October 18, 2005
A Link Ajiaco
An Ajiaco is a Spanish stew made up of all sorts of ingredients all tossed together in one big pot. Thus, the title of this link filled post, where I shopped for all of the ingredients throughout the blogosphere.
- First, comes a link to my good friend Sgt Hook. The Sgt and I started blogging at the same time and Hook was one of the first bloggers out there to stand together with me in solidarity for the Cuban cause. He's been gone for a while, but I can say with no hesitation that his return to the blogoshpere has made me incredibly happy. Welcome back, Sgt Hook!!
- If you read the "castro's Library Pass" by Walter Scold articles I linked to, then you must have read about the FREADOM blog. "Librarians Writers & Activists For Intellectual Freedom in Cuba & Around the World." They have a bevy of excellent posts on the repression of intellectual freedoms in Cuba and throughout the world that everyone needs to read.
- Alfredo of El Cafe Cubano has a link to the video we posted about "Guevara anatomia de un mito."
- George at the Real Cuba has a few choice words for Ozzie Guillen.
- NewsNoticias has a plethora of news links for the Hispanic-American community.
- Our Italian Cubanita Stefania reports of more Rapid Response Brigade attacks in Villa Clara.
- Hispanicon has a report on Mel Martinez and Barack Obama working together on an immigration bill.
- Juan has an excellent round up of Cuba related links and articles up at Paxety Pages. And, most importantly, a news article stating that Sgt Carlos Lazo's sons will be allowed to travel to the US to visit their father for three months. Perhaps someone in the State Department is reading blogs?
- Good friend Scott asks why UNESCO is rewarding failure vis a vis Cuba's crumbling infrastructure.
- Our very own blogging meteorologist talks about the king of Cuban restaurants: Versailles and reminds us that he'll be busy with some woman named Wilma.
- And last but not least, Brandon has a nice picture up of himself with this blogger's Mom.
I hope you enjoy your ajiaco, folks. Feel free to add your links to this ajiaco in the comments section.
...and leave the dishes in the sink, Ill get to them later.
Update: Here's a couple more ingredients for the ajiaco:
- Ron at Ronocracy knows Commies Arent Cool.
- CB has some interesting commentary on the Lazo case.
- And Fausta has an excellent post, today's must read, on the UBS/fidel castro, etal, money laundering investigations.
- Kathleen tosses in some spices of her own while taking on the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
- And you simply must read this entry on Che and the ensuing war in the comments section over at Discarded Lies.
Posted by Val Prieto at October 18, 2005 10:13 AM
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I'll post one from one of my daily reading "musts" -- David Horowitz's FrontPage Magazine. This article reviews a new biography of the great humanitarian, Mao Tse-Tung. Here's an excerpt:
Stalin is supposed to have said, “one death is a tragedy; thousands are but a statistic.” Let us, for a moment then, ponder this statistic, from the very opening sentence of Jung Chang’s and Jon Halliday’s majestic new biography of Chairman Mao: “Mao Tse-tung, who for decades held absolute power over the lives on one-quarter of the world’s population, was responsible for over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentieth-century leader.”Think about that for a moment. The staggering figure exceeds that of the deaths caused by Stalin and Hitler combined. But while one can find almost no one in today’s world who extols the once current benign image of Stalin and Hitler- indeed, few would even admit to holding favorable views of these two tyrants- Mao’s reputation has remained relatively unscathed.
Link: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19878
Posted by: George L. Moneo at October 18, 2005 10:41 AM
For further reading, see:
Becker, Jasper. Hungry ghosts: Mao's secret famine.
New York : Henry Holt, 1998.
Posted by: Scott at October 18, 2005 10:53 AM
We may all be busy with Wilma by the end of the week. :(
Posted by: FL Mom at October 18, 2005 11:06 AM
FL Mom, After Rita, my wife and I decided to leave some of the shutters on ourhouse on. Last Friday I asked her if she wanted to take them off. Sunday, we decided to leave them on. Here we go again.
Posted by: George L. Moneo at October 18, 2005 11:08 AM
Also from Front Page Magazine is "Who Killed Marla Ruzicka" by David Horowitz and Ben Johnson. It's an excellent tale of a how a young women was seduced by the left, how the various left wing communist organizations are intertwined, and throughout, castro's evil influence.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17933
Posted by: Kathleen at October 18, 2005 01:58 PM
George, I totally understand. Last season, the plywood and shutters in our area stayed up until Christmas. Lots of praying going on now.
Posted by: FL Mom at October 19, 2005 10:43 PM