609 candidates who ran uncontested for parliament were “elected” Monday with a 97 percent voter turnout.
In unrelated new, 3% of Cuba’s population has mysteriously died.
I’ve always had mixed feelings on sham elections. On one hand, they are an insult to our hard fought for democracy, but, on the other hand, at least we have such an influence on the world that evil dictators feel that have to hold these sham elections in a feeble attempt to impress us. It would just be nice if the news stories about them were more honest and to the point, though:
“Cuba held a phony election today to impress dumb people worldwide with the false notion that they are a democracy and not just a bunch of goddamn Commies. If you actually think the election reflects popular support, then – this just in – you’re a jackass!”
It really is stupid that here in the 21st century we still have Commies so close to our great nation. I thought by now we’d have moving walkways, flying cars, and tons of shallow Commie graves. At least Cuba is nice and local, though, to give our troops Commie-killing training before we eventually move on to North Korea and China and kill them good too.
Then again, after we kill all the Commies, life will be pretty boring. Well, we’ll still probably have terrorists to kick around, but, man, they just don’t compare to the Soviets I had to fear when I grew up.
sigh
Did you know that one of those elected officials is also Elian Gozales’ (spelling?) father? Weird isn’t it?
Yeah, I knew. Part of the spectacle of it all.
Amen to that Brother.
I lived in West Germany for 3 years as a kid. These punks these days don’t even know who the commies were. I used to do nuclear drills at school and always had to have a bag packed that was good for two days in case of invasion. They used to show us aircraft silouettes in school and tell us to tell somebody if we saw warsaw pact aircraft.
I miss the Soviets too.