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Castro hands power to brother during surgery
CNN ^ | 7/31/06 | CNN

Posted on 07/31/2006 6:33:36 PM PDT by tdewey10

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To: TommyDale
Hopefully soon I can complete my set:

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501 posted on 08/01/2006 12:41:25 PM PDT by BreitbartSentMe (Ex-Dem since 2001 *Folding@Home for the Gipper - Join the FReeper Folders*)
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To: Bush_Democrat
The ABC Radio radio report I heard as Rush's show was starting (1 hr delayed) was astounding. They said while some exiles were celebrating that in Cuba Fidel was beloved.

as if the people are given a choice.

502 posted on 08/01/2006 12:49:06 PM PDT by GeronL (http://www.mises.org/story/1975)
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To: juliej
Unfortunately, the Castro family members seem to live to a ripe old age. 75 is nothing to them.Don't forget, Castro and his bro, are pretty rich so its not good genes getting them there.

That said, it doesn't appear they are setting up any kind of succession plan for after Raul (and personally, I don't think they really can). Which scares me a little bit, because I could Raul doing something really really stupid right before dying.

503 posted on 08/01/2006 1:09:33 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: NinoFan
I have to admit, your rule of the Cuban people was at times brutal, but much less so than Batista. You gave your people universal health care, universal education, equality.

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about and have clearly swallowed the leftist propaganda hook, line, and sinker.

Castro is/was the cruelest of dictators. The health care, education, equality myth does not compute. Just look at the statistics for Cuba in the years prior to the "glorious revolution." The country was ALREADY providing its people extremely good health care and education-- which have declined, not improved, under the monster Fidel. A look at s Havana phone book from the '50s will show you yellow pages that go on and on with listings of nice little businesses. People were making money. Thriving, in fact. NO ONE has thrived in Cuba since then. Except Castro, who has about $2 billion in offshore accounts thanks to tourism and some of his communist minions who drive around Havana in new Mercedes while the populace tries to figure out still another way to keep their 1954 Chevies alive for one more mile. There's nothing in between....NO middle class, no middle zone, no equality whatsoever. Perhaps 5% of the population are high enough up the (unelected) commie heirarchy to participate in the good stuff, the rest suffer. SUFFER.

Racial equality? You have to be kidding. I was there in '99...you could not find a black person in Havana in any neighborhood likely to be visited by tourists. A black professor we dredged up told us that blacks had been involuntarily relocated to the countryside in droves when tourism became Csstro's main source of income. Cuban workers earned $7/week at foreign-run hotels, but those hotels paid Castro $50 per week per worker. And today, prostitution is many times worse than it was in the Batista era simply because there's no other way for women to make a living. No nice little stores to work in, no possibility of starting a little dressmaking shop without being thrown into jail.

And Castro's jails are known to all civil rights groups worldwide as the most demeaning, cruelest, nastiest ever devised. A dear friend of mine worked for one of those groups for decades, helped get political prisoners released from all kinds of jails, dungeons, torture chambers from Sudan to Chile...he couldn't even talk about Castro's jails without tearing up at the atrocities he had seen there.

May Castro rot in the lowest level of hell.

504 posted on 08/01/2006 2:23:52 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Veto!

I hope you realize that those weren't my words. At the top of my post I made it clear that I was about to paste a post from the Democratic Underground.


505 posted on 08/01/2006 2:27:33 PM PDT by NinoFan
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To: NinoFan

Oooops! Sorry, NinoFan. No, I didn't understand that it came from DU. What a relief!

But I always enjoy ranting about Castro to one and all. LOL.


506 posted on 08/01/2006 2:32:16 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Veto!

That's OK. :) Too bad DU wouldn't let you post that over there. Most of the responses to that guy's post were either trying to offer support for their sad liberal friend or were angry at him for assuming that Castro was dead, LOL.


507 posted on 08/01/2006 2:35:22 PM PDT by NinoFan
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To: NinoFan

What jerks they are! Booooo Hissssss to DU. (Drunken Underachievers?).

More to the point: Is Fidel dead yet?

Or better, is he still dead?


508 posted on 08/01/2006 2:46:01 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: dfwgator
"Cubans are not Mexicans."

I was just watching the Cubanos partying on the news. I am struck by one very important difference.

The Cubans have been fighting to get back to their homeland for 50 years. They have a wonderful national pride and desire to return to a capitalist Cuba.

The Mexicans, on the other hand, fight to get away from their homeland

509 posted on 08/01/2006 6:36:40 PM PDT by guitar4jesus (Black, Conservative . . . and I vote!)
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To: guitar4jesus

And the Cubans here love the USA more than even many native-born Americans do.


510 posted on 08/01/2006 6:39:44 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

That's for sure!


511 posted on 08/01/2006 6:40:40 PM PDT by guitar4jesus (Black, Conservative . . . and I vote!)
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To: GeronL

The ABC report I just heard on the radio was worse than that.
To shouts of "Hasta la vista , baby!" in the background the reporter intones, "These are the die-hard, hardcore, anti-Castro types here in Miami... They aren't representative of the Cuban people at large." ...or something like that.

He seemed to be trying to dispel the notion that anyone (with good sense) could be celebrating the death of the great leader.(sarcasm on)


512 posted on 08/01/2006 6:42:07 PM PDT by limitedgov
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To: tdewey10

I think he is dead. I recall that the same "He's doing well" spin was happening when Arafat was dead.


513 posted on 08/01/2006 6:43:51 PM PDT by klimeckg ("The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.")
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To: The Bronze Titan
"DIE YOU BASTARD!!!!

When you are right, you are right.... I would only add that I hope the end is very, very painful for Fidel.

514 posted on 08/01/2006 6:44:18 PM PDT by Volunteer (Just so you know, I am ashamed the Dixie Chicks make records in Nashville.)
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To: PhilDragoo; devolve; ntnychik

Aww, the Dim Gripper, er - the Rim Dipper, whoops it's the Grim Reaper!! Wordiness is contagious Phil!


515 posted on 08/01/2006 6:55:35 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: tdewey10

I normally don't take pleasure in the sickness of others, but this character's death would be good for the world, and the suffering people of Cuba. I laughed when watching the celebrations in Miami. May Cuba be free soon.


516 posted on 08/01/2006 6:59:10 PM PDT by PghBaldy (The Unabomber & Eric Rudolph were lone individuals who committed terrorist acts)
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To: PghBaldy
Without the charismatic(to some) leader, many organizations quickly crumble. A dictator seldom cares to have potential successors live. And those skilled at being deferential to the "great leader" whilst terrorizing the general population are not usually able to lead.

I wonder how easily Raul Castro sleeps? Or can he take the chance that someone won't hasten the Castro brothers' reunion?

Raul may just get whacked by his own military !

517 posted on 08/01/2006 7:08:25 PM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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To: PghBaldy
Did anyone see the Danny Devito movie, "Throw Momma From the Train?"
518 posted on 08/01/2006 7:09:37 PM PDT by PghBaldy (The Unabomber & Eric Rudolph were lone individuals who committed terrorist acts)
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To: PghBaldy
let's try again...
519 posted on 08/01/2006 7:14:15 PM PDT by PghBaldy (The Unabomber & Eric Rudolph were lone individuals who committed terrorist acts)
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To: 4yearlurker
No comment from Chevy Chase.

I would love to hear him say,"Fidel Castro is still dead"


520 posted on 08/02/2006 7:26:51 AM PDT by jmcenanly
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