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• See, this is what can happen when Swedes use Cuban slave labor…

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  ... next thing you know, there's some funny business in the kitchen.

  Man, oh man, talk about a slippery slope... What would Mr. Ed have to say about this?

  Or, how about Yosmanamanani  Valdivia, in Guanabacoa?

  Caballo!  Ñooooo! Tremendas albondingas!  Oye, chico: mejor que burro, o que gato, o perro, o culebra, o [...]

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• Next thing you know, rapists will demand congratulations too, for being such good lovers….

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  Latest dispatch from the Kafka & Orwell Pub in La-La-Land, via ABC News (USA):

  Notice, please, that the non-event in question is actually referred to as an "election" and that the members of the "voting" assembly are referred to as "lawmakers."

  If this absurd piece of "reporting" were not so revealing [...]

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• Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart on anniversaries of BTTR shoot down and death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

  February 25, 2013

  Diaz-Balart: We Must Redouble Our Commitment to Cuban Democracy in Honor of ‘Brothers to the Rescue’

  Washington, D.C. –Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) released the following statement in remembrance of the seventeenth anniversary of the “Brothers to the Rescue” plane shoot-down. Two American civilian planes were flying over [...]

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• Reports from Cuba: A flower for Orlando Zapata Tamayo, Cuban martyr: Liberty and Life

  By Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo:

  A flower for Orlando Zapata Tamayo, Cuban martyr: Liberty and Life

  The day Orlando Zapata Tamayo died, something died in me forever.

  Do you get it, Cuban State?

  Forever is forever.

  February 24 2013

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• Cuban Transition truly underway! ( transition in titles that is, as “Experts” evolve into “Analysts” and “Scholars”)

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  We recently reported on the stunning reform underway regarding Cuba where the hidebound and traditional Cuba "Experts" were transitioning into Cuba "Analysts," and "Scholars". A reform, that it seemed to us, was genuine.

  We're happy to report that this inexorable reform continues apace. After all, up' [...]

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• Bad — Very Bad — News

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  By Luis Felipe Rojas:

  Bad — Very Bad — News

  Among the somewhat reasonable excitement over the traveling out of Cuba of some of the most glamorous of the dissidents like Yoani Sanchez, Rosa Maria Paya, and Eliecer Avila, extremely alarming things are happening. Two independent reporters arrested (they released Cedeño [...]

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• The 85th Academy Awards: The Walking Dread

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  I stopped tuning-in for the Academy Awards back during Pres. George W. Bush's first term when antiwar/anti-reality-about-the-2000-election Florida recount Hollywood crowd just could not control themselves and be civil. During the two Bush terms Hollywood cranked out some of the worst antiwar and anti-U.S. troops movies that failed [...]

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• A dose of reality for Cuba’s ‘political’ news yesterday

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  News agencies all over the world are busily trying to interpret and analyze the pronouncements made by Cuban dictator Raul Castro yesterday regarding his planned "retirement" and the appointments of new "leaders" in the island's totalitarian government. Few, if any of these news agencies will bother to view these latest [...]

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• Hardy Har Har

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  A lame attempt at  humor from the small island country that briefly wrested Cuba from the Spanish empire in the late 18th century.

  From The Guardian (UK), in Passnotes: "A humorous Q & A about a news issue of the day"

  The butt of the joke: yeah, you guessed it.  Cubans. [...]

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• Irony: The latest trend

  The humor of Santana in El Nuevo Herald:

  Translation:

  "I'm retiring."

  "That must be irony he's using... It's the latest trend nowadays."

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