THEY FINALLY DISCOVERED THIS? – AT 8:04 A.M. ET:  Well, there goes the support of the Young Communist League.  Cuba, in an utterly outrageous betrayal of all the college students who trekked down there to cut sugar cane for the revolution while trying to achieve the maturity of 12-year-olds, has legalized, must I say it, some forms of private property.  What will Occupy Wall Street say?

HAVANA (AP) -- For the first time in a half-century, Cubans will be allowed to buy and sell real estate openly, bequeath property to relatives without restriction and avoid forfeiting their homes if they abandon the country.

The highly anticipated new rules instantly transform islanders' cramped, dilapidated homes into potential liquid assets in the most significant reform yet adopted by President Raul Castro since he took over the communist country from his brother in 2008.

But plenty of restrictions remain.

Cuban exiles continue to be barred from owning property on the island, though they can presumably help relatives make purchases by sending money. And foreigners can also hold off on dreams of acquiring a pied-a-terre under the Caribbean sun, since only citizens and permanent residents are eligible.

COMMENT:  You know, you just can't get pure revolutions any longer.  I hope that Michael Moore, Jane Fonda, and Harry Belafonte go down there and really give Raul Castro an equitably distributed piece of their minds. 

I wonder what Fidel is thinking.  I'd imagine he and his nurses have gone back into the hills to plan the overthrow of the brother.  (Never give a business to the brother.  You know what they do to it.)

And with Hugo Chavez sick, what's a young dissenter to do?

Look to Libya, I say.  They may need volunteers to seal the oil barrels.  It's for the people.

November 4, 2011