You’d Think the Bush Courtiers Would Devise a New Script

So now Iran is harboring Al Qaeda, according to an anonymous administration official, as reported by the LA Times.
“Iran is becoming more and more radicalized and more willing to turn a blind eye to the Al Qaeda presence there,” a U.S. counter-terrorism official said.
Maybe Bush administration ideologues are trying to economize by just changing [...]

Dick Cheney – Lunatic

Anyone who still doesn’t believe that Dick Cheney is a lunatic should read this Reuters report. Remember Cheney was in charge of the search for Bush’s vice-presidential candidate and selected himself. “Steady hand on the tiller…” without an oar in the water.
So we have a president who thinks God is telling him what to do [...]

Grover Norquist Laundered Money for Abramoff and Reed

Grover Norquist, for those who don’t know, every week hosts a conclave of about 100 top Washington D.C. republican congressional and administration staff and lobbyists. He used his organization, Americans for Tax Reform, to launder money for both to Jack Abramoff and Ralph Reed, who as Pat Robertson’s former Christian Coalition director lectured us about [...]

Americans Are Wising Up To Bush

The Pew Research Center’s latest poll finds that when asked to describe President Bush in one word 48% of the USA population uses a negative word, most often “incompetent”, followed closely by “idiot” and “liar”.
From the PEW Research report.
In a Word…Incompetent
President Bush’s declining image also is reflected in the single-word descriptions people use to [...]

Celestun Visit Story Published

The story of my visit to Celestun has been published on the “Day Trips” page of the Yucatan Today web site.

You Know Me Appears in the Local Newspaper

Luis, the fellow from whom I buy fruit, informed me today, as I was buying bananas for my neighbor Armando, that my picture had appeared in the Diario Yucatan yesterday. He rustled around on the floor of his vendor booth and came up with a copy of the paper and gave it to me.
As it [...]

It’s All About Poll Numbers

Senator Russ Feingold, of Wisconsin, introduced a Senate resolution to censure Bush for “unlawful authorization of wiretaps of Americans within the United States without obtaining the court orders required” by FISA. Apparently his resolution received the cold shoulder from his fellow Senate democrats, so he went into a snit and lambasted his collegues. [...]

The "Gonzocons" Are Eating Each Other

Martin Kelly, whoever he is, I think has it right. The rats are jumping the neoconservative ship.
He explains why he thinks the folks that call them neoconservatives are really gonzoconservatives. They’re as paranoid as Hunter Thompson, but not nearly as much fun.

Tango Gaucho

I had dinner the other night at the Tango Gaucho restaurant on Calle 16, X 29 y 31, in Colonia Mexico.
Five years ago the proprietors renovated a dilapidated colonial style home into a quality restaurant featuring Argentinean specialties, which means lots of char broiled beef. They also offer chicken and pasta dishes, as well as [...]

Helen Thomas – One of Few Media Heroes

Helen Thomas, the dean of the White House press corps rhetorically flays the “lapdog” media.

Adele Ferguson – Coulter Wannabe

Anyone who doesn’t believe Adele Ferguson, syndicated columnist particularly familiar to those in Washington state, is a whack job from top to bottom should read her trope lecturing African Americans to be thankful that their forbears were brought to America as slaves, to quit whining about it, and to become Republicans.
You can read the column [...]

CICY – Jardin Botanico Regional

Despite the hours of internet searching I did before moving here, I did not learn of the botanical garden on the campus of the Centro de Investigacion Cientifica de Yucatan (CICY) in Merida until it was mentioned on the Merida Insider gardening forum.
Earlier this week I bussed to CICY and spent an about an hour [...]

Interior Secretary Norton to Resign

Apparently Abramoff’s corruption slime is flowing a bit too closely to Secretary Norton.

FM 3 Visa

Today I received my FM 3 visa which permits me to live here for a year and which is renewable each year for four years. After 5 years of residency here an alien may apply for an FM 2 visa which permit permanent residency.
Now that I have an FM 3 I can open a local [...]

Faces of the Santa Ana Market

Please excuse the layout. I still haven’t quite figured it out. It looks good during drafting but changes when posted.
One of the things that I really like about Merida is its neighborhood markets.
The city’s central market,Mercado Lucas de Galvez, covers a number of square blocks on the edge of the historic centro [...]

Inveterate Liars

Though it was all over the blogosphere before the commencement of our Liar in Chief’s Iraqi adventure that the federal Depts. Of Energy and State had informed Bush et al that the aluminum tube nonsense there were passing around was BS, here’s the proof.Meanwhile our Liar in Chief declared four days after Katrina caused catastrophic [...]

John McCain – Amoral Fraud

Kevin Drum is spot on in his appraisal of McCain. The guy is a fraudulent bag of wind. He beat his chest about the importance of his “anti-torture” bill and garnered lots of favorable publicity. The problem is that bill denies individuals who are tortured recourse to the courts.
The “Detainee Treatment Act of 2005″ [...]

Belusconi Address Congress with No Interpreter

This is really unbelievable. Members of Congress and their interns cast as extras in a Berlusconi made for Italian TV publicity stunt.
I think comparing Congressperons to trained seals is, in general, very unfair to seals.

Santa Ana Apartment

Before moving here I had promised myself that I would live here for a year before making a decision as to stay or not. My resolve has weaken.
I have an appointment Monday with the owner of this 7 unit apartment building to examine the property. The building is within a few blocks of where I [...]

Walter Cronkite on the Drug War

It would be nice if USA politicians dealt in reality and truth as does Walter Cronkite. Unfortunately such will never occur, as at least half the USA population prefers pandering from their politicians rather than truth; and as long as pandering sells that’s what we shall get.