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The most amazing statistic I've heard about Cuba
is the value of their vintage US cars.
Bowser
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6/17/2009 5:01:40 PM
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Gotta be billions!
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Seven Point Manifesto of Iranian Resistance
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TB
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6/16/2009 3:37:35 PM
I heard six different Iranians call in to a radio show yesterday
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z
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6/16/2009 7:09:55 PM
We should only meddle in other countries internal affairs when they are Communists.
(n/t)
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ER
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6/16/2009 7:54:04 PM
Spoken like a true Miami Cuban! :)
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z
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6/16/2009 8:53:13 PM
As one of my Miami Cuban friends put it...
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ER
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6/17/2009 12:39:47 AM
That's why they call Fascism the Dictatorship of the Middle Class.
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ER
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6/17/2009 12:08:34 PM
re: Dictatorship of the Middle Class.
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TB
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6/17/2009 4:02:50 PM
The middle class has always thought the world owed them a living.
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ER
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6/17/2009 5:38:50 PM
It does seem the sort of thing that a wealthy or at least, middle-class citizen might say.
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alcaray
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6/17/2009 3:34:44 AM
OOPs. See above for response.
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ER
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6/17/2009 12:10:14 PM
In Cuba, the middle class has been replaced by The Party.
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ER
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6/17/2009 12:47:16 PM
The most amazing statistic I've heard about Cuba
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z
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6/17/2009 2:21:17 PM
is the value of their vintage US cars.
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Bowser
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6/17/2009 5:01:40 PM
Comité para la Defensa de la Revolución.
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ER
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6/17/2009 2:59:36 PM
If that isn't the CIA trying to destabilize another country I'll eat my passport.
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Bowser
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6/16/2009 5:12:49 PM
re: If that isn't the CIA trying to destabilize another country I'll eat my passport.
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gbaikie
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6/16/2009 11:19:14 PM
This is grass-roots democracy in action! Start eating.
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David F Mayer
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6/16/2009 6:52:57 PM
I disagree completely
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Buck Galaxy
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6/16/2009 6:38:58 PM
Lessee - The US has been trying to destabilize Iran, has announced the budget, promised Israel, and done it in the past.
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Bowser
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6/16/2009 7:20:32 PM
Not even Ahmadinejad is saying this is a US plot
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Buck Galaxy
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6/16/2009 9:24:51 PM
The Israelis are involved, too, and they aren't saying that, either.
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Bowser
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6/17/2009 1:27:56 AM
Poor form?
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Buck Galaxy
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6/17/2009 5:20:24 AM
It's an internal struggle between two rival factions of the same regime
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z
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6/16/2009 10:54:39 PM
Iran Boils Higher
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David F Mayer
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6/16/2009 4:37:46 PM
Unlike what happened last time.
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Eri
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6/16/2009 7:12:36 PM
Good start. But the position of "Supreme Leader" needs to be abolished altogether.
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David F Mayer
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6/16/2009 3:50:02 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.