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Fidel Castro dies aged 90
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Caribbean-Latin America
Fidel Castro dies aged 90
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/26/2016 00:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  There's fiesta in Miami tonite!

One of the best Novembers EVAH!

Cubs win!

Evita loses!

Fidel dead!

Snark of the day.
Posted by: Pholurt Uloluling1696 || 11/26/2016 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Obama and the Commie Democractic party are having a terrible month.
Posted by: Ebbavirong Wholumble4323 || 11/26/2016 0:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Thanks be to God. RIP.
Posted by: rammer || 11/26/2016 1:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Sic transit hijo de puta (Hemingway)
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/26/2016 1:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Will Obama make an appearance at the funeral?

Posted by: Sgt.D.T. || 11/26/2016 1:49 Comments || Top||

#6  He will probably deliver the eulogy...
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 11/26/2016 2:32 Comments || Top||

#7  There once was a commie named Castro,
Whose rule was mostly disastro.
Feeling sad for his kin,
Comrade Obama stepped in,
Now he's dead so remains just one a$$hole.

My apologies to Zenobia. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 11/26/2016 3:01 Comments || Top||

#8  'If el Trumpo wins, adios my friends.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2016 3:02 Comments || Top||

#9  I was in Cuba about 30 years ago. A couple of things I remember.

A grocery store had a total of 13 different products. I counted them.

The white part of town had paved streets. The black part of town, unpaved dirt.
Posted by: phil_b || 11/26/2016 6:19 Comments || Top||

#10  ...Adios, Jefe. You have a great deal to answer for on the Other Side.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/26/2016 7:31 Comments || Top||

#11  "Kinda hot here, huh, Che?"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/26/2016 8:45 Comments || Top||

#12  Whose rule was mostly disastro.

The limerick is in some ways the most creative of the formal poetic forms, it seems to me. I love how you made rule into two syllables so neatly it was only on the second reading that I caught it, gorb. And the innate mockery of a limerick is all the ode that evil man -- whose evil was only limited by the fact that his area of operation was only a mid-size island instead of the continent his ambition encompassed -- deserved.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/26/2016 9:04 Comments || Top||

#13  ..and Gen Francisco Franco is still dead
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/26/2016 9:22 Comments || Top||

#14  Obama and the Commie Democractic party are having a terrible month

And, judging by this morning's broadcasts, the media is doing its best not to burst into tears - again.
Posted by: Pappy || 11/26/2016 10:16 Comments || Top||

#15  Castro is now smoking cigars in hell

Says the Devil: Those aren't cigars.

Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 11/26/2016 10:29 Comments || Top||

#16  Did Donald twist Castro's bandana,
Or deal him some deadly banana?
The Lider's a nuisance?
A little tube loosens...
And fifty years late, it's mañana!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/26/2016 10:39 Comments || Top||

#17  My prediction: Obama goes to Havana and speaks at the state funeral...
Posted by: Steve White || 11/26/2016 10:43 Comments || Top||

#18  Definitely champagne popping worthy news!
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/26/2016 10:43 Comments || Top||

#19  Whenever an old communist dies in his bed, it represents a failure of the West.

Sorry that doesn't rhyme or anything.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/26/2016 10:45 Comments || Top||

#20  Zenobia....

Bravo...just...bravo...(stands, claps slowly as a single tear runs from one eye)

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/26/2016 10:48 Comments || Top||

#21  We can expect Fidel Kaepernick to attend the funeral.
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 11/26/2016 10:55 Comments || Top||

#22  First, this should be in WOT, he was a terrorist. Second, I wonder if Obama will attend the wedding or set the flags at half staff...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 11/26/2016 10:59 Comments || Top||

#23  He missed both:
Day of the Dead, Nov 2
Revolution Day, Nov 20

Overstayed his welcome.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/26/2016 11:01 Comments || Top||

#24  All jest aside, the members of the Moron Stream Media are outing themselves as commies at a breakneck clip today.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/26/2016 11:31 Comments || Top||

#25  Obama now has a post presidential opportunity to lead and live in his utopian dream. Early polls have Obama up 11 points over Rahul.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/26/2016 11:52 Comments || Top||

#26  "I'll need something sharp for the burial...
But brotherly, not too funereal.
They're sending the Granma,
So brush off my Panama,
And tell 'Chelle we're heading for Mariel!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/26/2016 12:24 Comments || Top||

#27  At dockside the monster hung, twitchin'.
"I think now it's safe to go fishin'."
His Communist poobah,
The shark that ate Cuba,
Would soon be a dead superstition.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 11/26/2016 12:55 Comments || Top||

#28  Make Cuba Great Again!
Posted by: Tennessee || 11/26/2016 13:25 Comments || Top||

#29  Kaepernick's gonna need a new T-shirt...
Posted by: Raj || 11/26/2016 13:29 Comments || Top||

#30 
Obama goes to Havana and speaks at the state funeral...


Minor correction: A weepy, heart-broken Obama goes to Havana and speaks at the state funeral...
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/26/2016 13:38 Comments || Top||

#31  Okay, Trump has made his statement on Castro and it is a righteous bitch slap.

Obama will say..................what?

Obama has already said that he is going to be a virulent opponent of Trump and anything he tries to do. Will he do it from a HQ in Cuba?
Posted by: AlanC || 11/26/2016 14:10 Comments || Top||

#32  Problem is when a Commie goes to hell the Devil will run out of fire.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/26/2016 15:28 Comments || Top||

#33  Celebracion música, by a Cuban Refugee, Gloria Estefan


Posted by: Thremp Borgia7600 || 11/26/2016 15:46 Comments || Top||

#34  As the Pope and Obama mourn the death of Castro, and as Trump responds calling for the freeing of Cuba from Marxism, well known symbolic refugee Gloria Estefan releases the following statement about, not necessarily the death of a human being, but the desire for the death of his ideology:

"Although the death of a human being is rarely cause for celebration, it is the symbolic death of the destructive ideologies that he espoused that, I believe, is filling the Cuban exile community with renewed hope and a relief that has been long in coming. And although the grip of Castro's regime will not loosen overnight, the demise of a leader that oversaw the annihilation of those with an opposing view, the indiscriminate jailing of innocents, the separation of families, the censure of his people's freedom to speak, state sanctioned terrorism and the economic destruction of a once thriving & successful country, can only lead to positive change for the Cuban people and our world. May freedom continue to ring in the United States, my beautiful adopted country, and may the hope for freedom be inspired and renewed in the heart of every Cuban in my homeland and throughout the world."
Posted by: Thremp Borgia7600 || 11/26/2016 16:15 Comments || Top||

#35  I joined the Rantburg conga line (seniors section).
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/26/2016 16:20 Comments || Top||

#36  Not a twitter guy, but every now and then will put a hashtag query into the search engine. Just tried "#castroisdead" and got some amusing graphics.
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Posted by: OregonGuy || 11/26/2016 16:30 Comments || Top||

#37  Trump’s statement on Castro is everything these revolting lefty reactions aren't
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/26/2016 18:21 Comments || Top||

#38 
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/26/2016 18:29 Comments || Top||

#39  FYI Pope did not exactly kiss him like Obama did. It was carefully diplomatic worded language. The Church has to look out for the priests it has for all the faithful there, so it couldn't be straight up like Trump, nor could it stay silent.

The Vatican’s carefully crafted 9-line telegram avoided using words of support, going instead with strict formulas, hence showing closeness to those who are grieving but avoiding being seen as supportive of the Castro regime.

Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 11/26/2016 19:38 Comments || Top||

#40  If you want to blame the Catholic Church for anything, blame the damnable Jesuits who educated Castro and put Marxist ideas in his head. He rewarded them by having them expelled from Cuba.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 11/26/2016 20:01 Comments || Top||

#41  Throughout old and new testament scripture the prophets were fearless and stood up to the tyrants of their time, and even though sometimes mattered their bold stand made a world of difference. Perhaps the reason tyrants do so well in Latin America is because the Christians are Catholic?

Supposed Quote from Fidel Castro 1974 - "The Americans will come and talk to us when their president is African American and the Pope is from Latin America."
Posted by: Male || 11/26/2016 21:39 Comments || Top||

#42  Anticatholic bigotry is ugly. Stop it.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 11/26/2016 22:01 Comments || Top||

#43  I have no respect for any religious denomination, only the Truth, which cannot snd will not be silenced :-) .
Posted by: Male || 11/26/2016 22:20 Comments || Top||

#44  El viejo murió! Glad to see el monstruo dead.

Sad to see some taking this as an opportunity to bash others.

Celebrate the moment. Hopefully Soros is next.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/26/2016 22:57 Comments || Top||

#45  Yes Pope Francis is a foolish man, and quite often says some pretty stupid things, but the Catholic Church dogma is quite clear. The 1949 Papal decree on Communism states that Catholics who profess Communist doctrine are to be excommunicated as apostates from the Christian faith.

Follow that with Pope Saint John Paul II and his extensive philosophical and theological condemnations of Marxism and his explicit shut down of "liberation theology" movement, as well as the emphasis on Subsidiarity, and its fairly plain that this pope is on thin ice when it comes to charges of heterodoxy. As a matter of fact several of his Cardinals have recently called him out formally on violating previously established Catholic dogma. The problem is that he's not nearly as smart as his predecessors and does lean left, both of which are causing problems that the leftist press is ready to amplify and spin their way.

But Catholicism is not a problem, it can be a solution to communists and dictators if the Pope and Cardinals are brave enough, just ask the Poles. That's the truth of the matter.

"Male" if you had a respect for the truth that you claim, then you'd not be so disingenuous with your statements and the inherent prejudice and bias you present in them.

I suggest that you might want to keep things to the topic at hand instead of dragging up century-old Know-Nothing calumnies and KKK inspired insinuations. However, if you want to keep with the ignorant Catholic baiting, go right ahead, but beware I will unload on your ass because I'm an old man and I don't suffer fools for long.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/26/2016 23:04 Comments || Top||

#46  Trump delivered one the best Castro-is-dead statements today. He continues to surprise and impress.

I still have some reservations, but this crow I'm eating is quite tasty at this moment.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/26/2016 23:09 Comments || Top||

#47  Glad to see you still lurking around o.s.. But let me make one thing clear to you. You are as harmless as a pus*y cat.

We are DEFINITELY on topic. The Truth brings life, freedom and prosperity. The Lie brings death. Ask 2500+ people shot to death by Fidel Castro's firing squads. Venezuela, Argentina, Columbia, Mexico and now hundreds of illegals are pouring into the U.S. to vote for the same thing 7 days a week and then to pay homage to Mother Mary 1 hour a week. They are pouring in by the thousands to cancel your vote, bro.

Everything coming at us is to be tested by a fire that consumes the Lie totally or the Truth will be just as non-existant here in a generation or two just as it is still non-existant on the Cuban island. Just ask the mother of a young man "vanished" by the regime in Havana yesterday for being too jubilant about the latest news. He is now an EXAMPLE to all Cubans, bro.
Posted by: Dino the Younger6012 || 11/26/2016 23:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Arkansas representative switches parties, giving GOP supermajority in House
[ARKANSASONLINE] State Rep. David Hillman of Almyra announced his switch to the Republican Party on Tuesday weeks after being re-elected to his third term as a Democrat, solidifying the GOP's "supermajority" control of Arkansas' lower house.

Republicans picked up nine seats in the 100-member House on Election Day and then padded their lead the next day when then-Democratic Rep. Jeff Wardlaw of Hermitage announced his party switch.

With Hillman's announcement, Republicans now control 75 seats in the House and have the three-fourths majority needed to pass appropriations bills without any support from Democrats. The Democrats narrowly avoided having Republicans pick up a supermajority in the Senate, where they control 24 of the 35 seats after picking up two on Nov. 8.

"After much prayer, thought, and consultation (and a few sleepless nights) in order to better represent the changing political views of the people in our district, I have decided to change my party affiliation to Republican," Hillman said in a statement.

Posted by: Fred || 11/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "After much prayer, thought, and consultation (and a few sleepless nights) in order to better represent the changing political views of the people in our district continue passage on the USS Boodle, I have decided to change my party affiliation to Republican,"

fify
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/26/2016 0:08 Comments || Top||

#2  IIRC he ran unopposed in his district. Gives him more freedom to exercise his options and work for his constituents/district.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/26/2016 8:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Trump's Appointments Continue to Impress
h/t Instapundit
If, as is often said, personnel is policy, the Trump administration may prove more impressive than many conservatives expected. His nominations so far have been outstanding. The latest is his choice of Betsy DeVos to head the Department of Education. DeVos is a school choice activist who puts the interests of children first‐especially inner-city children‐rather than the interests of teachers’ unions. The New York Times, intending to express outrage at her selection, came up with this heartwarming headline: "Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Education Pick, Has Steered Money From Public Schools."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/26/2016 05:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When is he going to get to Mike Rowe?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 11/26/2016 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Saving Mike Rowe to cover the firings in the bureaucracy or legislation through McConnell's office? That would be an exposé worthy of a weekly show (to p***off it audience).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/26/2016 7:57 Comments || Top||

#3  It's dirty work.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/26/2016 10:53 Comments || Top||

#4  If Mike Rowe joins Trumps Admin, I think it's proof we live in a simulation. There is now way this is reality otherwise.
Posted by: Charles || 11/26/2016 21:46 Comments || Top||


Government
Trump names Don McGahn as White House Counsel
[Al Ahram] U.S. President-elect Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
has chosen Don McGahn, a well-known campaign finance lawyer, as his White House counsel and K.T. McFarland, a national security analyst, to be his deputy national security adviser, a transition official said on Friday.
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