoring Israel and his Chief of Staff is right there with him.

Katz should not be surprised that an American Jew like Emanuel would turn his back on Israel. Many American Jews have done the exact same thing. It was well known that Obama was no friend of Israel and he indicated that things would be done differently should he happen to win. It should have been blindingly obvious by the company Obama kept (and still keeps) that he was anti Semitic. He is friends with Louis Farrakhan as is his former Pastor Jeremiah Wright and both preach hatred. Farrakhan definitely hates the Jews and blames all the world’s ills on them. Obama has people working for him who are not in favor of doing anything to help Israel. The writing was on the wall during the campaign.

And yet, American Jews voted in huge numbers for Obama. The Jews in Israel did not want him to win but those who live here, by and large, voted for him which means they voted against Israel. Not all Jews voted for Obama but I know many who did and the statistics show they went for Obama in huge numbers.

So why would Katz think any differently about Emanuel? Why would he believe that reminding Emanuel of his Jewish roots would make a difference? The people in Obama’s administration are anti Israel and into appeasing the Muslim thugs who want to wipe that country off the map.

I guess he only meets unconditionally with our enemies.

Think Obama cares about Israel?

Pam Geller at Atlas Shrugs is reporting:

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday canceled his plans to attend the upcoming AIPAC summit, after it became clear that US President Barack Obama would not meet him during the conference. [originally reported in the Jerusalem Post]

Obama was busy last week shaking hands and playing kissy face with Hugo Chavez whose government has been accused of anti-Semitism. The way Chavez pals around with Iran and other Middle Eastern countries should cause concern for all Venezuelan Jews.

Looking past that one has to ask why was Obama able to make nice with the thugs in South America but can’t make time for Netanyahu? Why can Obama go on his apologize for America tour in Europe but not meet with Netanyahu? Why is it he can bow down to Middle Eastern kings and hob nob with Muslim leaders but he cannot meet with Netanyahu?

Israel has always been a good friend to the United States and she remained our friend while Bill Clinton was whizzing all over them and telling them it was raining. Israel has always counted on US reciprocation of that friendship.

Unfortunately, they are not seeing that with the Obama administration.

Big Dog

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The Obama Nazis and Other Things

FIRST DEBATE IN THE BOOKS, PRETTY MUCH A DRAW

Well, it looks like the first debate is out of the way. I think that it was a draw for the most part. McCain showed a great deal of life experience that Obama could only hope for and Obama showed why he was anxious to get the debate under way. He spent 3 days memorizing his lines and he wanted to be able to use them before he forgot them. He looked rehearsed and he looked like he was citing memorized items but he did a good job in delivering them and not making a serious mistake. McCain appeared to be speaking from experience rather than what was written for him in a book. I believe McCain showed he was a leader and Obama seemed to be exasperated at times. No shock, each camp says their guy won. I think it was pretty even. There are not gotchas from it and neither made a critical mistake. It was rather boring. Perhaps the major mistake, if you want to call it that, is Obama saying he agreed with McCain a number of times. Reporters there said it would end up in a commercial and it did, before the debate even ended.

Barack Obama is a liberal and he says he is interested in the rights of people. He is not interested in their right to keep their money and he will increase taxes on everyone. Make no mistake, he is making the same promises Clinton did and then went back on as soon as he was in office. Keep in mind the lower 40% of wage earners pay absolutely no taxes at all.

OBAMA NAZIS ON THE MOVE

Looks like Obama has his Nazis out in full patrol. There will be storm troopers in the guise of badged law enforcement officers and state’s attorneys looking for people who make untrue statements about Obama.

The Barack Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading TV ad during the presidential campaign. KMOV

If law enforcement decides to target anyone who lies in politics then they should be able to clean up in DC. It is a target rich environment. How about Obama? He has told lies so if he passes through will he be targeted. This is the same tactic that Obama and his Nazis have been using all along. Flood radio stations to keep people who oppose the Messiah from speaking (marching orders that come DIRECTLY from the campaign), put out propaganda disguised as an anti smear website to clear up lies, enlist law enforcement to crack down on the right of the people to say what they want, when they want…

UPDATE: Governor Blunt responds to the Obama Nazis.

JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.

“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.

“This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.

“Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press constantly say false things about me and my family. Usually, we ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no credibility. When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts – not a free society.”

ONE LESS VOTE FOR OBAMA

Actor Paul Newman died after a long battle with cancer. The liberal icon and salad dressing maker was 83. Breitbart

JACK MURTHA SUED BY MARINE

One of America’s finest has filed a lawsuit against one of America’s worst. Corrupt politician and unindicted ABSCAM co-conspirator Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania is being sued by one of the Marines he wrongly accused of crimes in Iraq. Justin Sharratt was acquitted of all charges and left the Marines with an Honorable Discharge but the attention over Murtha’s statements prejudiced his chances for fair legal proceedings and caused him irreparable harm. I hope he wins and bankrupts Murtha. Jack Murtha is up for reelection. Will you people in his district please vote to get rid of this slimy, corrupt, worm? Here is who should replace him; William Russell, a retired Army officer and Conservative Republican. Get rid of Murtha…

MORE GOVERNMENT SHORTSIGHTEDNESS

The government has not allowed any refineries to be built for decades. There are only 149 refineries in the US (and many are located in the Gulf coast region) and they work at full capacity just to keep up with current demand so every time there is a major storm in the Gulf that shuts down the refineries, gas prices go up, and we face shortages. This is the case with Hurricane Ike which swept through Texas. Refineries were affected and there are gas shortages all throughout the south. If we had more refineries dispersed throughout the nation we could ensure our flow of gas is uninterrupted. The environmentalists and the Liberals refuse to allow more refineries.

ANOTHER STANDOFF WITH RUSSIAN PROXIES?

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was to meet Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Friday after Russia risked Washington’s wrath by offering the fierce US foe help developing nuclear energy.

Just what we need, the Russians helping a maniac develop nuclear energy. We do not want the Russians sneaking stuff into Venezuela because there is no doubt that they will be bringing in a lot more than building materials. If we are not careful we will wake up one day and Chavez will be pointing missiles in our direction. If we are not very careful those missiles will have nuclear warheads on them. Chavez is playing a dangerous game. He has plenty of oil so he does not need nuclear power and this is nothing more than the Russians trying to get in our grill. Maybe we should send a hit squad down to take care of this jackass.

Big Dog