July 26, 2005
Power outages? I thought they were lies of the Miami Mafia! (UPDATED)
And here I thought everything was just peachy in the Tropical Socialist Worker's Paradise. Go figure. (Check out the highlighted passages, but read the whole article.)
Castro: Power Problems Being ResolvedWednesday July 27, 2005 2:46 AM
By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press WriterHAVANA (AP) - President Fidel Castro said Tuesday his government was revolutionizing Cuba's aging electrical system, asking a nation weary of recent breakdowns to be patient while his government works to fix the problems.
Summer heat in the 90s and hours-long blackouts that stop fans and water pumps and cause refrigerated food to spoil have increasingly irritated Cubans and led to reports of small, sporadic protests and scattered anti-government graffiti. While occasional blackouts are common every summer, Cubans say these are the most frequent and longest of recent years.
"We will overcome. Have a little bit of faith," the Cuban leader said in an address of more than two hours marking the 25th anniversary [sic] of his revolution. It celebrated his 1953 attack on a military barracks, but he did not come to power for another 5 years on Jan. 1, 1959.
[If fidel's BS could generate electricity, the island would be lit up like Vegas.]. . .
He said the government would respond the same way "as long as traitors and mercenaries go one millimeter beyond what the revolutionary people - whose destiny and lives are at risk going up against the most inhumane empire - are willing to permit."
The audience, including hundreds of Americans who arrived this week with a humanitarian aid shipment, cheered Castro and waved large red, white and blue Cuban flags.
["Hundreds of Americans." I am so ashamed of some of my countrymen that it cannot be expressed in words. To me this is the equivalent of joing the Bund movement during World War II and helping the Nazis. Revolting. And those "humanitarian shipments" are going straight to the CDRs and party apparatchiks.]Castro also criticized international media based in Cuba, accusing some journalists of siding with the American government "and working in full complicity with the office of the U.S. Interests Section to misinform and deceive the world about the Cuban reality."
[Was the speech written by Wayne Smith?]. . .
Although Castro has encouraged his people to have faith, residents in Old Havana say numerous anti-government writings have appeared on walls around the neighborhood - only to be quickly painted over in the early morning hours by state workers.
[Good. More, we need more. We need to make them run out of paint!]
On the bright side, the speech was only two hours long and not five.
Oh, and one more thing. I think we should send the AP writer who wrote the story to remedial arithmetic classes. 1953 through 2005 isn't 25. I know how calculating the left is, but this is ridiculous...
UPDATE 7/27/2005: Reuters joins AP in reporting that "Discontent clouds Cuban revolution anniversary".
Posted by George Moneo at July 26, 2005 11:03 PM
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George, 25 is 52 backwards, which is consistent with how the left sees most things, ass backwards!
Posted by: Jose Aguirre at July 27, 2005 12:16 AM
LOL! Maybe the writer is a dysleftic!
Posted by: George L. Moneo at July 27, 2005 12:33 AM
TAGGING
Damn, we have so many taggers here in California that we could send over there to write anti-castro messages, that fidelito's workers would never be able to keep up with them. It would help L.A. get rid of them, and hasten the revolution in Cuba. These guys are like phantoms, vanishing in seconds down an alley, and tagging half a mile away thirty seconds later. Six of them could cover Havana from one end to the other in three or four nights, and then they'd go to work on the buses while the riders were still in them.
Posted by: Howarde at July 27, 2005 12:46 AM
Howarde, We just had to paint the side of our garage this weekend! Good old pastors for piss with their little self serving ego stoking acts of kindness for the poor Cuban people. And they suffered such hardship getting this shipment to Cuba. Border agents, Mexico, go to their website and read their blog, don't bother commenting though because they delete all disenting voices. Just like their idol. Fucking commie shits. Is there a hurricane on the horizon?
Posted by: Kathleen at July 27, 2005 01:02 AM
Some Granma jokes:
"El presidente cubano informó que la economía de la Isla creció un 7,3 % en el primer semestre del año en curso, y se estima un crecimiento de alrededor del 9 % al finalizar el 2005, a partir de las positivas tendencias que se aprecian en la misma."
Yeah, Cuban economy grew 7,3 % in the first half of 2005 and for the whole year they are expecting 9%???
I'm not good at math but to achieve that the economy would need to grow more than 10% from July to December 2005, and this after hurrican Dennis did cause damage of 1,4 bn dollars (international estimates up to 3 bn dollars).
Funny, really.
But wait until they touch tourism.
"En la rama del turismo, informó que el arribo de turistas creció un 8 %, previéndose el cumplimiento de los dos millones de turistas en el actual año. Y anunció que durante el 2005 se pondrán en explotación nuevos hoteles para el turismo internacional."
So tourism grows 8% and will reach 2 million? But wait, didn't you say last year that tourism was 2,1 million people? Boy if you continue to "grow" at this rate Fidel may greet every single tourist with a handshake by 2010.
As for our lovely "Pastores por la Paz"... Granma reports they were celebrating at the "fieste cederista".
Yeah, right were you belong.
Posted by: Eleggua at July 27, 2005 01:21 AM
SOCIALIST ESTIMATES ALWAYS FALL SHORT OF MATCHING THE RESULTS
The USSR always had their 5 Year Plans, so each official knew well in advance what the goal was, and if he didn't want to lose his job, he had to hit it or exceed it. Just like Enron and WorldCom years later did, the different divisions came up with the right figures and every body was happy, but the people got screwed. So did the U.S.S.R.
And in Havana, fidelito puts out all these figures, 100% literacy, lowest death to birth rates, etc., but who inside the State is going to argue with him, and who outside the State can PRODUCE the figures to disprove what he says? But, with two hurricanes and the damage wrought, how in the HELL can he hit the growth in tourism? La Cucaracha Grande has spoken and all socialists kiss his left foot; the Pissters for Peace will do so too.
Posted by: Howarde at July 27, 2005 01:39 AM
"including hundreds of Americans"
Geez, sometimes it's so embarrassing to be an American. Were any of those fools of Cuban descent in any way shape or form?
Posted by: Jay at July 27, 2005 06:00 AM
kakasstroffe has always thought of himself as THE MAN who can do everything with nothing forever. Therefore, it behooves us, and similar-minded kindred spirits to mount a campaign to convince him to solve Cuba's power problems by becoming the MAXIMUM ELECTRICIAN. Training would start by suggesting "it" take up both ends of one of the many severed power lines in the island, while standing barefoot on wet ground and test to see if the line is live by joining both ends...surely, "it" would get a charge out of that.
As for the "reverend" Wakkah, he of pastors-for-piss (I like that!), have faith, the late ungreat Cardinal Innitzer of Austria is waiting for him in Beelzebub's Reception Room, where no doubt he and pastah Wakkah will sanctimoniously discuss how unfair and rude it was for St Pete to shut the door in their face, while telling them both to go to HELL.
Posted by: Alberto Quiroga at July 27, 2005 07:12 AM
