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Fidel Castro "retiring" as Cuba’s dictator in chief isn’t the end of the story. Nothing has changed, and chances are …

It seems like every second or third post that’s come across the feed reader has the news of Cuban dictator Fidel Cast…

He hasn’t been seen publicly in over a year, ceding power to his brother Raul in July of 2006. Now it has been offici…

Not Osama

Not President "Tom"

This evening it’s F. "Bernie" Castro, and…

I had planned to post more today. I should have had the time. It just didn’t work out that way.
Of course the big news is the cease-fire in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. To discribe this as fragile would be overstating reality.
Also in the Mid East is the story of the two FOX-TV [...]

Forgive me if I quote the whole story, but this is the shortest AP piece I’ve ever seen:
HAVANA - Raul Castro made his first public appearance since being named Cuba’s provisional president, greeting Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez at the airport Sunday.
I’m guessing that further details will be forthcoming.

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I guess he looks alive. He’s probably getting ready to take a little jog on his 80th birthday. The picture is just ripe for some fisking, photoshopping (if it hasn’t been already) or captioning.

CNN is reporting this from the U.S. State Dept.:
The prolonged disappearance of Fidel Castro from public view indicates that the Cuban president is confronting “serious” health problems, a senior U.S. State Department official said Friday.
Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon, briefing reporters, also said he believes that Castro’s attempt to turn over power to his [...]