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On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:46:50 -0500, Califbill
wrote:

Like most regions there are good, bad. Smart, not so smart, etc. had the
pleasure to work with a very smart Cuban immigrant. Greg may have even
met him in his IBM life. Hugh Sierra. Holds a couple hundred disk drive
patents, etc. nice guy, not much love for Castro, but a love of Cuba.

Sounds like a San Jose or Boulder guy. I never worked there.

That is a pretty popular opinion of most ex-pat Cubanos.
When we were attached to Miami, I got to know lots of first generation
Cuban Americans who came here as kids in the late 50s, early 60s.
The librarian at my high school was one of those "last plane out of
Havana" sort of people who was only here a few months when she got the
job at the school. We heard, first hand, what Cuba was like before
Castro. Of course she was an upper class person so it was a rosy view.
This lady had degrees that would make Harry jealous but she was still
happy to have a library gig at Our school. After a couple years she
went off to be a professor at Georgetown or GW (one of those "George"
places). She had a charming accent but she could turn it on and off
like a switch. If she wanted to she could sound very "American".

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wrote:
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:46:50 -0500, Califbill
wrote:

Like most regions there are good, bad. Smart, not so smart, etc. had the
pleasure to work with a very smart Cuban immigrant. Greg may have even
met him in his IBM life. Hugh Sierra. Holds a couple hundred disk drive
patents, etc. nice guy, not much love for Castro, but a love of Cuba.

Sounds like a San Jose or Boulder guy. I never worked there.

That is a pretty popular opinion of most ex-pat Cubanos.
When we were attached to Miami, I got to know lots of first generation
Cuban Americans who came here as kids in the late 50s, early 60s.
The librarian at my high school was one of those "last plane out of
Havana" sort of people who was only here a few months when she got the
job at the school. We heard, first hand, what Cuba was like before
Castro. Of course she was an upper class person so it was a rosy view.
This lady had degrees that would make Harry jealous but she was still
happy to have a library gig at Our school. After a couple years she
went off to be a professor at Georgetown or GW (one of those "George"
places). She had a charming accent but she could turn it on and off
like a switch. If she wanted to she could sound very "American".


He finished in San Jose, but started on the East Coast. I worked with him
in the 80's on a RAID system, until our idiot BOD decided was not valid
product. We would have beat EMC. He would have been out of New York
before your time. He died 2011, and graduated Univ. Havana 1950.

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On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:41:54 -0400, Alex wrote:

wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/zx6wug7

I watched in on TV and it actually looked worse than this still photo.

WTF?

That *is* strange.
I spit my coffee out when his wrist flopped over like that (and it
did). It was a Lady Di move.
He acted like Raul was supposed to kiss his hand.
They should be kissing our ass. We just put a hundred million into
their economy.


None of that money will help the people there.

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Keyser Söze wrote:
On 3/23/16 12:49 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 22:23:41 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 21:21:38 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 3/22/16 9:14 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:41:54 -0400, Alex wrote:

wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/zx6wug7

I watched in on TV and it actually looked worse than this still
photo.

WTF?

That *is* strange.

I spit my coffee out when his wrist flopped over like that (and it
did). It was a Lady Di move.
He acted like Raul was supposed to kiss his hand.
They should be kissing our ass. We just put a hundred million into
their economy.


Perhaps you can be elected "Uncle Sugar."
Another non responsive brain fart
What are you saying.


That you think Cuba should be kissing our ass the way it did pre Castro
when corporations and trade groups ruled...as in big sugar. You know,
history... Uncle Sugar.

It was just a reference to the "kissing his hand joke"
Lighten up.
In real life our relationship going forward will have little sibilance
to the way it was in the 40s and 50s.
If the US actually opens up Cuban trade and they let our hoteliers get
49% of the operations (the Starwood deal) they will become a very
popular tourist destination. The money will be rolling in.
I think the next generation of Cubans will want to actually have an
economy and forget about the insanity of the Castro/US feud.
Unfortunately the loser may be South Florida. It wouldn't break my
heart if we went back to being a sleepy retiree area over on this
coast.


In a few years, there will be high-speed ocean going ferries making
the Cuba-Miami run, and at a third the price of airlines. The
Republicans, of course, will go ape**** at the idea of all those
dark-skinned Cubans coming here, some of whom will stay. After all, if
a Cuban makes it to our shores, he has asylum. Wonder how long that'll
stay on the books. :)

I work with two anti-Castro Cuban NGO's. Cubans are terrific people,
hard-working and family oriented, and many of the women are strikingly
beautiful.


You don't work. Are women from other countries all ugly?

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On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:08:42 -0400, Alex wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:41:54 -0400, Alex wrote:

wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/zx6wug7

I watched in on TV and it actually looked worse than this still photo.

WTF?

That *is* strange.
I spit my coffee out when his wrist flopped over like that (and it
did). It was a Lady Di move.
He acted like Raul was supposed to kiss his hand.
They should be kissing our ass. We just put a hundred million into
their economy.


None of that money will help the people there.

That is not really true. If they actually rebuild the 3 hotels in the
contract and that drives millions in tourism, there will be a lot of
people employed, serving those tourists.
They had a bunch of Europeans and Canadians but the difference is
Americans tip.

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On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 8:00:38 PM UTC-4, wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/zx6wug7

I watched in on TV and it actually looked worse than this still photo.

WTF?

I think he's going after the undecided gay vote for Hillary.

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On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 23:13:58 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:08:42 -0400, Alex wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:41:54 -0400, Alex wrote:

wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/zx6wug7

I watched in on TV and it actually looked worse than this still photo.

WTF?

That *is* strange.
I spit my coffee out when his wrist flopped over like that (and it
did). It was a Lady Di move.
He acted like Raul was supposed to kiss his hand.
They should be kissing our ass. We just put a hundred million into
their economy.


None of that money will help the people there.

That is not really true. If they actually rebuild the 3 hotels in the
contract and that drives millions in tourism, there will be a lot of
people employed, serving those tourists.
They had a bunch of Europeans and Canadians but the difference is
Americans tip.

The Lyft taxi company is advertising for operators on the radio up here. They make
the point in their ads that Lyft allows tipping!
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, juvenile name-callers, and narcissists...not guns!

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Keyser Söze
- show quoted text -
"Someone should tell "Alex" that we've been dealing commercially and in
tourism with communist countries for a long, long time."



That Ditzy is.......well, just Ditzy.

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On 3/25/16 5:04 PM, True North wrote:
Keyser Söze
- show quoted text -
"Someone should tell "Alex" that we've been dealing commercially and in
tourism with communist countries for a long, long time."



That Ditzy is.......well, just Ditzy.


It takes all of his limited brain power to keep track of his many
non-collectible guns.