Posted on 08/10/2006 12:36:29 PM PDT by RobFromGa
to allow power to be transferred and secure the guns and military...
Maybe he got the Moe Green Special.
I think they are prepping to announce Fidel's death on his birthday (this Sunday)...
'E's passed on! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If they hadn't nailed 'im to the podium 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-Dictator!!
(-with apologies to Monty Python)
I find it amusing that these two Communist tyrants (Hugo, whom apparently is still alive, and Fidel, who is doubtful) are allegedly asking GOD to help them out now, asking for "prayer", and so forth.
Chavez and Castro (if he's still alive) better be praying, praying to Jesus to forgive their sins and be their Saviour, because otherwise - it's the A-Train to Hell, leaving on Track One.
Personally, I suspect they ARE offering prayers, but they're being received by the 'god of this world' and we all know who THAT is.
:>)
Wouldn't that make the libgressives & Old Europe boiling made? Not to mention the islamofascists prisoners. We could make them chop sugar cane.
God is nothing but a construct of the bourgesoisie, and the opiate of the masses.
Cuba: 'in Great Battle for Freedom'
Freedom for Cuba...we need to be praying for that.
The Platt Amendment, 1903
Article I. The Government of Cuba shall never enter into any treaty or other compact with any foreign power or powers which will impair or tend to impair the independence of Cuba, nor in any manner authorize or permit any foreign power or powers to obtain by colonization or for military or naval purposes, or otherwise, lodgment in or control over any portion of said island.
Article II. The Government of Cuba shall not assume or contract any public debt to pay the interest upon which, and to make reasonable sinking-fund provision for the ultimate discharge of which, the ordinary revenues of the Island of Cuba, after defraying the current expenses of the Government, shall be inadequate.
Article III. The Government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the Treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the Government of Cuba. . . .
Article V. The Government of Cuba will execute, and, as far as necessary, extend the plans already devised, or other plans to be mutually agreed upon, for the sanitation of the cities of the island, to the end that a recurrence of epidemic and infectious diseases may be prevented, thereby assuring protection to the people and commerce of Cuba, as well as to the commerce of the Southern ports of the United States and the people residing therein....
Article VII. To enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the Government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations, at certain specified points, to be agreed upon with the ]?resident of the United States.
It would seem that the Platt Amendment is no longer extant.
But it was proposed by a US senator from Connecticut, Orville Platt!
My apologies for being a mite too arcane.
Lot of beach front property in Cuba!
Yeah, well, I heard that Raul offered to donate his heart to his ailing brother but when the docs opened him up they couldn't find one...
He won't get any ice water where he is going.
It feels funny in a fight for life to be rooting for the cancer.
Don't you mean the 53rd state...you are forgetting about Mexico and Brazil.
Hey! That toe tag says "Death by Sniper from knoll."
I'm surprised Jimmah didn't arrange for the surgery to be done in the States.
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