“Alo, Presidente.”

Reader Chuck is right about this News Of The Weird item from Hugo Chavez, who probably won't be looking to develop Olympic golfers for 2016. Somehow the tragic landslides in his country were caused by golf.

“That’s an injustice -- that someone should have the luxury of having I don’t know how many hectares to play golf and drink whiskey and, next door, there’s misery and children dying when there are landslides,” Chavez said during his weekly television show, “Alo, Presidente.”

Dozens of people died in the past month when landslides caused their homes to collapse after heavy rains. Chavez said he will dedicate himself to resolving Venezuela’s housing shortage.

Chavez also called on Venezuelans to actively look for abandoned private land to expropriate.
“Look for irregularities, and by that I mean good land that’s been abandoned,” he said.

Comments

[Wisconsin Reader]

Who cares about Chavez? . . . Anyone watch Ben Crane "praising God and his team" for his win today in Malaysia? . . . The ugly American and bad manners image really does provide more than just a clue to "why they hate us."

http://www.malaysiatravel.org.uk/culture/religions.html

[smails]

how, exactly is thanking god a reason "why they hate us"

[rose]

Wisconsin,

Are you suggesting that Crane displayed poor manners or are you being facetious?

[Rev Run]

rose, I think that's exactly what he was suggesting. Kind of like Randy Moss's soliloquy, just not the time or the place.

Thump thump!