Chavez, unfortunately, is ruler of a "tinpot" regime with a lot of oil. What a lucky break: You have a state with an abundance of oil and a dictator with grandiose pretensions of his worth. It was only a few months ago that his opposers wanted to usurp him. I predict Chavez, big mouth or not, will go the South American way: Deep in a river with a concrete-filled oildrum wrapped around his South American neck.
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Hi Doc, Please visit one of my other blogs for a short comment by MERNEWS (My tiny news channel), expressing a similar vein of thought. Q.V. http://www.bloglines.com.blog/mernews Cheers, Adnauseam.
Answers (Carefully researched and documented on many sites) 1.Which other President was decorated for service in WW2? ---George H.W. Bush 2.Which 2 Presidents were assassinated in the 20th Century? ---Easy one: Mc Kinley and JFK. 3.How many Presidents were Generals before being elected President? ---Easy again: IKE 4.Which President was nev
Yes, I guess as a team, you're getting there! Answers tomorrow.
Hi Locamama, I am a South African living in Egypt and I have two children in the UK. I have a small library of Americana and I enjoy studying American History. Favourite book (so far) Lyndon Johnson, Master Of The Senate. This isalso a clue to one of my questions!
You guys are doing well but no-one gets an A yet. Let's give it a few days more. Allcomers welcome. I can provide reference material for the answers. You have to read more men!
Hi Doc, Try again.
I love Americana and I have an extensive library of books, although I have never been to the US. Here's a quiz on Presidents. Try to answer off the bat. Most are easy but I've tried to throw in one or two puzzlers: All the answers apply to the 20th Century only! * Which President, other than JFK and Ike, was decorated for service in WW2? * Which two pr
Hi Honey, I work for Wonderbra. Can I check your cups?
Some of the most famous men in history have been smokers. Churchill puffed away on noxious Cuban cigars; Eisenhower smoked himself silly during WW2; Anwar Sadat smoked a smelly pipe ---and the former South African President, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, F.W. De Klerk, smoked two packs a day. The 40's, 50's and 60's were decades when smoking was the norm rather than t
Sorry, I should explain that MERNEWS is entirely my own creation. It is a News agency with no Reuters aspirations at all and we rely on feed from Newspapers, E-news and TV updates. At present it is crude and having birthpangs and should be regarded as an experiment. However, MERNEWS (THE MIDDLE EAST ENGLISH REACTION TO NEWS) is non-reactionary and non-controversial---unless it gets up off its butt and does something exceptional. MERNEWS will have its o
Last week's London Sunday Times has an editorial and a full page article on Robert Mugabe, the fool who runs tinpot Zimbabwe. The Times editorial wonders (rightly), why Mugabe was allowed to fly to Rome last week to attend the 60 th anniversary of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. Now MERNEWS has a problem with that too! How can a senile old man, subject to sa
Yes, it was sarcasm but no-one commented on Nagin's failings. You should explain if Nagin was too deep in the water (sic). Come on guys.
Personally, I think Dubya's news conference yesterday (28-10), was a disappointment. He threw out all the old cliches about 9/11 and terrorism and how America was making itself safe. He should have thrown a nasty, full-on curve ball at Syria and Iran. All he did was mention them in passing. Had he been told to hold his tongue by his advisors? Did he decide to pl
It amazes me that a Superpower can make such a mess of a disaster recovery! I sympathise with hero mayor Ray Nagin and his frustrations and sadness. Sorry to say it but I think the Governors of the affected areas were either asleep, playing poker or plain lazy. That goes for underqualified, inept FEMA too as I believe they denied the RED Cross access to N.O. at a crit
Thanks Baker, I go with you but I think the word evil is appended to too many. It really is, I feel, just gross ignorance and stupidity. However that might bring us to Hitler and all sorts of complications. So, I'm with you.
Robert Mugabe is not an evil person. He is just completely stupid. Here is a man who took over one of the breadbaskets of Africa (Erstwhile Rhodesia was the biggest tobacco producer in Africa and a major exporter of maize and sorghum.) Now they have nothing in Zimbabwe. They rely on aid and that aid goes to Mugabe supporters. Mugabe is intent on raping his country and
Britain: Tuesday: 21 June 2005. The Daily Express reported today that people have a "helpline" if they want to report "sneaky smokers", i.e. smokers who try to sneak a quick puff in a banned area. Nothing wrong with telling smokers off if they smoke in a non-smoking area. We smokers go along with this. What we do not go with is the fact that we may be spied u
Robert Mugabe must go. He is senile,affected mentally and a tyrant. Let's put aside, for now, what he did to the white farmers.Now he is making many Zimbabweans suffer because of his moves to crush the MDC. His forced removals of families, total mismanagement of a failing economy, and his dictatorial "South American-like" purge of the opposition smacks of Noriega-type thinking. Everyone is against Comrade Robert but he continues to sm
Robert Mugabe must go. He is senile,affected mentally and a tyrant. Let's put aside, for now, what he did to the white farmers.Now he is making many Zimbabweans suffer because of his moves to crush the MDC. His forced removals of families, total mismanagement of a failing economy, and his dictatorial "South American-like" purge of the opposition smacks of Noriega-type thinking. Everyone is against Comrade Robert but he continues to sm
This is a completely new column from the United Kingdom. It is topical and controversial, as it's meant to be. No conclusions should be drawn as to bias, but there will be anti-US sentiments and pro-US sentiments expressed. I sit on the fence as there's bad and good in every society. I admire the United States of America and the United Kingdom as well so let's say tha
Hey Tone, ole buddy, Sheeit, you knocked the corncobs off that Howard bastard, didn't ya? Waal, let me tell ya, that man is a symbol of Britain's backward lookin'--know what I mean. This guy tried to corner you with Eyerack but he had no facts, no fiction. Does that make sense ol' buddy? Let me tell ya Tony, guys like that have no idea at all. Doesn't he
I honestly think that Iconoclast (TM or not), should see a psychiatrist!
JU has been good to me but I feel I must be honest now that I live in the UK. I need more exposure in a UK environment. I no longer live in Africa so I cannot feed news from a begging bowl (although the bowl never ceases to exist.) My feelings on Africa remain but I need to comment more on the UK and its welfare state, its politics and its problems. I have found two
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