Lo Que No Mata, Engorda

Loosely (very) translated What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger, but it could give you heart failure later.

From the AP:

Raul's
Reforms May Strengthen Communism
By WILL WEISSERT –

HAVANA (AP) —
It's not the stuff of Lenin or Marx, or even of Fidel Castro, but it's hardly free-market capitalism, either. In fact, steps to encourage a Cuban spending spree may help the communist system and its new president survive.

In rapid-fire decrees over the past week, Raul Castro's government has done away with some despised restrictions, lifting bans on electric appliances, microwaves and computers, inviting average citizens to enter long-forbidden resorts and declaring they can even legally have their own cell phones.

While people are excited to walk around stores and hotel lobbies, they will soon become frustrated that they can't afford to do more than look, said Juan Antonio Blanco, a Cuban academic based in Ontario, Canada.

"This government is totally myopic and shortsighted if it doesn't understand that it's sitting on dynamite," he said. "They have to do more than the things that will play in the international media."

And that's from the AP, folks

Oh wait what's that outside my window? Never mind its just a flying pig.