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Looks like Mr. Burns is never getting his trillion dollar bill back.
Looks like Mr. Burns is never getting his trillion dollar bill back.
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I'd heard he's been in ill-health for a while now and it was just a matter of time. IIRC his brother's been running the country.
I don't think this will really change anything, especially with Obama having already lifted the embargo... -
Yeah, don't think much will change for the people there, at least not right away.Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.
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I hope my high school Spanish teacher, Senora Bravo, lived long enough to see this.Figers are vicious I tell ya. They crawl up your leg and steal your belly button lint.
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Though I do have to wonder why the *long* displaced expat Cubans think that just because Castro died they will somehow magically get back whatever they lost when they had to bail out of Cuba ... [or at any point in the past 50 odd years if he had dropped dead they would have gotten <whatever> back ...]
Though I do hope the idiots who have made us keep the useless embargo in place will stop the idiocy and let us vacation there soon. I have heard that Cuba is a beautiful place, the population are nice and I would really love a chance to go and see for myself.EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.Comment
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Well, Obama and he were in talks about ending the embargo in the past year (March). O's remarks at the time could be summed up as to "Not if, but WHEN. It will end." So, there's hope yet."For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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