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• “That’s What Friends are For!” (Chicago Tribune croons to Castro)

  
  "I KNEW I could count on you!"

  Keep smiling, keep shining
  Knowing you can always count on me, for sure
  That's what friends are for
  For good times and bad times
  I'll be on your side forever more
  That's what friends are for

  As mentioned yesterday: Cuba's "Oil'" [...]

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• The Secret Service Officially Recognizes Obama as An “Empty Chair”

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  Really...

  A Centreville man who hung an empty chair from a tree in his backyard with a sign reading "Nobama" attached to it denies that it was meant to represent any inference to lynching or had any racist connotations, though he did manage to "get on the radar" of the [...]

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• Some suggestions for the Feds on this “Hispanic Heritage Month”

  
  Felix Rodriguez helping defeat El Salvadoran Nangaras

  As usual only a few Americans of Cuban heritage have complained about the EPA’s Che Guevara “gaffe.” As usual, most of the people Che Guevara craved to incinerate view this EPA “gaffe” as silly obsession by hyper-sensitive and loudmouthed Cuban-Americans.

  But Che [...]

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• I Await The Obama Administration’s Voiced Outrage

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  As a show of their religious tolerance, a NYC gallery will display Andres Serrano’s 1989 "Piss Christ", and for some reason the gallery will be beefing up security...

  The controversial “Piss Christ” artwork Sen. Alfonse D’Amato once branded as a “deplorable, despicable display of vulgarity,” is coming to New [...]

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• More Nangaras flee sinking ship (Granma editor this time)

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  Mairelys Cuevas Gomez, the managing editor of Castro's official newspaper Granma, has defected to the U.S.

  Who can blame her? She probably got a great offer from the Mexican Mafia at Univision.

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• The Wife of Univision Executive Chairman and Mega-Donor Nominated as Representative of the U.S. to the U.N. General Assembly

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  More of that thick and drippy Obama pay-to-play as the wife of Haim Saban is nominated by Obama to represent the USA at the UN.

  From The Washington Free Beacon...

  The White House announced Wednesday it has nominated Cheryl Saban, the wife of Univision chairman Haim Saban, to be a [...]

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• The Failed Obama Doctrine

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  Recall when, as the liberal and liberal media described it, ABC's Charlie Gibson flummoxed Gov. Sarah Palin by asking her how she felt about "The Bush Doctrine"? The MSM high-fived all around. I wonder if they will be so eager to inquire Romney or Ryan about "The Obama" [...]

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• Intransigence in Portuguese

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  My Brazilian publishers tell me Dilma Rousseff's people are simply delighted with these...the Fidel one will be released next week. (Che was released two years ago.)

  Also cool: The Brazilian edition of the Che book includes a DVD of our friend Pedro Corzo's "Guevara; Anatomia de Un" [...]

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• The day a Cuban spy and American traitor was arrested

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  From Chris Simmons excellent Cuba Confidential comes a stark reminder that Cuban spies (and American traitors) are everywhere:

  September 21, 2001: On this Friday morning, Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Ana B. Montes was told to report to the Inspector General’s (IG) office. She believed the IG was finally ready to [...]

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• Famous Cuban Intransigents

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  Brilliant Cuban intellectual and oracle, the late Gaston Baquero (on Left.) Brilliant and heroic Cuban intellectual, political prisoner and Human rights activist Armando Valladares (on right)

  H/T our friend Zoe Valdes.

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