It may have just been coincidence, or perhaps something more symbolic, but whatever it was, Joe Biden saw the lights go out on him as he mentioned US “leadership” during his last major speech as vice president, in Davos, Switzerland.
"We are going to retain our position of leadership," Biden was telling the audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, when the lights on stage began to dim.
Rendered a dark silhouette, and seemingly unimpressed, the outgoing vice president carried on talking about the West's ideas and visions of the world. "If we don't fight for our values, no one else will," he said from the darkness.
[Bangla Daily Star] Former US president George H W Bush has been hospitalized yet again in Houston, local media reported yesterday.
The 92-year-old, who has seen his share of recent health incidents, had fallen ill but was in stable, pH balanced condition and "doing fine," his chief of staff Jean Becker told the Houston Chronicle.
The former president was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital and is expected to return home in several days, although the reason for his hospitalization was not provided, according to local CBS affiliate KHOU.
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...Pulled honor guard for him once, many many years ago. Seemed like a decent fella, and I hope he's well soon.
Mike
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He wrote a lovely letter of apology to incoming President Trump explaining that he'll have to miss the inauguration. Mrs. Bush was also hospitalized, in her case for exhaustion, I believe.
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Barbara Bush has a 'respiratory' infection according to something I read last night. At her age, plus her husbands issues that I'm sure are weighing on her, hospitalization is called for (unless the ACA rules for elderly patients are invoked).
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According to a Times of Israel brief, Mrs. Bush has bronchitis, but is responding well to antibiotics. The former president remains stable, his pneumonia not having worsened.
The Washington Post tells the interesting story of Trump secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson and Hugo Chavez. "Rex Tillerson hadn't been CEO of ExxonMobil very long when the late president Hugo Chavez made foreign oil companies in Venezuela an offer they couldn't refuse. Give the government a bigger cut, or else."
Most of the companies took the deal. Tillerson refused.
Chavez responded in 2007 by nationalizing ExxonMobil's considerable assets in the country, which the company valued at $10 billion. The losses were a big blow to Tillerson, who reportedly took the seizure as a personal affront.
Only Tillerson didn't get mad, at least in public. He got even.
Threatened with a weaponized state Tillerson ceded Chavez the physical ExxonMobil assets and took his company to neighboring Guyana. There it developed one of the largest oil finds in the world. Now Guyana is sitting pretty while Venezuela is in abject misery.
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I seem to recall they took all the operating manuals with them when they left...
In 1958, French overseas territories were given a choice. If they approved the new French constitution, they had some options:
1) Continue their then-current status.
2) Move toward full integration with metropolitan France.
3) Become an autonomous republic in the new French Community.
If they rejected the new constitution, they would become independent. De Gaulle emphasized that the independent country would not get French economic and financial aid, or technical and administrative support.
Guinea rejected the new constitution. The French pulled out and pretty much took everything 'French', down to the telephone system.
One sunny day in January, 2017, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama. "The Marine looked at the man and said, "Sir, Mr. Obama is no longer President and no longer resides here. "The old man said, "Okay," and walked away.
The following day the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama. "The Marine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Obama is no longer President and no longer resides here. "The man thanked him and again just walked away. The third day the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U.S. Marine, saying, "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama." The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Obama. I’ve told you already that Mr. Obama is no longer the President and no longer resides here. Don’t you understand?
"The old man looked at the Marine and said, "Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it." The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, "See you tomorrow, Sir!"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
