Slowly winding down into a holiday mode, folks, and the blogging has tapered off this afternoon. As a result, just a few things for your evening Sift...
A- Val Prieto visits the White House and tells us all about it at babalu.
It's hard to put into words what it feels like to walk into the White House. It really is a surreal experience where you feel like you are walking into history itself. I had a lump in my throat from the moment I passed through the metal detectors and began making my way through the White House corridors - the very same corridors where Presidents have strolled, where dignitaries and world leaders have travelled, where great men and not so great men have paced, facing the challenges of leadership.
Henry Gomez, however, breaks the introspective mood when he flippantly claims in another post that Obama's promise to remove the travel and remittance restrictions with Cuba just ain't that big a deal.
So what's new about Obama's approach? Now that he claims to be for the embargo, the only difference between him and McCain on Cuba is that he would remove the travel and remittance restrictions with regards to Cuban-Americans. Is that a huge difference?
Considering all the space, time, and words that blog has devoted to the subject over the years, I think everyone has to stifle a chuckle with the obvious bombastic phoniness of that statement.
B- A pool is hoisted up to the roof of the Mayfair Hotel and Coconut Grove Grapevine captures it all.
C- Ten things to be happy about if you're a Marlins fan, according to the South Florida Fan Blog.
D- All Purpose Dark is impressed by the Bond St. Lounge on Miami Beach...
But if you are in the mood to splurge on some of the best raw fish in town, grab a stool in this subterranean lounge. It may be the Townhouse hotel but its appeal extends way beyond tourists. Seasoned Miami locals return again and to Bond St. and it's clear why.
E- Computer Colonics drives and films [egads!] her 1st passage over the new Jewfish Creek Bridge that opened last night.
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4 comments:
It was a five mph crawl because everyone going over was dragging it out for all it was worth. I considered going back over but the "wall" meant I would not be able to turn around for a second pass for six miles totalling twelve xtra drive miles for the simple minded thrill over going over twice in one night.
"Rick",
Love the blog...best in South Florida. I've been going back and forth with the babalu boys on the Obama speech and they had the audacity to censor my comments. Pretty ironic for a community that is supposedly for free speech in Cuba. With your permission, I'm reposting my comments here so that all the blog world can see that babalublog can't deal with free speech, just like a certain bearded dictator we all know and love. The hypocrisy is saddening.
Posted at 7:34AM today and removed. Reposted at 3:45PM...
"Since I was censored this morning at 7:34am and my comment was removed, I'm reposting in the hopes that babalublog doesn't behave like the dictators they claim to be fighting against. Gotta love Google Desktop btw...
Wow, so that's your response babalu community, call me a liberal? Pretty sad and just shows how my former party is shrinking by the day. I'm just a fed up Republican who is sickened by the poor performance of our leadership on many, many issues. But back to the matter at hand, you guys still don't get it. For years and years any dumb ass politician can come down to Miami and in gringo spanish say "Cuba si, Castro no!" and you guys just eat it right up. Remember Fred Thompson and how you had to change your shorts after his Versaille visit? Oh and the Diaz-Balart boys are going down this year, you'll see. I played baseball with Ileana's son years ago and actually can tolerate her because she works hard for this area so I can't talk smack about her too ;)
However, its about time Cuban-Americans stop blindly voting Republican and pick leaders who can actually do something for our community. Instead of running on a small-minded Cuban policy who's only method of freeing Cuba is by teaching Cubans that the way to freedom is floating 90 miles north, its time to change things up. Stop wasting your votes people like sheep on their way to slaughter. There is a better way and its time to give someone else a chance to run the show. Lord knows our performance over the past few years doesn't deserve an encore.
Just out of curiosity and all kidding aside, what would the Cuban American population in the U.S. do if Cuba was ever liberated? Would more people return to the island or would there be an influx of immigrants to the U.S.? I'm serious here. They say all the good Iraqis have left now that the country has been liberated. Do you think the same would happen in Cuba or would there be a return en mass to rebuild the country?"
Thanks, DJ.
I wouldn't even waste my time commenting over there. They keep the comments that praise or agree with them and dump the ones that don't. Every once and a while, when they're having a bad day, they allow differing opinions to remain posted so that they can take turns cursing, disparaging and maligning the author.
It helps them feel better.
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Wow, I now see why you feel that way towards them. They're the epitomy of whats wrong with the Cuban Exile groups and the hypocrisy of their anti-free speech should discredit them from the world of political blogging.
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