Thursday, September 05, 2024

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‘Feliz Navidad’ in Venezuela

‘Feliz Navidad’ in Venezuela: The Maduro gang is cueing the Jose Feliciano song and declaring that Christmas starts a bit early this year. I guess that's what you do when you steal an election. Let's check the details: The world’s attention on Venezuela….
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 The Maduro gang is cueing the Jose Feliciano song and declaring that Christmas starts a bit early this year. I guess that’s what you do when you steal an election.

Let’s check the details:

The world’s attention on Venezuela has been focused in the last weeks on the fallout from a highly contested presidential election that both the ruling party and its opponents claim to have won, the ensuing persecution of critics and the arrest warrant against the former opposition presidential candidate.

But as political tensions escalate, President Nicolás Maduro decided there was a more important matter to discuss: Christmas and the need to kick off the jolly season a tad early this year. In October, to be precise.

“It’s September, and it already smells like Christmas,” Maduro said Monday night during his weekly television show. “That’s why this year, as a way of paying tribute to you all, and in gratitude to you all, I’m going to decree an early Christmas for October 1.”

Yes, it’s real. This is no joke. Maduro is creating the distraction of distractions and hoping that all those people on the streets will go home and celebrate “Navidad” instead. The problem is that people have nothing to celebrate unless you are part of the Maduro clan. The typical Venezuelan is fighting with shortages and electricity blackouts. What’s to celebrate? Nothing.

My friend Alberto de la Cruz said this over at Babalu:

The stench of socialist desperation coming out of Venezuela is impossible to ignore and shows how communists are willing to do anything to remain in power.

That’s exactly right. This is all about staying in power. Even Christmas is in play. The sad thing here is that some Latin American leaders will probably join Maduro for the October Christmas party.

Sick, but that’s what the left has sunk to.

P.S. Check out my blog for posts, podcasts and videos. (American Thinker)

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We remember Raquel Welch (1940-2023)

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Raquel Welch was born Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois on this day in 1940.  Her father was from Bolivia and her mother was American of English parents.    Her beauty and figure were legendary.  

 Many years ago, she was a big sex symbol in the movies.   And in "1,000,000 years BC", she became every boy's favorite cave woman dream.

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Happy # 88 Bill Mazeroski


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We say happy birthday to Bill Mazeroski who was born in West Virginia on this day in 1936.

 Maz, as he was known, was the Pirate who hit a "bottom of the 9th home run" to beat the Yankees in game 7 of the 1960 World Series. 

 He broke with Pittsburgh in 1956 and played until 1972:  .260 with 2,016 hits in 2,163 games plus 8 Gold Gloves at second base.
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The World's Fair, The Beatles, The Ford Mustang and a few stories of 1964

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Our family landed in Miami on September 4, 1964, or my brother’s birthday.  I guess that we had double reasons to celebrate that day.  
A week later,  we found our way to Wisconsin where a church was kindly sponsoring our family.  We reunited with my Uncle and his family up there.
All of us learned a lot about the US that year:
The Beatles and lots of other rock groups, were on The Ed Sullivan Show.  It seem like every Sunday there was a new band, from The Beatles to The Dave Clark Five to the Animals and more.  Like most kids back then, my brother and I got our music from AM radio and then saw the groups on that memorable show; 
The Ford Mustang was introduced.  I remember going with my father to a Ford dealer and admiring this wonderful new car;
We watched our first World Series on TV. The Cardinals beat the Yankees in what would be Mickey Mantle’s last post-season game.   He won game 3 with a HR and then hit his last (# 18) World Series HR in game 7.
and perphaps the biggest event of 1964: The New York World’s Fair.
It was a showcase for companies and future technology, such as a touch tone phone!
One big change is that we were a manufacturing nation in 1964. We made cars, telephones, TV’s and lots of other things.   It would have been inconceivable back then to go to the store and find nothing made in the USA.   No one would have believed that it’d be the exact opposite 50 something years later.
We don’t do that anymore and that is something to think about, specially after this pandemic that came from China.


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