Wednesday, March 6, 2013

BloggeRhythms 3/6/2013

This is one of my favorite kind of days. As mentioned yesterday, Dem’s are worried that a Republican controlled House will prevent the incumbent from fulfilling his legacy, a main target of which is global warming.
 
And then while scrolling through Drudge just now I came across an article by Stephen Dinan of Inside Politics  in The Washington Times which says: “An unusually chilly March day and the snowstorm it spawned have shut down much of official Washington on Wednesday — including a hearing House Republicans had called to examine global warming.
 
“Postponed due to weather,” read the notice from the House Science, Space and Technology Committee sent in the morning.”
 
And then there was a piece in France 24, International News noting that “US filmmaker and long-time Hugo Chavez supporter Oliver Stone hailed the late Venezuelan leader as a "great hero" on Tuesday, saying he will "live forever in history. I mourn a great hero to the majority of his people and those who struggle throughout the world for a place. Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chavez will live forever in history," he added in a statement released by his publicist. 
 
Additionally, “Actor and activist Sean Penn, another Hollywood friend to Chavez, also paid tribute saying the world's poor had lost a "champion" and America had also lost "a friend it never knew it had."
 
Chavez was also mourned by Michael Moore for all his humanitarian efforts.
 
But then, however, there was an link to a story much more likely the truth from Criminal Justice International Associates (CJIA), a risk assessment and global analysis firm in Miami which estimated in a recent report that the Chávez Frías family in Venezuela has “amassed a fortune” similar to that of the Castro brothers in Cuba.
 
According to Jerry Brewer, president of CJIA, “the personal fortune of the Castro brothers has been estimated at a combined value of around $2 billion.”
 
“The Chávez Frías family in Venezuela has amassed a fortune of a similar scale since the arrival of Chávez to the presidency in 1999,” said Brewer in an analysis published in their website.
 
Brewer said that Cuba is receiving about $5 billion per year from the Venezuelan treasury and in oil shipments and other resources.
 
“We believe that organized Bolivarian criminal groups within the Chávez administration have subtracted around $100 billion out of the nearly $1 trillion in oil income made by PDVSA since 1999.”
 
And then to top it all off, I read an excerpt from Zef Chafets’s new book, Roger Ailes: Off Camera, in which the Fox News head said while thinking about vice presidents he had known: “I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he’s dumb as an ashtray.”
 
So, there we have it, and just like this week’s been so far, we keep getting buried in BS 24/7/365 by scads of folks in the news who are somehow misguided, ill-informed, uneducated or perhaps simply stupid. But fortunately, there are others out there who dig for the truth and make sure it gets reported. And I’d love to keep writing more about it but I have to go now and get ready to shovel my car out, because global warming didn’t get to my block and we're in for another blizzard tonight.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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