Teatro Jose Peon Contreras

This is the front of the theater in which I listened to the Orquestra Sinfonica de Yucatan the other evening. I will try to post a picture of the inside to give an idea of its opulence.
The performance this coming Friday evening will be Beethoven’s Fifth.
Yesterday I consulted the elderly proprietor of the tiny [...]

Progreso

I finally made it to Progreso, a city of about 40,000 about 20 miles North of Merida on the Gulf coast. I must say I was underwhelmed.
The air-conditioned bus ride from Merida took about an hour each way and cost 21 pesos, or $2 US, roundtrip.
The picture shows the pier, at 5 mile long [...]

One Hell of a Birthday

I’ve had some memorable birthdays, like my 40th when my sister bought the birthday cake at the Erotic Bakery in Seattle; but I can say without qualification that today will be my most memorable yet.
This morning I walked the two miles round trip to the Santiago market, to which I had not yet been, to [...]

Sunet Over the Rappahannock

I took this picture in 2000 while participating in the No Whiners Rendezvous II, at my high school buddy’s Northern Neck retreat near where the Rappahannock flows into the Chesapeake Bay in Virgina.
The only thing I have to say about Libby’s indictment today is that any adult who still goes by “Scooter” has no business [...]

Eva

Eva is the daughter of a friend in Pinar del Rio, Cuba and is amongst the cutest kids I’ve ever met.

Prosecutor Fitzgerald Leasing More Office Space?

Important Update: Clemons is now reporting that his sources have informed him that they got it wrong. Fitzgerald has not, has not leased additional office space.
Read his retraction here.
Steve Clemons, at “The Washington Note”, reported late last evening that Fitzgerald has leased additional office space.
Read the report here.
Earlier reports indicated that Fitzgerald had [...]

Niger Uranium Forgeries

As you may have read, the Italian publication “La Repubblica” has published a three part report on the origins of the Niger uranium forgeries which the Bush administration neo-fascists convinced Bush to cite in his now infamous State of the Union Address to Congress justifying the criminal invasion of Iraq.
La Repubblica reports that the forgeries [...]

Indictments

Steve Clemons, is reporting in “The Washington Note”, a very reliable source of information which I recommend highly, that he has been informed that 1-5 indictments will be issued tomorrow in the Plame name Game.
He also relates that CBS News has reported that Fitzgerald will make a public statement tomorrow.
Read The Washington Note here.
I also [...]

Mexican National Census

A very pleasant census interviewer was by today to document how many folks live here, the conveniences contained in apartment, my name, my national origin, and the other normal census information. I’ve been counted.

My Future Garden

Here is the garden bed I’’ve constructed from limestone rocks and discarded concrete blocks that I’ve rooted out of the vegetation in the back yard of my apartment. I’’ve filled the bed with Mango leaves I’’ve stripped from branches that had been pruned and discarded in the back yard, green vegetation I chopped with a [...]

Plame Name Game

Raw Story, a web site which has broken lots of news of the Ftizgerald investigation into who “outed” Valerie Plame, is reporting that David Wurmser, a committed neo-fascist and Cheney aide, informed Libby of Plame’s identity. Cheney’s chief of staff, “Scooter”Libby instructed Wurmser to find out who Plame’s husband Joseph Wilson was after Wilson began [...]

Wilma

For those of you who have written asking about the effects of hurricane Wilma on Merida, I can report that at this time, 4:20 PM CST, Wilma’s eye is over Cozumel on the East coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. The weather here today has been partly cloudy, with a couple of showers; and a bit [...]

Judith Miller

The two of you who have been reading my commentary have noticed that I have repeatedly referred to Judith Miller, New York Time “reporter”, as a “media whore.” Apparently Miller is more than merely a whore, she, reportedly, was one of the White House’s chief corporate media propagandists.
The New York Daily News, [...]

Cheney Cabal

I have often claimed that it is Dick Cheney, as the administration’s chief of transition in the wake of Bush’s election, who is the real power of the Bush presidency and it is Cheney who hijacked the U. S. government foreign policy, defense, and intelligence apparatus by placed rigid ideologues (they call themselves neoconservatives) into [...]

My Usual Breakfast

OK, I admit it. I’m a bit short on ideas for interesting posts, so I thought I post a picture of my usual breakfast, the ingredients of which I pickup at the market a few blocks from home.

Saving Grace

I’m certain that many of you reading this have probably seen the movie “Saving Grace.” Being profoundly ignorant of popular culture that has emerged after about 1970, I hadn’t before this evening when it showed up on one of my cable channels.
If you haven’t seen the movie I recommend it. It’s a good bit of [...]

Niger Uranium Forgeries, Franklin Spying, Iran-Contra, and a Big Nest of Serial Crooks

According to a well documented and sourced report by Justin Raimondo, to which the below link leads, the Fitzgerald investigation is far more wide ranging than I have seen reported elsewhere. I think everyone with even a modicum of curiosity about the large number of crooks with a hand in the Bush administration should read [...]

A Nice House

I came across this very nice house during my evening bicycle ride around a portion of town I had not yet explored.

The Entrance to a Very Large Compound

This is the entrance to a very large compound with lots of buildings, ponds, geese, magnificent giant trees, a playground, and lots that I was not able to see as I bicycled the perimeter.
I did not find any signs identifying what it is.

Parque Centenario

This is the entrance to a very, very large park, with amusment rides, ponds, fake exotic animals, and all sorts of other diversions.