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US Refuses Humanitarian Aid to Cuba

Tue, 09/09/2008 - 7:16am — wasabi

Cuba had 100,000 homes damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Gustav and is currently being battered once again by Hurricane Ike. Our Goverment's response was to offer them $100,000 in aid through relief agencies. Yes, you read that right... $100,000. Cuba turned down our most excellent offer. Damn ingrates!

Condi, bless her heart, believes that we cannot at this time justify raising the embargo.

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Kos on Obama on Fox News Sunday

Mon, 04/28/2008 - 2:55pm — wasabi

Kos put up a diary today, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/28/..., where he laments about his candidate's performance on Fox News Sunday.

Sorry Kos, you can only go to the primaries with the Obama you have, rather than the one you wished you had.

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18:16:03 Jeff W lambert, I wrote to NOW about that Elizabeth Warren video not playing and got a response of sorts back, which I sent to you as a private PM. Just FYI.
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17:52:53 Davidson So, of course they're not going to show the truth about boxing her in from the beginning.
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15:38:02 lambert That's not the RBC meeting, though. That's the smoking gun, beyond "Smart politics" (Wolfson).
14:17:16 Davidson Notice how everyone still avoids exposing the RBC decision
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