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To: koan who wrote (1009378)	4/2/2017 1:23:55 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1572079

Koan I don't think you know where Lincoln was born. Hint it wasn't in Illinois

To: koan who wrote (1009378)	4/2/2017 1:26:38 PM
From: Sdgla	Respond to of 1572079

Venezuela: The Curtain Opens on the Penultimate Act Your model society old man. The DiploMad 2.0 by noreply@blogger.com (DiploMad) I have written many times here that the situation in Venezuela was a slow-motion coup. When I was at the OAS I used to label it in Spanish, "un golpe a camera lenta" (a coup filmed with a slow-motion camera). This would infuriate the Venezuelan representative, Ambassador Roy Chaderton Matos, and get him to unleash a string of anti-American, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic insults--he saw Venezuela assailed by Jewish plotters working with Washington and the Vatican (no kidding). Well, I can't use the phrase "slow-motion coup" any longer. Venezuela's thuggish President Maduro has dropped all pretext of respecting democratic institutions and processes and got his thuggish Supreme Court to (essentially) dissolve the Congress and give the Presidency all the powers. Maduro is now the unchallenged captain of the Titanic after its encounter with the ice. The country is sinking in a sea of critical shortages, corruption, debt, and violence, and Maduro is only concerned with having on to his bit of power. Like Satan in Paradise Lost he has decided that it is "better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." And that is what Venezuela, potentially one of the world's richest countries, has become under less than 20 years of socialism. Venezuela is collapsing, almost quite literally. Its people have ever fewer basic food items, medicine is a luxury, the currency is worthless, police and fire services are virtually non-existent, gasoline is in short supply, electric power is erratic and increasingly rare, and Caracas is the world's most dangerous city. Even Venezuela's neighbors, who bear a considerable amount of guilt for enabling the schemes of Chavez and Maduro, are becoming concerned. The United States, of course, missed many opportunities to put an end to this hideous state of affairs both under Bush and under Obama. It, however, appears that now Washington is taking a tougher stance--how that will play out, we'll see. Even the OAS, usually asleep at the switch, is beginning to stir with the Secretary General, leftist Luis Almagro, has denounced developments in Venezuela, referring to them as a "self-inflicted coup." He has called for Venezuela to be suspended from the OAS. Maduro's traditional buddies, the dying and dead Castro brothers, are in no real position to help him out, and even the Chinese are tiring of pouring money into a bottomless pit. Maduro and his thieving clique must go or there will be blood in the last act of this horrid little Greek-style tragedy. Lots of it.

To: koan who wrote (1009378)	4/2/2017 2:49:40 PM
From: Sdgla	Respond to of 1572079

For once in your blindfolded life will you get a spine and admit the failure that is your socialist paradigm? It is on display around our planet and the summary is one of failure and individuals and families living in misery.

To: koan who wrote (1009378)	4/2/2017 4:07:58 PM
From: Taro	2 Recommendations Recommended By i-node locogringo Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572079

I know where he was born, but his mind and politics was that of a northeast Republican. It is his mind and politics I was talking about-lol. His mind was that of a liberal Democrat as seen today. I am truly impressed, man, being able to read the minds of people passed so many years ago! How do you expect your scientists to explain that? My, you truly need to pull in God to solve that equation, oder? You for sure impress me more by every day passing by, koan!