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Sunday, December 23, 2007

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Hugo Chavez Calling For Free Trade

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presided Friday at a regional petroleum conference in Cuba, pressing his efforts for genuine free markets by suggesting more of his neighbors could pay for cheap oil with goods and services, in lieu of cash.
Excerpt:
“Free trade doesn’t exist,” he said, insisting Petrocaribe was based on fairness and promoting social equality – not profit margins.
The nerve of this guy!
Saudi Rape Victim Pardoned
I know, I know, this is already a week old, but it’s worth mentioning again.
Generous King pardons rape victim for violating religious law.
“President Bush expressed anger at the sentence earlier this month, saying he wondered how he would react if it had been one of his daughters. But he said he had not made his views known directly to the Saudi king, a U.S. ally.”
Bush wonders how he would react?

Jimmy Carter "Cheney a militant."
The 2002 winner of the Nobel peace prize accused Mr. Bush of making up his own definition of torture and the hawkish vice president, Dick Cheney, of being a "militant".

America's Hall Of Shame
What’s worse? Torture or steroid use? Bush can’t say whether water-boarding is torture, but he sure knows that steroids are bad, bad….bad.
Bush Concerned About Baseball Image:
U.S. President George Bush said Friday he was "troubled" by allegations of rampant steroid use, as outlined in Senator George Mitchell's report, and urged players who "violate their bodies" to clean up for the sake of young fans.

Oprah A Racist?
“So the fact that I would endorse Barack Obama and the fact that I would support Barack Obama,” Ms. Winfrey added, “I have not one negative thing to say about Hillary Clinton.”
Some right-wing knuckle-draggers have said her failure to bash the opposition qualifies Oprah’s racism with the logic that if you have nothing “bad” to say about Clinton who is white, or Obama who is black – all the while endorsing Obama, then the only difference must be race.

Oprah is the mascot for “individuality.” We can take her endorsement or leave it. But calling her support for Obama an endorsement based on race is a vicious assumption. She did not endorse Jesse Jackson, Sharpton or Carol Mosely-Braun during their presidential campaigns. This makes Oprah’s endorsement of Barack Obama all the more dynamic and special. She marches to no ones beat but her own – wish I can say that for more people.

Read “fair and balanced” O’Reilly and Malkin complain that Oprah’s not fair and balanced.
Rove gets a tell-all book deal? More like a cover-it-all-up book deal.
California may release 20,000 prisoners:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering the early release of more than 20,000 low-risk prison inmates from the nation's largest prison system as a way to save money amid a worsening budget crisis, a newspaper reported Thursday.
California is a lot closer to Wisconsin than many people might think.

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