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Judi Lynn

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11. What good is health, a long life, education, sense of community, no homelessness,

Reply to Mika (Reply #10)

Fri Aug 29, 2014, 10:01 PM

Aug 2014

if you can't whip around fast anytime you want, and troll the hell out of progressives?

Life would have no meaning, Mika, for a small cluster we know!

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Imagine: Cuba [View all] Judi Lynn Aug 2014 OP

Imagine the shittiest internet access on the planet. MADem Aug 2014 #1

How many articles with the address of the author do you see? n/t Judi Lynn Aug 2014 #2

Read what you posted--the author provides his location (in a fashion). nt MADem Aug 2014 #5

Typical answer from you. Mika Aug 2014 #3

Tossing personal insults because I dare to offer a factual observation? MADem Aug 2014 #4

An hour? Factual? You are clueless. Mika Aug 2014 #6

Now, see, YOU can use that when you're defending your viewpoint of Cuba Marksman_91 Aug 2014 #12

If she's talking to her Cuban friends on text/facebook, she's friends with members of the regime. MADem Aug 2014 #15

Are you referring to DU'er Mika as a "she"? Wrong. Ask DU'ers who've read his posts for years. Judi Lynn Aug 2014 #16

Mika is a woman's name. If Mika is a male and I've addressed him the wrong way, he can tell me. MADem Aug 2014 #17

I already have addressed my male gender with you. You forgot. Mika Aug 2014 #19

Well, do pardon me. It wasn't an intentional mischaracterization. I'll try to do better in future. MADem Aug 2014 #20

Zun-Zeneo was using cellphone text messages. No internet access was involved. n/t Oele Sep 2014 #22

REALLY? Your "Cuban Friends" are thick as thieves with the Castro regime, then. MADem Aug 2014 #14

Uniformed and mostly uniteligible. Mika Aug 2014 #18

You don't have to be "personal friends with Fidel himself" to have influence within the oligarchy. MADem Aug 2014 #21

Cuban internet access EX500rider Sep 2014 #24

Cubans have been able to buy computers since 2008. Mika Sep 2014 #26

DU is still rife with crusty old Cold Warriors, you see Scootaloo Sep 2014 #27

Found an article you may not have seen: "Cuba's Model of Development: Lessons for Global Education" Judi Lynn Aug 2014 #7

But but but, without high speed internets all of that is meaningless. Mika Aug 2014 #10

What good is health, a long life, education, sense of community, no homelessness, Judi Lynn Aug 2014 #11

Here's where he seems to get his best material! Judi Lynn Sep 2014 #23

Why doesn't that seem to be a problem in huge reports by groups like the U.N.? Judi Lynn Aug 2014 #9

Yeah..."huge reports from the UN!" MADem Aug 2014 #13

Cuba tops the class in UN development report Judi Lynn Aug 2014 #8

"a crippling economic blockade" EX500rider Sep 2014 #25

Pulling out the old canard, I see. Mika Sep 2014 #28

Blockade. EX500rider Sep 2014 #29

Yes words do have meanings. Sometimes more than one. Imagine that. Mika Sep 2014 #30

Yes there is a embargo...no there is not a blockade. EX500rider Sep 2014 #31

Exactly, a US embargo Marksman_91 Sep 2014 #32

A couple of f'r instances taken from earlier discussions DU'ers have had here re: US embargo on Cuba Judi Lynn Sep 2014 #33