[lbo-talk] New Poll Gives Venezuelas Chavez 82.7% Approval Rating

[Carl Remick]

>From: joanna <123hop at comcast.net>
>
>82%? Why not? The guy is building houses, arming the people, grabbing oil 
>fields from foreigners, and buying a lot of Kalashnikovs.
>
>And that's just this week.

He's nothing short of a miracle worker.  Last week Chazez walked on Lake 
Maracaibo (actually on an isolated patch of floating ice due to a 
combination -- very rare in Venezuela -- of optimal water and atmospheric 
conditions for  a unique freezing phenomenon called "springs ice," but don't 
tell Pat Robertson!)

Carl