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http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=3291411

This is a few weeks old, but I was on vacation when this occurred and forgot to post it at the time. I think this is hilarious. Too bad some of those players won't be eligible for the US National Team in the 2010 World Cup.

I keep hearing how great things are in Cuba. If things were great, you would not have defections like this and thousands of people risking their lives to cross 90 miles of open ocean.

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=3291411

This is a few weeks old, but I was on vacation when this occurred and forgot to post it at the time. I think this is hilarious. Too bad some of those players won't be eligible for the US National Team in the 2010 World Cup.

I keep hearing how great things are in Cuba. If things were great, you would not have defections like this and thousands of people risking their lives to cross 90 miles of open ocean.

Thank you for your thread and support. Here is another exsample of Cubans leaving that so called socialist paradise.

MJA.

Officials: 46 Cuban migrants reach Hollywood
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- Authorities say 46 migrants have landed ashore in Hollywood and will be allowed to remain in the United States.

Smugglers brought the migrants to Hollywood, a community more than 20 miles north of Miami. They landed ashore early Saturday.

U.S. Border Patrol Agent Lazaro Guzman says the group left from Sagua la Grande in Cuba.

They will be released once they have been interviewed.

Under U.S. "wet-foot,dry-foot" policy, Cubans who reach land are allowed to stay in the United States; those captured at sea are returned to the island.

Information from: The Miami Herald, http://www.herald.com

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While these Cubans were clearly smuggled in on fast speed boats. Others still leave Cuba on anything that floats, wooden boats, rafts, inner tubes, floating cars, trucks and taxi cabs, across 90 miles of shark infested waters.

While I have mixed feelings because the Cuban Adjustment Act helps my people. I must admit it is not fair to other immigrant groups no matter what the reasons and should be scrapped. Wet foot or dry foot.

Conditions are so good in Cuba. These Cubans must be crazy to say and do the darnest thing like leave Cuba on anything that floats cross 90 miles of shark infested waters. Now that Raul is making all these great economic reforms. Like letting them buy once forbidden products have, make the money or not. Sent by Cuban American family remittances $.

Thank you again for your thread and coments HaMedinat Yisrael.

MJA.

Clearly these players are borgwa-...bourge-...burze...
That one word Andaras uses twelve times in every post. You know.

The continuous train of Cuban citizens defecting has brought some misery to my White Sox this year. After only two games I'm wondering if Raul Castro will find the will in his black soulless heart to take Alexei Ramirez back. If Contreras has another year like last year I will also kindly ask that he return either to Cuba or New York.:p

In all seriousness, the number of people risking their lives to get to Miami says all we need to know about Cuba. People don't risk their lives to flee the US or France, but then again they are free societies where people have something called rights. They can also leave freely. That is a foreign concept in Cuba.

The bourgeoisie must be most upset. :p Too bad they aren't proletariats. You give them food, clothing, shelter, entertainment, work, and boom. Think smart, think 1984. (c) Some guy

It's not like playing soccer here is all that lucrative to begin with...