What'll happen to Cuba....

[Dr. DOS]

...when numb nuts croaks? He's 78 and they say he's hurtin' for certain. You don't hear about a dictator in waiting. Man, it would be a phenomenal place to vacation after a few Hyatts get built.

[Capmaster]

...when numb nuts croaks? He's 78 and they say he's hurtin' for certain. You don't hear about a dictator in waiting. Man, it would be a phenomenal place to vacation after a few Hyatts get built.

Cuba used to be a hot vacation spot for Americans before sphincter boy took it over in 1959, I think it was. Cuba was more along the lines of the Bahamas, instead of like Haiti which is how it is now. It would be great for Cubans if it returned to the paradise it once was Then maybe they'd stop moving to Florida

[northcat_8]

Well if I were Bill Gates, I would buy Cuba, and kick everyone else out.

Cuba Population - 2 (and if wife does't want to go...then population 7 )

[sacajaweeda]

Shouldn't we own Cuba by now? I mean damn.

[Dr. DOS]

Shouldn't we own Cuba by now? I mean damn.

LOL

[BJ_M]

cuba is still a nice vacation spot , lot of nice places there ... lots of people go there for vacation, except americans ..

lots and lots of old 50's american cars there and toyotas and vw's (toyotas and vw's just like just about anywhere in the world from china to panama)

[BJ_M]

BTW -- avoid political discussion - which is where this could/has drifted ...


the cold war is over anyway ...

[DereX888]

Cuba is a very nice vacation place for many people from all over the world LOL its just only some northern-americans cant go there due to political reasons, thus its kinda hard to discuss it without going into stinky politics
IMO long live Castro the longer he is there instead of US-owned corporations - the longer we will have this great vacation spot for free (well, almost free LOL)

[Ripper2860]

My parents are Cuban and fled in 1956 while Castro was still fighting in the mountains. Funny how the US backed him in an effort to oust Bautista only to have him declare himself a communist later!!

Anyhow -- there are a few key people that are possible successors, even his brother is said to be a candidate. I really do not think that he will pass and leave a power vacuum. Someone either better or worse will step in.

Unfortunately the remaining Cuban's have one greater fear than a communist dictatorship -- a leadership that will restore relations with the US. The common people's greatest fear is that Cuban exiles and those that left Cuba during the revolution (many of them were property owners and owned businesses) will return and reclaim what was once theirs. Castro has instilled a greater fear that the Cubans will loose the little they do have if a pro-US regime is installed!!

I've never been there, but the stories from my parents and pictures reveal a beautiful island once known as the "Pearl of the Caribbean".

It's really sad -- I grew up in Miami -- 90 miles from Cuba and my Grand Parents and numerous relatives lived their lives and passed away never having known me or me never having seen them.

[Capmaster]

I wonder if it's Cuba's turn for some prosperity after 45 years of a dictatorship and poverty. It used to be a pearl, like you said Ripper. Sad that one man can gather that kind of power to completely suppress an entire country without any accountability for so long.

What was sad was the people who fled to Florida had to leave behind family and friends to live a free life. Some never saw them again.

A while back Castro used to make these lame gestures by opening up the prisons and sending all the convicts to the US, saying "see, they're free to leave". :P I hope some of those convicts go back there and really raise hell with the old man

[BJ_M]

convicts AND gays actually

[Capmaster]

convicts AND gays actually

DOH! I forgot about that. Thanks

[Grimey]

Keep yer fuckin' mitts off of Cuba!
it's one of the last places where Canadians can vacation to and not run into Americans. :P

[Capmaster]

Keep yer fuckin' mitts off of Cuba!
it's one of the last places where Canadians can vacation to and not run into Americans. :P

You guys sure don't seem to be able to stay out of our country though :P

[BJ_M]

You guys sure don't seem to be able to stay out of our country though

[Capmaster]

You guys sure don't seem to be able to stay out of our country though

You're an American, BJ_M. You're only living in Toronto temporarily, right? Or is it permanent now?

[BJ_M]

temp. for about 20++ years now

[Capmaster]

temp. for about 20++ years now

OK. You're a Canadian then. By about 5 miles

I'll have to watch the canuck jokes then. Damn ...I had some good ones too :P

[Doramius]

I thought Canada was already annexed into the US. Did Trump sell it back to the french again.

They seem to enjoy using all their change in the US. Use $20CAN and get quarters. Use them in certain machines in the US and you're really only out $16 US. I use a US quarter in CAN and they won't give me any change back. It's all good though. It gives the US purchased rights to make fun of aboot every one of yoou Canadians, eh?

As for Cuba, we should have Nuked their a**es long ago, by now the radiation would be subsiding enough to rebuild and turn it back into a paradise. The palms would have a lovely green glow to them. You'd just have to watch out for the palmettos that have grown tentacles that grab small animals and pull them into their beak-like mutation mouth. They'd all die off soon anyway once car exhaust makes it into the air. It's that or it does another horrible mutation.

I had a doctor here in Vegas that though I was Canadian. Upstate NY is not what I would call Canadian..............until you hit Plattsburg. Northern Vermont should have just been Called Little Canada.

[BJ_M]

no - northern Maine is little Canada ..

there are so many Canadians down in Florida, that they have a couple of newspapers just for them (including a French one) - Canada also pays for their medical while they are there, don't have to be in Canada every 6 months like before .. we really know it is just a plot to get the old folks away from us .. we also send them to Elliot lake (look it up) which is 500 miles from nowhere (this is true - the gov just about bought the whole town for a retirement village) ..

i guess its fair - since Toronto ships its garbage to Michigan (200 trucks a day!) ... which is pretty weird when you think about it ..

[hech54]

I know a guy who lives in Cuba. I never met him or anything but I've been sending him "care packages" of extra music CD's that I no longer need. He found me on another mesage board. I've asked him occasionally about the basic "situation" in Cuba but he is VERY vague even in an e-mail. I also need to make the packages (padded envelopes really) as small and non-conspicuous as possible or he says he won't get them....he never replied to my questions as to WHY he wouldn't get them. Will they be stolen or confiscated in some way....was my question to him....the only reply was that he had to go somewhere to pick up his mail "in person"....I found that answer to my question VERY odd.
Hell...the fact that this guy is able to e-mail me from Cuba amazes me....and he received both packages I sent too.....weird. I'm having trouble understanding the "situation" in Cuba to say the least...

[VCDHunter]

@Hech54 - Nice Avatar

[hech54]

THANKS....
It goes hand in hand with the link at the bottom of my posts....

[Capmaster]

@Hech54 - Nice Avatar

Speaking of which ...what happened to that avatar you had VCD? The one with some comic with a cigarette in his mouth? That was a good avatar

[VCDHunter]

@Hech54 - Nice Avatar

Speaking of which ...what happened to that avatar you had VCD? The one with some comic with a cigarette in his mouth? That was a good avatar

The comic was Bill Hicks and the pic was taken from the Rant In E Minor CD, the greatest standup CD ever, by anyone - Including Sam Kinison. I'll probably put it back when I evetually get the internet back on at home.

[hech54]

I loved Bill Hicks' early stuff....don't know much about his later stuff just before he died.

[VCDHunter]

I loved Bill Hicks' early stuff....don't know much about his later stuff just before he died.

Rant In E Minor is just prior to his death - its a very hard album to listen to but incredibly funny. Do you have much Kinison stuff ? I picked up a few CDs in New York a couple of years back and I have a couple of DVDs now.

[hech54]

I loved Bill Hicks' early stuff....don't know much about his later stuff just before he died.

Rant In E Minor is just prior to his death - its a very hard album to listen to but incredibly funny. Do you have much Kinison stuff ? I picked up a few CDs in New York a couple of years back and I have a couple of DVDs now.

My Kinison Kollection is back in America....it will be coming back here with me next trip..