April 26, 2005
Rice Dictator
Submitted without commentary:

HAVANA, Cuba - April 21 (Ariel Delgado Covarrubias / www.cubanet.org) - Housewives in Mayarí, in the eastern Cuban province of Holguín, await the recently announced availability of electric rice cookers with mixed feelings; it will be nice to have a new rice cooker, they say, but will there be electricity available to use it?Most households in the area cook with kerosene, made available for sale by the government in rationed quantities. What will happen to that supply when it presumably is no longer necessary because the rice cookers have been widely distributed, is another question worrying housewives.
"I really don't know what we are going to do when we have the rice cookers and they don't release any more kerosene," said Mariela, who didn't want her last name used. "With the constant blackouts, we won't be able to cook."
Electric blackouts are frequently scheduled in the area as an energy conservation measure. They usually happen from 5:45 in the afternoon to 11 in the evening.
"It is absurd. If they say the problem with electricity will go on for several more months, what sense does it make to sell us electrical equipment now that we won't be able to use?" asked another housewife. "Of course, they will take away the kerosene, and the State will save all the money, but we will not be able to cook with the blackouts."
She finally added: "If that happens, we will have to go into the bush to collect firewood to cook."
I'm still suffering from some dizziness so please, bear with the lack of posting . Thanks.
Posted by Val Prieto at April 26, 2005 07:52 AM
Comments
That last statement is frightening. To me it says that fideladron has crushed Cubans to such an extent that they will soon have no choice but to turn their once beautiful island into another Haiti simply to survive. They will have no choice.
Posted by: Matthew Peek at April 26, 2005 09:27 AM
Look at how unsanitary that rice cooker looks! It's not like something you buy at Target, it looks like something out of Dickens. Where the heck did castro get that thing from? Maybe a movie set from the Hollywood Left? Or was it the worst sweatshop in red China? That rice cooker looks utterly gross!
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at April 26, 2005 10:19 AM
Looks to me like a rather primitive contraption.
But again, this idiot has never proposed anything that remotely works or that is remotely good. He will be remembered as a total failure. Even while trying to cook rice. Totally deserved.
cagastro is a reverse King Midas: All he touches becomes solid excrement!
Posted by: CB at April 26, 2005 01:37 PM
Okay this is a joke that I either dreamt or heard so many years ago I don’t know where it comes from:
In the year 2200 a USA University decides to mount an expedition to this mythical island called "CUBA". For almost 2 centuries nothing had been heard about the Island. Everyone knew it was there but it had lost all communication to the world. So a group of students mount an exploration ship and head south.
Upon arriving they indeed saw nothing but a thick forest that reached all the way to a filthy the coast line.
They got off the ship to a dirty beach and again nothing, just vegetation, but strangely no sounds of animals of any kind.
They ventured into the thicket and nothing.
After a few miles they thought to hear some sounds that actually sounded human.
Carefully they approached the sound and indeed they were human beings speaking a strange Spanish dialect.
Peeking through the overgrown vegetation they see two men kneeling by a water hall cupping their hands and drinking what seemed to be dirty water.
One of the men totally naked and the other one had a “tapa- rabos” (loincloth)
The expert linguist is asked to pay close attention to the conversation and it goes something like this.
Man 1: Conso’te ¿como encontraste esta agua socio? esta bacán!
Man 2: No me digas na chico que fue de pinga, la encontré en un mapa viejísimo creo que era de una cosa que le llamaban hoteles y esta era la piscina.
Man 1: ¿No jodas? bueno pues a callarse pa que nadie sepa na.
Man 2: Oye viejo y hablando de pingas, ¿que coño haces tu encuero, donde esta tu taparrabo?
Man 1: No me digas na chico que fui a buscar uno nuevo que el mió estaba hecho triza’ y me dijo el taparrabista que se acabaron los taparrabos.
At this point the man with the “tapa- rabo” jumps up and like a crazy man yells:
¡NO JODAS! … ¿Se acabaron los TAPA-RABOS”? Coño mi socio ahora SI que este hijo de puta de Fidel se cae de VERDA’
Posted by: KillCastro at April 26, 2005 08:19 PM
THAT is the rice cooker?
Is this crazy senile hijo de puta serious ?
I swear I thought he'd be talking about a nice, white digital kindda cheap but modern looking appliance.
God damn it. I have defecated in better looking contraptions in Malaysia.
This is another of those “doctored pics” right? It HAS to be.
Posted by: KillCastro at April 26, 2005 08:25 PM
"They usually happen from 5:45 in the afternoon to 11 in the evening."
Do that in America if you want to see instant riots.
Plus, that rice cooker looks like something Americans could score for $2-5 dollars at a flea market.
Posted by: mbennett at April 26, 2005 09:51 PM
I wonder if MTV can pimp infidel's rice cooker?
Classic central totalitarian planning. "The kerosene is rationed so behold I give unto you this clunky oversized urn that will cook rice, but only between 11pm and 5am."
Just another example of why a market driven economy works and Karl Marx's wet dream does not.
Posted by: Anna at April 26, 2005 11:24 PM
Hope you feel better soon, Val.
We'll wait for you until you do.
Posted by: Grace at April 27, 2005 01:34 AM
