Posted on 08/01/2006 12:53:24 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
They both simply have no cultural, philosophical, tribal sense of what freedom is.. pretty much like literally every illegal and legal alien allowed to emmigrate to the United States in the last 30 maybe 40 years..
Must be why the federal government run education system forgave the teaching of civics at least 30 years ago...
Wonder if there are three people in Madison, Wisconsin that even knows that Socialism is slavery by givernment..
speaking of extinct soon, it ain't easy being a big dumb beast, chuck hagel comes to mind.
That 'marry'm up' scheme is a keeper, btw. ;-)
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"It is not a dictatorship to the degree that our government would like to paint it."
Oh? What else would you call a one man rule that has had its boot on the neck of the Cuban people for forty-five years?
Badonkadonk!
I guess they have to get worked up over something till football season starts!
Evil Big Tobacco!
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I'm game... first thing I'm doing will be get down there and open a NAPA store in Havanna.
Then a recording studio, and record whats left of all the old salsa bands, then sell the cd's in Cracker Barrel.
Then I'm going surfing, before all the other surfers get there. Then there will have to be a bikini shop, for all the Cuban babes to shop at.
What a bunch a whiney commies. They have nothing to worry about (for now).
The US has no such intentions (for now). Besides, I understand that Karl Rove is on vacation this week. That means it is highly unlikely that he will name Fidel's successor until next week at the earliest.
OMG! Freedom is coming to Cuba?! No! This must be stopped!
(/sarcasm)
I visited Cuba in December of 2002.
One nice thing about being in Cuba is that it's easy to get a Cuban girl to stay with you for the duration. It makes for a very nice visit.
Whenever I went out with her to walk around, she would shy from it in fear of the secret police who would try and jail her for three years for fratenizing with a tourist.
So we would often stay in and watch the satellite television. It carried Univision, the US-based Spanish language TV channel which, among other things, carries these slick soap opera programs.
So I watched the soap operas, and they portrayed life as a whirl of designer dresses, limousines and enormous oceanfront mansions. I got the feeling very quickly that my Cuban girl thought all Americans lived like A. Jerrold Perenchio, who happens to be the majority owner of Univision, worth an estimated US$3 billion.
But what I thought was even more vivid was the commercials. I remember one with piles of toilet paper stacked to the skies, being beamed into a country where there is such a severe shortage of the stuff that you are given individual sheets of it.
So no, I'm afraid a dictatorship like Cuba is neither free nor efficient. You get the worst of both worlds.
The Cuban people showed me how impressively resiliant they are under incredible hardships, but I can only imagine how well they could do under an economy where their hard work would be rewarded, instead of illegal.
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That's what will make the human "explosion" in Miami when Castro dies so amusing. The press will report it through gritted teeth, and the fellow-travelers will have to shut up and watch.
Anyone who wants to know the real Cuba should read the chapter on Cuba in PJ O'Rourke's "Eat the Rich."
How naive can you be? Do you really think that Karl Rove being out of town and Fidel Castro (peace be upon him) suddenly coming down with a fatal illness are coincidental?
They are really spending their time worrying about this?? Don't they have better things to think about, like reality?
If the Cuban medical system is so great then why does a Physician in Wisconsin have to take them charity supplies.
What will be fun is getting some real photo's out of Communist Hell.
Bush promised the Cubans' in Florida....in 2004 before the election...he'd free Cuba before he left office....I've been waiting so see if he'd keep that promise...;o) Looks like he will. Way to go W...!!!!
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