Saturday, April 21, 2018
Saturday's video: The Comey-McCabe feud is here
The Comey-McCabe feud is here: https://t.co/fCpCo4v135 via @YouTube— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) April 21, 2018
Trump should call for a plebiscite in Cuba
As my late father used to say, too many people don’t know the Castros. Or to translate, the Castros don’t change but they want you to think that they change.
Down in Cuba, we have a change, the new President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Let’s take a look:
1) Yes, it is historic, since the guy is not named Castro; and,
2) Yes, it is generational because Diaz-Canel was born in 1963 and is not a part of the Castro generation.
Bur real change? Not at all!
Diaz-Canel was handpicked by Raul Castro and subsequently “approved” by the one party Cuban assembly, as we see in this report:
He has been waiting in the wings since 2013 when Castro said that he would leave the Cuban presidency on Feb. 24, 2018 — later postponed to April 19 — and the rubber-stamp National Assembly named Díaz-Canel first vice president of the Council of State.“When Raúl Castro is the president, then yes, the president runs Cuba,” said Jaime Suchliki, a longtime Cuba watcher.“When Raúl Castro is not president, that will be a very different matter. Díaz-Canel has no tanks and no troops.”Díaz-Canel himself has solid party credentials. In 1997, he became the youngest member ever of the Politburo, the handpicked committee of 14 party members who function as Castro’s senior advisers.Yet if there’s still doubt about how much real power Castro is willing to cede, there’s a widespread consensus that the political and economic collapse of the government in Venezuela — Cuba’s staunch ally and longtime subsidies provider — means that the island must seek foreign investment and engage with other governments.And that, in return, will require at least some public-relations gestures to convince the outside world that Cuba is moving beyond a one-family state.
So what happens now? How impressed are foreign investors going to be with the “public relations gestures”?
Not very and especially not President Trump.
I call on President Trump to make the following announcement: We will end the embargo if Diaz-Canel calls for an open plebiscite to determine Cuba’s future, as Pinochet did in Chile.
Call Diaz-Canel’s bluff and let’s see how much he really wants to reform!
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March 2007: The media needs to do serious news!
A post from March 2007:
The 2008 election is off to a very early start. Therefore, it's only natural that we see silly and stupid stories like these.
First, someone got a hold of Hillary's college thesis. It was written in 1969. It is completely irrelevant to the 2008 election.
Second, it appears that Obama's mother was a slaveowner:
"According to the research, one of Obama's great-great-great-great grandfathers, George Washington Overall, owned two slaves who were recorded in the 1850 census in Nelson County, Ky. The same records show that one of Obama's great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers, Mary Duvall, also owned two slaves."
OK. So what does it mean? Nothing.
The media should investigate hard news. This is silly stuff and it does not belong in a campaign for president of the US!
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March 2007: Cartoon of the century
As we look back, these are four examples of ineffective strategies: The UN Security Council, French Sense of Peril, Iraqi weapons inspections and anti-war demonstrations.
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March 2007: From Caracas to Miami
A post from March 2007:
Hugo Chavez is driving productive and prosperous Venezuelans out of the country and into Miami. They leave behind a troubled nation. They also bring their money and talent to Miami. How much of a brain drain can Chavez afford?
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Just watched that beautiful Barbara Bush funeral
Just watched that beautiful Barbara Bush funeral. What an absolutely wonderful ceremony. It was nice to see the large Bush family. We are thinking of President Bush. It will be tough on him to live without the woman he met in 1941 and married in 1945.— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) April 21, 2018
March 2007: Should we talk to Iran?
A post from March 2007:
Some conservatives are anxious about talking to Iran. I am not! I'm for talking to Iran and trying to resolve the matter peacefully. However, Iran needs to know that the military option is on the table. Also, they need to be reminded that we have the missiles, and willingness, to use them.
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Troubled parties?
Check out a couple of headlines from today's front pages. It would appear that both parties are facing internal strife.
First, the Democrats fear that primary fights may end up bitterly dividing them. This is specially true in California where the "fights" may end up electing a GOP candidate.
Second, the GOP is facing a "rural rebellion": GOP faces rural rebellion over Trump trade agenda.
November is not that far away.
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The 7-14 Rangers
The 7-14 Rangers played a great game until it fell apart in the top of the 9th.....2-2 became 6-2.....can’t win if you only score 2 runs...at this pace, no one will have 50 RBI in this lineup! The good news is that there are 141 games left......— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) April 21, 2018