Good riddance

[Boomhauer]

Fidel is dead. It's a good day.

[Andiron]

Indeed.  Cheers!  (assuming it's not more communist propaganda.)

[RoadKingLarry]

I was thinking we'd heard this one before and the much lauded Cuban medical system had managed to reanimate him.
Not generally one for cheering anyone's death but if there ever lived a person who's death deserved a round of applause Fidel Castro's did. Sadly he died of natural causes at a ripe old age.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/11/26/former-cuban-leader-fidel-castro-dies-at-age-90.html

When Mitt Romney was asked the first thing he would do as president if he found out Castro was dead, he replied, "Well first of all, you thank heavens that Fidel Castro has returned to his maker and will be sent to another land."

When it was his turn to answer, Newt Gingrich said, "I don't think that Fidel is going to meet his maker. I think he's going to go to the other place."

[Jamisjockey]

The one time we should totally make a "grave dancing" exception.
I wonder how many bodies are on his head?

[Perd Hapley]

It's Bush's Trump's fault.


Oh, wow. I just realized that the Left finally found someone they hate more than W. 

[lee n. field]

Rejoice briefly.  I'm sure another plague on humanity will be taking his place shortly.

Deaths like this are said to come in threes.  So, Janet Reno, Fidel Castro.  Who's got the third slot?

<sarc>
(I'm thinking that Florence Henderson looked enough like HRC that a Heinlein-ish "Double Star" scheme could be playing out.  Washed up actor steps in for missing or ill pol, then...)
</sarc>

[Hawkmoon]

Deaths like this are said to come in threes.  So, Janet Reno, Fidel Castro.  Who's got the third slot?

I won't print what immediately came to mind ...

[Ben]

Okay, guys,  I understand where Jamis is coming from, ans given what Castro has done in the past, it's probably not inappropriate to not wish him an RIP. While I'm willing to give some leeway in that regard, if people start talking about who all else they wish dead, this thread is getting locked.


On Castro, I do wonder how long it will be before the kids start wearing Castro tshirts instead of Che tshirts.

[Jamisjockey]

Okay, guys,  I understand where Jamis is coming from, ans given what Castro has done in the past, it's probably not inappropriate to not wish him an RIP. While I'm willing to give some leeway in that regard, if people start talking about who all else they wish dead, this thread is getting locked.


On Castro, I do wonder how long it will be before the kids start wearing Castro tshirts instead of Che tshirts.

This.  And to further it, there will be time-outs issued if it goes down that road.

[RoadKingLarry]

On Castro, I do wonder how long it will be before the kids start wearing Castro tshirts instead of Che tshirts.

Already a thing.
That idjit sportsballer guy that started the whole protest the national anthem wears a Castro shirt.

[roo_ster]

Let there be joy and fluffy kittens to all.  Because it is wrong to wish for evil to meet an evil end, sooner rather than later.

In that vein, may all all our altruism be pathological.

[grampster]

Well I see the CIA's plot to outwait Castro has succeeded.

[Firethorn]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/11/26/former-cuban-leader-fidel-castro-dies-at-age-90.html

You know, as far as Newt's comment goes, I thought everybody got to meet the big guy?  Romney merely said "another land", leaving the option open for "less preferable" locations.  I know I'd feel uncomfortable trying to say where somebody's going after death.  That's not my choice.

[Perd Hapley]

You know, as far as Newt's comment goes, I thought everybody got to meet the big guy?  Romney merely said "another land", leaving the option open for "less preferable" locations.  I know I'd feel uncomfortable trying to say where somebody's going after death.  That's not my choice.

There are different interpretations, but I think the usual Christian eschatology is that sinners only see The Judge at the very end, when we all have that big court appearance in the sky.

[just Warren]

One of the best Cuban ex-pat stories was about this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Goizueta who in his time as Coke CEO did so well that Coke's GDP(?) (I think) and rate of growth was not only higher but more (in absolute terms) than Cuba's.

I can't find the story now and I might be mangling it a bit but it showed the difference between a mostly free country and a totally unfree country in how wealth is created. One Cuban vs millions of Cubans and the one guy beats all of them handily. 

[Tuco]

Well I see the CIA's plat to outwait Castro has succeeded.

Thread winner.  We can close the innrnetz until tomorrow.

[230RN]

^  Yeah, grampster's remark chortled me, too.

Hey, how's about instead of RIP, we use RIH?

Not my judgment, as Firethorn pointed out, but RIP is a customary remark regardless of one's cosmic jurisdiction.  Sort of like a mini-prayer, eh?

Terry

[just Warren]

Hopefully for him Hell is having to live for eternity like a normal, powerless Cuban in the Cuba he made.

[sumpnz]

Hopefully for him Hell is having to live for eternity like a normal, powerless Cuban in the Cuba he made.

^^^^ Yeah.  That.

[Angel Eyes]

"Socialism should die with Castro", from CNN, of all places:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/26/opinions/socialism-should-die-with-castro-mcternan/index.html

[Andiron]

If you can't take a victory lap for a legitimate evil communist bastard,  then I don't know when it would otherwise be appropriate. 

The world is improved without that man in it.  2016 finally did something right!

[230RN]

"Socialism should die with Castro", from CNN, of all places:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/26/opinions/socialism-should-die-with-castro-mcternan/index.html

Great article, but:

Editor's Note: John McTernan is a former speech writer for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and ex-communications director to former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.

However, I believe I am actually detecting a molasses-like shift of the left wing media (I know, that's redundant) to a few... a very few... values of the red-state deplorables whose voices are now being heard.

I was shocked to see a segment of "Last Man Standing" where Tim Allen was seen shooting an EBR.  For fun.  At paper.  On broadcast TV.

Too bad I had the sound off and wasn't really paying attention.  I'd have liked to have caught the whole episode.

So.... things are changing, maybe.

Terry, 230RN

[Hawkmoon]

The real question is how faithfully Raul will hew to the company line now that Fidel is no longer there to provide "guidance."

[Jamisjockey]

You know, as far as Newt's comment goes, I thought everybody got to meet the big guy?  Romney merely said "another land", leaving the option open for "less preferable" locations.  I know I'd feel uncomfortable trying to say where somebody's going after death.  That's not my choice.

Not to thread veer...but
That's because Romney is Mormon.  Their view of the afterlife is different than the traditional Christian view.
https://www.mormon.org/beliefs/life-after-death

The real question is how faithfully Raul will hew to the company line now that Fidel is no longer there to provide "guidance."

I don't see him as a Gorbachev. I doubt there will be much change.  The true change will be only if Trump continues to allow the new open relationship with Cuba.
It is my dream to see a Trump tower in Havana. 

[Perd Hapley]

It is my dream to see a Trump tower in Havana. 

It's gonna be ¡enorme!