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Mike

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Beyonce and Jay-Z Cuba Trip Called ‘Educational’ by Treasury
By Kasia Klimasinska - Apr 10, 2013 10:42 AM CT
Bloomberg
Singer Beyonce and Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter traveled to Cuba “pursuant to an educational exchange trip” organized by an authorized company, the U.S. Treasury Department said in response to inquiries from Florida lawmakers.
The trip by the celebrity couple spurred widespread media coverage after two U.S. representatives from Florida, Republicans Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart, asked the Treasury who approved the travel and for what purpose. U.S. law prohibits financial transactions for tourist activities in Cuba to prevent funding of the government, which controls the industry. The Treasury permits visits for educational reasons.
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“It is our understanding that the travelers in question traveled to Cuba pursuant to an educational exchange,” the Treasury said yesterday in a response to each of the lawmakers. The visit was organized by a group authorized to sponsor such trips and coordinate “programs to promote people-to-people contact in Cuba,” it said in letters to the representatives.
The Treasury’s “regulations and guidelines require that such trips involve a full-time schedule of educational exchange activities,” according to the department’s letters.
In her April 5 inquiry to the Treasury, Ros-Lehtinen said the restrictions are in place because communist Cuba is “one of four U.S.-designated state sponsors of terrorism with one of the world’s most egregious human-rights records.”
Loosened Restrictions
President Barack Obama in 2009 allowed companies for the first time to provide communications services to the Caribbean island of 11 million people and lifted a travel ban for Cuban- Americans.
Beyonce Knowles-Carter and her husband, Jay-Z, celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Havana’s La Guarida restaurant on April 3, according to the Associated Press. They also visited parts of the Cuban capital that date to colonial times, the news service said.
The couple has supported Obama, hosting a $4 million fundraiser in September during his re-election campaign where Obama thanked them for their friendship. Beyonce also sang the national anthem at his second inauguration in January.
“If the tourist activities undertaken by Beyonce and Jay-Z in Cuba are classified as an educational-exchange trip, then it is clear that the Obama administration is not serious about denying the Castro regime an economic lifeline that U.S. tourism will extend to it,” Ros-Lehtinen.
Hunger Strikes
Ros-Lehtinen, who was born in Havana and became the first Hispanic woman to serve in Congress after taking office in 1989, represents a district that includes part of Miami-Dade County, a historic center of Cuban immigrants.
“That was a wedding-anniversary vacation that was not even disguised as a cultural program,” the lawmaker said yesterday in a response to the Treasury’s letter and posted on her website. “As more human-rights activists engage in hunger strikes, I don’t think they will see any evidence of how this scam endeavor will help them become independent of the regime.”
About 145 kilometers (90 miles) south of Florida, Cuba has been ruled by brothers Fidel and Raul Castro since a revolution toppled the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in 1959, starting an exodus of immigrants to the U.S. and Miami, including Ros- Lehtinen’s parents. The nation has a history of violating human rights, according to Amnesty International.
 
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Travel to Cuba with North Dakota Farm Bureau!

Northern Ag Network posted on April 01, 2013 09:02 :: 184 Views




The North Dakota Farm Bureau Federation is setting their sights on Cuba and currently signing up folks for an 8-day trip to the island country this July.



For $3,599/person (based on double occupancy), you'll get to tour Ernest Hemingway's farm, go on an Old Havana walking tour, visit a tobacco farm, and much more. If you put down a deposit by May 1st, you'll receive a $300 discount.



For more information, CLICK HERE or contact the North Dakota Farm Bureau Federation at 1-800-367-9668.


Mike- if you are feeling left out- the North Dakota Farm Bureau still had openings for their sponsored vacation to Cuba...
 

Whitewing

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Big Muddy rancher said:
They just showed a picture on the news of Jay Z smoking a cigar.

I hope customs confiscates any he tries to bring home. :D :D

Indeed. And ask those customs officials what they do with those confiscated cigars and they'll tell ya they burn 'em......slowly, one at a time. :D
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
Travel to Cuba with North Dakota Farm Bureau!

Northern Ag Network posted on April 01, 2013 09:02 :: 184 Views




The North Dakota Farm Bureau Federation is setting their sights on Cuba and currently signing up folks for an 8-day trip to the island country this July.



For $3,599/person (based on double occupancy), you'll get to tour Ernest Hemingway's farm, go on an Old Havana walking tour, visit a tobacco farm, and much more. If you put down a deposit by May 1st, you'll receive a $300 discount.



For more information, CLICK HERE or contact the North Dakota Farm Bureau Federation at 1-800-367-9668.


Mike- if you are feeling left out- the North Dakota Farm Bureau still had openings for their sponsored vacation to Cuba...

If I went at least it would be farming oriented instead of "Pimp" & "Ho" related. :roll:

But I have no desire to see what a Communist country is about.
 
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Mike said:
Oldtimer said:
Travel to Cuba with North Dakota Farm Bureau!

Northern Ag Network posted on April 01, 2013 09:02 :: 184 Views




The North Dakota Farm Bureau Federation is setting their sights on Cuba and currently signing up folks for an 8-day trip to the island country this July.



For $3,599/person (based on double occupancy), you'll get to tour Ernest Hemingway's farm, go on an Old Havana walking tour, visit a tobacco farm, and much more. If you put down a deposit by May 1st, you'll receive a $300 discount.



For more information, CLICK HERE or contact the North Dakota Farm Bureau Federation at 1-800-367-9668.


Mike- if you are feeling left out- the North Dakota Farm Bureau still had openings for their sponsored vacation to Cuba...

If I went at least it would be farming oriented instead of "Pimp" & "Ho" related. :roll:

But I have no desire to see what a Communist country is about.

:lol: :lol: Not much Tobacco produced in ND- and I have a tough time seeing how touring Old Havana will have anything to do with farming... :???: :lol:

But if a bunch of NoDaks can get an educational permit (MT has sent tours in the past too) -- I don't have a problem with Beyoncé or whoever getting educated either... They probably have more contact with a higher populace when they return home than any farm group ever will...

The embargo should have been dropped 20 years ago- as its a total flop...
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
Mike said:
Oldtimer said:
Mike- if you are feeling left out- the North Dakota Farm Bureau still had openings for their sponsored vacation to Cuba...

If I went at least it would be farming oriented instead of "Pimp" & "Ho" related. :roll:

But I have no desire to see what a Communist country is about.

:lol: :lol: Not much Tobacco produced in ND- and I have a tough time seeing how touring Old Havana will have anything to do with farming... :???: :lol:

But if a bunch of NoDaks can get an educational permit (MT has sent tours in the past too) -- I don't have a problem with Beyoncé or whoever getting educated either... They probably have more contact with a higher populace when they return home than any farm group ever will...

The embargo should have been dropped 20 years ago- as its a total flop...

Embargo of what? Alabama has had a free trade agreement with Cuba for years. The only problem is collecting your money after a shipment to them. :roll:

We DO NOT need to drop the Tourist Ban. No sense in allowing US citizens to go there and throw money at them without the ability for them to do the same here. They don't have the money. Their per capita income is about $3,000.00 per year. It would mean a loss for us in every manner.

http://www.auburn.edu/~thomph1/simcuba.pdf
 

Tam

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Oldtimer said:
Mike said:
Oldtimer said:
Mike- if you are feeling left out- the North Dakota Farm Bureau still had openings for their sponsored vacation to Cuba...

If I went at least it would be farming oriented instead of "Pimp" & "Ho" related. :roll:

But I have no desire to see what a Communist country is about.

:lol: :lol: Not much Tobacco produced in ND- and I have a tough time seeing how touring Old Havana will have anything to do with farming... :???: :lol:

But if a bunch of NoDaks can get an educational permit (MT has sent tours in the past too) -- I don't have a problem with Beyoncé or whoever getting educated either... They probably have more contact with a higher populace when they return home than any farm group ever will...

The embargo should have been dropped 20 years ago- as its a total flop...

Do you realize that the Cuban regime is using any money they get from so called tourists to hold down their people even further? :roll:

And do you really think Jay Z and Beyoncé were actually allowed to see the true ugly communist repressed Cuba? :? No they will be paraded down the streets and catered to like no Cuba citizen will ever be, all so they will come back and tell their 1%er Liberal Communist loving contacts ie Obama Supporters, that they saw nothing of the horrible Cuba and it is wrong for anyone to say the people there are suffering. This had nothing to do with anything but Obama's payback for Beyoncé sing at his inauguration. She wanted a anniversary trip no other America could have and Obama granted her wish.

I'm just surprised the American tax payers didn't have to pay to have Air Force One fly them to Cuba as US ambassador's. :roll:
 
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Tam said:
Oldtimer said:
Mike said:
If I went at least it would be farming oriented instead of "Pimp" & "Ho" related. :roll:

But I have no desire to see what a Communist country is about.

:lol: :lol: Not much Tobacco produced in ND- and I have a tough time seeing how touring Old Havana will have anything to do with farming... :???: :lol:

But if a bunch of NoDaks can get an educational permit (MT has sent tours in the past too) -- I don't have a problem with Beyoncé or whoever getting educated either... They probably have more contact with a higher populace when they return home than any farm group ever will...

The embargo should have been dropped 20 years ago- as its a total flop...

Do you realize that the Cuban regime is using any money they get from so called tourists to hold down their people even further? :roll:

And do you really think Jay Z and Beyoncé were actually allowed to see the true ugly communist repressed Cuba? :? No they will be paraded down the streets and catered to like no Cuba citizen will ever be, all so they will come back and tell their 1%er Liberal Communist loving contacts ie Obama Supporters, that they saw nothing of the horrible Cuba and it is wrong for anyone to say the people there are suffering. This had nothing to do with anything but Obama's payback for Beyoncé sing at his inauguration. She wanted a anniversary trip no other America could have and Obama granted her wish.

I'm just surprised the American tax payers didn't have to pay to have Air Force One fly them to Cuba as US ambassador's. :roll:

The comedy is we don't have a budget- have a huge deficit- have another possible government shutdown coming on- Korea is saber rattling again- we have a major immigration problem that needs addressing-a very important cyber security law that needs passing, etc., etc.-- and some of the Republican Congressmen are making a big deal out of Beyoncé and Jay Z going to Cuba- or smoking a Cigar... :roll: OY VEY!
The blogs are just ripping the Pubes apart... Like Andy said quit worrying/arguing about the little sh*t and p*ssing and moaning just to P*ss and moan- and get to working together on something beneficial for the country...

It doesn't surprise me to see our local White Supremacist posting this to stir the anarchy he wants to see for this country-- but grown men who are Congressmen and women.... :???: :roll: :(
 

Mike

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No. The real comedy is those two niggas go to Cuba for a honeymoon and the Buckwheat Admin actually thinks we will believe that this was an educational trip.

:roll:

Those two congress women still have family that are being oppressed in Cuba and want the "Law" followed.
 

Tam

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Oldtimer said:
The comedy is we don't have a budget- have a huge deficit- have another possible government shutdown coming on- Korea is saber rattling again- we have a major immigration problem that needs addressing-a very important cyber security law that needs passing, etc., etc.-- and some of the Republican Congressmen are making a big deal out of Beyoncé and Jay Z going to Cuba- or smoking a Cigar... :roll: OY VEY!
The blogs are just ripping the Pubes apart... Like Andy said quit worrying/arguing about the little sh*t and p*ssing and moaning just to P*ss and moan- and get to working together on something beneficial for the country...

It doesn't surprise me to see our local White Supremacist posting this to stir the anarchy he wants to see for this country-- but grown men who are Congressmen and women.... :???: :roll: :(

Gee Oldtimer maybe you would have a budget if a few of the Obama supporters ie YOU would stand up and say hey Barak get off the golf course and get working on your budget proposal THE CONGRESS IS WAITING ON YOU. But nope he was two months passed the legal requirement of proposing his budget due to the fact he was playing golf shooting hoops and living it up with Celebs and greasing the wheels so his 1%er friends can Honeymoon in a country where US laws forbid it.

Then when Republican get pissed at his behavior it is right back to business as if it is the Republicans at fault for the HUGE DEFICIT that was unpatriotic under Bush but not so much Under Obama. :roll:

And Oldtimer You really are too stupid to describe, this has little to do with them going. It is about the fact the Obama Administration is now showing everyone just what he thinks of the US LAWS. There is a law against US citizens going to Cuba on a second Honeymoon. But if you are a friend of Obama to hell with the law here is your visa, go enjoy yourself and bring me back a cigar.
US laws are meant for everyone but not when it comes to the Communist loving 1%ers that support Obama. Then it is to hell with them go spend your money in a country that has a history of using tourist dollars to destroy their citizens and hold them in jail for speaking up. :roll:
 

Tam

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BTW Oldtimer was the President of the United State dealing with North Korea's saber rattling while he and his family were living it up on the National Arts Budget while partying with his celeb. buddies at the White House last night?

Does he deal with Iran by going Golfing with Tigar Woods to the tune of $3 mill. ?

Does he deal with Security in Benghazi from the basketball court? Nice to see his practicing BBall worked out about as well as the Ambassador's security eh Oldtimer?

Does he look after any government business while he takes his wife on date night using Air Force One?

See this is why you look like the idiot you are. Everything is comical to you went someone dares to call you hero out ON HIS BEHAVIOR and you sit by and blame others for his actions/spending. :roll:
 
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Tam said:
BTW Oldtimer was the President of the United State dealing with North Korea's saber rattling while he and his family were living it up on the National Arts Budget while partying with his celeb. buddies at the White House last night?

Does he deal with Iran by going Golfing with Tigar Woods to the tune of $3 mill. ?

Does he deal with Security in Benghazi from the basketball court? Nice to see his practicing BBall worked out about as well as the Ambassador's security eh Oldtimer?

Does he look after any government business while he takes his wife on date night using Air Force One?

See this is why you look like the idiot you are. Everything is comical to you went someone dares to call you hero out ON HIS BEHAVIOR and you sit by and blame others for his actions/spending. :roll:

You act like people can't do two things at the same time... One of the first things you learn as an Administrator-- you surround yourself with qualified and able employees/advisors and often the best way to lead is to get the hell out of the way and let them do their job...
In this day and age of instant communication- you could be going to a gala, golfing in Texas, or climbing Lone Mountain and still be instantly informed of any changes or decisions that needed your attention...

Tam--Do you ever go out?-do anything different? - or do you sit and worry about your home duties day and night?... You know all work makes Tammy a dull (and very mentally pained) girl- which shows in your rants...
 

TexasBred

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Oldtimer said:
Tam said:
BTW Oldtimer was the President of the United State dealing with North Korea's saber rattling while he and his family were living it up on the National Arts Budget while partying with his celeb. buddies at the White House last night?

Does he deal with Iran by going Golfing with Tigar Woods to the tune of $3 mill. ?

Does he deal with Security in Benghazi from the basketball court? Nice to see his practicing BBall worked out about as well as the Ambassador's security eh Oldtimer?

Does he look after any government business while he takes his wife on date night using Air Force One?

See this is why you look like the idiot you are. Everything is comical to you went someone dares to call you hero out ON HIS BEHAVIOR and you sit by and blame others for his actions/spending. :roll:

You act like people can't do two things at the same time... One of the first things you learn as an Administrator-- you surround yourself with qualified and able employees/advisors and often the best way to lead is to get the hell out of the way and let them do their job...
In this day and age of instant communication- you could be going to a gala, golfing in Texas, or climbing Lone Mountain and still be instantly informed of any changes or decisions that needed your attention...

Tam--Do you ever go out?-do anything different? - or do you sit and worry about your home duties day and night?... You know all work makes Tammy a dull (and very mentally pained) girl- which shows in your rants...

Well we certainly learned quickly what his delegated or appointed people did and how they reacted. They did nothing either and Americans died while Obama slept. His people were as worthless as a back pocket on a teeshirt.
 

Whitewing

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Oldtimer said:
You act like people can't do two things at the same time... One of the first things you learn as an Administrator-- you surround yourself with qualified and able employees/advisors and often the best way to lead is to get the hell out of the way and let them do their job...
In this day and age of instant communication- you could be going to a gala, golfing in Texas, or climbing Lone Mountain and still be instantly informed of any changes or decisions that needed your attention...

Interesting. Seems in the past you didn't think that way.

OldPeopleCan'tDoTwoThingsAtTheSameTime said:
Old King George has him self another record- the most vacation days taken by any President...

Wonder what changed? :???: :???: :???:

Hypocrite: a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
 
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Whitewing said:
Oldtimer said:
You act like people can't do two things at the same time... One of the first things you learn as an Administrator-- you surround yourself with qualified and able employees/advisors and often the best way to lead is to get the hell out of the way and let them do their job...
In this day and age of instant communication- you could be going to a gala, golfing in Texas, or climbing Lone Mountain and still be instantly informed of any changes or decisions that needed your attention...

Interesting. Seems in the past you didn't think that way.

OldPeopleCan'tDoTwoThingsAtTheSameTime said:
Old King George has him self another record- the most vacation days taken by any President...

Wonder what changed? :???: :???: :???:

Hypocrite: a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.

He actually was able to do something to set a record...It was a big shock ...
 

Tam

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Oldtimer said:
Tam said:
BTW Oldtimer was the President of the United State dealing with North Korea's saber rattling while he and his family were living it up on the National Arts Budget while partying with his celeb. buddies at the White House last night?

Does he deal with Iran by going Golfing with Tigar Woods to the tune of $3 mill. ?

Does he deal with Security in Benghazi from the basketball court? Nice to see his practicing BBall worked out about as well as the Ambassador's security eh Oldtimer?

Does he look after any government business while he takes his wife on date night using Air Force One?

See this is why you look like the idiot you are. Everything is comical to you went someone dares to call you hero out ON HIS BEHAVIOR and you sit by and blame others for his actions/spending. :roll:

You act like people can't do two things at the same time... One of the first things you learn as an Administrator-- you surround yourself with qualified and able employees/advisors and often the best way to lead is to get the hell out of the way and let them do their job...
In this day and age of instant communication- you could be going to a gala, golfing in Texas, or climbing Lone Mountain and still be instantly informed of any changes or decisions that needed your attention...

Tam--Do you ever go out?-do anything different? - or do you sit and worry about your home duties day and night?... You know all work makes Tammy a dull (and very mentally pained) girl- which shows in your rants...

The comedy is we don't have a budget- have a huge deficit- have another possible government shutdown coming on- Korea is saber rattling again- we have a major immigration problem that needs addressing-a very important cyber security law that needs passing, etc., etc.-- and some of the Republican Congressmen are making a big deal out of Beyoncé and Jay Z going to Cuba- or smoking a Cigar... Rolling Eyes OY VEY!

Seems by this comment you think the Republicans can't do two things at once so why in the hell should anyone believe your incompetent Jr. Senator can?
BTW Oldtimer your Golf playing hero proved he can't as his budget proposal was LEGALLY TWO MONTHS OVERDUE. The Republican Controlled House wrote and passed their Budget, the Dems in the Senate wrote and passed their budget and they all had to wait for Obama ]to get the hell off the golf course Tiger Woods was more important than his OVERDUE BUDGET. And just how much work did he actually do Oldtimer By the sounds of it he dug his same old tax hiking deficit busting old proposal out of his desk drawer dusted it off, put a new fancy cover on it and pass it off as a NEW IDEA. Care to bet how many will vote to support this budget Oldtimer? He might get more this time around than he did the last but hey that will only take 1 as the last time he proposed a budget it went down with NO VOTES not even from the Dems. supporting him.

SO if you want to see somebody that can't do two things at once history has proven you need to look no further than your HERO. :wink: :roll:

Edited to add this

If his legally required Budget Proposal was two months overdue he needs to clean house and get some people around him that can do their job ON TIME and stop holding up government and creating a crisis that threatens to shut down the Government every friggin time a person turns around.
 
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