MY QUALITY TIME

Sunday, November 27, 2016

A Farwell To Fidel Castro and Hopefully a New Day For Cuba

Remember, before Fidel Castro we had Fulgencio Batista. Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution and revoked most political liberties, including the right to strike. He then aligned with the wealthiest landowners who owned the largest sugar plantations, and presided over a stagnating economy that widened the gap between rich and poor Cubans. Batista's increasingly corrupt and repressive government then began to systematically profit from the exploitation of Cuba's commercial interests, by negotiating lucrative relationships with the American Mafia, who controlled the drug, gambling, and prostitution businesses in Havana, and with large US-based multinationals who were awarded lucrative contracts. ( What a guy… No wonder we (U.S.A.) supported him..READ MORE

Daytona Beach Museum of Arts and Sciences………………….

Oct. 14, 2016::: Tourists bought rum and cigars in Havana as President Obama lifted a $100 limit on bringing the Cuban goods into the United States.

The sugar mill and mill town at Central Hershey was the flagship of Milton Hershey's Cuban holdings. Read More

Linda often brings me coffee in the morning and I know she is a saint……

Our Lady of Charity also known as Our Lady of El Cobre or Nuestra Senora de la Virgen de la Caridad is a popular Marian title of the Blessed Virgin Mary known in many Catholic countries. Read More

Time marches on and Fidel Castro is no more..(time and history will be his judge as it is for all of us). I hope we continue to have better and better relations with Cuba and I hope for the very best for all their people. I don’t know if I’ll ever have the chance to visit Cuba but it does look like a beautiful country.

When I think of Cuba the first thing that comes to my mind is the Cuban Missile Crisis (Thanks Fidel) “The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de octubre), the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, Karibskij krizis), or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. Along with being televised worldwide, it was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.” ( I was only in high school at the time and I remember being really really scared.) Remember the Fall Out Shelters?

It is my fervent wish/prayer the country is not on a return path to “times” like that.

Have a “Quality Time” day….

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Friday, November 25, 2016

The Pharmacist

A nice, calm, and respectable lady went into the pharmacy, walked up to the pharmacist, looked straight
into his eyes, and said, “I would like to buy some cyanide.”

The pharmacist asked, “Why in the world do you need cyanide?”
The lady replied, “I need it to poison my husband.”

The pharmacist’s eyes got big and he exclaimed, “Lord have mercy!
I can’t give you cyanide to kill your husband Absolutely not!
You CANNOT have any cyanide!”

The lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist’s wife.

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Thursday, November 24, 2016

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back…….

I am sure some think the country is in the process of taking two steps forward and in some ways maybe we are for the next few years. Then, in my opinion we may face one catastrophe after another. Karma (action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results) will have it’s way… (FEAR BASED KARMA)…. Let’s look at Karma with a new pair of glasses. (LOVE BASED KARMA)

How I/We look at life today is really up to me/us. I can’t change you or you but I can change “me” and the way I think. “ If I were to look back at my life thus far, as I often do, I’d notice a pattern of events and feelings resembling the activity on an EKG monitor. For every peak, there’s been a valley. For every leap forward, there’s been a stumble backward—sometimes just an inch, and other times, what seemed like miles.” READ MORE.