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2008-02-19 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-02-19 02:52|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 This means to me he sees his death within the year or probably less.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2008-02-19 06:14|| 2008-02-19 06:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Faster, please.

(Dying, that is.)

Posted by Mike 2008-02-19 07:53|| 2008-02-19 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe he'll move to Florida...

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-19 10:55|| 2008-02-19 10:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Hehe, he's been giving the US the finger quite succesfully for nearly 50 years.

Fortunately the US has now learned to stick to winnable wars, like Vietnam, Iraqi, Afghanistan.

Posted by US_Gun_Owning_Nutter_Student 2008-02-19 12:31|| 2008-02-19 12:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Clean up on isle #4

Posted by Rex Mundi 2008-02-19 12:35|| 2008-02-19 12:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Lol, I don't even want to think about the despair of the Faithful and True Believers when the dealer maximo is finally going to croak, soon enough most probably, eaten from the inside out by cancer, a fitting end for his kind... so sad! Let's empathize!

You'll want one :
~~Batteries~~ Colostomy bag not included

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-02-19 12:51|| 2008-02-19 12:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Very selfless and moral. One of the worlds wisest men. Oliver Stone.

Cubas Elvis. Dan Rather.

Castro is at the same time the island, the men, the cattle, and the earth. He is the whole island. Jean Paul-Sartre.

A dream come true! Naomi Campbell.

If you believe in freedom, if you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, you have no choice but to support Fidel Castro! Harry Belafonte.

A genius. Jack Nicholson.

Fidel, I love you. We both have beards. We both have power and want to use it for good purposes. Francis Ford Coppola.

The first and greatest hero to appear in the world since the Second World War. Norman Mailer.

Socialism works. I think Cuba might prove that. Chevy Chase.

Castro is an extraordinary man. He is warm and understanding and seems extremely humane. Gina Lollobrigida.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-02-19 13:03|| 2008-02-19 13:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Ah, Mr. G_O_N_S from (or at least via an anonymizing server in) the UK ... it must be hard to see one's heroes fading from the world stage.

Don't lose hope, tho - the EU promises to be a sufficient c0ck-up itself, whether or not it goes full caliphate soon.

Posted by lotp 2008-02-19 13:11|| 2008-02-19 13:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Hehe, he's been giving the US the finger quite succesfully for nearly 50 years

And what's it gotten him? 30 years of being a Soviet buttboy, 10 years of hanging on for dear life, and now a right fine sucking up to a Commie dilletante with oil who he probably thinks couldn't hold his jock.
Maybe he will move to Florida...

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-19 13:24|| 2008-02-19 13:24|| Front Page Top

#10 And what's it gotten him?

Absolute power over his serfs, lots and lots of money stolen from them and from being propped up by drug and foreign countries,... and more generally, the good, luxury life of being a tyran and a bloodthirty, brutal dictator... all the while applauded and supported by the useful idiots, sheltered far away of his commie paradize in their own comfortable capitalistic, well-off bubble, in the name of Progress and Good.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-02-19 13:40|| 2008-02-19 13:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Hehe, he's been giving the US the finger quite succesfully for nearly 50 years.

Yeah, he sure showed Uncle Sam. Too bad he had to sacrifice the Cuban people and their economy to do it. Pity that the fUSSR ran out of money to support his commie ass.

/me wonders why you never see people on makeshift rafts fleeing *to* Cuba, island paradise that it is.

Posted by SteveS 2008-02-19 13:43|| 2008-02-19 13:43|| Front Page Top

#12 I understand the number of well educated hot Cuban prostitutes available for foreigners has grown exponentially so is it any wonder his rich foreign visitors like the place?

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-02-19 13:45|| 2008-02-19 13:45|| Front Page Top

#13 US_Gun_Owning_Nutter_Student

Hit's a Brit! Nobody but Brits use nutter. Not Americans, not Canadians, not even Australians. Probably never got past his O levels, either, poor dear

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-02-19 14:15|| 2008-02-19 14:15|| Front Page Top

#14 And, right on cue...

EU 'to thaw ties with Cuba' as Castro steps down after nearly 50 years

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-19 14:49|| 2008-02-19 14:49|| Front Page Top

#15 I suppose the island could regain some of it's former glory once Castro's gone, but his brother will have to go as well.
It's the ideas, not the people that's the problem.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-02-19 15:25|| 2008-02-19 15:25|| Front Page Top

#16 First thought is that Miami will empty as Cubans return to Cuba.
Second thought is they will go, and immediatly return to Miami once they see what Cuba has become.

We shall see. Huge celebrations either way, I forsee a yearly celebration like Mardi Gras, to celebrate castro's Death. Call it El Morte.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-02-19 15:33|| 2008-02-19 15:33|| Front Page Top

#17 Was expecting this last week.

FOX NEWS + PRAVDA/FREEREPUBLIC [BreitBart] > reports that its unclear at this time whether FIDEL will give up control of the army to RAUL or CARLOS LAGE. DOING A PUTIN???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-02-19 17:00|| 2008-02-19 17:00|| Front Page Top

#18 See also TAMPABAY.com > ST.PETERSBURG TIMES - FIFTY YEARS OF FIDEL AND MY FAMILY.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-02-19 17:13|| 2008-02-19 17:13|| Front Page Top

#19 US_Gun_Owning_Nutter_Student

Yes, Castro turned Cuba into the largest country in the world, its government is in Caracas, its graveyards are in Africa, and its people in Miami.
If Castro is so wonderful, and this country so violent and horrible, why don't we see thousands fleeing to the worker's paradise? It is no farther from Miami than LeHavre is from London. Instead, our Coast Guard picks up people every day, EVERY DAY, who have risked their lives to flee to the dark shores of Florida.

You are a stupid slave of the media elite.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-02-19 17:43|| 2008-02-19 17:43|| Front Page Top

#20 You are a stupid slave of the media elite.

I thought he was just an 'effing moron. It wasn't even that good a snark.

Posted by SteveS 2008-02-19 17:52|| 2008-02-19 17:52|| Front Page Top

#21 Brit Nutter:

It is Castro who has stuck only to winnable wars (ie the media war) since his disastrous interventions in Africa in the 70s and 80s. He should have learned his lesson after Bolivian soldiers and peasants tracked down and liquidated his psychopathic henchman, Che Guevara, in 1968.

Something that makes me laugh out loud: America-bashing Euros have no clue that they are merely tools of the American media-industrial complex (see the Casto-loving quotes in #7). The devils who run Hollywood and Madison Avenue are laughing at your gullible obeisance.

The smug, superior, nuanced peasantry of Europistan are as backward in my eyes as a tribe of cannibals in a cave somewhere. It will take you 50 years to wake up to how you are exploited by a demonic cultural elite, if you survive that long (which is very doubtful).
The elites don't care if they destroy you in the process, they will take their loot and flee to California or Vermont before the final collapse.

If you had guns you could deal with it but, given the phenomenol rate of ordinary violence and assault in the UK, you are probably too stupid to be trusted with them. In the city where I live, there are a quarter of a million guns and perhaps a dozen homicides a year. The UK authorities are cowards and liars but they are not fools: Let British yobs have guns and there would be thousands of shootings a day.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-02-19 18:04|| 2008-02-19 18:04|| Front Page Top

#22 Isn't it odd how everyone who thinks that Cuba is The Paradise don't live there?

Anyway checkout (at Michelle Malkin's site):

Castro Zombie Doll

The perfect gift for the ~~socialists~~ oops... progressives in your life.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-02-19 18:15|| 2008-02-19 18:15|| Front Page Top

#23 Steve

All stupid slaves of the media elite are effin' morons but not all effin' morons are slaves of the media elite. We must avoid over-generalization.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-02-19 18:31|| 2008-02-19 18:31|| Front Page Top

#24 Andrei Codrescu had some fascinating observations on Castro today. For once NPR had something worth listening to.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19174591

Posted by mom ">mom 2008-02-19 21:41|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-02-19 21:41|| Front Page Top

#25 Hasn't Raul Castro been his brother's enforcer for the past 50+ years? Why would we expect things to go easier for the imprisoned natives now?

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