Real or Photo Shop?

[Regis Philbin]

http://apnews.myway.com/image/20060813/ADDITION_CUBA_CASTRO.sff_NY110_20060813062244.html?date=2006 0813&docid=D8JFHSF00


http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/ap/ADDITION_CUBA_CASTRO.sff_NY110_20060813062244.jpg

This is one of four photographs published Sunday Aug. 13, 2006 by Cuba's Communist Youth newspaper's online edition Juventud Rebelde proporting to show The first photographs of Fidel Castro since his illness two weeks ago. Castro holds a copy of the Saturday Aug. 12, 2006 edition of Granma, the Communist Party newspaper. The headline reads "Absolved by history." The Associated Press cannot verify the authenticity or the date when these photographs were shot. (AP Photo/HO)

[Annoyedlistner]

i dont trust anything that comes out of Cuba.

[pinky]

That's the whitest newpaper I've ever seen. :rolleyes:

[BrokenHalo]

it's definitely photoshopped--as mentioned the paper is too white, but beyond that it's pretty blurry right around his hand (actually you can faintly see a "shadow" of his finger behind the pages of the paper, too, so it's not even a really great photoshop job...)

[Regis Philbin]

He's wearing a red, white and blue Adidas running suit too. What America-hating Communist would wear that?

[Annoyedlistner]

Ha..very true Regis...for some reason i didnt even think about that.

[Paulie]

Just wondering....

What are the colors on the Cuban flag????

Paulie

[LesterX]

What are you trying to say Paulie? That the US doesn't own the copyright on red, white and blue flags? ;)

[WannaBreatheYou]

Just wondering....

What are the colors on the Cuban flag????

Paulie
;)

http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/Cuba/cuba_flag_.gif

[Richard Tafoya]

Shocking that Regis would open his mouth before checking his facts.

[Paulie]

What are you trying to say Paulie? That the US doesn't own the copyright on red, white and blue flags? ;)

Oh, Leslie, you know me better than that. I would NEVER say or imply anything like that. ;)

Hmmmm....if you could copyright flag colors, to whom would WE owe money?? England??? France??? Both????

Paulie

[Paulie]

;)

http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/Cuba/cuba_flag_.gif

Damn, they're even trying to violate our exclusive use of stars on flags!!!!

Call the lawyers!!!!!!!!

Paulie

[WannaBreatheYou]

Damn, they're even trying to violate our exclusive use of stars on flags!!!!

Call the lawyers!!!!!!!!

Paulie
Don't forget the stripes. We have to get in on the stripe copyright.

[Venisenvy]

on a side note who made the cuban flag because im guessing since its the same as the puerto rican flag besides the position of the colors and they are both probably modeled after the american flag that the US might have had something to do with it when it won both cuba and PR in the spanish american war.

[Richard Tafoya]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Cuba

The Cuban flag's origins began in 1849, when various movements to liberate Cuba from Spanish rule emerged, mainly among Cuban exiles in the United States. Anti-Spanish Cuban exiles under the leadership of Narciso López adopted a flag suggested by the poet Miguel Teurbe Tolón. His design, which later became the current national flag, incorporates three blue stripes, representing the sea that surrounds the island of Cuba, and two white stripes symbolizing the purity of the patriotic cause. The red triangle stands for the blood shed to free the nation. The white star in the triangle stands for independence. López carried this flag in battle at Cárdenas (1850) and Playitas (1851). Although the battles were unsuccessful, these were the first times the flag was raised in Cuba.