No Shit, Sherlock.

The NYT has a report on the speech that President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela gave to the United Nations one day after the head of the Bush junta, George W. Bush, gave an idiotic, embarrassing speech to the U.N."
Yesterday, the devil came here," Mr. Chavez said, alluding to Mr. Bush's appearance before the General Assembly on Tuesday. "Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of."

Then Mr. Chavez made the sign of the cross, brought his hands together as if in prayer and glanced toward the ceiling.

The moment may not become as famous as Nikita Khrushchev's finger-wagging, shoe-thumping outbursts in the General Assembly in the cold-war era, but it still produced chuckles and some applause in the assembly hall.

In case anyone had missed the point, Mr. Chavez drove it home:

"Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world."

Just in case you don't know, we Wiccans don't worship the devil. In fact, we don't believe that there is a devil. The devil is a xian belief. Wiccans have always worshipped "the horned god," who represents the generative male force and animals such as deer, aurochs, and other animals that are hunted. The modern Wiccan chant for Mabon says, "Hoof and horn. Hoof and horn. All that dies shall be reborn." The xians, in an attempt to discredit the Pagans, gave their devil horns and tried to blur the line between the Horned God and their devil. Whatever.

So Chavez can cross himself all he likes. Maybe it will work against the xian devil and maybe it won't. It won't protect even a brave man like Chavez from an immoral fool like George W. Bush. But Chavez did put his finger on one very important point. Bush does believe that he owns the world. He's the worst, most privileged, sort of incompetent pissant.