Wolf,

I have climbed and skiied Mt. Shasta 3 times....In one month. Lassen, Hood and Rainier.......Probably the only man to do this alone.
I tried Mt. Cook in New Zealand when I was there....No go...
I always tried to get a group of like minded individuals for my adventures. Hard to find.
It's better to share an adventure, really.
But, the bold are few.

When you get done with Downhill ski racing, Pro ski racing, mountain climbing, flying, skydiving and raising two daughters......Oh, and 4 businessess
I think I have a perspective of life.

Time, is a precious commodity.

The time you spend watching, thinking and talking about Juan Williams, is time you could be spending on adventures like fishing in Alaska, or kayaking the San Marcus River in Texas, or driving the Pacific Coast Hiway in California or Oregon.

You could be four wheel driving through Titus Canyon in Death Valley, or walking down the strip in Las Vegas, or maybe even watching the milky way from my camp on Sweetwater Creek.

Watching Juan Williams On TV, is a monumental waste of your precious time.

Get out on that road brother, and witness this beautiful land we call America.


It's all waiting for you.

Leave Juan Williams for the dullards, dweebs and demonized democrats.

As far as that goes since the end of WW-ll The US is responsible for at least six million people and possibly 15-20 million no way of telling we carpet bombed Laos for eleven years and wiped out a whole generation of young men in Laos. The history of US domination of Latin America by the US Marines on behalf of Wall Street banks and corporations prior to WW-ll is sickening

You mKE SOME POINTS, BUT YOU
What good has Fidel done for Cuba?
The émigré community in the US would answer in a single word, none. They point to the economic problems of the island, its denial of political diversity, and its dreadful human rights record. But the Castro model of socialism can point to achievements as well. Despite its scant resources, Cuba has fashioned education and health care systems that would be the envy of far richer countries. Illiteracy has been eradicated, while life expectancy at birth in Cuba is about the same as in the US, despite healthcare spending per capita one 20th the size of that of its giant neighbour. The key has been a localized system of medicine, that puts a heavy emphasis on preventive treatment. More broadly, Castro has given Cuba a real sense of national identity. In this he has been unwittingly helped by the US, whose 45 years of persecution of Cuba have served to strengthen, not weaken, the regime.

What damage has he done?
A great deal, unfortunately. Castro was hugely popular when he swept the former dictator Fulgencio Batista from power in 1959. But the price of "Socialism or Death" has been the ruthless suppression of personal and political freedoms. Some of Cuba's problems are due to the travel and economic and financial embargo from the US, tightened further by President Bush. The fatal misstep, however, came early on, when Cuba adopted the Soviet model of development, and yoked itself thereafter to Moscow for aid and economic support. The collapse of the Soviet Union was a grievous blow. Since 1991 the country has dabbled in economic liberalization, and encouraged investment from Europe, Canada, Latin America and most lately China. But it has hit the dilemma faced by every authoritarian regime: how do you free up the system without undermining the monopoly of technology and information on which the regime rests? The fax machine, it is said, helped destroy the Soviet Union. The internet could do the same for Cuba.

Nickolai wrote: Don't call me pal. I know all that s**t. .....

In the answer you gave to Harpooner1, I perceive that you did not like to be treated as a "pal" and you do very well because that word is synonymous with "mate" (compañero) used by the c*******ts in Cuba to treat themselves and not copy the Russians who used the word "Tovarich" (comrade), another synonymous of the same word. It is right that you do not accept this treatment, because it may imply that you are a c*******t and that would mean accepting the definition that I have read somewhere about what is a c*******t and I quote: "The c*******t is the one who accustoms to lie knowing that his interlocutor knows that what he is saying is a lie and still pretends to be believed ".
I think you are not a c*******t, because you begin to admit that the Castro brothers are dictators and you know all that s**t; but that you are an admirer of the Cuban Revolution and are not well informed of the reality that has been lived and is still lived in Cuba. Most of the admirers of that revolution, inside and outside of Cuba are taking distance from it, and many find it difficult to recognize that they have been deceived by a mirage. The expression, "All that glitters is not gold" implies great wisdom; It should also be remembered that there is the "gold of fools" and if you consider information as gold, the one given by the Cuban government to the UN is like a photograph, which is not completely false but has been properly retouched. In Cuba the principles of Fidel Castro are followed and he liked to: "Turn defeat into victory."
For years, in Cuba teachers were required to demonstrate their work by promoting their pupils to the next grade and it was the case that when the pupil had not acquired the necessary knowledge he was promoted to the next grade. This resulted in the students finishing the pre-university level and were semi-illiterate; and for that reason, a few years ago the practice that anyone could accede to the university with the pre-university certificate was discontinued and was established that the entrance to the university was subject to passing examinations in different subjects, as it was the case that many university students were not properly prepared to be able to acquire other knowledge in the unversity. In giving the fifth place in the UN, many things have not been taken into account and the gold shown has been thar of fools.

Don't call me pal pal I know all that s**t. If the US is not partly responsible for Cuba's poverty then why did they try and starve the people into submission ad force them to over throw Castro I know all that s**t but there is no evidence Castro enriched himself at the peoples expense like so many dictators do. I'm not defending Castro as I've already stated he was a dictator but the Cuban people had been exploited by the Spanish for centuries and following the Spanish American war The US backed a series of right wing dictators until Castro's revolution I once watched a Cuban exile interviewed on TV The reporter asked --if Castro is so bad why don't you people o*******w him. The guy said but we don't have gones we don't have an army. Well neither did Castro all he had was a handful of revolutionary's that were willing to die to free the Cuban people rom capitalist imperialism. When the word went out men flocked to Castro's side and when he came down from the mountains he had an army and they had guns from raiding government outposts, and when the army saw them coming they threw guns away and ran for their life. The wealthy plantation owners and other economic elites jumped into their yachts and fled to Miami, those who weren't fast enough faced the firing squads and we watched the executions on our TV screens.

Nancy should be asked if it is worth giving those people who refused to live responsibly and take care of their health, who now wants the rest of us to pay for what they caused to be needed, by bankrupting the nation, and putting 95 million Americans of working age out of work, and also forcing those who were responsible and protected their health, and who doesn't want or need any healthcare to purchase it just so those who do want and need it can supposedly buy it cheaper (the big lie told by Obama and the Democrats, because what they have forced on all Americans is much more expensive than ever, and isn't needed to be, and whose costs can be brought way down and put under control by the healthcare that the Repiblicans want to pass once Obamacare - the Affordable Care Act, the biggest misnomer and oxymoron title that the Democrats have ever pinned on a law that does the opposite that it's name suggests - is repealed).

PS - How after 7 1/2 years straight of a supposed economic recovery, that Obama declared in June 2009, can 95 million Americans of working age (16 years to 54 years of age) be dropped from the 'US Workforce' because they couldn't find a job in the last 52 weeks and longer, and why couldn't they find a job, or why were they laid off in the first place? Is Obamacare the reason why those 95 million Americans can't find a job, and why some were laid off in the first place? Think about it, there were only 17 million Americans on 'Welfare & Food Stamps' when Obama became President in the depths of the Bush recession, but after 7 1/2 years straight of Obama's supposed economic recovery, when Obama left office there were more than 50 million Americans on 'Welfare & Food Stamps'. WHY? This is Obama's true and real 'LEGACY', and he couldn't have accomplished it without the blind support of all the Democrats, no matter how bad his failing policies and agendas proved to be, the Democrats assisted him in forcing those failures on the American people.