MooPig's Hugo Chavez UPDATE

" ... Chavez faces dire problems in Venezuela - World news - Americas - msnbc.com: "Some in the financial community think a distracted Chavez could even help matters. Alejandro Grisanti, an economist with the investment bank Barclays Capital, said the president might have less time to think up new ways to spend money. That could slow a 24 percent inflation rate, second only to that of Ethiopia." (Sanchez, Fabiola. 7/8/2011. LINK AP) ..."

Chavez's charisma and unchecked access to public funds will remain his most useful weapons heading toward the December 2012 election. Those long-unsolved problems may be his biggest challenge to re-election.
Even under a robust Chavez, his government has seemed to focus on grand socialist plans and provocative geopolitics rather than on nuts-and-bolt governance. Promised housing has gone unbuilt. Promised upgrades to power plants have been delayed. The worst prison riot in years has broken out after years of unmet vows to fix the country's prisons. Once-profitable farms and factories have struggled after being nationalized. Government debt has soared despite a river of profits from $100 a barrel oil. (ibid)

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43687770/ns/world_news-americas/

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Chavez gone for Three Weeks to Cuba

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | July 6, 2011 | Bryan, TX

Chavez gets hero's welcome after cancer surgery: "Chavez's opponents have criticized the lack of details about his illness.

'We don't know exactly what the president's illness is, what treatment he needs and what consequences this treatment will bring,' opposition lawmaker Alfonso Marquina told The Associated Press. 'What we demand is greater responsibility, not only on the president's part but by all of those high in the government to inform the Venezuelan people properly about the president's real situation.'

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez received a hero's welcome as he rallied thousands of supporters upon his return to Venezuela, vowing to beat cancer after undergoing surgery in Cuba.

Chavez has been dominant in the oil-exporting country for the nearly 13 years he's spent in office, and his absence created a void that he clearly wanted to fill."

He told the crowd he's been rising at 5 a.m., exercising and eating healthy foods such as yogurt. He also repeatedly noted that his doctors have told him to limit the length of his speeches.

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http://www.kasa.com/dpps/news/international/chavez-gets-heros-welcome-after-cancer-surgery-wd11-jgr_3869140

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Many Chavez supporters were thrilled to have him back, and hundreds celebrated around noon Monday in the Plaza Bolivar in downtown Caracas, holding pictures of the president and chanting "Viva Chavez!" and "He's back!"

Hugo Chavez cancer: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he had cancer surgery - latimes.com

Who's on first, What's on second, and I Don't Know's on third.
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | July 1, 2011 | Bryan TX

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Hugo Chavez cancer: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he had cancer surgery - latimes.com: "Chavez said a malignant tumor in his pelvic region had been completely removed, but he also said that he was undergoing 'complementary treatment' without specifying whether that was chemotherapy, radiation or some other forms of therapy. He made no mention of possible metastasis."

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FACTBOX-Allies of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez - AlertNet

FACTBOX-Allies of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez - AlertNet
June 29 (Reuters) - Doubts about the health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after surgery have focused attention on the absence of any obvious successor and the people around him who could try to fill his shoes. [ID:nN1E75S07R]

Here is MooPig's suggested Chavez successor:

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Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  June 29, 2011  |  Bryan TX
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http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/factbox-allies-of-venezuelas-president-hugo-chavez

Thursday Vaporous Matching Game:High-flying China UFO's bring Aliens to Venice

UPDATE: We were visited by Caption Czar -- D2R2 -- who found time to bestow captions on our Thursday Matching Game from two weeks ago. We can learn a great deal from our Czar's and Czarette's.

Here is how D2R2 sees it; out of total confusion comes a master's responses...

"Well, I'm crazy for contests and I see that Jack is Back...Yea!...and Vinnie went to the library...Yea! Here goes."

1. ...and when the lions finished, two vultures scooped up the leavings, tried to board a plane for Borneo and the flight attendant said "Sorry but no carrion allowed." (L)
2. ...but seriously who would hire me? (C)
3. Standing below the piano dropped out of the window...that's fear. (E)

4. Now, if you'll just lift me out of this pot. (P)
5. ...but then there was this bright light and the next thing I knew I awoke strapped to a table. (O)
6. ...or is it more like mirrored Ray Bans? (B)

7. You know, the old "mortar round to the eye" shot. (Q)
8. Speaking of lonely aliens, is the Democratic party the anti-Christ? (W)
9. I will stare at the roses and change them to real, just as I will change myself back into David Bowie. (F)

10. pinko Commies (S)
11. I, however, am presenting Airanus today. (M)
12. If you don't believe me read it backwards standing on one leg.

13.To prove it I'd like to present this model of Bruce Willis. (D)
14. Sometimes the work comes to me. (i)
15. (T)(T)&(A)

16. Cross my heart and hope to die.(A)
17. (K)
18. (O)

19. Or as we say in the wolf pack, "I'm rolling over here, how about a belly rub?"
20. Cross my heart and hope to die. (A) *[that makes a double cross ... I get it]*
21. Not only different, nearly supernatural. They should all have super hero names. (X)
22. Jeez Louise. I don't know. I never thought about it like that. If they do, it must mean tea is bad for you and coffee is good for you. What about sodas? (J)


Match a Caption with a Picture :: or Not -- Maybe you just want to look at the Pictures and read the Quips -- thas' aight!
by your Friend Pat Darnell and Google Images

1) Two lions broke loose in the zoo and were eating a clown.
One lion said to the other ...
"Does this taste funny to you?" - Anon.


2) I'm a classic example of all humorists — only funny when I'm working. - Peter Sellers



3) One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool --Edgar Watson Howe


4)"It is the pervading law of all things organic, and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things super-human, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law." Louis Sullivan


5) When I was an itty bitty baby ... my mammy 'uold rock me in the cradle ... in 'dem ole' cotton fields back home ...

6) "Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meaning from the vaporous illusions of the esoteric." Bryant H. Mc Gill

7)"If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding, that this isn't really our civilization, but a gag we hoped they would like. Then we tell them to come back in twenty years to see our REAL civilization. After that, we start a crash program of coming up with an impressive new civilization. Either that, or just shoot down the aliens as they're waving good-bye." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

8) "I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world." »Russell Baker


9) Samuel Butler’s image for inutility ... in his novel "The Way of All Flesh"-the bee that has strayed into a drawing room and is buzzing against the wallpaper, trying to extract nectar from one of the painted roses.




10) "Who let the dogs out?"


11) JetBlast talking shop... "you're actually comparing poo to pee, there's no truely modeled airbus available right now, your only hope is the vaporous guys airsimmer and airlinerxp."


12) "Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators." »Will Rogers

13) “I don’t really know anything about art, but I know what I like!”
This noble phrase, for many of us, has been a call to adventure to the alluring world of art.
My friend, the art historian, Peter Weller likes to quote a very famous art scholar, E. H. Gombrich who in reference to this rather innocent phrase says, “You know what you like and you like what you know.”

14) Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. »Robert Orben

15) Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

16) If you can laugh together, you can work together. »Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. »Orben, ibid.

17) I’m struggling with this so I am really interested in what you think. Does knowing more about an artist, a painting, a musical composition, a building, or a style increase your enjoyment of the work? In my case, I have found this invariably to be true. One great thinker told me I was addicted to the gratification of knowledge. Guilty as charged.

18) “Easy for you to say!” I wanted to scream. “Some of us need a little
help over here with this stuff!”

19) The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. (Sun Tzu, 400-430 bc Chinese Military Strategist)


20) The dialectic at work. Create violence through economic pressures, the media, mind control, agent provocateurs - thesis. Counter it with totalitarian measures, more mind control, police crackdowns, surveillance, drugging of the population - antithesis. What ensues is Orwell’s vision of 1984, a society of total control - synthesis. (Mind Control, World Control by Jim Keith)

21) On the other hand, you have different fingers. --Steven Wright

22) Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks? --Steven Wright