The only difference between Canadian Thanksgiving and the one you guys celebrate a month later is that, besides having to listen to some 30-year-old who reads comic books “graphic novels” and still lives with his parents drone on about Columbus and smallpox blankets, we also have to hear about all the “cute little cars” they have in Cuba.
If anyone has a line to Kathy Shaidle, please tell her she has named the wrong Trudeau Clone in her Taki Piece, as the passionate fan of the most disgusting Fidel Castro. It’s important to keep these things straight. It’s our actual history, dumb as it is.
Alexandre Trudeau praised Fidel Castro NOT Sasha …. Sasha was the only one of the three stooges that seemed not to care about communism and preferred to hang in BC and have fun fun fun. Who knows what he might have become. He was better looking than Justin, so … that alone may have gotten him elected.
Alexandre = “Sacha” Trudeau
i choose not to visit jails….
Smug and disappointing — as are most of Shaidle’s pieces.
my youthful sense of wonderlust was thwarted when I couldnt find out how to board a ramp steamer to kooba sose I could show my support for the collective and cut sugar cane.
decided to do 1 more year of business course in high school instead.
whodathunk fidel would still be around in 2016. I betcha he’s completely senile now as opposed to only partly so.
Another ”lets kiss American ass” pile of BS!! In terms of military expertise, Fidel Castro and his rebels remain on record as some of the most brilliant and capable strategists in military history. In one battle alone know as operation Verano (June-1958) , Baptista sent over 12,000 Cuban troops into the Sierra Maestra hills to put down Castro, who had between 1200-2000 rebels and won the battle while losing only 3 men in the process. In most of the battles during the Cuban revolution, the rebels were outnumbered as much as 20 to 1 and yet came out as winners.
If the Americans would have cleaned up their corrupt operations (which are now based in Miami) and put down Baptista in time, no revolution would have ever taken place.
I don’t agree with Castro’s politics, but he was one hell of fighter. And no doubt an embarrassment to the US. After 60 years, is it not time for the US to admit to the truth??
One other thing I admire about Cuba.
When Russia and their economy self destructed back in the 1980’s they could no longer support North Korea or Cuba.
Castro immediately made his people grow food, much of it was grown on rooftops of business buildings.
This created competition between the peasants and business owners to see who could produce the most food.
We should reevaluate our food stamp economy, the Cubans survived,
the North Koreans are eating each other..
Yay Communism!
There’s also the guys that go there just to bang the ubiquitous chicks forced to prostitute themselves for the cost of a hamburger.
These are the Canadians most adamant about how great Cuba is. They’ll also go quickly irate about how they’re “helping” the poor girls and try to defend their “position” before calling you a bad name and refuse to talk “politics”.
I don’t know if Shaidle has ever been chained or why she now bills herself as being unchained. This her latest blogpost on Cuba smacks of juvenile high school journalism. Stating that tourists go there for one of two reasons is asinine at best. There are many reasons to go there; I go to study Cuban folk music and play with Cuban musicians. Castro is a despicable dictator who won’t change one iota whether I visit or not. Better to visit to give the Cuban people a sense of what western societies are about rather than not go and let Castro have his way.
Please substaniate what you have said, it makes no sense.
Meanwhile … there were three Trudeau boys, Justin, Alex, and Sasha. I don’t think Alex and Sasha are the same person.
http://pointdebasculecanada.ca/alexandre-trudeau-praises-fidel-castro/
google up Alexander Trudeau (Sasha) takes a few seconds
J, the kids are Justin, Alexandre (aka Sasha) and Michel.
Two seconds, Geez.
“Michel Trudeau was wearing a heavy backpack, cross-country skis and … B.C., said that before the Trudeau death he had never heard of an avalanche … Born in 1975, Michel (known to his family as Miche) left two brothers, Sacha and Justin .”
“Squirrel” also stolen from Kathy.
“This created competition between the peasants and business owners to see who could produce the most food.”
What business owners?
Yeah I think Castro has gone from dangerously nuts to simply senile. They don’t let him anywhere near ‘the list’ now.
You can always tell who has been to Cuba and who has not, by the equivocations and excuses offered up for the murderous behavior of Castro and his compatriots.
“Sasha” and “Sacha” are diminutives of Alexander and it’s variants.
Kathy’s columns are generally about Kathy, not whatever the ostensible topic is.
In terms of military expertise, Fidel Castro and his rebels remain on record as some of the most brilliant and capable strategists…
Yeah, the left has always been good at killing and tearing down. Not so good at building up…
Couple of quips about Cuba and filler space. Stick to twitter Kathy. One liners.
Amazed at how many Canadians go to Cuba and give no thought to the number of people who tried to flee and drowned, arrested, shot or eaten by sharks. Not to mention the gays in prison.
I’ll go where I please, have sex with whom I want, and I care not what a bunch of losers think about it. Its a nice cheap place to hang out. Yes, it was created by a bunch of murderous thugs. Not going to Cuba because it is ruled by not nice people seems rather sanctimonious. Rather like not eating a Chick-fil-a because they don’t eagerly support perverted behavior enough. Meh.
What makes you think they give no thought to that? I am sure lots are aware of the suffering caused by a tyrannical regime.
I have only ONE motivation for visiting Cuba … Cigars. I especially want to visit a cigar plantation, and watch the cigars as they are being made. This has been top of my bucket list ever since I learned that the unique quality of Cuban cigars is created because they are assembled by rolling tobacco leaves on the inner thighs of young virgin girls. And I would consider it a bonus if I happened to run into Bill Clinton.
Judging by the # of times they mention small pox infected blankets to give to Natives, one must assume they had a central clearing house for same. How does one infect said blankets w/o infecting one’s self, anyway?
Exactly.
On this topic,which Countries WERE formed by really nice people who respected all human rights and etc.,etc.?
If I were to cross every Country off the list due to the awfulness of their founders,or current government,I’d have to spend the rest of my life hiding in a cave.
I actually ENCOURAGE sanctimonious behavior such as the LGBTQ-qq-dingdong BOYCOTT of Chik-fil-a. Such a BOYCOTT ensures that I won’t have to dodge some vile transgenderer freak coming out the restroom. I can relax and eat with “my people”.
Go … enjoy your trip to the last Communist nirvana on the planet. Go mingle with “your people”. You see, I would NEVER tell you how to live. Or who to associate-with. Just be sure you do the same for me … because I will defend my right to do so … shall we say … vigorously.
TRUMP 2016
I read you loud and clear. And I also despise him as a political figure. However he knew how to fight!
LindaL: Amen. Shaidle writes pieces about how annoying it is to have to be around people who will bombard you with personal information that you don’t care about (ex: sharing ultrasound photos comes to mind) and then proceed to tell her readers all about her turning 50 (collecting stool samples and such). Talk about tone-deaf. Talk about lack of self-awareness. I bet she wonders why her readership dwindles so badly.
Edward Codrington: Could not have put it better. I’ve gone to Cuba with my family and I don’t fall into either of her two categories. Unlike Ms. Shaidle, I am a human who is capable of differentiating between political realities and what the average person-on-the-street (of yes, even Cuba) is like…a big theme of Reagan’s humanistic views, BTW. I have met Cuban people and found them to be very gracious. I am aware that just by going there, I have been giving financial support to an evil regime as a side-effect. But, I feel much better about the interactions with the people I have met. And I am confident that the gifts (both material and interpersonal) that I gave them are more important to both them and me.
Ms Shaidle, you’re not smart enough to tell me what kind of person I am.
Don’t worry, everyone.
One day. Canada will be just like the Cuba the Trudeaus love and admire with Potemkin Village Cuban plants telling everyone how great their lying, bribing dictator is and how their Third World sh–hole is the envy of other Third World sh–holes.
People can come and visit us. They can remark how quaint everything is and how warm and welcoming the hand-picked guides are. They can pat themselves on the back about leaving behind items from home even though such an act is not even in the same hemisphere as to why they travelled there in the first place.
Yay, serfdoms!
Remind me again of how dreadful it is that leaders in the West are transforming this once-great civilisation into autocratic states like… well… Cuba.
I believe Edward Codrington is playing the part quite well.
Looks like Shaidle hit a nerve. Some pretty ridiculous justifications for cheap holidays above. Nice your able to go where you want codington, the Cubans aren’t so lucky as you. But as you rather clearly stated it’s all about you anyways so who gives a sh1t. Certainly not you.
” I have been giving financial support to an evil regime as a side-effect. But, I feel much better about the interactions with the people I have met. And I am confident that the gifts (both material and interpersonal) that I gave them are more important to both them and me.”
BINGO. Been there. The guy/gal who cleans my room in the morning knows they will get a verrryyyyy nice tip next morning because I appreciate what they do. I tip them in one day what they make in month! Will it change the situation of their country? I don’t know. But I do know that he/she will be able to feed their family for a month,and they are very resourceful at keeping my dirty Yangui money hidden from the authorities. I have never been to a hotel in NA where I can leave at 6 in the morning and return at 10 in the evening, and my bottle of rye sitting on the night table is untouched. I had one attendant give me hell for leaving my shower towels from the morning neatly folded on the bathroom counter!!! She could lose her job! She said leave them on the floor,so then she could do her job!!! I just agreed,but her tip went up.
A lot of times,the government of someplace does not reflect the people there.
“Say I’m helping you” / bangada bangada bangada bangada bangada bangada bangada bangada bangada.
“Say it ” /bangada bangada bangada bangada bangada
“Almost there say I’m saving you”
What business owners?
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So you are saying there are no businesses in Cuba.
Yeah, I should have said government buildings. thanks for the fact check..
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But… But… Who makes their frigging cigars, do they import them from China ??
I have difficulty supporting a mindset that is willing to accept the enslavement of our fellow man in the name of communism.
“I have only ONE motivation for visiting Cuba … Cigars.”
Little late to the party on this one, but the great cigar makers split Cuba LONG ago to Guatamala amd Hounduras to get the hell away from the Castro regime.
On top of that they took seeds with them to start new tobacco plantations. They have been entrenched now for decades.
… yes, but how are the soft, inner thighs of the Central American virgins ? Can they impart that sweet taste so appreciated by cigar aficionado, Bill Clinton.