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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #1050 - Feb 14^th, 2008 at 5:00pm That's very true, Stewie. I bet they never thought of that! -b0b (...just finished reading World War Z.)
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Reply #1051 - Feb 19^th, 2008 at 8:31am

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Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Fidel Castro resigned as president and commander-in-chief of Cuba, after almost 50 years as the country's leader, the official daily Granma said.

``I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander-in-chief,'' Castro wrote, according to Granma in its online edition. ``My only desire is to fight as a soldier for my ideas.''

Castro, 81, seized power in Cuba almost a half-century ago promising liberty and economic justice only to turn the Caribbean island into a communist bastion and a flashpoint of the Cold War.

The resignation should be ``the beginning of a democratic transition for the people of Cuba,'' President George W. Bush said in a news conference in Kigali, Rwanda, and promised U.S. help. The international community should support ``free and fair elections, and I mean free and I mean fair, not these kinds of staged elections that the Castro brothers try to foist off.''

Raul Castro has been acting president since July 2006, when Fidel handed control to him after undergoing surgery to treat an intestinal ailment. Castro failed to attend the May Day parade in Havana last year, missing the celebration for only the third time since taking power in 1959.

Eh being dictator is boring. Screw you guys, I'm going home.

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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #1052 - Feb 19^th, 2008 at 8:35am Ya got to give it to him though...after 9 Presidents all calling for his head and defeating CIA plots, Mob plots, and former Cuban plots on his life...he takes himself out of power. I mean the irony should not be lost because it just makes me giggle. X (Tee hee hee)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #1053 - Feb 19^th, 2008 at 8:55am Wow, today would be a good day to buy a lottery ticket. I thought Fidel was going to stay in power until he fell over dead. Stewie makes a good point, though. Fidel has dodged a lot of bullets (both figuratively and literally) over the past fifty years. -b0b (...Bay of Pigs, anyone?)
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #1054 - Feb 19^th, 2008 at 8:56am Quote: I though Fidel ERROR ERROR!!! Take that you homo!
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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #1055 - Feb 19^th, 2008 at 8:59am Now we know for sure the Grammar Nazi has defected to Mother Russia. He's already started to get sloppy.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #1056 - Feb 19^th, 2008 at 9:04am I have no idea what you're talking about. -b0b (...whistles innocently.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #1057 - Feb 19^th, 2008 at 9:05am MediaMaster wrote on Feb 19^th, 2008 at 8:59am: Now we know for sure the Grammar Nazi has defected to Mother Russia. He's already started to get sloppy. In Russia, I get paid the same regardless of my quality of work. Why exert myself? -b0b (...stupid communism.)
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #1058 - Feb 19^th, 2008 at 9:13am Why are you getting paid in the glory of communism? Every just takes what is needed and no one takes more than that. Everything should be free with communism and we all work for the greater good.... the greater good.... X
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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #1059 - Feb 19^th, 2008 at 9:20am That bunny girl scares me. She has no nose... and shes really just thrusting the AK back and forth. I guess thats how bob likes it...
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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #1060 - Feb 19^th, 2008 at 9:23am Bunny girl is trying to make love to the butt end of the rifle...that scares me.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #1061 - Feb 19^th, 2008 at 9:36am MediaMaster wrote on Feb 19^th, 2008 at 9:20am: I guess thats how bob likes it... Admittedly, it is kinda hot. -b0b (...blushes.)
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Reply #1062 - Feb 20^th, 2008 at 8:32am

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NEW DELHI (AFP) - - Another Middle East undersea Internet cable has been damaged, adding to disruption in Indian online services caused when several lines were cut earlier this week, a cable operating firm said Saturday.

The Falcon cable was cut 56 kilometres (35 miles) from Dubai, between Oman and the United Arab Emirates, according to its owner FLAG Telecom, part of India's Reliance Communications.

The company said on its website that a repair ship had been notified and was expected to arrive at the site in the next few days.

The cause of the latest cable damage was not immediately known.

Dare I say...the war on the telemarketers has begun?!

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spanky Post Whore FTP Server Offline Posts: 1540 Detroit-ish Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #1063 - Feb 20^th, 2008 at 12:54pm tap tap Is this thing on? As much as it pains me to say, maybe China isn't as awful as I tell people it is.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Interesting News Article Thread Reply #1064 - Feb 20^th, 2008 at 3:46pm spanky wrote on Feb 20^th, 2008 at 8:32am: Dare I say...the war on the telemarketers has begun?! If by "telemarketers" you mean "everybody that uses a phone or data line," then yes, you're absolutely right. -b0b (...rofflecakes.)
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