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Obama lifts restrictions on Cuban rum, cigars
USA Today
| 10/14/2016
| Alan Gomez
Posted on 10/14/2016 8:53:31 AM PDT by Trump20162020
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/10/14/obama-cuba-regulations-expands-trade-travel-rum-cigars/92042662/
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: alcohol; barackobama; cigar; cigars; cuba; cubancigars; obama; rum; smoking; tobacco
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Real ones don’t suck by a long shot...but there’s a LOT of fakes circulating out there. Even among legit ones some, like Cohibas, are just plain overrated. And, there’s a bit of a knowledge base involved with them regarding aging and storage...they’re a bit like wine in a sense.
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:11:15 AM PDT
by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
To: PUGACHEV
Havana Club is extraordinary rum, better than Bacardis any day of the weekIt ought to be, it's using the Bicardi distillery they stole.
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:11:34 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: Trump20162020
Are large sodas still banned? (snark)
To: Trump20162020
Meh...Cuban cigars are good but Dominicans are just as good-
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:13:26 AM PDT
by
Victor
(If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
To: M1903A1
Rush L Limbaugh was just saying that you would have to leave the country but just them and then report them. But you could not order them from within the United States. I wonder if Indian Nations will be able to purchase them through it and distribute from the reservations?
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:14:29 AM PDT
by
BOBWADE
(RINOs suck)
To: gdani
At least the ChiComs are allowing open capitalism & letting the Chinese improve their lot in life.
The PRC is not ruled by the same America-hating Stalinist fanatic for nearly six decades who keeps Cuba, once a prosperous nation, in an enforced level of squalor that would put East Germany to shame.
The streets of Beijing are not full of American jalopies made before 1959.
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:15:55 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: elcid1970
Keep sipping...the feeling will fade.
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:15:59 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
To: Trump20162020
I hope a bunch of lefties choke on their now devalued collections of smuggled illegal Cuban cigars.
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:16:57 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(If Muammar Gaddafi had donated to the Clinton Foundation he would still be alive and in power today.)
To: elcid1970
It’s Castro that kept the embargo in place. It’s his scapegoat for the failures of his system.
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:17:05 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Regulator
Air attacks, and am army of Cuban exiles armed and sent in to invade.... wonder if anyone else has ever thought of this? (Besides the guys who later murdered JFK)
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:20:20 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
To: dfwgator
Failure? Watchu talkin’ about? jay-z and beyonce said it’s like paradise down there. Well, maybe for them. 8-)
Just wait until we get a first hand account from chelsea.
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:21:03 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: elcid1970
At least the ChiComs are allowing open capitalism & letting the Chinese improve their lot in life. Well, except for all the state-owned industries & businesses, forced abortions, prison camps, forced labor, child labor, etc
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:22:41 AM PDT
by
gdani
To: Trump20162020
Interesting. Many people think that our ban on dealing with Cuba is a political ban. That is just not true.
The Cuban government seized billions of dollars worth of assets owned by Americans and American Corporations. Since there was not attempt to make those seizures even legit under his dictatorship we slapped the embargo on them.
We dealt with a ton of commie nations through the years.
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:22:50 AM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
To: Victor
"You wouldn't be trying to sell old Earl Haffler Dominicans in a Cuban wrapper now, would you?"
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:22:59 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Bill and Hillary for ADX Supermax!)
To: Regulator
Well, if you want to bomb someone close, how about taking out the cartels in Mexico. We know where they are. They must have weddings. We like to blow up weddings.
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:24:03 AM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
To: Vermont Lt
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:24:58 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
To: dfwgator
Oh yes, the all-powerful embargo of Cuba, in place since 1962. Like the U.S. Navy has had the island blockaded ever since./s
Of course, Bammie is chipping away at the embargo & ban on travel. What’s new?
But communist Cuba can trade with any nation on earth except the U.S., so why is Castro’s tropical paradise still a Stalinist s***hole?
Answer: Fidel Castro, El Maximo Lider Caudillo. His pact with Satan will keep him ticking well past 100.
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:25:47 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: gdani
To: gdani
Are all of your worldy goods certified to be 100% China-free?
;^)
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:28:15 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: Regulator
If you really want to hurt Cuba and cause regime change, throw open the floodgates for American tourists to go as much as they want.
It’s called the fatal hug. Wanes of drunken ignorant real housewives of Atlanta waving credit cards, yelping, bitching to the hotel staff.
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posted on
10/14/2016 9:29:56 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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