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• Cell Phone use out of hand(!) in Cuba (says Stalinist regime) time to cut back

  I SWEAR I am not making this up:

  Since Cubans (who in 1958 owned more TV's, phones and cars than most Europeans) today have fewer cell phones per-capita than the residents of Burkina Faso and Papua New Guinea--the regime is stepping in to curtail this shameless RELAJO! (luxury, waste and profligacy.)' [...]

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• Because we’re Cuban, that’s why

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• Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen speaks on the House Floor about Jon Hammar, the American Marine jailed in Mexico

  "Jon has suffered enough; let's bring him home to his family where he rightly belongs for Christmas."

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• From hyperbolic to hyperbaric and now on to hypermoribund

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  Lackeys, comrades-in-arms, and idolaters of Hugo Chavez are sounding grim and subdued today.  Though their idol's surgery has been deemed a success, their words and their demeanor suggest otherwise.   If they are daring to speak publicly about a "delicate" condition and openly display their grave concern, [...]

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• Photo of the day — More advances of Fidel’s Revolution

  Genetically engineered cows designed by Cuban scientist to fit in the backseat of a compact car:

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• “Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce.”

  We are well aware of the "Taxmageddon" monster rearing its ugly head the first of next year as the "Bush tax cuts for the rich" expire and we all will see our taxes increase. But those are not the only taxes planned for us by the federal government vampires. [...]

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• Cuba is a wonderful destination, as long as you ignore the miserable slaves

  It seems that to some, Cuba is a wonderful and luxurious destination. That is, of course, as long as you ignore the starving slaves living in misery and you limit yourself to exclusively associating with the elite members of Cuba's dictatorship.

  It is hard to imagine a more callous, elitist, insensitive, [...]

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• The End of the World

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  The End of the World from our friends at Guamá:

  Translation:

  "We have been preparing for the end of the world since 1959... No one panic!"

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• …..@!&*&^%$#…. !!!

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  Sean Penn attends Hugo Chavez vigil in Bolivia, calls him 'inspiring'
  By Augustin Mango, The Hollywood Reporter

  Actor Sean Penn made a surprise appearance Monday in Bolivia as he attended a candlelight vigil for the health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is currently in Cuba undergoing his fourth cancer [...]

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• Moving message from Rosa Maria Paya on Human Rights Day

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  Via Pedazos de la Isla:

  Moving message from Rosa Maria Paya on Human Rights Day

   

   

  The Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) has recorded and released a very moving message from Rosa Maria Paya, the young daughter of recently deceased opposition leader Oswaldo Paya Sardinas, for International Human Rights Day, celebrated this past 10th [...]

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