This is bad news for Obama who is counting on lower gas prices.
And to think Porky has an election right around the corner.
Yeah, but by tomorrow the Caracas papers will report that the explosion was caused by an imperialist running dog conspiracy.
Collectivism. It’s so efficient.
From the article:
As of Monday, the complex is shut down. The death toll is as high as 48, with more than 150 injured, and the numbers are expected to rise. Twenty square kilometers have been left blackened with a devastation that can be topped only by a nuclear bomb, and fires are still not out. As Venezuelan officials assured everyone that all was under control Monday, a third storage tank caught fire. There is still no foam to fight the fire and no ambulances to transport the wounded, let alone hearses for the dead. Pickup trucks full of charred bodies and looters descending upon the infernal scene complete the tropical vision of Hell.
Oh please, spare me. I'm really getting tired of journalistic hyperbole.
It's a run of the mill tropical storm, nothing more. It MIGHT become a minimal hurricane before landfall - maybe.
I always thought it was just another way for greedy and unscrupulous people to hide behind just the same kind of authoritarian and totalitarian systems that Socialists perpetually oppose.
It attracts (ends up being administered by) the most thuggish and ham-fisted brutes who could not ‘make it’ or otherwise succeed in properly set up Capitalist systems. “Liberalism is nothing more than the ideological disguise of the will-to-power of some people, who could not themselves be LESS liberal.Albert Camus ’
I think that any low level Mafioso you can name in this country is a much better businessman and certainly MUCH MORE pro-American than a Socialist leader on his best day!
Chavez, Obama’s brother from another mother.
Socialism always gets mismanaged. Hugo is no different than any fool who thinks he can make himself a god through the misuse of government. Meanwhile, we have our own fool here, doing what he can to assure decades of energy crisis, if we don’t get rid of him.
Idi Amin’s got nothing on Chavez - what a no-class fool. Destroying a country I have loved since I went to high school there. A real shame.
What is breathtaking about this statement, is that there are so many in Government in general, and the White House in particular to whom this is entirely laudable.
You just cannot make this stuff up.
Amuay sounds like amway. lol
Is this refinery one of the recently “nationalized” properties that once belonged to Exxon?
It is one of history's great ironies that the Industrial Revolution that Marx insisted would bring about world socialism has, in fact, pointed out its major flaws from the very beginning. The only new major industry it has engendered is blame factories that provide narratives to explain socialism's failures. If only people could be fed by that, we'd have something.
As well as the over 40 who died from the blast, 150 more people were injured. 500 homes damaged.
Also:
“Chavez’s government has been hit recently by other infrastructure-related problems including a prison riot that killed 25 last week, the collapse of a major highway bridge and power outages in parts of the country.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501715_162-57501937/fire-extinguished-at-venezuela-refinery/
Do these red-shirts even know what 'meritocracy' means?
Chavez’s “Reichstag Fire”?