No, not our poll (although that wouldn’t be a bad idea, just click here now and start voting).
Opinion Journal has a poll question asking whether the U.S. should ease travel restrictions to Cuba. Go there and vote; the poll is on the right-hand side of the home page.
Yeah, I’m sure he’s the one doing the writing. Right. But that was an abbreviation of the title of a story about the dictator in the Borneo Bulletin.
The first line of the article had me in stitches, though:
Holed up in deep seclusion, with no pictures of him released in 100 days, ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro has become a prolific writer, discussing just about any topic except his health.
LMAO! I’m quite sure Castro is “holed up in deep seclusion!” TFF!
Here’s an excerpt of the review of what sounds like a fascinating film:
Fernando and Marie give up their respective jobs as lawyer and writer for Marie Claire magazine and become intimately involved with Salvador Allende’s election in Chile. Soon, they have fired Filomena (the Cuban nanny), who hates Castro and all the “rojos barbudos” (bearded reds) responsible for taking her land back home and forcing her into exile, and they’ve withdrawn Anna (their daughter who grows fearful of her parents’ politics, and rightly so) from her religion class. As their apartment becomes increasingly invaded by activists who refer to her as their “pequeña momia,” Spanish for “little mummy,” which was what Chilean left-wingers called right-wingers at the time, Anna takes refuge in her bourgeois grandparents, who tell her it’s one thing to be polite to the poor and another to let them take one’s property.
But here’s my favorite part, sad though it may be:
When Anna, finally ready to concede to her parents, misinterprets their belief in group solidarity and answers a question incorrectly in class because everyone else answered incorrectly, her parents are stumped. What’s the difference between group solidarity and behaving like sheep?
But why should her parents be stumped? That is what communism is and has always been about: acting, being and thinking like a sheep, being one with the “collective” no matter how wrong the collective is.
Oopsie: the name of the film, of course, is “Blame It on Fidel.”
Alice Walker, who won the Pulitzer prize for her novel The Color Purple, is a useful idiot:
The Cuban government distributed a letter on Wednesday in which American author Alice Walker expressed her support to the children of five Cuban intelligence agents imprisoned in the United States.
Walker, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple, has in the past joined American writers, artists and intellectuals in demanding the release of the so-called Cuban 5, who were convicted in 2001 of being unregistered foreign agents operating in the United States.
She goes on…
“In my own experience, everything to do with attaining justice has been very hard, very difficult, a very long struggle. Apparently endless, in fact,” the letter said. “That is unfortunately the experience of much of the world. Still, we persist in our hope of justice.”
Indeed, Alice. We who hope for freedom in Cuba and justice for the Castro cabal have experienced a ” very hard, very difficult, a very long struggle.” And “Still, we persist in our hope of justice.”
I wonder if you’re as concerned about justice for the family of Greg Fronius, a Green Beret who was killed as the result of the actions of a spy for Cuba, as detailed in the book True Believer, by Scott Carmichael
Visit Fry the Five, the only website (as far as I know, and yes–disclaimer, disclaimer–it belongs to me) dedicated to making sure Castro’s five spies stay in prison.
I may have been premature when I said Castro is already dead. I mean, a dead person surely can’t be so delusional as to believe the 9/11 conspiracy theories, or this:
Fidel Castro claims Cuba’s government saved the life of President Reagan by giving American officials information about an assassination plot in 1984.
The essay published Wednesday in the Communist Party newspaper Granma appeared to be the first time Cuba has made the claim. It seemed aimed at showing Cuba has cooperated with the United States in the past.
Castro, who has not appeared in public for more than a year, wrote that a Cuban security official stationed at the United Nations told the then U.S. mission security chief about an extreme right-wing group that was planning to kill Reagan during a trip to North Carolina. He did not say how Cuba obtained the information.
A right-wing group was going to kill Reagan? Sure, Fidel, sure. This “article” did inspire me to create a list of other events and things the delusional dictator Castro is bound to take credit for now in his doddering old age:
Add your own ideas by posting a comment to this post.
Beasts of a feather flock together. The cadaverous caudillo named Castro chimes up and spews the same garbage the loose screws at Loose Change and Rosie O’Donnell have been spewing, that 9/11 was a “government conspiracy:”
An article attributed to Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Tuesday accused the US government of deceiving the world about the September 11 terror attacks in the United States.
The article, written on the sixth anniversary of the attacks, claimed that the Pentagon was hit not by an airplane but by a missile, and says that data on the World Trade Center destruction does not add up.
“We know that there was deliberate misinformation,” said Castro, 81, in a lengthy article titled “The Empire and Lies.” The Cuban leader routinely refers to the United States as “the empire.”
You’re right about one thing, Fidel. There’s been deliberate misinformation coming from you and your corrupt band of criminals for 48 years.
Cyril Richard Rescorla, better known as Rick. Born in England, he came to serve as an officer in the U.S. Army. He fought in Vietnam, in the battle of the Ia Drang Valley, made famous in the movie starring Mel Gibson, We Were Soldiers Once.
Rick was the VP of security for a brokerage firm on Wall Street–with offices at the World Trade Center. He was hardnosed and he took his job seriously, putting his companies employees through fire drill after annoying fire drill.
I’ll let Bill Gertz, author and Washington Times reporter, tell you the rest of the story:
On September 11, the evacuation was real. A fireball erupted in the nearby tower, and all of Morgan Stanley’s employees were making their way down and out of the other tower. By the time the second hijacked airliner hit the south tower at 9:07 a.m., most of the company’s employees were out. But Rescorla’s work was not finished. Three employees were missing. Rescorla and two assistants went back to look for them. Rescorla was last seen on the tenth floor of the burning tower. He died when the building collapsed a short time later. But he had saved thousands of lives. Out of 3,700 employees, Morgan Stanley lost only six, including Rescorla. R. James Woolsey, former director of Central Intelligence, sees Rescorla as the kind of person urgently needed by U.S. intelligence. An iconoclast and strategic thinker who wasn’t afraid to buck the system, Rescorla “is an example of somebody who should have probably been at the top of the intelligence community, but wasn’t,” Woolsey told me. “He’s a perfect example of the kind of guy that the Germans say has fingerspitzengefühl — fingertip feel” or intuition, he said. “God, it would have been wonderful if he had been the head of the DO’s [the CIA's Directorate of Operations] counterterrorist operations, but at least he saved 3,700 people.”
Read the rest of this fantastic excerpt here.
Don’t forget to fly your flag at half-mast today to commemorate those who lost their lives six years ago today.
Never forget…
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070904-6.html
Patriot Day, 2007
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
September 11, 2001, was a defining moment in American history. On that terrible day, our Nation saw the face of evil as 19 men barbarously attacked us and wantonly murdered people of many races, nationalities, and creeds. On Patriot Day, we remember the innocent victims, and we pay tribute to the valiant firefighters, police officers, emergency personnel, and ordinary citizens who risked their lives so others might live.
After the attacks on 9/11, America resolved that we would go on the offense against our enemies, and we would not distinguish between the terrorists and those who harbor and support them. All Americans honor the selfless men and women of our Armed Forces, the dedicated members of our public safety, law enforcement, and intelligence communities, and the thousands of others who work hard each day to protect our country, secure our liberty, and prevent future attacks.
The spirit of our people is the source of America’s strength, and 6 years ago, Americans came to the aid of neighbors in need. On Patriot Day, we pray for those who died and for their families. We volunteer to help others and demonstrate the continuing compassion of our citizens. On this solemn occasion, we rededicate ourselves to laying the foundation of peace with confidence in our mission and our free way of life.
By a joint resolution approved December 18, 2001 (Public Law 107-89), the Congress has designated September 11 of each year as “Patriot Day.”
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim September 11, 2007, as Patriot Day. I call upon the Governors of the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as well as appropriate officials of all units of government, to direct that the flag be flown at half-staff on Patriot Day. I also call upon the people of the United States to observe Patriot Day with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and remembrance services, to display the flag at half-staff from their homes on that day, and to observe a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 a.m. eastern daylight time to honor the innocent Americans and people from around the world who lost their lives as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-second.
GEORGE W. BUSH
By violating the U.S. embargo:
“The fact that you’re not supposed to be there, that was the top for me,” said Amit, 29, a New York City native who visited Cuba in September 2006, shortly after the 81-year-old Castro fell ill and ceded power to his younger brother.
“I was like, ‘It’s time to go,’” said Amit, who asked that his full name not be published to avoid U.S. fines. “You just don’t know what Cuba will be like after Castro’s gone.”
Well, gee Amit, you like it so much, why not stay there until Castro’s death is officially announced, and find out first-hand?
Another couple of useful idiots who should’ve bought one-way tickets chime in in a similar vein:
“We wanted to get here before all the other Americans come and ruin it all,” said Bridget, a 20-year-old from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who wandered Old Havana’s colonial streets with her friend Erik in August. They wouldn’t give their last names.
“It’s forbidden treasure,” said Erik, also from the Twin Cities. “It will be so Americanized in a few years. Just like Cancun,” where U.S. franchises from Hard Rock Cafe to Hooters tend to drown out Mexican culture.
Why not stay there UNTIL the Americans can “ruin” it–in other words, until the Castro’s are gone? How quaint it is, seeing how other people live without the things you take for granted, right Bridget and Erik? You know, little things like “food,” “rights” and “freedom?”
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