Varifrank: September

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September

"What we can't be is without leadership at the United Nations. ... I'm spending an awful lot of time these days preparing for the high-level meetings that are going to take place in September"

The Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleeza Rice on PBS News Hour today.

I've always suspected that the President didnt really care one way or another if we had a UN Ambassador. Now it seems there is this sudden sense of urgency to fill a position the president holds with disdain. Dr. Rice, for those who havent been paying attention, has been racking up the frequent flyer miles for the past 4 months. I dont think any Secretary of State in history has traveled as much to as many places in such a short period of time.

What might the good doctor be cooking in her kitchen that requires an Ambassador to the UN to deliver a message in September?

It seems to me that things are about to start hopping again. I dont think the media will be covering "shark attacks" when school starts.

UPDATE:
Someone put Oliver Stone and Jimmy Carter on suicide watch. It Looks like Dr. Rice is setting the start of "Duck Season" for September.

From the BBC:
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced the creation of a new post to help "accelerate the demise" of the Castro regime in Cuba.

Excerpt:

Caleb McCarry, a veteran Republican Party activist, was appointed as the Cuba transition co-ordinator. Ms Rice said for 50 years Fidel Castro had condemned Cubans to a "tragic fate of repression and poverty".

Mr Castro accuses the US of funding unrest and vowed that dissidents would never bring down his government. The post was recommended in a 2004 report on Cuba by a commission headed by Ms Rice's predecessor Colin Powell.

The report outlines the steps the US is prepared to take to bring about regime change in Cuba, such as subverting Mr Castro's plans to hand over power to his younger brother.

Introducing Mr McCarry at the State Department in Washington, Ms Rice said the US was working with advocates of democratic change on the island. "We are working to deny resources to the Castro regime to break its blockade on information and to broadcast the truth about its deplorable treatment of the Cuban people," she said.

She said the aim of the effort was to "accelerate the demise of Castro's tyranny" on the Caribbean island, which he has ruled since 1959. Earlier this week, in a speech marking the anniversary of the Cuban revolution, Mr Castro accused the US of financing dissidents and false propaganda.

"No other revolutionary process has been able to count on as much consensus and overwhelming support as the Cuban revolution has," he told supporters in Havana...."

End Excerpt.

Castros Prison Island has been hit hard by this seasons Hurricaines, and the word from those with an ear to the ground is that the locals are getting restless.

I have a very large bottle of a fermented adult beverage sitting on ice waiting for the day this bloodsucker ends his reign of death over the people of Cuba. I have a feeling, just a slight hint of a feeling that the day I get to open that bottle is not that far off.

I've lived to see the end of the Soviet Union, Ive lived to see the Berlin wall fall, East Germany dissolved and women voting in Afghanistan, but what I really want to live long enough to see the Cuban people living free.

Posted @ July 28, 2005 08:16 PM | Current Affairs