November 20, 2004
Huddled masses, yearning to breathe free

This week a number of visiting Cuban performers asked for asylum in the U.S.

Forty-three members of a Cuban dance troupe performing at a Las Vegas casino asked for asylum in the United States on Monday in the one of the biggest mass defections of entertainers from the communist country.
Meanwhile, thousands of dejected Kerry voters who are plotting their exodus from Bush's Amerika are undoubtedly asking themselves: "What's wrong with those Cuban entertainers? Don't they know that the U.S. doesn't have Cuban-style healthcare?"

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at November 20, 2004 10:28 AM
Comments

Funny that the distraught anti-Bushers aren't thinking about emigrating to Cuba.

Posted by: jtemperance on November 20, 2004 01:57 PM

Perhaps Oliver Stone could relocate to Havana. He seemed to have got along famously with Fidel. And to reciprocate, screenings of "Alexander" could be made mandatory.

Posted by: Ray Zacek on November 23, 2004 09:21 AM

Health care...Cuba??? Interesting. Then why do so many Cuban Americans continue to send millions $ in medecine and other aid to families and friends in Cuba if it is oh so good in Castro's experiment?

Posted by: Hector on November 23, 2004 12:31 PM

Of course in Canada the poem goes: "Give me your wimpy, your whiny, your self-righteous yearning to pay higher taxes. Send these, the clueless, election-tost[sic] to me, I lift my beer beside Michael Moore!"

Posted by: Bleeding heart conservative on November 24, 2004 11:11 AM

Reminds me of that old pre-1991 joke: Q. What is a strong quartet? A. A Soviet orchestra after a western tour.

Posted by: Alex Bensky on November 28, 2004 10:39 AM

i'm an 'anti-busher' (sic) and i'm considering moving to cuba. the only reason people from other countries want to come to the US is the tide of media propaganda which sells it as the land of opportunity and freedom. anyone who has spent any amount of time in america is rapidly disabused of those misapprehensions. hasta la victoria siempre, mofos.

Posted by: King Ludd on April 26, 2005 08:49 AM
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