Normalized relations with Cuba means...

More Baseball players from there.

 

It means they ran out of parts for '57 Chevy's.

Also the cigar lobby has won.

 

Cigars, rum, music, baseball players, Cuban women. I can't think of a downside here.

 

After the Castros die off we'll own them too. Say hello to the 51st state. Can you say "annex", it will be just like an extension of Florida, like the furthest key.

 

means...........that a pimple on our collective conscience has been lanced... Let's play nice.
(OH Yeah!.........and great baseball players and great music and great rum and............hmmmm...I've never smoked a cigar in my life, but I've got a birthday coming up in June!)

 

Buena Vista Social Club anyone?

 

It's about **** time.

 

As much as I love the film and the musicians and their music, it destroyed the variety in the music played in the streets and bars and restaurants on the island.

The dance bands were incredibly vibrant and diverse in style and content but all the small bands played the same 3 songs ad nauseum everywhere I went during the month I spent there. I'm sure even the most uninterested tourists got tired if it, too.

I'm a bit afraid for the future, too. The people need a break but who knows what will happen if massive American investment is allowed.

 

Stogies!

 

Casinos will open again!

 

IF it means that the people will get some relief from the austere parched earth totalitarian nothingness they have endured for half a century, Bravo ! I have a Cuban friend who described to me his experience of being given a piece of chewing gum as a little boy when he got here. It was a major life experience for him. One thing he said in the very animated narrative is that there is *nothing* in Cuba.

"How's that workin' for ya" ?

 

They said on the radio this morning that most cubans can't afford to eat meat.

 

More pickles on sandwiches.

 

Ending a 50 year old policy that should have been shut down 20 years ago.
Not having to go to Mexico to get "Cuban" cigars.
A whole new market to sell stuff to.
Depending how far the internet and travel opens there, somewhere besides Brazil for American adult websites to go to film "exotic" looking women having sex.
Music and Baseball players = meh.

 

Should have been normalized back in the late 80's/early 90's.

 

Well, us Canadians are a little less pleased by normalization as it will certainly raise the price of vacations in Cuba! Currently, Cuba is the least expensive destination for snow birds looking to get out of the cold and onto a beach! "Normalization" with the U.S. will only raise the cost of everything in Cuba.
Glad I bought and paid for our trip, we leave Saturday for a week in Veradero, earlier this year, although I don't expect price will have risen as of yet.
I won't get into the politics, but I can say that after having travelled to a number of Caribbean destinations, the Cuban people that I have encountered have been the friendliest, kindest folks I have met.
Fishheadjoe

 

It means there will soon be a Wal Mart, McDonald's, and Starbucks on every corner in Havana!

 

should be plenty of vintage car enthusiasts making vacation plans