McCain: The NY Times Has Found Some Torture It Can Ignore

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Proud progressive, Irony Curtain, of the KG3, has noticed the capitalist media barons at the NY Times enthusiastically support the elimination of the imperialist torture community at Guantanamo Bay in glorious Cuba.

However, his fine, forward-looking eye has also noticed that the imperialist lackeys at the Times has exhibited the good judgment to "look the other way" on tortures carried out by Cuba's comrades in the Workers' Paradise of Vietnam.

As always, we thank Stalin for calling this to our attention.


by Irony Curtain, of the KG3
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Fidel Castro: Fifteen Memorable Quotes

Fidel Castro has resigned.

Finally.

Officially.

Let the celebrations in Miami begin!

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008. He came to power in an armed revolution that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, and was shortly thereafter sworn in as the Prime Minister of Cuba.

In 1965 he became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist republic.

In 1976 he became president of the Council of State as well as of the Council of Ministers. He also held the supreme military rank of Comandante en Jefe ("Commander in Chief") of the Cuban armed forces.

On July 31, 2006, after undergoing intestinal surgery for diverticulitis, he transferred his responsibilities to the First Vice-President, his younger brother Raúl Castro.

On February 19, 2008, five days before his current mandate expired, he announced he would not seek nor accept a new term as either president or commander-in-chief.

Last year in September, Castro was quoted as saying that he was "determined to outlast President George Bush.

He didn't achieve that goal, nor many of his others since seizing power in Cuba almost 50 years ago.

We present fifteen Fidel Castro quotes to celebrate his resignation.

"A revolution is not a bed of roses. "

-- Castro in 1959.


"I'm not thinking to cut my beard, because I'm accustomed to my beard and my beard means many things to my country. When we have fulfilled our promise of good government I will cut my beard."

--Castro in 1959, interview with CBS's Edward Murrow, 30 days after revolution.


"One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates."

--Castro to director Oliver Stone in 2003 documentary "Comandante."


"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."

--Castro in the Observer


"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."

--Fidel Castro



"I feel it is my duty to be more disciplined, do my exercises and take maximum care of myself -- even if only to mortify [his opponents] a little longer."

--The Cuban leader explaining his motives for keeping in shape.


"I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes."

--on NY Mayor Rudy Guiliani


"The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs."


"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."


"I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement."




"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"

--Fidel Castro


"I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba."

--Fidel Castro


"I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition."

--Fidel Castro


"I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis . . .discovering Marxism . . .was like finding a map in the forest."

--Castro


"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure (Jesus Christ)."

--Castro in 1985.

15 quotes from Fidel Castro, until yesterday, the absolute leader and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Cuba.

Others reporting in FIDEL-a-VISION this morning * Lawhawk has a nice roundup of All Things Fidel: Meet the New Boss; Same as the Old Boss * Jammie Wearing Fool has the expected reactions of the Left: Cadaver Resigns, Left in Mourning * Ed Driscoll has a nice Fidel-A-Rama: Aging, Ailing Cuban Dictator "Retires" * Michelle Malkin has "Castro to Resign: 'This is Not my Farewell to You'"

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Fidel Castro is Fit, Rested and Ready

Is Fidel Castro really "healthier... with some small physical limitations"?



Call off the Castro Death Watch: anyone worried about Fidel Castro, can quit worrying.

From the Communist island paradise that is Cuba, comes word that Fidel Castro is tan, fit, rested and ready.

Sorta.

Fidel Castro remains on the mend, gaining weight, exercising twice a day and continuing to help make the Cuban government's top decisions, his brother Raul Castro says.

Though Fidel's appearances are limited to members of the ruling Communist party elite, it is insisted that his recovery is going well.

The island's acting president gave the first clues about his brother's health in weeks, saying during a Monday speech that he has a "healthier mentality, full use of his mental faculties with some small physical limitations."

At 76, Raul is five years younger than his ailing brother, who has not been seen in public since announcing he had undergone emergency intestinal surgery and was stepping down in favor of a provisional government in July 2006.

But multiple surgeries and reports that his demise is imminent doesn't seem to slow down Cuba's Communist dictator. His brother says he's ready and roaring to go.

But the younger Castro said his brother remains a key voice in government and that Communist Party leaders support his re-election to Cuba's parliament, the National Assembly — a move that could allow Fidel Castro to keep his post as president of the Council of State.

"We consult him on principal matters, that is why we the leaders of the party defend his right to run again as deputy of the National Assembly as a first step," Raul Castro said.

Despite the many "Castro Death Watch" websites, newsletter and other countdowns to the Cuban leaders death that have appeared in 2007, brother Raul continues to issue good news of his ailing brother's health.

Once again, though no one has seen Fidel, Raul has issued another cheery progress report.

Whether such reports are true, just a method for Raul to consolidate control, or to keep a lid on possible uprisings that are sure to occur upon the death of Fidel Castro, no one outside Cuba's Communist inner circle knows for sure.

One thing is for sure.

The "Castro Death Watch" isn't going to end on the word of Raul Castro that brother Fidel has a "healthier mentality".

by Mondoreb
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* Raul Castro says Fidel Ready for New Bid



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Fidel Castro & Hugo Chavez S. America's Communist Bobbsey Twins

Hugo bargains with buddy Fidel in oil-for-cigars swap?
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by Mondoreb

Another sign of the "new and bruising power" is JammieWearingFool's photos and analysis of Fidel Castro. Looking like a "dead man walking", Castro yuks it up with fellow leftist dictator-in-waiting, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, and points out to the camera where heart used to be.

Castro operates one of the last Communist paradises left; Hugo hopes to join the elite club. The people of both countries, meanwhile

Meanwhile, dissidents and exiles continue their deathwatch of the ailing Cuban revolutionary. The minutes do drag by when your only company in a Cuban prison is the rats. Maybe some trendy Leftist lawyer with a hate on for Gitmo could arrange some sort of prisoner swap.
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