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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 09:10 AM Original message |
US Blocks Musicians from Playing in Cuba |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
1. How to win enemies and alienate friends, the republicon fear & hate strategy... |
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quispquake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
2. I just don't get this... |
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Billy Burnett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 09:25 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Cuba's gov doesn't run sweatshops making Nike, IBMs, lead based toys, etc. |
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bigworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 09:29 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Our businessmen can make big bucks off cheap Chinese labor |
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Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 11:59 AM Response to Reply #3 |
19. With that in mind, is China even Communist anymore? |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 03:10 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. Technically I would call China a country with State Capitalism... |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 03:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
26. And as we all know, the NY Philharmonic was sent to Gitmo for playing in N. Korea. |
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ramapo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
5. This is so f***ing stupid |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 09:37 AM Response to Original message |
6. during an election year . . . . hmmmmm . . . one would almost think this was voter pandering |
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bobthedrummer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
7. "That would bring up the whole Bay of Pigs thing..." R.M.Nixon eom |
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pingzing58 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
8. Bush is kowtowing to the Elite Cuban exiles who believe that they will get their land back when they |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
9. Mean-spirited and shallow |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 10:41 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Very nicely put |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
10. By the flipping way, |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 11:06 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. I LOVE BARENBOIM!!! What a guy!!! |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
12. They are probably afraid that they will defect |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 11:13 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. There would be Americans moving there now if the U.S. didn't refuse to send their Social Security |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 12:04 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. How sad when people can't travel out of their country n/t |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
15. AudioSlave went to Havana not that long ago, before Bush got really vicious about this. |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
16. Bush is an idiot . . . but then, that's not news . . . n/t |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
17. Bushitler you ignorfucking anus! |
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tachyon (520 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
18. Can't allow that, it might lead to dancing. |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 12:17 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. That would be the end of life as we know it. Commie dancing! Have you seen this video? |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
22. Apparently "Western" bands are still new to Cuba, according to this article: |
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bagimin (945 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
23. Obama will end this kind of crap |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 02:41 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. No doubt you're right. Really hope that's the case. He seems to be far saner than the fascists. n/t |
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Billy Burnett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 07:44 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Wait and see. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-11-08 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
28. Just set up some *really* good speakers off the coast (nt) |
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roody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-12-08 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
29. If the musicians want to go to Cuba, they should |
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freethought (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-12-08 12:43 AM Response to Original message |
30. Just when I thought the dim son couldn't get anymore |
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Billy Burnett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-12-08 09:13 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. FYI, Ry Cooder paid a $75,000 fine for going to Cuba for Buena Vista Social Club. n/t |
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freethought (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-12-08 09:41 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. WHAT!!!??? THAT'S ABSURD!!!!!!! |
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