tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34496910.post9001357973023143255..comments2023-11-02T05:39:15.915-04:00Comments on José Martí Blog: "News of Fidel's Death Spreads Like Bushfire"Manuel A.Tellecheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34496910.post-80235885901726519912015-01-27T16:30:03.088-05:002015-01-27T16:30:03.088-05:00Christian:
I saw it at midnight five minutes afte...Christian:<br /><br />I saw it at midnight five minutes after Fidel's apocryphal statement was posted. It didn't interest me. Not in the least. You, on the other, have a working brain.Manuel A.Tellecheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34496910.post-24695679332574906992015-01-27T15:03:11.027-05:002015-01-27T15:03:11.027-05:00Surely Castro is more deserving of your usual line...Surely Castro is more deserving of your usual line-by-line annotated public censure than IAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16518595098570193639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34496910.post-3941618154895358442015-01-27T10:03:24.323-05:002015-01-27T10:03:24.323-05:00He's back http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/ripti...He's back http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2015/01/fidel_castro_isnt_dead_after_all_el_comandante_releases_statement_praising.phpAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16518595098570193639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34496910.post-79319320924507901412015-01-17T16:09:00.490-05:002015-01-17T16:09:00.490-05:00Manuel:
Hahaha-Odinga does rhyme well with a cert...Manuel:<br /><br />Hahaha-Odinga does rhyme well with a certain word mostly in our vocabulary, right you are when you say Cubans will be saying Odinga! Throug milenia, wicked and funny.<br /><br />Am sure the Cuban Odinga was not pleased when he heard of his tocayo...hahaha!.Vanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08340793573089792646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34496910.post-19620943390058054572015-01-17T08:34:33.632-05:002015-01-17T08:34:33.632-05:00Vana:
Instead of to Maradonna, Fidel Castro (or w...Vana:<br /><br />Instead of to Maradonna, Fidel Castro (or whoever channels his maleficent spirit) should have sent a letter of condolence to former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga for the death of his son and Fidel's namesake Fidel Castro Odinga. That would have had the additional advantage of explicating, in the most subtle manner, that the media had confused Fidels: "I only wish it had been this Fidel, who awaits the reward of many years and struggles, rather than your young and promising Fidel. who honored me by carrying my name." <br /><br />It would also have been a friendly gesture on Fidel's part to a Kenyan relative of President Obama's, which could have been interpreted as an endorsement of Obama's unconditional surrender to Raúl. Manuel A.Tellecheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34496910.post-64861427187026953872015-01-17T00:50:41.987-05:002015-01-17T00:50:41.987-05:00Vana:
One thousand years from now Cubans will sti...Vana:<br /><br />One thousand years from now Cubans will still be saying ¡Odinga! while linguists and ethnologists will wonder — why? Perhaps some expert will suggest that "odinga" is a local contraction of mandingo which was originally used to denote great surprise at something which exceeded one's expectations.Manuel A.Tellecheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34496910.post-15355052270723333422015-01-17T00:27:49.021-05:002015-01-17T00:27:49.021-05:00Vana:
Fidel Castro has accomplished two of the th...Vana:<br /><br />Fidel Castro has accomplished two of the three great goals of his devilish life and seems certain to attain the final one, soon: (1) he has overseen a dynastic transition in Cuba (whether he did this in a state of consciousness or not is irrelevant); (2) he has witnessed the Yankees' unconditional surrender, after waiting 56 years for an American president with a tad less backbone than Carter and a slightly smaller brain than Gerald Ford's; and, finally, he has all but secured his ambition to be the one and only Cuban dictator to die in his own bed (secula seculorum). <br /><br />His death, at any time, would be anti-climatic; but not on that account less welcome. Even just to know that he no longer inhabits the same planet as we do, is, in itself, sufficient reason to wish him gone. And if his stay can be foreshortened by even one minute, let it be done by all means. If that extra minute means that even one Cuban will learn of Castro's death before himself expiring, let it be.Manuel A.Tellecheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637085685599554349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34496910.post-22461110147578477032015-01-16T17:38:35.487-05:002015-01-16T17:38:35.487-05:00Manuel:
At least he was sent off with an ode, mur...Manuel:<br /><br />At least he was sent off with an ode, murdered? I doubt it. I remember when you introduced him to us at RCAB, later in Alexis Valdez show they came up with the jingle...La cosa esta de Odinga.<br /><br />Now about the other Odinga, the last time rumors spread about his passing they brought him out for the world to see, this time all we have is Maradonas letter, which I find hard to believe.<br /><br />Vanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08340793573089792646noreply@blogger.com