Chavez Loses Bid To Be President For Life While The Teddy Bear Teacher Gets Pardoned
December 3rd, 2007 by Maria EvansThe people of Venezuela have spoken, and they said, “NO.”
President Hugo Chavez suffered a stunning defeat Monday in a referendum that would have let him run for re-election indefinitely and impose a socialist system in this major U.S. oil provider.
Voters defeated the sweeping measures Sunday by a vote of 51 percent to 49 percent, said Tibisay Lucena, chief of the National Electoral Council, with voter turnout at just 56 percent.
She said that with 88 percent of the votes counted, the trend was irreversible.
So Chavez will be out after 2012, and the people of Venezuela have voted against moving more towards socialism.
In news from other backwards, poorly run countries, the Sudanese president has pardoned Gillian Gibbons, the teacher from the UK who allowed her class to name a teddy bear “Muhammad.” Her sentence was 15 days in jail and deportation for insulting Islam, but the case inflamed Islamic fundamentalists in the country who took to the streets and demanded her execution for the infraction. Gibbons is expected to leave the Sudan shortly. In a statement, she expressed sorrow at not being able to go back to the Sudan, a country steeped in genocide and terrorism and built on a large expanse of dirt:
“I have a great respect for the Islamic religion and would not knowingly offend anyone,” Gibbons said in the statement. “I am looking forward to seeing my family and friends, but I am very sorry that I will be unable to return to Sudan.”
I love good news on a Monday morning….
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:24 am
Perhaps we should nickname Chavez “Muhammad” and kill 2 birds with one stone.
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:03 am
What would happen in the USA if a muslim teacher allowed students to name a teddy beat Jesus?
And who is the religion of hate?
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:35 am
Might be an outcry but that would be stupid because a teddy is loved on and with the name Jesus that is teaching them to love on Jesus which in turn teaches them to be Christian. However, the teacher would not be sent to jail or even thought to be put to death. So to answer your question, Islam, with real life examples to back them up.