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2006-03-26 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Jackal 2006-03-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Next stop ... Zimbabwe, to see how the story turns out.

Posted by DMFD 2006-03-26 00:15|| 2006-03-26 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Can we send all of our left wing, nut job celebs down there. Perminately?

Posted by DarthVader 2006-03-26 00:23|| 2006-03-26 00:23|| Front Page Top

#3 C'mon, they'll never go to Zimbabwe. No beaches, plus his plan to put fat white people to work on the farms as a form of "diet camp" isn't what these pampered, precious little people really want.

As for North Korea....it's just too damn cold, and all that fiber in the kimchee would just aggravate their delicate digestive tracts. Plus, the music sucks. You can't dance to "I Will Burn America in a Sea of Everlasting Fire". Believe me, they've tried, they just don't have the juche to make it work.

Nah, Venezuela's better. Maybe if they get to one of the beaches, they might get to see the locals nekkid and might be able to score for once! Viva el dollar! truly see the liberation of the peasant class for higher ideals

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-03-26 08:01|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-03-26 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Americans like Pat Morris, 62, from Chestnut Hill, Mass.,

Way to represent the home state, asswipe...

Posted by Raj 2006-03-26 08:29|| 2006-03-26 08:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Ah, Chestnut Hill...

Median Family Income: $120,404
Average Home Price: $671,113
Not in Labor Force: 33%

Not in labor force does not mean "on welfare" in this case.
There's time for lots of dilletante hobbies. Like "traveling to Venezuela to suck up to dictators". Like "Pat" does..

Posted by tu3031 2006-03-26 15:46|| 2006-03-26 15:46|| Front Page Top

#6 But Mr. Boudin, one of the authors of a book favorable to Venezuela's government, said many people who had been dismayed by the advance of globalization saw the possibility of a better world in Venezuela. "The fact that we have a country that's trying to create an alternative model is bold and ambitious and unique, and that's why people are wondering, 'Is this possible?' " said Mr. Boudin, whose parents, Katherine Boudin and David Gilbert, were members of the 1970's radical group the Weathermen. "The intellectual in me is curious."

Here's a blast from the past describing what Chesa's mumsy and popsy went away for. The Times somehow forgets to mention it.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/datelinedc/s_108950.html

The highlights:
On Oct. 20, 1981, Sgt. Edward O'Grady, Patrolman Waverly Brown and Brinks guard Peter Paige were gunned down in Rockland County, N.Y. by heavily armed terrorists. The half dozen gunmen all Americans were members of the Weather Underground, a faction of the Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Liberation Army, formed from members of the Black Panther Party and the Republic of New Afrika.

This month (10/2002), two Weather Underground terrorists jailed for murder have catapulted back into the news. David Gilbert, those days sporting bushy hair and a full beard, and Katherine Boudin, back then the image of a suburban soccer mom, are headlining through their son, known as Chesa Boudin. Chesa, 14 months old at the time of the robbery and now 22, has been awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University, England. He was given celebrity status in a New York Times article this month, telling writer Jodi Wilgoren, "When I was younger I was angry. Now, I'm sad that my parents have to suffer what they have to suffer."
His parents married on the day Gilbert was sentenced to three consecutive terms of 25 years each for felony murder. Kathy Boudin's former "Weatherbureau" colleagues, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, now luminaries of Chicago's academic life, have been responsible for little Chesa since his mummy and daddy were locked up.

Guardian Mom Dohrn, described by former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover as "La Pasionara of the lunatic left," now pretends that her widely publicized support for the Manson Family killings in the '70s was a joke. "We were mocking violence in America," she has said. Yet she does not deny her leadership of the terrorist cult, and none of her comrades thought the lovely Bernardine was joking.
Guardian Dad, the distinguished Professor Ayers, not only hides his some 17 tattoos under his smart suits, but these days he is writing books about his exploits as a revolutionary and his bombing activities. However, in describing a bomb he placed in the Pentagon, Ayers brags a bit too much. "It turns out that we blew up a bathroom and, quite by accident, water plunged below and knocked out their computers for a time, disrupting the air war and sending me into deepening shades of delight."

Chesa Boudin has said of the activities of his four parents, "We have a different name for the war we're fighting now. Now we call it the war on terrorism; then they called it the war on communism. My parents were all dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world. I'm dedicated to the same thing."

Wonder how the Times managed to miss this background on young Chesa? Could it've been... deliberate?

Posted by tu3031 2006-03-26 16:19|| 2006-03-26 16:19|| Front Page Top

#7 I'd like to float an idea for a new show based on Deal or No Deal: Useful idiot or unusable idiot.

Posted by Perfessor 2006-03-26 18:15|| 2006-03-26 18:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Good idea, but how 'bout useful idiot vs useless idiot:

Useful Idiot

Useless idiot

Posted by DMFD 2006-03-26 19:35|| 2006-03-26 19:35|| Front Page Top

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