Happy 87th birthday Fidel

[malaise]

Thanks for your nurses, doctors and scholarships for Caribbean people.

Now let me count down 3...2...1...




















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[xchrom]

1. ...

[Pretzel_Warrior]

2. Castro is a failed leader who kept his country in shambles

[msanthrope]

8. And his dissidents in jail. nt

[BuddhaGirl]

14. Indeed

I wonder what THEY get in honor of his birthday??

[msanthrope]

15. Maybe food. I am sure Combinado del Este is full of merriment today. nt

[TBF]

11. lol - I think you two are confusing your world leaders ...

Country in shambles - check out these inequality charts: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph


Entire world - Prison Population Totals

For more details about the figures of any country, please click on the name of that country

1 United States of America 2,239,751
2 China 1,640,000
3 Russian Federation 686,200
4 Brazil 548,003
5 Nigeria 541,444

http://www.prisonstudies.org/info/worldbrief/wpb_stats.php?area=all&category=wb_poptotal

[Pretzel_Warrior]

12. so a country is in shambles based on one or two data points? I don't think so.

[TBF]

13. It all depends upon your perspective I guess -

if you're a 1%er it's good to be you. Others not so much.

[Catherina]

3. Happy Birthday Fidel. Thank you for your contributions to humanity n/t

[Solly Mack]

4. OMG! You poked the bear! (Do it again)

[Capt. Obvious]

5. FINALLY! A figure our community can come to aggreement on!

[bravenak]

6. Feliz cumpleanos!

Feliz cumpleanos a ti!
Feliz cumpleanos a ti!
Feliz cumpleanos a Fidel Castro!
Feliz cumpleanos a ti!

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[PowerToThePeople]

7. let him eat cake

happy b-day.*

(*this post does not mean I approve of authoritarian governments of any fashion.)

[TBF]

9. Celebrating Fidel's Birthday -

Comments from Chavez 8-13-01 (repeated in Granma yesterday)

Fidel not only belongs to Cuba, he belongs to this world of ours, to this Our America

Brother, ¡Hasta la victoria siempre! And may you have very many more birthdays among us, giving demonstrations of this integrity which you have given all your life, giving demonstrations of courage, example, and driving forward, as always, the waves of the peoples.

Homeland is humanity: it is the legacy of what is the living embodiment of Comandante Fidel Castro.

When you meet with Fidel Castro, he is going to ask you 100 questions in the first five minutes. He wants to know about everything.

Fidel is a boy of 75 years (…), a dreamer, an example without any doubt to all of us, and for entire generations of Latin Americans, Caribbeans and fighters all over the world.

Fidel can show his face with total integrity and absolute morality, not only to the Cuban people, but to all the peoples of the world. Cuba blockaded, almost without resources from the material point of view, but led by Fidel and constructed by his people, has entered the 21st century in a social situation which is the envy of the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean ...

The rest is here: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/cuba-i/12agos-Fidel%20not.html

[Dreamer Tatum]

10. +1, and you'd think that with the rousing success of Cuba's society...

...more surrounding countries would emulate its prosperity.

Wonder why they haven't...