El Presidente Resigns (Not Re-Signs)

yeah, just like our president and his staff does

President Clinton had extra medical attention too and even put in a jogging path that you paid for.

I hope you were joking.

i wasn't. no one that runs any country, or has money, normally waits for anything. i wasn't picking on that moron that happens to be in the white house right now. none of presidents have to wait. i was referring to firstdown. he made it sound like a big deal that Castro doesn't have to wait for his medical attention

I was laughing my ass off when I heard word "resign" yesterday cause I didn't really know a dictator could resign! Anywho, his resignation letter (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-cuba-castro-text,1,3295710.story) was even funnier:

For many years I occupied the honorable position of president. On Feb. 15, 1976, the Socialist Constitution was approved with the free, direct and secret vote of over 95 percent of eligible voters. The first National Assembly was established on Dec. 2 that same year, and it elected the State Council and its presidency. Before that, I had been a prime minister for almost 18 years. I always had the necessary prerogatives to carry forward the revolutionary work with the support of the overwhelming majority of the people.

good evening hoo. how is school going?

Just saw your post, but school is going well it is the internship search that currently is very difficult.

I am looking for consulting internships and having a tough time, but hey I guess that is life.

Assassination plots and schemes: Castro in the crosshairs - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/19/castro.top10/index.html)

Assassination plots and schemes: Castro in the crosshairs - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/19/castro.top10/index.html)

There are some seriously hare brained ideas there. Didn't/doesn't our CIA have either better things to do or more intelligence to come up with more reasonable ideas?

No wonder they blew the WMDs. They were probably too busy reading books on indigenous cacti which they could rig to blow up when Osama went to take a pee.

There are some seriously hare brained ideas there. Didn't/doesn't our CIA have either better things to do or more intelligence to come up with more reasonable ideas?

No wonder they blew the WMDs. They were probably too busy reading books on indigenous cacti which they could rig to blow up when Osama went to take a pee.

I'm sure a lot of those were intended to be very off the wall "Ok, let's just go around the room and each of you throw out your most extreme idea."

The CIA is an interesting group. For all we know amongst us here on the Warpath is an undercover CIA operative (Hooskins, I'm looking in your direction)

I'm sure a lot of those were intended to be very off the wall "Ok, let's just go around the room and each of you throw out your most extreme idea."

The CIA is an interesting group. For all we know amongst us here on the Warpath is an undercover CIA operative (Hooskins, I'm looking in your direction)

Muahaha, and all along you thought I was a silly college student.

On a related note, I took a history class called "history of espionage" taught by an ex-CIA guy. We talked about all the crazy ways people tried to kill Castro, including poisoning drinks. One story was how the CIA got to get one of Castro's mistresses to try to kill him. Castro found out or something and gave her the gun and told her too assassinate him, but she couldn't because he was "too amazing" and she loved him too much or something. Crazy stuff. Apparently there is museum in Cuba where Fidel has displays for every US failed assignation attempt.

It is just comically embarrassing.

I'm sure a lot of those were intended to be very off the wall "Ok, let's just go around the room and each of you throw out your most extreme idea."

The CIA is an interesting group. For all we know amongst us here on the Warpath is an undercover CIA operative (Hooskins, I'm looking in your direction)

I know it just sounded so kooky.

Muahaha, and all along you thought I was a silly college student.

On a related note, I took a history class called "history of espionage" taught by an ex-CIA guy. We talked about all the crazy ways people tried to kill Castro, including poisoning drinks. One story was how the CIA got to get one of Castro's mistresses to try to kill him. Castro found out or something and gave her the gun and told her too assassinate him, but she couldn't because he was "too amazing" and she loved him too much or something. Crazy stuff. Apparently there is museum in Cuba where Fidel has displays for every US failed assignation attempt.

It is just comically embarrassing.

I took a class that sounds pretty similar. It was called 'radical change' and we discussed all sorts of revolutions through history and obviously Cuba was a big topic. Our prof told us something about someone trying to use an exploding cigar to try to kill Castro.