Sunday Open Thread: Embargo Edition
by PubliusToday, in 1962, the United States banned all trade with Cuba. The Castro regime capitulated soon after…oh, wait…
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Today, in 1962, the United States banned all trade with Cuba. The Castro regime capitulated soon after…oh, wait…
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Too bad that wasn't a barrel of a pistol he was sucking on. He could have saved everyone a lot of trouble.
Looks like a movie star. Lassie taking a dump.
At the time, I thought that Cuba should be annihilated. I was, like, 12. I didn't think we should use the dreaded A-Bomb, however, I figured we had plenty of other bombs laying around that would wipe it from the map; the Ultimate Embargo, so-to-speak.
Ah yes, today in history. Just the photo of the young, glamorous, sexy, suave, sophisticated Commrade Fidel will be enough to drive the liberal left love loons wild. You'll probably have more left wing traffic here today just to see that photo, than we've had since you ran the article on Che'.
On a serious note, Cuba is a shining example that comunism and socialism do not work, nor does government healthcare. Fidels "everymans" revolution has been a disaster, just like Brother Barracks will be.
Cowboy Logic
Saw a post of yours awhile back where you mentioned you had been admonished by the site admin.
What was that about? Most of your posts I have read seem reasonable, maybe a tad biting now and then but not vulgar and personal like some.
Did some troll tool report you because their feelings were hurt?
You know the old saying, a cigar is just a cigar; but a great cigar is a great smoke.
Unless of course it is a Monica Cohiba, then that opens up a whole new line of humidor humor………
But then just maybe, we can stop Brother Baracks in it's tracks come election time. Though it will take some heavy lifting to undo the damage.
If Obama would switch from cigarettes to cigars, and grow a beard, the resemblance would be complete!
The guy is a communist pig….But the left loves him…..should tell you something….all the boat people were not escaping paradise to the US they were on a cruise with the family and got lost.I mean who would leave paradise…free health care freedom everyone has the same thing…(even if the same is poverty)…ahhh nirvana
JailBird55, gotta disagree…even Fidel is too conservative for some of BHO's policies
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his face looks like rachel maddow's crotch.
Probably.
My posts are hard to read. There is a fine line between dry humor/ biting and just plain inflammatory. I try to make people think.
As to vulgarity, I might push the envelope on occasion, but I detest vulgarity. I have been here since day one, and used the f-bomb once, and then it was quoting someone else.
Being a somewhat sarcastic person my self (on occasion) and having little patience for fools of any stripe, I can commiserate with you.
I don't find your posts difficult to comprehend, but then I'm not a liberal.
I am curious as to whom you were replying to, as I would like to read some of their posts to gauge the value they bring to the debate.
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You'll party like it's 1773!
Now that is beyond anything I would fathom to want to witness…My mind we will be struggling with that image for the rest of the day…Thanks!
As long as we are on the topic of Fidel,
Here is an interesting little tidbit about Commrade Hugo Chavez:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/op...
cigars are probably the only Cuban product that are actually missed. That said, I would go for lifting the embargo if (and ONLY if) we could get all the cigar crop in exchange for forced deportation of all Hollywood liberals to the island.
I was replying to no one. It was this past week, on the thread about the US Attorney recusing himself on the James O'Keefe case. It was the post at the top of the page. oddly enough, the points I made in that post, several contributors wrote articles over the following days here, and at big journalism using the same points I wrote about. While granted I am not the only original thinker here, they ought to show some originality and come up with their own ideas.
Perhaps we have been here long enough to come full circle. Yesterday at big journalism, Mr. Walsh did a thread regarding Yuri Bezmenov. I talked about the same thing here, at length back in the fall. At the time, most folks did not even know the name Bezmenov.
I reckon it might just be irrelevant, in the scheme of things.
YUK!
That gives a whole new meaning to the term crotch-rot…………
Of course the Left loves Castro. As our lovely manufacturing 'czar', Ron Bloom so unctuously stated…
"We know that the free market is nonsense…. We know that this is largely about power, that it's an adults only, no-limit game. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun."
They're jealous…Nothing more, nothing less.
Also, I hope Castro is so decrepit these days, that he has to get his cigar intake via an enema bag…!
It is odd how "perception" changes everything, eh?
Cuban cigars?
I'd be willing to bet that if there was a moratorium placed on Hershey Bars, and only a thousand were available for consumption per annum, that overnight, they would be among the most prized possessions in the world. The price would skyrocket, and a black market would develop.
It is all perception.
It is human nature to want what we don't have, and to covet what we want. Personally, every Cuban is hand rolled, and the wrappers are licked by the roller. I'd want them all to be certified Aids free……….
Cowboy Logic
Oh, having missed the posting I was unaware of that angle.
Perhaps you should start a blog of your own. Then when you are the first with a thought, or point of view it will be recorded by date. By doing so you will also be able to expand more fully on your thoughts and not be hampered by the rules of a debate site. Not suggesting you refrain from posting here (would miss you) but in addition too. I would read your blogs.
Ahhh…finally a hero of the American left!
Not really. I'm a big fan of sarcasm.
Yeah, I'll go for that.
Nah.
I like it here too much, and don't really have the time to devote to it. Winter is almost over and spring is coming, and I won't have the luxury of time to be here much longer.
I appreciate the compliment though.
Not to worry about having to deport the Hollywood liberal to Cuba. The California legislature is working frantically to turn that state into Cuba West. Cuba will come to them.
Speaking of Fidel,
that opens up a whole line of thought, regarding communism, socialism and fascism. Those philosophies need explored and need to be fully understood. Back in the fall, I posted this, but will do so again. Probably the best read in a long time, is: "Liberal Fascism" by Jonah Goldgerg. I just finished it again for the third time. I'd recomend it to anyone who was serious about understanding where we have been and where we are going. it is excellent.
I've been known to enjoy a fine cigar, now and again. Until Cuba finally shakes itself free from communism, though, I'd never accept a Cuban stogie, if offered one.
And I would never accept a cigar, of any description, from Slick Willie. Heck, I'd want a positive-pressure HAZMAT suit before entering a room where he was present. If there's such a thing as hepatitis Z, he's sure to have it.
The Hollywood left and those who romanticize over Cuba should talk to my 88 yr. old neighbor. She was wealthy one morning. She went to school in Cuba and when she came home, she found that Castro took everything her family had–land, house, money. Left her with picture frames. If you really want to understand history, sit down with someone elderly and LISTEN very carefully. The truths they tell, the insight, the history, the perspective. It is our duty to learn these truths they tell and retell them to the youth, they cannot ever forget history even if the left wants to ignore or rewrite it.
Poor, poor Bubba. It is terrible that the First Black President has become the butt of sexual innuendo jokes.
Just wait until we annex Haiti.
That'll be 9 million new democrat voters, with free healthcare.
Danny Glover can be Kommisar.
There is barely a spits worth of difference between the three. They are all rooted in the same thing: The elevation of the group (state) over the individual.
It's going to take a gallon of Johnny Walker to erase that image.
Thanks a lot…and I mean that both sarcastically and sincerely.
I nominate Castro as "Cigar Czar"!
I'm a complete and mindless TOOL! I admit it. I really have nothing to add to these discussions. I just like to type away thinking that I'm bigger than you while the zit on my forehead gets ready to pop and my Mom keeps calling me out of the basement for dinner.
I'm pathetic. I'm even too scared to sign up for the comments section. I'm too affraid that someone will be able to trace where I live and come and stomp my pathetic dic into the dirt.
I'm just a tool….
Wouldn't Cuba be better off if they were our allies? Catstro's ploicies have more than impovershed the people of Cuba…, bad govt. good people as always
i just wasted 20 seconds of my life reading your post
Hey, Cuba has free health care!………..but, no freedom. How the heck did that happen?
In other news,
Did the GOP learn the lesson of 2009 and the Tea Party or are they
A PARTY OF CRAYFISH?
http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/a-par...
Good one. Of course we'd do it for all the right reasons because Obummer isn't like the Imperialist Pig Bush!
I read slower than you, it took be 25 seconds. That was a waste of time for the moron.
I'm jharp. I'm a complete and mindless TOOL! I admit it. I really have nothing to add to these discussions. I just like to type away thinking that I'm bigger than you while the zit on my forhead gets ready to pop and my Mom keeps calling me out of the basement for dinner.
I'm pathetic. I'm even too scared to sign up for the comments section. I'm too affraid that someone will be able to trace where I live and come and stomp my pathetic dic into the dirt.
I'm just a tool….
There. Now it makes sense.
Oh noes!
First, the hand….
Now-
PALIN HAD OTHER CRIB-NOTES WRITTEN ON HER BODY!
http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/palin...
Shocking!
Three words in succession nobody wants to imagine. Funny as hell, though!
BJ Clinton earned everyone of them Brother. He left his legacy on a stained blue dress.
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Analogy: The Cuban embargo is to a China embargo as marijuana prohibition is to alcohol prohibition. The Cuban embargo and marijuana prohibition are bad ideas, but the problems they cause are small so we tolerate them. That is, the problems are small compared to the problems a China embargo or alcohol prohibition would cause.
I realise the analogy is not exact. The problems marijuana prohibition to our country are much larger than the problems of the Cuban embargo. Also, many people here might incorrectly think marijuana prohibition and an embargo of China are good ideas.
Be careful, BHO admires this decomposing tyrant. The Cuban trade embargo has been extremely successful, that is why the left and the MSM despise it and want it to end. Cuba can trade with approximately 200 different countries around the world, including the EU. So to say that the U.S. has inpoverished Cuba is a lie. Castro and his Stalinist minions have impoverished and enslaved Cuba for over 50 years. The sooner these clowns are removed the better.
Amen to that, although for a second, I thought you were quoting Jodie Foster in "Silence of the Lambs." Fortunately, although most of the best cigar makers were in fact, Cubans, a lot of them got out. I did get a lol chuckle out of the aids-free even if one would have a better chance of picking it up from a surface in a public restroom. Personally, the only one I ever smoked was in Ireland. It was great, but as you point out. way over-priced. Rarity does, in fact, cause a huge disconnect in price/quality beyond all reason
Hi jtwerp, God you're stupid!! ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Hanzo
Typical U.S. embargo hurts the people of Cuba, not the leaders of Cuba. The people in Cuba are the ones that suffer.
Paul Krugman? Is that you?
I agree that the embargo should end.
Our first export to Cuba should be an immense EMP, followed by a Marine Corps landing force and a few waves of Army Airborne. Step two, war crime trials for the communist party members in Cuba and those abroad.
Embargo over…ta da!
I would rather die with a free mind than a full belly.
The first step is to admit you have a problem.
Perhaps, but with the embargo, most of the proceeds would go to the regime, which would allow Castro yet an even tighter hold on power.
And the embargo excuse is BS. If Castro were COMPETENT, he would open up alternative trade with Asia, Europe, and Canada. Through there, he could get all he needed while circumventing us entirely. That he hasn't really done so shows who is to blame for Cuba today.
And it isn't the US.
And the RELEVANCE of this is?
No step One involves sending wave after wave of Cubans back to Cuba.
I don't care enough about Cuba to bother with a step TWO.
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