Cuba says communists in control (Has Fidel el gusano bought the collective ???)

Yahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ^ | Thu Aug 3, 9:16 AM ET | Anthony Boadle

[Chi-townChief]

... and the plot persists in thickening.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

marxist just about control the world now anyways...

they just don't see it as marxism..

[Chi-townChief]

This anonymous statement is pretty bizarre and makes you wonder.

[kempster]

You should always listen to your "Granma"

[Bringbackthedraft]

Raul, keep the plane engines running on the tarmac. Be ready!

[theDentist]

..."rapid response groups" used to put down riots in the past had been activated.

What? "Riots" in the workers paradise? Why would that be?

[Triggerhippie]

Isn't it odd how the Proletariat never seems to outgrow its need for a dictatorship?

[from occupied ga]

Fidel, a notorious workaholic whose 80th birthday is August 13, temporarily handed over power to Raul after undergoing surgery to stop intestinal bleeding.

At his age the most likely cause of intestinal bleeding is colon cancer (although you'd think he'd be one of the few in Cuba who got routine screening.)

[Chi-townChief]

The riots are (all together now) ALL BUSH'S FAULT!

[goldstategop]

Raul does not have his brother's charisma. Fidel has always been a Caudillo - of the Red variety. He cynically chose Marxism because it gave him a powerful patron and it allowed him to develop an organizational structure to carry out his policies. But the key to the Cuban Communist system has always been "Fidelismo." That's the irreplaceable ingredient that make the Cuban state run. And Raul can't sustain the personalist dictatorship that his brother perfected over the last half century.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)

[Maceman]

Fidel, a notorious workaholic

Working at what, exactly? Writing his famous 6 hour speeches that he regularly forces the Cuban people to listen to under pain of imprisonment, death, or both?

Workaholic, my butt.

[Chi-townChief]

Fidel has always suffered from chronic craniorectal inversion.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

why is it bizarre? Don't you see the world becoming more and more liberal each and every day?

liberalism(marxism) is just disguised these days and the people eat it up.

[Gordongekko909]

I believe the term is "nationalized the collective." I prefer "stopped wasting air" myself. Waste of carbon and water, he is.

[b4its2late]

Sounds like Miami might be partying hardy again tonight!

[Chi-townChief]

What I find bizarre is the message being from an unspecified group of commies rather than from one of the Castro muchachos. Equally strange is a follow-up article >>> Raul Castro stays out of sight in Cuba

[from occupied ga]

so this is epistaxsis? :-)

[Blogger]

Does this mean that once he's pushing up daisies, we can stop hearing about people's carbon scores? Surely this event will make a dent.

[conservative in nyc]

In a typically cryptic message, the main Communist Party newspaper Granma printed an old speech by Raul Castro, who took over island leadership on Monday, saying that his brother's only heir was the Communist Party itself.

Only dead people have heirs.

[ishabibble]

Bring him out! Let's see Fidel Castro, even in a hospital bed and then the world can decide if he's alive or dead.

I'm of the opinion that Fidel's been dead for days, and the equally rotten and corrupt Raul Castro doesn't have a plan to control the miserable people of Cuba once they know that they are free of this monster.

May Fidel Castro rot in hell for all eternity in the lowest pit of hell and God's blessing to those who have suffered because of him for so long!