http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcSm-KAEFFA
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis
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Dear Diary,
Today I learned that if Florida State universities could only redirect 37% of their office supplies budget towards Cuban street croquette makers ... yada yada yada ... another day, another plan to redirect the lawn chairs on the Cuban Titanic. I can assure the apologists for the Cuban regime that their efforts are not in vain. I take pleasure in their failure.
One of my favorite Far Side cartoons had a dog standing on its hind legs and pointing a gun at it's owners as they ate dinner. The caption read: "I'm THROUGH begging!" That dog must have had more heart than the Castro brothers. I know this because far from being bothered by the fact that their country is sustained by the scraps from one US working class immigrant community, the Castro brothers are actually pining for a bigger bowl.
Finally, communist leadership has turned Cuba into the type of country that a Harry Callahan can love, one that knows its limitations. If I was a better Catholic, I wouldn't be able to take off my Catholic 'hat.' But since I'm not, it comes off, sometimes unconsciously, but sometimes not. When it's off and I think of Cuba, there is no pity. There is an appreciation for the concept that ideas have consequences, especially bad ones. And I think that is a good thing.
For my parents generation, and specifically for my Father who is longer around to see it, when I see what has become of those who kept him away from the country he loved and would not allow him to attend the funeral of his Mother, then there truly is no pity. That part of me looks forward to day -- I expect this scene to be repeated often until death do me part -- when I ask those who were committed Communists or who defend family that were, how it feels to have been so spectacularly wrong.
However, I will not press that point too strongly. Because I'd like the conversation to move on to the question of which personality traits are required to live day after day, year after year, in such a terrible system. When we hit about three personality traits [resourcefulness, etc.] that is when I plan to engage. Because the point that I truly wish to make -- hat in hand no doubt -- is to ask why cowardice isn't on the list?
At that point, it really doesn't matter what is said after. In effect, I seek to leave a neutron-like bomb in their thoughts. I don't have a vested interest in when it goes off. As long as I know that I have used every ounce of street and book smarts at my disposal to be confident that it will go off at some point. When H. Lector induced a fellow inmate to commit suicide, I took notes.
I can't stand the thought of those complicit in the governance of Castro's Cuba not being haunted by their involvement for the rest of their lives. I swear that I have fantasies about calling out communist sympathizers at my nursing home. Exposing their true allegiances during bingo. You know the old saying, 'if you can see it despite the cataracts....'
Putting my 'hat' back on and thinking about the Caribbean. There is one country that deserves our prayers and money. A country in who a significant part of the country was not complicit in its misery. That country is Haiti.
But I will never forget Cuba. You see my dog's food bowl is getting a little run down. I was going to throw it away, but if can help just one Communist party member, then it will be worth it. I just have to find a way to get it to them. Brother, can you spare a corner of that gusano? Hey, they won't even need to change the name, Fifi [spelled El-Meon in Arabic].
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10105/1050765-100.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/sports/football/10nfl.html?scp=18&sq=Roethlisberger&st=cse
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/sports/football/16steelers.html?scp=3&sq=Roethlisberger%20and%20DNA&st=cse
Remember the scene in A Few Good Men, where the [cruise] confronts [jack] with the inconsistency in his testimony
If Roethlisberger did not assault the young woman, why were they disappointed in his behavior - which part of the story is more unbelievable - that 4 young women who attend a junior college decided to frame a
benefir of the doubt
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/221673-steelers-ben-roethlisberger-a-rapist
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