Cheney on Club Gitmo

Cheney, as the chief of transition, infested the Bush administration with the Neo-fascists (they call themselves Neo-conservatives) who have been dying to invade Iraq since the early 1990s. Go to the Project for the New American Century website and read all about it.
I should also note that almost none of the New Amercian Centurions, who [...]

The Perfect Picture

Before leaving for Cuba, on my first trip back since 1970, I told Bill, one of my traveling companions who looks like Hemingway and whom we called Hemingway throughout our trip, that a perfect picture of our trip would be that of an old woman smoking a cigar.
Bill and I were sitting on a bench [...]

Dirys Adams Wilson – "Oh, my God"

I met Dirys Adams Wilson, known to her friends a Indira, in Santiago, Cuba. She was looking for someone with whom to practice her English and who would buy her a chicken and french fry dinner.
Indira would laugh, slap her knee and declare “Oh, my God.” She was delightful company who provided me with lots [...]

Further Erosion of the Bill of Rights

The Supreme Court this week, in a 6-3 decision, declared that government can take your property and give it to another private property owner. Such transactions usually involve taking property from poorer folks and giving it to richer folks, and all that’s necessary is for those desiring the property of others to prevail upon [...]

Bush’s Posada Dilemma

What is George Bush to do with Luis Posada Carriles? You perhaps have read recently about Posada, the self-professed tourist hotel bomber and U.S. government identified commercial airliner bomber, who illegally snuck into the U.S.

Posada, a former member of the regime of former Cuban dictator Fulencio Batistsa, trained by the CIA in [...]

The Depravity of Bill Frist and Jeb Bush

During the media circus manufactured around the Theresa Schiavo matter, by demagogic politicians hoping to sew up the radical right vote for the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate majority leader Dr. Bill Frist, as you’ll remember, pronounced upon the Senate floor that he had watched a one hour video of Ms. Schiavo and determined that she [...]

Comments

This is a big night for Expatriate Ruminations. There have been four comments entered from two different commentators, “Anonymous” and my buddy Dan.

Social Security "Reform"

First, I must confess to a complete lack of credentials or training that would qualify me to address this subject; but President Bush has announced that “reform” of the Social Security System is one of his top priorities for his second term.
President Bush has indicated that the SS system is in crisis, that it must [...]

Talk of Impeachment

It is now common knowledge (at least amongst the 50 percent of the U. S. population informed enough to know that Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and that Iraq and al Qaida were not in league) that President Bush, Vice-president Cheney, former Secretary of State Powell, Condolezza Rice, and any [...]

Sunrise Christmas Morning

I posted this photo, taken from my front door a few years ago on Christmas morning, for Bernadette, who says she likes pictures of sunrises and sunsets.

Cuba

I couldn’t resist taking this photo of these Cuban school children bouncing up and down on a tree branch as I climbed a hill in the Vinales Valley, Cuba to visit the Aquaticos.
The Aquaticos are a group of folks who live in the hills, accessible only by foot or horseback, who believe that their water [...]

Deepthroat

The revelation of the identity of “Deep Throat”, Woodward and Bernstien’s source for their award winning Watergate investigative reports who remained unidentified for 30 years, elicits memories of the drama of the Congressional Watergate hearings and the ultimate demise of President Nixon.
The nonpartisan Watergate hearings, the prosecutions of many nefarious Nixon adminstration officials , and [...]

WSCO Petroleum and the Local Economy

This evening, after consuming a couple glasses of red wine at Saginaw’s and enjoying conversation with Dan Meldrich, my friend and neighbor of 28 years, and Josh Wood, proprietor of the Bank at Saginaw’s, I had the good fortune of running into, and enjoying a great conversation with, Gene Tish and Shauna DelaMare, of [...]