Alaskan Patriots

America's Arctic Patriots are turning down heating oil offered by Hugo Chavez.  Alaskan eskimos have told Chavez to shove it:

"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...."

"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."

"The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, a native nonprofit organization that would have handled the heating oil donation on behalf of 291 households in Nelson Lagoon, Atka, St. Paul and St. George, rejected the offer because of the insults Chavez has hurled at Bush."

These people are unsung patriots and ought to have heating oil shipped to them pronto by U.S. companies!!

As for Hugo, he should know that he's treading on thin ice when Alaskan eskimos turn down his HEAT.