Fidel Castro, Cuba, castro death watch, havana, habana

Vote early and often… the September poll question is here.

What should Fidel Castro’s tombstone be?

A toilet (complete with toilet paper dispenser pre-loaded with issues of Granma)

A urinal

No tombstone for Cremation

An artificial anus

A plastic trash-bag

A hammer and sickle

A hammer and “Sicko”

A spittoon

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After several consecutive Fridays filled with rumors the bearded tyrant finally croaked, this Friday’s different. The Miami Herald published an article today about how the Miami rumors about Castro have been playing in Cuba:
”I heard rumors about the rumors,” said Rita, a financial analyst at a government meatpacking plant.
BTW, that sounds like […]

The more things change in Cuba, the more they stay the same:
Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage squashed speculation that Communist Cuba is heading toward Chinese-style reforms of its economy, in a speech to state managers published on Thursday.
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Cuba will not follow the paths of other Communist-run nations, such as China and Vietnam where capitalist […]

Elena Perez, the mother of the four-year-old Cuban girl at the heart of a bitter custody battle between the girl’s Miami-based foster family and her Cuba-based father, dropped a nuclear bomb in the courtroom this week. In trying to prove the father wanted his daughter back with him in Cuba, she had originally shown […]

Not much time left, so take the August poll today:

Finish this sentence: A year without Fidel Castro is like a year without…

What’s the difference? As long as his brother Raul is there, nothing will change.

All of the above.

hemorroids

…Satan.

…one of the world’s worst dictators.

…Stalin.

…darkness.

a noose around your neck

bitchs n ho’s

Aquafina..cause you’ll just grab a Zepher […]

Answer: P-r-i-s-o-n-e-r r-e-l-e-a-s-e-s u-n-d-e-r R-a-ú-l C-a-s-t-r-o. That’s part of the headline (the whole thing reads Prisoner releases under Raúl Castro raise hope for Cuba) of a Christian Science Monitor piece that naively suggests the Castros do ANYTHING out of altruistic feelings:
The steady fall in Cuba’s political prisoner population since Raúl Castro took the reins […]

What, Castro’s afraid more athletes might defect?
Cuba won’t send a boxing team to the world championships in Chicago, heeding Fidel Castro’s fears about future defections after two fighters abandoned their teammates during the Pan American Games.
The competition is one of three qualifying tournaments for the 2008 Olympics.
LOL! Be afraid, Fidel, be VERY […]

Posthumous predictions from Castro today in Granma:
Today, talk is about the seemingly invincible ticket that might be created with Hillary for President and Obama for Vice President.
Something very telling in Castro’s posthumous musings: he likes Carter and Clinton:
OF all the presidents of the United States, and those who aspire to that office, I […]

…so they can shoot down unarmed Cessna turboprops, not just twin-engine models?
Cuba has been upgrading its military arsenal since President Fidel Castro fell ill 13 months ago, to defend itself against a possible US invasion, senior officers told Trabajadores weekly on Monday.
Har, har, har! That’s a good one!

A U.S. State Department spokesman hinted as much, according to an AFP story published on the La Nueva Cuba website:
“I would say that the Cuban government has always been very good at stirring the nest whenever they felt the need to,” said Gonzo Gallegos, a State Department spokesman.
“I can’t say whether or not this […]