[knighthawk]

Ping

[Calpernia]

[TBP]

Teh difference is that Fidel is competent; Raul isn't. When Fidel's gone, he won't have a competent successor. (He kills them all.) That means that the regime will be easier to depose.

[dynachrome]

"Those Miami exiles who rather tastelessly planned street parties "
Tastless? I plan on celebrating the dath of that scum.

[TexanToTheCore]

I have the feeling that plans are being made for the turn over and that Raul is not the communist that his brother thought him to be.


I think that he will be extremely practical and that will lead to substantial change.

[gulfcoast6]

Dies? He will live to be 143 years old, still in the hospital with stomach trouble.

[hosepipe]

[.. Even when Fidel Castro dies, little will change for Cubans ..]

True the Cubans have been brain washed for far too long..
Like the Russians have never known freedom and still don't know freedom..
Same with the Chinese..

[knarf]

"I hope change will come, but change is very difficult when a country has been thinking one way for 50 years."

America must pay attention to the words and thought processes that comprises this statement.

We have been under a creeping socialist gun since at least the 1930's, and even more blatant in the last couple of years.

I expect the socialists to step up their assault on America in the next couple of years and, God forbid .. should another one get the White House, we will be hard pressed to teach American history to children that scratch their head and look at us with fantastic incredulity.

"You walked to your school"?

I met a friend of mine in WalMart yesterday and we chatted about this and that.
He is a van driver for the local school system and he explained ...

When he arrives at the school in the morning, there will be a line of 15 or 20 vans .. a 'guard' allows one to pull up to the door and off-load .. the 3 - 7 kids that get off go into the doors, are wanded, patted down and backpacks searched and then go a little further where they take off their shoes. The shoes are inspecterd and given back.

This is a combination school 1st through junior high.

I was with my two home schooled kids in WalMart and, after hearing this they just exhaled .. Whew! ..

Those kids my friend described didn't just happen yesterday ... this has been building for a long time.

So ... what will America be in 50 years?

I don't know, but I hope I'm dead if and when we come to the realization that she might be gone ...

[martin_fierro]

who has survived the ill-wishes of 10 US presidents,

Eight, not counting Carter and Clintoon.