Bin Laden and chavismo: the difference between idiots and idiocy (UPDATED)

Idiots can be on occasion forgiven.  After all, who has never acted like an idiot?  But idiocy is a much graver matter as those who suffer from idiocy, well, are always idiots.  And I was tempted to use the adjective "clinical" in the preceding sentence.  Thus we can thank the demise of Bin Laden yesterday to illustrate that difference among those chavistas who are circumstantial idiots and those who suffer of permanent idiocy.

The chavista May 1 parade

The S.O. had to go. A few pictures. The populists announcements as Chavez officially launched his reelection campaign will be dealt with other previous announcements in a future post. Let's say for now that he is trying to kill private enterprise once and for all.

The parade comes with folklore.  This one is supposed to illustrate the successful agrarian polices of the regime.  I do not know about you but what I am seeing is the celebration of the "conuco".

Carta a Hugo Chavez

Su despacho,

Yo no se si usted vio el discurso del presidente Norteamericano Barak Obama hace a penas unos minutos.   por eso de bin Laden.  Si no lo vio, pídale a Rizarrita que se lo pase en el Betamax.

Usted verá como en 10 minutos se puede hacer un discurso realmente histórico, uniendo a la nación en su propósito, recordando la tragedia sin lagrimeo, serio y sin regodeo, sin hablar pendejadas, y sin embargo con el toque suficiente para respetar los sentimientos de todos, sin olvidar mencionar los héroes que hicieron el trabajo en verdad.

En los 10 minutos que habló Obama, en un discurso que casi seguramente le ganó la reelección, el presidente Obama se comportó con un decoro extraordinario, sin propaganda ni necedades personales, incluyendo una mención halagadora al anterior president Bush que usted tanto odia por ninguna razón que no sea personal y que se sabe que el presidente Obama no quiere tampoco, y con razones mas reales que las que usted pretende tener para odiar sus antecesores.

A ver si aprende y deja de insultarnos en sus cadenas sin fin, y aprende a hablar de lo que en verdad es importante y en verdad nos interesa, a TODOS los venezolanos.

Bin Laden out!

I do not know about you but I am about to pour myself a celebratory nightcap before Obama comes out to tell us how Bin Laden was taken out, from a mansion in Islamabad of all places...  Interesting times ahead in Pakistan.

Of course, I can hardly wait to hear the reactions of Chavez......

Is the opposition alliance already tanking?

There is real cause for concern: all the signals the opposition alliance against Chavez, MUD, has been giving for the past two months are extremely worrisome.  There is no hiding the harsh truth on that.  In fact, I am starting to suspect that the silence form the MUD is due to the inability to keep up their negotiations and reach regularly some agreements.  In other words, the MUD is silent because it is about to break up.

And even worse, the political situation is changing as the Venezuelan barrel of oil is crossing the 100USD mark which is going to give Chavez a few months of respite.  He is showing all signs to use it the best way he can: consolidate his following through hand outs and thus create again a new aura of promises that might be fulfilled.  If he goes unchecked and if oil holds above 90 USD until at December 2011, he will simply walk away with the election in 2012.  True, it will not be a sweeping away victory as in 2006, not even a strong cheating enhanced victory as in 2004, but Chavez will take a 52 to 48 victory without any misgivings and surf ahead in his mad project for Venezuela.

Cartas a la MUD: ¿Y van a dejar que Chavez tumbe todas las áreas verdes de Caracas?

Es que Chávez a veces se las pone bombita y ustedes nada que batean ese Home Run.

Lo ultimo de Chavez es agarrarse zonas verdes y parques para, disque, construir viviendas para refugiados   Todos sabemos que eso es un error craso.  Todos, incluido el mismo Chavez.  Todos sabemos que muchas de esas viviendas, y cuidado si no la mayoría, irán para afectos del proceso que poca pinta de damnificados tienen (la damnificación mental del chavismo es otro asunto)

No electricity? No problem! Have a free day, but dress in red!

Gustavo Coronel publishes a memo that was circulating yesterday in the offices of the electric utility company of Venezuela, CORPOELEC.  You know, the company that brings you regular power outages all across Venezuela, though less in Caracas because, you know, the higher up of the regime cannot be inconvenienced.

My translation of the memo, signed by a certain Iraima Alfonzo Durand, Human Talent coordinator of CORPOELEC,  You cannot make up such titles...

We bring to the knowledge of all workers and workeresses [word coined by the editor, following the character of the bolibanana official address code] of CORPOELEC that the company will grant May 2 as a free day only to those that will attend tot he march of May 1 "International Labor day".  To this effect supervisors will monitor participation at the march.


CORPOELEC ratifies its wishes to accompany its workers in such an important date.


"The working 'pueblo' builds the socialist fatherland!"

So there you have it, a true measure of the "spontaneous" workers participation at the Chavez party march which, we are told, will also serve as the official launching of Chavez reelection campaign,  As if we had not noticed already tha the has been in campaign since last October....

No need to comment further, but I cannot resit to ask the question: what will happen to those that either chose not to march or prefer to march with the trade unions?