Of course, everybody is and should be in support of reestablishing the diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba. The lack of diplomatic relations has not achieved anything, and enough already with that horrible old thing. Especially since it will bug Putin royally if Cuba defects to the American side in the new Cold War.

However, in the midst of all this let’s not forget that the Revolution was 100% horrible for Cuba. The Cubans chose (and are still choosing every day) to exist in a system that has degraded, demolished and dehumanized them completely.

There is absolutely nothing redeeming whatsoever in the horrible Castro regime. Cuba was “the brothel of the hemisphere” before the Revolution. It still is just that. Pedophiles from all over the world flock to the island because there is no other place where parents so joyfully and cheaply sell their children of all ages to sated tourists. Cuba is a place where prostitution is everybody’s pastime of choice, where the formerly great Cuban culture has been wiped out, racism is absolutely shocking, sexism is vile and disgusting, medical care is non-existent, education is absent, and the standards of hygiene are abysmal.

Cubans are choosing to live this way, and I believe we should respect their choice. I mean, we are respecting the Saudis’ choice to treat women as cattle and murder gays. Why should we stand between Cubans and their choice to whore themselves out while sitting in the midst of a mud puddle they’d rather die than clean? (This is something I personally observed, so it will not make any sense to argue with me about it.)

I’m seeing too many people who have never been to Cuba (or have been as tourists and were offered contact only with the people who are specially trained to bamboozle idiot foreigners, which is the same thing) get all soppy about the changes in the US-Cuban relations. And there is absolutely nothing to become all sentimental about. Cuba is hell, and a decision to tolerate the existence of hell because you are impotent to change it is nothing to celebrate.

Following the announcement by President Obama

that the United States will open an embassy in Cuba, thereby taking a final step to forming normal relations with the Castro regime, Texas Senator Ted Cruz slammed the decision as a “slap in the face of Israel.”

Just imagine this genius running our foreign policy.

How do people manage to get through life if a cash register malfunction becomes “an incredibly stressful problem” and makes them act out against innocent bystanders in cruel ways?

Did you know that there’s an indiegogo campaign to bail out Greece?

This is probably the most massive instance of alms giving ever.

I’m not very supportive of Greece because unlike Spaniards  (who are the first to point out how they created the disastrous situation in their economy, Greeks are all about blaming someone else, and that’s just boring.

I turned on the windshield wipers on the highway and was horrified to see blood red lines appear on the windshield. It seriously looked like I’d had a dead body on the car.

Moral of the story: don’t park under trees that have weird red fruit growing on them.

One group of acquaintances is convinced that Putin created ISIS. Another group of acquaintances believes that Obama created ISIS. Both groups look daggers at me when I suggest that maybe the members of ISIS created ISIS.

1. The Netherlands have finished their official investigation of the crash of the flight MH17. The investigators will soon make it public.

2. The American far right scored a huge victory this week. The Tea Party managed to shut down the Ex-Im bank. Obama is still fighting to save it, though.

3. One of Josh Duggar ‘ s victims who’s not a family member is filing a suit against him.

4. Dilma Rousseff is finally meeting with Obama to distract attention from a huge corruption scandal in Brazil.

5. Macy’s is ditching Donald Trump – branded underwear.

6. Rand Paul’s campaign is do hopeless that he is ducking up to Cliven Bundy. Nobody else will vote for him, it seems.

7. The US soccer team beat Germany 2:0.

8. The US is opening an embassy in Cuba.

So most of the news today looks good.

Feel free to mention whatever you care about.

It’s not a good sign of one’s Canadianess when one discovers that today is Canada Day from a Ukrainian website. Plus, I don’t have a drop of maple syrup in the house.

I have a feeling Canada will soon call for its passport back.

After the fires and the inundations, clouds of locusts are devastating Russia.

It’s hard to avoid being on the lookout for the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.