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• For those in REAL exile, up north… no laziness allowed, just too many leaves to rake

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  Yes, folks in semi-exile in Florida have no leaves to rake... They can afford to have a lazy sunday.  Come up north and get a taste of the real thing. Leaf-raking is just the prelude to snow-shoveling.

  And some of us are crazy enough to love it. Can't get enough' [...]

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• I’ve been very lazy today

  Forgot to post this earlier today when I made breakfast around noon.

  Bacon is life...

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• Venezuelan judge claims she was raped in prison

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  This is Hugo Chavez's "Bolivarian Revolution" in all its glory. Not much different from the Castro dictatorship's glorious Cuban revolution.

  Via EFE on Fox News Latino:

  Venezuelan judge says she was raped in prison

  The case of Venezuelan Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni, in custody for almost three years amid international condemnation of [...]

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• Party over (for now, at least) for South Florida Cuba charter company

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  No more party hats, maracas, balloons, or cakes for South Florida's Airline Brokers Co., a business partner of the Castro dictatorship that offered Americans charter airline service to the communist island. Without much notice or explanation (or so they say), the Cuban regime cut off the charter company and its [...]

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• Freedom of speech the enemy of tyranny

  Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez knows that the mortal enemy of tyranny is freedom of speech. Therefore, he goes to great lengths to eliminate that freedom in Venezuela.

  Via the AP:

  Gov't raids opposition print plant in Venezuela

  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Government intelligence agents have raided a business printing opposition political' [...]

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• Political arrests in Cuba surpass 5,000

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  After four years of the Obama administration's policy of "engagement" with Cuba, and even more years of the European Union's policy of constructive dialogue with the tyrannical Castro dictatorship, here is what they have to show for it.

  Via IWPR (Institute for War & Peace Reporting):

  Political Detentions in Cuba Top [...]

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• Define “Irony”…

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  Pro-Hamas Arab students protesting in the streets interrupted by sirens warning of approaching Hamas rockets.

  I am he as you are he as you are me
  And we are all together
  See how they run like pigs from a gun see how they fly
  I'm crying

  ' [...]
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• Egypt: The Evolution of The Revolution

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  Now that Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi decreed himself Pharaoh some other voices are joining the "unrest" in the streets.

  First, the judges, whom Morsi particularly stomped on in his power-grab, are calling for a nationwide strike...

  Egypt’s judges have called for a nationwide strike in protest against [...]

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• International Day to End Impunity

  Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:

  November 23: International Day to End Impunity

  "The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity."- Cicero

  Cuba is a country in which the culture of impunity has ruled over an entire people for over 53 years. Nonviolent human rights defenders [...]

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• Well Played, Sir Guy, Sir Consiglio and Lady Michaels … Well Played

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  Apparently today's self-proclaimed "journalists" just can't seem to help themselves in losing their objectivity and unbiased approach to reporting on current events and the news in general much the way they would lose their car keys. They typically expose themselves in their media outlets, but of late many step into' [...]

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