DAILY LIFE IN CUBA

Brian and I were listening to a conservative talk radio show and heard an interview with one of the "occupy anywhere" idiots in NY say that they wanted a government like Cuba. Cuba was a wonderful place to live they said. Well, Brian found this wonderful expose about Cuba, something everyone in America should read as well.

From cartadecuba.org
There is not only one Cuba. There are several. One for the ruling class and another for tourists, diplomats and other foreign visitors. These two are very similar. However, there is another country for those who do not receive any of the $800 million dollars sent yearly to the island by Miami-based exiles, and who do not have relatives working in foreign corporations or mixed-capital enterprises. Those who are forced to live, along with their families, solely with national currency, with no access to dollar-based stores. This text concerns such people. Because there are other Cubas, smaller and forgotten.

Please go and read the rest of the story. I love the following list of food rationing that occurs in the wonderful country of Cuba. I wonder what that "occupy anywhere" idiot would do if they were told they could not have a mocha latte ever again. :(

Distribution of food and other products under the Rationing Card {libreta de racionamiento} in Havana:
Monthly, per person: 6 pounds of rice 3 pounds of brown sugar 3 pounds of refined sugar 20 ounces of beans (green peas or lentils) 12 ounces of coffee Half a liter of oil (every two or three months) 10 ounces of salt One quarter pound of ground beef/soy mixture Half a pound of mortadella (every two months) 1 pound of fish 6 eggs 1 bar of laundry soap (every two months) 1 bar of bath soap (every two months) 1, 80-gram, loaf of soft bread, (daily) 1 tube of toothpaste (every two months for three people)

Show Notes: 05-03-2012

Links for Uncooperative Radio Show: Thursday 05/03/12

What is the INH?
The predecessor of the NIH began in 1887 as the Laboratory of Hygiene. It grew and was reorganized in 1930 by the Ransdell Act into the National Institute of Health (singular at the time).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health#History

What is the INH funding?
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES TRAINING IN DRUG ABUSE RESEARCH (funding for year 2011 - $847,690) Grant given to the study of The Association between Penis Size and Sexual Health among Men WHave Sex with Men
http://traditionalvalues.org/data/sites/73/pd/_Summary%20of%20NIH%20Grants_01_FINAL.pdf

Will Border Patrol Agent Stand Trial In Mexico?
The Governor of Chihuahua announced he will ask the state to extradite the Border Patrol agent who killed a teen on the border almost two years ago.
http://usopenborders.com/2012/05/will-border-patrol-agent-stand-trial-in-mexico-2/ Obama

IRS Refunding Billions to Illegals Who Are Claiming Kids...
In Mexico Investigative television reporter Bob Segall of Indianapolis NBC affiliate WTHR TV Channel 13, was contacted by a long-time central Indiana tax preparer, who blew the whistle on a multi-billion dollar tax fraud about which the IRS has done nothing, according to the TV news show video segment that aired on Monday.
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/05/beautiful-obama-irs-refunding-billions.html

Emboldened Latin America parts ways with Canada and US on Cuba and drugs
CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA- The subjects might not have been to Stephen Harper or Barack Obama’s taste, but the exclusion of Cuba and the war on drugs dominated the discussion among hemispheric leaders at the opening of the Summit of the Americas.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1161752--emboldened-latin-america-parts-ways-with-canada-u-s-on-cuba-and-drugs

Us soldier dies of rabies after dog bite in Afghanistan
A 24-year-old American soldier died of rabies after being bitten by a dog last year in Afghanistan, US health officials said Thursday following an investigation into the rare case.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/05/03/us-soldier-dies-rabies-after-dog-bite-in-afghanistan/?test=latestnews

Panetta: climate change national security threat
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming a national security threat yesterday during a speech before an environmentalist group in Washington, D.C. http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/panetta-climate-change-national-security-threat/518336

We have got to take our States back NOW!!

I just got off the phone with my Montana State Transportation Dept. Why was I calling them? Well, in my state, citizens that use gas for "off road" use are entitled to a refund from the state tax we paid on that gas. My state is primarily an agricultural state so there is a large majority of farms and ranches that use gas for their farm equipment, which never see pavement, among other things that use gas. But the refund is for anyone that uses gas not intended for vehicles that drive on the roads and highways of Montana. (boats, ATV's, snowmobiles and jet skiis are exempt, I know how stupid is that, they never see pavement either)

I apply for the refund every year because I use gas to run our generator for our electrical use. And since I am not a business or a farm/ranch I never had to submit my gas receipts unless something did not jive and they asked me for them. Until now.

I was told today by the helpful man who handles these refunds that I must submit every gas receipt for the year that I was requesting a refund. Each receipt must have my name and address on it. When I asked him why I had to do that this year and not all the other years I had been requesting a refund, he told me that the federal government ie; the IRS had come to the State of Montana and told the State they were changing the rules surrounding the State gas refund.

The first thing I said to this helpful man was that we need to take our State back from the federal government. He said "I agree one hundred percent". This from a state employee!! He told me that the IRS was also requiring businesses, farms and ranches fill out IRS forms so that the federal government can tax the gas refund. Yeppers folks, the federal government wants to tax a State refund. It's a wonderful life huh?

Anyway, I was also told by this helpful man that his boss was so afraid they would loose their job that they told the IRS agent that they would do anything to accommodate the federal government. So what was the response from the IRS agent to this submission? We'll be back in four months. (Don't want to loose those federal highway funds, nope nope nope)

How many other sneaky policies are being instituted across this great Republic against the States? How many State bureaucrats are folding like cheap lawn chairs to the will of the federal government?

I keep all of my receipts so this is just going to be an inconvenience for me. But it should be an inconvenience brandished upon me because of my States' decision, not some pencil pushing federal dope located somewhere in Washington DC. We better wake up people, things are getting dicey.

By Susan Frances Bonner

Congress to Probe Improper FBI Data Collection

This was an abuse of the patriot act...

From The Las Vegas Sun:

Congress wants to know how the FBI illegally or improperly gathered telephone, e-mail and financial records of Americans and foreigners while chasing terrorists.

Glenn A. Fine, the Justice Department inspector general who revealed FBI data-gathering abuses in a 130-page report last week, was to appear before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The panel also called FBI General Counsel Valerie Caproni, whose office was taken to task by Fine for inadequate supervision of the bureau's use of documents called national security letters to gather data.

In a review of headquarters files and a sampling of just four of the FBI's 56 field offices, Fine found 48 violations of law or presidential directives during 2003-2005 and estimated that "a significant number of ... violations throughout the FBI have not been identified or reported."

The bureau has launched an audit of all 56 field offices to determine the full extent of the problem.

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee hears from Fine and FBI Director Robert Mueller on the same topic.

A key concern in Congress is whether the USA Patriot Act, which substantially loosened controls over the letters, should be revised.

I am really sick and tired of the level of incompetence in our governmental bureaucracy. I know the Left is going to make this all about the Bush administration, but it is not. It is about the FBI being totally incompetent. You know there are allot of people that do not like the Patriot Act, so you be extra careful and dot all your eyes and cross your tees. That used to be common sense, now it is uncommon sense. People in this country are really starting to concern me.