A military parade marking the 50th anniversary of the date Fidel Castro and fellow rebels landed in Cuba to launch their revolution started Saturday without the ailing leader.
Many Cubans still hoped that Castro would make at least a brief appearance during a huge military parade in Havana on Saturday morning to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. The commemoration culminates five days of celebrations for Castro’s 80th birthday, but he has yet to make an appearance.
Dead, dead, dead.
Deader than a doornail. Deader than a dead cat bounce. Deader than Jerry Garcia. Deader than Belinda Stronach’s political future.
Deader than the creature featured at the top left of your screen.
He’d be pushing up daisies if he weren’t glued into that Adidas Bionic Tracksuit.
He’s not dead! He’s restin’!
Now wait – Belinda Stronach has dyed her hair the deep chestnut of Rona Ambrose; that’s a clear statement of..something.
Interesting how not one Liberal has made a single derogatory remark about Their Belinda focusing on Her Hair – while they screamed and yelled at Rona Ambrose.
Does Belinda think that Looking Like Rona will do something for her career? After all, she claims that the Conservatives want all women ‘barefoot and pregnant’ – and yet, she wants to look like one of them??
As for Castro- agreed; he’s ‘not there’. Now- will the Cuban Americans do something about retaking the island?
Beautiful beard,he’s pining for the fjords. Once the people of cuba realize that Raoul is not going to be any better there will be carnage.
Now Castro’s death is one thing. Something which I shall do my best to restrain my tears over.
However, this is another.
This is completely off topic, except that it relates to the value of life and the choices people make in life.
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Considering CNET.com and James Kim’s impact on the Internet, perhaps SDA could even consider doing a post on this?
The next question being, how many Liberal MPs and ex-cabinet ministers will go to his funeral?
Ouch, Joan.
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The Lie-beral’s and Fidel have something in common.
He appears to be a man dessimated with cancer. Regardless of his crimes against humanity, I find it difficult to rejoice in his impending demise, for it is unlikely to provide hope for the Cuban people. Unfortunately, Cuba will likely, once more, get caught up between the U.S and the enemies of the U.S., to the detriment of its peoples.
Justin Trudeau is in Suba reaffirming the Libranos allegiance to Castro and the revolution.
He’s not really dead…..
He still lives on…..
In that poster of Bareback Mounting with Michael Ignatieff and Fidel Castro as stars.
“al-lea” – it isn’t rejoicing. It’s glee.
When it comes to the Dictator For Life political class, death cannot come soon enough.
HA HA HA HAAAA! You are so funny!!!
“…I find it difficult to rejoice in his impending demise…”
Speak for yourself then. I just hope his death is/was exceedingly painful. Viva Cuba Libre!
Belinda is a brunette now, we have to take her seriously. Like, didn’t you notice? duhh.
A recent report from the CBC (Communist Broadcasting Corporation) started out by saying he had brought universal health care and social justice to Cuba.
My tax dollars at work!
Kate, I gathered the “glee” part from your original post.
Perhaps Pierre’s spawn can take over the gov’t of Cuba – it’s better than the LPC annointing him King of Canada.
State Funeral broadcast by the CBC ala Frump. With commentary by those uncrowned Princes of Canada the Trudeau sons.
Go Bob go.
Simeon: It’s Sacha Trudeau who’s in Cooba.
Justin Trudeau is at the Liberal Leadership Convention trying very hard to position himself to be anointed as the Liberal Party’s Crown Prince.
‘Pretty ironic when you consider his father’s Commie ties (with Cooba’s Fidel, for one) and his anti-monarchist leanings.
I wonder if they will stuff him . Than put him on show. Like Roy Rogers did his horse trigger?
Castro dead
Its got to be true The CBC has booked a complete plane for Havana so next week all week it will be Castro’s state funeral on the mother corp (sic)
norm is that true?
Yes, it’s glee, just like the joy I’ll feel when Saddam takes a central role in an upcoming ceremony and the platform collapses beneath his feet, hopefully it’ll be too short a drop. It’s the good old “eye for an eye”, nothing wrong with hoping they get at least a brief taste of the almost inconceivable horror they, with premeditation, forced onto so many innocents.
this is another bizzarrrrrooo thing about communism; when the hard liners finally give it up in their old age, well, they got no democratic tradition ergo they got no mechanism for transfer of power.
just like stalin, lenin, also asswipes like arafat and now castro. they dont even want to drop hints which would be an admission of mortality.
dead dead dead dead
Love the bionic track suit! Maybe they can pickle Fearless Fidel like the Rooskies did with Lenin, then parade him up and down the main drag in Havana on May Day in front of the tanks.
Technology marches on! ~:D
Perhaps under the tanks would be better
Raoul has only been holding the seat for Sasha. Cuba will now become a liberal dictatorship.
Disney world is now setting up an animatronic to include him in Pirates of the Caribean…. or maybe It’s a Small World.
Sorry Kate just kidding,but when it happens you can bet on it.
Have a great day
The official Communist taxidermists are working hard at trying to stuff the old dictator to make him look relatively life-like. The commies like to do that….for whatever reason. When he is appropriately stuffed, they’ll put him on a little wagon and pull him around sort of like an anamatronic puppet out of a third-world Disneyland.
How comes canadians are interested in Cuba’s affairs????? They are so far up north!!!!
Canadians know Cuba better than cubans know Canada!
Canadians are free for travel around the world, if they got money or a credit card to pay for it! And Cuba is very chip for them, matter fact they are allways welcome.
We, cubans even having the money to pay an airplane ticket it does not necessarily means one can travel abroad.
Hey… I just though that a better title for this post would be Weekend at Fidel’s.
I mean, just watch the little movie… the guy reminded me of Bernie!
Time for Sacha Trudeau to do another homoerotic eulogy.
He’s in a coma still. It’s too quiet in Miami.
Count on Jimmy Carter being a pallbearer. Oliver Stone, another admirer and morally challenged lefty weasel, is sure to be at the gravesite with “a man of vision” eulogy. Gag.
you can bet if castro was dead then young trudeau would not have been in Montreal today but in cuba instead, mourning his (fathers’) hero.
LOL.. “He’d be pushing up daisies if he weren’t glued into that Adidas Bionic Tracksuit.”
Reminds me of that classic Dead Parrot bit by John Cleese… you know:
… if it weren’t for the fact that his two little feet weren’t nailed to the perch (or in this case, glued into his track shoes), he would be PUSHING UP THE DAISIES.
:))
“HELLO FIDEL!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o’clock alarm call!
(Takes dictator out of the cage and thumps its head on the counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.)
Now that’s what I call a dead dicator!
…He’s not pining, he’s passed on! This dicator is no more! He has ceased to be! He’s expired and gone to meet his maker! This is a late dicator. He’s a stiff. Bereft of life. If you hadn’t nailed him to the perch he would be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He’s off the twig! He’s kicked the bucket, He’s shuffled off his mortal coil He’s rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-dicator!”
Maybe they’ll replace him with a slug.
A housemate of mine during university, his family had fled from Cuba to Peurto Rico. Their relatives that could not escape would send a letter every month. Since the government opened all mail, the could not simply report that a relative had been arrested by the government (Castro) and killed. So what they did was include evry relatives name in each letter. If a relatives name stopped appearing with no explanation, my friend knew then that he had lost a relative. Most of his relatives stopped appearing in letters.
I do not wish ill on Castro, only that he suffers as much as he caused suffering. Long live Castro….in his painful, deteriorated condition.
I’m guessing the Cubans will ‘fess up on January 1st, the anniversary of the victory over Batista. Of course, this will be an opportunity to flood Cuban radio and TV with histories of the revolution and Fidel’s Greatest Hits. Besides, wouldn’t want to ruin anyone’s Christmas….
Ding-dong, Fidel is dead!
Dead’r than Balaam’s ass!!!
Ding, Dong The Witich Is DEAD!
Dead. And not a moment too soon.
Fi del in Hell !
Fi del in Hell !
Fi del in Hell !
Personally, I would take a three day vacation in Key West or Palm Springs over a month in Cuba.
Adios Fidel.
May God grant the poor, suffering people of the island prison called Cuba, freedom at long, long last.
Justice will finally be meet when Castro meets his Maker. He will be shown the “mercy’ he has shown others.
How many of those castro bootlickers in the UN fly their flag at half-staff when he dose die will JIMMY CARTER ask us to fly old glory at half mast? well SCREW YOU PEANUTMAN CARTER OUR STARS AND STRIPES DONT FLY AS HALF MAST FOR ANY TYRANT although there will be plenty of liberal mush heads who will especialy in HOLLYWOOD,SAN FRANCISCO,U.C. BERKLEY and where ever jerk face carter is
Well it seems that the standard of comment here about Cuba is as high ( ahem) as ever. “Fidel YUK YUK”, um ok.
I played golf today with a number of people today whose business is doing business in Cuba. One thing they agree on is that yesterday was historic , in that there was an overture to the US to improve relations at such a profile event. No chance that would have happened with Fidel in charge. Some think the US will miss the boat for engagement, others not so sure.
Some think that this is just way to hand over power to Raul, other merely note it must be the end for Fidel but that it will be January before anything is said.
One thing for sure, interesting times for Cuba and Cubans.
Hey what about Pinochet? Fate has finaly tagged that bas**** it seems?