Hugo Chavez, humanitarian leader

Our fearless leader's going to have to add a Venezuela FAIL category at the rate things are going.  But the good news is, the crazy bastard gives me lots of stuff to rant about.  Kinda like a gravedigger during a cholera epidemic, I try to see the bright side of everything.

Hugo Chavez has suspended Citgo's charitable donations of heating oil to low-income American households.

In a surprise announcement, former U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II said Venezuela would stop deliveries to his Boston-based nonprofit, Citizens' Energy, which last winter received $100 million of fuel that was distributed throughout the Northeast. Mr. Kennedy said Citgo cited falling oil prices and the world economic crisis for forcing the company "to re-evaluate all of its social programs." Neither Citgo nor the Venezuelan government had any comment.

And in other humanitarian news, Chavez is accusing Israel of a Palestinian Holocaust and has expelled the Israeli ambassador to Venezuela.

"The Holocaust, that is what is happening right now in Gaza," Chavez said in televised comments. "The president of Israel at this moment should be taken to the International Criminal Court together with the President of the United States."

Someone remind me again why we haven't invaded Venezuela?  I'm eagerly awaiting to see Chavez's reaction to an Obama presidency - he's so filled with vitriol toward the principles the U.S. stands for (I'm speaking about Chavez there, I know it might have been unclear) that I can't imagine him saying anything warm and fuzzy about Obama.  One cross word and the Obamabots will be up in arms, and that will be great fun.

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