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Jarod
08-02-2006, 02:51 PM
Is Castro still alive?

OrnotBitwise
08-02-2006, 02:52 PM
Fidel Castro's not dead . . . but Generalisimo Francisco Franco still is.

Jarod
08-02-2006, 02:55 PM
Thanks...

Jarod
08-02-2006, 03:31 PM
Those crazy Cubans think they are going home???!@

Beefy
08-02-2006, 03:37 PM
I think there's a good chance that he up and died. This is purely speculation of course, but if he did, they could say he's still alive, and that he's just recovering while Raul takes the reigns of power with a reduced threat of revolution. Once securely in the drivers seat, Raul announces that Fidel is dead, and the power transition is seamless.

Or, the mofon could still be alive. But I wouldn't take Cuban reports as any sort of Gospel.

klaatu
08-02-2006, 03:43 PM
I think there's a good chance that he up and died. This is purely speculation of course, but if he did, they could say he's still alive, and that he's just recovering while Raul takes the reigns of power with a reduced threat of revolution. Once securely in the drivers seat, Raul announces that Fidel is dead, and the power transition is seamless.

Or, the mofon could still be alive. But I wouldn't take Cuban reports as any sort of Gospel.


Possible ... I get a kick out of "Transfers the Powers of the Presidency" lol!

OrnotBitwise
08-02-2006, 03:44 PM
Those crazy Cubans think they are going home???!@
Some of them, yeah. I think they're in for a rude awakening. The Miami "Exile" community is not real popular back home.

maineman
08-02-2006, 08:07 PM
maybe they can keep his "nose" alive a la "Sleepers" by Woody Allen

Damocles
08-02-2006, 08:08 PM
His nose? I'm pretty sure that isn't the part that he'd pick if he had a choice.

IHateGovernment
08-02-2006, 11:09 PM
Beefy didn't you call Arafats death a few days prematurely?

Beefy
08-02-2006, 11:12 PM
Beefy didn't you call Arafats death a few days prematurely?

Jeez man. One false move in '04 and I never live it down. That's why I prefaced this thing with the "purely speculation" deal. Who are you? Rain man?

IHateGovernment
08-02-2006, 11:16 PM
Couldn't resist. As far as Rain man I wish I'd go straight to the casino.

Beefy
08-02-2006, 11:18 PM
Couldn't resist. As far as Rain man I wish I'd go straight to the casino.

Well, I'd put up some dough with that memory. Anyhow, I don't think my scenario is all that implausible.

Jarod
08-03-2006, 09:36 AM
Does Vegas do odds on this type of thing?

OrnotBitwise
08-03-2006, 01:25 PM
Does Vegas do odds on this type of thing?
I think that they give odds on just about anything in Vegas.

Cypress
08-03-2006, 01:34 PM
Actually, now that large oil reserves have been discovered off of cuba's coast, Fidel being out of the picture is the perfect smokescreen for those americans who have blustered for 50 years about "maintaining" the embargo, to flip-flop and demand economic relations with cuba.

So, american oil companies can get a piece of the action of course. I don't have a problem with this. Its hypocrisy, but it might be for the best, in the end.

Damocles
08-03-2006, 01:46 PM
Actually, now that large oil reserves have been discovered off of cuba's coast, Fidel being out of the picture is the perfect smokescreen for those americans who have blustered for 50 years about "maintaining" the embargo, to flip-flop and demand economic relations with cuba.

So, american oil companies can get a piece of the action of course. I don't have a problem with this. Its hypocrisy, but it might be for the best, in the end.
There are many companies that have contracts already for doing business in Cuba as soon as the old man goes...

Cancel7
08-03-2006, 01:53 PM
I think there's a good chance that he up and died. This is purely speculation of course, but if he did, they could say he's still alive, and that he's just recovering while Raul takes the reigns of power with a reduced threat of revolution. Once securely in the drivers seat, Raul announces that Fidel is dead, and the power transition is seamless.

Or, the mofon could still be alive. But I wouldn't take Cuban reports as any sort of Gospel.

No, that's right Beefy, nor would I. I mean, it's not like we're talking about missives coming from the Bushit Department of Poopaganda.

These are communists! There is no telling what kind of shit they might make up.

OrnotBitwise
08-03-2006, 01:55 PM
These are communists! There is no telling what kind of shit they might make up.
Socialized medicine and -- oh, the horror -- universal literacy! :shock:

Cancel7
08-03-2006, 01:58 PM
Socialized medicine and -- oh, the horror -- universal literacy! :shock:

LOL

I imagine that universal literacy is a horror to right wingers...if we had it, it's highly unlikely bush would have garnered even 30 percent of the vote.

Cypress
08-03-2006, 01:58 PM
There are many companies that have contracts already for doing business in Cuba as soon as the old man goes...

This 50-year embargo is stupid.

There's only one reason we've kept it in place: Florida's presidential electoral votes.

I would love to see american companies joining the world community in cuban oil exploration.

IHateGovernment
08-03-2006, 02:28 PM
Darla do you think it is wrong to be skeptical of Cuban news reports. It has nothing to do with Cuba being communist it has to do with Cuba being a totalitarian government.

I don't trust American news completely but I trust it more than from a country that doesn't even pretend to have freedom of the press.

IHateGovernment
08-03-2006, 02:31 PM
We have problems here but I wouldn't want to live in Cuba. I've never heard of anyone risking their life to live in Cuba.

Cancel7
08-03-2006, 02:54 PM
Darla do you think it is wrong to be skeptical of Cuban news reports. It has nothing to do with Cuba being communist it has to do with Cuba being a totalitarian government.

I don't trust American news completely but I trust it more than from a country that doesn't even pretend to have freedom of the press.

I trust reports from absolutely no government and believe that anyone who does is foolish.

Anyone who thinks reports coming out of the bush adminstration are more trustworthy than something coming out of the Castro adminstration just hasn't been following them very closely. Let me tell you this; if bush's mouth is moving, he's lying.

To me, it's all the same. I find no comfort in the pretense of a free press.

IHateGovernment
08-03-2006, 03:13 PM
Why did you mock Beefy for saying he didn't put to much trust in them, especially if you don't either.

IHateGovernment
08-03-2006, 03:14 PM
Looking at your post again it seems it wasn't Beefy you were mocking but just commenting on how our news isn't so great itself. Am I right?

Jarod
08-03-2006, 03:23 PM
I belive many tourism and suggar industry people here in FLorida have a big interest in keeping Cuba closed down for business.

IHateGovernment
08-03-2006, 03:26 PM
Probably the cigar business too.

Beefy
08-03-2006, 03:29 PM
No, that's right Beefy, nor would I. I mean, it's not like we're talking about missives coming from the Bushit Department of Poopaganda.

These are communists! There is no telling what kind of shit they might make up.

The Cuban government is far worse than even this idiotic administration. Their media is 100% state controlled. They have three channells of running propaganda all day long, peppered in with some sports. There are billboards all over the city and countryside promting Fidel and stating how wonderful life in Cuba is. Retirement is Secure, in Cuba! Socialism! We stand strong to gether or we are nothing at all, Cuba! We owe our lives to Fidel, Cuba!

Even boarding houses and hotels have notices on their windows stating that this house or hotel is the property of all Cubans, and more importantly Fidel Castro, please be respectful of that.

Every ounce of media and communication that can be controlled by the government, is controlled by the government. Yeah, the W is a retarded mongoloid, but any comparison between out media and theirs is pure drivel.

Jarod
08-03-2006, 03:30 PM
Probably the cigar business too.


Not much cigar production in Florida... Labor is too expensive, mostly its done in the dominican Republic!

OrnotBitwise
08-03-2006, 03:52 PM
I belive many tourism and suggar industry people here in FLorida have a big interest in keeping Cuba closed down for business.
At last! Someone who's asking why we really keep that stupid embargo in place.

:clink:

Actually, I think that it's mostly for pandering to the South Florida unindicted criminal vote, myself.