'Oil Patriots' in Alaska Reject FREE Venezuela Oil!

[leftchick]

:eyes:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061009/ap_on_re_us/oil_from_chavez


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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In Alaska's native villages, the punishing winter cold is already coming through the walls of the lightly insulated plywood homes, many of the villagers are desperately poor, and heating-oil prices are among the highest in the nation.

And yet a few villages are refusing free heating oil from Venezuela, on the patriotic principle that no foreigner has the right to call their president "the devil."

The heating oil is being offered by the petroleum company controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, President Bush's nemesis. While scores of Alaska's Eskimo and Indian villages say they have no choice but to accept, others would rather suffer.

"As a citizen of this country, you can have your own opinion of our president and our country. But I don't want a foreigner coming in here and bashing us," said Justine Gunderson, administrator for the tribal council in the Aleut village of Nelson Lagoon. "Even though we're in economically dire straits, it was the right choice to make."

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Dimitri Philemonof, president and chief executive of the association, said accepting the aid would be "compromising ourselves." "I think we have some duty to our country, and I think it's loyalty," he said.

... hey Dimitri, I hope your loyalty to the dimson keeps you warm this winter, you moron.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. If someone freezes to death, can he be indicted for manslaughter? -nt

[bryant69]

7. I think that falls under the heading of a successful suicide

What's the pont?

On the other hand if a super says "My apartment building's not going to take venezualen oil" and one of the tenets dies - you might have a case.

Bryant
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[leftchick]

2. also note the usual AP bias against Chavez...

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Over the past two years, Citgo, the Venezuelan government's Texas-based oil subsidiary, has given millions of gallons of discounted heating oil to the poor in several states and cities — including New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine — in what is widely seen as an effort by Chavez to embarrass and irritate the U.S. government and make himself look good.

...oh yeah? Widely seen by whom? :puke:

[meganmonkey]

6. Like it's difficult

to embarrass our government. Like they don't do it themselves all the fucking time.

Maybe if our gov't gave cheap oil to the poor here they would be a little less embarrassed.

:puke: is right.

[Selatius]

10. I guess mother nature is also involved in the conspiracy to embarrass Bush

Since Katrina made him look bad.

[leftchick]

13. and in this situation with a repuke governor

a repuke congress and a repuke dictator the Alaskans get this....

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The donation to Alaska's native villages has focused attention on the rampant poverty and high fuel prices in a state that is otherwise awash in oil — and oil profits. In 2005, 86 percent of the Alaska's general fund, or $2.8 billion, came from oil from the North Slope.

Now THAT is embarrassing!

[cynatnite]

3. Maybe he'll rethink it when he's paying over $300 p/month

to keep the house warm.

[lakeguy]

11. probably won't rethink it until he's on his way to hell

for willful neglect and ignorance.

[MessiahRp]

4. Does it count if I call him the devil?

I am a citizen. Does that break the whole "nobody but us has the right to criticize" BS code we seem to have about this whole thing?

Rp

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. My first, and only, thought was, who made the decision?

Did the head of the organization decide, or the board of the organization? Was it the board, or the membership? Was it just the organization, or the citizens they are speaking for?

How many desperately poor people said,"It's my patriotic duty to pay $8/gallon for heating oil because some guy made a joke at the president's expense"?

[MrModerate]

8. The greatest embarassment here . . .

Is that Alaska, which is effectively awash in oil -- and gives away a "drawing breath subsidy" to its citizens -- can't provide underprivileged people with heating oil.

No wonder Chavez is trying to stir the pot.

[Selatius]

9. Wait a second, are these Native Americans or White settlers?

If I were a Native American, I honestly couldn't care if Chavez called Bush a shit sandwich.

[YOY]

12. Dimitri Philemonof...sounds like a guy who would understand me

when I call him a "Yub tvou mat DURAK."

[xchrom]

14. how much free heating oil has exxon given you?

bush is rich -- and you all are very few -- how much free heating oil has bush given to you?

all that oil and gas being pumped from your ancestral homes -- and nothing for you?

now that's embarrassing.

[earth mom]

15. This doesn't pass the smell test.

Wanna bet it's a few thugs who are controlling the dialogue?! :grr:

Cause anybody who is hurting financially would NEVER turn such a good deal down!

[Clark2008]

16. That reminds me - I need to stop by the Citgo and fill up today.

These people may be stupid, but I'm not!

[sarge43]

17. Ah Dimitri, for the sake of your people, try wrapping your head

around this one. The (p)Resident and the country are not the same thing. Really. Chavez did not call the citizens of this country devils nor did he call this country devilish - just Smirky.

One other thing Dimitri - Smirky doesn't care if you and yours freeze to death in the cold and dark this winter.

[zbdent]

18. Hey, maybe Darwin will work ...

but then, thinking about it, the real poor would freeze, while the "in power poor" will somehow survive, having got their hands on some "oil" from "parts unknown" ...