June 23, 2005
From the beyond ridiculous department:
Otro cuento chino.
Val reads the following article from Prensa Latina while at home with the flu. Hilarity ensues:
Cuba to Host UN Housing ForumsHavana, Jun 23 (Prensa Latina) Cuba will start national activities to support UN world campaigns for good urban government and housing security.
Cuba, which eliminated eviction and made efforts to guarantee people´s possession of houses, will host several UN international housing forums.
UN Human Settlement Program Managing Director Anna Tibaijuka will visit Havana on Saturday to open the program entitled "Improving the management of our cities and the environment we live in."
The official opening will be held on June 27, in the presence of Cuban People´s Power National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon, and several UN officials.
Catalina Trujillo, from the program targeting Latin America and the Caribbean, said the main goal was to provide nations with adequate policies for proper housing.
"Cuba not only applies good urban management and security of house possession but also strives for equality and the elimination,of poverty," Trujillo stressed.
National Housing Institute Vice President Noelys Borrero praised the participation of top UN officials in the Cuban campaign.
Havana will also host the 5th World Meeting of Sustainable Cities and Local Agenda 21 Programs, sponsored by the UN and the Cuban government, with the participation of 200 delegates from 35 countries.
New approaches to the above-mentioned problems, people´s role in them and domestic capacities to resolve urban-environment problems will be examined in the meeting.
Ay Dios mio...I swear, I thought I was reading The Onion for a second there.
Of course, the sad part about this is that some simpletons actually believe this tripe.
Posted by Val Prieto at June 23, 2005 11:59 AM
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Val, is this from the new "living" section of Prensa Latina called Declaraciones de los boludos?
Cuba not only applies good urban management and security of house possession but also strives for equality and the elimination,of poverty," Trujillo stressed.
Everybody is equal and castro has eliminated poverty. Of course, because everybody earns only what the state permits, lives only where the state permits, eats only what the state permits. Ah, the glories of socialism... I wonder how long Danny and Harry and Chris Dodd would last under those conditions?
Posted by: George L. Moneo at June 23, 2005 12:18 PM
Very strongly laced Kool Aid has to be force fed down the throats of those suckers for them not to see the achievements of revoulutionary urban housing in Cuba. Are all of them blind and withouth olfatory senses for God sake?
Posted by: CB at June 23, 2005 12:20 PM
We can always count on the UN to authenticate the counterfeit claims of the worlds vile dictators. Why we don't withdraw our membership and kick them out of our country is beyond me.
Posted by: Kathleen at June 23, 2005 01:41 PM
Talk about PROP-aganda, since everything in Cuba is about to fall down...
Posted by: Alberto Quiroga at June 23, 2005 01:56 PM
The same people saw Yasir Arafat as a civil rights activist.
Posted by: Murel Bailey at June 23, 2005 02:17 PM
Oh GOD! Imagine how a New Yorker feels! Part of MY city state tax goes to fund that vipers’ nest. Have you any idea what NYC could do with THAT building! It is a god damn mystery to me why the USA is so adamant to have the UN quarters in the USA, is like having someone constantly take a dump in your living room and you keep inviting them back. and for those who are not AWARE the UN leaves a deficit of 30+ million dollars a year to the city of New York. The federal goverment is constantly being sued by NYC to recoup some of this lost cash.
Posted by: KillCastro at June 23, 2005 02:18 PM
"Cuba, which eliminated eviction and made efforts to guarantee people´s possession of houses, will host several UN international housing forums."
Eliminated evictions? Fist it isn't true; the government will evict you whenever it wishes, they have indeed eliminated private evictions... by making renting illegal!
On the other hand, there is a different sense in which they have eliminated evictions: they have made housing so scarce, being evicted would be a blessing! (By this standard, however, you can argue you have eliminated hunger by killing everybody. The dead have no hunger, the un-housed are not evicted.)
Posted by: Sorge at June 23, 2005 02:22 PM
Communists are good at two things, holding meetings being one of them. Lots of meetings, conventions, conferences...talk, talk, talk, talk.
Of course murder is the other thing they're good at. So perhaps we should be thankful they're spending so much time blathering on.
Posted by: j.scott barnard at June 23, 2005 02:42 PM
This would be funny if it were not so sad!
Kathleen and KillCastro are 100% right, get the UN off our soil and we improve our country overnight!!!
Posted by: Jose Aguirre at June 23, 2005 04:01 PM
Kathleen:
If ANY USA president had the courage to EVEN ininuate that - "Just cassually tell the American people.."
"You know enough bullshit ... we are getting out of this 3 ring circus and funding our OWN .."
I bet ya that within minutes the world would be a better place.
The same goes for the Interest Section in La Habana. If KaSStro sees the USA pack up and leave, man he will be shitting adobe bricks, cause every second of his miserable life he will be wondering when the other shoe is gonna drop..
I gotta run for president god damn it :)
Posted by: KillCastro at June 23, 2005 05:37 PM
Hey, KC, you've got my vote. Maybe what we need is one term only for the oval office. No worrying about re-election and pleasing the msm. Maybe then whoever moves into the office would bring his balls along.
Posted by: Kathleen at June 23, 2005 06:06 PM
You've got another vote here. We need similar-minded candidates for the House and Senate. I'll pass on running for office, but willing to serve as Secretary of HUD, and put in charge of planning and carrying out the demolition of the UN building.
Posted by: Alberto Quiroga at June 24, 2005 07:11 AM
Ditto.
Posted by: George L. Moneo at June 24, 2005 12:19 PM
Damn! three votes and I havent spent a nickel in a Campaign !?
I'm gonna need me some buttons !
And THAT is a GREAT idea, one year fucker ! with a 6 month "trial" period. Hey they do it for god damn mailroom clerks!
Posted by: KillCastro at June 24, 2005 01:39 PM
castro does evictions by dilapidation. Kind of like the Bronx slumlords of the 1970s who would burn their houses out to get the tenants out.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at June 25, 2005 03:45 PM


