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demoleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 02:54 AM Original message |
Havana gears up for huge concert |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 02:59 AM Response to Original message |
1. Wish I was there. |
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Richard D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 08:01 AM Response to Reply #1 |
15. me too. |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 08:58 AM Response to Reply #1 |
22. Of all the places in the world I'd like to go to Cuba first |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 05:17 PM Response to Reply #22 |
41. I'm not really a Fidelista |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 03:35 AM Response to Original message |
2. A "regime parade"? What's with the snark? |
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demoleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 03:43 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. oh, i thought you were talking exactly of castro when you said... |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 05:15 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Hmm........... |
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demoleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 07:35 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. and some wine too - thanx! ;) n/t |
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carla (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 05:29 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Who opened |
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demoleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 07:42 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. hehe, i'm curious to know what you call "luxury goods". |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 10:27 AM Response to Reply #9 |
24. Doesn't our long boycott have something to do with their hunger? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 11:48 AM Response to Reply #24 |
32. Of course. Cuba imports something like 75% of its food. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 11:38 AM Response to Reply #9 |
31. Hilariously skewed hyperbole. All you have to do it look at any |
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demoleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 02:10 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. the people i know are from havana, not from miami... ;) |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 02:51 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. "Changing your foreign policy" is giving into blackmail in this instance. |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 11:16 AM Response to Reply #9 |
49. Please do tell us of your experiences IN Cuba. Thanks. |
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demoleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 11:41 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. that is: i should tell you the when, where, what, who, how of my cuban experiences? :) |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 12:36 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. So, you have no experiences in Cuba. |
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demoleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 01:58 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. enjoy your conjectures on me. you're welcome. cheers. ;) n/t |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 02:55 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. Just wanted to find out if you had any experience in Cuba upon which you are basing your opinion. |
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ngant17 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 07:47 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. where are you coming from? |
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demoleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 07:56 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. cuba has a right to its way to socialism... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 11:20 AM Response to Reply #3 |
30. "Regime" means government in power. |
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jasi2006 (544 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 06:07 AM Response to Original message |
6. I truly hope the concert goes well and that the Cuban people |
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demoleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 07:45 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. definitely yes. n/t |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
8. Let's face it, Cuba IS NOT and NEVER WAS a threat to the US............... |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 07:52 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. No it is because Castro took away the booze, gambling, whoring, and money laundering capital |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 07:55 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Yeah, that too. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 10:29 AM Response to Reply #12 |
25. Bingo. |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 08:11 AM Response to Reply #8 |
17. I read that you have the cart before the horse. |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 08:19 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Either way it's "old" news. What other leaders in the world today................ |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 08:31 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I've always found the embargo a little suspect. It worked really well. |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 04:21 PM Response to Reply #20 |
37. Where on earth did you get THAT idea, regarding this "shipment of gold?" |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 09:23 PM Response to Reply #37 |
46. It was a reference to the original deal to pay rent in gold coin. |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 10:42 AM Response to Reply #17 |
26. Castro & Mao both asked the US for aid (Mao during WWII), but |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 08:21 PM Response to Reply #26 |
45. So did Ho Chi Minh. He wrote to Eisenhower quoting Thomas Jefferson and |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 06:24 PM Response to Reply #45 |
54. I thought he did, but didn't trust my memory. Thanks for the details. |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 08:08 AM Response to Original message |
16. Didn't they start having rock concerts in Moscow, right before the USSR fell apart? |
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dotymed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
19. Cubans have suffered from the American Embargo |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
21. How long before some of our groups of rock "wrinklies" in the UK want |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 12:04 PM Response to Reply #21 |
33. I know people in the UK |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 02:52 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. I mean the likes of McCartney and Jagger. But wasn't that Buena |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 04:39 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Try this |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 06:13 PM Response to Reply #38 |
42. Thanks for those. I'm going to google about the peace prize. |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 05:11 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. Ry Cooder had to pay $175,000 US gov fine for going to Cuba to make BVSC. |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. Well you see |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 07:22 AM Response to Reply #40 |
48. Cooder's fine was criminal. Any fine. The rest is pathetic. |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
23. hope they make a video to buy |
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catzies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 11:04 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. I understand it'll be on the web. My Colombian friends here will be listening |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 11:16 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. thanks for the info |
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datadiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
27. Love his music |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
39. In the US we have a game called Dance Dance Revolution. In Cuba, it's Dance Dance Counter-Revolution |
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demoleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
44. UPDATE: over one million people. here's the pics. |
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ronnie624 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-20-09 11:37 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. Thanks for posting. |
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