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I thought it was a really nice touch and a nice gesture to the USMC that the original flag from 1961 was used for the re-opening and they found 3 of the original USMC flag party that took down the flag when the embassy closed in 1961. They passed the flag to the current flag party to be hoisted. So, well done State Department or whoever....
"Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional"
" A hobby should pass the time - not fill it" -Norman Bates
Apropos of nothing, but...
What a great culture. I was at a three day jazz festival last weekend. Two major Cuban Jazz artists, not the Buena Vista act that a US label owns. It's on my list for the next year or two to go there before it becomes South Florida.
On the political side, since a foreigner asked, the move takes away a talking point in the elections.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
Anyone up for a road trip to Cuba to snatch up a couple of classic cars they're still driving? I find it so amazing they still drive those classic cars and the means to keep them driving to this day. Cuba is a timeless time capsule when it comes to automobiles.
"Yank Tanks".
I read somewhere they used Russian parts to keep them running.
Some years ago PBS broadcast a program on those old cars and how the Cuban owners found ways to maintain them.
The most interesting section was a demonstration by one Cuban entrepreneur who used his hands to scoop asbestos powder out of a plastic bag and then poured the asbestos powder with a binder into a brake pad mold. He then applied pressure to mold them into the brake shoe shape needed for his customer's car.
Sure wish they'd show that program again, but it may not have been created in Hi Def.
I was born in Cuba and can tell you that those cars that you see are mostly have been Frankensteined by using Russian and other Eastern Block country parts from autos , tractors, etc. Pistons are made from melted pots and pans or whatever they can scrounge up. Bearings and other parts are taken from God knows where.
Too many models to build, not enough time in a lifetime!!
I like the fact that Fidel and Raoul have both committed suicide, and a constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech, assembly, religion has been adopted by the Cuban people.
Oh, wait, right, that hasn't happened.
The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.
First MacDonalds opens on Malacon, it's all over for that crew.
the Baron I like the fact that Fidel and Raoul have both committed suicide, and a constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech, assembly, religion has been adopted by the Cuban people. Oh, wait, right, that hasn't happened.
And it never will.
seems to me it has a better chance of becoming another Puerto Rican style economy..........if it isn't already.
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