A Cuban Holiday From Hell

The Globe & Mail (Canada) ^ | 6-27-05 | Marina Jimenez

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

When you get to the other countries immigration area, do not, I repeat do not get into a shouting match with an official. If they still offer you a way to get back to your country after you finish that nice conversation, take it. Because you will not want to spend your week in a jail.

No sympathy here. She yelled at an official and she had her vacation resort changed to the prison.

I agree. The same rule of thumb should be followed when being questioned by ANY person of authority -- be it a school principal or a cop: "yes sir" and "yes ma'am" will get one a long way out of a jam....

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

It's funny how people who are members of the Liberal Party are so eager to placate the most seemingly illiberal creatures, hunh?

Yep, the LIEberals are very indicative of their name -- say whatever they "think" the public "wants" and keep on feeding from the public trough (like the bunch of bovines that they are).

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

What is she whining about? Is she now going to claim that she didn't know that Cuba was run by a totalitarian regime?

You know, if she keeps getting a steady diet of CTV (Canadian TeleVision), the CBC (another TV station), and other Canadian media outlets (most of them) she is a total vegetable....

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Onelia Ross, a Cuban-Canadian...........

A conservative is born.

Hehehehe....good one! ;-)

[Victoria Delsoul]

In a future issue of "Inside Asia" she will advise readers of the perils of vacationing in Chechnya and Dagestan, where the hidden dangers of being blown up by an improvised explosive or being beheaded by jihadis is "higher than you would customarily expect in that part of the world."

Oh, good to know. I must say that this is very comforting, and I should remember it next time I decide to take a vacation. ;-)

[Mad Mammoth]

Aren't you being a little bit picky? I understand that he recently gave every Cuban housewife a free rice cooker for mother's day.

And Castro of course, is the most pathetic 'mother' of them all.

In a perfect world, Cuba would have jailed Mr. Dithers (aka PM Paul Martin) for five days just to listen to Canada's government huff, and puff, and huff, and puff, and then come crawling to Castro to say "pleeeeeze?"

Canadians, for all of their pompous puffery about 'human rights-this and human rights-that' represent the epitome of hypocrisy due to their propping up Castro's dictatorship for decades by their continuous 'vacation' jaunts to that little Kommunist Kingdom, spending their cash in Castro's state-run cabanas and tourists-only hotels, every Cuban dissident locked up can, in some small way, say "thanks Canada".

"Thanks for NOTHING".