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[r]aúl’s [c]astro’s Invitation to Argue

Oh Boy! If you read the press coverage of what just went on at the Summit of the Americas you might get the impression that hell has just frozen over. 
Or not. 
All the coverage is about a “thaw” in US-Cuba relations…finally, thank Mother Earth! 
If you read or listen to news, the buzz is that Generalitico [r]aúl [...]

Chi-Comnomics

We have all been reading about who wants who to fail in the news lately.
 I don’t know about you guys, but I feel like a passenger in train that’s about to jump the tracks and, hell no, I don’t want the train wreck to succeed. You’d have to be nuts to want the conductor not [...]

Organizing for Obama

It has started-even before the beginning.
The mother daughter of all community organizations is about to be born. I say the daughter because the mitochondrial DNA for this type of community organization, Cuba’s CDR’s - which exists solely to promote the cult of personality of its leader, was successfully pioneered by [f]idel [c]satro in Cuba.
Barry O.’s [...]

CPJ Special Report on Cuba

The Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ, is commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the day the truth died in Cuba with a special report made up a series of articles that expose the reality of life in Cuba and the plight of those in Cuba that are dedicated to getting the truth out.
Cuba's Long Black Spring
Spring [...]

The Marxist Christmas Miracle

And just in case you weren’t in the holiday mood, here’s something that made me turn green and start seeing red.
The Saint Petersburg Times has declared that Cuba is back to pre hurricane form…in just three months.
Yes. Just three months after Cuba was gang battered by hurricanes, everything is back to “normal.”
And how did this [...]

[c]astro Counting on his “Butterflies”

Reuter’s Marc Frank just noticed that the island across the Florida Straights is really in dire financial straights…
…due to the global financial crisis and the three hurricanes that hit the Cuba this past hurricane season.
Before that, it was a socialist paradise.
But now, the regime is being forced to “juggle debt payments and seek new financing”
It’s [...]

Raging Against The Democracy

American rock and rollers and musicians have finally taken an interest in the human right “abuses” going on in Cuba.
It took 50 years, but they have finally caught on.
They weren’t too concerned when [c]he [g]uevara, the t-shirt icon/serial killer, deemed Jazz and Rock and Roll the product of imperialist decadence and had them banned.
Mum was [...]

Vintage Reporting

The Human Rights Foundation, put out statement today trying to bring attention to the Human Rights abuses perpetrated on Cubans who wished to commemorate Humans Rights Day by the [c]astro regime:
At least 20 activists were detained in Cuba this week for planning to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). [...]

At Your Own Risk …

Don’t have a Patatún or a Sirimba, but here’s an op-ed. from the bankrupt South Florida Sun Sentinel that brings facts and reality as opposed to the wishful thinking and hope for change of the anti-embargo crowd to the recent media campaign for change in the United State’s Cuba policy.
Obama administration could be yet another [...]

According to Exiles…

So I’m looking for ANY kind of news of what is going on in Cuba today and I wind up on the Miami Herald’s website.
And there, camouflaged between the stories about how wonderful the Cuban tourism is doing, (unfortunately there is always a demand for underage sexual tourism), and Raúl’s travel itinerary and Barack Obama’s [...]

(Violation of) Human Rights Day in Cuba

The Cuban regime has begun its celebration of Human Rights Day the only it way it knows how, by violating every right in the 60 year old United Nations declaration.
The celebrations began on Monday, with a wave of arrests and threats against Cuban Human Rights activists aimed at preventing Cubans from commemorating the 60th anniversary [...]

Pursuit of Liberty

Late Saturday night, after all the scores from the day’s games where in, I was watching one of those programs that runs downs the possible College Bowl match-ups. The discussion inevitably turned to the BCS and Boise State with the obligatory clip of Boise State’s Statue of Liberty play in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl.
The Statue [...]

“Hope-Nosis”

We have all seen the Obamatons. They’re our co-workers, friends, sometimes even our family members.
They walk around like zombies chanting “hope” and “change.”
We assumed that they were drinking Kool-Aid.
But now the truth comes out.
They’re really suffering from “Hope-Nosis”
We all know what the symptoms are, but no one is sure what the long lasting effects may [...]

You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby

The Democratic Party has come a long way....

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Joe the Senator Speaks

Maybe is a good thing Joe Biden has loose lips. If people would actually listen to him instead of tuning him out after he utters his first “let me repeat that ,” he just might sink the Obama ship with one of his verbal torpedoes.
ABC reports that Joe Biden is actually correct about (gasp!) a [...]

Card Carrying Ñangara?

It Certainly looks that way…
The New Party had hoped to implement Socialist Rule in the United States and was established to counteract the influence of a Democratic Party that they viewed as too moderate and too centered. Now it seems that nearly 10 years after the socialist party fell apart, their strategy of upward growth [...]

Seremos Como Obama

Little Barry O. was only 8 years old when some guy in his neighborhood, an acquaintance he served on a board with, a supporter that helped him launch his political career at a party in his home, William Ayers, was mad bombing America. That’s the official talking point.
And he was only 45 years old when [...]

The Obamajugend and The Cuban Pioneers

No, this is not a video of an Obama rally in Havana, it's a video that shows Cuban schoolchildren pledging their allegiance to the Cuban revolution and its heroes.
Matt Drudge posted a video of some American children singing about Obama.
When I saw it, I found it eerily reminiscent of how children are “educated” in Cuba.
You [...]

Blow

The regime is crisis mode, according to Reuters.
The crisis in Cuba is probably as bad as the “special period” that occurred right after the Soviet Union collapsed.
Aside from the devastation of hurricanes Gustav, Ivan and [f]idel, there’s the global financial crisis and the forecasted global economic downturn that is sure to have an impact [...]

Alo Community Organizer…

Not satisfied with having most of the MSM and entertainment industries not so covertly campaigning for him, Senator Obama has “bought” his own satellite channel.
Yes channel 73 on the Dish Network is Now the Obama channel.
The channel plays his two-minute ad laying out his economic plan on a loop, over and over.
I know this sounds [...]