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• Excuse the naughty language, but you’ve got to see these shirts…

  Friend and artist Emilio Carnero (a.k.a. Mr. Toxico) is always coming up with great t-shirt designs. These are his latest gems.

  Nothing in it for me or Babalú. Just saw this and thought some of you might want to snatch a few up before they're gone. Apparently, by "limited" edition, he' [...]

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• The Venceremos Brigades without the cane-cutting

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  “These programs are not vacations. Every hour must be accounted for and involve meaningful interactions with Cuban people. . . . Participants attend a full daily schedule of activities that include lectures, roundtable discussions and break-out sessions, private performances, artistic demonstrations and interpretations, and informal conversations, all delivered [...]

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• Iowans: Welcome To The Sux, Obama

  They didn't even bother with an empty chair...

  SIOUX CITY, Iowa - President Obama received a less than warm welcome and a warning upon arrival at the airport here on the second stop of his Iowa visit, which was aimed at recapturing some of the magic the state gave his' [...]

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• Axelrod: Let Me Answer Your Direct Question With A Complete Deflection

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  Axelrod is griping this morning on FOX News Sunday that Mitt Romney didn't offer a 'plausible alternative' to Obama during last week's RNC Convention...

  I seem to recall all obama kept telling the American voter in 2008 was "hope" and "change" and a "fundamental transformation" of our country ...NO DETAILS, except [...]

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• Video from a gas station fire in Santiago de Cuba

  In this video acquired by UNPACU (follow them on YouTube here), onlookers in Santiago de Cuba rush toward a damaged gas pump to collect whatever gasoline they can sell on the black market. As the video notes, just a liter of gasoline can sell for about 20 Cuban pesos [...]

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• Required reading for the final exam on November 6

  Final exam will be worth 100% of your grade.  True/False format.  Exam required for graduation.  Location: your local polling place.

  Liberalism, as we know it

  By George F. Will, Published: August 31

  With Americans, on average, worth less and earning less than when he was inaugurated, Barack Obama is requesting a second term [...]

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• But let’s send more money, and TVs, and yet more money!

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  Capitol Hill Cubans: The Sad Truth "Desde la Habana."

  ''Castro is only interested in the money that comes from emigres. That they come to Cuba and spend lots of money. That they bring more dollars each time. But he wants them at arms length. Forget about business in strategic sectors. [...]

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• Surprise upon surprise! “Reforms” only serve to make everything worse in Castrolandia

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  Holy bananas!  I'll be a monkey's uncle and brother, all at once.

  Hold on to your teeth: a second news piece surfaced today on the "reforms" of King Raul I of Castrolandia.  And the news, as Sargent Pepper would say,  is rather sad.  It seems the so-called reforms have caused a' [...]

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• Surprise! Rulers of Castrolandia seem to have no real interest in reform!

  Oh no!  It can't be true!  The reforms set in motion by the rulers of Castrolandia are being undermined by the very same old men who initiated such reforms!   It seems that the elderly owners of the largest slave plantation in the Western hemisphere  have no real interest in' [...]

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• Anniversary of a Castroite Massacre ( Aug. 30 1962.)

  
  "FUEGO!" (over 500 times in two weeks)

  What few Cubans commemorate the date call it the "Santa Rosa De Lima Massacre" (forget looking for any mention in the MSM or in any "scholarly" writings. It doesn't fit the template, you see. Most of these victims had probably never' [...]

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