HOORAY FOR THE GOOD GUYS!!! (AND GALS!!!)
Yes, dammit, I AM screaming!
Julio

Woo hoo!! Good for us!

I love it. Screw those commie bastards.

Did you guys see the other destinations???

and...isn't that Meadea chick the commie b...?

They don't even hide- they even called the project code pink-o- je, je-

Medea...esa fue la que mato a los hijos por vengarse del macho, verdad? - uff !!! Quality women las que tienen ese nombre!!!

and bitches.

and I meant the one in literatura... Otelo I think-

and bitches.

Very satisfying....hope Santa is real good this year!!!!
Pinky 0, Brain 1

ja, ja! que bueno esta eso adriana-

it should be pinko- 0 brain- 1 LOL!!!

He he, don't you just love it. Babalúsians, you are the best!

Heh.

I thought about our Babalublog protest today, when I went to Michelle Malkin's site just now.

To my horror, I saw that now that the Code Pinkos are trying to boycott or intimidate Christmas shoppers from buying "war toys".

Ño!

These...no, they're not women, they can't be, I don't recognise them as one of my own...these nutters have BIG TIME issues.

P.S.: I hope they don't come to Miami now that their trip is cancelled...

Wish You Could Be Here

Bellas fotos que yo saque 4 dias atras. I thought the Babalusianos might enjoy them too.

Cheers,
Victoria

I especially appreciated the fact that CodePink organizers were not willing to put themselves in harms way without "strength in numbers" (willing dupes). Shows their true colors.

Scott, in the words of the immortal Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., they are 'yellow-bellies'.

Would it be right to say...we're tickled pink?!

Babalu-bro-and-sis-hood rocks!

Pink-punks - sock...it to 'em!

I think I'll go out and buy me a "war toy" - come to think of it, maybe one for 'lil daughter too. What the heck, she already started her action figure collection with a British commando figure - well made and accurate, Fairbanks-Sykes dagger 'n all. Maybe we'll get a Code Pink doll and play having the commando action figure slash its throat.

Now they're going after Hillary Clinton because she's not anti-war enough for them. What a comedy show.

I think I'll go out and buy me a "war toy" - come to think of it, maybe one for 'lil daughter too.

Good! My dad bought me a miniature soldier set, and look at me now -- more GI Joe than GI Joe, minus the kung-fu grip.

I can't wait until I have a little boy or girl, so I can buy them a silver Roy Rogers six-shooters set.

Cheers,
Victoria

Now they're going after Hillary Clinton because she's not anti-war enough for them. What a comedy show.

Yeah, but Sheehan and Moonbats are making Hitlary look moderate in comparison, although we all know that's just to get elected-show.

Not that any person outside of Moonbeamville would vote for her.

She won't even carry the States Kerry carried.

If the Dems nominate her for President, and keep Howard Dean as DNC Chair, they have officially gone off what little rocker they have left.

Cheers,
Victoria

Fantastic work, Val and Ziva!!!!!!! What a great thing to wake up to here in Caracas!

Keep up the good work!

BOOYAH!

Or, in this case, BABALOOYAH!

That's right. Pat yourself on the back babalu readers. Once again you've stopped the Yankee imperialists to the north from engaging in free market commerce and exercising their right to freedom of travel. Fidel Castro and Kim Jong Il would be proud.

A little wet behind the ears, Mike?

Wet behind the ears? Why? Because I favor a free market economy and a government that protects peoples' personal freedoms instead of restricting them? I thought that was what you have been preaching all this time. That a economy with government controls [other then the prevention of fraud and the enforcement of contracts] is ineffective and immoral. And that a authoritarian government that tramples on it's citizens' rights in unjust. Yet that’s the type of governance that you are promoting time and again when you write to politicians and urge them to keep the embargo in place.

No, that´s not what you have been preaching, Mike. You have been a persistent apologist for fidel castro. Where were you when CAFTA was going on, and show me your cheerleading for AFTA. Let´s face it, you don´t believe in that stuff. You only think castro should get free trade with the U.S. Some free trade. Let me enlighten you, naivo: castro is worth $550 million dollars. When you trade with Cuba, you trade with castro. He hogs all the food and all the business and all the trade. Nobody else benefits! Venezuela ships 100,000 ´free´ barrels of oil a day to castro. AND CUBA HAS POWER SHORTAGES! So much for free trade, even FREE GOODS to castro. He just doesn´t share them! THIS IS A FACT! Europe´s been trading with castro for years and nobody but castro has benefited. Nobody! Wise up!

As I said before I’m all for free trade and a free market economy. It's good for the economy [more efficient per unit production means more profit and a growing economy]; it's good for the consumer [cheaper prices]; and it's good for the individual citizen [the economy is just an aggregate of each individuals wealth so when the economy grows the everyone’s quality of life increases]; and lastly it's good for poorer foreign countries [who's people desperately need money to avoid starving to death and who only have cheap labor to offer in exchange]. That’s part of basic economic theory and I don’t think anyone can argue with it unless they subscribe to the belief of government controlled [communist] economies; which have consistently failed and have had to allow free market reform in order to survive.

As for your accusation of me being: “a Castro apologist” I’m no more of a Castro apologist then you are a Iran apologist or China apologist. Both Iran and China are authoritarian governments that routinely violate the human rights of their citizens, yet I don’t see you writing your congressmen about establishing trade embargos’ with them. In fact I’m more then willing to bet that you’ve bought a product that was made in China allowing the communist Chinese government to continue to oppress and torture it’s citizens. When was the last time you filled up your gas tank giving money to the Iranian government to allow them to continue to oppress and torture their citizens? Don’t throw rocks if you live in a glass house.

What I don’t understand is that Cuban exiles claim to support free trade and governments that respect their citizens’ human rights. And how do they propose to bring this type of government to Cuba? Not by taking up arms and helping organize an insurgency, not though peaceful means, but by passing laws that limit U.S. citizens ability to engage in free trade and by restricting human rights. The ends justify the means right? Well I’ve got news for you, the ends never justify the means when you start restricting peoples freedoms. And that goes for governments that lean both to the left and to the right. The ends didn’t justify the means when Castro instated an authoritarian government in order to help the poor, the ends didn’t justify the means when Pinochet cleansed Chile of ‘spys’, and the ends didn’t justify the means when the U.S. government decided to deny it’s citizens the right to travel or engage in economic trade with Cuba.

As for your comment about no one benefiting from Europe trading with Cuba I must ask you this: If no one benefits by doing business with Cuba, why do people continue to do business with that country? Allow me to give you an example. There use to be a decent amount of factories in Haiti the people benefited because it gave them a job, the government benefited because it got to take taxes out of the workers salary, and the business benefited because it enjoyed larger profits due to cheaper labor. When the security situation deteriorated in Haiti and the crooked government started blatantly stealing from the company all of the factories moved across the border to the Dominican Republic. The situation in Haiti was no longer a mutually beneficial situation so the company moved. By the same token if the people of Haiti no longer saw the benefit of keeping the factories open they could change the terms of their agreement and tell them to comply or shut down.

The situation is the same situation with Cuba. Doing business with Cuba is mutually beneficial for both the businesses, and the people of Cuba. The businesses are able to make a profit, jobs are provided to people working for the business, the government is able to take their share off the top, the people in Cuba get subsidized services [no matter how low grade or unstable they are] and with free market reforms that allow small businesses such as casa particulares and paladares to operate everyday Cubans are able to make a make a profit from increased tourism. So please tell me again how is it that no one would benefit from being able to engage in free trade with Cuba? It seems to me that most exiles want to keep the embargo because they have a grudge against the Cuban government and the embargo is the only way they can keep ‘sticking it to Castro’. Not because they believe it’s the best thing to do both for Cuban and American citizens.

Mike- free trade? there is NO FREEDOM in Cuba, how in the world do you imagine that there could be FREE trade? Or are you talking about freedom to exploit? That is a whole different subject.

Ziva, what exactly are referring to? People running unregistered casa particulares, paladares, black market tourist shops, small secret rum distilleries, small secret cigar operations, selling black market beef & lobster, and acting as guides seem to be engaging in commerce to me. And they no doubt grab a significant amount of the profit to be made from the tourist industry.

Mike Mike Mike

Please do take the time and read through the archives of this blog. You might learn just how much fidel castro allows "free market reforms" in Cuba. You might also learn about the 14 billion fidel castro owes countries who also thought of doing business with Cuba. Or you might lern about how he once again nationalized foreign owned businesses and expelled thier owners from the country. Or how that very same governemnt fines people for growing extra vegetables for themselves or to trade for goods.

Problem is, you think like an American when it comes to the Cuba issue. You simply cant do that as your point of reference is wrong to begin with.

And, if you make that comment about Cubans taking up arms and invading castro once again, I will ban you from the site. You said it before, it was responded to and thats that. I will not have you come here with that little jab once again. Vote or no vote.

Gee Code Pink says that the trip was a challenge to the "Bush Adminstration Travel Policies" and they extoll the great job that Global Exchange has done on this front for the last 15 years......hmmmmmmmm! Me thinks that the math doesn't add up. Bush Administration.... 15 years....hmmmmmm!