Fidel Castro resigns

[deskslave]

No link yet, but stripped across CNN.com and MSNBC.com.

 

[TrooperBari]

This from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7252109.stm

Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro has announced he will not return to the presidency in a letter published by official Communist Party paper, Granma.

"I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the Council of state and commander in chief," he wrote in the letter.

Mr Castro handed over power temporarily to his brother, Raul, in July 2006 when he underwent intestinal surgery.

The 81-year-old has ruled Cuba since leading a communist revolution in 1959.

In December, Mr Castro indicated that he could possibly step down in favour of a younger generation.

 

[Lyman_Bostock]

Good. Maybe he'll die soon, too.

 

[jobu]

This from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7252109.stm

Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro has announced he will not return to the presidency in a letter published by ... Granma.

Hmmm ... it is normal protocol for him to release official news through his Granma?

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

I just hope we can get Cuban cigars once again.

 

[Mahoney]

The Orange Bowl celebration Miami had planned for his death might still be on!

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Just saw it on CNN and was hoping to be the first to post it here.

 

[93Devil]

Does Hyman Roth know?

 

[novelist_wannabe]

I just hope we can get Cuban cigars once again.

I wouldn't hold my breath. Raul is reportedly worse than Fidel.

 

[Ruth-Gehrig]

Fredo and Johnny Ola can go back to those secret hangouts, which feature bondage. ;D
On the serious side, his brother is taking over. Same ol', same ol'. Nepotism in Cuba, wow, I thought Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism and all the other isms were supposed to create Utopian societies where none of that hanky panky was going to ever exist.

 

[Ruth-Gehrig]

Perhaps a little Billy Joel:

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

 

[Webster]

The Lakeville Road Boys are still looking for their piece of the action.

 

[slappy4428]

Just saw it on CNN and was hoping to be the first to post it here.

Well, you would be late then.

 

[Football_Bat]

I just hope we can get Cuban cigars once again.

I wouldn't hold my breath. Raul is reportedly worse than Fidel.

And a generation of apparatchiks right behind those two.

The only way Cuba ever goes free is if we find fake WMD there and President McSame goes after it in 2009.

 

[patchs]

I just hope we can get Cuban cigars once again.

Go to Canada.
They sell them everywhere near the U.S. border.
Hey Jones, since you were there recently, how does this impact Jose Cuba?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

The only way Cuba ever goes free is if we find fake WMD there and President McSame goes after it in 2009.

Or if we ever lift the stupid embargo on Cuba and spur change through investment.

 

[Armchair_QB]

 

[playthrough]

Perhaps a little Billy Joel:

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

Probably just me, but that song always gave me a massive headache.

 

[93Devil]

Perhaps a little Billy Joel:

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

Probably just me, but that song always gave me a massive headache.

REM did it better, and Bob Dylan did it better before them.

 

[Stoney]

The only way Cuba ever goes free is if we find fake WMD there and President McSame goes after it in 2009.

Or if we ever lift the stupid embargo on Cuba and spur change through investment.

No joke. It's been nearly 50 freakin years now. Can't we finally just call the embargo a failed policy and forget about the damn thing. Did it ever accomplish anything for anyone?