Obama Moves to Normalize Relations With Cuba, After Cuba Releases Hostage It's Held for Five Years

Rubio says that this announces to the world that the way to wring concessions from America is to take a hostage. But that's silly. Obama already announced that with Bowe Berdahl.

The monster is speaking now.

Near the end of the speech, after announcing a raft of "executive actions," he concedes the embargo is a creature of Congressional law, and that he "looks forward" to discussing the lifting of the embargo with Cuba.

Obama: "Todos sommos Americanos." Which I assume means "We are all Americans."

Um... no we're not. What they'll do is say "We are in fact all inhabitants of The Americas," and make fun of dumb conservatives for "not knowing" this.

But given his unilateral immigration move, I think he's actually sending out the signal that we are literally all Americans, anyone who wants to be and who can jump a fence.

Posted by: Ace at 11:54 AM

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1 Who can stand to listen to him any more?!

JUST GO AWAY!

Posted by: kathysaysso at December 17, 2014 11:54 AM (fMQoG)

2 Which Monster Obama or Castro?

Posted by: helloit's me Donna and I know nuthink! at December 17, 2014 11:56 AM (Bn6aD)

3 I certainly can't stand it. I experience a visceral revulsion to the lies, deceit, and insincerity.

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 11:56 AM (/Ho8c)

4 2
Which Monster Obama or Castro?

Donna, either one is puke-inducing.

Posted by: kathysaysso at December 17, 2014 11:56 AM (fMQoG)

5
Let me be clear. Blibbety blah blah blab.

Posted by: Frankenbarry at December 17, 2014 11:56 AM (wAQA5)

6 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 17, 2014 11:56 AM (kff5f)

7 Is he wearing a tuxedo?

Posted by: Adriane at December 17, 2014 11:57 AM (P+IZm)

8 Correct the way to get what you want from America is to be Islamic or Communist or ideally both and hurt Americans.

#SmahtPowah

#RetardStrength

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 17, 2014 11:57 AM (/4AZU)

9 Which does beg the question: why now?

I wonder if it has something to do with 2016. If you were a Dem, and you were looking to undermine potential R candidates, who would this affect the most?

Rubio?

Jeb?

I'm not saying I think that's the case here, but it's worth considering.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2014 11:57 AM (TOk1P)

10 Which Monster Obama or Castro?

Posted by: helloit's me Donna and I know nuthink! at December 17, 2014 11:56 AM

Is there a difference?

Well, yeah. Castro has achieved his goals. Choom Boy still has a ways to go before the U.S. is a total third-world shithole.

Posted by: MrScribbler at December 17, 2014 11:57 AM (yAC3X)

11 Before he leaves office, Obumbles is going to issue more pardons than any President ever. For example, anyone in government that thinks he has the power to unilaterally end statutory sanctions against dealing with Cuba is breaking the law.

Posted by: Calle Ocho Citizens League at December 17, 2014 11:58 AM (LISuA)

12 He's clearly off his feed if he's not bothering to pronounce it Koo-Bah

Posted by: M. Murcek at December 17, 2014 11:58 AM (GJUgF)

13 The way to wring concessions from America is to elect a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure.

Marco, releasing Cuban spies is not a 'concession' for him.

Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2014 11:58 AM (s7rRm)

14 I don't mind normalizing relations with Cuba, but something tells me this is much more about the SCOAMT and his fortunes than it is about a sensible foreign and domestic (and with Cuba, the two are tightly coupled) policy.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 17, 2014 11:58 AM (kff5f)

15 10 -

Castro doesn't look like a girl when he throws a baseball.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2014 11:58 AM (TOk1P)

16 Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2014 11:57 AM (TOk1P)

Ted Cruz should be on that list, too.

And given the shallowness of TFG and his staff, he may also be trying to clear the way for one of the Castro brothers from San Antonio.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 17, 2014 11:59 AM (kff5f)

17 Is this going to be like closing Gitmo?

Posted by: Mainah at December 17, 2014 11:59 AM (659DL)

18 Well, there's no "border" to open because we don't share one with Cuba, so SCOAMT did the next best thing...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 17, 2014 12:00 PM (wtvvX)

19 How does this play in Florida? Honest question.

I know in the past this sort of thing would be a death blow to Democrats within the Cuban community.

I really think the only group of people that are really clamoring for this sort of action are closet Communists that are still bitter we won the Cold War.

Posted by: McAdams at December 17, 2014 12:00 PM (xBrPz)

20 51st state with no voter ID requirements.

Posted by: mesablue at December 17, 2014 12:00 PM (gNx/b)

21 This is more about Obama having someplace to run to when his crimes finally catch up with him. No extradition!

Posted by: Alabama at December 17, 2014 12:00 PM (Dn3nj)

22 14 -

The closing Gitmo angle is a very strong possibility here too.

Lefties are still rabid about it. This would allow him to re-experience their love, if he can give it to them one more time.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2014 12:01 PM (TOk1P)

23 Da Zero is well traveled. He has sucked dictator and Moose-limb cock all around the world.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 12:02 PM (xWW96)

24 Now we can get that awesome Cuban healthcare.

Posted by: mesablue at December 17, 2014 12:04 PM (gNx/b)

25 What about Jonathan Pollard? Apparently you have to be our enemy to get a concession from the a-----hole.

Posted by: Sharon at December 17, 2014 12:04 PM (0qlz2)

26 I really think the only group of people that are really clamoring for this sort of action are closet Communists that are still bitter we won the Cold War.

We won the Cold War?

You sure could've fooled me.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 12:04 PM (0HooB)

27 Guess the month Obama will make the historic Presidential visit to Havana.

I'll guess -- May 2016.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 12:04 PM (ZPrif)

28 Obama call to Putin before today's speech: "Remember the flexibility that I told you I'd have after the election, comrade? Well, this is it. Fucking over freedom loving people has never been so much fun."

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at December 17, 2014 12:04 PM (BZAd3)

29 Cuba very happy about the possibility of importing cars made after 1960.

Posted by: Alabama at December 17, 2014 12:05 PM (Dn3nj)

30 I'll summon the corgis.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:05 PM (FsuaD)

31 Obummer to USA: "screw all of you, I can still do what I want for two years. And all my Commie friends wanted me to do this anyway."

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 12:05 PM (/mTq0)

32 I know this is a dumb question, but can He do this? I know it never mattered before but doesn't Congress have a say in this?

Posted by: helloit's me Donna and I know nuthink! at December 17, 2014 12:05 PM (Bn6aD)

33 Wait -- what were we doing to Cuba? Why? And what's an embargo? That's so mean.

Posted by: America LIV at December 17, 2014 12:05 PM (ZPrif)

34 Unfortunately, this will do nothing for Cuba. The country has had American tourists traveling there for decades now (unofficially, of course), and it hasn't helped things at all. Once you get away from the tourist spots, the country - even Havana - looks horrific. Michael Totten was there a year or two ago, and wandered off the beaten path. The pictures he took look like what you'd expect to see if squatters moved into a city that had been abandoned for over a decade.

The only thing that this will do for Cuba is to line Castro's pockets even more than they already are.

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 12:05 PM (UWFpX)

35 Reposting this, since it probably got willowed in the earlier thread...

Truth be told, communism in Cuba is strictly window-dressing. Sure, they have the totalitarian police state thing down solid, local committees for 'ideological purity', neighbors informing on each other, etc, etc...

...but everything revolves around the Cult of Castro (and Che)... and the Castros are very, very rich. Example: all those factories built by Western/European companies... they make a big deal out of saying they pay Cuban workers 'standard wages' (10-15 euros/hr).

No... they hand all those paychecks over to the Cuban government... then the govt cuts a check giving those same workers the equivalent of $1-5/day. Wanna guess where the difference goes?

Cubans are deliberately kept poor... and isolated, in spite of all the touristas flowing into Cuba. Everything is geared towards maintaining state power, and the perpetuation of the Glorious Revolucion mythos.

IF this is happening, don't hold your breath waiting to see if any of the above changes...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 17, 2014 12:06 PM (/mTq0)

36 Mikey Moore loves Cuba. It's the only place his fat, greasy, maggoty ass can get laid. And it only cost him $1000, as opposed to 20 clams for everybody else.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 12:06 PM (xWW96)

37 One of the big reasons why we have had frozen relations with Cuba is that Fidel seized a whole shitload of American owned property and businesses and never made reparations.

And now that behavior is about to be rewarded.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 17, 2014 12:06 PM (BywSN)

38 I have it on excellent authority that right after this, there will be more earth shattering news. Sources suggest it will have something to do with Kim K's ass.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at December 17, 2014 12:06 PM (BZAd3)

39 I've had the mute on since the JEF appeared.

I'm sure he's droning on and on and on.

Has he given Cuba Gitmo yet?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:07 PM (FsuaD)

40 I know this is a dumb question, but can He do this? I know it never mattered before but doesn't Congress have a say in this?

Good question, actually.

At least in theory, he can open the diplomatic channels all on his own say-so, 'cause that's one of the President's powers. But an end to the embargo, and any actual treaty should both require Congressional approval.

So I guess it's a question of "what does 'normalized relations' mean?"

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 17, 2014 12:07 PM (kff5f)

41 Good luck with the new congress. asshole

Posted by: Nip sip at December 17, 2014 12:07 PM (Zgwq+)

42 38 I have it on excellent authority that right after this, there will be more earth shattering news. Sources suggest it will have something to do with Kim K's ass.

It's been named the 51st State?

Posted by: helloit's me Donna and I know nuthink! at December 17, 2014 12:07 PM (Bn6aD)

43 We just "discovered" which group of latinos Obama is willing to upset - Cuban Americans.

Posted by: Baldy at December 17, 2014 12:08 PM (+35FH)

44 Can you believe that a bitch asked me to help her get something off a high shelf in Target? ME!

Posted by: Mooch at December 17, 2014 12:08 PM (ttJ2z)

45 Has anyone stated Fuck Rubio yet?

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 17, 2014 12:08 PM (XzRw1)

46 32 I know this is a dumb question, but can He do this? I know it never mattered before but doesn't Congress have a say in this?
Posted by: helloit's me Donna and I know nuthink! at December 17, 2014 12:05 PM (Bn6aD

He can do whatever the hell he pleases. The opposition party died quite some time ago. I'm sure the Chamber of Commerce is all in favor of it as is the ACLU, a total win-win situation for the Boy King.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 17, 2014 12:08 PM (l1zOH)

47 What else will Obama do in the next two years now that he's officially in the Don't Give a Fuck stage of his presidency?

Normalizing relations with Iran is his #1 goal it seems.

I think he'd like to abandon Taiwan and just let the Chicoms take over.

He's tried to overthrow Bibi in Israel but he can't do that unilaterally.

What else?

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 12:08 PM (ZPrif)

48 Thanks, bro!

Posted by: Sean Penn, Danny Glover, the rest of Commie Hollywood at December 17, 2014 12:08 PM (ABcz/)

49 If the embargo is actually lifted, we might finally be rid of the myth of cuban cigars in the next couple of decades.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 17, 2014 12:09 PM (MbqmP)

50 Maybe the SCOAMF can get Cuba to raise their maximum wage?

Posted by: Chris M at December 17, 2014 12:09 PM (k3w9p)

51 Which Monster Obama or Castro?

Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 12:09 PM (f3Lr8)

52
So I guess it's a question of "what does 'normalized relations' mean?"
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 17, 2014 12:07 PM (kff5f)

Like a divorcing couple getting together to pound one off?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 17, 2014 12:09 PM (l1zOH)

53 Junior

IIRC, Michael Totten was there this year. A fascinating article. I wonder if TOTUS understands that all federal laws are passed by Congress. Given he is a Harvard "man", i wonder if got exemptions for every exam because of emotional trauma.

Posted by: Penfold at December 17, 2014 12:09 PM (Fbt5B)

54 Gad. He's still flapping his lips. Doesn't he have to pack for Hawaii?

Who am I kidding. He's got staff for that.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:09 PM (FsuaD)

55 How long before Putin sends missiles to Cuba?

Posted by: mesablue at December 17, 2014 12:09 PM (gNx/b)

56 This isn't happening "because Cuba took a hostage". At least not in the classic sense. Obama is using this as an excuse to do what he wanted to do anyway. The Bergdahl situation is a good example. Obama used the Bergdahl "hostage" situation to do what he wanted to do anyway, i.e. free some really dangerous guys from Guantanamo. In other news, Florida has already been called for President-elect Ted Cruz in the 2016 election.

Posted by: OCBill at December 17, 2014 12:09 PM (Mj+FA)

57 #winning

Posted by: Greater American Co-Prosperity Sphere at December 17, 2014 12:09 PM (NUCTk)

58 heh
Aaron MacLean @AaronBMacLean 2m2 minutes ago
We turned over 3 Cuban spies for this deal. Is Obama admin considering turning over Franco and Rogen in return for deal w/ North Korea?

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 12:10 PM (ZPrif)

59 Don't the Chinks drill right off the Cuban coast?

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 17, 2014 12:10 PM (XzRw1)

60 >>What else?

Well, he'd really like the Muslim Brotherhood back in power in Egypt and he's started working with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2014 12:10 PM (ABcz/)

61 Hey, Barry. Fetch me some coffee, will ya?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:11 PM (FsuaD)

62 datechguy

In exchange for his release, the U.S. government released three of the remaining Cuban spies convicted in 2001 on 26 federal charges, including conspiracy to commit espionage, conspiracy to commit murder, and acting as agents of a foreign government.

Posted by: willow at December 17, 2014 12:11 PM (nqBYe)

63 Finally, it's safe to un-mute the TV.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:11 PM (FsuaD)

64 So Cuban mercenaries are on their way to Angola, NY right now as we speak?

Posted by: andycanuck at December 17, 2014 12:11 PM (Dw98+)

65 1 American for 3 Cuban spies.

Plus Bergdahl for 5 prisoners. Aint common core math a bitch?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 17, 2014 12:12 PM (l1zOH)

66 Anybody remember when the Cubans were the bad guys in Red Dawn?

Good times.

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 12:12 PM (/Ho8c)

67 Who can stand to listen to him any more?!
---------------------------------------

Not since around May of 2007.

Posted by: Mega at December 17, 2014 12:12 PM (hHFOx)

68 So ... Obama teamed up with the Pope?

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 12:12 PM (ZPrif)

69 Finally, it's safe to un-mute the TV.

I wonder how and to what extent we just got fucked over.

Again.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 12:12 PM (0HooB)

70 I hate me some frickin commies but lust for the fishing opportunities this could bring. Yes, I'm that shallow.

Posted by: Drewbicle at December 17, 2014 12:13 PM (PBRLV)

71 1 American for 3 Cuban spies.

Plus Bergdahl for 5 prisoners.

When are we going to see the report on Beau Bergdahl?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:13 PM (FsuaD)

72 i believe He released the number two guy a few weeks ago of the taliban that had a connection to the same that just killed 140 children and teachers

?

Posted by: willow at December 17, 2014 12:13 PM (nqBYe)

73 Some people just want to watch the world burn.
And the more motivated ones like to cover it with gasoline and strike the match.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2014 12:13 PM (ABcz/)

74 The US has relations with regimes worse than Castro. Having normal relations with Cuba is not a big deal. Once again, the tea party is having a meltdown over nothing over nothing.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 12:13 PM (5M4K1)

75 .. Obama teamed up with the Pope?

Sorry to you Catholics here but I've had about enough from this "Pope."

Posted by: helloit's me Donna and I know nuthink! at December 17, 2014 12:14 PM (Bn6aD)

76 Isn't Koo-Bah some shitty cereal only poor kids eat?

Posted by: joey biden at December 17, 2014 12:14 PM (Dw98+)

77 >>i believe He released the number two guy a few weeks ago of the taliban
that had a connection to the same that just killed 140 children and
teachers

Yeah - he released the #2 Pakistan Taliban guy, forget his name.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2014 12:14 PM (ABcz/)

78 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 17, 2014 12:12 PM (l1zOH)

1=5=3

Your point?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2014 12:14 PM (Zu3d9)

79 75

Why are you against relations with Cuba, but OK with relations with Saudi Arabia?

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 12:14 PM (5M4K1)

80 Castro doesn't look like a girl when he throws a baseball.

They say he didn't have a Major League Fastball, which is why he got into politics.

Posted by: Paladin at December 17, 2014 12:15 PM (lP8dE)

81 You mean Cuber?

Posted by: Pat Robertson at December 17, 2014 12:15 PM (wVBo0)

82

Oh boy, a whole new country to explore -- IYKWIM.

Posted by: Sen Robert "Bad Touch" Menendez D-NJ

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 17, 2014 12:15 PM (kdS6q)

83 The JEF has the blood of hundreds, if not thousands, on his hands. And that's just his drones.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:15 PM (FsuaD)

84 Upside: There should be some very well maintained 55' Chebby's hitting the market soon.

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 17, 2014 12:15 PM (XzRw1)

85 So he finishes with
"Todos Somos Americanos"

as if he actually spoke Spanish instead of reading it off a teleprompter. Also managed to throw in some stuff about us reaching our full potential regardless of our origins or race. And just who was that liitle jab aimed at?

Not sure what I think of this new policy but how does he always manage to always come off as a condescending jerk? Why can't he just make a simple speech without all the moral superiority BS? He might actually win over a few people on an occasional issue if he would talk to us like adults.

Posted by: George Orwell at December 17, 2014 12:15 PM (1BQGO)

86 The pictures he took look like what you'd expect to see if squatters
moved into a city that had been abandoned for over a decade.
-------------------------

Only a decade? Sounds like heaven. Call us!

Posted by: Detroit at December 17, 2014 12:15 PM (hHFOx)

87 Kristol had a great tweet.

The US will have an embassy in Cuba before we have one in Jerusalem.

That about sums up Obama

Posted by: McAdams at December 17, 2014 12:16 PM (xBrPz)

88 > So I guess it's a question of "what does 'normalized relations' mean?"

1. 0bama gets to give a speech so that everyone remembers him and his foreign policy...while Russia is going through conniptions. There is a none-too-subtle linkage here. Also signals Putin that all the sanctions don't have to stay, buddy. C'mon in from the cold.

2. By talking about this other stuff, that Obama is swapping 3 guys for 1 gets less play. Big story is "normalizing relations after 60 years" instead of "Bergdahl II."

I think a lot of it is Obama and team wanted to bring themselves forward because they were afraid they weren't getting enough credit for the ruble's implosion.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at December 17, 2014 12:16 PM (mPYNA)

89 In the new Obama economy, Cuba might be an affordable vacation option outside of the staycations that are all the rage.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at December 17, 2014 12:16 PM (AC0lD)

90
18
Well, there's no "border" to open because we don't share one with Cuba, so SCOAMT did the next best thing...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 17, 2014 12:00 PM (wtvvX)
...........................................
Next he will start a ferry service.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2014 12:16 PM (wAQA5)

91 Happened to cruise past CNN on the tube and they had a banner stating that the US is going to open an embassy in Cuba.
Make it easier for Cubans to get a visa out of the country, once the USA starts paying off the Castros to allow citizens to leave for the USA.
I wouldn't be surprised if the US govt. doesn't provide chartered planes or cruise liners to pick up brown people who just want to come here for a "better life" . And EBT cards, section 8 housing, Obamacare, free education, etc.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 17, 2014 12:16 PM (cPPlg)

92 44 Can you believe that a bitch asked me to help her get something off a high shelf in Target? ME!
Posted by: Mooch at December 17, 2014 12:08 PM (ttJ2z)

Many people think that you serve absolutely no purpose on this planet, and are good for nothing but turning food into shit.

NOW, for the first time, they can't say that.

Posted by: Bitch who asked Worf to get something off a high shelf at December 17, 2014 12:16 PM (oKE6c)

93 Will Cuba be playing the role of Barry in the new Obama romance movie?

Loved his work in Red Tails.

Posted by: Fritz at December 17, 2014 12:17 PM (UzPAd)

94 Hector, go masturbate in private.

Posted by: Mooch at December 17, 2014 12:17 PM (ttJ2z)

95 So ... Obama teamed up with the Pope?

I'm still pissed at Benedict for turning over the Throne of Peter to that socialist asshole.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 17, 2014 12:17 PM (zF6Iw)

96 6
Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at December 17, 2014 11:56 AM (kff5f)

Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at December 17, 2014 12:17 PM (xtpUs)

97 Not sure what I think of this new policy but how does he always manage
to always come off as a condescending jerk? Why can't he just make a
simple speech without all the moral superiority BS?

Because someone once mistook him for a valet. And racissssm.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:17 PM (FsuaD)

98 Didn't I read relatively recently recently that Cubans in Cuba tend to have money, just that there's nothing to buy with it? Was it Totten's tour?

Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 12:17 PM (l2max)

99 Posted the following at the end of the last dead thread. An interesting thing happened.

224 Speaking of communist countries...

A fellow I know, a marketing major, returned recently from an international marketing competition in China.

He said the competition was CLEARLY rigged and China came out the winners. America came out dead last. He said at the meet and greet after party, Chinese officials with guns - I don't know if it was military or police - showed up and informed everyone the event was over and they had to go to their hotel rooms.

This is what other countries know of freedom.
Posted by: Sambo at December 17, 2014 12:14 PM (9UV3C)

Posted by: Sambo at December 17, 2014 12:17 PM (9UV3C)

100 Grabbing at legacy straws.

Posted by: BignJames at December 17, 2014 12:18 PM (j7iSn)

101 Let me tell you wingnuts a thing or two about Columbia.

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 17, 2014 12:18 PM (sgrzZ)

102 This is what other countries know of freedom.

Posted by: Sambo at December 17, 2014 12:14 PM (9UV3C)

Posted by: Sambo at December 17, 2014 12:17 PM (9UV3C)

We need more competitions like that for the humanities majors....

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at December 17, 2014 12:19 PM (AC0lD)

103 Its like the last brick of the Berlin Wall has been cleared away. *Squirt*

Posted by: Chuck Todd at December 17, 2014 12:19 PM (ttJ2z)

104 Not sure what I think of this new policy but how does he always manage to always come off as a condescending jerk? Why can't he just make a simple speech without all the moral superiority BS? He might actually win over a few people on an occasional issue if he would talk to us like adults.
Posted by: George Orwell at December 17, 2014 12:15 PM (1BQGO) He's a leftard George. Being an adult is contrary to the agenda. Free shit appeals to his constituents, along with a condecending attitude like an 18year old who knows it all.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 12:19 PM (xWW96)

105 With his judges confirmed and now officially a lame duck, Barry's #waronamerica goes into overdrive...

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at December 17, 2014 12:19 PM (8LTOS)

106 Maybe now Michael Moore will move to Cuba and it'll tip over.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:20 PM (FsuaD)

107 Because someone once mistook him for a valet. And racissssm.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:17 PM (FsuaD)

Someone mistook that useless shit for one of us? We're filing a grievance!

Posted by: Valet Local 231 at December 17, 2014 12:20 PM (oKE6c)

108 Good luck with the new congress.
-----------------------

Yeah. Good luck.

No, I really mean it. Mazel Tov.

Posted by: John Boehner at December 17, 2014 12:21 PM (hHFOx)

109 This is what other countries know of freedom.
Posted by: Sambo at December 17, 2014 12:14 PM (9UV3C)
Posted by: Sambo at December 17, 2014 12:17 PM (9UV3C)

Isn't this what Trump has been saying for years about China? And how our government is too stupid and complicit to try to win negotiations with them.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 17, 2014 12:21 PM (cPPlg)

110

If we are all Americans, does that mean we fly the American flag in Cuba and Mexico (and Canada?) if we are all Americans in "North America?"

Posted by: artisanal 'ette: Joyfully doing Christmas stuff. at December 17, 2014 12:21 PM (IXrOn)

111 A valet could probably operate an umbrella.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:21 PM (wVBo0)

112 but how does he always manage to always come off as a condescending jerk?

Dog returns to his own vomit.

Posted by: DaveA at December 17, 2014 12:22 PM (DL2i+)

113
The big winners are the Cuban communist oligarchs, who will contribute nicely to Obama and the Democrats.

The losers are everyone outside the Cuban communists and Democrats, but I repeat myself.

Posted by: MacGruber at December 17, 2014 12:22 PM (sgrzZ)

114 we are all americans just means that obama and fellow lefties hate american (USA) culture and populace and would love to replace us with any one of you poor banana republic constituencies that into dictatorships.

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at December 17, 2014 12:22 PM (yHNS+)

115 Isn't this what Trump has been saying for years about China? And how our government is too stupid and complicit to try to win negotiations with them.

Let's give them an entire sector of our economy, just because.

That'll show 'em.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 12:23 PM (0HooB)

116 Wonder how our liberal friend, whose family fled Cuba, feels about his Preezy now? His wife is part of our girls' night out tomorrow.

I think I'll ask.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:23 PM (FsuaD)

117 Did Obama give Castro a kiss on the mouth like in The Godfather?

Posted by: Marcus T at December 17, 2014 12:23 PM (GGCsk)

118 There's a fence?

Posted by: Tim at December 17, 2014 12:23 PM (xq7pr)

119 Executive order for special family reunification program? Little something to sweeten the pot for Florida? Who has the power to stop that?

Posted by: Man from Wazzustan at December 17, 2014 12:24 PM (uPxUo)

120 Wonder how our liberal friend, whose family fled Cuba, feels about his Preezy now?

It's Bush's fault.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 17, 2014 12:24 PM (zF6Iw)

121 98 Didn't I read relatively recently recently that Cubans in Cuba tend to have money, just that there's nothing to buy with it? Was it Totten's tour?
Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 12:17 PM (l2max)

I visited the late unlamented USSR back when, and had to exchange a certain amount in dollars into Russian toilet paper rubles.

They were literally worthless. There was absolutely nothing you could buy with rubles that you'd actually want. Trying hard to get rid of them, my wife and I spent a few on Soviet memorabilia (maps, military insignia, etc.) but left with the majority unspent. Packs of Marlboros were much more valuable; we'd brought some because we'd been told that beforehand.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:24 PM (oKE6c)

122 Ack.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:24 PM (oKE6c)

123
I hate me some frickin commies but lust for the fishing opportunities this could bring. Yes, I'm that shallow.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Zombie Ernest Hemingway at December 17, 2014 12:24 PM (JtwS4)

124 WOLVERINES!

Posted by: Harp at December 17, 2014 12:25 PM (SQM9i)

125 >> Castro doesn't look like a girl when he throws a baseball.

Hold on there. Most girls I know can throw better than the President.

Posted by: Nolan Ryan at December 17, 2014 12:25 PM (o2vOl)

126 Yeah - he released the #2 Pakistan Taliban guy, forget his name.
Posted by: Lizzy

Derka Derka Boom.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 12:25 PM (f3Lr8)

127 120
Wonder how our liberal friend, whose family fled Cuba, feels about his Preezy now?

It's Bush's fault.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 17, 2014 12:24 PM (zF6Iw)

pshhhaw...blame that right wing loon Kennedy

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 17, 2014 12:25 PM (Dth0i)

128 When are we going to see the report on Beau Bergdahl?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:13 PM (FsuaD)

Never.

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 12:25 PM (lZ1M5)

129 Tattoo Rubio for Ambassador?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:25 PM (wVBo0)

130 Todos Somos Borrachos , bitchez

*hic*

Posted by: John Boehner at December 17, 2014 12:25 PM (NUCTk)

131 Babalu !

Posted by: Zombie Ricky Ricardo at December 17, 2014 12:25 PM (XzRw1)

132 based on the deal with China over climate change, I expect that Obama will give away half the store in return for Raul agreeing to consider allowing elections in 2045.

Odds we'll end up giving the Guantanamo base to the Castro as part of the deal..?

Posted by: mallfly at December 17, 2014 12:25 PM (bJm7W)

133 Marco Rubio just called the JEF "willfully ignorant."

Second look at Rubio?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:26 PM (FsuaD)

134 I'm pretty sure we could have had a deal with Cuba in which we talk nice about them and promise to improve relations plus trade three for one any time we wanted in the last five years.

Hence, my belief the timing here is about Russia and optics instead of Cuba.

With perhaps one or two exceptions, these folks care way more about how they are portrayed and perceived than they do American foreign policy. And Obama is not one of those exceptions.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at December 17, 2014 12:26 PM (mPYNA)

135 Come to America! Where you can experience the racism of being asked to get something from a shelf for yourself!!

Posted by: RoyalOil at December 17, 2014 12:26 PM (5yHi1)

136 pshhhaw...blame that right wing loon Kennedy

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 17, 2014 12:25 PM (Dth0i)

Kennedy was our first "historic first," and set the tradition of "historic firsts" being historically awful Presidents.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:26 PM (oKE6c)

137 Jeebus! Angry Rubio is slamming Barry. Excellent.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:27 PM (FsuaD)

138 Can Rubio use a bit of the old "absolute moral authority" on JEF?

Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 12:27 PM (kZVsz)

139 Because someone once mistook him for a valet. And racissssm.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:17 PM (FsuaD)

----

I believe that was William Jefferson Clinton. Referring to our current POTUS that "A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags."

He made the remark to Ted Kennedy in 2008. Widely reported in 2012.

Light speed reflexes on the reporting there scoop.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 12:27 PM (NaV4z)

140 Did Obama give Castro a kiss on the mouth like in The Godfather?

***

He gave him a kiss, all right, but it wasn't on the mouth IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: cool arrow at December 17, 2014 12:27 PM (7XKHI)

141 80 -

There was a great deal of myth that arose around Castro's supposed baseball talents.

Which always struck me as somewhere on the same spectrum as Mao's athletic feats.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2014 12:27 PM (TOk1P)

142 I wonder what Jon Gruber thinks about all this? After all, Castro didn't have to lie to the "stupid Cuban voter" to get HIS piece of shit socialist healthcare law passed....

Posted by: Severian at December 17, 2014 12:27 PM (8dzZc)

143 In fifty years Glorious Leader Obama will be on the $20 bill.

Posted by: Taikeshi Coats at December 17, 2014 12:27 PM (ttJ2z)

144 Second look at Rubio?

NO!

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 17, 2014 12:28 PM (XzRw1)

145 Red snapper might be worth the trade.

Posted by: Draki at December 17, 2014 12:28 PM (cUFgm)

146 Well, he's gone and done it, Obummer is normalizing relations. Fidel gets to have his red cake and eat it too before he is in his grave. For all the Cubans who fled Cuba to the USA for liberty and the hope of a Communist-free Cuba.... Screw you you racist capitalist Republicans!!! (My aunt, a first-generation Cubana whose family ran after Castro took over, has voted Republican for decades, and was the first person I knew who listened to Rush Limbaugh.)

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 12:28 PM (/mTq0)

147 Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 12:27 PM (NaV4z)

Mooch said he was once mistaken for a valet as he was leaving an event, wearing a tux.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:28 PM (FsuaD)

148 Marco Rubio just called the JEF "willfully ignorant."

***

In other words, stupid.

Posted by: cool arrow at December 17, 2014 12:28 PM (7XKHI)

149 Kennedy was our first "historic first,"

Swimming runs in the family.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 12:28 PM (f3Lr8)

150 has the MSM started trashing Ted Cruz in anticipation of anything he might say?

Posted by: mallfly at December 17, 2014 12:28 PM (bJm7W)

151 Which always struck me as somewhere on the same spectrum as Mao's athletic feats.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 17, 2014 12:27 PM (TOk1P)

And Kim Jong-Il's literary prowess

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 12:28 PM (lZ1M5)

152 Marco Rubio just called the JEF "willfully ignorant."

Second look at Rubio?

Fret not. Dondi will backtrack on that statement in no time at all.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 12:29 PM (0HooB)

153 Teh JEF just announced the reunification of the Koreas under the leadership of Kim Sung Il.

Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 17, 2014 12:29 PM (32Ze2)

154 Un the Golf Pro.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:29 PM (wVBo0)

155 138 Can Rubio use a bit of the old "absolute moral authority" on JEF?
Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 12:27 PM (kZVsz)

Nope. Only Reds have "absolute moral authority."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:29 PM (oKE6c)

156 Mooch said he was once mistaken for a valet as he was leaving an event, wearing a tux.

***

Yeah, right. Like anyone would think the Zero actually had a real job.

Posted by: cool arrow at December 17, 2014 12:29 PM (7XKHI)

157 Can Rubio use a bit of the old "absolute moral authority" on JEF?

Let me tell Rubio about being Cuban.
--Joe Biden

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 12:29 PM (f3Lr8)

158 Kristol had a great tweet.

The US will have an embassy in Cuba before we have one in Jerusalem.

We'll put one in Alquds, but not Jerusalem.

Posted by: John Kerry at December 17, 2014 12:30 PM (OB5cy)

159 I've got a Cuban girlfriend in ATL who hates the JEF with the heat of a million suns. I hope she hasn't stroked out.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:30 PM (FsuaD)

160 Lokkie. Anata hore in one.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:30 PM (wVBo0)

161 @Nicholas Kronos

It makes a certain kind of sense, with the Ruble falling, chipping at any thing a resurgent Russia would look to expand influence has a certain appeal. Of course, i am not sure treating with a country that considers Che Guevara as the second coming of Christ is such a good thing.

Posted by: Penfold at December 17, 2014 12:30 PM (Fbt5B)

162 The Canal giveaway will be peanuts compared to what putterboy does over the next 24 months

Posted by: James from Plains at December 17, 2014 12:30 PM (8LTOS)

163 Reliable sources say the Obama feels that calling his make believe son a drug induced hallucination is racist.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at December 17, 2014 12:30 PM (BZAd3)

164 Obama: "Todos sommos ~~Americanos~~ pendejos."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:30 PM (oKE6c)

165 Tennis Transvestite marries.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:31 PM (wVBo0)

166 Mooch said he was once mistaken for a valet as he was leaving an event, wearing a tux.

That's ridiculous that anyone would take him for a valet. Busboy would have been my guess.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:31 PM (oKE6c)

167 @98 Didn't I read relatively recently recently that Cubans in Cuba tend to have money, just that there's nothing to buy with it? Was it Totten's tour?
--------------------

Totten might have mentioned it. I don't recall. But if so, not everyone does.

The problems in Cuba are, basically -

- Screwed up insanely low wages
- Impossible to get basic necessities in any appreciable quantities.
- Standing out in any way makes you a target for the secret police; this applies even if the reason for your standing out has *nothing* whatsoever to do with a possible threat to the state.

Those three points all combine to demonstrate why buildings are in such a sorry state in Cuba. First, very few people can afford to carry out the basic maintenance over the long term. Second, the people that can somehow afford it can't get the materials that they'd need to do so. Third, if someone can get the materials needed to perform upkeep on their home, the mere fact that their home was being kept up while their neighbors' homes were deteriorating would be enough to draw the attention of the secret police, and probably get them arrested. It's also worth noting that part of the reason for the arrest would be the almost certainly accurate charge that the person upkeeping their homing had gone to the black market to get some of the things that they required (and also sold some items on the black market to get the money that they needed).

Keep in mind that these problems in Cuba have existed even though the US is essentially the only country that isn't legally able to do business with Cuba. And despite the fact that US citizens have been visiting Cuba as tourists for decades, despite the travel ban.

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 12:31 PM (UWFpX)

168
I visited the late unlamented USSR back when, and had to exchange a certain amount in dollars into Russian toilet paper rubles.

Same in East Germany. You had to exchange a certain amount at 5:1. I thought I was clever by getting some black market East Marks at 10:1.

There was absolutely nothing to buy. I think I found a place to get an ice cream and gave the waitress the whole wad as a tip.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 17, 2014 12:31 PM (JtwS4)

169 Off to Hawaii, proles. Have a nice whatever.

Posted by: King Putz at December 17, 2014 12:31 PM (FsuaD)

170 What I don't get is-

Why are they having some valet announce this change in US policy?

Man, standards have really fallen at the White House.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2014 12:32 PM (KBvAm)

171 But given his unilateral immigration move, I think he's actually sending
out the signal that we are literally all Americans, anyone who wants to
be and who can jump a fence.

======

Or in the case of Cuba, that means "launch the floating Studebakers and anchors aweigh!"

Posted by: mrp at December 17, 2014 12:32 PM (JBggj)

172 Tennis Transvestite marries.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:31 PM (wVBo0)

When did Mooch start playing tennis?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 17, 2014 12:32 PM (zF6Iw)

173 I've got a Cuban girlfriend in ATL who hates the JEF with the heat of a million suns.

----

Soooooo..... youre saying she's .... hawt??

Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 12:32 PM (NaV4z)

174 Mooch said he was once mistaken for a valet as he was leaving an event, wearing a tux.

***

Yeah, right. Like anyone would think the Zero actually had a real job.

Like anyone at an event that required a tux and had valets, would automatically assume valets were wearing tuxes.

People in those circles KNOW valets don't wear tuxes.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 12:32 PM (f3Lr8)

175 Jimmy Carter will lobby for Cuban Ambassador.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 12:32 PM (xWW96)

176 We'll put one in Alquds, but not Jerusalem.

Posted by: John Kerry at December 17, 2014 12:30 PM (OB5cy)

I already have a team scouting out the best property values in al Quds.

Posted by: John Brennan Purveyor of Fine Prayer Rugs and Discount Intelligence at December 17, 2014 12:33 PM (fL/7/)

177 #waronamerica

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at December 17, 2014 12:33 PM (8LTOS)

178 Soooooo..... youre saying she's .... hawt??

And married.

Posted by: King Putz at December 17, 2014 12:33 PM (FsuaD)

179 Status update: "Down at Target taking a shelfie with FLOTUS"

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 17, 2014 12:34 PM (lHb9q)

180 Stupid sock.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:34 PM (FsuaD)

181 OT. I ran out to Home Depot this morning to buy some spray paint and an elderly gentlemen there that had forgotten his glasses asked me to suggest a color for an item he was trying to match. I was going to call him a racist and consider filing a civil suit but, being just an American of pallor, I swallowed my pride and helped him. I'm still fuming about this.

Posted by: George Orwell at December 17, 2014 12:34 PM (1BQGO)

182
I thought I saw a talking monkey with the organ grinder once. He said to me... "I want your wife to be Secretary of State".

Weird.

Posted by: William Jefferson Clinton at December 17, 2014 12:34 PM (NaV4z)

183 I read earlier this week the CIA was trying to incite the Cuber people with Rap Music. Rap music, what can't it do?

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 17, 2014 12:34 PM (XzRw1)

184 But given his unilateral immigration move, I think he's actually sending out the signal that we are literally all
Americans, anyone who wants to be and who can jump a fence.

Just not the Whitehouse fence.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 12:34 PM (f3Lr8)

185 If we are all Americans, does that mean we fly the American flag in Cuba and Mexico (and Canada?) if we are all Americans in "North America?"

We are the only country proud enough to include 'America' in the name.

Posted by: fluffy at December 17, 2014 12:35 PM (Ua6T/)

186 Martin Narvartilova. Why do they use a 40 year old picture of her when she still looked vaguely human?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:35 PM (wVBo0)

187 Posted by: George Orwell at December 17, 2014 12:34 PM (1BQGO)

I have been triggered.

I will eat a gallon of Haagen Dazs in solidarity with you.

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 12:35 PM (lZ1M5)

188 Adding some reds will turn Florids blue in presidential years

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at December 17, 2014 12:35 PM (8LTOS)

189 @George Orwell

Did he hug you for a minute and then walk away by himself?

Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 12:35 PM (l2max)

190 184 But given his unilateral immigration move, I think he's actually sending out the signal that we are literally all
Americans, anyone who wants to be and who can jump a fence.

Just not the Whitehouse fence.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 12:34 PM (f3Lr

Or Gracie Mansion's new fence. Coincidence?

Posted by: Iblis at December 17, 2014 12:35 PM (9221z)

191 @121 I visited the late unlamented USSR back when, and had to exchange a certain amount in dollars into Russian toilet paper rubles.
--------------------

Instapundit quoted a joke today regarding the Russian Ruble post-interest rate hike.

"You should have all your money in rubles. Because no one will expect to find money in a bag of rubles."

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 12:35 PM (UWFpX)

192 143
In fifty years Glorious Leader Obama will be on the $20 bill.
==========================
And in fifty years at the current rate we'll need five of them to get a combo at Wendy's, assuming the USA still exists as a union anyway, which I sometimes doubt. However, I suspect Obummer will not have the legacy he wants from history. No matter what the old Pinkos and the young radicals want to trumpet, a lot of Americans will remember the Obummer years as "the time when I couldn't get a job and had debts and no spare money". The 2014 election showed exactly what his legacy will be in fifty years.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 12:36 PM (/mTq0)

193 Soooooo..... youre saying she's .... hawt??

And married.

Win-Win.
Hot AND has to go home.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 12:36 PM (f3Lr8)

194 I'm sure Boehner and McConnell will heed Obama's wishes, while the eeeeevil Ted Cruz will try to flaunt his precious Constitution!

Posted by: Not Matt K. Lewis at December 17, 2014 12:36 PM (Agn5J)

195 I didn't see Obama's speech, but I bet he did it in that room which gives him that great hallway lined with columns in the background, right?
Dear Leader likes his columns and other symbols of being the king.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2014 12:36 PM (ABcz/)

196 Why are they having some valet announce this change in US policy?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2014 12:32 PM (KBvAm)

-----

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH

Posted by: seems legit at December 17, 2014 12:36 PM (A98Xu)

197 The Left has been pushing this idea for decades -- that it's racist to call ourselves Americans. That it's white people who are the true foreigners, who don't belong in the American hemisphere and are not true Americans.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 12:37 PM (ZPrif)

198 "We are All Americans". Of course. Cubans don't want to be Cubans, they want to be Americans because America has a fabulous president.

Viva la Obama!

Posted by: Jen the original at December 17, 2014 12:37 PM (cPPlg)

199 "In the doorway of the Lincoln bedroom, a drunken Barack succumbs to a non-repressed desire and attempts to bugger the entirety of the United States."

Apologies to Philip Jos� Farmer

Posted by: physics geek at December 17, 2014 12:37 PM (MT22W)

200 What I don't get is-

Why are they having some valet announce this change in US policy?

Man, standards have really fallen at the White House.

You win teh Interwebz today.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 12:37 PM (0HooB)

201 Posted by: Sambo at December 17, 2014 12:17 PM (9UV3C)

We need more competitions like that for the humanities majors....
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at December 17, 2014 12:19 PM (AC0lD)

Word.

Posted by: Sambo at December 17, 2014 12:37 PM (9UV3C)

202 Oddly enough, I think we've found appropriate employment for the First Family: Valet and Target worker

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 12:37 PM (lZ1M5)

203 #79, FFS. Enough of this idiotic, NPR-level crap about "why have relations with Saudi Arabia but not Cuba?

How about - because "relations" with Cuba are utterly trivial, the place is of no great importance, and there is every possibility that the evil and degradation its criminal regime represents will/can be diminished and damaged. Saudi Arabia is strategically critical, duh. It's like comparing Tuvalu with China in terms of economic or strategic importance.

Oh - and in the earlier thread lots of morons were beclowning themselves with nonsense about how travel and contact will undermine the Cuban criminal enterprise masquerading as a corrupt brutal derelict regime. WTF? Try learning something about Cuban reality. Totten's article, mentioned above, is a good quick start.

The Cuban regime doesn't control the place because no Americans are among the tourists at the hotels in Veradero. Or because US companies aren't part of the administered slave-labor system of foreign factories/etc. in Cuba. It controls the place through a comprehensive, unrelenting, tightly run totalitarian system of raw power and exploitation of all the worst of human nature to maintain fear. Look up the Stasi situation in the former East Germany for a taste of how all of life is suffused with fear, treachery, betrayal.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 17, 2014 12:38 PM (afQnV)

204 Cuba's Marxist Dictator is probably more competent than ours.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:38 PM (wVBo0)

205 111 A valet could probably operate an umbrella.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:21 PM (wVBo0)

or throw a baseball.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 17, 2014 12:38 PM (l1zOH)

206 In fifty years Glorious Leader Obama will be on the $20 bill.

I suspect it'll be like the Susan B. Lesbian dollar: it'll be issued, but no one will want anything to do with it, and it'll be quietly removed from what little circulation it ever had.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:38 PM (oKE6c)

207 Nobody knows, the trubble I seen
Nobody knows my sorrow...

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 17, 2014 12:38 PM (lHb9q)

208 Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 12:35 PM (l2max)

I didn't notice but I am starting a new movement to celebrate my selflessness

#Illgiveyou retail help

Posted by: George Orwell at December 17, 2014 12:38 PM (1BQGO)

209 When you guys write your congressman or senator do you remain extremely polite or go all batshit crazy on their ass? Sometimes it's called for but does anyone actually do it?

Posted by: Jaimo at December 17, 2014 12:38 PM (9U1OG)

210 111 A valet could probably operate an umbrella.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:21 PM (wVBo0)

or throw a baseball.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 17, 2014 12:38 PM (l1zOH)

-----

Drive a stick???

Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 12:38 PM (NaV4z)

211 202
Oddly enough, I think we've found appropriate employment for the First Family: Valet and Target worker

Those two grifters have never done an honest day's work in their angry, entitled lives.

Besides, the JEF can't operate an umbrella. And stocking shelves in Target is racist.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:39 PM (FsuaD)

212
And married.

Win-Win.
Hot AND has to go home.

Reminds me of my favorite exchange from Casino Royale (which I may or may not have repeated to married neighbor lady):

Bond: Sorry, you're not my type.

Vesper: Smart?

Bond: No, single.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 17, 2014 12:39 PM (JtwS4)

213 Totten did mention it. IIRC, everyone gets paid some ridiculous low wage, no matter whether you are a doctor or maid. People make money on the side by driving people around. He did a series of three articles about his trip to Cuba I think. His last one was on Che and brought some serious truth the LIVs (well those LIVs who read Totten)

Posted by: Penfold at December 17, 2014 12:39 PM (Fbt5B)

214 9 Status update: "Down at Target taking a shelfie with FLOTUS"
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 17, 2014 12:34 PM (lHb9q

target
deletes
deletes
and deletes

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 17, 2014 12:40 PM (l1zOH)

215 Soooooo..... youre saying she's .... hawt??

And married.

Win-Win.
Hot AND has to go home.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 12:36 PM (f3Lr

----

Dude.... its like a Vulcan Mind Meld or something.....

**highfives**

Posted by: William Jefferson Clinton at December 17, 2014 12:40 PM (NaV4z)

216 how does he always manage to always come off as a condescending jerk?

Self-explanatory.

Posted by: fluffy at December 17, 2014 12:40 PM (Ua6T/)

217
Mooch said he was once mistaken for a valet as he was leaving an event, wearing a tux.
.................................
At least they didn't hand him a ring and a lantern.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2014 12:40 PM (wAQA5)

218 197 The Left has been pushing this idea for decades -- that it's racist to call ourselves Americans. That it's white people who are the true foreigners, who don't belong in the American hemisphere and are not true Americans.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 12:37 PM (ZPrif)

"No true Scotsman," eh?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:40 PM (oKE6c)

219 Yay, I have a new congress-person.

Martha McSally has just been declared the official winner of the disputed congressional race in southern AZ. Her opponent was Democrat Ron Barber, former chief of staff to shooting victim Gabby Giffords.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 17, 2014 12:40 PM (2ruKl)

220 171
But given his unilateral immigration move, I think he's actually sending

out the signal that we are literally all Americans, anyone who wants to

be and who can jump a fence.

======

Or in the case of Cuba, that means "launch the floating Studebakers and anchors aweigh!"

===============================

Hmm, hadn't thought of that. Relations with the USA normalize, so a million under-educated Cubans immediately move to the USA, and tell the LSM that they have come to be free and live in plenty! The historical irony and LSM dismay would be delicious, like a Coldstone Creamery sundae.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 12:40 PM (/mTq0)

221
As I said in the previous Cuba thread.....

The most important thing is to realize that this effectively puts the last nail in the coffin of that touchy-feely "soft power" bullshit. 50+ years of economic sanctions (the "big gun" of soft power) and it hasn't changed Cuba's behavior.

At. All.

It's an admission that soft power isn't power at all.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2014 12:40 PM (TIIx5)

222 At least they didn't hand him a ring and a lantern.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2014 12:40 PM (wAQA5)

Soros beat them to it.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:41 PM (oKE6c)

223
Drive a stick???
Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 12:38 PM (NaV4z)

ride a bike without a faggy looking helmet?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 17, 2014 12:41 PM (l1zOH)

224 #IWillPaintWithYpu

Posted by: Garrett at December 17, 2014 12:41 PM (bA0RP)

225 I don't know. Maybe it IS time, maybe it's not--I see both sides. But because Obama is behind it, I worry.
Still, I see Cuban cigars, classic cars and major league-ready baseball talent in the short term.....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 17, 2014 12:41 PM (/wpVt)

226 The Straits of Florida can be a stone cold Mother Ckufer.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:42 PM (wVBo0)

227 Martin Narvartilova. Why do they use a 40 year old picture of her when she still looked vaguely human?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:35 PM (wVBo0)

She is quoted as saying she is "terrified" at being married. Since she is 58 years old and getting "married" for the first time.

These people are insane. Including her girlfriend, who has two children from a previous "relationship". By the way, Martina proposed to the girlfriend on television in front of the US open crowd.

Blechh.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 17, 2014 12:42 PM (cPPlg)

228 202
Oddly enough, I think we've found appropriate employment for the First Family: Valet and Target worker

I'm thinking caddy and housemaid at the Marriott.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:42 PM (oKE6c)

229 Didn't read any of the comments, so this could be unneeded repetition. My reactions.

1. How could this released American be in poor health when Michael Moore assured us that Cuba has the best health care system in the world?

2. Ultimately, this may be an end run to close Gitmo. As I recall, US possession of that portion of Cuba is by lease. Perhaps one of the demands of Cuba will be the early termination of the lease allowing for a two-fer: close Gitmo and reduce American military presence in the region.

3. Part of the speech I heard included the upbeat report that Americans could visit Cuba. I didn't hear anything about Cubans being free to visit the US.

4. On the other hand this could just be a deal among Communists to stick it to us.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at December 17, 2014 12:42 PM (lJLML)

230 You don't suppose the JEF will turn Gitmo over to Cuba? Nah.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:43 PM (FsuaD)

231 197
The Left has been pushing this idea for decades -- that it's racist to
call ourselves Americans. That it's white people who are the true
foreigners, who don't belong in the American hemisphere and are not true
Americans.
=====================================

My answer to those people is always the same. "I will return to the Old World when you do." For some reason they never want to move back to Europe....

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 12:43 PM (/mTq0)

232 I always envisioned Cuba as a free country, only problems was the Castros (and Che) communism evil. Now, ubama is normalizing relations. Likely promising if they like their Castros, they can keep their Castros. And they can remain communist, even more so. Hell, I bet he offers them statehood.

Posted by: Erowmero at December 17, 2014 12:43 PM (go5uR)

233 Esta muy bueno!

Posted by: Tony Montana at December 17, 2014 12:43 PM (Agn5J)

234 Todos sommos Americanos.

More like, "Todos estamos jodidos."

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 17, 2014 12:43 PM (UVfht)

235 So when is America's 'special new friendship' with Venezuela going to be announced?

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at December 17, 2014 12:44 PM (AC0lD)

236
Its like the last brick of the Berlin Wall has been cleared away. *Squirt*

Posted by: Chuck Todd

Right, Chucko. And, who was it built that wall, eh? And, IIRC, it wasn't built primarily to keep the West Germans out of East Berlin.

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 12:44 PM (/Ho8c)

237 Hillary Clinton: 'Black Lives Matter'

Late and pathetic but mostly pathetic.

She's toast.

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 17, 2014 12:44 PM (XzRw1)

238 235
So when is America's 'special new friendship' with Venezuela going to be announced?
===============

Probably next week.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 12:44 PM (/mTq0)

239 Any other policies that haven't worked for 50 years that we need to do away with?

Posted by: War on Poverty at December 17, 2014 12:45 PM (ZPrif)

240
I saw "Barrack the Valet" open for "Frankie Valli and the Four Season" in 1968.

.... open the car door for... that is.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 12:45 PM (NaV4z)

241 Can we offer them Puerto Rico as a welcome present?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:45 PM (wVBo0)

242 Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 12:14 PM (5M4K1)

Sorry, Hector, but your pay at the gloryhole isn't enough for you to buy an airline ticket.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2014 12:45 PM (8Fl6F)

243 Right, Chucko. And, who was it built that wall, eh? And, IIRC, it wasn't built primarily to keep the West Germans out of East Berlin.

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 12:44 PM (/Ho8c)

IIRC, that used to be the official rationale by the DDR: to keep those starving oppressed victims of capitalism from entering the Workers' Paradise.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:46 PM (oKE6c)

244 I agree with the comment above that this move has something to do with Gitmo....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 17, 2014 12:46 PM (/wpVt)

245 >>Part of the speech I heard included the upbeat report that Americans
could visit Cuba. I didn't hear anything about Cubans being free to
visit the US.

Bet it's because they'll be emigrating here. Bet DHS is even working to make it happen as painlessly as possible. So we don't just get one American back, we also get Cuba's crminals-er, "unaccompanied minors" just like Mexico's MS-13 gangbangers.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2014 12:46 PM (ABcz/)

246 Posted by: War on Poverty at December 17, 2014 12:45 PM (ZPrif)

Large chunks of the Drug War?

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 12:46 PM (lZ1M5)

247 My main question here is, does Cuba punch above its weight?

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 12:46 PM (/Ho8c)

248 It's an admission that soft power isn't power at all.

It seems to work well against us.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 12:46 PM (0HooB)

249 Most of the people who live here aren't Americans.

Why not welcome a few more socialist loving idiots in?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 17, 2014 12:47 PM (oFCZn)

250 Lift the Sugar Tariffs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:47 PM (wVBo0)

251 As I mentioned in the previous thread, in 2011 at a black tie event, Valerie Jarrett summoned a four-star general to her table (he was walking past her) and asked him to get her another glass of wine.

Being the class act he was, he obliged. And then sat down at a nearby table.

The Obamas, ValJar, and everyone in this administration is pure trash.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:47 PM (FsuaD)

252
202
Oddly enough, I think we've found appropriate employment for the First Family: Valet and Target worker
................................
Kiss your car goodbye and cross tamales off your shopping list.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2014 12:47 PM (wAQA5)

253 The tea party hates normal relations with Cuba because they are a Hispanic nation. If Cuba was a North European Protestant or Islamic nation, the tea party would be all for it.

Reactionarries are just miserable losers.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 12:47 PM (5M4K1)

254 239, exactly what I was screaming at the radio at the "50 years of doing the same thing" line was barfed up by that idiot intern. How about reviewing decades of not just failed but pernicious and damaging crap like the War on Poverty and Head Start and on and on and on?

Gee, I vaguely recall a country where such idiocy would be called out and used to beat the opposition like a baseball bat. Was that the US? Nah, couldn't be.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 17, 2014 12:48 PM (afQnV)

255 The Straits of Florida can be a stone cold Mother Ckufer.

Sharks still swim the escape routes of the Mariel Boat Lift.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 12:48 PM (f3Lr8)

256 Cuba? I wouldn't mind a sweet red-headed Yolanda....

Posted by: Senator Geary... at December 17, 2014 12:48 PM (/wpVt)

257 237
Hillary Clinton: 'Black Lives Matter'

Late and pathetic but mostly pathetic.

She's toast.
===============

Hillary still thinks she matters. The rest of the nation begs to differ.

The Democratic primary is gonna be a race between Fauxchontas and anyone else that Obummer might endorse if he didn't want to endorse the Native Princess. Campaign Clinton '16 will be DOA before Super Tuesday.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 12:48 PM (/mTq0)

258
Merry Christmas Hector. Best wishes to you and yours.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 12:48 PM (NaV4z)

259 I don't know. Maybe it IS time, maybe it's not--I see both sides. But because Obama is behind it, I worry. Still, I see Cuban cigars, classic cars and major league-ready baseball talent in the short term..... Posted by: JoeF. at December 17, 2014 12:41 PM

I'm not that worried about Cuba. What really worries the hell out of me is Choom Boy, and whatever his twisted motives for sucking up to Dr. Castro might be.

As for those "classic cars:" I have been told by People Who Know (mainly Canadian and Brit-type people who have been there) that most of the old wheels in Cuba are not only beaten to shit, but are hodge-podges of mismatched parts that no American car collector would take a look at.

That "pristine" '57 Chevy? If the paint peels off, it disintegrates. And getting parts for its Moskvich motor may prove to be a slight problem....

Posted by: MrScribbler at December 17, 2014 12:49 PM (yAC3X)

260 Do any Tablets use Smart Phone software?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 17, 2014 12:49 PM (wVBo0)

261 Well, if it's Teh Raycist to call myself American, I'll just have to think of something else.

I'm sure a suitable term will present itself. Preferably with historic ties; those usually sound better.

Think, think.

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 12:49 PM (lZ1M5)

262 Go, Go Serbian Ninja~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 17, 2014 12:49 PM (wr4LJ)

263 The tea party hates normal relations with Cuba
because they are a Hispanic nation. If Cuba was a North European
Protestant or Islamic nation, the tea party would be all for it.

Reactionarries are just miserable losers.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 12:47 PM (5M4K1)So, where does Spain fit in there, genius?

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 12:50 PM (/Ho8c)

264 I'm impressed by your humanity, fixerupper.

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 12:50 PM (/Ho8c)

265
There is a line I stole so long ago that I can't give it attribution. It was about Cuban cigars "lovingly hand rolled on the soft brown thighs of Cuban virgins".

Mighta been P.J.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 17, 2014 12:51 PM (JtwS4)

266 Campaign Clinton '16 will be DOA before Super Tuesday.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 12:48 PM (/mTq0)

Hillary reminds me of Gorbachev after he got the push, pathetically going around and saying that "the people were wondering what Gorbachev is thinking." Actually, they didn't give a rat's ass what he thought. His time was over. So is Hillary's.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:51 PM (oKE6c)

267 My main question here is, does Cuba punch above its weight?

Heh. Reminds of the good old days when Obama was only insulting our allies instead of letting them twist in the wind.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2014 12:51 PM (ABcz/)

268 The Obamas, ValJar, and everyone in this administration is pure trash.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:47 PM (FsuaD)

I wish I was the White House wine vendor. I'd bill for top shelf and send them Carlo Rossi. Bet they'd never know

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 12:51 PM (lZ1M5)

269 I just cannot wait for President Boyfriend to NOT endorse Hillary! for 2016. The only boner I'll probably ever get over her.

Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 12:52 PM (5npD/)

270 I had lunch in a Cuban restaurant; a reporter came in, wanted to talk to the Cuban owner. He came out to talk to her. She said something like, "President Obama is about to address the nation, normalizing relations with Cuba....how do you feel?"

The guy said (paraphrase): "America shouldn't negotiate with terrorists or tyrants."

I gave the pretty waitress a wink and I left.

/cool story bro

Posted by: Pious Agnostic at December 17, 2014 12:52 PM (Lu9c/)

271
Todos sommos Americanos.

More like, "Todos estamos jodidos."
Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 17, 2014 12:43 PM (UVfht)
......................
Agarcharse y agarrar los tobillos.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2014 12:52 PM (wAQA5)

272 Ah, its Hector to lecture us again.

Somethings never change.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President of the Sheena Easton Fan Club at December 17, 2014 12:52 PM (OWjjx)

273 I wish I was the White House wine vendor. I'd bill for top shelf and send them ~~Carlo Rossi~~ brake fluid. Bet they'd never know

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 12:51 PM (lZ1M5)

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:53 PM (oKE6c)

274 Well, if it's Teh Raycist to call myself American, I'll just have to think of something else.

I could use the term "British-American," but I don't, mostly because my family was here in the 1750's, before this was a country.

What exactly is wrong with those imbeciles? Everyone else in the world has a claim to their land but us?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 12:53 PM (0HooB)

275 Re: Cubans coming here en masse. First the Cuban government has to allow you to leave. The reason there are Cubans found floating on junk rafts outside of Miami is because they have to sneak onto the beach in Cuba in the dark of the moon to leave. Getting caught meant getting prison time at least. And we have traditionally always given them asylum if they washed ashore or were picked up by an American boat because of the knowledge that if they were sent back, being immediately shot by their government would be the least unpleasant thing to happen to them.

So....it's going to take lots of American $$$ to the Castro's to make purchasing Cuban's a reality. Which , I"m sure the Obama regime is happy to do, under the guise of , humanitarian aid.

There is a reason the Immigration service was looking to have five million green cards printed up....

Posted by: Jen the original at December 17, 2014 12:54 PM (cPPlg)

276 273
I wish I was the White House wine vendor. I'd bill for top shelf and send them Carlo Rossi ~~brake fluid~~ urine. Bet they'd never know

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 12:51 PM (lZ1M5)

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:53 PM (oKE6c)

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:54 PM (FsuaD)

277 269 I just cannot wait for President Boyfriend to NOT endorse Hillary! for 2016. The only boner I'll probably ever get over her.
Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 12:52 PM (5npD/)

I can't wait for the Hillary-Fauxcahontas catfight. I've laid in a good supply of popcorn for that one, and just hope that they fatally damage each other.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:54 PM (oKE6c)

278 White people can always demand to be called Big King Paleface. Or People of Lightness.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 12:54 PM (ZPrif)

279 Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 12:54 PM (FsuaD)

"Oooh, what's this? Sparkling white?"

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 12:55 PM (lZ1M5)

280 Oh FFS, could someone just get rid of Hector? In fact, his intellectual level is just about right to be a Dep. Asst. Sec. of State or Defense in this administration, or a Senior Director at the NSC staff.

And f**k you, you ignorant affirmative action twink freak fascist, with your illiterate and stupid implications of US responsibility for Cuban suffering. It was the richest colony of SPAIN, dumbshit. Fascist authoritarians took it and plunged it into 50 years of darkness and poverty it had never even dreamt of during the entire colonial and post-colonial period.

Note well, airheads infesting the USG and dominating the cretinized "elite" channels of education and information: places adopting basic US-style institutions (limited govt., divided power, electoral accountabilty) do fabulously well (S. Korea, Taiwan). The US is not, and never has been, the problem. Including in Central America, where the "worst" US influence was morally and economically 10,000 times more beneficial and positive than the pre-Columbian slave empires and the dreary Spanish-colonial legacy.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 17, 2014 12:55 PM (afQnV)

281 But given his unilateral immigration move, I think he's actually sending
out the signal that we are literally all Americans, anyone who wants to
be and who can jump a fence.
***
yup, pls come here, get on welfare have 8 kids, vote democrat. other than that you don't have to learn the language or our history. try not to bomb anymore marathons though.

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at December 17, 2014 12:55 PM (yHNS+)

282 Free travel means all the old Cubans can come here to get free hip replacements like the old Mexicans do.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 12:56 PM (ZPrif)

283 Second look at Rubio? Um, no. He may have personal experience vis-a-vis Cuba and I think this blinds him. His positions on amnesty fly against every thing he has frothed about over Cuba. To Rubio....keep the thumb screws on Cuba, but all of So America should be welcome and entitled to all the bennies America has ok offer.

Screw him. With a pineapple. Sideways.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at December 17, 2014 12:56 PM (KN4+v)

284 I am going to be cautious of the Warren v. Clinton fight.

The last time we sat and watched with glee as someone beat up Hillary we got Obama.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President of the Sheena Easton Fan Club at December 17, 2014 12:56 PM (OWjjx)

285 @274 What exactly is wrong with those imbeciles? Everyone else in the world has a claim to their land but us?
---------------------

And the Jews. Don't forget about Israel.

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 12:56 PM (UWFpX)

286 I can't wait for the Hillary-Fauxcahontas catfight. I've laid in a good supply of popcorn for that one, and just hope that they fatally damage each other.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:54 PM (oKE6c)

A primary of two post-menopausal leftist hags crapping at each other over their bifocals.

Kill. Me. Now.

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 12:56 PM (lZ1M5)

287 President Boyfriend's always playing an angle, and I'm annoyed I can't see this one. I'd like to say it's closing the Gitmo prison by giving away the camp, but that seems too big.

Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 12:57 PM (CGjum)

288 It was the richest colony of SPAIN, dumbshit.

Yep. At the time of the American Revolution, the most valuable British holding in the Americas was ... Jamaica (because of the sugar). Holding North America was OK too, but nothing like as valuable as Jamaica.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:57 PM (oKE6c)

289 The message: Black lives matter.

Posted by: Candidate Hillary Clinton at December 17, 2014 12:57 PM (oFCZn)

290 But this is entirely due to changing demographics of Florida.

The anti-Castro Cubans are old and shrinking. The young Cubans don't care. Nobody else in Florida cares much.

It's no longer an issue that can swing the election.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 12:58 PM (ZPrif)

291 @263
The tea party would nuke Spain if they could.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 12:58 PM (5M4K1)

292 What exactly is wrong with those imbeciles? Everyone else in the world has a claim to their land but us?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 12:53 PM (0HooB)

Don't forget Israel!

Posted by: RWC - Shopping for Justice! at December 17, 2014 12:58 PM (fWAjv)

293

And the Jews.
--------

That's really who you should be mad at about this.

Posted by: John Kerry at December 17, 2014 12:58 PM (/nR7C)

294 A primary of two post-menopausal leftist hags crapping at each other over their bifocals.

Kill. Me. Now.

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 12:56 PM (lZ1M5)

Are you kidding? I wanna be ringside for that one!

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:58 PM (oKE6c)

295 She is quoted as saying she is "terrified" at being married. Since she is 58 years old and getting "married" for the first time.

These people are insane. Including her girlfriend, who has two
children from a previous "relationship". By the way, Martina proposed to
the girlfriend on television in front of the US open crowd.

Blechh.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 17, 2014 12:42 PM (cPPlg)

So she's not really getting married, then. Just getting formally shacked up with her rug-munching partner. Glad we could clear that up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2014 12:59 PM (8Fl6F)

296 And I suspect all of those hands up don't shoot protestors are absolutely cool with the Cuban police force.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President of the Sheena Easton Fan Club at December 17, 2014 12:59 PM (OWjjx)

297 The reason there are Cubans found floating on junk rafts outside of
Miami is because they have to sneak onto the beach in Cuba in the dark
of the moon to leave. >>>

Here is a highly engineered escape Cuba raftboattruck.

http://tinyurl.com/qgk34mb

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 17, 2014 12:59 PM (Mxs5H)

298 266
Campaign Clinton '16 will be DOA before Super Tuesday.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 12:48 PM (/mTq0)

Hillary
reminds me of Gorbachev after he got the push, pathetically going
around and saying that "the people were wondering what Gorbachev is
thinking." Actually, they didn't give a rat's ass what he thought. His
time was over. So is Hillary's.

=========================
These days Shrillary reminds me of the former Chief Mean Girl who was queen bitch of her high school class, but doesn't understand why none of the other girls want to talk to her at the 10th anniversary. The woman had all of Bubba's ambition, none of his cunning or glad-handing ability, and Alinsky's disdain for the "little people" who were supposed to be good cheering dupes for the Democrats. She is out of time, out of friends, and she has a list of enemies longer than my itemized LOTR minis collection.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 12:59 PM (/mTq0)

299 Hector, I told you not to snort the agent orange.

Posted by: John Kerry at December 17, 2014 12:59 PM (/nR7C)

300 @275
So the tea party hates Cubans now? Is there non WASP people other than Muslims, you guys like?

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:00 PM (5M4K1)

301 To be fair to Mooch I can see why she was surprised when asked to grab something high.

She is 5'11" and according to Wookiepedia the average height is 6'8" so she is on the short side.

Posted by: RWC - Shopping for Justice! at December 17, 2014 01:00 PM (fWAjv)

302 287 I'd like to say it's closing the Gitmo prison by giving away the camp, but that seems too big.

Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 12:57 PM (CGjum)

Closing Gitmo causes a big problem for Obongo - what to do with the remaining a-holes? He already floated the idea of bringing them to the US for trial, and that blew up in his face. The only alternative is turning them all loose. Does he have the balls for that? I dunno.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 01:00 PM (oKE6c)

303 With Chavez being dead, it's been a while since Obama's been able fist-bump one of his heroes.

Posted by: OCBill at December 17, 2014 01:00 PM (YJvVE)

304 Are you kidding? I wanna be ringside for that one!
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 12:58 PM (oKE6c)

Yeah. It'll be the first Presidential campaign season underwritten entirely by Depends, artificial hip manufacturers and portable oxygen vendors.

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 01:00 PM (lZ1M5)

305 Agarcharse y agarrar los tobillos.

Curva aqu� viene otra vez.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 17, 2014 01:01 PM (UVfht)

306 Oh Hector.....your to-do list is backwards. First is comment at AOSHQ. Second is main line bleach. You have it backwards.

Bomb Spain. Yea, that is an idea I have seen advanced here by one person...you.

Congratulations on letting your raciast flag fly. I am sure your whore of a mother is proud of you.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President of the Sheena Easton Fan Club at December 17, 2014 01:01 PM (OWjjx)

307 @290
The tea party's anti Latino rhetoric has driven younger Cubans from the Republicans. Look at Jen's anti Cuban comments as an example.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:02 PM (5M4K1)

308 286...I am pre-menopausal and there are days I wouldn't even trust myself with a Q-Tip.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at December 17, 2014 01:02 PM (KN4+v)

309 re 247: "My main question here is, does Cuba punch above its weight?"

I want to know, does Obama punch above his weight?

Posted by: Vlad "The Man" Putin at December 17, 2014 01:02 PM (bJm7W)

310 Here is a highly engineered escape Cuba raftboattruck.

http://tinyurl.com/qgk34mb
Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 17, 2014 12:59 PM (Mxs5H)

I like how some of them have on life vests...LOL. Safety first!

Posted by: Jen the original at December 17, 2014 01:02 PM (cPPlg)

311 Yeah, can't Obama just announce an exec action that the Feds won't enforce the embargo?

Free Beacon @FreeBeacon
VIDEO: Castro Urges Obama to Embrace Inner Dictator by Lifting Embargo with Executive Action http://goo.gl/B74ahN

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 01:02 PM (ZPrif)

312 The only alternative is turning them all loose. Does he have the balls for that?

Why not? You think Boner would sober up enough to do more than cry into his binkie?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 17, 2014 01:02 PM (zF6Iw)

313 >>Closing Gitmo causes a big problem for Obongo - what to do with the
remaining a-holes? He already floated the idea of bringing them to the
US for trial, and that blew up in his face. The only alternative is
turning them all loose. Does he have the balls for that? I dunno.

AT this point does Congress have the balls to stop him from bringing them here or releasing them?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2014 01:03 PM (ABcz/)

314 Yeah. It'll be the first Presidential campaign
season underwritten entirely by Depends, artificial hip manufacturers
and portable oxygen vendors.

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 01:00 PM (lZ1M5)
You left out Preparation H, and Forest Lawn.

The big question: which one gets the crucial Matlock endorsement?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 01:03 PM (oKE6c)

315 Hector's intellect is on par with the JEF's.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 01:03 PM (FsuaD)

316 @263

The tea party would nuke Spain if they could.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba

Really, dude? I suppose your deep understanding of the motivations of tea party members stems from your close associations, huh?

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 01:03 PM (/Ho8c)

317 I'm all about tolerance. My grandfather fought with the Nazis.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:03 PM (ttJ2z)

318 Jay, I'm glad you can enjoy anything about this astonishingly depressing spectacle - idiots of the caliber of Hillary and Fauxcahontas being taken seriously as candidates for any office, much less the Oval one.

Sadly, I cannot.

Speaking of which. Rubio? Are effing kidding me? No, wait, what the heck. If a non-entity like Bambi can become president (twice!!), then a clueless twink like Rubio should be taken seriously.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 17, 2014 01:03 PM (afQnV)

319 296
And I suspect all of those hands up don't shoot protestors are absolutely cool with the Cuban police force.
==================
There isn't very much to steal in the Socialist Worker and Farmer's Paradisio de Cuba, so it's not much of an issue. The Cuban police also have more political savvy than the American police; they don't shoot people in public, they just suddenly grab them off the sidewalk and send them to a "re-education institution" for 30 years.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 01:04 PM (/mTq0)

320 @306
The tea party views the Spanish as race traitors because they intermarried with non whites. They did not keep their bloodline pure unlike the English, whom tea parties admire. Hence the logical conclusion of the tea party's hate would be nuking Latin America and then Spain.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:04 PM (jvDrX)

321 Plus, I've been to Spain, and vastly prefer it to "northern European" France. Thanks.

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 01:04 PM (/Ho8c)

322 Ok, I withdraw the menopause thing, w/ apologies to Ettes.

Liz and Hill are still hags. That one I stand by.

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 01:04 PM (lZ1M5)

323 @314. Bernie Sanders. Matlock wants to go with young, hip faction of the Democratic party.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President of the Sheena Easton Fan Club at December 17, 2014 01:05 PM (OWjjx)

324 Gee, funny how Hector always shows up after Obama does something outrageous.

OFA is *not* getting their money's worth with this guy/gal/it.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2014 01:05 PM (ABcz/)

325 Will someone summon the Banhammer? Every time Hector posts more of his idiocy I feel brain cells dying.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 01:05 PM (FsuaD)

326 @283
Hey you are honest in your racial hatred. I respect that.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:05 PM (jvDrX)

327 The English "bloodline" is "pure"? Studied much English history?

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 01:05 PM (/Ho8c)

328 Jay, I'm glad you can enjoy anything about this astonishingly depressing
spectacle - idiots of the caliber of Hillary and Fauxcahontas being
taken seriously as candidates for any office, much less the Oval one.

I too am depressed, but entertainment is where you find it, and finding some in this helps me to control my rage. A little bit, anyway.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 01:06 PM (oKE6c)

329 The big question: which one gets the crucial Matlock endorsement?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 01:03 PM (oKE6c)

Most common question at the debates: "What? What did he say?"

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 01:06 PM (lZ1M5)

330 318
Speaking of which. Rubio? Are effing kidding me? No, wait, what the
heck. If a non-entity like Bambi can become president (twice!!), then a
clueless twink like Rubio should be taken seriously.

====================================

Compared to any Democrat leader, including the empty chair in the Oval Office, Rubio is the next Reagan.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 01:06 PM (/mTq0)

331 I'm all about tolerance. My grandfather fought with the Nazis.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba

Which SS division was he in? Or was he part of the Italian army?

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 01:06 PM (/Ho8c)

332 So the tea party hates Cubans now? Is there non WASP people other than Muslims, you guys like?

I can't speak for the Tea Party, but if I had the power to nuke mecca, it would have already been done. And I'd be working down the list.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2014 01:06 PM (8Fl6F)

333 You're not tricking anyone with your trolling Going to visit Cuba.

Posted by: Draki at December 17, 2014 01:07 PM (cUFgm)

334 MUMR channeling Hector?

Posted by: dantesed at December 17, 2014 01:07 PM (88xKn)

335 @T. Jeff

I'm pretty sure he didn't. Remember when Hector said the French were latino's?

Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 01:07 PM (CGjum)

336 @324
What is outrageous about having normal relations with Cuba? If we can have them with Muslim countries, why not Cuba? I know the real answer.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:07 PM (jvDrX)

337 Most common question at the debates: "What? What did he say?">>>
or
Who crapped their pant's now?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 17, 2014 01:07 PM (Mxs5H)

338 >>Remember when Hector said the French were latino's?

Or the time he accused the Tea Party of working with Islamic terrorists?
Good times in cuckooland!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2014 01:09 PM (ABcz/)

339 @316
I once was a tea party supporter. The racism and hate drove me away. I read the comment sections of tea party websites and see the hate.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:09 PM (jvDrX)

340 What benefits do we get from normalizing relations with Cuba? We can already go to great caribbean beaches elsewhere. They should pay dearly for their communist ties from the cold war and their regime is still tied to Russia.

Posted by: Draki at December 17, 2014 01:09 PM (cUFgm)

341 Posted by: Going to visit ~~Cuba~~ prop up another communist regime at December 17, 2014 01:07 PM (jvDrX)

Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 01:09 PM (MMC8r)

342 Rut-roh. Cubans in Little Havana protesting the JEF.

http://tinyurl.com/mg8ghsr

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 01:09 PM (FsuaD)

343 LOL, whatever visiting Cuba

Posted by: Draki at December 17, 2014 01:09 PM (cUFgm)

344
Here is a highly engineered escape Cuba raftboattruck.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 17, 2014 12:59 PM (Mxs5H)
...............................
Maybe Barry can park it for them when they arrive.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2014 01:10 PM (wAQA5)

345 No one will be forced to actually BE HERE in the near future. We will be hand delivering benefits to Guatemalans shortly.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at December 17, 2014 01:10 PM (zllbf)

346 Who crapped their pant's now?
Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 17, 2014 01:07 PM (Mxs5H)

"Mrs. Clinton, you have stated that..." *face wrinkle "...You have stated that you believe that..." waves hand in front of face-- "Stated that...Okay, seriously, who shit themselves?!"

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 01:10 PM (lZ1M5)

347 Secundus...no need to withdraw your comment. Menopausal women pre/during/post can be quite nuts. (You younger Morons going through pregnancy with your wives ain't seen nothin' yet!)

Posted by: Russkilitlover at December 17, 2014 01:11 PM (KN4+v)

348 Do any Tablets use Smart Phone software?

A bunch use Android 4.2 - 4.4 and Apple.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 01:11 PM (f3Lr8)

349 Here is a highly engineered escape Cuba raftboattruck.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 17, 2014 12:59 PM (Mxs5H)
...............................
Maybe Barry can park it for them when they arrive.

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2014 01:10 PM (wAQA5)

*cleans tea off monitor*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 01:11 PM (FsuaD)

350 I can see the big Vibram sole of stomp coming at my post, but, Cuba was a luxury playground back in the 20's and 30's. Cheap booze, hookers and cigars. Not necessarily in that order. I'd be up for that again.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 17, 2014 01:12 PM (5buP8)

351 "Closing Gitmo causes a big problem for Obongo - what
to do with the remaining a-holes? He already floated the idea of
bringing them to the US for trial, and that blew up in his face. The
only alternative is turning them all loose. Does he have the balls for
that? I dunno.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 01:00 PM (oKE6c)"

If you flew them directly to Pakistan today, they might be in the mood to show them some hospitality.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 17, 2014 01:12 PM (PD6iL)

352 Which SS division was he in? Or was he part of the Italian army?
Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 01:06 PM (/Ho8c)

Hungarian. Prolly turned over Jews to Eichmann

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 01:12 PM (lZ1M5)

353 "339 @316
I once was a tea party supporter. The racism and hate drove me away. I read the comment sections of tea party websites and see the hate."

Stop lying Hector. You're a fucking scumbag and probably mentally ill. You're almost certainly unemployed and live with mommy and "daddy" (i.e. the new guy who fucks her every week while you listen from paper-thin walls and jerk off).

Posted by: Naes at December 17, 2014 01:12 PM (YhayY)

354 I was once a captain of a secret mission to Uranus.

Posted by: Going to Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:13 PM (wr4LJ)

355 I once was a tea party supporter. The racism and
hate drove me away. I read the comment sections of tea party websites
and see the hate.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba

Mostly from your own posts, I'd guess.

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 01:13 PM (/Ho8c)

356 Obamacare fines loom for uninsured...

aka as Millennial ass fucking Schadenfreude.

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 17, 2014 01:13 PM (XzRw1)

357 So the Vatican is taking a victory lap.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 01:13 PM (ZPrif)

358 320
@306

The tea party views the Spanish as race traitors because they
intermarried with non whites. They did not keep their bloodline pure
unlike the English, whom tea parties admire. Hence the logical
conclusion of the tea party's hate would be nuking Latin America and
then Spain.
=================
Spare me the crappy KKK Democrat-labeling act. The English-Americans were always inferior in quantity to the Scots-Irish, who did most of the heavy lifting of establishing and maintaining the Republic. And the Scots-Irish screwed every woman they came across besides their own, which is why today in the USA you can find "Asians", "Blacks", and "Hispanics" with names like Johnson, Jackson, and Campbell.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 01:14 PM (/mTq0)

359 A lot of baseball books/biographies have insights into life in Cuba. Absolute abject poverty for at least 90% of the population. Every family has at least one uncle/cousin in political prison, food is the daily priority, not freedom. An absolute hell hole, even for those who were "gifted" athletically. But hey, show a few pics of brightly painted Cadillacs and a hot chick serving Mojitos, all of a sudden it's a Paradise.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 17, 2014 01:14 PM (2cS/G)

360 HotAir.com @hotairblog
Pope Francis, Canada brokered Cuba deal http://hotair.com/?p=2687453

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 01:14 PM (ZPrif)

361 @335
French are Latin Europeans.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:14 PM (jvDrX)

362 Stop lying Hector. You're a fucking scumbag and probably mentally ill. You're almost certainly unemployed and live with mommy and "daddy" (i.e. the new guy who fucks her every week while you listen from paper-thin walls and jerk off).

Epic troll slap. Some fine work, that there!

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 17, 2014 01:14 PM (5buP8)

363 I can see the big Vibram sole of stomp coming at my post, but, Cuba was a luxury playground back in the 20's and 30's. Cheap booze, hookers and cigars. Not necessarily in that order. I'd be up for that again.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 17, 2014 01:12 PM (5buP

Cuban pimps would meet arriving planes with illustrated brochures of the women on offer at the various brothels, one of which specialized in 13-year old virgins of either sex.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 17, 2014 01:15 PM (zF6Iw)

364 360 HotAir.com @hotairblog
Pope Francis, Canada brokered Cuba deal http://hotair.com/?p=2687453
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 01:14 PM (ZPrif)

Amen, eh?

Posted by: Secundus at December 17, 2014 01:15 PM (lZ1M5)

365 Rather than torture them just shoot them on the battlefield. No fuss, no muss.

Posted by: torabora at December 17, 2014 01:15 PM (9dSsW)

366 209
When you guys write your congressman or senator do you remain extremely
polite or go all batshit crazy on their ass? Sometimes it's called for
but does anyone actually do it?
------
I've gone all bat shit crazy on Mark Uterus.

Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 01:15 PM (vVSOO)

367 Oh man, Hector really is on it today with the word salad. Change in medication?

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 17, 2014 01:15 PM (MbqmP)

368 I once was a tea party supporter. The racism and hate drove me away. I
read the comment sections of tea party websites and see the hate.

Got links?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 17, 2014 01:16 PM (UVfht)

369 Hector also hates the Colonel, with his wee beady eyes.

Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 01:16 PM (MMC8r)

370 @353
I am making a killing in the stock market. I'm having the best times since the late 90's. I come on here for fyn and to rile up you tea party white trash types.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:16 PM (jvDrX)

371 I can eat fifty eggs.

Posted by: Going to Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:17 PM (wr4LJ)

372 Cuba? I think I'll try one of those red-headed Yolandas.

Posted by: Sen. Geary at December 17, 2014 01:17 PM (8ZskC)

373 Damn, ---, you beat me to it!

Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 01:17 PM (CGjum)

374 #358 LOL, now that explains everything.

Posted by: Draki at December 17, 2014 01:17 PM (cUFgm)

375 I do not like Pope Feelgood I.

Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 01:17 PM (MMC8r)

376 I like the penis.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:17 PM (FsuaD)

377 I like money.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:17 PM (lZ1M5)

378 342
Rut-roh. Cubans in Little Havana protesting the JEF.

http://tinyurl.com/mg8ghsr
======================

According to the next 24-hour news cycle on PMS-NBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC, those protests never happened.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 01:18 PM (/mTq0)

379 Where the white women at??

Posted by: Scott's-Irish at December 17, 2014 01:18 PM (5buP8)

380 I am making a killing in the stock market. I'm having the best times since the late 90's. I come on here for fyn and to rile up you tea party white trash types.
Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:16 PM (jvDrX)

Here's my suggestion - get out while you can.

Posted by: Large Market Correction After Bubble Burst at December 17, 2014 01:18 PM (X866z)

381 Go away! 'Baitin!

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:18 PM (lZ1M5)

382 I can see the big Vibram sole of stomp coming at my post, but, Cuba was a luxury playground back in the 20's and 30's. Cheap booze, hookers and cigars. Not necessarily in that order. I'd be up for that again.

IIRC, Cuber was called "the Riviera of the Caribbean" before Castro and Che destroyed it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 01:19 PM (0HooB)

383 Liberals: leave other countries alone if they are not hurting us

Conservatives: bomb the shit and kill everymother fucker who does not look like us or act like us or allow our corporations to suck their blood

ha! good job Obama, you are finally showing some balls!
in your face, Repugnacans!

Posted by: walter at December 17, 2014 01:19 PM (+xYQE)

384
Cuban pimps would meet arriving planes with illustrated brochures of the women on offer at the various brothels, one of which specialized in 13-year old virgins of either sex.

Did somebody page me?

Posted by: Harry Reid at December 17, 2014 01:19 PM (5buP8)

385 I am making a killing in the stock market. I'm having the best times since the late 90's. I come on here for fyn and to rile up you tea party white trash types.
Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:16 PM (jvDrX)
You recently made $72 million, eh?
Real name: Mohammed Islam?

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 17, 2014 01:19 PM (MbqmP)

386 I made $72 million in the stock market by the time I was 17.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:19 PM (8ZskC)

387 And I've got a hot wife. She looks just like Eva Mendez. Mainly because my wife is a pillow with a picture of Eva Mendez glued onto it.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:20 PM (/nR7C)

388 Great. Hector's retarded friend just showed up.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 01:20 PM (FsuaD)

389 You should invest in oil, Cuba. The price has to go up.

Posted by: Draki at December 17, 2014 01:20 PM (cUFgm)

390 363
I can see the big Vibram sole of stomp coming at my post, but, Cuba
was a luxury playground back in the 20's and 30's. Cheap booze, hookers
and cigars. Not necessarily in that order. I'd be up for that again.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 17, 2014 01:12 PM (5buP

Cuban pimps would meet arriving planes with illustrated brochures of
the women on offer at the various brothels, one of which specialized in
13-year old virgins of either sex.
====================

So you are saying the UN will have a big role in supporting the "normalization" process?

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 01:20 PM (/mTq0)

391 And I've got a hot wife. She looks just like Eva
Mendez. Mainly because my wife is a pillow with a picture of Eva Mendez
glued onto it.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba

No, no. Not Eva Mendez. Too brownish.

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 01:21 PM (/Ho8c)

392 383 Liberals: leave other countries alone if they are not hurting us

Conservatives: bomb the shit and kill everymother fucker who does not look like us or act like us or allow our corporations to suck their blood

ha! good job Obama, you are finally showing some balls!
in your face, Repugnacans!
Posted by: walter at December 17, 2014 01:19 PM (+xYQE)

Hi, Walter! Castro promised us some "alone time" in Havana next time we go down there to party.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:21 PM (X866z)

393 Not everyone makes enough money to buy spinners for his minivan. I do.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:21 PM (8ZskC)

394 Posted by: Going to visit Cuba

Hey, fuckhead, I asked you a direct question. Are you going to answer it or just jerk off all fucking day?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 17, 2014 01:21 PM (UVfht)

395
Going to visit Cuba...don't forget your sunscreen!

Posted by: wth at December 17, 2014 01:21 PM (wAQA5)

396 I doubt Warren Buffet trolls AOSHQ. You, Cuba, seem more like a Jim Cramer loser.

Posted by: Draki at December 17, 2014 01:21 PM (cUFgm)

397 383
Liberals: leave other countries alone if they are not hurting us

Posted by: walter at December 17, 2014 01:19 PM (+xYQE)

Is that so? How many wars in the past century were under Democratic presidents? It might take you awhile to count, I'll wait.

Posted by: Heralder at December 17, 2014 01:21 PM (/Mxso)

398 @383

Not everyone on the right wants to bomb every nation. But yeah the tea party hysteria over this is funny.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:21 PM (jvDrX)

399 When they close Gitmo they should just release the detainees into Cuba.
See how they like us sending terrorists onto their streets.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 17, 2014 01:21 PM (Mxs5H)

400 Great. Hector's retarded friend just showed up.

Dumber and Dumberer?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 01:21 PM (f3Lr8)

401 LOL, I'm sure Syria and Libya think our liberals leave them alone.

Posted by: Draki at December 17, 2014 01:22 PM (cUFgm)

402 Say, does anybody know the Spanish for 'glory hole'?

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:22 PM (wr4LJ)

403

ha! good job Obama, you are finally showing some balls!

How, exactly? Selling out people who you know aren't going to support you anyway? There's no cost to Obama in any of this-- that's hardly showing 'balls.'

Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 01:22 PM (MMC8r)

404 Taft started the Great War, Hoover started WWII, Eisenhower started Korea, & Nixon started Vietnam!

Posted by: walter at December 17, 2014 01:22 PM (MbqmP)

405 "Martha McSally has just been declared the official winner of the disputed congressional race in southern AZ."

OH yeah. One piece of good news on an otherwise shitty day.

McSally: former A-10 combat pilot. Massive respect.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 17, 2014 01:22 PM (noWW6)

406 At least his stupidity entertains us. There is hope!

Posted by: Draki at December 17, 2014 01:23 PM (cUFgm)

407 402 Say, does anybody know the Spanish for 'glory hole'?

It's pronounced "Hector."

Posted by: Naes at December 17, 2014 01:23 PM (YhayY)

408 agujero de la gloria

Posted by: RWC - Shopping for Justice! at December 17, 2014 01:23 PM (fWAjv)

409 @394
You deny there no racist comments at tea party websites? Look at Jens anti Cuban rants above.

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:23 PM (jvDrX)

410 As an aside, can we PLEASE get some warning if a sidebar link is going to go to the Daily Caller?

Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 01:23 PM (CGjum)

411 Cuba, we need to play poker sometime.

Posted by: Draki at December 17, 2014 01:23 PM (cUFgm)

412 Taft started the Great War, Hoover started WWII, Eisenhower started Korea, Nixon started Vietnam!

Posted by: walter at December

And racist Democrats started the Civil War! Point?

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 01:23 PM (/Ho8c)

413 Walter is me on my cell phone teehee!

Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:23 PM (/nR7C)

414 LOL, I'm sure Syria and Libya think our liberals leave them alone.

And Egypt.

But they do leave places like Iraq alone. So ISIS can run wild.

Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 01:23 PM (MMC8r)

415 Do any Tablets use Smart Phone software?

-------

Well, yes. iPads and Android tablets (Samsung, Google Nexus line, etc) use modified versions of the same operating systems used in iPhones and Android phones (Samsung, Google Nexus, HTC, LG, etc etc).

Posted by: Gaff at December 17, 2014 01:23 PM (jPS2y)

416 Obama Moves to Normalize Relations With Cuba, After Cuba Releases Hostage It's Held for Five Years

He's held the entire nation hostage for 6+ years. When do we get normalized?

Posted by: DaveA at December 17, 2014 01:24 PM (DL2i+)

417 368 I once was a tea party supporter. The racism and hate drove me away. I
read the comment sections of tea party websites and see the hate.

Got links?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 17, 2014 01:16 PM (UVfht)

And lord knows you never see any racism and misogyny against any women and persons of color that dare disagree with agreed upon progressive dogma on progressive websites.

Oh right rape and death threats against Michelle Malkin and Dana Loesch are what they deserve but any questions of Anita Sarkeesian and you should be put in the gulag. How could I forget.

Posted by: the real ch3 at December 17, 2014 01:24 PM (IG5KL)

418 If we are all Americans, when are we going to extend our law enforcement into Cuba and Mexico

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 17, 2014 01:24 PM (hVHEm)

419 389
You should invest in oil, Cuba. The price has to go up.
============
They let the PRC start investing, which has got to making some waves among the Mandarins right now. Beijing is probably wondering if Obummer is going to declare Socialist Keystone in the Gulf in agreement with Raoul and cut them off at the knees for a few percentage points in the polls.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 17, 2014 01:24 PM (/mTq0)

420 You deny there no racist comments at tea party websites? Look at Jens anti Cuban rants above.
Posted by: Going to visit Cuba at December 17, 2014 01:23 PM (jvDrX)

I agree! Cuba is a race. And so is Mexico.

Posted by: walter at December 17, 2014 01:25 PM (MbqmP)

421 When they close Gitmo they should just release the detainees into Cuba.
See how they like us sending terrorists onto their streets.

Cuban Secret Police would cap them and feed them to the sharks within a day.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 01:25 PM (f3Lr8)

422 Walter, you got some 'splainin' to do!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 17, 2014 01:25 PM (lHb9q)

423 "We must empathize with the Cuban people." - Hillary Clinton

Okay.., I may be paraphrasing...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2014 01:25 PM (kgisg)

424 You are not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole.

Posted by: The Dude at December 17, 2014 01:25 PM (QiUsd)

425 Look at Jen's anti Cuban comments as an example.

There's nothing anti-Cuban in anything Jen said.

However, she is bashing Castro and Obama as using them as political pawns.

Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 01:26 PM (MMC8r)

426 one of which specialized in 13-year old virgins of either sex.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 17, 2014 01:15 PM

Go on...

Posted by: Hairy Reid at December 17, 2014 01:26 PM (knoK7)

427 I ♥ Communism!

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 17, 2014 01:26 PM (lN8KC)

428 I agree! Cuba is a race. And so is Mexico.

Posted by: walter

What the fcukitty fck?

Posted by: T. Jeff. at December 17, 2014 01:26 PM (/Ho8c)

429 "I think normalizing relationships is a terrific idea." - Scarface

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2014 01:26 PM (kgisg)

430 Cuban Secret Police would cap them and feed them to the sharks within a day.>>>

Win Win then.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 17, 2014 01:27 PM (Mxs5H)

431 "If we are all Americans, when are we going to extend our law enforcement into Cuba and Mexico"

Or it could run in the other direction.

When are we going to start enforcing Mexico's extremely strict voter ID rules?

When are we going to start treating illegal aliens the super-tough way that Mexico treats illegal aliens?

Posted by: torquewrench at December 17, 2014 01:27 PM (noWW6)

432 "This is just as I planned" - Zombie Che Guevera

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2014 01:27 PM (kgisg)

433 *sprays Troll-B-Gon*

Hector still here?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2014 01:27 PM (knoK7)

434 * hmm. I'm gonna score big on this deal * - Raul Castro

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2014 01:29 PM (kgisg)

435 Frankly, I'd trade illegal Mexicans for an equal number of Cubans.

Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 01:29 PM (MMC8r)

436 Come, corgis.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 01:30 PM (FsuaD)

437 Let me be clear. I will do as many favors for the enemies of the Unites States as I can.

We are all Communis- er, uh, Americans.

Posted by: B. Obama at December 17, 2014 01:30 PM (1Rgee)

438 404
Taft started the Great War, Hoover started WWII, Eisenhower started Korea, Nixon started Vietnam!

Posted by: walter at December 17, 2014 01:22 PM (MbqmP)
Holy shit you're dumb. Also wrong.

Posted by: Heralder at December 17, 2014 01:30 PM (/Mxso)

439 You deny there no racist comments at tea party websites? Look at Jens anti Cuban rants above.

You have asserted without proof. I asked for evidence, which you have failed to provide. You lose.

As for Jen's comments, and I'm sure can defend herself, if you think those are anti-Cuban then you'd better take a course in reading comprehension.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 17, 2014 01:31 PM (UVfht)

440 412 Taft started the Great War, Hoover started WWII, Eisenhower started Korea, Nixon started Vietnam!

Posted by: walter at December

Did the special ed class run out of paste again?

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizarro World at December 17, 2014 01:33 PM (UtwNa)

441 "They have excellent health care!" - Zombie Hugo Chavez

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2014 01:34 PM (kgisg)

442 Hector training somebody? Walter, are you wearing your I'm in training button?

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 17, 2014 01:35 PM (o2Jt2)

443 How will Judas Boehner and Judas McCain betray us on this? The payoffs will probably be Cuban booze and cigars. That's pretty cheap for a traitor. They are the freakin Walmarts of treason.

Posted by: Habitually Pessimistic at December 17, 2014 01:35 PM (aPWyt)

444 ~~Taft~~ Wilson started the Great War, ~~Hoover~~ Roosevelt started WWII, ~~Eisenhower~~ Truman started Korea, ~~Nixon~~ Johnson started Vietnam!

Posted by: walter at December 17, 2014 01:22 PM (MbqmP)

Fixed it for you, retard.

Posted by: Heralder at December 17, 2014 01:38 PM (/Mxso)

445 Since the only motivation of the American Liberal is hatred of America, I can only assume this is bad for the USA.

Posted by: Null at December 17, 2014 01:42 PM (xjpRj)

446

Posted by: torabora at December 17, 2014 01:43 PM (9dSsW)

447 >>>We are in fact all inhabitants of The Americas.

And so what? So what if we all are part of two continents with the arbitrary word America in their names? What's your point President Obama?

Posted by: Mooch at December 17, 2014 01:48 PM (1vYi0)

448 Hector, while his heart is in the right place, is not a sterling example of progressive thought.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 17, 2014 01:49 PM (OOdcU)

449 Off Mooch sock.

Posted by: dogfish at December 17, 2014 01:49 PM (1vYi0)

450 "Sorry to you Catholics here but I've had about enough from this "Pope.""

Sorry, I've heard enough grievances against Catholicism in Right wing blogs to give a damn.

Posted by: Shoot Me at December 17, 2014 02:10 PM (EQcfE)

451 am sure there is a Presidential "Memorandum" Returning Guantanamo base to Castro as a holiday gift and POTUS WILL PREEN ABOUT HOW HE "CLOSED GUANTANAMO AS PROMISED.... Anyone who does not see this coming is naive at best, and at worst, utterly clueless about how this guy operates.

Posted by: blogforce one at December 17, 2014 02:33 PM (i8Auu)

452 I guess that brave GOP non-leadership NOT standing up to Obama's executive amnesty has really paid off ... for Cuba.

Posted by: Hugh G Rection at December 17, 2014 03:31 PM (wT9UL)

453 "Isn't this what Trump has been saying for years about China? And how our
government is too stupid and complicit to try to win negotiations with
them."

Idiot Obama got a fake climate "deal" with China where we promised to limit industrial CO2 emissions now until 2030 and China promised to .. watch and do nothing.

Obama's only real 'enemy' is patriotic conservative Republican Americans. Anyone who helps him beat up on America is fine by him.

Posted by: Hugh G Rection at December 17, 2014 03:33 PM (wT9UL)

454 Obama is like Jimmy Carter, but without the rustic charm.

Posted by: Hugh G Rection at December 17, 2014 03:34 PM (wT9UL)

455 "9
Which does beg the question: why now?"

Simple. He's a liberated lame duck.

Thanks to the GOP rolling over on executive amnesty and not seriously stopping executive overreach, Obama has a green light to do whatever tickles his fancy.

Kind of like how Bill Clinton will act in the White House should we make the mistake of electing Hillary.

Posted by: Hugh G Rection at December 17, 2014 04:02 PM (wT9UL)

456 "89
In the new Obama economy, Cuba might be an affordable vacation option outside of the staycations that are all the rage."

Staycations, FUNemployment, ... and retire to a land of $3 hookers.

Aint globalization grand?

Posted by: Hugh G Rection at December 17, 2014 04:04 PM (wT9UL)

457 There was a great deal of myth that arose around Castro's supposed baseball talents."

Kind of like Hitler's artistic talents.

Posted by: Keep Calm Cruz On at December 17, 2014 04:50 PM (wT9UL)

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459 "339
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I once was a tea party supporter. The racism and hate drove me away.
I read the comment sections of tea party websites and see the hate."

I was once was a reader of New York Times and Atlantic Monthly. The racism and hate drove me away.
I read the comment sections of their websites and see the hate - liberals hating on non-progressives, man-hating feminists, Christian-hating atheists, everyone hating on what they think is the Tea Party but actually having no clue who they are or what they are about, merely projecting their ... hate onto them.

Posted by: Keep Calm Cruz On at December 17, 2014 07:57 PM (wT9UL)

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