Don't let the door hit you on your way out....

It was announced earlier today that communist Cuba's Fidel Castro, the world's longest reigning dictator, is stepping down effective immediately and that the powers of the office will fall to his brother, Raoul. Fidel, can't say that we'll be missin' ya!


I'm always one to read up on the conspiracies and can't help but enjoy the most popular one now spinning around the globe: ¡Fidel está muerto! or for those in Rio Linda - Fidel is dead!!! Heck, he's probably been dead for weeks or even months. Fidel's health has been in question for some time now and he stopped making public appearances more than a year ago. Raoul has all but had the title for quite some time. But who'd a thought?! I know Fidel is a hundred and something, but I figured that the world would never be rid of him. What a temporary breath of fresh air. By temporary I mean that no one better be so disallusioned to think that Raoul is any less ruthless a dictator than his older brother. Heck, he has been the commander/general of the army for decades. We cannot honestly except Raoul to oversee and institute democratic reform. It simply isn't going to happen. But, and there is always a but...it cannot be over-emphasized enough that one less Castro is one less Castro. A mild celebration is certaingly called for and no doubt underway in parts of Miami!