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• Stalinist Cuba’s (“Catholic”) apparatchiks hail Pope Benedict upon his retirement

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  From the Castro regime's (Fudge-packEE) Minister of The Opiate of the Masses, Cardinal Jaime Ortega:

  "Pope Benedict's retirement is an invaluable lesson in humility ..only a great love for Christ, his church and a great humility could provoke such an act..Cuban Catholics, along with the entire Cuban" [...]

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• ‘Cubanos in Wisconsin’: A couple of reviews

  If you have not gotten your copy of the book Cubanos in Wisconsin written by our good friend Silvio Canto, Jr. and his son Gabriel, what are you waiting for? Silvio does a wonderful job of weaving a touching, true tale of a Cuban refugee family who came to the U.S. [...]

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• A Lada Nostalgia

  Via Guamá (my translation):

  LADA NOSTALIGA: Police car and Limousine LADA · Police Car Now, you can buy one of the many police cars (1:43 scale) that are used to transport worms after someone snitches on them and they are subsequently imprisoned.

   

  LADA · Limousine There is also this 1:43 scale [...]

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• Fidel Castro burned in effigy–(by NON-Cuban “Lateeeenos!”) “Burn Baby Burn!”

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  Venezuelan students burn Castro's effigy in front of the OAS office in Caracas

  Feb. 3 - For more than two weeks, several Venezuelan students have remained chained to the fence protecting the OAS mission in Caracas, in protest for the OAS refusal to condemn the Venezuelan government for [...]

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• On vegetarianism and evil

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  Here is a news story about a historical fact that is often overlooked everywhere but in Spain.

  Spaniards have trouble understanding vegetarianism, and often place it in the same category as mental illness or moral degeneracy.

  This has been my experience in Spain.  Nearly every time I have tried to explain [...]

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• Ecuador’s Permanent Mob-Rule Campaign

  Mary O'Grady on Ecuador in the Wall Street Journal:

  Ecuador's Permanent Mob-Rule Campaign

  By demonizing opponents and changing voting law, President Rafael Correa assures his re-election.

  Barack Obama uses his high office to conduct a permanent campaign against his opponents, often falsely attributing the basest of motives to them. That's pretty much' [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  While exploring the possibilities that new Secretary of State John Kerry might make some headway in mending relations with Cuba's murderous and brutally repressive dictatorship, "Cuba Expert" Anya Landau French lets the proverbial cat out of the bag by admitting, I imagine unwittingly, that the Castro dictatorship will not [...]

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• Castro’s China bubble burst

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  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  Castro's China Bubble Burst

  Another one of the recent myths regarding Castro's Cuba was that China had become a major source of financing and investment.

  We always held this was false, for this 2010 State Department cable (released by Wikileaks) had revealed the Chinese regime's frustrations in doing business' [...]

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• Follow the Castro model, pay the price.

  If the socialist leaders of Latrine America had any brains, or any real concern for the future of their nations, they would take a look at this news story and change course immediately.  Of course, none of them will do any such thing.  Instead, they will keep driving their [...]

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• BREAKING: Pope Benedict XVI Announces He is Resigning

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  I am honestly shocked. From what I am hearing from Fr. Jonathan Morris on FOX News right now, the man went into the role of Pope in the Catholic Church's Vatican with hesitation, and maybe even halfheartedly. Basically he had intended to be somewhat retired at his age, spending' [...]

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