Obama master stroke....Cuba

[Sir X]

U.S. and Cuba, in Breakthrough, Will Resume Diplomatic Relations
By PETER BAKERDEC. 17, 2014
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President Obama greeted President Raúl Castro of Cuba in 2013 during a memorial service for Nelson Mandela. Credit Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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WASHINGTON — The United States will restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba and open an embassy in Havana for the first time in more than a half-century after the release of an American contractor held in prison for five years, American officials said Wednesday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/wo...ions.html?_r=0


Long overdue

[Sir X]

Jamaica in trouble , tourism wise .Wi can tan deh.

[Jangle]

Obama is going full speed ahead to right many wrongs with or without the help or support from his fellow Democrats.

[Sir X]

History will be more than kind to him.How is Jamaica going to deal with this economically ?

[Jangle]

We are busy debating "decency" while Cuba is educating it's population.

[Mosiah]

It has been my one and final sticking point with Obama.

When this happens, nuhbody can talk to me - the GOAT!!!

[Mosiah]

We have nothing to fear.

And if in fact we do, our fate is in our hands.

[Sir X]

It happened .

[Sir X]

We have alot to fear and true about the latter.

[Jangle]

He has changed the culture of the American society and as a result, other countries. Who would have thought that a gay man could openly walk down the streets of Kingston """"freely'''''' in our lifetime.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_6328390.html
WASHINGTON -- If there's one thing from 2014 that will define President Barack Obama's legacy after he's left the White House, it's the number of lifetime judges he put on the federal bench.
In its final act of the year, the Senate blew through a dozen U.S. district court nominees on Tuesday night. That puts Obama at a whopping 89 district court and circuit court confirmations for the year, and means he'll wrap up his sixth year in office with a grand total of 305 district court and circuit court confirmations -- a tally that puts him well beyond where his predecessors were by this point in their presidencies.

It may be that, in the end, his biggest effect on the judiciary isn't sheer numbers as much as the diversity of his judges. Forty-two percent of Obama's confirmed judges are women, 19 percent are black and 11 percent are Hispanic, according to data provided by the White House. Eleven of his confirmed judges are openly gay or lesbian.

[Gamma]

i'm a telling you!!

they have never seen anybody like him before! i wonder if he plays chess....

[Sir X]

Progressive ,Jamaica ave anybady like dis, criteria yuh affi be a social activist , law degree and bun weed(link stop and frisk ganja laws to police brutality/human rights )....Gamma ?

[Gamma]

well .... i don't bun weed....

[Islandman]

Excellent move by the President!

[Islandman]

It will be interesting to see how it develops. The opening of the Cuban tourism market doesn't have to be a negative for JA. Could even be a positive if we play our hands right, but that may be asking too much.