DUDE!

From the AP ...

Havana - Fidel Castro has found something to sneeze at in Washington's decision to ease visits by Cuban-Americans to his island: He says more Americans mean more swine flu. The 83-year-old ex-president wrote in state-controlled newspapers on Saturday that many of Cuba's early cases of the virus were visitors from the United States and he used the occasion to take a jab at the U.S. embargo.

"We had the strange case where the United States on one hand authorized more trips for a large number of people carrying the virus, and on the other prohibited us from obtaining equipment and medicine to combat the virus," Castro said. He added, however, that President Barack Obama was not plotting to infect Cubans with the flu when, in April, he eased restrictions on Cuban-Americans who want to travel or send money to Cuba. "I don't think, of course, that it was the intention of the United States," Castro wrote.

And in other news ...

Havana - Sean Penn is in Castro's Cuba on another one of his political pilgrimages. This time he's seeking an interview with his hero, the communist despot Fidel Castro.

Penn scored interviews last year with two of his other secular gods: Cuban president and executioner Raúl Castro and Marxist tyrant Hugo Chavez. Now he is apparently on assignment for Vanity Fair to meet and interview Castro.

I have never liked Sean Penn. I don't think he is particularly good actor and I am amazed anyone that stupid lives.

It is a wonder of Nature the man has brain enough to breathe.

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