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Castro Buys New Presidential Jet ($110M)
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| 3/10/06
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Posted on 03/11/2006 8:10:34 AM PST by ChuckShick
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To keep with Cuban sensibilities, it rides like a '59 Buick.
To: ChuckShick
I figured the just kept the old DC-3 runnin.
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posted on
03/11/2006 8:13:08 AM PST
by
digger48
To: ChuckShick
Iy has a library, I didnt know Castro could read, The other plane will ferry workers to Venezuela. What are they working on ?
To: ChuckShick
DU reaction: "Do you know how many families $110 million could feed and house??? Huh, huh, huh???
Oh wait, it's about Fidel not Bush, uh...nevermind..."
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posted on
03/11/2006 8:15:23 AM PST
by
KJC1
(Bush is fighting the War on Terror, Dems are fighting the War on Bush)
To: ChuckShick
A step up from the only thing Cuba can afford nowadays
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posted on
03/11/2006 8:15:25 AM PST
by
JRios1968
(A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
To: ChuckShick
But security is paramount too: the plane comes with armoured cockpit doors and a system for making bombs safe.What are they afraid of, someone will burst in the cockpit and order the plane to fly to Cuba? [note to historians, note how that joke lost its punch in a post 9-11 world.] As to making bombs safe, anyone remember the movie Dark Star?
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posted on
03/11/2006 8:18:21 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("If I were a Cuban, I'd certainly be on a raft," Isane Aparicio Busto)
To: JRios1968
Shoot, this is what I had in mind.
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posted on
03/11/2006 8:18:34 AM PST
by
xrp
(Fox News Channel: MISSING WHITE GIRL NETWORK)
To: KJC1
I don't think Castro understands the finer points of communism...
To: ChuckShick
"....for two brand new Ilyushin planes worth $110 million (£63 million) which Russian officials say is a shot in the arm for their struggling airline industry"
Two Planes .... TWO ... count 'em
Thank God, now they can keep those factories rolling !
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posted on
03/11/2006 8:23:57 AM PST
by
RS
("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
To: The Worthless Miracle
I think he intereprets this as "to each according to his needs" - and if you don't like it, off to the gulag with you, or worse.
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posted on
03/11/2006 8:24:53 AM PST
by
Brett66
(Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: ChuckShick
Maybe it is an island paradise? True communism, where the inner circle enjoys all the benefits, like the clintons and their FOBs.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
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posted on
03/11/2006 8:25:19 AM PST
by
bray
(Proud Bushbot for 6 years going on 8!)
To: ChuckShick
Meanwhile the regular folk can't get toilet paper or tampons
oh yeah, or food.
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posted on
03/11/2006 8:31:26 AM PST
by
Joe Boucher
(an enemy of islam)
To: ChuckShick
"This is a sofa bed on which he can spend his hours of rest or read a book from his own library. Everything has been designed to be as ergonomic as possible, with a personal reading lamp," designer Aleksandr Kuchukhidze told the channel. Wow. Spared no expense for luxury. A reading lamp! All Mod Cons.
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posted on
03/11/2006 8:35:29 AM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government "job" attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
Comment #14 Removed by Moderator
To: ChuckShick
BUt, but... It thought the embargo was causing uncountable suffering for the citizens of Cuba.
This just demonstrates what a communist dictator is really all about - himself.
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posted on
03/11/2006 9:02:22 AM PST
by
TheBattman
(Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of Satan and a Cancer on Society)
To: Hank Rearden
"a personal reading lamp"
Wow! How can McDonnell Douglas compete with that?
To: ChuckShick
To finance the deal, Cuba has paid 15% of the total sum up front, the rest coming from a 10-year loan from Russian banks.BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Suckers!!
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posted on
03/11/2006 9:18:49 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)
To: TheBattman
This just demonstrates what a communist dictator is really all about - himself. That's a narrow view. The dictatorship of the proletariat is a necessary step on the way to the utopia of communism. Some reasonable perks are needed to keep the interest of those talented enough to run the show.
To: sgtbono2002
Iy has a library, I didnt know Castro could read, The other plane will ferry workers to Venezuela. What are they working on ? Oh! You people are so dense.. HYave you not been paying attention? All Hollyweird Fidelphiles have alaways exclaimed about their wonderful universal health care and education. Just like their clinics which have two doctors and five pills, their libraries have two librarians and five books.
1.The sayings of Mao
2. The Communist Manifesto
3. 3 large volumes of excerpted Castro speecches
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posted on
03/11/2006 4:56:40 PM PST
by
rock58seg
(Republicans on ports,As funny as Democrats pretending to know about Natl Security and quail hunting.)
To: Hank Rearden
Is that a Castro Convertible sofa???
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posted on
03/11/2006 5:04:51 PM PST
by
rock58seg
(Republicans on ports,As funny as Democrats pretending to know about Natl Security and quail hunting.)
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