kpete
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Mon Jul-31-06 08:35 PM
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Castro Transfers Power To Brother Raul |
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Edited on Mon Jul-31-06 08:41 PM by kpete
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Mon Jul-31-06 08:37 PM
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1. Raul Malo? that guy from the country band the Mavericks? That's a good |
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sign of a future thaw in US / Cuban relations, yes?
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Mon Jul-31-06 08:37 PM
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stop the bleeding
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Mon Jul-31-06 08:38 PM
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4. Az used to have a governor named Raoul Castro |
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I don't think it was Fidel's bro tho.
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Mon Jul-31-06 08:38 PM
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5. cue the US/Cuban Crisis Music on MS NBC |
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you know its coming:banghead:
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Mon Jul-31-06 08:42 PM
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6. UpDATE Cheney transfers power to Bush while he under goes surgery |
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Mon Jul-31-06 09:01 PM
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11. LOL ... I thought that Cheney would have a better candidate. |
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Mon Jul-31-06 08:43 PM
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7. I, for one, always sort of admired Fidel |
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He kicked out a very corrupt Batista, and has survived in spite of all of the bullshit brought upon him by the US. John Foster Dulles and the United Fruit Co. started him off on his leftist views.
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Mon Jul-31-06 08:47 PM
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8. Doesn't matter what WE think of him. The Cubans seem to like him, |
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and it's their country.
Were I elected President tomorrow, lifting that moronic embargo would be the second thing I'd do.
(The first would be to order our people home from Iraq.)
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Mon Jul-31-06 08:51 PM
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That embargo is ridiculous, especially considering we're the only ones participating in it. Just absurd. Open up those beaches for tourism and the Yankee dollar, then you'll see some action in Cuba. And I resent the simple fact I'm not allowed to travel there.
And bring the troops home. Now.
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Mon Jul-31-06 08:53 PM
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10. And all those old American cars...somebody's gonna get rich, |
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importing and restoring them.
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Mon Jul-31-06 09:48 PM
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14. Cuba's Old American Cars Not What They Seem |
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Even if sanity finally comes to US--Cuba relations, I fear that those old pre-1959 cars aren't going to be the bonanza that some people hope. Unlike their pampered, car show and collector's prized US counterparts, the Cuban cars were driven a lot for over 45 years and decades beyond what they were designed for.
More importantly, you pop the hoods of some of those babies, and you're not going to see much in the way of what went in back in Detroit. The engines are likely to be from old Soviet-built Ladas and the batteries are likely to be Japanese or (these days) Chinese or even South Korean.
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Mon Jul-31-06 09:44 PM
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Hope he recovers but this is not good at his age.
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Mon Jul-31-06 09:39 PM
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12. Thanks for the "heads up" on this. A wise thing for him to do...and |
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what most folks do before surgery. At least he is thinking of his country. Bush would do it in secrecy figuring Cheney or the Neo-Cons will take care of it all and to hell with what the average American thinks or knows.
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