Babalu Blog

Wouldn't it be just poetic if fidel builds his tower 5 stories tall then the USIS moves the ticker up to the roof?

I would find it even more poetic if the wall were to collapse... while the tiranosaurius maximus is delivering one of his interminable "peroratas" at the base of El Muro de la Impotencia.
Hell, I'd even write a poem about it myself!
JulioZ

I find it sadly amusing that barbudo has the money to build this thing and yet he continually says Cuba doesn't have any money.

I guess that means he has all the money, huh?

hijo de puta.

Julio, now that would be priceless!

Que manera de comer mierda. Chalk one up to "fideo castration"and his childish revolution

Doesn't the U.S. Interests Section building have more than one side?

If I were in charge, I'd wait until Beardo finishes his Tinker-Toy project, then mount a second news ticker on the other side of the building.

Beats people shooting at each other.

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

We're the world's sole superpower. I think we can win this arms race.

On the basis of the photograph published in the original post, the Interests Section scrolling sign should *still* be quite visible from the Malec'on.
I wonder if we're going to see a lot more "foot traffic" there, or more "lovers* sitting on the wall, after the tiranosaurius completes his "surprise" construction?
And then, will the pissant dictator find a way to prevent people from sitting on the seawall or strolling along the Malec'on?
Hopefully, the U.S. can install a similar sign on the opposite side of the building... thus forcing the tyrant to spend even more scant resources if he wants to build another "barrier" on the opposite side.
Let the "battle of ideas" continue. We are not afraid to give them a fight, because we have the truth on our side.
JulioZ

I wonder what flags will go up - I kind of doubt there will be a US flag there.

i vote for waiting and then introducing a news blimp tethered to the building. pissing off Castro is priceless.

Ahh the leftists never cease to entertain us. Castro has long been supported openly by America's left -- I wonder what they would think about this little pathetic act of defiance by Castro? This is just one more example out of millions of why I renounced being a "liberal" and joined the conservative cause for freedom. Socialism, communism, fascism - whatever - it is all about control by the state of your life, including what speech you can and cannot say and hear. Wake up world.

As the very model of a modern Major General would say, "Aha! I have it!"

Let the U.S. erect in flaming Times Square brilliance a gigantic marquee showing close-ups of El Barbudo from (say) the hours of 8:00 to 12:00 PM. The curling smoke, the dashing camoflage fatigues... at other times, Cubans might get, ah, other images-- perhaps footage of the Marine Expeditionary Force in Kuwait, Baghdad as US Army armored columns flashed past heading North. Occasionally a motif or two, such as "Che died for your sins", that kind of thing.

Point is, 'twould be entertaining, with a kicker. And could Fidel resist his outsize phiz looming four hours a day over his Ghost Capital? Maybe we could project reruns of Pinky and the Brain each afternoon, attributing inspiration to the Maximum Leader and his pustulent offshoot, Hugo Chavez.

Two things dictators uniformly lack are, a) An imagination, and b) Any sense of humor. That is probably why Lefties in general are such dolts-- no perspective, no awareness beyond their narcissistic selves. But there... I ramble on. G'night, Mates, may sunshine brighten all your days.

John Blake,

If you are indeed from Australia, welcome!

You have very good insight for someone so physically far away and not privy to what we may be here in South Florida!

G'day to you too. Can't wait to visit Australia.