Chef Jim Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 How cool! Now the Stones are playing in Cuba! http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35901988 Their world is changing is so many little ways. This is sarcasm right?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted March 26, 2016 Author Share Posted March 26, 2016 This is sarcasm right??no, not at all. This shows a cultural change. Trade and openness do that. Like the Italian city states during the Renissance getting access to the Ancient Greek leaning through Constantinople and creating Humanism, Cuba is now a little bit more of an open society Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keepthefaith Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 no, not at all. This shows a cultural change. Trade and openness do that. Like the Italian city states during the Renissance getting access to the Ancient Greek leaning through Constantinople and creating Humanism, Cuba is now a little bit more of an open society What kind of people (referring to the Castro bros.) given the luxury in which they have lived for so long would continue to run the country in the matter in which they do? How can they not wake up one day and realize that the free world is leaving them and their people behind? What have they got to gain at this point keeping things as they are? Even if you are right that their country is a bit more open, they are on a pace which puts them further behind the rest of the world every year. Baby steps will do nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted March 26, 2016 Author Share Posted March 26, 2016 What kind of people (referring to the Castro bros.) given the luxury in which they have lived for so long would continue to run the country in the matter in which they do? How can they not wake up one day and realize that the free world is leaving them and their people behind? What have they got to gain at this point keeping things as they are? Even if you are right that their country is a bit more open, they are on a pace which puts them further behind the rest of the world every year. Baby steps will do nothing. Gotta start somewhere! And I don't agree that falling behind is the end of the world. Capitalism has a funny way of quickly making last place first. Places that our backward to start to rebuild get the newest technologies. Like Japan after World War Two rebuilt with our help and had the newest technology that they passed us in some areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Gotta start somewhere! And I don't agree that falling behind is the end of the world. Capitalism has a funny way of quickly making last place first. Places that our backward to start to rebuild get the newest technologies. Like Japan after World War Two rebuilt with our help and had the newest technology that they passed us in some areas. You never fail to embarrass yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Repost from Reply #180 Cuban Agents Crack Down On Pro-Democracy Protests After Obama Visit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted March 27, 2016 Author Share Posted March 27, 2016 President Obama rebuked GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz's proposal to patrol U.S. Muslim neighborhoods as a part of a counter-terrorism strategy as "un-American" and "counterproductive." "I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance, which, by the way, the father of Sen. Cruz escaped, for America, the land of the free," President Obama said, invoking Cruz's Cuban heritage in criticizing Cruz's proposal today. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-calls-ted-cruz-muslim-surveillance-proposal/story?id=37756098 Exactly! You never fail to embarrass yourself.as if... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 no, not at all. This shows a cultural change. Trade and openness do that. Like the Italian city states during the Renissance getting access to the Ancient Greek leaning through Constantinople and creating Humanism, Cuba is now a little bit more of an open society So you're comparing that to a Stones concert? Well I guess they are getting a taste of our culture. The culture of the rip off ticket price that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted March 28, 2016 Author Share Posted March 28, 2016 So you're comparing that to a Stones concert? Well I guess they are getting a taste of our culture. The culture of the rip off ticket price that is. Yes, culture comes in so many forms. Ticket prices are really not a rip off. The market pretty much sets the price Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Fidel Castro lectures Obama after Cuba trip http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/fidel-castro-obama-221279 Another Time In Cuba: The Forgotten Saga of Rene Arocha Townhall.com ^ | March 25, 2016 | Paul Greenberg President in the wrong place at the wrong time Canada Free Press ^ | 03/26/16 | Jeff Crouere Why the pope tried to halt the Rolling Stones concert in CubaYahoo/CSM ^ | March 27, 2016 | Lucy Schouten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 (edited) Yes, culture comes in so many forms. Ticket prices are really not a rip off. The market pretty much sets the price No. Anything over $50 to see a bunch of old farts prance around a stage from 300 yards away is a rip off. BTW I know it was a free concert. Edited March 28, 2016 by Chef Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 No. Anything over $50 to see a bunch of old farts prance around a stage from 300 yards away is a rip off. But enough about the Clinton/Sanders debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 But enough about the Clinton/Sanders debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted March 28, 2016 Author Share Posted March 28, 2016 No. Anything over $50 to see a bunch of old farts prance around a stage from 300 yards away is a rip off. BTW I know it was a free concert. Not to the people that want to pay the $50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Not to the people that want to pay the $50 What?? $50 at a Stone's show will likely get you a down payment on a T-shirt. I'm very happy with my $40 ticket and be in front of the stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 What?? $50 at a Stone's show will likely get you a down payment on a T-shirt. I'm very happy with my $40 ticket and be in front of the stage. The average state salary in Cuba rose 1 percent in 2013 to 471 pesos ($20) a month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 The average state salary in Cuba rose 1 percent in 2013 to 471 pesos ($20) a month Rock on Cuba!! The rock and roll culture feels your pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostbitmic Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 There's nothing more ridiculous than a senile communist. Yes there most certainly is .... How about the fact that the United States of America can't have a single decent candidate for President..... Hillary and Trump is about as ridiculous as it could possibly be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Obama’s Legacy Will Be Marked by His Silence on Human Rights in Cuba http://dailysign.al/25ovTUL by Ana Quintana . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Obama’s Legacy Will Be Marked by His Silence on Human Rights in Cuba http://dailysign.al/25ovTUL by Ana Quintana . No, it won't. It'll be marked by his general narcissistic incompetence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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