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  <updated>2008-04-28T15:55:04-04:00</updated>
  <entry>
    <title>US Refuses Humanitarian Aid to Cuba</title>
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    <published>2008-09-09T08:16:54-04:00</published>
    <updated>2008-09-09T08:16:54-04:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>wasabi</name>
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    <category term="Department of What is WRONG with These People?" />
    <category term="Cuba" />
    <category term="Damn Commies" />
    <category term="WTF?" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[ <p>Cuba had 100,000 homes damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Gustav and is currently being battered once again by Hurricane Ike.  Our Goverment&#8217;s response was to offer them $100,000 in aid through relief agencies.  Yes, you read that right&#8230;  $100,000.  Cuba turned down our most excellent offer.  Damn ingrates!</p>
<p>Condi, bless her heart, believes that we cannot at this time justify raising the embargo.</p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[ <p>Cuba had 100,000 homes damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Gustav and is currently being battered once again by Hurricane Ike.  Our Goverment&#8217;s response was to offer them $100,000 in aid through relief agencies.  Yes, you read that right&#8230;  $100,000.  Cuba turned down our most excellent offer.  Damn ingrates!</p>
<p>Condi, bless her heart, believes that we cannot at this time justify raising the embargo.   After Cuba releases their political prisoners and developes a free and fair process for elections, we&#8217;ll talk.  Until then, there&#8217;s some flattened sugarcane you can go suck on&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2008/09/07/rice_says_time_not_right_to_lift_embargo_on_cuba/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news" title="http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2008/09/07/rice_says_time_not_right_to_lift_embargo_on_cuba/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news">http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinam&#8230;</a></p>
<p>BTW, our assistance to Iran (boogah, boogah, terrorists) in the aftermath of the 2003 Bam earthquake was:<br />
Total USAID/OFDA Earthquake Assistance to Iran $3,702,645<br />
Total USG Earthquake Assistance to Iran $5,714,930 </p>
<p>We offered Cuba $100,000.   Anybody embarrased?</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>Kos on Obama on Fox News Sunday</title>
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    <published>2008-04-28T15:55:04-04:00</published>
    <updated>2008-04-28T15:55:04-04:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>wasabi</name>
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    <category term="Meta-meta" />
    <category term="Department of Now It All Makes Sense" />
    <category term="duh" />
    <category term="Fox News Sunday" />
    <category term="kos" />
    <category term="obama" />
    <category term="Politicians" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[ <p>Kos put up a diary today, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/28/113834/884?detail=f" title="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/28/113834/884?detail=f">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/28/&#8230;</a>, where he laments about his candidate&#8217;s performance on Fox News Sunday.  </p>
<p>Sorry Kos, you can only go to the primaries with the Obama you have, rather than the one you wished you had.</p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[ <p>Kos put up a diary today, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/28/113834/884?detail=f" title="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/28/113834/884?detail=f">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/28/&#8230;</a>, where he laments about his candidate&#8217;s performance on Fox News Sunday.  </p>
<p>Sorry Kos, you can only go to the primaries with the Obama you have, rather than the one you wished you had.    </p>
<p>&#8220;So Obama showed weakness by caving to right-wing bullying taunts (thrilling our political foes), disrespected his base, gave Fox a propaganda victory, exposed his campaign as a bunch of liars who promised something their candidate was clearly incapable of delivering, and defended the Democratic spinelessness that gave us the most ridiculous Supreme Court in generations.</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t pretend to guess whether this helps him in Indiana or not. It may or it may not. And since I&#8217;ve never put Obama on a pedestal, this doesn&#8217;t knock him down. What this does demonstrate, and quite clearly so, is that Obama is quite willing to score cheap political points at the expense of his base, regardless how much it might embolden the very same people that are working to demonize him to the American people.&#8221;</p>
<p>I think Kos got hit upside the head with my cluestick, and that&#8217;s a good thing.</p>
<p>** His reader&#8217;s are calling him a punk-ass chump now.</p>
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