Fausta's Blog

… predicted ahead of time that the Giants would win.

@recipesforlife Giants, by 4 points

— Fausta (@Fausta) February 5, 2012

Too bad I didn’t place any bets!

ARGENTINA
The War for Oil… And Squid?, via Instapundit

Prince William’s Falklands tour ‘is his duty to the RAF’
Former Chief of the General Staff General Sir Mike Jackson says Prince William’s arrival in the Falkland Islands is a routine part of life in the Royal Air Force.

BRAZIL
Brazil’s President Flexes Clout in Cuba Trip

Standoff between striking police, soldiers

CHILE
Competition in Chile
The shine comes off

CUBA
Since Fidel is such an exemplary figure of virtue, Pope Benedict XVI to receive Fidel Castro back into the Catholic Church?

Political Repression in Cuba: Rundown for the week of January 30th, 2012

WashPost Coos ‘So Nice to Meet You, Havana’ (But Bring Your Own Charmin)

HAITI
Haiti’s judiciary
Just what the Doc ordered

HONDURAS
What’s the Honduran government’s cut of your travel costs?

LATIN AMERICA
ALBA bloc of nations to see new members
Suriname and St Lucia are seeking membership in the ALBA group of left-leaning nations, as the bloc continues to flex its muscle and take jabs at the United States.

MEXICO
Carlos Slim
Let Mexico’s moguls battle
Mexico suffers from two near-monopolies. It should let them fight each other

Mexico conservatives back woman presidential candidate

PUERTO RICO
17 Dominican migrants die trying to get to Puerto Rico

VENEZUELA
Venezuela’s Fateful Presidential Primary
Chávez’s political opposition attempts to unify behind a candidate.

Venezuela everyday more like Cuba, will smell like it soon

February 4th. 1992: A Day Of Shame For Venezuelans

The week’s posts:
Holder insults Puerto Rican Congressman
Weirdest theft of the year: Chilean ice
Venezuela: Who armed the kids?
Law-abiding Mexicans arm themselves
Fast & Furious: No one’s responsible
Venezuela: Jews fleeing persecution

In today’s spam basket,

George Dennison Prentice: “What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.”

If only Nanny Bloomberg would read that. He’s against trans fats, salt, liquor, and even sat on the couch to speak against guns,

since, of course, criminals, by definition, will abide with gun laws, or something.

Now I can’t wait for Nanny Bloomberg to ban perfume:
Wearing Scented Products Like Perfume or Cologne in Public Could Become Regulated

The fragrance issue could put businesses on the hook for legal liability. The head of the human resources department here at FOX Chicago said all employers need take it seriously.

What’s next? Will government send someone to make sure you shower and use antiperspirant daily?

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And, by the way, the Giants home stadium is in New Jersey. Bloomberg is not their mayor.

Jim has the graphic. You can watch the ads here.

Holder to Puerto Rican Rep: ‘Wherever you’re from’

If you need confirmation that Republicans on the House Oversight committee got under Attorney General Eric Holder’s skin today at the hearing on Fast and Furious, just look at this response he gave to Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, who grilled Holder about his own previous statements.

Specifically, note Holder’s comment that “maybe this is the way you do things in Idaho, or wherever you’re from.”

Because Rep. Labrador doesn’t feed from the Dem plantation.

Next thing you know, Holder will be telling Labrador he “doesn’t even look Puerto Rican.”

Record 1.2 Million People Fall Out Of Labor Force In One Month, Labor Force Participation Rate Tumbles To Fresh 30 Year Low

This is the largest absolute jump in ‘Persons Not In Labor Force’ on record…and biggest percentage jump in 30 years.

This means that the 243,000 jobs created last month were only 957,000 short of providing jobs to those people who are no longer counted as part of the labor force.

And last year’s,

Before I post the link, let me state that, due to blood sugar issues, I do not, repeat, I do not consume foods with added sugar, honey or syrups, and, additionally, keep to a low-carb diet because carbohydrates are metabolized as sugar.

I have been doing this for over a decade and a half.

Additionally, sugar is a nutrient that is found in foods.

Therefore, the following report chafes:
Sugar Should Be Regulated As Toxin, Researchers Say, because “researchers” know better than you and I since we’re a bunch of morons with no willpower

A spoonful of sugar might make the medicine go down. But it also makes blood pressure and cholesterol go up, along with your risk for liver failure, obesity, heart disease and diabetes.

Sugar and other sweeteners are, in fact, so toxic to the human body that they should be regulated as strictly as alcohol by governments worldwide, according to a commentary in the current issue of the journal Nature by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Of course,

Lustig advocates a consumer tax on any product with added sugar.

Taxes on liquor have cured alcoholism, haven’t they?

And we haven’t had food inflation, either?

Moonbattery sees the light,

Why would researchers prop up phony panics like global warming and obesity, and constantly find that government power must be expanded to the point of absurdity and beyond? Because government is where their funding comes from.

According to the authors, 75% of US healthcare spending is on diet-related diseases. Therefore, with the government taking over the medical sector via ObamaCare, all diet must be determined by bureaucrats, lest tax dollars be spent unnecessarily.

Indeed.

Yes, the year is young, but try to top this one:
Chile: Man arrested over glacier ice theft

Police in the south of Chile have arrested a man on suspicion of stealing ice from the Jorge Montt Glacier.

Officials in the town of Cochrane found five tonnes of ice in the back of his truck.

Scientists say the glacier, in the Patagonia region, is retreating faster than any other in Chile.

Police suspect the ice was destined for the capital, Santiago, to make gourmet ice cubes for use in upmarket bars and restaurants.

The BBC’s Gideon Long, in Santiago, says tourists in southern Chile are often served whisky chilled with glacial ice – which has an extra kudos because it comes directly from the glaciers.

Apparently there were five other men involved.

The ice fields are part of a National Heritage Site, so the guys may end up serving hard time in the cooler.

However, anyone adding ice to a very fine, single-malt Scotch ought to be sent to the gallows, too.

Venezuelan media is abuzz with the photos of kids holding machine guns, claiming to support Hugo Chávez,

The children were photographed with high-powered rifles in front of a mural of the radical group “La Piedrita,” which shows the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus, who is holding a rifle, and another of Jesus, who is firing an AK-47. The group resides in the January 23rd barrio, west of the city.

Interior and Justice Minister Tareck el Aissami held a press conference where he stated his department is investigating “not who took the photos, we’re investigating who armed the children.”

El Aissami rejected the photographs and described them as “reprehensible and morally unacceptable.” He said the images violated the humanitarian principles of the Bolivarian Constitution of Venezuela and also undermine the development of children and adolescents.

He said the government is geared towards building a country of peace and not violence. “All the government’s will and especially Chávez’s is oriented towards building a country wedded to peace, solidarity and love. Our commitment is to the life and peace of the people,​​” he said.

Video in Spanish,

Of course, one has to wonder if any of the weapons came from the stash of 100,000 Russian Kalashnikovs Hugo purchased with $2billion grant from Russia.