What show have you got, little man?

Illustration shows a man wearing top hat and tuxedo labeled "Stock Manipulation", one hand resting on a deck of "Marked Cards" and the other on a stack of gambling chips next to "Loaded Dice" and a wheel labeled "Brace Roulette", all on a playing table labeled "Wall Street", behind him are money bags and papers labeled "Fiduciary Funds, Treasury Deposits, Other Peoples' Money, Bank Loans, and Pools"; standing in the foreground and looking up at the man is a diminutive man holding his "Savings" behind his back.

Date Created/Published: N.Y. : J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., 1908 April 8.

If this is not a picture of arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority, then what is it ...... personal?

Yeah! And Kuwait! Oh, wait. Maybe that's a bad example.

The elite have sold the USA, the world as it happens, to China.

Not if we're looking for oil-rich countries that are functionally undemocratic, and staunch allies of the US.

From our friend Wikipedia:

"In October 2012, the Emir [of Kuwait] dissolved parliament for the fourth time in four years, paving the way for snap elections. At least 5,000 protesters clashed with security forces outside parliament over opposition fears that the government would redraw constituency boundaries. The elections of December 2012 were boycotted by the opposition protesting against proposed changes to the electoral law which would give official candidates an advantage."

Hey, if you're gonna praise Hugo, it sounds like you should at least give equal time to Kuwait.

From SNL. Kinda amusing. Sung to Candle in the Wind.

Goodbye, Hugo C. You had such great style and panache
You were a man of the people and you liked to wear a sash
You called George Bush the devil when you spoke at the U.N.
You said it smelled like sulfur and you called him Mr. Danger

It seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind
If a candle could pull out two pistols at a press conference
You said the U.S. caused earthquakes and you outlawed Coke Zero
And on your shoulder stood your parrot with a matching red beret

You had your own TV show, it was called ‘Hello President’ (Great name)
It wasn’t about politics, you sometimes danced and made up raps
You helped to make a country the kidnapping capital of the world
But you also increased milk production by almost 50 percent

And it seems to me you once gave a speech where you encouraged shorter showers
And another thing you said was capitalism killed Mars
Yes you believed in a civilization that existed on the surface of Mars
But capitalism killed it off, when it was introduced to Mars (He actually said that)

You were a hero to your people and you never gave up the fight
We’ll miss you, Hugo Chavez, because — live from New York, it’s Saturday night!

Best Saturday Night Live in years thanks to the return of Dan Ackroyd and Steve Martin as the Festrunk brothers.

Unfortunately best SNL in years is not as competitive a title as it once was.

Haven't watched it in years, but I'm so old I remember when it was funny.

Nobody's that old! At least not the beauteous Destiny--say it ain't so!