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• No Embargo on Meteors in Cuba

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  The Pope's stepping down. An asteroid buzzing the Earth. Balls-of-fire falling out of the sky all around the world, Russia, San Francisco, and now Cuba . Apparently the gods are not pleased...

  HAVANA (AP) — Cuba apparently experienced a phenomenon similar to but smaller than the [...]

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• Captain Nemo Blizzard update

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  A week after the mother of all blizzards, we are still covered by a nice white blanket up here in New England.

  We've had lots of rain and several warm days, but the snow is so deep that we still have about half of it left on the ground.

  Some of' [...]

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• Venezuelan state security monitoring student protestors

  As they have been taught by the Cuban dictatorship, the Venezuelan regime of dictator Hugo Chavez is closely monitoring student protestors outside the Cuban embassy in Caracas. The fully armed riot squad is ready to viciously beat down any Venezuelan student who attempts to express his or her displeasure with [...]

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• Loudmouthed “Latino” Demonstrators Cow Ritzy American-Owned Hotel !

  ............................."Why..I NEVER!!!"........................

  This week some “Latinos” in Florida detected an “ethnic slur” on the wall of the ritzy South Beach Hotel W’s lounge. Within minutes all hell broke loose. A few stormed over to the manager and DEMANDED it be taken down, promptly and ceremoniously! The [...]

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• Cuba’s Cyber Attack Force

  Joan Antoni Guerrero Vall at Punt de Vista:

  Cuba employs hundreds of people to attack, hack and adulterate opinions on the Internet

  Eliécer Ávila, now a dissident, talks about his past as chief of a division made up by young Cubans faithful to the regime and oriented to control Internet, with [...]

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• Having A Hard Time Finding Ammo?

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  I know we are. My husband was up at 5 this morning and off to a local big box store to check the shelves for ammo for our guns. He came home empty-handed (again). He and my Dad check a few times a week. And it is not just our [...]

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• This says it all

  "Why the gun is civilization."

  Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  After years of being prohibited from leaving the island, Yoani Sanchez tells Reuters what her main objectives will be on her upcoming world tour as Cuba's most well-known dissident:

  "I have various objectives. I am going to give conferences at various universities, present my book [a collection of her blogs], receive" [...]

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• America we hardly knew ye

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  This is where the Progressive Train has taken us in 50 short years. And, the funny thing is, every single person in the photos is very, very serious about their beliefs, without so much as a whisper of the irony of so much what they profess...

  We are well and truly [...]

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• On this date in history

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  February 16th, 1959: Fidel Castro made himself dictator of Cuba for life in a farcical ceremony where he was sworn in as Cuba's "Prime Minister."

  H/T Silvio Canto, Jr.

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