Actually, in America you have the right to be a consumer. That’s about it. The other stuff the government and media tell you about your rights is to make you feel good. Yeah, I am a big time cynic.

Instead of using one of the fly by night counterfeit sites that are popping up already we’ll stick to international mailings for his occasional premium Cubans. Though he finds Dominicans to be more consistent smokes he likes the Cuban tobacco better.

Talked to friends in South Florida and they think it will be easier and cheaper to remit US funds directly to Cuba vs having to use Canadian or local island intermediaries.

OMG! LOL!!

As for whether I would travel to Cuba, I really don’t think I would chance it until it is proven that someone with a big, opinionated mouth (such as myself) doesn’t risk being taken to the Cuban gulag and tortured for the next five years just for telling the truth as to how Fidel treated his adversaries, especially during the early years of the revolution. Frankly whether Fidel was instrumental in creating a literate, educated society there his brutal treatment of allies of Batista and forcing the Cuban people to live in squlaor just because he didn’t like the US and was unwilling to do what he needed to do to appease us and allow his country to enter the 20th century for his people make Fidel one cocksucking bastard that deserved the tortures he inflicted on Batista’s allies himself. I feel differently about Cuba than I do about the CIA “enhanced interrogation” techniques because in Cuba he did it to his own people. We just did it to despots that assisted in attempting to take down the US and killed 3K of our people on 9/11. Cuban torture was also much worse than what the CIA did to Al-Quida. To me there is a big difference because of those points.

You and I should be so lucky, my friend, to ever write that well. Like Wayne’s World, I am not worthy.

Agreed on Lisa Ann and hoping no lure to return. I’m hoping she’s invested her money so she doesn’t need to come back to make $800 for a blow job.

Oh ive read islands in the Stream and seen the movie, also read The Old Man and the sea and unrelated to Cuba A Farewell to Arms and I am pretty sure everything else he wrote about Cuba or not Im a huge fan of Hemingway. I wont publicly say if I have been to Cuba or not but I do believe that in the not too far future I will be there. I love the people and their passion and graciousness.

As for Lisa Ann…I agree there as well, its good to leave on top and its good to know when its time…may she not be in a position where she feels like she has to return.

Back to Hemingway, I have always read that he always wrote nude and standing up, on a typewriter…not standing on the typewriter…but you know 😉

I also know that even though the US Ambassador had urged him to move away from his home in Cuba Hemingway told him to go fuck himself, that he would do nothing of the sort. His subsequent suicide made it a moot point.

On a cruise we took a catamaran excursion and thankfully weren’t too shitfaced on the Caribbean rum punch…we heeded our deep sea diver buddy’s cautionary warning to take pictures but don’t eat the beachside dinner the sailor prepared for us.

All I know is that doing what we’ve done for 50 years has done little more than appease a very vocal minority. What’s the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over – perhaps for 50 years – expecting a different result.

On another note – I saw the Lisa Ann is retiring from performing at the end of 2014. I must say, she has given me many hours of pleasure over the years. Its good to see a porn performer go out on top, and on her own terms. I hope Julia Ann, Nina and Raylene are as fortunate.

Not so at all DB google Ciguatera. where I fish it isnt a big issue in Cuban waters it is. it does effect pelagics like Barracuda in the gulf and atlantic waters and its why you dont eat them unless they are very small