Cabo San Lucas

Today I am on my way to Cabo San Lucas to rendezvous with mi gran amigo, Life Long Harborite, to share with him his last visit to a time share he has had for many years and which he has liquidated.
At this moment I am sitting in the Mexico City airport waiting [...]

Palapa

I earlier had promised to post pictures of a palapa typical of the Arroyo Zacate and Avasoslo del Valle area I visited last weekend.This palapa is in the rear yard of the home of one of Abbi’s aunts we visited.
Here is a shot of the roof structure, which is most often composed of poles [...]

Rupert Murdoch’s My Space Page

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A Sad Day in the Neighborhood

It is indeed a sad day for me. Mari, to whose lavanderia I have taken my laundry since arriving in Xalapa and about whom I posted last October, died yesterday morning.
I have become quite close to Mari, her husband Enrique, and her two sons Omar and Tristan.
Omar came to my apartment yesterday to give [...]

More Arroyo Zacate

The roosters of Arroyo Zacate commence their cantata about 2:00 in the morning, I discovered, while here in Xalapa the chorus begins about 4:00.
Having gone to bed earlier Saturday night than the rest of the household I arose Sunday morning before all except Perfecto’s mother, who, amongst other kitchen chores, was kindling the tortilla fire.
Ivan [...]

Hospitals Are Dangerous Places

Did you know that “Each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control,two million Americans acquire an infection while they are in the hospital.” and “Ninety thousand die of that infection.” I didn’t.
And to think [...]

Arroyo Zacate

The prayer for a safe journey that Abbi’s mother insisted she say before we left was apparently effective as we arrived safely in pueblo Arroyo Zacate at about 3:00 and pulled up in front of a small store operated by Ivan and his family. I think Ivan is Abbi’s cousin but I met so [...]

My Drive To Arroyo Zacate

I posted last Friday that I had been invited to visit Playa Vincente in Southern Veracruz, very near to Oaxaca. Actually the visit was to Arroyo Zacate and Avasolo del Valle, small pueblos near Playa Vincente, the size of which rates a spot on the map while the pueblos do not.
A week [...]

NAFTA No Good For Mexico

Sanjay Suri of the Interpress Service reports on an OXFAM report that indicates free trade agreements are “Enslaving Poor Countries”.   Suri reports the following specific to Mexico.
“The North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has brought 1.3 million job losses in Mexico in ten years, Jones said. Increased exports to [...]

Eighteen Day Gap Reminiscent of Eighteen Minute Gap

Apparently there is an eighteen day gap in the copies of email messages related to the political purge of US Attorneys that the Department of Justice has provided Congress.
When the small cities I used to work for first obtained email service the city attorney made a point of informing all employees that email messages are [...]

“Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” – John Perkins

Recently my gringo neighbor, Steve, a retired education professor from San Francisco, lent me a copy of Perkins’ book, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, of which I had read and had been wanting to read. Though it contains some revealing information of the nefarious deeds of the USA government, acting through its consulting [...]

Off For The Weekend

I’ve been invited to a birthday party tomorrow at a family rancho in Playa Vincente, a very small town in the mountains about three hours South of Veracruz along winding mountains roads.
I was in the local mercado earlier this week to buy a new pair of sandals and one of the woman minding the shop, [...]

Spectacular Tree

I took the photo of this spectacular tree from the roof of my apartment building.

Commonly Proffered BS Relative to Replacing US Attorneys

Many uninformed pundits are maintaining the Clinton’s replacement of all US Attorneys at the onset of his administration was unprecedented. So what’s the big deal with Bush firing eight?
The pundits proffering this line are wrong.
From a Washington Post online chat yesterday with Stuart Gerson who was a Deputy AG in the Bush I [...]

Hapless Gonzales To Be Thrown Overboard

How do I know? Bush has declared his “confidence in AG Al Gonzales” and a couple administration intentional leakers are spreading the word of friction between Gonzales and the White House.

The Phoniness of John Edwards

Raw Story has posted a link to a myway story reporting that former Edwards adviser, and veteran democratic party functionary, Bob Shrum is wringing his hands over “advising Edwards to give President Bush the authority to go to war in Iraq. He said if Edwards had followed his instincts instead of the advice of [...]

Lying to Congress is Illegal

Senators Schumer, of New York, and Feinstein, of California, today ran down the lies Bush administration officials have told to Congress during it’s investigation of the political firings of the 8 US Attorneys General.
It is illegal to lie to Congress during “any investigation or review, conducted pursuant to the authority of any committee, subcommittee, commission [...]

Alberto Gonzales Accepts Responsibility and Promises to Establish Accountability

There seems to be a widely held opinion that George Bush is one of the worst, if not the very worst, USA president of all time.  It is becoming increasingly apparent that his Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, is in the same, extremely minor, league.
Gonzales, in the face of the unfolding scandal of the political firing [...]

Hurrah to the National Association of Evangelicals

The National Association of Evangelicals has issued a statement condemning the Bush administration’s use of torture.

Mosaic

 
Aside the walking path around Los Lagos is this mosaic.