Reposted, by DUer Wednesdays:
1. Hugo Chavez is actually a mammal, not a fish.
2. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are Hugo Chavez!
3. Hugo Chavez can smell some things up to six miles away.
4. It takes more than 500 peanuts to make Hugo Chavez!
5. Koalas sleep for 22 hours a day, two hours more than Hugo Chavez.
6. The Australian billygoat plum contains a hundred times more Vitamin C than Hugo Chavez!
7. Without its lining of Hugo Chavez, your stomach would digest itself!
8. To check whether Hugo Chavez is safe to eat, drop him in a bowl of water; rotten Hugo Chavez will sink, and fresh Hugo Chavez will float!
9. The original nineteenth-century Coca-Cola formula contained Hugo Chavez!
10. On stone temples in southern India, there are more than 30 million carved images of Hugo Chavez!
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GUCCI PROTESTERS GRIEVE, CRY INTO THEIR DESIGNER MANICURES !!
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This courtesy of DUer Judi Lynn:
February 16, 2009
Chavez and the Washington Post
Venezuela Ends Term Limits
By PATRICK IRELAN
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In February of this year, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) released a study of the first 10 years of the Chávez administration. Mark Weisbrot, Rebecca Ray, and Luis Sandoval wrote this report, which is called “The Chávez Administration at 10 Years: The Economy and Social Indicators.” I’ll list only a few of the details from this study.
“During the current economic expansion, the poverty rate has been cut by more than half, from 54 percent of households in the first half of 2003 to 26 percent at the end of 2008. Extreme poverty has fallen even more, by 72 percent.”
“From 1998-2006, infant mortality has fallen by more than one-third. The number of primary care physicians in the public sector increased 12-fold from 1999-2007, providing health care to millions of Venezuelans who previously did not have access.”
“There have been substantial gains in education, especially higher education, where gross enrollment rates more than doubled from 1999-2000 to 2007-2008.”
“The labor market also improved substantially over the last decade, with unemployment dropping from 11.3 percent to 7.8 percent. During the current expansion it has fallen by more than half. Other labor market indicators also show substantial gains.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/irelan02162009.html When I was dating my first husband, his nephew asked his 6 yr old sister, "Debra, why do you like that girl so much". I don't remember what she said but it was a funny moment, maybe one that repeats more often than we know. So, if some of us are too happy today, now you know why we like that guy so much. It's not so much that he's Hitler, Jesus or Elvis, but that he's done pretty good so far in spite of BushCo trying to kill him and all. :)
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