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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-04-09 10:15 AM Original message |
For the weiners who bloviate about Cuba's emigrants: |
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Braulio (860 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. But Cuba is so poor |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
2. Islands just don't support large populations. |
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Bacchus39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 09:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. the UK has a substantial population, and Japan?? |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 09:22 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. What are you a moron? |
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Bacchus39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 10:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. umm....you said this "Islands just don't support large populations" |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-11-09 08:27 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Move to Madagascar and then tell me all about it. nt |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 09:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Cuba ... |
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Bacchus39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-10-09 10:16 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. well, they were a colony in essence of the Soviet Union until |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-11-09 08:33 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. I am asking why are Castro and his government still there? |
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Braulio (860 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-15-09 05:57 PM Response to Reply #5 |
20. Castro has a very efficient repressive machine |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-15-09 06:46 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Right, and the Castro brothers are still there. |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-16-09 08:45 AM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Interesting to see your ignorant bigotry come to the fore. |
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Braulio (860 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-11-09 06:39 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Ah, but Cuba is 600 miles long, isn't it? |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-11-09 08:39 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I was thinking more of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Song of the Dodo", but yeah. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-11-09 08:49 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. PS: I really was not talking about Cuba, though I know the OP was. |
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Braulio (860 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-11-09 07:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I agree |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-12-09 09:48 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Whether one is a failure or not is largely a matter of the metric one chooses. |
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Braulio (860 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-15-09 10:17 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Who are they? |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-15-09 10:33 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. "They" are Cuba and Venezuela. |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-15-09 02:36 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Sadly there are defenders here who support US intervention in Cuba. |
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Bacchus39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-15-09 02:51 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. No US intervention. the ALBA block should be able to provide |
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Braulio (860 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-15-09 10:48 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. The Alba block? |
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Bacchus39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-16-09 08:47 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. well then, it seems Cuba may have to look for another country to subsidize its "revolution" n/t |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-15-09 03:16 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Hi Mika. |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-16-09 08:42 AM Response to Reply #19 |
24. Hi bemildred. |
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Braulio (860 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-15-09 10:46 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. I don't think Cubans can decide much, can they? |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-16-09 10:17 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. WRT Cuba and Venezuela, you assume your conclusion. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-16-09 07:38 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. California revenues lag, underscore budget woes |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-17-09 03:34 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Have been hearing about California's horrendous problems going back at least as far as Ronald Reagan |
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