I know it's off topic, but US handed Cuba their first lose yesterday 8-5 in the baseball gold-medal game of a qualifying tournament for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.:

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=124950

Great picture by Getty of Cuban thugs removing a fan celebrating with a US FLAG:

http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=71792005&cdi=0

These pictures also look pretty suspicious... they are fairly grainy -- probably on purpose, to make it harder for observers to find the minute discrepancies.

The Cuban government is seeming more like the movie "Weekend at Bernie's": trying to pass off a dead guy as the man in charge.

Who knows what the truth is... dead, alive, sick, etc. But with that government, you can never trust what they say. Hence my skepticism.

Adolph Hitler, the man castro emulates, constantly stressed the following:

"If you tell a lie loud enough and often enough people will begin to believe it."

That's what gets me. All those tapes could have been shot at any time. There is no reference to current events.

If you factor in the fact that he's made up to look as well as possible the truth is he looks bad. Thin and colorless, like someone dying from cancer. Has anyone seen a photo with him standing or walking?

Fidel's corpse demands much respect!