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2005-05-29 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Steve White 2005-05-29 02:37|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 welcome to the liberal paradise. What better place for Autopia than a tropical island? It's such a lovely place.

Posted by 2b 2005-05-29 07:31|| 2005-05-29 07:31|| Front Page Top

#2 did I say Autopia? I meant Utopia?

Not enough fuel for it to be autopia.

Posted by 2b 2005-05-29 07:32|| 2005-05-29 07:32|| Front Page Top

#3 "It was the 29th extensive address by Castro ..."

Extensive? I think mind-numbingly interminable might be more accurate.

Posted by xbalanke 2005-05-29 08:12|| 2005-05-29 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Fidel sounds like the Envirodweeebs in this country advocating energy conservation instead of just fixing the power grid. As has been stated numerous times on this site, socialist just don't get the 'cause/effect' concept.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2005-05-29 08:40|| 2005-05-29 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 It's energy saving Cuban style.
People cook with kerosine (supplied at a subsidised price by the state).
State finds out this is too expensive.
State gives them new energy saving cookers powerd by electricity.
No more subsidized kerosine.
SAVE
But wait...
Electricity doesn't work, new rice cookers won't work.
SAVE MORE!!!

(OK, no boiled rice for people but you can't really please everybody)

Posted by True German Ally 2005-05-29 13:39|| 2005-05-29 13:39|| Front Page Top

#6 "He said new energy-saving rice cookers and refrigerators would begin to be distributed"

"This is the glorious little socialist (pressure) cooker"

So is it a rice cooker, or a pressure cooker? They're two totally different things. Who cooks rice in a pressure cooker? Is that a Cuban thing?

Posted by gromky 2005-05-29 14:19|| 2005-05-29 14:19|| Front Page Top

#7 just wondering, but uh, are those tourist resort areas affected by the power outages? No? I thought not.

Posted by Rafael 2005-05-29 23:47|| 2005-05-29 23:47|| Front Page Top

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