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2005-12-28 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Steve White 2005-12-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm sure it'll break the Americans hearts.

Posted by gromgoru 2005-12-28 00:29|| 2005-12-28 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Morales once wrote on his Web site, "Thanks to coca, we've made it through the endless suffering caused by the white man's infamous war on drugs." But he's also made a point of saying he'll crack down on cocaine trafficking ~~by others than his cronies~~ while protecting the plant's traditional uses.

Then his lips fell off.

Posted by twobyfour 2005-12-28 00:49|| 2005-12-28 00:49|| Front Page Top

#3 CUBA's Castro should be ecstatic - PRAVDA quotes him as criticizing CONDI RICE and assuring that any alleged US-led "democratic transition" for Cuba will fail. The interesting thing about the PRAVDA article was that Fidel insists that Cuba's, Bolivia's and Venezuela's resistance ags America are evidence OF A CUBA = WORLD MOVING TOWARDS SOCIALISM AND ULTIMATELY COMMUNISM, NOT AGAINST THESE - dare Fidel be telling PRAVDA what American pols-Demolefties are NOT to their own people or voters?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-12-28 03:33|| 2005-12-28 03:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Lets cut the aid, fire all the USAID workers there, killing two birds with one stone, and invest the money into our borders.

Posted by 49 pan">49 pan 2005-12-28 08:12|| 2005-12-28 08:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Great. A funding source for the border fence.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-12-28 09:15|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-12-28 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Release the coca plant fungus.

Posted by ed 2005-12-28 09:16|| 2005-12-28 09:16|| Front Page Top

#7 You can't fire me - I quit!

Posted by Omereting Gloluger7372 2005-12-28 10:11|| 2005-12-28 10:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Threaten to legalize.

Posted by Leon Clavin 2005-12-28 11:11|| 2005-12-28 11:11|| Front Page Top

#9 I need something explained to me:

Morales, who won Bolivia's presidency Dec. 18 with a decisive 54 percent
of the vote

Let me see if I have this straight: Morales gets 54% - in an election where massive corruption is ASSUMED as routie - and that's 'decisive', but Dubya gets 51% and the highest number of votes of any candidate in history, but he's 'tainted', 'illegitimate', a 'pretender', etc.

My brain hurts.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-12-28 11:52|| 2005-12-28 11:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Mike,

In fairness to the prospective totalitarian filthpig Morales, 54% is an historically high total in Bolivian multi-party elections.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2005-12-28 12:57|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2005-12-28 12:57|| Front Page Top

#11 Morales gets 54% - in an election where massive corruption is ASSUMED as routie - and that's 'decisive', but Dubya gets 51% and the highest number of votes of any candidate in history, but he's 'tainted', 'illegitimate', a 'pretender', etc.

The next party in the Bolivian elections got about 29% percent or so. That's a difference of 25%, and can be quite sanely be called a decisive one.

Both the Bush-Gore and the Bush-Kerry votes just were 1 or 2 percentage points apart (and I still heard some Republicans say that the Democrats were "crushed" and so forth).

My brain hurts.

It would.

Posted by Aris Katsaris">Aris Katsaris 2005-12-28 13:29|| 2005-12-28 13:29|| Front Page Top

#12 He's rested, he's tanned, he's back.

Posted by Omereling Huping4601 2005-12-28 13:36|| 2005-12-28 13:36|| Front Page Top

#13 He's rested, he's tanned, he's back.

yes he is, to wit:

Posted by Red Dog 2005-12-28 14:34|| 2005-12-28 14:34|| Front Page Top

#14 RD, LMAO.

Posted by Omereling Huping4601 2005-12-28 14:47|| 2005-12-28 14:47|| Front Page Top

#15 "My brain hurts.

It would."

In re: the above quote: You are a jerk.

Posted by Mark E. 2005-12-28 17:03|| 2005-12-28 17:03|| Front Page Top

#16 Mark E, I've heard far far worse. Just in the other thread someone called Cassini "Cassinifascist" for no reasonable definition of fascist that one could perceive -- did you object to that?

Nonetheless my sincere apologies to Mike Kozlowski. Rude behaviour by others doesn't justify my own arbitrary rudeness, especially against people who haven't (AFAIR) insulted so.

Posted by Aris Katsaris">Aris Katsaris 2005-12-28 17:23|| 2005-12-28 17:23|| Front Page Top

#17 ...I'm now a true Rantburger - I've been slammed, for no apparent reason, by Aris.

Lad, you have a long way to go.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-12-28 19:34|| 2005-12-28 19:34|| Front Page Top

#18 Aris, I owe you an apology - I didn't read down all the way to yours.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-12-28 19:35|| 2005-12-28 19:35|| Front Page Top

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