Picture of Fidel Castro with Angola’s President
– September 23, 2007Posted in: Castro's Fellow Travelers
Archive for September, 2007
Okay, so he’s not dead yet, but he’s real close
– September 23, 2007Posted in: Castro Is Dead, Poll
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More on the death (or apparent lack thereof) of Fidel Castro
– September 23, 2007Posted in: Castro Is Dead, Castro's Fellow Travelers, Media
With a new video out on the tyrant Fidel Castro (I wonder if the folks who made Osama’s video made Fidel’s), everyone’s scrambling.
Castro’s supporters–and I include many in the MSM–are gloating over the fact that he’s apparently still alive. Many of the headlines proclaimed that Castro appeared “stronger” in the video. Shyeah, stronger than death maybe? If these folks who wrote about Castro glowingly knew a lick of Spanish they’d know that Castro, like Bin Laden, rambled incoherently. Or maybe they do know Spanish (or they’ve hired interpreters), but are willing accomplices in the Castro government’s propaganda blitz.
I found an interesting comment in a posting on the Castro dead/alive issue on Babalu Blog. The comment was made by Tomas Estrada-Palma, great grandson of the first president of Cuba:
Lets face facts…Fidel is either dead or brain dead.
Now, the brain dead hypothesis might not be exactly right, but I think there’s something there. Castro rambles incoherently and he appears to have Alzheimer’s on the video, yet if I’m not mistaken, he hadn’t shown any symptoms of the disease before his surgery last year for an intestinal ailment.
So, I’m going to guess here, maybe he came across as incoherent because he was doped up heavily on pain medication–precisely because it would have been the only way they could’ve gotten him on video. In other words, my guess is he had one foot in the grave but the communist government of Cuba wanted to poke its enemies in the eyes one more time, not to mention keep the masses under control. And with the willing help of the MSM saying Castro appeared “stronger” and “healthier,” the regime’s job is made easier.
It’s alive!
– September 21, 2007Posted in: Castro Is Dead, Media
Joan Crawford Fidel Castro has risen from the grave. Cuban TV aired a video today of the pale, sickly looking dictator, with the obligatory references to current events.
Now the Castro (and all commie) government(s) is(are) manipulative as all get out, so I wouldn’t put anything past them. But my guess is the Castro death rumors that ran around a few weeks ago were based on news that his “recovery” had taken a turn for the better worse, and now he has somehow managed to pull out of it. For him and his cronies, though, it’s probably a bonus that once again, he gets to laugh at his enemies in Miami.
No matter, though. At 81, he has but a few laughs left before we get the last laugh. Besides, if he laughs too hard, he might bust a gut. Literally.
This whole situation has inspired me to write a song parody, below. It’s based on a song by the Blue Oyster Cult… called Joan Crawford has Risen from the Dead:
Chivatos down in Havana are going crazy
They’re laughing just like hungry dogs in the street
Militantes are hiding behind the skirts of little girls
Their eyes have turned the color of frozen meatNo, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Fidel Castro has risen from the grave
Fidel Castro has risen from the graveJineteras have thrown away their mascara
They chain themselves to the axles of Chinese trucks
The sky is filled with herds of shivering angels
The fat lady laughs, gentlemen, start your trucksOh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Fidel Castro has risen from the grave
Fidel Castro has risen from the graveRaulito
Daddy’s home
Huguito
Come to father
RaulitoNo, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Fidel Castro has risen from the grave
Fidel Castro has risen from the grave
Fidel Castro has risen from the grave
Fidel Castro has risen
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– September 21, 2007Posted in: Castro Is Dead, Poll
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Less money in Castro’s pocket,
– September 20, 2007Posted in: Cuban Embargo
less money for him to spend on terrorism and other nefarious purposes:
The U.S. economic embargo against Cuba has deprived its communist government of funds it might otherwise have used for military adventures, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said on Thursday.
Take Angola, for example:
“When they have had resources, they’ve had military adventures in Africa, military adventures in Central America,” he said. “When they have had resources, the Cuban people haven’t seen a better life. … It doesn’t make a bit of difference for the people of Cuba.”
But it sure as heck helps make Castro richer.
Don King vs. Fidel Castro
– September 19, 2007Posted in: Defection
It’s the Bearded One against the man with the wild hair, and the man with the hair wins:
Fifteen days ago, the 130-pound Angelo Santana Diaz, a seven time regional champion in Cuba and twice its national title holder, braved the crossing of the Caribbean, condemnation by his country’s leader, and fear of reprisal to his parents still in Cuba to follow his dream to become a World Champion.
Angelo’s defection was forced on him as a direct result of Castro’s banning Cuban fighters from the World Championships.
Ten days ago I became aware of Angelo’s defection, long before Fidel, who honestly may not know to this day that another one of his stars has fled his “Utopian” nation.
For the fighter’s protection I placed a couple of calls and Don King Productions responded as they always have for the underdog in boxing, and through Rick Glaser, Angelo and his manager Armando Fernandez, who was instrumental in arraigning his fighter’s escape, sat down yesterday with Don King.
When the meeting broke up Angelo “The Cobra” Santana -as his professional name will be- was a member of DKP (Don King Productions).
Hehe, looks like Castro’s down for the count!
The rantings of Castro’s corpse
– September 19, 2007Posted in: Castro Is Dead, Politics
The dead dictator Fidel Castro continues to spew from the grave:
Deliberate Lies, Strange Deaths and Aggression to the World Economy
In one of my reflections I made reference to gold bars deposited in the basements of the Twin Towers. This time the subject is quite a bit more complicated and hard to believe. Almost four decades ago scientists living in the United States discovered the Internet, the same way that Albert Einstein, born in Germany, discovered in his own time the formula to measure atomic energy.
Uh, “discovered” the Internet?????
Three comments:
- -”Reflections?” Try “regurgitations.”
- -”Deliberate Lies” sounds like Granma’s slogan.
- -Everything Castro has been saying for 40-plus years is “hard to believe.”
Defending the indefensible
– September 19, 2007Posted in: Castro's Fellow Travelers, Useful Idiots
Here’s a clue: the cause of catastrophic consequences IS socialism:
By pointing out Cuba’s contradictions, our desire is for the revolution to avoid the catastrophic consequences of similar contradictions in former socialist regimes.
That, my dear friends, is the subheadline of a piece (of crap) published in the so-called “Palestine Chronicle.” It’s written by a–surprise, surprise–college professor in the U.S. In short, a useful idiot who takes the freedoms he enjoys for granted, but relishes the imposition of totalitarianism on the “little people.”
In the piece, the good professor defends an earlier essay he penned in which he adulates Castro’s dictatorship while pointing out a few minor criticisms. Ironically, he is defending the earlier piece against… Fidel Castro. Gotta love it when these fellow travellers attack each other. But then again, if the good professor truly knew his subject, he’d know that Castro thinks of himself and no one else, it’s never beneath Castro to bite the hand that feeds him, and Castro and his gang of thugs are very thin skinned.
As I’ve noted before on this blog, if there were any justice in this world, these useful idiots would actually have to live in the conditions they’d impose upon others.
Embargo costs Castro 89 billion
– September 19, 2007Posted in: Cuba's Economy, Cuban Embargo, Media
Good, keep that money out of the moribund dictator Castro’s Swiss bank accounts:
Washington’s 45-year-old embargo has cost Cuba more than $89 billion to date, wreaking havoc on everything from primary education to pest control and nearly all other facets of island life, the foreign minister said Tuesday.
Havana produced a 56-page booklet laying out its latest argument against the embargo ahead of next month’s meeting in New York of the U.N. General Assembly, which has voted 15 years in a row to urge the United States to lift trade sanctions against Cuba.
Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said the U.S. policy caused $3 billion in losses over the past year alone to the economy of Cuba — which had a 2006 GDP estimated at $40 billion, according to the CIA World Factbook.
Washington is bent on “persecuting Cuban interests and attempting to beat our people into submission with hunger and disease,” Perez Roque told a news conference.
Too late, Castro has been beating the Cuban people into submission for 40-plus years. You gotta love, though, how the MSM takes anything these communist a-holes say at face value.
