I don't know about the rest of you, but I think the world is a little safer today now that longtime-communist dictator, Fidel Castro, has stepped down as the leader of the Cuban government.

Over the years, I often wondered how we in the United States were ever going to outlast Cuba's crumbling socialist-economy and its outdated, impotent military might. I'm sure somewhere down in Dixie, that old redneck anti-commie (now former) U.S. Senator Jessie Helms is smiling a big yellow-toothed grin. All too often over the years, it was Jessie and Jessie alone up on Capitol Hill warning all of us about the imminent danger that Castro and his band of pinko rebels posed to the United States.

Godspeed Jessie, I hope you live many years to tell and retell this tale of triumph. Oh, one thing Jess, don't forget to tell the part about how the Eisenhower administration helped fund the Castro rebels in the early years in their quest to oust the corrupt Batista government. We wouldn't want that fact to get lost in the historical shuffle.

Now that the Cold War is finally dead. Maybe the United States can now fully turn its attention to the War on Terror so that we can rid the world of another threat that we helped to nurture, mature and arm, before they turned to bite the hand that fed them in the early 1990's. (Pssst . . . for those of you keeping score at home, I'm talking about al Qaeda. Yeah, we helped create them to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan back in the 1980's. Look it up, its another truth your bootlicking American media has kept from you.)

But I digress. . . . Thank heaven that Castro, well at least Fidel Castro, is now gone. Now where are my cigars?