Change Is Hard –- Even Harder When We Carry History

Nobody talks about why we left Cuba, but you know why,...

I'll Take My Friends Of 27 Years, Over You Losers, Too

I love all these Mandela "fuck you" stories appearing now:

"The city of Miami had been preparing an official welcome for the South African hero. But when Mayor Xavier Suarez, later joined by four other Cuban-American mayors, demanded that Mandela denounce Castro as the price of welcome, Mandela loyally refused.

The proclamations were rescinded. The Cuban-American leadership withdrew from all appearances and ceremonies.

The great Nelson Mandela had been snubbed in Miami."

People with no sense - and especially no sense of loyalty - deserve none,...

 

Whenever You Hear NewAgers Declare "It's All Connected" - They Do Mean It Is All Connected!

Awww, look:

Fidel Castro has a logo for his new Wikipedia clone that,...looks,...suspiciously like Obama's!

Which is great because, much like cultism, we love to see traditions kept alive:

There's No Place Like Home, There's No Place,..

Castro has called Obama the world's "best snake charmer" - here's a question:

How many ways can these fools hint at, but never say, the words "cult leader"?

Vanity Fair had a talk with Satan recently, and he said it's "correct that I side with environmentalists".

Told ya.

So Oprah's buying off her cult with a cult car - the 2012 VW Beetle. That figures, huh? But what do we know about it?

Volkswagen’s retro-styled sporty/performance car is redesigned to be a “New New Beetle.” Spies say it’s a bit larger, roomier, and more butch-looking, but many other things will be familiar, and that could mean sales trouble.

So we ask you, again:

Who put the "clunker" in cash for clunkers? Oprah!

And Al Gore is an unethical NewAge sell out who doesn't know shit - about the environment or politics - just as we've always said.

This is a society filled with gullible individuals who should be ashamed at how easily they've been duped by lame-assed charlatans like him.

Now go forth, and "save the planet" some more, you fucking idiots.

Wardrobe's Done: Quick - Start Filming

"Someone asked a great question the other day: Why is leftist Hollywood so enamored with dictators and socialism? You would think they would fear having their artistic expression stifled under a Castro or having all their wealth confiscated under Hugo’s socialist or communist regime. It seems counter-intuitive, no…? That’s a damn good question but erroneously based on the premise that we’re discussing normal people.

When you and I picture life under Obama’s vision for America, we see a dreary existence spent in breadlines, drab apartments and small jail cells with rat cages strapped to our face conditioning us to say 'Herstory' instead of 'History.' These Castro-lovers and Polanski-defenders see something completely different.

Watch 'The Lives of Others.' Not only is it one of the best films of the decade, it also answers the opening question. You’ll see how life under fascism is the complete fulfillment of every narcissistic desire Susan Sarandon, Barbra Streisand, Oliver Stone, Sean Penn and the rest of their sorry lot has ever had."

-- John Nolte, yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre - or, rather, yelling "theatre" in a crowded fire - because (one way or another) you're gonna get burned from Big Hollywood.

Finger Up (Thumbs Down)

"People look at the United States as a country that has changed it's way and elected someone from Kenya and Kansas, I'll put it like that."

Let me put it to you, Rep. Watson, another way: Do you think I give a shit? This is my country - not theirs - so how they look at it bears no weight what-so-ever, on what happens within it, where I live. You got that, you stupid Communist-loving ignoramus? Oh - and speaking of putting it to you - here's a word to conservatives and your constituents:

Target this stupid bitch and vote her out of office. Then pack her fucking bags, put her in a basket, and send her on the tide to Cuba where she belongs. Get her the fuck out of here.

Make her life hell.

The Democratic Party: From KKK To Saying O.K.

"In the U.S., the Democratic Party, home of the modern left-liberal, was the party of slavery and Jim Crow.

The most racially charged political campaign in recent U.S. history was the Democratic primary contest between Obama and Hillary Clinton. The racism of the left is far more insidious than a simple mistrust or fear of foreigners; it seeks to divide people into groups which can then be exploited and played against each other for political gain.

...Those prepared to use violence in the furtherance of core left-wing aims such as the destruction of capitalism, the abolition of property rights, and the usurpation of democratically elected governments by 'enlightened' revolutionaries number in the millions, if not the tens of millions.

They range from Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot to present-day dictators like Chavez and the Castros, terrorist groups such as Bill Ayers’ Weather Underground and the Baader-Meinhof gang, and environmental extremists and anti-capitalist rioters,....

The reasons why violence is so prevalent on the left go to the heart of the differences between left and right. If you take race, religion, and other 'human' factors out of the equation, the distinction is really between authoritarianism and collectivism on the left and freedom and individualism on the right. There’s no doubt which is the more attractive option for most people, all things being equal, which is why the left has to blur the distinctions and muddle the language.

This distinction is summed up in two quotes from great figures in British political history. The first, by Winston Churchill, goes something like this: 'Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.' (There are several versions of the quote, and variations have been attributed to other political figures.)

The second, by Margaret Thatcher: 'The facts of life are conservative.'"

-- Mike McNally, playing like he's "Captain Obvious" - for those too slow to understand the important things on their own - like why there's a Pajamas Media.

Kick The Dead Guy

"Five photo negatives of the Cuban revolutionary figure Ernesto "Che" Guevara that went on sale at the Mexican auction house Louis C. Morton over the weekend were withdrawn from the auction after failing to attract a buyer, Milenio newspaper reports.

Mexican students might love the Argentine now credited as one of the most important figures in the Cuban Revolution, alongside Fidel Castro, but it doesn't appear that art and antique buyers feel the same way.

One of the negatives up for auction was an image of Guevara addressing the First Latin American Congress of Youth in 1960.
The bidding for the negatives started at 80,000 pesos (around $6,075) but were withdrawn due to the lack of interest, reports the newspaper."

-- Deborah Bonello, giving me hope the world has finally come to it's senses about this murderer - and take that, France - from The Los Angeles Times.

Yea, You, You Trendy Douchebag

Joseph Nigro On Rick Sanchez: I Hate This Guy

Here's Our Favorite Metro-Sexual Diaper-Boy, Rick Sanchez, at CNN:



Ricardo, Let us talk to you directly.
 
First, Ricardo, we can’t figure how you being born in Cuba is relevant. You claim that’s why you’re familiar with guys like Joe, with Fidel Castro, and even Communism, but apparently you moved to Florida by the age of 1½ so you must have really soaked up a lot at a very tender age. Impressive, Ricardo, and a true miracle. You had credentials while still wearing a diaper, just like today.
 
Anyway, Ricardo Diaper-Boy, we yearned to know more about your magnificent narcissism, but quit after a look at Wikipedia’s entry. We think, Ricardo Diaper-Boy, you might be a tad envious that Joe the Plumber is a bigger name than you. Anyway, Ricardo Diaper-Boy, what about this:

"Following a Miami Dolphins football game, on December 10, 1990, just past midnight, on a residential street just outside of Joe Robbie Stadium, an intoxicated Rick Sanchez, driving his Volvo, struck an intoxicated pedestrian, Jeffrey Smuzinick, who had just run into the street and into the direct path of Sanchez's car.
 
Sanchez initially stopped his car but then left the scene. Sanchez said he left the scene to go home to retrieve his driver's license and insurance card.
 
Sanchez also said he tried to aid Smuzinick at the scene of the accident and tried to flag down motorists although eyewitnesses claim Sanchez ignored the injured man and loudly told police and bystanders that blood tests were pointless, and would hurt his public image. Sanchez was said to have "smelled strongly of alcohol" by a Metro-Dade police officer. A blood test taken 75 minutes after the accident revealed Sanchez's blood-alcohol level was .15, over the legal .10 limit.

Sanchez ultimately pleaded no contest to the drunk driving charge and he never attempted to provide restitution to Jeffrey Smuzinick or to Smuzinick's family for the 5 years of mounting medical bills that Sanchez's accident caused.

Jeffrey Smuzinick died October 30, 1995 in a Pennsylvania nursing home due to complications resulting from the injuries caused in the accident where he was struck by Rick Sanchez's vehicle. The accident left Smuzinick in a coma for months, permanently paralyzed, and severely physically and mentally disabled. - Wikipedia"

Well, Ricardo Diaper-Boy, your deep concern for those who are injured or killed seems to be highly selective, don’t you think Ricardo Diaper-Boy? And is it possible your descriptive list of Joe was really a deep seated confession (you know, being obnoxious and all)?

We think so, Ricardo Diaper-Boy, and we’re calling you out.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, France, And The Bomb

"Steven Soderbergh has made a 257-minute film, in two parts, about the life of Che Guevara, an undertaking that's baffling in a number of ways.

To be specific, it's possible to watch all four hours and 17 minutes of this picture and still not be sure why Soderbergh told this man's story, why he thought it was worth such epic treatment and why he handled his subject with such glowing veneration.

If Soderbergh made as idol-worshiping an epic about George Washington or Abraham Lincoln - actual heroes with tangible, positive legacies - people would gag at the naive treatment.

Perhaps with 'Che,' the hope is that audiences might be confused or browbeaten into reverence, into just assuming they're missing something.

Instead of making the case for Guevara as a hero, Soderbergh just assumes we all agree.

The movie is the communist guerrilla version of the Stations of the Cross, in which we see Guevara at various stages, enduring various hardships.

The invitation is not to think but to admire, and maybe to worship.

Soderbergh and his screenwriters (Peter Buchman and Benjamin A. van der Veen) barely dramatize scenes.

Rather they present them in an uninflected way, as though to re-create a textured, real-life sense of what it must have been like to actually be there, on the ground, in this supposedly amazing time with this supposedly great man.

This is, incidentally, how the French filmmaker Jacques Rivette presented Joan of Arc in his two-part epic, 'Joan the Maid' - a film that bears more than a casual resemblance to 'Che.'

But in 'Joan the Maid,' the attitude of reverence didn't seem misplaced.

Here it occasionally borders on the absurd.

To be sure, Guevara, man and legend, had impressive personal traits:

He was brave and brilliant, dedicated to his cause and a rock star among revolutionaries.

Guevara is the rare case of a man who was at least as handsome and charismatic as the actor who plays him onscreen, Benicio Del Toro.

But what's the legacy?

Guevara helped lead the Cuban revolution, which ushered in Fidel Castro.

Thanks to Guevara, the poor weren't quite as poor and a corrupt regime was toppled, but in its place came a totalitarian dictatorship.

Fifty years after the so-called liberation, there has been no free election in Cuba.

Then Guevara went to Bolivia to bring the joys of totalitarian communism to that country - as though that were a good thing, and as though the United States might just forget the Monroe Doctrine and tolerate another Soviet satellite in Latin America.

If Soderbergh wanted to make a case that such actions by Guevara were indeed useful and heroic, rather than blindly utopian and destructive, 'Che' could have been a provocative and fascinating polemic.

But because Soderbergh won't dive into the realm of ideas, his movie becomes a series of noble tableaux, and watching it is like sitting through a slow, four-hour worship service in the woods."

-- Mick LaSalle, reviewing an awful film, an awful man, and an awful re-writing of history, in The San Francisco Chronicle.