this past week there was a summit of the americas and two contries were outliers when it came to cuba and the war on drugs, can you guess which two countries were the outliers?
Canada and the United States have emerged as the outliers at the conference as Latin American and Caribbean countries united in the final hours in their support for Cuba's presence at future meetings.
that's right, our right wing douchebag prime minister and the so called liberal president of the united states were the only two leaders against easing sanctions against cuba and relenting on the futile war on drugs. this was to be expected from our conservative prime minister but i had loftier expectations from obumble. so it goes. here's a more detailed DETAILED STORY OF THE EVENT.
on a more positive note i was given a second chance at redemption this afternoon. a few months ago i was rushing down the street in downtown vancouver and passed a truly pitiful looking older gentleman panhandling. i felt sorry for him but was too wrapped up my own little problems to stop and give him a few kopeks. this has haunted me since then. today as i was rushing to the skytrain i ran into the same old gentleman panhandling but this time i stopped and gave him a few bucks. for the price of few bucks i got a good feeling, money well spent.
i love you sons of bitches.
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You have mistaken Obama for a Democrat. He is a GOP stooge. We haven't had a liberal in the White House since Carter.
Well I don't know what Canada's excuse is, but we here in the US have a bunch of knot-head Cuban expatriots in Miami who tie their position on Fidel to their voting bloc.
By the way, you do realize that by giving the panhandler the few bucks you are essentially supporting the local liquor store, right?
I'm all for easing sanctions on Cuba as long as a deal is made so the average Cubans see some benefit. The fascist dictatorship has such tight control there, and it needs to ease.
Robert: There's nothing wrong with the expatriots who love Cuba and hate the dictatorship.
I have no idea what our problem with Cuba is, but this country is ran by fucking idiots.
i stopped and gave him a few bucks.
How much is a few? Enough for a beer?
bob - i see obama as a centrist playing to both sides of the fence but it's just a gut feeling on my part without any substance to back it up.
robert - yes, there is a good chance i helped the man buy a drink but he was going to do it anyway and i just reduced the amount of time he had to grovel for his drink.
dmarks - i consider ethnic voting blocs to be just as insidious as religious voting blocs. just another special interest group to be pandered to.
bill - 3 bucks, enough for a few cans of cheap high test beer or maybe a bottle of chinese cooking wine.
I have wondered for a long time why we have kept Cuba under sanctions for this long when there are other countries doing worse things that we don't impose sanctions on at all. Its all a mystery to me. Especially when some of those SA countries are way worse with the drug cartels and related violence than Cuba and here we are working with them.
It makes my brain hurt.
On the issue of the panhandler... good for you if it made you feel good. Even those who are that addicted (if that is indeed his trouble) need an occasional bite to eat. What if he was God in disguise? Like in that song. Either way, may good karma befall you.
Obama doesn't have much choice on this one. America is a democracy and the Cuban refugees are solidly anti-Castro for understandable reasons. Maybe next time you should buy the old guy a healthy snack.
I give a couple bucks to folks that look like they need it sometimes. And sometimes I hand them my lunch. But I usually feel best when I get the chance to talk for a bit... although sometimes that backfires and gets totally depressing.
Yeah, I thought it was funny when the nightly news said something about Obama's security may have been compromised.
What if the prostitutes gave security secrets to drug cartels about Obama's visit to Columbia?
Hah! That would just be an extra layer of security. They love Obama, keeping drugs illegal, they sure don't want anything to happen to him. Now if he were going to legalize drugs, that would be another story.
Cuba defied the US and won its that simple, besides when Castro dies so will his dictatorship.
As for the war on drugs a foolish expression for a foolish waste of money.
As for the money, I always tell people to do as compassion moves them.
silly - a friend of mine is convinced the whole cuba deal is driven by the mafia which has great leverage with your government.
gb - if it were me i'd rather get the cash than have some stranger tell me what to eat.
thims - the downside of giving money to the needy is they'll recognize you next time and can be very persistent if not demanding. so it goes.
tex - excellent point on the south americans supplying team obama with prostitutes and other good stuff in thanks for his continuing the war on drugs.
charlie - i agree, if it feels right, do it!
I almost went bankrupt when I was working in San Francisco..there were so many pan handlers..I always got a roll of quarters and would give them out..other wise I wouldn't have any money..I always gave more to the ones with dogs.
".....for the price of few bucks i got a good feeling, money well spent....."
No kopeks this time then?
To assuage one's guilt for a few kopeks/bucks is indeed money well spent.
Little pain and lots of gain.
A multi-billion dollar industry, in which I play a very lucrative part, relies on this phenomena.
aquarians - i was thinking of tossing a few roubles his way but i have an emotional attachment to my roubles.
Thanks for reminding me it is 4/20, I've as busy as a hooker at a secret service convention and plum forgot.
Way to go BP on your good deed. And the more and more I follow politics, the more and more I realize I need to invest that time elsewhere because the only people the politicians care about are themselves and whoever is stuffing their pockets. Have a good one, buddy.
Obama would have to look to his right with a telescope to see the kind of liberalism of which you speak.
Unless Canada & USA cut loose the deadweight of Vaticanism & Papist influence in government, WestCiv will continue to sink. Instead we continue to deceitfully disguise this Egyptian form of spiritualism as "enlightened" and "progressive" when it's just a bulwark that keeps the lucky sperm club wealthy at everyone else's expense.
tex - in my younger days, i would have been at the art gallery smoking my brains out but now i just observe it with ruby and a cup of tea.
mr shife - it's pretty hard to think of any politicians that are in the game to give rather than receive.
galt - they must be disguising spiritualism and enlightenment very well because i sure don't see any.
Bob: Obama's definitely a left-wing Democrat. The fact that he is not as far left as some want him to be does not change that at all.
We also had a another liberal in the White House from Jan 1993 to Jan 2008. Both definitely lean toward the socialist ideals of the ruling elites controlling more and the people controlling less, even though neither is an actual socialist.
Charlie said: "Cuba defied the US and won its that simple"
Cuba has never had a say in this. The USSR installed a colonial governor there in 1959, and he and his family have managed to survive their controllers. Cuba's will in this has not been known: democracy is a crime punishable by death there.
"......i have an emotional attachment to my roubles......"
As well you should.
I can understand an emotional attachment to heretofore non-convertible currencies - I've millions in Burmese Kyat and I await such time as when Suu Kyi gains power - I'll be rich!
Happy currency hoarders are all alike; every unhappy currency hoarder is unhappy in its own way.
"obumble" - Ha!
I have a real conundrum w/panhandlers. I'd rather drop a sandwich in the pot than $$$--we know where the $$$ is going. But then again, they could always sell the sandwich. Still, nice work, Billy. ;)
dmarks - does that mean bush was a liberal?
aquarians - i was walking around with a few million indonesian rupees yesterday, i swapped them for about 300 singapore dollars.
jayne - now that i'm turning grey i have a lot of sympathy for the old guys down on there luck.
The war on drugs is futile. It only profits corporations and crime lords. Always has. Always will. I expect no change to come while I'm around, or frankly, ever.
It provides too many take-up-space-&-get-paid-for-it jobs for Papists, so I don't see an end in sight, as this was all it was ever meant to do.
Must be some good crack you're smoking.
That's right about him not being a liberal, though: He'd have to move quite a few thousand steps to the right to get to liberalism!
"Get busy living or get busy dying...That's goddamn right."
Politics has become nothing more than the tasteful rearrangement of deck chairs on a sinking ship.
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