Comments on: Hunger Strike for Free Speech in Cuba

By: Preston

Preston — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:25:18 +0000

I had a chance to win my pool if Villanova had won- now the best I can do is 3rd.

Strategy: game theory! I didn’t put Duke in the Final Four knowing that everyone else would. If West Virginia had just beaten Texas I would have looked like a freakin genius. If it wasn’t for that meddling Paulino…

(UCLA was my only Final Four pick too…)

Go Patriots!

By: Robbie

Robbie — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:00:30 +0000

Yeah, my brackets are blown — but luckily for me, so is everybody else’s.

I won one of my brackets and took second in another (already, without even having to play the final four games) by simply being the only person in either of my brackets to pick a single Final Four participant (UCLA).

By: Preston

Preston — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:40:57 +0000

I hope to make it to Costa Rica sometime. I suppose from New York Puerto Rico is quite a bit easier to get to- I need to go to Vieques before it is too overrun (too late?).

O/T-
I guess your NCAA bracket is blown now?

By: Robbie

Robbie — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:30:30 +0000

I’ve spent months in Costa Rica — do you realize that they don’t even have a standing army? I’m a firm believer that whatever economic policies they’re using down there are working brilliantly, and are a great success.

But your point is well taken about the economics of just about any other Latin American country.

By: Preston

Preston — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:44:55 +0000

HA! I hadn’t heard about Saddam’s epic hunger strike…

I hope the best for Mr. Farinas. Believe it or not liberals want the dictatorship in Cuba to end. It doesn’t take a foreign policy genius to see that our policies over the last 40 years have been utterly ineffective though.

You really have to be a true believer to think that economic policies in Latin America outside of Cuba have been a great success. I admire their attempts to provide health care and education to their citizens at levels unseen elsewhere in South America. Alas, in Castro’s hands the cost has been too high.

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