I think its a funny cartoon..................................
but then I have always enjoyed Gary Larson stuff.............................
but somebody should WARN CLIFFY that he is is DANGER............................
yes- DANGER FROM Mother Nature.............................
because of the vacuum between his ears!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an article that Cliffy wont understand..........................................
Here is an article reminding us that Socialism is a poisoned political system that DOES NOT WORK!! With some comments of my own in brackets):
(How sad that Cdn Socialists like Our idiot Boy Justin offer up all manner of entirely deceitful EXCUSES for why Socialism FAILS so badly!! With former NDP Ontari–owe premier Bob Rae presenting the quintessential Socialist EXCUSE!! Rae infamously claimed that the reason he failed to make us rich with borrowed money is “because the banks refused to loan what he needed”!!!!!!!!!!)
(Rae is the ultimate in Socialist LUNACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(And now we have LIE-berals whining that Cubans are starving again simply because some Yankee cruise ships failed to dock in that bankrupt socialist pest hole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Cubans feeling the pinch as Trump cruise ban bites
The waxy sheen on his splendid 1934 Ford glimmers in the Caribbean sun, but nobody is hiring Estaban Estrada's red and white convertible these days -- the dollars have dried up now that US cruise liners are no longer calling at Havana.
(One might ask how these people survived FOR DECADES PRIOR to Trump reviving the Yankee trade ban?? For multiple decades, Cuba benefitted from welfare payments from Moscow- but the fall of the Soviet Union resulted in food rationing and near starvation for the decrepit Cuban Socialist economy!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(LIE-berals have always blamed the Yankee trade embargo for all Cuban problems without considering the Cubans could trade with ALL of South America if only the Soviet Comrades could make something people wanted to buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Estrada's pride and joy is one of a line of classic American automobiles lined up outide Havana's baroque-style Cathedral, mostly idle since the Trump administration re-imposed travel restrictions this month.
"We are all stopped when normally we would all be working," says Estrada, as dozens of his colleagues shoot the breeze on nearby benches. "And this has been going on now for several days."
He calls out to two passing women: "Taxi, princesses?"
Business had been good. In 2014, then-president Barack Obama broke new diplomatic ground with the communist-run island and its leader Raul Castro.
(Yes- the ever optimistic Obama decided that the death of Fidel Castro heralded regime change and cancelled the Yankee trade embargo. Sadly Raoul Castro retained the resolutely Soviet standard of govt so Trump re-imposed the trade ban!! There is NO VALID REASON why Yankee dollars should subsidize a regime that holds so very many anti Yankee values!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
US cruise liners began calling at Havana as decades of Cold War chill thawed. Estrada began taking American tourists around Havana's must-sees: the Malecon, Revolution Square and the Capitol.
The San Cristobal restaurant on San Rafael street became a landmark on the tourist trail after Obama dined there during his breakthrough trip in 2016.
(LIE-berals are well aware that offering free money IS NOT seen as a “breakthrough” tactic by ordinary tax payers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Owner Carlos Cristobal Marques has seen a sharp downturn in business in recent weeks. "Today we are 20 percent full, yesterday we served only six tables all day."
Nearly 900,000 tourists visited the island on cruise ships last year, according to official figures.
Almost 40 percent were American tourists bringing much-needed dollars after nearly six decades of US embargo.
Cuba seemed set to welcome record numbers of US cruise ship tourists this year, with 250,000 arriving in the first four months of 2019 alone, double the rate of the previous year.
Then, on June 4, President Donald Trump made good on his threat to tighten the economic squeeze on Cuba, angered over Havana's support for Venezuela's socialist regime.
(Ah yes- the Venezuela issue- with Soviet Socialist Maduro ABUSING HIS people while garnering support from the THUGS IN Moscow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
On June 5, the old American cars lined up on Havana's dockside as the last American ship sailed out, their drivers waving, bidding farewell to a regular source of dollars after Trump targeted the most common way US tourists visit the island.
"European tourists usually come in the winter, so the ones that allowed us to keep working were American tourists from the cruise ships," Estrada says.
Their departure means the Cuban state is also denied revenue from docking fees and taxes paid by the cruise companies.
(Oh dear- perhaps Raoul Castro and his nasty Commissars may need to decide WHICH SIDE they are on?? And supporting Venezuelan ASSHAT Maduro instead of democratic interests suggests Raoul HAS CHOSEN UNWISELY!!!!!!!)
"Yesterday, I did not work for the day," says Hector, who drives an old Chevrolet. "I'm giving myself a month, six weeks tops, and if it goes on like this, I'm turning in my licence."
Costs must be paid regardless of business, he says -- licence, parking, gas and insurance cost up to $30 a day.
(Gosh- Cuban Socialists have the same LOOT AND PILLAGE attitude to small biz owners as Cdn LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Like his colleagues, he says the Cuban authorities, taken off guard by Trump's cruise ship ban, "have no Plan B".
Instead, Trump's policies have driven Cuba "backwards".
(NO!!! It is Soviet Socialism and support for vicious dictator Maduro that are “driving Cuba backwards”!! It is ONLY LIE-berals and Socialists who do not understand this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Yoel Montano, 44, had bet heavily on the surge of American tourists. A farmer, he left his tobacco fields to ply Havana's tourist trade with a horse and carriage. Now his mare "Mulata" stands idle in the shade of a tree in the old town.
"When the cruise ships came, the whole country was alive, there were a lot of tourists. Today, the places are empty. It's too sad."
Trump "wants to finish us. He's crazy!" The US president had deprived him of "the best tourists, Americans. They are kind."
(Uh huh- and who is it that is trying to “FINISH” ordinary Venezuelans????????)
At the "Al Pirata" restaurant in the cobbled streets of the tourist quarter, proprietor Eddy Basulto bemoans the departure of the Americans, who he says were "big tippers."
"Our business is down 60 percent," says Basulto.
"This morning, I only sold two breakfasts. But whenever the cruise ship arrived, I had three sittings in a row."
(Yes- EVERYBODY LOVES those Yankee dollars!! To bad people like Trump have decided United States should not be taken for granted and treated like a sucker any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)