On Sunday, 17 July 2016 16:56:17 UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-07-17 3:29 PM, Je�us wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 13:57:15 -0400, Brooklyn1
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 10:52:14 -0300, wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 09:08:14 -0400, Brooklyn1
> >>> > wrote:
> >>>> For the best Cuban cusine and a lot easier visit Miami, FL.
> >>>> There are some excellent Cuban restaurants on Lung Guyland too.
> >>>> Much Cuban cooking is the same as Puerto Rican.
> >>>
> >>> No point in that, Cuba is a great place for a vacation. Lovely
> >>> people, great food, unspoiled beaches and nice warm water.
> >>
> >> Um, how is Florida different from what you describe? I've been to
> >> Cuba, before Castro and after... much of Cuba is impoverished filthy
> >> slums.
> >
> > I haven't been to either Cuba or Florida, but even I know that is a
> > ridiculous statement. I'm pretty freakin' sure Florida doesn't have
> > their architecture, old American cars etc... You're just a bitter,
> > drunken old man.
>
>
> You have to excuse Sheldon. There is some irony to people who think they
> are the only country in the world with freedom of the press having been
> subjected to so much propaganda.


Uh, that statement simply makes no sense...


It is an impoverished nation, yet a lot
> of the people are highly educated. Thanks to the US embargo, it remains
> impoverished.


I'll deign to correct your statement, it *should* read:

"It is an impoverished nation, yet a lot of the people are highly educated. Thanks to failed socialist economic policies, it remains impoverished"




Many of the buildings look nice on the outside but are
> desperately in need of repair. My son told me about being an a market in
> a 4 or 5 story building when part of the building collapsed. It startled
> him, but the people in the stalls were used to stuff like that.


Hopefully when we Yanks get down there full - blast, Home Depot will open a few stores so that enterprising Cubans don't have to tolerate such squalid conditions...

In any case, I'm glad your son was so amused by the quaint folkways of the Cuban natives...


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Best
Greg