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Fidel Castro steps down
http://foxnews.com ^

Posted on 04/18/2011 11:45:59 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55

Breaking on Fox. Castro has stepped down as head of the Communist country.

Wonder what's going on???

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Cuba
KEYWORDS: castro; communists; cuba; deathwatch; fidel; resignation
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101 posted on 04/19/2011 9:37:31 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: JoeProBono

RE Pic:

Nice range target!!! Thanks!! :^)


102 posted on 04/19/2011 9:47:10 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Broker

” Fidel will certainly be our new Presidential Speechwriter. “

I worry that those five hour jobs will burn out the TOTUS! Interesting image: TOTUS going up in smoke at the back of the room while the P(uppet)OTUS writhes in front, whining, “I’m melting...melting...O what a World!”....


103 posted on 04/19/2011 10:01:35 AM PDT by Humble Servant
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

LOL That’s awesome! LOVE that video clip!


104 posted on 04/19/2011 11:04:11 AM PDT by DestroyLiberalism
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Can we have a cigar now?


105 posted on 04/19/2011 12:18:49 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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BBC News

Fidel Castro at Cuba congress alongside Raul

106 posted on 04/19/2011 1:22:33 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: TigersEye

Yeah. I like ‘em kinda mild though cause I’m a rookie. :)


107 posted on 04/19/2011 1:32:46 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. *4192*)
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To: ConservativeMan55

yeah, stepped down like pootie-poot putin.


108 posted on 04/19/2011 3:14:31 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Too bad that step down wasn’t from a 100-foot cliff.

When is this old murderer ever going to go to his final reward?


109 posted on 04/19/2011 4:36:53 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: ConservativeMan55
I'll be glad when Castro steps down into here...


110 posted on 04/19/2011 4:39:34 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

What a laugh riot. Perfect pratfall. Hard to believe it was, in fact, an accident. Castro should, as the say in Miami Beach, “watch ya step.”


111 posted on 04/19/2011 4:47:34 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: mojitojoe

Great minds think alike.


112 posted on 04/19/2011 7:29:59 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam, mortal enemy of the free world)
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To: nina0113

“Restoration for the vehicles and wealth for the owners. Those cars are the closest thing to hard currency that Cuba has.”

You ain’t kiddin. Those Cubanos will be able to buy a whole boatload of Fidel’s Revolutionary Rice Cookers with the moola they get.


113 posted on 04/19/2011 7:34:37 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam, mortal enemy of the free world)
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To: sinanju

Was it a pig and a goat?

I couldn’t remember, I just know it was funny as hell.

Churchy La Femme. Mam’selle Hepzibah. Albert. Howland Owl. No comic artist ever made me laugh like Walt Kelly. And those strips hold up, they’re just as funny today as the day he drew them.


114 posted on 04/19/2011 7:43:32 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam, mortal enemy of the free world)
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To: ConservativeMan55
Fidel Castro steps down

Damun he can still walk? Bet he and commie killah Chavez Taught pres___ent how to use SCUBA equipment with head buried up sigmoid colon.

115 posted on 04/19/2011 9:31:42 PM PDT by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: ConservativeMan55

I still think Castro has beed dead, stuffed, motorized, and put on wheels for some time now. Same with the little nutcase in N. Korea.

It is almost impossible to keep information out of people’s hands in the internet age, so perhaps these dictators are getting nervous seeing all the protests in other countries. I am amazed they have been able to hold onto power this long.


116 posted on 04/19/2011 10:18:48 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: sinanju

I was three when he died, but my folks already had several of his books, and once I got hooked, they bought more. Some of the deeper satire, which was contextual to the time, did go over my head too, but I got some of it, and of course enjoyed the stuff that was just plain silly. He ruined me for pretty much all other comics though. Damn that man could draw.


117 posted on 04/19/2011 10:28:29 PM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: Pelham

You gotta admit though, he was getting brittle before he died. Like his blood brother Al Capp of “Li’l Abner” fame before he bowed out. His humor had evaporated towards the end and he was getting just plain nasty at times. I remember the way he depicted LBJ, Nixon and Agnew. Not funny, just crude and angry.

By the early seventies the torch had been passed to Gary Trudeau (”Doonesbury”). Doonesbury could be sublime in it’s treatment of the Watergate Follies but Trudeau went off the rails with his hatred of Reagan and never made it back. Berke Breathed (”Bloom County”) picked up the gauntlet in the early eighties.

I also recall checking out Herblock collections from the library as a kid. That guy never even TRIED to be funny! Although at his death everybody who worked with him said he was a delight to know.


118 posted on 04/20/2011 12:04:09 AM PDT by sinanju
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To: Little Pig

Never could make much sense of his poetic efforts, though.


119 posted on 04/20/2011 12:05:38 AM PDT by sinanju
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To: theDentist
What is his illness? Did they ever say?

Something is known, but generally the diagnosis ought to stay between the patient and the doctor. Today it hardly matters - he is old now and frail; nearly anything can push him over the line, overnight.

120 posted on 04/20/2011 12:07:23 AM PDT by Greysard
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