The Facts About Going To Cuba

"Stephan in Burlington" <slaengerer@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 19:41:50 GMT, while the Captain of the mv Perfecto
> was guiding her to her next port, "chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada>
> wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know if I, as a Canadian, can bring back Cuban cigars from
> >Honduras, when overnighting in Houston on the way home?
> >
>
> No, you cannot. But don't discount Honduran cigars, there are some
> amazing smokes available there.

Thanks for that. Now can you make some recommendations? I'm looking for
some equivalents to Monte Cristo's, I think they are called.

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 23:31:10 GMT, while the Captain of the mv Perfecto
was guiding her to her next port, "chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada>
wrote:

>> No, you cannot. But don't discount Honduran cigars, there are some
>> amazing smokes available there.
>
>Thanks for that. Now can you make some recommendations? I'm looking for

I've really enjoyed Hurricanos, available in a fairly large range of
sizes (although my size preference is the Robusto). They are very
well-made, and actually reasonably-priced.

Stephan

Thus spake Chrissy Cruiser <doublebreasted@mail.com> :

>
>
>>>That will work. Getting there is not so much the issue. Neither is getting
>>>back. The risk/reward is the issue.
>
>On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:50:10 GMT, Dillon Pyron wrote:
>
>> There was recently a guy in Miami who was fined $10,000 for bringing
>> two boxes of Cuban cigars back from a trip. I don't know details, but
>> I'll bet it was a cruise to CZM where some huskter told him how easy
>> it was to smuggle them in.
>
>These types of things are the warning shots that need to be read loud and
>clear. If you get $10,000 fine for a couple of boxes of stogies, imagine if
>they think you are a national security issue.

Typically a sharp scolding and an admonission to "don't let me catch
you doing that again".

--
dillon

"When the French are against it, you know we can't
be far wrong." - Adm. Bobbie Ray Inman

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:57:54 GMT, while the Captain of the mv Perfecto
was guiding her to her next port, Dillon Pyron
<dmpyronINVALID@austin.*******> wrote:

>I can name an agency (actually, I can't) that has no limitations on
>who it can spy on or where. They have the capability to listen to any

I like the deal that Canada and several other countries have in
regards to intelligence.

Basically, it states "we can't spy on ours, you can't spy on yours,
but we can spy on each others, and then trade information."

(Yeah, Canada .... don't let looks deceive you)

Stephan <---- off to avoid the black helicopters

"Stephan in Burlington" <slaengerer@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 23:31:10 GMT, while the Captain of the mv Perfecto
> was guiding her to her next port, "chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada>
> wrote:
>
> >> No, you cannot. But don't discount Honduran cigars, there are some
> >> amazing smokes available there.
> >
> >Thanks for that. Now can you make some recommendations? I'm looking for
>
> I've really enjoyed Hurricanos, available in a fairly large range of
> sizes (although my size preference is the Robusto). They are very
> well-made, and actually reasonably-priced.

Thanks for that Stephan.

Dillon Pyron <dmpyronINVALID@austin.*******> wrote:

>I can name an agency (actually, I can't) that has no limitations on
>who it can spy on or where. They have the capability to listen to any
>cell phone conversation in the world. And do so regularly.

Cell phones, being as they work through the same network as any
other phones, are nothing special. Any phone/fax/data connection
can be listened to, and processed.
--
Ken Tough

Chrissy Cruiser wrote:
> Want to go to Cuba, Americanos? I do.
>
> Going to go? No way. Not on an exclusion, not off a ship, no chance, uh uh.

I would say "very difficult" but not impossible to get an exclusion, you
have to meet some very tight criteria and very few will qualify. Of
course, there is enough wiggle room so that "it is not in the best
interest to grant..."

> Cuba, for a bunch of reasons, is an extremely sensitive country for the
> present White House admin. You might as well wear a sign "Put me on the
> State Department Watch list, please."

True, although we may have already been on some "watch" list at least
temporarily - just for our "normal" everyday, legal activities. As
example, dive shops across the country were asked by the government to
hand over information about people they recently certified or those who
took the class, but never certified. Just think in terms of the pilots
who wanted to learn how to fly without learning to land.

So we can still put ourselves in a position of being "suspects" until
otherwise deemed "innocent". I wonder how often normal, law abiding
citizens participate in some activity that puts them in a database
bearing a red flag, but are never even aware of it.

Skip Elliott Bowman wrote:
> "Chrissy Cruiser" <doublebreasted@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:17bt68fbse7op.1f8ar0en7dtor.dlg@40tude.net...
>
>
>>Take or leave my advice as you wish but this is no time for Cuban
>>visitation by Americans. You have been duly warned.
>
>
> And you have demonstrated your deep concern for others with your
> sensitivity, empathy, and class for months. I'm attaching the appropriate
> weight to your advice.
>
>

You would do better to consider advice based on facts and logic rather
than your feelings about the messenger. It is clearly illegal to visit
Cuba without permission, do you think otherwise? Would you want to
announce on a global forum that you have done/will do so?
Didn't think so.

ß wrote:

> Who the hell would want to be an American?

Most Americans. Just like most Germans want to be German, most Italians
want to be Italian, most Swedes want...

Heck, we might want to visit Cuba, but we don't have any desperate need
to risk our lives trying to escape to the island on a fricken homemade raft.

> I certainly do not.

Good, social security is already under strain.

We've heard it all before. You hate us, but you love what we can offer.
And we get to hear it all through the goodness of your Microsoft OE.

So what brings you here, university?

> Americans have the highest per capita rate of obesity in the entire world.

.... and Mexico, the UK, and Australia are very close behind.

Look at sugars added to foods, hydrogenated fats, a global food
processing industry with a lot of $nfluence, & ignorant consumers who
buy this stuff and have lost any sense of portion size.

garciyalater@************ wrote:

> Hey B,
> dont you or didnt you own a "Khaki 2002 Liberty Renegade in Khaki"?
> Looks like someone drives an AMERICAN car........lol.....and a sissy
> *** little american car at that.....at least buy a real Jeep!!!
>
> Chuck(who may google your name again and find some other american
> influences you have)
>
LOL, you have too much time on your hands!