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• Lord Of The Flies

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  Yes, I could make the typical and predictable "Like flies on ...." remark here, but I'll choose a more interesting sarcastic approach. I swear the CIA has those robo-spy-flies buzzing around the White House and occassionally a polished turd gets in their way.

  A fly lands between the eyes' [...]

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• Tomorrow Friday In Little Havana: Ros-Lehtinen Continues Years Long Tradition Of Participating In Lincoln Marti School’s Parada Escolar Martiana

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  January 24, 2013

  Tomorrow Friday In Little Havana: Ros-Lehtinen Continues Years Long Tradition Of Participating In Lincoln Marti School’s Parada Escolar Martiana; Ileana Says That Parade Keeps Jose Marti’s Principles Alive In Our Youth

  Miami, Florida – Tomorrow Friday January 25th at 10:00 am, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) will participate in [...]

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• Poem of the day

  From the Facebook page of Aimara Perez (my translation):

  Pulverizing Reform

  -  So said the butterfly,
  -  who observed from its perch on a rose,
  -  the star from the flag crying out,
  -  Don't leave me behind! Don't leave me behind!
  - And [...]

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• Sen. Rubio questions on America’s role in the world at Kerry nomination hearing

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  For Immediate Release

  Thursday, January 24, 2013

   

  RUBIO RAISES QUESTIONS ON AMERICA’S ROLE IN THE WORLD AT KERRY NOMINATION HEARING

  Rubio: “You alluded to President Obama’s vision for the world. And in the two years I have been here, I have struggled to fully understand what that vision is.”
  

  Senator Marco Rubio
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• Geraghty: “Benghazi Hearings Mark End of Accountability, Forever”

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  This morning, on his radio program, Glenn Beck cited Hillary's counter-interrogation tactics during her testimony on Benghazi yesterday in both enabling houses of the U.S. Congress. He's right. Over these last couple months of her reported medical delays in testifying the woman has been, and expectedly so, coached on [...]

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• American tourists to Cuba breaking the law?

  How many holes does the Obama administration's Cuba travel policy have? Apparently, quite a few.

  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  Note to Treasury: Tourism to Cuba is Against U.S. Law

  Can someone explain how elitist art patrons -- paying $8,000 per person -- to cruise Cuban ports is not tourism?

  Moreover, how this helps [...]

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• Tweet of the day – Jeff Flake the Cuba flake

  It seems that we are not the only ones who believe the senator from Arizona, Jeff Flake, is a flake when it comes to Cuba. According to a Tweet sent out by Flake himself today, he, too, apparently believes he is a Cuba flake.

  As they say, truth is stranger [...]

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• Cuban Spy Network broadcast caught on tape

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  It appears that the only one who is still truly caught up in an "archaic cold war mentality" is the Castro dictatorship in Cuba.

  From Lt. Col. Chris Simmons' Cuba Confidential:

  Cuban “Numbers Station” Spy Broadcast From Last Week

  Standard voice pattern begins at 27 second mark, only to be repeatedly intermixed' [...]

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• Commemoration of the Genocide against the Cossack people

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  A guest post and Babalú exclusive from Nathalie Vogel:

  Commemoration of the Genocide against the Cossack people

  January 24, 1919, is remembered as the darkest day in Cossack history.

  Today marks the 94th anniversary of the decossackization, the genocide, against the Cossack people. Obeying a secret note from their party, the Bolsheviks [...]

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• Richard Blanco’s “Confusion.”

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  From Richard Blanco:

  "(according to the Cuban exile community) Castro...destroyed the paradise that was Cuba. Yet my high school history teacher portrayed pre-revolutionary Cuba as a destitute country full of corruption, and praised Castro for his social reforms, quoting statistic in support of dramatic improvements in health care, literary," [...]

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