Venzuela

[Booty]

Someone is enjoying roast pig and I've been popcorned!!

Yesterday a taxi did a roast pig handstand in front of me and Bam Bam and I went popcorning!! Two of the Elius popped out!

You see there exists a quaint custom here of roasting pig our of doors that results in a delicious pig and some spectacular handstands by vehicles.

Roast Pig ala Chamos

Wash and scald the pig, strip the hair. Rub in your spices and lance in garlic and spice bags into the meat.

Dig a hole. Place blocks at the side of the whole to support your grill, then continue up with the blocks to support your upper heat sink. Light off the lower fire and bed in your coals. As well light off your upper fire on the heat sink and bed those coals as well. When ggod and hot, slide in the pig onto the grill. Lay banana leaves against the sides of the structure to hold in the heat and smoke in the banana leaf flavour.  
Simple, and you should have all the ingredients there. You all know how to dig holes and everyone has blocks to be sure. The grill you can make up in a day with a torch and angle iron. Just Make your frame and solder in the rails with the v inverted for your grill surface. Oh the heat sink, well to be sure look in the street. There are these dandy round ones there that serve quite well. Don't worry about the hole, it will be covered someday. Until then, sooner of later someone will drag a tree branch over to warn motorists. Until then, they simply will do handstands!

And when they do handstands, foreigners in jeeps can be counted on to take to the shoulder bouncing throught the deep drainage culvert go airbourne then land on one front wheel to bounce back into the air and land on the opposite rear wheel. Teenagers will pop out and roll in the dirt and the front pilot shaft will rip the rock shield off the oil pan causing all the oil to spill gloriously on the ground. Quite a show!!

I dearly love these crazy people, I do hope we finally normailize our politics so we can get back to the important things in life like eating our roast pigs.

No one was hurt other than our sides as we rolled in the dirt laughing hearing the witnesses describe the show. We fished the taxi's front wheel out of the manhole and now he and I have some repairs to accomplish.

You know at times when we become so absurdly preoccupied with worldly matters, politics and what all, the Lord steps in and creates a show to bring us back to reality!!

Have to run, I smell roast pig!!

[Booty]

:doh: ACH!   Make that two females living for a total of 8!  

Tardita has arrived.

I broke some bone to make Bunny a bonemeal and while I was feeding it to her, she politely stood up and presented Tardita!

I think this is it, we have been whelping for 5 hours now.

They all continue to behave so well, I commanded them to lie down and they all are obeying!!

[marc]

yeah, I've been praying too; I hope everybody has.  btw, do you know of any US media outlet that's giving the troubles in Venezuela good coverage? I just tend to hear bits and pieces.  I guess Booty's covering this for us better than we can expect from any other source.

[Booty]

     



Chanting "Let him leave today," protesters filled bridges, overpasses and parks along Caracas' busiest highway, carrying giant Venezuelan flags, blowing whistles and chanting anti-Chavez slogans. Participants estimated the crowd at more than 1 million people.

Sorry about the noise, we are peacefully, but noisily reclaiming our country.

The whole country is in the streets, the noise is deafening even here in Puerto Piritu. There is a sense of euphoria as the pot and spoon revolution I truly believe has turned the corner!

Even Bunny & Nemo are joining in, he is whistling to beat all and she is barking and howling along with all the other dogs in the neighbourhood.
Prayers please, prayers & more prayers!! Oh and beat a pot or two if you like, you'll be in good company!!

[Booty]

Then boiled with wrath
The swift sword wielder,
Simon Peter,
Speechless he,
Grieved his heart
That any sought
to bind his Master,
Grim the knight faced
Boldly the servants,
Shielding his Suzerain,
Not craven his heart,
Lightning swift
Unsheathed his sword,
Strode to the first foe,
Smote a strong stroke,
Clave with the sharp blade,
On the right side
The ear from Malchus.

Heliand

[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote [/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]Adolf Hamack, a most eminent authority on the history of the church, lists three major reasons beyond emperor worship for the nonparticipation of Christians in the military forces of the Roman Empire: (1) Christians absolutely renounced war and the shedding of human blood. (2) Military officers sometimes imposed death sentences, and soldiers were called upon to execute these sentences. (3) The soldier's oath of absolute obedience was offensive to Christians who felt that such obedience was owed to God alone. [/quote]

Summary of Francis of Assissi, "Pray to God and Lock the door!!"

Just an Irish custom, roving your mind. Thought you might want to listen in.

[janine]

Is it truly so very great a sin, to have assumed you knew how the Lord was working things out?

Must you ascribe the most evilest nastiest low motives to yourself at every opportunity?

Self-abasement can be a sin, too!  :D  :doh:

Cry if you want to... God is good, I cry over His amazing works too.

[janine]

I wonder how far my Experimental Shipment would get, if I sent it now?  In what stockpile, what warehouse would it sit, and for how long, before it was liberated?

It sits on my carport right now, waiting to go.  Nothing grand, more an expression of "We're praying for you, brothers & sisters!"  Or an inquiry into whether you'd ever receive it.

[Booty]

I believe our tree of liberty will now be watered

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Venezuela Top Court Suspends Referendum on Chavez
18 minutes ago


CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the suspension of a planned February nonbinding referendum on the rule of President Hugo Chavez, dealing a blow to opposition hopes to inflict a symbolic political defeat on the leftist leader.

Electoral authorities had set the referendum for Feb. 2, after the opposition had collected more than 2 million signatures to request the poll, which would have asked voters whether or not the populist president should resign.

But Chavez's government, which is battling a seven-week opposition strike, objected to the vote as unconstitutional and appealed to the Supreme Court to stop it from going ahead.

"This means that the referendum is frozen,' Romulo Rangel of the country's National Electoral Council, the official electoral authority, told reporters.

Chavez, who was voted into office in 1998 and is refusing opposition calls to step down and hold early elections, had said he would ignore the result of the nonbinding referendum, even if he lost by 90 percent.

A defeat in the poll would not have legally obliged Chavez to resign, but the opposition had been hoping it would show they could beat him in a vote.

Chavez has said they should wait until Aug. 19, halfway through his term, when the constitution allows for a binding referendum on his current mandate, which is scheduled to last until early 2007.
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And forgive me Lord, but I am ready to water it.

Our Tribunal Suprema has been compromised. They appeared strange when they came back from recess. Subdued and not meeting the cameras with their eyes. Canny, we can almost sense it just by watching their eyes.

First they left General Alfonso Martinez sequestered unconstitutionally

[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote [/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]Article 44: Personal liberty is inviolable, therefore:

(1) No person shall be arrested or detained except by virtue of a court order, unless such person is caught in fraganti.  In the latter case, such person must be brought before a judge within forty-eight hours of his or her arrest. He or she shall remain* free during trial, except for
reasons determined by law  and assessed by the  judge on a case-by case basis.[/quote]

A judge issued the order to have him brought before him, the military ignored the order.



and now this. Article 71 of our constitution permits this referendum.

[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote [/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]Section Two: Popular Referendum

Article 71: Matters of special national transcendence may be referred to a consultative referendum,  on the initiative  of the President of the Republic,  taken at a meeting of the  Cabinet; by resolution of the National Assembly, passed  by a majority  vote; or at the request of a number of voters constituting at least 10% of all voters registered  on
the national, civil and electoral registry.

Matters of special state, municipal and parish transcendence may also be referred to a consultative referendum. The initiative shall be taken by the Parish Board, the Municipal Council and to the Legislative Council, by the vote of two third of its members; by the Mayor and the Governor
or by a number of voters  constituting at least 10% of the  total number of voters registered in the pertinent circumscription.
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The Consejo Nacional Electoral, our national election council has certified that the signatures collected are valid and of sufficient quantity.

It is now being said quite accurately that the Venezuelan people do not have a democratic exit from our crisis. Democracy is being denied us by our democratically elected regime.

The question then becomes, when a people are denied their right to democratic process, what is left to them?

The famous American Patriot, Thomas Jefferson said, "The tree of liberty must occasionally be watered by the blood of patriots."

"He doesn't sound like he gives two whoops in Hell what anyone else thinks."



I am offended.