Quote from: Skeptic on December 17, 2014, 04:34:58 PM
A flood of millions of criminals, insane, and poor people? You guys really ought to educate yourselves more before commenting. If every single Cuban relocated to the US tomorrow, the number of illegals in the US would only go up about 30%, as there are far more illegal Mexicans in the US than there are Cubans in Cuba.

As a Cuban-born American (yes, I was born in Santa Clara, Cuba) I don't expect much will change overnight. The commies will still have a hold on power for at least the next two decades or so. But at least I'll now be able to get my Cuban cigars cheaper, and maybe as more Americans go there I will no longer have to try to explain to most clueless people I meet that Cuba is only 90 miles from the US, and not some far away country in Asia or Africa, or deep in the Amazonian rainforests of South America. Honestly, do they even teach geography in public schools anymore? 

"You guys" need to educate yourselves? One person said that, you moron. Maybe address the one individual you're attempting to belittle before lumping every other poster in the same comment. And I think you're full of shit when you say "most" people you talk to think Cuba is in Asia, Africa, or South America. Again, belittling and stereotyping others to make yourself feel superior.

Quote from: Skeptic on December 17, 2014, 04:34:58 PM
A flood of millions of criminals, insane, and poor people? You guys really ought to educate yourselves more before commenting. If every single Cuban relocated to the US tomorrow, the number of illegals in the US would only go up about 30%, as there are far more illegal Mexicans in the US than there are Cubans in Cuba.

As a Cuban-born American (yes, I was born in Santa Clara, Cuba) I don't expect much will change overnight. The commies will still have a hold on power for at least the next two decades or so. But at least I'll now be able to get my Cuban cigars cheaper, and maybe as more Americans go there I will no longer have to try to explain to most clueless people I meet that Cuba is only 90 miles from the US, and not some far away country in Asia or Africa, or deep in the Amazonian rainforests of South America. Honestly, do they even teach geography in public schools anymore? 

Use the quote function. I have no idea who you were responding to.

Quote from: mrclose on December 17, 2014, 08:16:48 PM
Anyone notice anything about this photo of Alan Gross, with his attorney Scott Gilbert & spokeswoman Jill Zuckman?

Che

Quote from: Dr. Meh on December 17, 2014, 08:34:20 PM
Che

And the mother of all glue guns.

Quote from: Dr. Meh on December 17, 2014, 08:35:31 PM
And the mother of all glue guns.

I don't get the liberal obsession with Che. The guy was a thug who executed people without trial, was a racist, and a narcissist.

Quote from: Skeptic on December 17, 2014, 04:34:58 PM
A flood of millions of criminals, insane, and poor people? You guys really ought to educate yourselves more before commenting. If every single Cuban relocated to the US tomorrow, the number of illegals in the US would only go up about 30%, as there are far more illegal Mexicans in the US than there are Cubans in Cuba.

As a Cuban-born American (yes, I was born in Santa Clara, Cuba) I don't expect much will change overnight. The commies will still have a hold on power for at least the next two decades or so. But at least I'll now be able to get my Cuban cigars cheaper, and maybe as more Americans go there I will no longer have to try to explain to most clueless people I meet that Cuba is only 90 miles from the US, and not some far away country in Asia or Africa, or deep in the Amazonian rainforests of South America. Honestly, do they even teach geography in public schools anymore? 

Ah, good that you can see it through nothing but the lense of how it benefits you.

Just like that guy....what's his name....oh yeah, Obama.

Gotta love that, a Cuban who doesn't care a whit about the Cubans being abused for only another 2 decades.  Selfish SOB.

Quote from: Dr. Meh on December 17, 2014, 08:34:20 PM
Che

No... the ray gun aon the table...quite obviously this entire charade is a ploy for an invasion of American by the (illegal) Aliens!

Quote from: Dr. Meh on December 17, 2014, 08:34:20 PM
Che

I don't think that's anything new or different in a Dims office, they all seem to have hero worship for commies of all stripes.

Quote from: Dr. Meh on December 17, 2014, 09:50:27 AM
I sort of hate saying this and I know it won't be popular but I'm a little excited. Please note that I don't approve of Obama's method of doing it nor support commie dictatorships. It's just one of those things where Cuba has always been a mystery to me for my whole life and it's now going to be a little more open. New financial markets opening up, more baseball players, Cuban cigars sold in stores by Cuban rum, and a new place to go see in the Caribbean.

Again, not saying I support it but just excited on a personal level. Here comes the backlash against me in 3....2.....1.....

The place probably looks like most third world socialist hell holes I've seen....like somebody set off a bomb in a junk yard,
my guess would be even the beaches are polluted.

Quote from: Skeptic on December 17, 2014, 08:46:24 PM
I don't get the liberal obsession with Che. The guy was a thug who executed people without trial, was a racist, and a narcissist.

He was really pretty. He was a Leftist in a very big way. He knew all the right (Left) slogans. He had that super-cool name! (Almost like Cher, except for the R and the store-bought boobs.) He served a Communist revolution. And he sold a shitload of T-shirts and posters!

Hey, what's not to like? 

Quote from: TboneAgain on December 18, 2014, 04:32:17 PM
He was really pretty. He was a Leftist in a very big way. He knew all the right (Left) slogans. He had that super-cool name! (Almost like Cher, except for the R and the store-bought boobs.) He served a Communist revolution. And he sold a shitload of T-shirts and posters!

Hey, what's not to like? 

He had long hair, a cool beard and wore that oh so chic beret....he probably had lice and rarely bathed...whats not to like?

Quote from: wally on December 17, 2014, 07:01:49 AM
From 1959 to 1960, after taking control of the government, Castro seized $1.8 billion of U.S. assets in Cuba for nationalization.  Although Cuba's new government offered the U.S. compensation for this seizure in the form of bonds or sugar exports, the U.S. refused.  Instead, President Eisenhower signed a partial embargo on exports to Cuba, exempting only food, medicine and medical supplies, and a select number of other items.  Cuban goods could still be imported into the U.S. under this partial embargo.

Eisenhower later proceeded to end diplomatic relations with Cuba, closing the U.S. embassy in Havana on January 3, 1961 (shortly before leaving office
- See more at: http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/legal-research/today-1962-embargo-cuba-takes-effect/#sthash.Ak6jCZrW.dpuf

Finally, on February 3, 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed Presidential Proclamation 3447 on February 3, 1962, to declare "an embargo upon all trade between the United States and Cuba."  The embargo effectively terminated all trade between the countries.
- See more at: http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/legal-research/today-1962-embargo-cuba-takes-effect/#sthash.Ak6jCZrW.dpuf



The embargo was strengthened yet again in 1992 with the passage of a pair of laws that prohibited U.S. foreign subsidiaries from trading with Cuba, restricted remittances, and allowed sanctions against companies that invested in U.S. property seized during the revolution. - See more at: http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/legal-research/today-1962-embargo-cuba-takes-effect/#sthash.Ak6jCZrW.dpuf

Obama  seems hell bent on abandoning our foreign policy of the last fifty years!
Will this stand?   

If so, what's next? Full Diplomatic Relations with Iran?  (all without Congress?)

Okay folks here's your chance to make a stand.  Boycott:  Mastercard, Marriott, Caterpillar, Cisco, Pepsi, and MLB, because they're all lined up on this one.  They're all over this like flies on you know what.

Will justice finally be served to that convicted cop killer which Cuba has sheltered for the last 30+ years?

I doubt it. After all, she was a member of the Black Liberation Army.

QuoteAs President Barack Obama announced  on Wednesday that his administration had struck a deal to secure the release of Alan Gross, an American aid worker who had been held in captivity in Cuba for five years, in exchange for three of the "Cuban Five" spies, one name was conspicuously absent from the President's remarks: Assata Shakur, a convicted cop-killer who has been evading extradition in Cuba since escaping prison in 1979.

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2014/12/18/cuba-shelters-convicted-cop-killer-from-us-justice/

Quote from: wally on December 17, 2014, 07:01:49 AM
From 1959 to 1960, after taking control of the government, Castro seized $1.8 billion of U.S. assets in Cuba for nationalization.  Although Cuba's new government offered the U.S. compensation for this seizure in the form of bonds or sugar exports, the U.S. refused.  Instead, President Eisenhower signed a partial embargo on exports to Cuba, exempting only food, medicine and medical supplies, and a select number of other items.  Cuban goods could still be imported into the U.S. under this partial embargo.

Eisenhower later proceeded to end diplomatic relations with Cuba, closing the U.S. embassy in Havana on January 3, 1961 (shortly before leaving office
- See more at: http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/legal-research/today-1962-embargo-cuba-takes-effect/#sthash.Ak6jCZrW.dpuf

Finally, on February 3, 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed Presidential Proclamation 3447 on February 3, 1962, to declare "an embargo upon all trade between the United States and Cuba."  The embargo effectively terminated all trade between the countries.
- See more at: http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/legal-research/today-1962-embargo-cuba-takes-effect/#sthash.Ak6jCZrW.dpuf



The embargo was strengthened yet again in 1992 with the passage of a pair of laws that prohibited U.S. foreign subsidiaries from trading with Cuba, restricted remittances, and allowed sanctions against companies that invested in U.S. property seized during the revolution. - See more at: http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/legal-research/today-1962-embargo-cuba-takes-effect/#sthash.Ak6jCZrW.dpuf

Obama  seems hell bent on abandoning our foreign policy of the last fifty years!
Will this stand?   

If so, what's next? Full Diplomatic Relations with Iran?  (all without Congress?)

What's up with this?
whttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/18/rand-paul-opening-up-cuba-probably-a-good-idea/ 

Quote from: MACMan on December 18, 2014, 06:23:00 PM
Will justice finally be served to that convicted cop killer that Cuba has sheltered for the last 30+ years?

I doubt it. After all, she was a member of the Black Panthers.

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2014/12/18/cuba-shelters-convicted-cop-killer-from-us-justice/

I think her real name is Joanne Chesimard...she was Black Liberation Army an off shoot of the BPP, I'm going from memory here but she rolled a hand grenade under a New Jersy (Or was it New York) State troopers patrol car.