>>>How would life be for Cuba, if it owned all the worlds oil? :)
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>>It would be the 51st state. Bay of Pigs was just for sugar companies and the Mafia. For oil we'd have taken it more seriously :-)
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>How true!
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>I was stationed at Orlando, Air Force Base, Florida, April 1960 to October 1961. While I was there the local newspaper had advertisements for B-26 pilots. For months before the invasion there was talk of what was going to happen amongst the civilian population downtown. When it occurred there was no great surprise except at the result.
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>The loss of Cuba as a playground for Americans helped to build Las Vegas, and Atlantic City.
Yeah, that is still a period of history that fascinates. Still inside the bubble of time when myth-making was a viable option. Still part of a time time when nobody asked why Jake Rubenstein was going in and out of Cuba and where David Ferrie was flying or who the clubs in Dallas kicked up to. Clay Shaw was a just the owner of the Trademart and George de Morenshildt just had a lot of interesting friends.
I always shake my head in amazement when a kid tells me history is boring :-)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
