aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com
CBD:
cbd.aoshq at gee mail.com
Buck:
buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com
joe mannix:
mannix2024 at proton.me
MisHum:
petmorons at gee mail.com
J.J. Sefton:
sefton at cutjibnewsletter.com
Details of the Unilateral Executive Cuba Deal
Meh. I'm not sure I really care. The previous policy, whether the right policy or not, has not yet toppled the Castro regime. I think this new policy will almost certainly increase the chances the Castro regime continues, near to mid-term, but I think we're talking about increasing the chances from 98% to 98%, so I'm not especially bothered. I supported the anti-Castro plank because the Republican-voting Cuban exiles in Florida wanted me to. But lately, they seem to voting for Democrats, and they don't seem to care about the Cuba embargo as much. So I guess I don't really have any incentive to continue to support a policy I was only supporting as a favor to a political ally. Below, Marco Rubio tears Obama as the worst negotiator in the modern era, noting that Obama got "nothing" out of this deal -- no structural undertakings towards freedom on Cuba's behalf -- except freeing 53 political prisoners. (Who could be re-imprisoned in a week.)
Loosened travel restrictions ... A dozen different licenses allow Americans to travel to Cuba, and requirements for getting them will be relaxed.... Authorized travelers will also be able to use their U.S. credit and debit cards in Cuba, something not previously allowed. That could make it much easier for people to go to Cuba. Bringing back goods ... Under the new rules, authorized visitors will be allowed to bring back $400 worth of goods -- including $100 worth of alcohol and tobacco products combined. In the past, it has been illegal to bring back any of Cuba’s famed cigars and rum. ...
Sending money It will be easier for people in the U.S. to send money to Cuba under the changes.... Billions already are sent annually by Cubans living in the United States.... Human rights Republicans are ripping the deal for doing little to improve human rights in Cuba. The White House appears to have dropped its opposition to a Cuban presence at the 2015 summit of the Americas in Panama, but says has that Cuban civil society “must be allowed” to participate.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 17, 2014 02:32 PM (XUKZU)
More visitors to Cuba will mean more opportunities for Cubans to know they are living in a sick twisted prison. That Miami is just 90 miles away is almost impossible to believe.
But Obama is still a tyrannical dangerous asshole.
Posted by: ParisParamus at December 17, 2014 02:34 PM (CkjRf)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 17, 2014 02:34 PM (XUKZU)
I know how I feel about this which is Castro needs to be chupacabra thunderfucked.
I do not know what I think of this, other than that Rubio is correct that we got nothing from this.
Oh and it has to go through Congress and ahahahaha I made a funny.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 17, 2014 03:49 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2014 03:49 PM (FPQut)
Posted by: garrett at December 17, 2014 03:49 PM (6UDJC)
Posted by: Citizen X at December 17, 2014 03:49 PM (7ObY1)
Posted by: Jean at December 17, 2014 03:50 PM (TETYm)
Posted by: helloit's me Donna and I know nuthink! at December 17, 2014 03:50 PM (Bn6aD)
Posted by: 'jackie' at December 17, 2014 03:51 PM (Dw98+)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 03:51 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at December 17, 2014 03:52 PM (JjJUC)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 17, 2014 03:52 PM (1Jaio)
Posted by: duke at December 17, 2014 03:52 PM (ChY2Q)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 03:52 PM (CMkNk)
The gov't prohibition simply created the black market for them.
Posted by: shredded chi at December 17, 2014 03:52 PM (61L4J)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 03:53 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 17, 2014 03:53 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: duke at December 17, 2014 03:52 PM (ChY2Q)
No need to wonder. It's the former.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 03:53 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 17, 2014 03:53 PM (JtwS4)
Posted by: duke at December 17, 2014 03:52 PM (ChY2Q)
Considering that his family is Cuban refugees? Yeah, I'm going to go with he believes what he's saying about this.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 17, 2014 03:53 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 17, 2014 02:32 PM
...................Ask Menendez or Hillary.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 03:53 PM (KBIDy)
There is nothing this clown does that isn't political. Nothing. At all. From race baiting in People to this, all King Putt cares about is doing whatever he wants to do (ie whatever will burnish his legacy). The worst part is yet to come though once he leaves office. As awful and meddling as Carter was, Zero is going to be infinitely worse. I would love it if he gets himself stuck in a situation he can't bullshit his way out of, and the current president tells him to fuck off.
Hey a man can hope, right?
Posted by: sans_sheriff at December 17, 2014 03:54 PM (lj4x1)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2014 03:54 PM (ABcz/)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 17, 2014 03:54 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: Sen. Geary at December 17, 2014 03:54 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: tu3031 at December 17, 2014 03:54 PM (i0wGQ)
FIFY
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2014 03:54 PM (knoK7)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 03:54 PM (ZPrif)
Its going allow the BANKS to do business with each other more easily.
They will HAVE to tie into our banking system for debit and credit cards to work...
Its all about profit for Banks... and more control over more commerce, by the big banks...
Posted by: The Big Bad Wolfy at December 17, 2014 03:54 PM (f0pWu)
Posted by: DocJ at December 17, 2014 03:55 PM (wRpmO)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 03:55 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Hal at December 17, 2014 03:55 PM (hmPdt)
Also, back before the revolution, Cuba and Puerto Rico were in a cultural revolution of sorts, I think; both argue which of them created salsa music and a lot of the rum drinks we take for granted. Doubt will will find a secret flourishing of that once great culture once the gates to Cuba are flung open wide. What could have been...
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 03:55 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 17, 2014 03:56 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 17, 2014 03:49 PM (mf5HN)
Don't know if this is a new term or an old one I missed, but it's f**king hilarious.
Posted by: Heralder at December 17, 2014 03:56 PM (/Mxso)
something awful involved in the trade. Something awful for the US.
Just Commies helping Commies. Just part of Emperor Clusterfuck's "Fundemental change". That's all.
Posted by: tu3031 at December 17, 2014 03:57 PM (i0wGQ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 17, 2014 03:56 PM
If they have jobs and vote Republican? Patriarchy.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2014 03:57 PM (knoK7)
But, I still need you to hide this one cigar until we get through customs...
Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 17, 2014 03:57 PM (6UDJC)
"Oh, you mean before all of their black people get jobs?"
Posted by: Oschisms at December 17, 2014 03:57 PM (uqV2n)
Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at December 17, 2014 03:57 PM (6UDJC)
The older Cubans still vote heavily Republican, and they definitely do care.
Plus I think that thing about Cubans trending democrat (something like 42% for Obama) was overstated and based on one sketchy poll that was debunked a bit. They definitely aren't as republican as they were, but still a strong ally.
Posted by: buzz at December 17, 2014 03:57 PM (i27M5)
Posted by: Dang at December 17, 2014 03:57 PM (MNq6o)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 17, 2014 03:57 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: shredded chi at December 17, 2014 03:58 PM (61L4J)
Posted by: Joey Biden at December 17, 2014 03:58 PM (+rx1r)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 17, 2014 03:58 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: Charlie Rangel at December 17, 2014 03:58 PM (XzRw1)
At the street/Joe Public level, it's gonna be like China in the '80s, friends and relatives visit with shoes or a flat-screen TV in their luggage.
Posted by: JEM at December 17, 2014 03:58 PM (o+SC1)
Posted by: garrett at December 17, 2014 03:59 PM (6UDJC)
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 03:59 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 17, 2014 02:32 PM (XUKZU)
How many you need? BT Dubs, The underage ones are more expensive.
Posted by: Sen. Robert "The Pimp" Menendez at December 17, 2014 03:59 PM (xtpUs)
Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2014 04:00 PM (FPQut)
It always comes back to money with the Democrats. They think if they just throw money at a problem, the problem will disappear.
Where do they think those "billions" Cuban Americans send to Cubans is going? It sure as hell isn't staying with the ordinary Cuban. The entire island is one big police state. As a poster earlier stated, ordinary citizens don't dare paint their house lest the secret police come down on them demanding to know where the money is coming from. Whatever extra money anyone gets is siphoned off by the government..Remember, everything in Cuba is free, which means that no one has more than anyone else, and that includes money.
Does this regime actually think that millions of Americans are going to flock to Cuba now for vacations? That the ordinary Cuban is going to be running up and down the beach, selling fake Rolex's and Gucci shoe stores will spring up next to some casino to the throngs of American tourists? or Disney is going to partner with Castro and build Cubaland?
Posted by: Jen the original at December 17, 2014 04:00 PM (cPPlg)
Posted by: Greg61 at December 17, 2014 04:00 PM (H0lcY)
He is so stupid that he ended up the prisoner of people he idolized.
So the deal is this:
We release3 communist spies, and in return, Cuba released a communist idiot. To celebrate this mutual freeing of communists, we recognize a repressive communist regime.
Aslos note the photo on the wall of Gross's lawyers:
http://tinyurl.com/ntr8bdn
Che Guevara. In case you were unclear that Gross and his whole support team are pro-Castro.
Posted by: zombie at December 17, 2014 04:00 PM (K4YiS)
Posted by: Davod at December 17, 2014 04:00 PM (FWznJ)
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:01 PM (rwI+c)
But still, the most pathetic.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 17, 2014 04:02 PM (afQnV)
I just think it's fitting that Obama move us one step closer to the bad actors of the world while downgrading all our traditional allies. It's another political ploy and a distraction from last week's distraction of the previous week's distraction.
Posted by: ElKomandante at December 17, 2014 04:02 PM (APQ2q)
Commies help Commies, Always
Posted by: Adventure Time at December 17, 2014 04:02 PM (xtpUs)
Posted by: garrett
Damn it, I didn't wait long enough!
Posted by: R. Polanski at December 17, 2014 04:02 PM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: duke at December 17, 2014 03:52 PM (ChY2Q)
"No need to wonder. It's the former."
JJ Sefton
"Considering that his family is Cuban refugees? Yeah, I'm going to go with he believes what he's saying about this."
Posted by: alexthechick
JJ v. ATC; that's a throw-down I'd like to see.
Posted by: duke at December 17, 2014 04:02 PM (ChY2Q)
Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 04:02 PM (NaV4z)
In fairness, I hear the Cuban whores are fantastic and affordable.
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:02 PM (rwI+c)
They don't even know what environmentalism is.
But hey, kommunism is kool, dewds!!!
Posted by: zombie at December 17, 2014 04:02 PM (K4YiS)
Posted by: @votermom at December 17, 2014 04:02 PM (K85RU)
literally no one outside of politicos cares about any longer. But hey,
Cubans are Hispanics too and watch Telemundo so WIN!!!
No one watches Alpha House but me...but in the second season the fake Rubio RINO character, who is a horndog attempting to reform, is trying to reconcile with his ex fiancee and find a way to drive a wedge between her and her second in command. He does this by starting a long debate between the three of them, with the old school Cuban guy coming on the side of keeping the embargo in place, and his ex fiancee siding with him in thinking the embargo needs to end.
At the time I saw that I was like, what the crap... no one cares about this, this issue is not relevant, that is never gonna happen. So one more reason to hate Obama is he managed to make a silly Trudeau show about GOP RINOS as seen by the left politically timely...
The only funny thing about it is that the character is always trying to position himself to be the next presidential nominee...which actually I think is spot on with Rubio, hah.
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 04:03 PM (yRwC8)
I curse GHW Bush for leaving us saddled with Castro after the Soviet Union collapsed. Ditto Iran.
The Bush family has left us a lot of crap that won't go away.
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 17, 2014 04:03 PM (XzRw1)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 17, 2014 04:03 PM (OOdcU)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for all of Your Holiday Needs! at December 17, 2014 04:03 PM (hLRSq)
new scathing commentary, I wonder if he's just pandering to
re-establish his credibility or whether he actually believes what he's
saying.
Posted by: duke at December 17, 2014 03:52 PM (ChY2Q)
The former. Rubio is a liar and not a very good one.
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 17, 2014 04:04 PM (XzRw1)
Posted by: helloit's me Donna and I know nuthink! at December 17, 2014 04:05 PM (Bn6aD)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 04:05 PM (0HooB)
Currently the top article at the SF Chronicle:
http://blog.sfgate.com/travel/2014/12/17/the-12-ches-of-christmas/
"The 12 Che's of Christmas
In honor of the holidays and today's epic news that the United States plans to resume diplomatic relations with Cuba, here's a gallery of 12 images from the boyhood home of revolutionary leader Che Guevara."
I barfed.
Posted by: zombie at December 17, 2014 04:05 PM (K4YiS)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 17, 2014 04:03 PM (OOdcU)
I understand the UN is going to divide Cuba in half and give one part to the Yids from Miami.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:05 PM (CMkNk)
**taps chin**
Does this mean that Mikey Moore can now *easily* travel to Havana for first class medical care.???
Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 04:05 PM (NaV4z)
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:05 PM (rwI+c)
We all scoffed.
But at this point, what difference does it make if our President and his party loyalists are all anti-capitalists.
Vote Jeb Bush in 2016!
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 17, 2014 04:06 PM (XdcuI)
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:05 PM (rwI+c)
He'd suck his own. If he had one.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:07 PM (CMkNk)
I may be misunderstanding you here or misunderstanding the situation, but it isn't that prick in the WH's call.
Oh and as for Rubio and Jeb, fuckem. They don't seem to be bothered about Cuban's repressed latinos but they damn sure like to lecture me about other repressed latinos.
Posted by: dogfish at December 17, 2014 04:07 PM (1vYi0)
Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 04:07 PM (NaV4z)
Posted by: tu3031 at December 17, 2014 04:07 PM (i0wGQ)
of Obama unilaterally doing whatever He damn well pleases....
The next 2-years or so are going to be filled-to-bursting with shenanigans like this. Better get used to it, unless someone transplants a set of working testicles into the GOP leadership, which is about as likely as my bedding Kate Upton tonight, which is to say, not very at all.
Posted by: DocJ at December 17, 2014 04:07 PM (wRpmO)
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FIFY
Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 04:07 PM (NaV4z)
Thread winner. Unless you mean Lena Dunham's Republican Rapist.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:08 PM (CMkNk)
Actually, the quote was, "We will Barry you," but other than that, you're correct.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 04:08 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: tu3031 at December 17, 2014 04:07 PM (i0wGQ)
The Lakeville Road Boys and the Penino Brothers were unavailable for comment, as was Hyman Roth.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:08 PM (CMkNk)
new scathing commentary, I wonder if he's just pandering to
re-establish his credibility or whether he actually believes what he's
saying.
Posted by: duke at December 17, 2014 03:52 PM (ChY2Q)
Oh I think he truly cares, since it affected his family personally. But I also think he is trying to use this to his advantage and play it in a way that makes him once again appealing to GOP and conservatives. The two are not mutually exclusive!
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 04:08 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: JEM at December 17, 2014 04:09 PM (o+SC1)
Cuba grows a lot of sugar cane, and it's cheap. They could sell it in the US if it wasn't for that pesky embargo.
And American sugar growers (in Florida) would be screwed.
A lot campaign contributions could be extracted from both sides to "help make policy".
Too cynical?
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at December 17, 2014 04:09 PM (RFeQD)
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 17, 2014 04:10 PM (2ruKl)
Is anyone keeping track of or otherwise recording thread winners somewhere?
I would love to scan the archives.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:10 PM (CMkNk)
right policy or not, has not yet toppled the Castro regime
I may be misunderstanding you here or misunderstanding the situation, but it isn't that prick in the WH's call.
Oh and as for Rubio and Jeb, fuckem. They don't seem to be bothered
about Cuban's repressed latinos but they damn sure like to lecture me
about other repressed latinos.
Posted by: dogfish
THIS +1000
Posted by: Yip at December 17, 2014 04:10 PM (84SRe)
Posted by: Hyman Roth at December 17, 2014 04:10 PM (i0wGQ)
Posted by: DocJ
Yeah, it's much easier to have sex with her on a tropical beach or up against the bathroom stall wall in a coke-saturated disco, than it is to actually get her into a bed.
Posted by: zombie at December 17, 2014 04:10 PM (K4YiS)
Posted by: Kim Jong Un at December 17, 2014 04:10 PM (KBIDy)
He capitulates.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 17, 2014 04:10 PM (2ruKl)
If you can't decapitate, capitulate.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:10 PM (CMkNk)
-
OK. Aything goes. Below the belt, backstabbing, eye gouging, c*ntpunting is all good. Now get it on!
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 17, 2014 04:10 PM (XUKZU)
Too cynical?
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at December 17, 2014 04:09 PM (RFeQD)
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Not cynical enough.
The policy has already been written and the checks have already been cashed. Just need a good "announcing" date.
Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 04:10 PM (NaV4z)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2014 04:10 PM (ABcz/)
Maybe the Mob will move back in?
Posted by: tu3031
Not as crooked as the Castro Regime. And not as powerful.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at December 17, 2014 04:11 PM (RFeQD)
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:11 PM (jvDrX)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 04:11 PM (MMC8r)
(I love ellipsis)
I sit ... in awe of the horde. (No, really I do. Y'all are awesome!)
... (just because.)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 17, 2014 04:11 PM (XdcuI)
Now, finally, Cuba will be able to buy American food using American loans instead of paying cash.<<<
.
Exactly. "Trade" will consist of our money going in. What do they have to trade, sugar and tobacco? We really need more of that?
Posted by: Javems at December 17, 2014 04:11 PM (AYQjf)
In fairness, I hear the Cuban whores are fantastic and affordable.
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:02 PM (rwI+c)
------------------
Pass.
Posted by: BBW Pron Guy at December 17, 2014 04:11 PM (uqV2n)
I would love to scan the archives.
The record is kept...
...wait for it...
...in the barrel.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 04:11 PM (0HooB)
Cuba grows a lot of sugar cane, and it's cheap. They could sell it in the US if it wasn't for that pesky embargo.
And American sugar growers (in Florida) would be screwed.
A lot campaign contributions could be extracted from both sides to "help make policy".
Too cynical?
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....in the bleak midwinter at December 17, 2014 04:09 PM (RFeQD)
Wait. So you're saying this combines unilateral executive action, fighting about Rubio and Jeb, general Obama foreign policy fuckwittery and agriculture subsidies?
*ragetwitches on floor*
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 17, 2014 04:11 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 17, 2014 04:10 PM (XUKZU)
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Point of order.... if I may.
Arent ALL of AtC's punches below the belt???
Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 04:11 PM (NaV4z)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 17, 2014 04:11 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 04:12 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: K. Upton at December 17, 2014 04:12 PM (RQDhf)
______________
And also for some of that great dental care the Cubans gave Mr. Gross during his 5-year imprisonment.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 17, 2014 04:12 PM (2ruKl)
Posted by: Obama 2016! at December 17, 2014 04:12 PM (LISuA)
Posted by: Garrett at December 17, 2014 04:12 PM (F7vVo)
I remember what PJ O'Rourke wrote about East Berlin. Before the wall fell there was a sort of film-noir spy mystique about being in East Berlin, but after teh wall fell it was revealed to be just another screwed up poor place. I think any opening of Cuba will have that effect on the American Left. As their symbol of resistance to Yankee Imperialism and Colonialism there was a romantic atmosphere of the Great Struggle. However, once that goes away you end up with a warm East Berlin - just another screwed up poor place.
I don't think the Leftist Romance of Cuba can survive without the American embargo.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for all of Your Holiday Needs! at December 17, 2014 04:12 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:12 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans
I loved your 1995 album "Everything is Wrong"!
Posted by: zombie at December 17, 2014 04:13 PM (K4YiS)
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 04:13 PM (yRwC8)
Big-time in the Rio Grande Valley (Texas) too. The US Sugar industry is protected and coddled... they beat Corn to the punch but Corn caught up.... also now mandated Ethanol.... it's all a racket. Restrictions on sugar will likely be kept in place so prices remain high for us.... because... our betters know better and such.
Posted by: Yip at December 17, 2014 04:13 PM (84SRe)
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 17, 2014 04:12 PM (2ruKl)
I think they surreptitiously sent him to England for the dental "care." Cuban dentistry involves a doorknob and a string.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:13 PM (CMkNk)
Surprised he wasn't in the last thread lecturing us on how the tea party is secretly working w/NK. Or do they hate NK, which is proof that they are the most racisty racist that ever lived?
I just can't keep up.....so I'll continue to tune him/her/it/them out.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2014 04:13 PM (ABcz/)
Billions already are sent annually by Cubans living in the United States
Funding the world's Socialism, one country at a time, since 1947.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizarro World at December 17, 2014 04:14 PM (UtwNa)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 04:14 PM (KBIDy)
Cuba is a BYOTP (bring your own toilet paper) country.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at December 17, 2014 04:14 PM (e8kgV)
Well, well. Mr. Helper.
Posted by: dogfish at December 17, 2014 04:14 PM (1vYi0)
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:11 PM (jvDrX)
FIFY.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:14 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Obama HHS at December 17, 2014 04:15 PM (84SRe)
Cigars for all?
Posted by: Navpopojoe at December 17, 2014 04:15 PM (MaUQj)
As you may have noted, you are now free to seize and nationalize any American companies' assets as you see fit. My example of resuming relations with Cuba will provide you with all the diplomatic cover you need.
All the best,
Barry
P.S. Feel free to take some hostages, too. We'll pay top dollar for them.
Posted by: Walter Mitty at December 17, 2014 04:15 PM (rcxki)
Posted by: garrett at December 17, 2014 03:49 PM (6UDJC)
They're called "humidors"
Posted by: wooga at December 17, 2014 04:15 PM (6VW1w)
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:11 PM
It's...nickelfuckery...all the way down.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2014 04:15 PM (knoK7)
Could be a news story there if someone wanted to look up where the campaign contributions are going and where they come from.
I'm not a journalist so I don't know how to do that kind of thing what takes a college degree to figure out.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 17, 2014 04:15 PM (XdcuI)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at December 17, 2014 04:14 PM (e8kgV)
What is it with "progressives" and toilet paper, anyway? Is toilet paper considered reactionary or something?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:15 PM (oKE6c)
You have trashed Latinos many times. You are worried they are going to ruin your precious white bloodlines.
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:15 PM (jvDrX)
1 - Lie
2 - Lie some more
3 - Try to imitate Mary Cloggenstein
4 - Profit!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:16 PM (CMkNk)
I'm wondering if the exiles, mostly in Florida, have been holding out for whether they (their heirs mostly, at this point) can reclaim the plantations, factories, etc. that were taken from them. That would be a very sticky thing to sort out, and the Cuban regime is highly unlikely to go for it.
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at December 17, 2014 04:16 PM (WuI38)
Posted by: imp at December 17, 2014 04:16 PM (XIXZz)
You have trashed Latinos many times. You are worried they are going to ruin your precious white bloodlines.
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:15 PM (jvDrX)
Not to worry. Planned Parenthood has done a superb job in preserving the Caucasian race.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:16 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:16 PM (rwI+c)
I would not be shocked that the tea party and North Korea work together. They are both socialists and crazy.
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:17 PM (jvDrX)
Posted by: Ponchorellii at December 17, 2014 04:17 PM (2cS/G)
Crap, this means we have to tear down the plywood facades we made to fool the tourists that we're a secret paradise, and actually build real crap for them to see!
*panics*
Posted by: Cuban Tourism Bureau at December 17, 2014 04:17 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:17 PM (rwI+c)
Obama will make sure that Cuban exiles surrender everything they own in America.
Because, fairness.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:17 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at December 17, 2014 04:17 PM (3jmxp)
Still, follow the money. I wonder how much it cost Raul to make this happen.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 17, 2014 04:18 PM (08Znv)
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:11 PM (jvDrX)
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you misundestood Hector.
We hate latte'-no's..... faggy coffee sipping hister douchebags. Just.like.you.
Not latinos.
Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 04:18 PM (NaV4z)
Posted by: NCKate at December 17, 2014 04:18 PM (FPQut)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 04:18 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at December 17, 2014 04:14 PM
I recall P.J. O'Rourke's essay about a trip to the USSR with a boatful of American leftists. They spent the whole trip waxing poetic about how wonderful the Soviet Union was, but every single one of them had brought his own toilet paper.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2014 04:18 PM (knoK7)
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 17, 2014 04:18 PM (XzRw1)
Far be it from us to cast aspersions on others as you do.
Now, please go blow your "mom" and leave the adults alone.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 04:18 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:18 PM (jvDrX)
Puerto Rico -- 51
Mexico -- 52
Guatemala -- 53
Honduras -- 54
Costa Rica -- 55
Cuba -- 56
Which is going to be the 57th state????
Posted by: imp at December 17, 2014 04:18 PM (XIXZz)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 04:19 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 17, 2014 04:19 PM (4+IgA)
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:19 PM (rwI+c)
fell there was a sort of film-noir spy mystique about being in East
Berlin, but after teh wall fell it was revealed to be just another
screwed up poor place
I've traveled around the world a number of times, and been in all sorts of countries, and without doubt, East Berlin was by far the most miserable place I ever visited. In addition to the physical discomforts, everybody there acted as though they'd just left a divorce court proceeding. Everybody.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:19 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 04:19 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: Jeb Bush, Prince of Wales at December 17, 2014 04:19 PM (hKyl0)
Remarkable, isn't it, how President LightWorker is able to negotiate with Iran, Cuba and the Taliban, but somehow those bomb-throwing radical hostage-takers Boehner and McConnell are just too unreasonable for him.
Posted by: DocJ at December 17, 2014 03:55 PM (wRpmO)
You laugh, but that's actaully a lefty talking point. They claim that NKorea and Iran are more reasonable foes than Conservative Americans, and point to Obama's unwillingness to engage half the nation as proof.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 17, 2014 04:20 PM (QZ2XJ)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 04:20 PM (MMC8r)
I will start taking screenshots and links of your comments now. You will slip up. Nazis like you can't help yourselves.
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:20 PM (jvDrX)
Posted by: imp at December 17, 2014 04:18 PM (XIXZz)
Nicaragua, although I am lobbying hard on behalf of General Garcia and ex-CIA agent Vince Ricardo for Tijada.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:20 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: imp at December 17, 2014 04:20 PM (XIXZz)
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:19 PM
But only on Rapey Tuesday.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2014 04:20 PM (knoK7)
Viva Cuba Libre
Viva Brigada Asalto 2506
Posted by: Mike at December 17, 2014 04:20 PM (+svO2)
I'm not sure about that. It was "always on the verge of collapse."
If Raul and Fidel were to die suddenly, yes, we would see some serious shit, but these regimes (see Norks) manage to hold on pretty well.
Posted by: AmishDude at December 17, 2014 04:20 PM (b4b5c)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
Yeah, I lol'd.
Posted by: dogfish at December 17, 2014 04:20 PM (1vYi0)
Damned Latinas.
They're out to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids!
Posted by: garrett at December 17, 2014 04:20 PM (Vdepk)
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:18 PM (jvDrX)
So by your lights that's good, right?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:20 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Smart Military Blog at December 17, 2014 04:21 PM (/83Ag)
Idiot.
Can we trade him to Iran for the imprisoned Christian pastor?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 04:21 PM (FsuaD)
Now? You're going to start now?? God lord what a lazy douche you are.
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:21 PM (rwI+c)
Come for the pleasures of the island, bring back chlamydia, parasites and an irritated colon. Win win!
Posted by: Cuban Tourism Bureau at December 17, 2014 04:21 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Ponchorellii at December 17, 2014 04:21 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: SH at December 17, 2014 04:21 PM (gmeXX)
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You really are a special kind of stupid aren't you. Kinda pisses me off that the tax dollars taken from me are supporting idiots like you.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 04:21 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: imp at December 17, 2014 04:20 PM (XIXZz)
Better be clear and tell him he'll only be a spectator in it, not a participant. That might cool his enthusiasm a bit.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:21 PM (oKE6c)
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)
Posted by: mallfly at December 17, 2014 04:21 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 17, 2014 04:22 PM (2cS/G)
Cuba's secret police operation is right up there with the former Stasi in its ruthlessness, efficiency and ubiquity.
The place may be a shithole but they see and hear everything.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:22 PM (CMkNk)
You laugh, but that's actaully a lefty talking point. They claim that NKorea and Iran are more reasonable foes than Conservative Americans, and point to Obama's unwillingness to engage half the nation as proof.
Anyone's easy to negotiate with when you're prepared to give them anything they want.
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 04:22 PM (MMC8r)
Why do want to embargo Cuba, but OK with having relations with China and Saudi Arabia.
That's right, Cubans are Latino and you hate them.
You are Nazi white trash loser.
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:22 PM (jvDrX)
Posted by: garrett at December 17, 2014 04:22 PM (toPQG)
Posted by: Ponchorellii at December 17, 2014 04:21 PM (2cS/G)
LOL!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:23 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:17 PM (jvDrX)
Are you quoting from the right comic book? Better check and make sure.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizarro World at December 17, 2014 04:23 PM (UtwNa)
Posted by: Ponchorellii at December 17, 2014 04:21 PM (2cS/G)
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THAT mental image will take years of therapy to erase.
Posted by: fixerupper at December 17, 2014 04:23 PM (NaV4z)
@150
I will start taking screenshots and links of your comments now.
Wait?! Is Hector catpiss? Is he keeping "dossiers" on us??
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 04:23 PM (FsuaD)
This is basically what we have with the Castros. And Obama blinked. Because sometimes parenting is hard.
Posted by: SH at December 17, 2014 04:23 PM (gmeXX)
Cuba grows a lot of sugar cane, and it's cheap. They could sell it in the US if it wasn't for that pesky embargo.
And American sugar growers (in Florida) would be screwed.
Big Corn. There's lots of sugar grown in the Caribbean that's tariffed out of the market. Florida sugar growers are small beer.
You can't import sugar, but you can import candy, so Mars moved to Canada. Big Corn.
Tariffs on sugar mean your Coke is corn syrup. You must put corn ethanol in your car's gas tank.
Big Corn, because the road to the White House starts in Iowa.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 17, 2014 04:23 PM (JtwS4)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 17, 2014 04:23 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:22 PM (jvDrX)
You are "A" Nazi white trash loser.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:24 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 04:24 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 17, 2014 04:23 PM (XUKZU)
I hate "essay." I love multiple cherce.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:25 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:25 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:22 PM (CMkNk)
When living in a complete shithole, what else is there to do but spy and inform on each other?
Posted by: troyriser at December 17, 2014 04:25 PM (CAJL/)
Posted by: The Great White Snark
Dozens. If they are "maids". Wink wink.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 04:25 PM (XAGDQ)
I, for one, am excited about the changes we will see over the next two years.
It could be interesting.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 17, 2014 04:25 PM (XdcuI)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 04:25 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 04:25 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 04:26 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: @votermom at December 17, 2014 04:26 PM (cbfNE)
In fairness, it's the only way to get a new razor blade or a pack of maxi-pads.
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:26 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at December 17, 2014 04:26 PM (3jmxp)
Procol Harum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW2KN7Tz89s
HINT - not a whiter shade of pale.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:26 PM (CMkNk)
Does anyone else find baffling this vilifying of conservatives as actual race warriors (not just crypto- or fellow travellers)? I mean, seriously, who of us has ever, in his or her adult life---EVER---said anything about their "bloodline."
Yeesh, what a bunch of fucking loons on the left.
Posted by: imp at December 17, 2014 04:27 PM (XIXZz)
of countries, and without doubt, East Berlin was by far the most
miserable place I ever visited. In addition to the physical discomforts,
everybody there acted as though they'd just left a divorce court
proceeding. Everybody.
My mom has both Swiss and US citizenship, and her Swiss passport let her and her fam tour East Germany and other parts behind the iron curtain. They befriended someone that gave them a REAL tour of E Germany, where tourists were not usually allowed.
Yeah, plywood facades aka Blazing Saddles, the whole works, set up to fool the regular tourists. They actually got to see that for themselves. The rest was incredibly drab. Was very interesting to hear about.
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 04:27 PM (yRwC8)
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I don't. There are some issues that I think he genuinely supports. It is more than just pandering. I have no doubts about his sincere passion on this issue. When he is on, he is very good.
Posted by: SH at December 17, 2014 04:27 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Fritz at December 17, 2014 04:27 PM (dVmLD)
Everything is chosen to generate as much opposition chatter from Republicans as possible.
It's like, hey, what can we do to REALLY piss them off? All is political. Do something that will anger them, and then we and our press minions can paint them as nattering nabobs of negativity. Hat tip to Spiro Agnew.
Next up: North Korea.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at December 17, 2014 04:27 PM (vSxTY)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette: Joyfully doing Christmas stuff. at December 17, 2014 04:27 PM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 04:26 PM (FsuaD)
He's about as American as any Columbia University sociology student.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:28 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: AmishDude at December 17, 2014 04:28 PM (b4b5c)
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 17, 2014 04:18 PM
Hands Up!
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 04:28 PM (KBIDy)
Mexico -- 52
Guatemala -- 53
Honduras -- 54
Costa Rica -- 55
Cuba -- 56
Which is going to be the 57th state????
Posted by: imp
Panama.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 04:28 PM (XAGDQ)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 17, 2014 04:28 PM (2cS/G)
How old is Elian Gonzalez now? Wonder if he'd like to come back.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
The boy was brainwashed from the moment he got back until today. He is a proud revolutionary communist.
Posted by: imp at December 17, 2014 04:28 PM (XIXZz)
Posted by: dantesed at December 17, 2014 04:28 PM (88xKn)
Obama is an idiot of course for not getting something in return for this move, but then he's always been an idiot so nothing new there.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 04:28 PM (1Y+hH)
I have Hispanic relatives and interact with them on a daily basis. I prefer them to white trash racist tea party types.
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:29 PM (jvDrX)
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at December 17, 2014 04:29 PM (HkkyM)
You can't import sugar, but you can import candy, so Mars moved to Canada. Big Corn.
Tariffs on sugar mean your Coke is corn syrup. You must put corn ethanol in your car's gas tank.
Big Corn, because the road to the White House starts in Iowa.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 17, 2014 04:23 PM (JtwS4)
Why are you trying to make me rage stroke?
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 17, 2014 04:29 PM (mf5HN)
They already know that. This will now allow the tourists to get a close look at the hostages.
Posted by: Decaf at December 17, 2014 04:29 PM (lIPFl)
Like I would use my credit card in Cuba.
heh.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette: Joyfully doing Christmas stuff. at December 17, 2014 04:27 PM (IXrOn)
Cuba = Nigeria West.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:29 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Decaf at December 17, 2014 04:29 PM (lIPFl)
Potemkin Villages with palm trees, pina coladas and putas.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:30 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 04:30 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Jack D. Ripper at December 17, 2014 04:30 PM (/Ho8c)
Yeesh, what a bunch of fucking loons on the left.
Posted by: imp at December 17, 2014 04:27 PM (XIXZz)
True. Never. I know who does though.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizarro World at December 17, 2014 04:30 PM (UtwNa)
There's an ointment for that.
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:30 PM (rwI+c)
That's right, Cubans are Latino and you hate them.
Yeah, Hector, those white racist purists are obsessed about keeping (white) Hispanics out of their bloodlines, but what Klan meeting would be complete without a few songs in Arabic and Mandarin?
Posted by: AmishDude at December 17, 2014 04:30 PM (b4b5c)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 04:30 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at December 17, 2014 04:29 PM (HkkyM)
Resorts? Really?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:31 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: @votermom at December 17, 2014 04:26 PM (cbfNE)
Well, they ARE pretty hard to come by. Maybe we could get a couple here in SoCal. You know, for diversity and all.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:31 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at December 17, 2014 04:31 PM (toPQG)
[sudden realization, like a blinding light of ellipsis bursting into my forebrain.]
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 17, 2014 04:31 PM (XdcuI)
Hey Hector, I have Hispanic gardeners and I interact with them every Friday when they fuck up my boxwood hedge.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 17, 2014 04:32 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 04:32 PM (KBIDy)
There is no such thing as an "Hispanic." It's a term Nixon invented when he wanted to create a voting bloc to counter the Democrat black voting bloc.
Worked out really well, didn't it?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:32 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 04:30 PM (KBIDy)
Huh. I thought they discontinued Elmers flavored Jell-O? Lucky him.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizarro World at December 17, 2014 04:32 PM (UtwNa)
Soon, we'll be able to fly to Havana from Burlington & not have to make the tiresome drive to Montreal.
Posted by: Stephen Oliver Culbertson-Klein at December 17, 2014 04:33 PM (2Ayux)
Posted by: garrett at December 17, 2014 04:33 PM (toPQG)
End tariffs! Put sugar back in your gas tanks!!
--LiV's
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 04:33 PM (XAGDQ)
Procol Harum?
I love A Salty Dog
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at December 17, 2014 04:31 PM (toPQG)
Here. Park my car, if you can figure out how. And tell Mooch I have something up on a high shelf I need reaching.
You two make your lazy selves useful.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 04:33 PM (FsuaD)
scathing commentary, I wonder if he's just pandering to re-establish
his credibility or whether he actually believes what he's saying."
Yasser Arafat had a schtick whereby he would speak to the global English-language press in the morning, and tell them he and the PLO were all for peace with Israel, endorsing a two-state solution, et cetera.
Then in the afternoon, after the Anglophone journalistas had all gone off to file copy and get drunk at lunch in the hotel, Arafat would speak in Arabic to the Middle East press corps, and clarify that nothing had changed and the actual long-range goal continued to be to "push the filthy Jews into the sea".
Rubio has adopted that same routine.
Rubio will give alphabet network TV interviews in English where he says, "Of COURSE people given amnesty under my plan aren't going to get voting citizenship and benefits right away."
Then Rubio will go speak to Univision in Spanish and say, "Of COURSE you get the vote and the government benefits right away, amigo! Si se puede!"
Posted by: torquewrench at December 17, 2014 04:33 PM (noWW6)
Like I would use my credit card in Cuba.
heh.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette: Joyfully doing Christmas stuff. at December 17, 2014 04:27 PM (IXrOn)
Cuba = Nigeria West.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:29 PM (CMkNk)
Like they would accept it, even if you would.
I checked out of a hotel in the USSR, and they wanted $800 - cash - on the spot. No credit cards, no nothing. They seemed to think Westerners walk around with thousands of dollars on them. The bruthas wish.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:33 PM (oKE6c)
You can just drive directly to Havana now.
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:33 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at December 17, 2014 04:34 PM (3jmxp)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at December 17, 2014 04:34 PM (zauWW)
Posted by: ParisParamus at December 17, 2014 02:34 PM (CkjRf)
What's the Spanish word for "Potemkin Village"?
Posted by: El Sombrero Político at December 17, 2014 04:34 PM (lN8KC)
It's true. Stupid bastard doesn't understand the meaning of "restraining order".
Posted by: Hector's Hispanic Relatives at December 17, 2014 04:34 PM (DT3rQ)
Think of the most egregious things he could do and then sit and watch. There will be nothing else to do except wait and watch. Nobody will even try to stop him. Racism, you know.
Posted by: Decaf at December 17, 2014 04:34 PM (lIPFl)
And I'd still have a job.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 04:35 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 17, 2014 04:35 PM (MbqmP)
HR just changed me from exempt to non-exempt, which I don't care about.
But having her and my boss show up at my desk and start by saying, "Yeah, we have an HR issue to discuss" probably aged me 10 years in half a second.
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at December 17, 2014 04:35 PM (vgIRn)
Sanctions don't work when the dictator eats well and doesn't care about the people standing on line hoping that the day's supply of bread doesn't run out early.
Posted by: mallfly at December 17, 2014 04:35 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Fulgencio Batista at December 17, 2014 04:35 PM (rwI+c)
Yeesh, what a bunch of fucking loons on the left.
Posted by: imp at December 17, 2014 04:27 PM (XIXZz)
The Sefton lineage is like a Cher song; gypsies, tramps and thieves. But not one of them was a racialist.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:35 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Hyman Roth at December 17, 2014 04:35 PM (i0wGQ)
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Not really. The tourists will largely stick to the "recommended" areas. I suspect that the government will also make more effort to ensure that the tourists stick to the "recommended" areas. I'm guessing that in the future it'll be harder for someone like Michael Totten to go walk around in the non-tourist areas with a camera.
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 04:36 PM (UWFpX)
The thing about Cuba is that we do not recognize the Communist government as legitimate. We can get away with this (unlike with the ChiComs), so we ought to continue that.
Posted by: El Sombrero Político at December 17, 2014 04:36 PM (lN8KC)
Opening up ourselves to those countries for a "Cultural Exchange" has helped us how, exactly? The rich of those countries get to roll around in Western decadence and the glory of capitalism, and the rest of the suckers in their countries can go hang. How will Cuba be different?
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 04:36 PM (yRwC8)
There is no such thing as an "Hispanic." It's a term Nixon invented
Then why did my Cafe Bustello cans used to say "tostido y molado para el gusto hispano"?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 17, 2014 04:36 PM (JtwS4)
"Does Hank Johnson think Cuba will tip over if too many american tourists visit? "
Worse yet, the majority of the populace will leave the island for America, causing the whole thing to lose weight, lift up out of the water, and connect Florida to Honduras.
Posted by: Hank Johnson, earth sciences expert! at December 17, 2014 04:36 PM (5npD/)
Johnny Ola told him about it
Johnny knows those places like the back of his hand.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 17, 2014 04:36 PM (8ZskC)
It was awesome!
Posted by: tu3031 at December 17, 2014 04:37 PM (i0wGQ)
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And he survived?
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 17, 2014 04:37 PM (XUKZU)
Posted by: XPO172 at December 17, 2014 04:37 PM (7Z4N1)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 04:38 PM (XAGDQ)
Cubans are basically Spaniards.
Hector's Mexicans are primarily indigenous tribes with a few Conquistador bastards mixed in.
Trying to play the race card is asinine because there's no race here. The only link is a language.
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 04:38 PM (MMC8r)
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Do you really believe this? Doesn't say much for our country if one person can destroy it. I know things look bleak and the next two years will probably not be fun ones. But I do not share your complete pessimism.
Posted by: SH at December 17, 2014 04:38 PM (gmeXX)
Sanctions don't work when the dictator eats well and doesn't care about the people standing on line hoping that the day's supply of bread doesn't run out early.
Posted by: mallfly at December 17, 2014 04:35 PM (bJm7W)
The difference Israel is an open, democratic, pluralist society in a sea of evil tyranny. And, they are nuked up and on a hair-trigger at this point thanks to their neighbors and Obama's utter fucked up incompetence/malice aforethought.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:38 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 04:38 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Hyman Roth at December 17, 2014 04:38 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 04:38 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 04:27 PM (yRwC
I stuck to East Berlin, and they didn't bother with plywood facades. Most of the city still looked the way it did about five minutes after the 8th Air Force and Bomber Command turned around and started droning back to England. Seriously. Bombed out buildings were everywhere.*
*And I'm not talking about memorials, such as the Kaiser Wilhem Gedaechtniskirche. I mean whole city blocks, and lots of them.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:38 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 04:38 PM (1Y+hH)
Just think of all the praise from the Left if he did that!
Posted by: El Sombrero Político at December 17, 2014 04:39 PM (lN8KC)
Hector's Mexicans are primarily indigenous tribes with a few Conquistador bastards mixed in.
Well, the ones that emigrate anyway.
A whole lot of that pure Spanish descent is ruling the place.
Posted by: AmishDude at December 17, 2014 04:39 PM (b4b5c)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 04:39 PM (KBIDy)
Mi casa?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 04:38 PM (XAGDQ)
Villa Potemkin.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:39 PM (CMkNk)
And Africans. Lots of slaves were imported to Cuba to work the sugar cane fields.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:39 PM (oKE6c)
the 8th Air Force and Bomber Command turned around and started droning
back to England.
If any morons are ever in the Savannah area, you *must* see the National Museum of the Mighty 8th.
And go while there are still docents who flew.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 04:40 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 04:39 PM (KBIDy)
Gives you e. coli, cramps and projectile colitis.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:40 PM (CMkNk)
I think is trolling, especially because it pisses off the right people like Rubio and Cruz. Just doing whatever he feels like to keep the momentum, keep changing the conversation, making sure we all know that regardless of the 2014 midterms he's still prezzy.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2014 04:41 PM (ABcz/)
I think the only reason Obama did it was to make sure he would get invited to Fidel's funeral.
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President of the Sheena Easton Fan Club at December 17, 2014 04:41 PM (OWjjx)
Most Mexicans are mixed Natives with European. Your comments reflects your ignorance and bigotry.
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:41 PM (jvDrX)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:40 PM
Not to mention what Burger Kings food does to you.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 04:41 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: reason at December 17, 2014 04:42 PM (5npD/)
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I think this is spot-on. There is really no other reason for doing this.
Posted by: SH at December 17, 2014 04:42 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Adventure Time at December 17, 2014 04:02 PM (xtpUs)
Well, not always, comrade.
Posted by: Trotsky has a bad headache at December 17, 2014 04:43 PM (u0lmX)
And go while there are still docents who flew.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 04:40 PM (FsuaD)
Damn! I knew I should have gone there. Wifey and I were there last year for niece's graduation from SCAD. I wanted to make a stopover on the way up to Charleston, but we sadly opted to spend the day in Hilton Head and Beauufort.
Thanks for dredging that up!
Will have to make it there again, but I fear that the combat vets may no longer be with us by then, G-d bless 'em.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:43 PM (CMkNk)
OMG, that is totally going to happen isn't it? We can't send off one person to honor Maggie Thatcher, but Castro will get the full dignitary treatment. Sounds about right.
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 04:43 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President of the Sheena Easton Fan Club at December 17, 2014 04:43 PM (OWjjx)
You should care though one way or the other. It will have consequences.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at December 17, 2014 04:43 PM (3jmxp)
Posted by: The Tea Party hates Cubans at December 17, 2014 04:41 PM (jvDrX)
And how!
Posted by: The Conquistadors at December 17, 2014 04:43 PM (lN8KC)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 04:38 PM (1Y+hH)
-------Yep, still here. What's up?
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 04:43 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: Inspector Cussword at December 17, 2014 04:43 PM (scgac)
I was in East Berlin a couple of times before the fall of the Wall, and there and all over East Germany right after unification.
Which I'm glad to have witnessed, because the West Germans completely spiffed the place up in a few short years. There's not much of a difference now.
Especially Berlin. The East Berlin neighborhoods are the trendiest places. It takes a map, a keen eye, and a good memory to even know where the Wall was.
The hotel I stayed in in 2010 charged 19 Euro for breakfast. Even though I was on an expense account there was no way I could bring myself to spend that on breakfast in East Berlin.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 17, 2014 04:43 PM (JtwS4)
A conservative Marquette professor then wrote a blog post, on his blog, where he mocked the TA for doing that.
He has now been suspended by Marquette and is under investigation for harrassment.
runtodaylight @runtodaylight 16m
Marquette's John McAdams suspended after criticizing TA on gay marriage discussion
http://t.co/7PvE3rdX8q
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 04:44 PM (ZPrif)
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Hmm...
Makes me wonder, actually...
Who hammered Berlin harder? The 8th Air Force? Or the Soviets when they rolled the ground troops in? SAC hit the city repeatedly, but the Soviets were carrying a grudge. And many of the Germans still fighting at that point were the Nazi fanatics who refused to surrender.
It also puts me in mind of the 'Band of Brothers' episode that opens and closes with members of the company overseeing German civilians who are cleaning up the rubble that comprises what's left of their city.
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 04:44 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 04:44 PM (ZPrif)
Most Mexicans are mixed Natives with European. Your comments reflects your ignorance and bigotry.
Actually, that's exactly what I said. Your comment reflects your lack of reading comprehension.
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 04:45 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:43 PM (CMkNk)
There are still a few vets hanging on. The museum is really worth making a trip to visit.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 04:45 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:43 PM (CMkNk)
I just received my late father's copy of the newsletter of the "Fighting Fourth Marine Division of WWII," with the headline saying that next year's reunion will be the last.
Choked me up.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:45 PM (oKE6c)
Yeah, what took him so long? Obviously he's racist against Cubans. He just wants to exploit them.
Posted by: Mirror Image Tea Party Hater at December 17, 2014 04:45 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 17, 2014 04:45 PM (5npD/)
Posted by: SH at December 17, 2014 04:42 PM (gmeXX)
And lest we forget, he has TWO MORE YEARS. Rush even joked that he wouldn't be surprised if SCOAMF sells Iran a couple of nukes. But it wasn't funny and I think he knew it wasn't funny.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:45 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 17, 2014 04:45 PM (XUKZU)
And with those finely tuned guns of hers, I'm confident she's pretty good at opening troublesome pickle jars. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Fritz at December 17, 2014 04:45 PM (dVmLD)
"If only Carmen Miranda could have lived to see this day."
Where in the world *is* she?
Posted by: Joe Biden at December 17, 2014 04:45 PM (5npD/)
Giving Cugat at hummer while sitting on Charo's face?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:46 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Bandersnatch
No idea. Because Gregorio Bustelo was from Galacia. Spain. Learned coffee roasting in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Started their company in East Harlem, NYC.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 04:46 PM (XAGDQ)
Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 17, 2014 04:46 PM (XzRw1)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:47 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:47 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 04:47 PM (FsuaD)
Were you the cat talking the old Zanzabar club some time back? If so, you said you were there for the Every Which Way But Loose shoot and so was I.
Posted by: Mirror Image Tea Party Hater at December 17, 2014 04:47 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: @SOEarpiece at December 17, 2014 04:47 PM (rwI+c)
Especially that Hermanos Castro I just read about today at the HQ.
Posted by: joey biden at December 17, 2014 04:47 PM (Dw98+)
Posted by: SH at December 17, 2014 04:38 PM (gmeXX)
I struggle to be optimistic, but the problem is it's not one man doing the destroying. It's the rest of the Democrat Party and their allies in the GOP, the media, academia and millions of Americans who have been indoctrinated to accept what they are told by their "betters." A healthy sane America never would have elected Obama.
Posted by: Donna and V. at December 17, 2014 04:47 PM (u0lmX)
Where in the world *is* she?
----------------
There are rumors that her ghost has been spotted over on Space Station 3.
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 04:47 PM (UWFpX)
The truth is Cuba will change with or without the embargo because the populace at some point will force it to change.
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President of the Sheena Easton Fan Club at December 17, 2014 04:47 PM (OWjjx)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 04:48 PM (1Y+hH)
-------
That was me. I wasn't there for the shooting, but I did manage the bar for a couple of years.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 04:48 PM (vVSOO)
Cesar Romero was Cuban. Supposedly he and Desi did each other up the culo.
What a joker, right?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:49 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 17, 2014 04:49 PM (32Ze2)
the Soviets when they rolled the ground troops in?
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 04:44 PM (UWFpX)
Good point. I'd just presumed it was from aerial bombardment, but that was silly.
Most of the government buildings were in what was then East Berlin, where presumably the most bitter fighting took place. (Hitler's bunker, for example, was literally in the no man's zone between East and West Berlin.)
All of the buildings still had a zillion bullet holes in their facades.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:49 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: @SOEarpiece at December 17, 2014 04:47 PM (rwI+c)
Probably because you get your mitochondrial DNA from your mother.
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 17, 2014 04:50 PM (MbqmP)
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President of the Sheena Easton Fan Club at December 17, 2014 04:47 PM (OWjjx)
Nah. Never happen.
Posted by: Nicolae Ceaucescu at December 17, 2014 04:50 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: mallfly at December 17, 2014 04:50 PM (bJm7W)
I'm sure it's already been pointed out, but Rubio would certainly know a poor negotiator when he sees one. All he has to do is look in the mirror.
Posted by: pep at December 17, 2014 04:50 PM (4nR9/)
I am a little sick of every other article coming from HuffPo or the NYT, and the topical feeds are leftist to the core.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2014 04:50 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: Barack wearing a Che wearing an Obama T-shirt at December 17, 2014 04:50 PM (QcMAt)
Posted by: tu3031 at December 17, 2014 04:50 PM (i0wGQ)
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President of the Sheena Easton Fan Club at December 17, 2014 04:47 PM (OWjjx)
Not with die-hard dead-enders commanding a Stasi-like secret police force.
If the people do rise up, it will end like it did in Romania for the Ceacescus, but not before a lot of innocent people die in the process.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:51 PM (CMkNk)
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That's *some* amerindian DNA. Not all. This is a small group of pure euros.
The majority of Mexicans are partly euro, varies from south to north. Northern mestizos are majority euro, southern mestizos are majority amerindian.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 04:51 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 04:51 PM (vVSOO)
Spain. Learned coffee roasting in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Started their
company in East Harlem, NYC. Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 04:46 PM (XAGDQ)
I don't what makes it special, but Puerto Rican coffee is apparently amazing, very low acid or something? Amazing flavor so say my coffee drinking relatives. When they go there they stock up on Alto Grande, the one in the blue can, that's their favorite.
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 04:52 PM (yRwC8)
Moral: One Castro is bad enough, but they tend to come in pairs and then they really stink. .
Posted by: Donna and V. at December 17, 2014 04:52 PM (u0lmX)
Where in the world *is* she?
San Diego.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2014 04:52 PM (knoK7)
Most of the government buildings were in what was then East Berlin, where presumably the most bitter fighting took place. (Hitler's bunker, for example, was literally in the no man's zone between East and West Berlin.)
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Eh... No reason to think it silly. Your basic point still stands. Someone should have put things back together regardless of whether the East or West flattened more of the city. The fact that the place still looked like a warzone was a testament to the screwed up nature of communism.
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 04:52 PM (UWFpX)
Cuba's pretty much North Korea with beaches.
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 04:52 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Barack wearing a Che wearing an Obama T-shirt at December 17, 2014 04:50 PM (QcMAt)
They should make one of the guy that just got freed that says:
"I went to Cuba and all I got was 5 years in solitary and a British dental plan."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:52 PM (CMkNk)
I wonder if that indicates that the Conquistadors and early epidemics didn't kill off as many of the natives as are usually thought to have.
Posted by: Grey Fox at December 17, 2014 04:52 PM (09/yf)
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 04:48 PM (vVSOO)
One of the most awesome interiors of any bar any history, imo. I was in Breakaway (Gary Morris), we played the part of Charlie Rich's backup band.
Timothy P and the RR3 were there too, playing behind Sondra Locke. Tim fronts Flash Cadillac now. I'm still in touch with quite a few of the players from those days.
So, a big hello you, that was a happening place in the late '70's.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 04:52 PM (1Y+hH)
Oh, BTW: Stay 10 feet away from the fence. If you know what's good for you, Comrade.
Posted by: jwpaine at December 17, 2014 04:53 PM (a3NCX)
I am a little sick of every other article coming from HuffPo or the NYT, and the topical feeds are leftist to the core.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2014 04:50 PM (Zu3d9)
I hate "Flipboard" too. When I first got my tablet I explored the various native apps, and was pissed to find that one hardwired in to leftist crap. Also, you can't remove it, either.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:53 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 04:52 PM (MMC8r)
North Korea has at least one beach. Inchon.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:54 PM (CMkNk)
I'm equally optimistic about the Norks.
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 04:54 PM (rwI+c)
Mi casa?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 04:38 PM (XAGDQ)
Villa Potemkin.
El barrio putain
Posted by: @votermom at December 17, 2014 04:54 PM (cbfNE)
My favorite is the one where his face is a skull.
Though the one with Mickey Mouse ears runs a very close second.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 04:54 PM (1Y+hH)
young lady accused if selling meth. She was caught with a fairly large
amount and she told the officers she was selling it to another young
lady whose street names is "Tits". This may call for some undercover
work.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 17, 2014 03:53 PM (XUKZU)
Here ya go, mug shots. Some great tits:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature /discoverandlearn/birdguide/name/g/greattit/index.aspx
(remove double space after nature)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2014 04:55 PM (8Fl6F)
Posted by: tu3031 at December 17, 2014 04:55 PM (i0wGQ)
Michael R. Strain @MichaelRStrain 11m
Marquette suspends prof's teaching, orders him off campus http://wapo.st/1uTthbI via @washingtonpost
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 04:55 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 04:52 PM (UWFpX)
Thanks for your charitable comment.
The sorry state of the place was indeed a testament to how poorly communism does by its victims, probably exacerbated by the Soviets and/or their puppets wanting to make a point to the Germans.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:55 PM (oKE6c)
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*cough*
Inchon's in South Korea.
On another note, Sony has apparently decided not to release "The Interview".
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 04:56 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: Killerdog at December 17, 2014 04:56 PM (vntmB)
the Soviets when they rolled the ground troops in?
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 04:44 PM (UWFpX)
Good point. I'd just presumed it was from aerial bombardment, but that was silly.
Most of the government buildings were in what was then East Berlin, where presumably the most bitter fighting took place. (Hitler's bunker, for example, was literally in the no man's zone between East and West Berlin.)
All of the buildings still had a zillion bullet holes in their facades.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:49 PM (oKE6c)
The 8th and the RAF turned Berlin to rubble. The Red Army turned the rubble into pebbles.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:56 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Cuba at December 17, 2014 04:56 PM (NtzGn)
"I went to Cuba and all I got was 5 years in solitary and a British dental plan."
I wonder if they would have given him a free sex-change on demand, like we do.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 04:56 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 04:56 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:57 PM (CMkNk)
I don't care how many turds you stack on top of each other, in the end, all you have is a bigger pile of excrement.
Posted by: pep at December 17, 2014 04:57 PM (4nR9/)
The professors wouldn't tell them anything they haven't already been hearing for the past 50 plus years. And we would get some really good pitchers and shortstops. One fine shortstop is worth at least 200 Womyn's Studies professors.
Posted by: Donna and V. at December 17, 2014 04:57 PM (u0lmX)
The difference between my namesake and Hank Himmler?
Hair.
That's about it. Otherwise, they were much of a muchness, as the executioners for nasty dictators.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:57 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 04:56 PM (1Y+hH)
But only 1 sex, unlike the various options we have. And no anesthesia.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:57 PM (CMkNk)
On another note, Sony has apparently decided not to release "The Interview".
Fuck you, Arec Barrdwin!
Posted by: Zombie Kim Jong-Il at December 17, 2014 04:57 PM (MMC8r)
http://bit.ly/1zuI03a
Posted by: MTF at December 17, 2014 04:58 PM (LISuA)
Cario speech to APPEASE the muslims
Israel under the bus to APPEASE the muslims
Israel under the bus to APPEASE the Iranians
MREs to APPEASE Russia
Freedom under the bus to APPEASE Cuba
Hey how's all this APPEASEMENT working out?
And that idiot Eric Bolling on the Five can go fuck himself
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 04:58 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: Buzzion at December 17, 2014 04:58 PM (BEXr5)
Posted by: pep at December 17, 2014 04:57 PM (4nR9/)
And no ketchup or mayo either.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:58 PM (CMkNk)
Then why did my Cafe Bustello cans used to say "tostido y molado para el gusto hispano"?
Posted by: Bandersnatch
No idea. Because Gregorio Bustelo was from Galacia. Spain. Learned coffee roasting in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Started their company in East Harlem, NYC.
I always got a kick out it, because every damn time I read it I wondered what they said to Anglos, turned it around, and it was just "finely roasted espresso coffee", no mention about Hispanic tastes.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 17, 2014 04:58 PM (JtwS4)
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 04:56 PM (UWFpX)
358
Jeb can kiss my doggie's ass!
Well at least 4 movie chains are refusing to show it, apparently. Yay capitulation and knuckling under, it is the theme of the day!
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 04:58 PM (yRwC8)
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Works for me.
Also, agree with your Soviet rape culture statement at @363. The Soviets had a serious grudge at that point. There was a reason for that grudge, though. The Nazis weren't any better when they were the ones winning.
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 04:58 PM (UWFpX)
Coming soon, Godfather IV - Fredo's Ghost Still Doesn't Get Respect and Binges on Cuba Libres, but Mostly Still Doesn't Get Any Respect
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at December 17, 2014 04:59 PM (/dvmK)
364 I don't care how many turds you stack on top of each other, in the end, all you have is a bigger pile of excrement.
Posted by: pep at December 17, 2014 04:57 PM (4nR9/)
And no ketchup or mayo either.
Say, I wonder if Obama's been taking lessons from the rock balancing guy?
Posted by: pep at December 17, 2014 04:59 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:57 PM (CMkNk)
**********
Oh my G-d yes. My MIL had some real heartbreaking stories of friends who lived through the rape of East Germany. The Soviets were not to be trifled with, and they were out for revenge.
Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 17, 2014 04:59 PM (32Ze2)
Jay Thomas was Eddie Le Bec on Cheers, but he's primarily done radio.
And what a stupid thing to say.
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 05:00 PM (MMC8r)
http://tinyurl.com/mlja6vp
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:01 PM (UtvsI)
Posted by: Sphynx at December 17, 2014 05:01 PM (OZmbA)
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 04:56 PM
There was an 'ette on the ONT (Mindy? I think) who's husband was in the Flash Cadillac band
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 17, 2014 05:01 PM (2Ayux)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 17, 2014 05:01 PM (z2f1n)
Maybe once. We were on the road so much, and working when in town also. Not much time off in that band. Lots of hotel rooms, which led me to quit eventually before I burned one down.
As Johnny Paycheck told me in Reno, "The road is a dangerous place, man. You can die out here, or worse."
If you are still around Denver, try make one of the moron meetups, they are a gas. One of the founding members of Flash comes. He's Mindy's husband, if you know her from around here.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:01 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 04:58 PM (yRwC
Yup. It's the Fredo way
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:01 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 17, 2014 05:01 PM (32Ze2)
Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 17, 2014 04:59 PM (32Ze2)
I was told the Russian Army got 'raping privileges' once they hit the German border.
so all those in Poland, etc were un sanctioned
Posted by: Big Mike the steam shovel at December 17, 2014 05:01 PM (q+zA9)
Posted by: Barry O'Bammer at December 17, 2014 05:01 PM (OZmbA)
think he's really a radio host, who says he thinks it would be a pretty
cool way to go out if North Korea assassinates the two lead actors of
The Interview.
Yeah, just think of all the cool Hollywood parties you'd get invited to after being killed by the Norks! It'd be a life-changing break!
Posted by: Brain-damaged Actor at December 17, 2014 05:02 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 05:02 PM (MMC8r)
TheWrap @TheWrap 1h
Steve Carell's North Korea Movie 'Pyongyang' Cancelled in Wake of Sony Hack http://goo.gl/xRkd5h
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 05:02 PM (ZPrif)
Yep. In 1948 during the Berlin Airlift the children were still playing the rape game.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:02 PM (UtvsI)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 17, 2014 05:01 PM (z2f1n)
I don't ever want to hear a liberal again talk to me about civil rights and censorship. Fuckin COWARDS
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:02 PM (nzKvP)
I assumed all the wizards were homosexuals.
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 05:03 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 05:03 PM (rwI+c)
after being killed by the Norks! It'd be a life-changing break!
Yeah, death is a real career booster. Just ask Kurt Cobain...
Posted by: tu3031 at December 17, 2014 05:03 PM (i0wGQ)
stories of friends who lived through the rape of East Germany. The
Soviets were not to be trifled with, and they were out for revenge.
Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 17, 2014 04:59 PM (32Ze2)
--------Yeah, they were after all the atrocities the Nazis committed in Russia. Many thousands of German women committed suicide after being raped by the Slavic horde. Surprisingly, I seem to have read somewhere that it mostly wasn't the front line combat troops doing the raping, but the follow on troops.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 05:03 PM (vVSOO)
Obama has failed at this until now, but he has finally found someone he might get along with in Castro.
Like minds and all that.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:04 PM (1Y+hH)
"Sounds like the USA" I replied.
Posted by: navybrat at December 17, 2014 05:04 PM (JgC5a)
Military told to hide under their beds in their Uniforms
The New Fredo America
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:04 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty<<
I guess the HorryWould will have to go back to making fun of Chlistians and Light Wingahs. Heh Heh Heh
Posted by: Kim's Young Un at December 17, 2014 05:04 PM (OZmbA)
is some guy, on CNN they call him an actor but I think he's really a
radio host, who says he thinks it would be a pretty cool way to go out
if North Korea assassinates the two lead actors of The Interview.
Well to be fair Judd Apatow was, I believe, the idiot who gave us Lena Dunham...so the dude might have a point...
(I feel like the sarcasm meter is swingingly crazily on the site today, so for the record NO, assasinating innocents, even hipster toolbag actors, is not cool. Even when highly appealing.)
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 05:04 PM (yRwC8)
In fairness, the front line troops had a habit of being dead in the red Army.
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 05:04 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 05:03 PM (rwI+c)
I waved my "magic wand" around and got busted! WTF?
Posted by: George Michael at December 17, 2014 05:05 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 05:05 PM (KBIDy)
Let it rot. Then, when it falls over, annex and rebuild.
Posted by: Feh at December 17, 2014 05:05 PM (Qj4bp)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 05:05 PM (MMC8r)
happy capitulation day america! RT @FreeBeacon: RT @AP: BREAKING: Sony Pictures cancels Dec. 25 release of 'The Interview'
Posted by: Low T America at December 17, 2014 05:06 PM (ZPrif)
on the site today, so for the record NO, assasinating innocents, even
hipster toolbag actors, is not cool. Even when highly appealing.)
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 05:04 PM (yRwC
Wouldn't they first have to be elected to office to be assassinated?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 05:06 PM (oKE6c)
moron meetups, they are a gas. One of the founding members of Flash
comes. He's Mindy's husband, if you know her from around here.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:01 PM (1Y+hH)
-------------------I'll have to do that next time a DenMoMe comes up. I might even know her. It is a small world after all.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 05:06 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: blaster at December 17, 2014 05:06 PM (Rx8ML)
First they came for the actors, but because I'm in radio, I said, "They're right over there." *points*
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 05:06 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at December 17, 2014 05:07 PM (3jmxp)
Posted by: Mohammed's Stinky Left Hand at December 17, 2014 05:07 PM (F7vVo)
Posted by: Mohammed's Stinky Left Hand at December 17, 2014 05:07 PM (F7vVo)
drive around and women smoke cigars and are careless about venereal
disease.
Posted by: Feh at December 17, 2014 05:05 PM (Qj4bp)
You DO make it sound attractive.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 05:07 PM (oKE6c)
are full of passionate intensity
Posted by: Feh at December 17, 2014 05:08 PM (Qj4bp)
Posted by: dogfish at December 17, 2014 05:08 PM (1vYi0)
I spoke with a woman in Luxembourg who lived through 4 years of German occupation as a young girl. Her father and uncle almost got caught killing a pig to eat (w/o permission), which was a death sentence on the spot. She wore a potato sack for a dress, that's all she had. She LOVED Americans.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:08 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 17, 2014 05:08 PM (32Ze2)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 05:08 PM (MMC8r)
Also Obama could become a humble mechanic at an auto shop in Cedar Rapids after he quietly retires from presidenting.
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 17, 2014 05:08 PM (MbqmP)
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The frontline troops wouldn't have had the time. Both the Germans and the Soviets liked to keep their formations constantly fighting on the frontlines right up until the units were shadows of their former strength, and then pull them out to rest, refit, and get enough replacements to be brought back up to strength. Replacements weren't fed into the units as needed like they were in the Western armies.
You read the histories of some of the battles, and you'll find that a panzer division that started the campaign with a full compliment of tanks was finally pulled off the line when it had less than a dozen still operational.
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 05:09 PM (UWFpX)
Actually, I think it means he can fly down there now on our dime for "fact finding" missions and just score them down there so the neighbors don't complain...
Posted by: tu3031 at December 17, 2014 05:09 PM (i0wGQ)
disease.
Posted by: Feh at December 17, 2014 05:05 PM (Qj4bp)
yo!
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at December 17, 2014 05:09 PM (q+zA9)
Picturesque, but I'll pass.
Posted by: Feh at December 17, 2014 05:09 PM (Qj4bp)
Gotta feed the beast, aka give the fanfic writing fangirls more fodder to play with...
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 05:09 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Kim Jong Un at December 17, 2014 05:09 PM (KBIDy)
disease.
Where do they keep the cigars?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 17, 2014 05:10 PM (oKE6c)
can we at least get some of the old cheys back in exchange
Posted by: kj at December 17, 2014 05:10 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 05:08 PM (MMC8r)
No Sh*t !
Posted by: Nanking at December 17, 2014 05:10 PM (q+zA9)
The Japanese raped their way through the South Pacific, too. As policy.
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See Nanking: Rape of. One of the most horrific things I've ever read. Even the Germans were appalled.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 05:10 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: Sphynx at December 17, 2014 05:10 PM (OZmbA)
Posted by: Feh at December 17, 2014 05:10 PM (Qj4bp)
Because interest is flagging.
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 05:10 PM (MMC8r)
disease.
..............Yes, go on. Are they young too? >...Please, continue.
Posted by: Lena Dunham at December 17, 2014 05:11 PM (KBIDy)
Because she knows who'll end up writing the literary histories, and she wants a place.
Posted by: Feh at December 17, 2014 05:11 PM (Qj4bp)
Posted by: navybrat at December 17, 2014 05:04 PM (JgC5a)
Ry Cooder did a great album with a bunch of old Cuban Musicians called The Buena Vista Social Club.
Most of them hadn't played in decades as they had no instruments. They killed it, amazing stuff.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:11 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:12 PM (nzKvP)
This is why you are not a Sony exec, you actually have a brain. Would be a good offensive move , fighting fire with fire, allowing the execs to play the game the North Korean hackers are doing, instead of being reactionary dancing monkeys. So of course they won't do it.
Dance monkeys, dance!
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 05:12 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at December 17, 2014 05:13 PM (3jmxp)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 05:13 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Neville Chamberlain at December 17, 2014 05:13 PM (nzKvP)
Sure. He would have to learn which end of the wrench to hold first.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 17, 2014 05:13 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Sony Executives at December 17, 2014 05:13 PM (i0wGQ)
Posted by: eman at December 17, 2014 05:13 PM (mR7Es)
Ugh, why? Her books are great. If it was an important to the story that Dumbledore was gay, or that there were Jewish wizards, she would have included these details at the time. This is just sad, PC hindsight.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 17, 2014 05:13 PM (ABcz/)
panzer division that started the campaign with a full compliment of
tanks was finally pulled off the line when it had less than a dozen
still operational.
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Heh. At the end Sepp Dietrich said that they called themselves the sixth panzer army because they only had six panzers left.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 05:14 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 05:13 PM (KBIDy)
whew !
Posted by: Matt Damon at December 17, 2014 05:14 PM (q+zA9)
Watching him try to figure out a manual transmission would be hilarious.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 05:14 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: Feh at December 17, 2014 05:14 PM (Qj4bp)
Medal of Freedom recipient in 2013.
Curious of what he thinks of all this.
Posted by: navybrat at December 17, 2014 05:15 PM (JgC5a)
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 05:15 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: tu3031 at December 17, 2014 05:15 PM (i0wGQ)
Sure the Germans had their little death squads to kill untermenschen to give new lands for the Germanic people.
On the Soviet side the NKVD would shoot anyone they found retreating. The partisans set about scorching their own countryside while trying to kill Germans.
But after Kursk, if was revenge for the Rodina. So any woman the Soviet forces, including Asiatics, found was fair game on the march to Berlin. There was also looting. Red Army guy running the Soviet flag up in Berlin, they airbrushed out his two wristwatches. The Soviets stole everything they could, even light switches to be returned to the USSR. One of the greatest treasures of modern times, Priam's Gold, is still held by Russia after being liberated from a conquered Berlin.
In other words the Eastern Front was brutal, vicious, and positively inhumane because two totalitarian regimes with no care for the individual were fighting each other.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:16 PM (UtvsI)
380 And J.K. Rowlings reveals there is a Jewish wizard at Hogwarts who is also homosexual.
http://tinyurl.com/mlja6vp
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:01 PM (UtvsI)
Who gives a flying fcuk?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at December 17, 2014 05:16 PM (/dvmK)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 05:13 PM (KBIDy)
I have a better idea: let's announce that Clooney and Affleck are making The Interview II in which Kim Jong Un is a lisping fruit wearing a pink dress, and they know the Norks won't do anything about it because they're pussies.
Hey, worth a shot, amirite?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 05:16 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 17, 2014 05:16 PM (32Ze2)
Who was the poster with the story of shitting himself? That is a classic that should be posted every year.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at December 17, 2014 05:17 PM (3jmxp)
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 05:18 PM (vVSOO)
reading one from the SotU from 2011. We were still funny back then, not
just bitter. Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 05:15 PM (rwI+c)
In our defense, it's been a LOOOONG six years.
Posted by: Morons, Bitterly Clinging on like the kitteh in the poster at December 17, 2014 05:18 PM (yRwC8)
I just received my late father's copy of the newsletter of the "Fighting Fourth Marine Division of WWII," with the headline saying that next year's reunion will be the last.
Choked me up.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 04:45 PM (oKE6c)
Yeah, I remembered getting the last issue of my dad's old unit's newsletter after he died. I had the same reaction.
Posted by: rickl at December 17, 2014 05:18 PM (zoehZ)
You been heah fo owas. You go now. No Happy Ending fo you.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 05:18 PM (XAGDQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:16 PM (UtvsI)
They called that war back then.
I don't recognize what we do now as war. Oh, that's right it's 'kinetic something something' now.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:19 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: flounder at December 17, 2014 05:19 PM (sDapq)
92
Is anyone keeping track of or otherwise recording thread winners somewhere?
I would love to scan the archives.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 04:10 PM (CMkNk)
...............................
Also, is anyone keeping a list of Obama's nicknames?
A huge task, I know, but worth every hilarious line.
Posted by: wth at December 17, 2014 05:19 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:16 PM (UtvsI)
you don't say ?
Posted by: Iran v. Iraq. 1980 to 1988.. at December 17, 2014 05:19 PM (q+zA9)
Posted by: Neville Chamberlain at December 17, 2014 05:19 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at December 17, 2014 05:20 PM (MbqmP)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:20 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 05:20 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 05:20 PM (KBIDy)
Who will be America's Winston Churchill?
The World waits
Posted by: Neville Chamberlain
My, aren't we the hairy-chested brute.
Posted by: Stanley Baldwin at December 17, 2014 05:20 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: Bob Belcher at December 17, 2014 05:17 PM (3jmxp)
Let he who has not sharted . . . .
Posted by: flounder at December 17, 2014 05:21 PM (sDapq)
Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 17, 2014 05:21 PM (32Ze2)
Posted by: Morons, Bitterly Clinging on like the kitteh in the poster at December 17, 2014 05:18 PM (yRwC
I still remember ace's advice right after Obama got elected the first time.
He said we should all just enjoy whatever little time we had left as much as ppossible.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:21 PM (1Y+hH)
Weasel Zippers
Sickening
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:21 PM (nzKvP)
On the Soviet side the NKVD would shoot anyone they found retreating.
-----------------
I started playing Company of Heroes 2 again the other night. The focus at release was the Eastern Front, and the campaign has you playing as part of the Soviet army. When you get to Stalingrad (actually your second time visiting Stalingrad, since the prologue mission takes place there), you're informed that Order 227(?) is in effect, and cowards will be shot. Sounds like an interesting bit of flavor, right?
WRONG!
There's a Retreat button that you have access to. Selecting a squad and pushing the button causes the squad to rapidly disengage and run back to your HQ. It's useful for getting your troops out of heavy fire and back to where they can rest up for another go. Except that, starting with that Stalingrad mission, an NKVD Comissar will sometimes show up at your HQ, and hang out there for about a minute. And if you have a retreated squad waiting there, then he'll start shooting the squad members.
^^;;
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 05:22 PM (UWFpX)
Weasel Zippers
Sickening
Fidel's dick isn't going to suck itself, you know.
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 05:22 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Erowmero at December 17, 2014 05:22 PM (go5uR)
The Luftwaffe and the IJA/IJN flyers were also kept in combat until they died.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:23 PM (UtvsI)
Hit back? Yea, that will show them. Sony just became the poster boy for what not to do. Way to cave to hackers Sony.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 05:23 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Trunk Monkey, as Voiced by Brian Dennehy at December 17, 2014 05:21 PM (32Ze2)
The Riussian Military, aside from their nuclear forces, is pretty much a hollowed out force. Shit they can hardly handle the Ukraine
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:23 PM (nzKvP)
how many of the old chevys being held hostage in cuba will we get back?
Posted by: kj at December 17, 2014 05:23 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: despair at December 17, 2014 05:24 PM (dcY7v)
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 05:14 PM (vVSOO)
I have a great story from one of the guys in my Dad's outfit (Patton's Ghost Troops) about the lucky destruction of a Panzer.
Perfect for the ONT, I'll have to try to remember to relate it some night.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:24 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 05:22 PM (rwI+c)
Good point
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:24 PM (nzKvP)
Hahah. I am reminded of the royal high executioner's infamous list from The Mikado.
I have a little list...
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 05:24 PM (yRwC8)
My Dad's outfit has given it up also. He's still with us at 89 though.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:25 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:25 PM (nzKvP)
What happens if a political kommisar accidentally wanders in front of a bullet?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 05:26 PM (XAGDQ)
Could be the centerpiece of a new advertising campaign.
Posted by: Bad idea jeans at December 17, 2014 05:26 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: t-bird at December 17, 2014 05:26 PM (3KwIi)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 17, 2014 05:27 PM (5kNXS)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:25 PM (nzKvP)
Uh oh, what's he saying now? And is Greg at least bringing teh funny to counterbalance it?
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 05:27 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 05:27 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: @SOEarpiece at December 17, 2014 04:47 PM (rwI+c)
Y-chromosome admixture would obviously be far more European.
White guys came over, not White women, so the White men tapped the Native babes.
You see the same thing in S. Africa's "Coloured" population and in Cabo Verde as well.
Posted by: The Conquistadors at December 17, 2014 05:27 PM (lN8KC)
My Dad's outfit has given it up also. He's still with us at 89 though.
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Its because of people like them that I remain optimistic about this country. Because every once in a while, our country produces a generation that truly answers the call.
I'm sorry to hear of so many reunions ending. Just a further reminder of a great generation nearing its end.
Posted by: SH at December 17, 2014 05:27 PM (gmeXX)
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You, and your entire command staff, get sent to Siberia. The rest of your unit is designated a Penal detail, and sent to conduct "reconnaissance" of enemy positions, Soviet-style.
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 05:27 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:23 PM (UtvsI)
----------------And both had Kamikazes. The Germans were more about ramming Allied bombers. (This was done on a small scale at the end of the war. They really couldn't have made much of a difference.) The Japanese were more interested in ramming Allied shipping. The Navy suffered more casualties at Okinawa due to Kamikaze attacks than the had in the entire war.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 05:28 PM (vVSOO)
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 05:27 PM (yRwC
Bolling is an APPEASER and yeah Greg is trying to be funny but this shit is just sad. Berry Berry sad
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:28 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 05:27 PM (yRwC
Bolling is an APPEASER and yeah Greg is trying to be funny but this shit is just sad. Berry Berry sad
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:28 PM (nzKvP)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:29 PM (UtvsI)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:28 PM (nzKvP)
I believe you meant to type "Barry Barry sad"
Posted by: The AOSHQ Style Guide at December 17, 2014 05:30 PM (yRwC8)
-----------------------
Or, to quote Comrade Stalin, "It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Soviet Army!"
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 05:31 PM (UWFpX)
When did Slavery end in Cuba?
The Spanish American War?
Posted by: Big Mike the steam shovel at December 17, 2014 05:31 PM (q+zA9)
Two. More. Years.
He does something awful every day. There are about 750 more days.
Then Elizabeth Warren.
Posted by: despair at December 17, 2014 05:31 PM (dcY7v)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:28 PM (nzKvP)
I believe you meant to type "Barry Barry sad"
Posted by: The AOSHQ Style Guide at December 17, 2014 05:30 PM (yRwC
Your right. I stand corrected. Good catch
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:31 PM (nzKvP)
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Russian or Ukrainian? A lot of Ukrainians joined the Nazis.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 05:31 PM (vVSOO)
You know what the real takeaway is from Sony cancelling their comedy movie The Interview?
Do you?
You don't; so I'll tell you:
The lesson here is obama Cannot [Or Will Not] Protect The Citizens of the United States Against Attacks From Foreign Enemies.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 17, 2014 05:31 PM (sattt)
Then Elizabeth Warren.
Posted by: despair at December 17, 2014 05:31 PM (dcY7v)
----
She at least supports shutting down the government.
Posted by: SH at December 17, 2014 05:32 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: zombie Lee Harvey Oswald at December 17, 2014 05:33 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2014 05:33 PM (JO9+V)
If he doesn't play golf he sometimes knocks out two acts of America-hate in a single day.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 17, 2014 05:33 PM (8ZskC)
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Russians. One of the units that fought for the German army on D-Day was a unit of former Soviet troops that had been captured, and then volunteered to serve on the Western Front under German command. Unfortunately, I can't remember the unit's designation off the top of my head.
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 05:33 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 05:33 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Mike at December 17, 2014 05:34 PM (c056A)
Weasel Zippers
Sickening
Fidel's dick isn't going to suck itself, you know.
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 17, 2014 05:22 PM (rwI+c)
I don't care if Obama goes to Cuba, just as long as he doesn't come back.
Posted by: Zombie John G. Schmitz at December 17, 2014 05:34 PM (lN8KC)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 05:34 PM (XAGDQ)
One unit, I think SG27, flew heavily armored FW-190s against the bomber forces with limited success. The extra armor was the culprit as it slowed the fighters down.
Then there was Elba Commando which took stripped down worn out fighters, usually Bf-109Gs armed with maybe only the nose cannon, and their mission was to try and cut off the tail or nose of a bomber with a wing; thus allowing the pilot to bail out and fight again. Again only limited success.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:34 PM (UtvsI)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 17, 2014 05:34 PM (8ZskC)
That's a press release that just drips with testosterone, doesn't it? Nobody dares fuck with us after that.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 05:34 PM (0HooB)
----
Russian or Ukrainian? A lot of Ukrainians joined the Nazis.
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 05:31 PM (vVSOO)
The Ukrainians and the Latvians guarded the death camps. In a continent of vicious Jew hatred, those were probably the worst, with the Ustachi Croatians close behind.
Please note: that is not a condemnation of all Ukrainians and Latvians.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 05:34 PM (CMkNk)
Boner & The Turtle? Obama owns them.
Posted by: despair at December 17, 2014 05:35 PM (dcY7v)
He could be doing much more damage than he is.
Not that he's not doing plenty...but still.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:35 PM (1Y+hH)
765
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 05:34 PM (XAGDQ)
As of today, 765 until Inauguration day 2017.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 05:36 PM (CMkNk)
Moreover, the movie is irrelevant. How "crazy" Kim Un is irrelevant. The hackers are irrelevant.
This is about obama and his failure t act as the president of the United States. This is about obama's total failure to execute his paramount duty to protect the citizens and interests of the United States.
Add the Cuba deal on top of this...
obama should be impeached and then charged with treason.
btw, Jeff Flake is turning out to be worse than John McCain on everything.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 17, 2014 05:36 PM (sattt)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 05:34 PM (XAGDQ)
what?
that is like 100,000 beers left to make it Barky's last day
Posted by: Big Mike the steam shovel at December 17, 2014 05:36 PM (q+zA9)
You take down video, now!
Posted by: Fritz at December 17, 2014 05:36 PM (dVmLD)
Posted by: Old Blue at December 17, 2014 05:37 PM (vVSOO)
----------------
I've also read that the Luftwaffe units sent against the Normandy invasion were ordered to shoot until their guns ran empty, and then ram landing craft.
While there were a handful of Luftwaffe planes that fought in the air (and weren't shot down) during the landing, none of them actually attempted to carry out the terminal part of their orders.
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 05:37 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:37 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Lena Dunham at December 17, 2014 05:37 PM (/qm2N)
Those that vote Democrat? Oppressed minorities.
Those that vote Republican? White patriarchs.
Posted by: despair at December 17, 2014 05:37 PM (dcY7v)
http://tinyurl.com/mlja6vp
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:01 PM (UtvsI)
Wait, there were characters that were straight???
Posted by: Muggle Libertaion Front at December 17, 2014 05:38 PM (lN8KC)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:38 PM (UtvsI)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 17, 2014 05:38 PM (z2f1n)
Posted by: Sabrina Rudin Erdely at December 17, 2014 05:38 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2014 05:38 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 05:39 PM (UWFpX)
My Dad's outfit has given it up also. He's still with us at 89 though.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:25 PM (1Y+hH)
Mercifully, my dad never saw combat (thank you Enrico Fermi and Paul Tibbets), but his poor brother bought it on Saipan. Have been trying like mad to try and find anyone who might have known him, but alas, to no avail.
I just can't weep anymore for them and for what has happened to the country they died for.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 05:39 PM (CMkNk)
Most of them hadn't played in decades as they had no instruments. They killed it, amazing stuff.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:11 PM (1Y+hH)
I have that CD. My understanding is it was originally recorded in Havana in a studio abandoned by RCA, and the recording equipment was exactly as it had been left in the 1950s.
I know someone who recently was in Cuba on a photo shoot. Her blog postings and accompanying photos can be found here.
http://keronpsillas.com/2014/11/28/cuba-part-three-of-three/
Posted by: Jen the original at December 17, 2014 05:39 PM (cPPlg)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:40 PM (UtvsI)
I wonder if they are reprinting their articles and gloating now.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:40 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:38 PM (UtvsI)
Lest we forget that the Balkans was one of the birthplaces of the PLO. Bosnian Muslims fought with the SS and were recruited by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 05:40 PM (CMkNk)
Tuesday, aka Rapey Tuesday.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 05:41 PM (XAGDQ)
---------------
And there was Kaminski's unit, which was disbanded after the Warsaw Uprising because even the *Germans* were shocked at what the unit had done.
(which, of course, was exactly what Hitler had ordered done...)
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 05:41 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2014 05:38 PM (JO9+V)
At least we still have Calais...
oops, never mind!
Posted by: Bloody Mary at December 17, 2014 05:41 PM (lN8KC)
BREAKING: Unconfirmed senior administration official reports President Obama to appoint Kim Jong Un as chairman of the FCC.
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 05:42 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:42 PM (UtvsI)
Thank you, Anna P. Loved his scenes in The Longest Day. Did he survive the war?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2014 05:42 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2014 05:38 PM (JO9+V)
*shakes head*
Posted by: Zombie S. I. Hayakawa at December 17, 2014 05:42 PM (lN8KC)
Hit back? Yea, that will show them. Sony just became the poster boy for what not to do. Way to cave to hackers Sony.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 05:23 PM (KBIDy)
What about releasing part of the movie on the web? That way they generate buzz, stick a finger in the nose of the Norks, but yet could still sell tickets to see the entire movie? (Assuming the part they release doesn't suck donkey balls?)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 05:43 PM (oKE6c)
Excellent, thanks. There is a documentary that was shot during the recording also. The pianist blew my mind. His hands were ravaged by arthritis, hadn't played in years, and he killed it.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:43 PM (1Y+hH)
I recall a story about one of the Balkan countries being so enthusiastic about killing Jews that the SS had to tell them to tone it down.....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2014 05:43 PM (Zu3d9)
In 2011 a large scale mitochondrial sequencing in Mexican Americans
revealed 85 to 90% of mtDNA lineages of Native American origin, with the
remainder having European (5-7%) or African ancestry (3-5%). Thus the
observed frequency of Native American mtDNA in Mexican/Mexican Americans
is higher than was expected on the basis of autosomal estimates of
Native American admixture for these populations i.e. ~ 30-46%. You may
now continue.
I wonder if that indicates that the Conquistadors and early
epidemics didn't kill off as many of the natives as are usually thought
to have.
Posted by: Grey Fox at December 17, 2014 04:52 PM (09/yf)"
Since mitochondrial DNA comes from the mother it might indicate that the Conquistadors had a "rape culture".
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 17, 2014 05:44 PM (PD6iL)
Is that the real MUMR or a sock?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 05:44 PM (CMkNk)
Is that the real MUMR or a sock?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 05:44 PM (CMkNk)
-----------------------
A part of me wonders if that parenthetical is the *real* reason why everyone is "caving in" to the pressure from North Korea. i.e. the back channel rumors are that the movie sucks, Sony is aware of it, and everyone wants to quietly bury it and hope it goes away.
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 05:45 PM (UWFpX)
Ah.
Posted by: Grey Fox at December 17, 2014 05:45 PM (09/yf)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:45 PM (1Y+hH)
Since mitochondrial DNA comes from the mother it might indicate that the Conquistadors had a "rape culture".
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 17, 2014 05:44 PM (PD6iL)
I blame provocatively dressed ovum.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 05:45 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 05:45 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Regmodels.ru at December 17, 2014 05:45 PM (LqKrZ)
If I ran Sony I would announce that every theater that will show the movie will get 20 off-duty cops as security....paid for by Sony.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2014 05:46 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 05:44 PM
Well, the pedophilic hashtags seem about right, but the rest is making more sense than usual. Perhaps Nurse Diesel has upped his meds a bit.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2014 05:46 PM (knoK7)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 05:46 PM (XAGDQ)
And that'd be different from other movies, how, again?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 05:46 PM (0HooB)
I would encourage anyone to read the story about a Korean named Yang Kyoungjong who was captured by Americans a few days after D-Day. I recall Ambrose mentioning him once after forced Service in the Japanese, Soviet and Wehrmacht armies.
The made a movie in 2011 about him called "My Way" which I haven't seen.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at December 17, 2014 05:46 PM (/qm2N)
Posted by: Mirror Universe Matzo Roaster at December 17, 2014 05:46 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:46 PM (UtvsI)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 17, 2014 05:48 PM (knoK7)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:48 PM (1Y+hH)
Former governor of Florida issues a statement on an issue important to Florida residents is somehow bad?
I await Ben Smith's take since Buzzfeed is our go to source now for analysis.
Posted by: Bob from Ohio at December 17, 2014 05:48 PM (t3cNy)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 05:43 PM
.......I am guessing based on the cast and premise that it sucks donkey balls. One of those that will get way more interest than it ever would/should have. It was one of those that you MIGHT watch if you were bedridden for like a year and had watched everything else on Netflix and you were drunk.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 05:49 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:49 PM (UtvsI)
Does ace still have that Perry crush?
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:50 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Ghabberflasted at December 17, 2014 05:51 PM (JwWbe)
Posted by: pep at December 17, 2014 05:52 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: Kim Jong Un at December 17, 2014 05:52 PM (8ZskC)
"And there was Kaminski's unit,.."
Read about him in "Bloodlands." The commander, a known drug addict and lunatic, was shot after Warsaw, but because he failed to follow orders and eventually pissed off Himler.
His unit was made up of convicts and reprobates who made their mark in Belarus.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at December 17, 2014 05:52 PM (/qm2N)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 05:53 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Swatara at December 17, 2014 05:53 PM (V8aMM)
Posted by: pep at December 17, 2014 05:52 PM (4nR9/)
Would you be:
a) upset
b) ambivalent
c) pleased
d) thrilled
if he won?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2014 05:54 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: Meremortal
Common malady in these parts.
I've got Perry ranked above Huck, Jeb, Rand, and Mitt.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:54 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Swatara at December 17, 2014 05:53 PM (
........If the Captain is also a Jewish Wizard, Yes!
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 05:55 PM (KBIDy)
the Slavic horde. Surprisingly, I seem to have read somewhere that it
mostly wasn't the front line combat troops doing the raping, but the
follow on troops."
The most rapey of the Soviet invaders were the zampoliti.
The Red political officers from the NKVD who followed a discreet distance behind the advancing front line, the better to machine-gun any Soviet soldier who even briefly retreated.
Posted by: torquewrench at December 17, 2014 05:55 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 05:56 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:56 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 05:44 PM (CMkNk)
Yes.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2014 05:56 PM (Zu3d9)
Posted by: Ghabberflasted at December 17, 2014 05:51 PM (JwWbe)
"So always look for the NAMBLA label,
it means you can make it with a kid,
90 miles from the USA!"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 05:56 PM (CMkNk)
For a 90 mile run?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 05:56 PM (XAGDQ)
HotAir.com @hotairblog 3m3 minutes ago
Shep Smith wonders: Is America about to "ruin" Cuba? http://hotair.com/?p=2691786
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 05:57 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 05:57 PM (UtvsI)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 05:57 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:54 PM (1Y+hH)
Perry does not suck nearly as badly as those three goniffs.
But that said, I am hoping for Cruz, Walker or someone else not yet known but good.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 05:58 PM (CMkNk)
The run across Lake Michigan is 80 miles in 2.5 hours and they make money.
Posted by: Swatara at December 17, 2014 05:58 PM (V8aMM)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:59 PM (nzKvP)
How the fcuk do you ruin Cuba?
Like you would ruin North Korea?
Wait, we ARE talking about Obama here.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:59 PM (1Y+hH)
a) upset
b) ambivalent
c) pleased
d) thrilled
if he won?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
As usual, the question is "compared to what"?
Regardless, I think he's been effectively Quayled. I don't see him being taken seriously anymore. I guess we'll see.
Posted by: pep at December 17, 2014 05:59 PM (4nR9/)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:00 PM (UtvsI)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 05:58 PM (CMkNk)
Prayers up.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 06:01 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 05:59 PM (nzKvP)
Please. One Luis Gutierrez is enough.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 06:01 PM (CMkNk)
Like destroy that wonderful third-world ambiance? Or silence the atmospheric screaming from the prisons?
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 06:01 PM (MMC8r)
Like destroy that wonderful third-world ambiance? Or silence the atmospheric screaming from the prisons?
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 06:01 PM
..........Shep is a special kind of stupid.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:02 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: pep at December 17, 2014 05:59 PM (4nR9/)
[RINO!]
Compared to Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton (but I repeat myself).
Can a fella dream?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 17, 2014 06:03 PM (Zu3d9)
Like you would ruin North Korea?
Wait, we ARE talking about Obama here.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 05:59 PM
..........Detroit called and would like a word.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:03 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Shep Smith at December 17, 2014 06:03 PM (yRwC8)
That kind of thing has been popping up on Twitter.
My counter: I guess brown people in poverty are "authentic".
Posted by: AmishDude at December 17, 2014 06:03 PM (b4b5c)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 06:04 PM (nzKvP)
Need a new thread. I bet MUMR can't swtich threads.
"He can't take down four barrels! Not four barrels he can't!"
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 06:04 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:05 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:05 PM (KBIDy)
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (KBIDy)
Like destroy that wonderful third-world ambiance? Or silence the atmospheric screaming from the prisons?
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 06:01 PM (MMC8r)
Reminds me of an old National Lampoon Radio Hour bit.
At the 1:56 mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60MqEjLDIg&list=PLvbdP55tzzApisjlKQYMiJsMmrcNh3cWs&index=2
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (CMkNk)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 05:58 PM (CMkNk)
If he keeps it up he's going to be a Pope on a rope. I hear the Hidden Hierarchy is not amused.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (1Y+hH)
That makes absolutely no sense at all.
They're at least 50 years behind us and the rest of the world.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (0HooB)
Posted by: Shep Smith at December 17, 2014 06:07 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 17, 2014 06:07 PM (2cS/G)
"Many thousands of German women committed suicide after being raped by
the Slavic horde."
The estimated number, my source is coming from Stephan Amrbose, was 2 million. Not just German, but Polish, Ukrainian, Finnish, Belorussian and others.
The Red Army was hated, and feared, for a reason.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at December 17, 2014 06:07 PM (/qm2N)
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 06:07 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Shep Smith at December 17, 2014 06:08 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 06:09 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Fritz at December 17, 2014 06:10 PM (dVmLD)
Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 06:10 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 06:10 PM (yRwC8)
Posted by: Swatara at December 17, 2014 06:10 PM (V8aMM)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 06:11 PM (nzKvP)
Have the rules changed enough that investing in a ferry boat would be lucrative? i understand there are plans for a high speed rail project to cuba already under way
Posted by: kj at December 17, 2014 06:11 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2014 06:12 PM (FMbng)
camps. In a continent of vicious Jew hatred, those were probably the
worst, with the Ustachi Croatians close behind.
Please note: that is not a condemnation of all Ukrainians and Latvians.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 05:34 PM (CMkNk)"
The Ukrainians were in a situation similar to the Finns in that their primary enemy was the Soviet Union led by Josef Stalin and the only people that they could ally themselves with were the Nazis. The Ukrainians had also been on the receiving end of the Holodomor which Walter Duranty received the Pulitzer prize for denying. Just as Jews are overrepresented on the political left in the United States today, Jews were a higher percentage of the Communist Party and of political commissars than they were of the general population. This does not mean that there was not a history of irrational, historical antisemitism among Ukrainians or that they were justified in their behavior. However, the Ukrainians had experienced direct personal harm and it is a human emotion to seek revenge against people who share characteristics with the people who harmed them.
Ukrainians were not uniquely down on Jews. The book "Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of WW II" documents the war of extermination that Poles and Ukrainians fought against each other in 1945 as well as the ethnic cleansing and extermination campaigns that pretty much everybody waged against the ethnic Germans outside of Germany in the mid to late 1940s.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 17, 2014 06:13 PM (PD6iL)
Posted by: Lincolntf at December 17, 2014 06:07 PM (2cS/G)
Good one. I have to admit I've never cared for Jesuits though. Maryknoll Brothers were a mixed bag, but the Jesuits were nothing but trouble in my education days.
At FR the Christians spend hours explaining the horros of Mormonism. I tell them I have some questions about Christianity so I'm headed off to find a Mormon. They hate that.
I'm a Christian but I keep it quiet. It's embarrassing to be associated with some of these nutcases.
Posted by: Meremortal at December 17, 2014 06:13 PM (1Y+hH)
back at the hackers who threatened movie theaters and moviegoers and who
have terrorized the studio and its employees for weeks."
Did they throw their jars of Vaseline at them?
Posted by: tu3031 at December 17, 2014 06:17 PM (i0wGQ)
Thanks for the book tip. Going on my list.
I spent time in Eastern Europe on business in the past and had an old polish colleague tell me about the Poles and Ukranians killing each other as late as 1948. I never heard of it until then.
Under communist rule in E. Europe, there were alot of things the west never bothered reporting or bothered learning about. A bit strange actually.
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at December 17, 2014 06:22 PM (/qm2N)
I'm expecting the same result out of ever-urbanizing China, for what it's worth.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 17, 2014 06:36 PM (6fyGz)
Posted by: Mr. Practical at December 17, 2014 07:14 PM (lPdaT)
But you don't give up a bargaining chip like the embargo for nothing, especially as the fall in oil prices will crimp the ability of Russia and Venezuela to subsidize their commie pals.
53 prisoners released - who will be picked up as soon as they speak another word for freedom. And you don't care.
You hate the Republican leadership more than you hate the sworn enemies of America, freedom, and capitalism. Says it all, doesn't it?
Posted by: Adjoran at December 17, 2014 08:02 PM (QIQ6j)
but...is it just me, or does it seem not real bright - at a time when every tin pot dictatorship on the globe seems to be challenging us - to make any non-essential concessions, like at all, like anywhere? Really?
When true psychotics, some with the potential of nukes and to whom death means nothing, are probing to find any edge on us - is this the time to announce to the world, "Hey we want peace, we are ready to deal, make us an offer."
Posted by: RM at December 17, 2014 09:10 PM (fRppw)
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