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HAPPY BIRTHDAY U.S.A.!  E-mail

ImageIf a space traveler from another galaxy far, far, away happened to visit our planet he/she/it would most likely fail to realize how the U.S.A. (E.E.U.A.) Founding Fathers were so uniquely visionary.

The precepts so eloquently stated within the Declaration of Independence/Constitution/Bill of Rights as a government blueprint, for the first time in human history, elevated every Flesh covered Human Carbon Unit to a higher state of existence. 

The idea of a government operating with the consent of the governed was and still is a radical idea.  Passed down from a previous century with speech, ink and paper, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and then the Americans Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and Thomas Paine (and the other Patriots) all infused with a few special Golden God Particles that were created when Time began.                                                                Image

Today our greatest scientists search for these tiny “Big Bang-generated” God Particles (they don’t like that word now) by building giant machines with thousands of magnets which will accelerate, collide and reveal these smallest particles of matter.

Is it possible that after they briefly spark into existence, that they pass through the minds of a special few in order to show them truth and reason? 

ImageThis theory would mesh nicely with Darwinism as it would ensure the further survival of Earth’s alpha species. 

The U.S. Founding Fathers propelled our entire civilization, not just the U.S., into a realm of hope, purpose and liberation from an existence as subjects to one as citizens (see latest story of Jefferson’s struggle with those 2 words). http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_declaration_of_independence                                       Image

Although Americans celebrate Independence Day on July 4th, the 2nd Continental Congress actually voted to approve the resolution of separation (Declaration of Independence) from Great Britain on July 2nd, 1776.  http://www.ushistory.org/DECLARATION/

This momentous event occurred 14 months after the first lethal shots had been fired in Lexington and Concord on the same day, April 19th, 1775.  From that day the American War of Independence was in full conflict and would not officially end until the British signed the preliminary Anglo-American Treaty in November of 1782 and the Treaty of Versailles (aka Treaty of Paris) in September of 1783. 

The last British troops left New York City on November 25th, 1783; so after 8 years, approximately 25,700 Americans had died for their new country plus another approximately 25,000 wounded (7200 killed in battle, 10,000 died from disease or Imageexposure and 8500 died in British prisons). 

Fighting side by side with Americans, the French lost about 990 soldiers. However, no one will ever know how many Haitian free blacks, Spanish, Canadians, Dutch and Native Americans died in the American Revolution.  

The number of British and Loyalist troop deaths has been estimated.  Out of the 121,000 British sailors in service engaged in the war and the 50,000+ British soldiers that were sent across the pond, about 29,740 died (1240 navy seamen killed in action, 18,500 navy seamen died from disease and exposure and 10,000 soldiers died from battle, disease and exposure). 

Germany (Hessians) lost about 7554 troops.  Ironically, during the American Revolutionary War, land and sea battles killed far fewer people than did the natural elements and disease. 

It probably was around this time in our new country’s history that someone immediately noticed that “Freedom Isn’t Free”. 

 

Last Updated ( Sunday, 04 July 2010 )
 
A BIG MAN--FESS PARKER  E-mail

ImageFess Parker died this week. He was 85 years old.  The growing number of U.S. expats in Costa Rica may recall a little of the Fess Parker phenomenon of their childhood.  His legacy will forever be based on his T.V. portrayal of a real life American hero, Daniel Boone.

Could Fess Parker have ever known how many millions of little boys, including me and my brother, all across the U.S. in the magic years that were the 1950s, would forever carry his 6 foot 6 inch tall image in their dreams and childhood memories along with coonskin hats, flintlock rifles and rubber bowie knives?  Image

It’s a mixed blessing for an actor, to be cast in such a perfect role because who would want to hire Daniel Boone for anything else? We knew that he wasn’t real but what we saw every week inside that Glade polished furniture-sized box sitting in our living room became synthesized into our essence---helped make us internally, what we grew up to be. 

ImageThe timing of the 1950s television heroes, like Davy Crockett was perfect---no home computers, video games or cable T.V.---nothing to distract from the world of good guys and bad, right and wrong, good and evil.  We had many to choose from; The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Bat Masterson, The Rifleman, Maverick, Paladin, Cheyenne, The Swamp Fox, Zorro, Mighty Mouse, Superman, Hopalong Cassidy, James T. West, Wyatt Earp and more.

The Daniel Boone series was a Walt Disney produced show so it was their super star Fess Parker, dressed in buckskin and coonskin cap, riding a tall horse, who led the Disneyland opening day parade July 17th, 1955 in summer temperatures slightly over a “Global Warming” 100 degrees. 

Along with his T.V. sidekick Buddy Ebsen, the pair performed a production of “Old Betsy” in front of ABC cameras that were covering the event live at “the happiest place on earth”.  Here’s a link to see the actual singing and dancing live number; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvKV37VbJYk                     Image

For me, the Fess Parker/Daniel Boone primary experience led to hours of wonderful adventure stories of Hawkeye, the skilled “Native American” who could move through a forest without a sound, never leaving a trace, in the Leatherstocking series of books by James Fenimore Cooper.                                                         

Many years later, we even tasted some of Parker’s own estate bottled wine at his beautiful vineyards in Central California one unforgettable afternoon.  We didn’t see Daniel Boone that day but we spotted his coonskin cap embossed in gold on every bottle.  Rest in Peace Fess Parker. 

Here’s a link to a Fess Parker tribute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDLf6WBnsiU  

 

 

Last Updated ( Saturday, 20 March 2010 )
 
NEW PRESIDENT  E-mail

ImageFormer Costa Rican Vice President, Laura Chinchilla (Lowra Cheenchéeya) has become the 67th head of state and 57th president* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Costa_Rica of the most successful** country in Latin America.  

Sunday election day felt like a national holiday, which in effect, it was.  Costa Ricans appreciate and cherish their ability to take part in choosing their leaders and show it by celebrating in the streets with flags and political banners flying as parades of cars roll down the avenues, horns honking and crowds enthusiastically chanting and yelling support for their chosen candidates.  

The results were tallied that same evening on local television with the predicted Chinchilla victory; the country’s first woman president elected in a landslide.  For the people of Costa Rica, they would have voted in their beloved Oscar Arias for a third term if not for the rule of law preventing it.  

This is not one of those forsaken nations headed by men whose lust for power leads them to change constitutions, place their cronies on high courts and use goon squads to enforce their will in order to remain El Jefe.  Image

This is a country where peaceful transitions of power have led to stability and prosperity for generations.  For the Costa Rican tourism industry it should mean a continuation of policies that have made this country one of the most popular vacation spots in the world. 

For the Costa Rican people it should ensure the peaceful continuation of controlled land use while preserving precious ecosystems, crime reduction, infrastructure upgrades, technology advancements and education and socio-economic improvements. 

*This number could be slightly different depending on the method used to count the many people who were Costa Rican Heads of State, sometimes briefly, interim, provisional, acting, deposed, removed, reinstated, overthrown or “forced to resign” in the “good old days”.

**Successful, defined not as the most industrialized, largest economy such as Brazil.  We prefer to use the ethereal but essential gauges such as the Environmental Performance Index (1st in the Americas, 3rd in the world), Human Development Index (life expectancy=71 years), New Economics Foundation’s Happy Planet Index=#1 and “The Greenest Country in the World”.

Last Updated ( Monday, 08 February 2010 )
 
LYING IS BEING INDISCREET---GLOBAL WARMING SCAM  E-mail

ImageCosta Rica plants thousands of trees every year in a vigorous campaign of reforestation that is leading the way to Nobel Award winning President Oscar Arias’ goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2021, Costa Rica’s centennial year.  The major Global Warming deception uncovered a few days ago in England could have negative affects to organizations and countries that may lose funding from investors who could pull their green financial support if they perceive environment preservation as a scam.                                                                  

This week a favorite religion of the left, Global Warming, has had its curtain of secrets pulled back, revealing a new, scary kind of Professor Marvel trying to hide what he has done.  “MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING” took a laser hit with the unexpected release of hacked “global warming scientist” emails, proving how we have all been lied to for at least a generation.                                                                                                                    Image

The University of East Anglia’s Research Unit, has now been caught with its “hands in the cookie jar” by having its secret forged data and resulting policies becoming public knowledge.  Revealed were shocking conversations amongst these English scientists agreeing to fake their statistics on a regular basis when the numbers disagreed with their Global Warming conclusions. 

At first it was hard to understand why this group of genuinely learned men and women would risk their careers, their family’s well being and the scorn of their international colleagues, until we learned what was at stake in the larger picture. 

ImageAs the “Climate-gate” story unfolds, we see that this small body of professorial researchers happen to be a part of the United Nations’ Heart and Soul; the Big Kahunas of the world wide “fear engine” that drives decisions as to how much in monetary penalties that high polluting nations have to pay out for “Carbon Credits”.  

This little system, also known as “Cap and Trade” is at the core of the whole “Global Warming” scam, along with ensuring continued research grant money.  Organizations (who don’t have the best interests of the U.S. at heart) set “Pollution Standards”.  The countries that achieve, or are under their pollution “cap” are issued Carbon Credits which they may SELL to member countries that are over their caps (guess which countries that would be).  The big Polluter Nations who have purchased enough carbon credits are allowed TO KEEP POLLUTING!

We’re guessing that the plan was to keep the idiocy of this Carbon Credit scam secret long enough until the buffoons we sent to the U.N. actually signed the agreement (President Bush said Hell No to the Kyoto agreement).  We are talking BIG DOLLARS/YUAN/EUROS, which would be involuntarily removed from our wallets!            Image

We have seen Costa Rican real estate ads advertising for investors in land that will qualify for CARBON CREDITS. We wonder if any of the scientists at East Anglia have already purchased a nice hectare or 2 of pristine rainforest acreage.  

There seems to be no doubt within Global Warming circles that this pod of British Wise Men has been the most listened to group of scientists that the United Nation’s “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” (IPCC) used to determine where the carbon levels would be set.  

That was what the Kyoto Protocol was all about; giving up United States sovereignty to a foreign body where taxpayers would have had to pay whatever carbon penalty amounts the IPCC/U.N. decided. 

ImageAnother little “stumble” became public this week as the whole Global Warming situation got curiouser and curiouser.  Dr. Philip Jones, University of East Anglia Climactic Change DIRECTOR announced that the original data used to formulate the final “adjusted” Global Warming temperatures had become “LOST”. 

Their story is that the original data, upon which all of their Man Made Global Warming theories are based, was thrown out in the 1980s as a space saving move when the team relocated to a new building.  This admission was finally announced after a freedom of information legal action was filed.  

The next meeting of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, being held in Copenhagen, starts in just a few days and should be very interesting.  

All these years we were taught to feel guilty about ourselves as humans, causing Global Warming to become worse and how we were killing the planet.                                                                 

We changed our lifestyles, although for the better in a lot of cases.  We stopped using aerosols, drove smaller cars, planted trees, used public transportation, turned down our thermostats, turned up our thermostats, solar paneled our houses, outlawed air conditioning Freon, covered our pots while cooking, recycled, used less hot water, ate less meat, or stopped eating meat altogether, carpooled to work, flew less, changed our light bulbs, purchased carbon offsets to relieve our guilt, etc.                                                                                                                   Image

Even thousands of Hindus unknowingly pitched in last week by removing a lot of “planet destroying”, 4-legged creatures which are, according to the U.N., the primary cause of greenhouse gasses that cause Global Warming.  Those party loving and eco-aware Hindus from Nepal behead about 250,000 cattle, water buffalo and various other animals every 5 years as sacrifices to Gadhimai, goddess of power.  Ok, so these Hindus may not be getting any Carbon Credits from the U.N. but a big Global Warming HIGH 5 and an A for effort!                                  

Our school children were taught not only the guilt of causing harm to the Earth but the FEAR, with “experts” like Professor Kevin Anderson claiming that only 10% OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION WILL SURVIVE GLOBAL WARMING. 

So what is behind this apparent international scam?  The answers that we’re learning are basic to the History of Mankind, just on a larger scale; GREED and POWER.  About 100 nations are expected to attend the upcoming Copenhagen United Nations Global Warming conference and the more that sign on to the U.N. program, the more money will be generated “to stop Global Warming”.                                                                                           

ImageThere’s going to be boatloads of cash, Madoff-Sized piles of dinero, rivers of gold being funneled into this scheme!  This is not unlike what we’ve seen from successful T.V. evangelists.  Good, law abiding people who sincerely believe in God (substitute Earth/environment here), are persuaded to send in their money in order to help the Church (substitute United Nations here) with all of its good deeds (substitute saving Earth from Global Warming).  

Eventually, the T.V. church preachers are investigated, pulled out of their corporate jets or from their hilltop mansions and thrown in jail (because they lied and cheated believers out of their savings).  As expected, Global Warming officials are now trying to save their religion; and they are very smooth and don’t seem the least bit agitated. 

Today the Chairman of the U.N.’s I.P.P.C. , Rajendra Pachauri, threw the “outed” scientists from the University of East Anglia under the bus with the following statements; "The processes in the IPCC are so robust, so inclusive, that even if an author or two has a particular bias it is completely unlikely that bias will find its way into the IPCC report," he said"                                                                                                           

"Every single comment that an expert reviewer provides has to be answered either by acceptance of the comment, or if it is not accepted, the reasons have to be clearly specified. So I think it is a very transparent, a very comprehensive process which insures that even if someone wants to leave out a piece of peer reviewed literature there is virtually no possibility of that happening." 

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RAJENDRA PACHAURI be discreet when Lying

Interestingly, the Chairman sent out a warning for his people to be more careful with private communications (you just can’t make this stuff up).

"I really think people should be discreet … in this day and age anything you write, even privately, could become public and to put anything down in writing is, to say the least, indiscreet … It is another matter to talk about this to your friends on the telephone or person to person but to put it down in writing was indiscreet”

In case there is any doubt that the IPCC, which was set up by the UN in 1988, is the world's leading authority on Global Warming, note that the IPCC was awarded the Nobel peace prize along with Al Gore in 2007.  The Nobel Prize was awarded “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” 

 It appears that the U.N. is pulling the old Mission Impossible trick on those British e-mailing, number fudging tricksters--- (As always, should you or any of your IM Force, be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of the matter. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds.).

We will continue to see more “tapes self destructing”, more defensive public countermeasures and more people being thrown under more buses.  We are starting to see those who until now have remained hidden within the halls and towers of their institutions.  The elitists who know what’s best for all people want to make sure we comply with their Godless religion.  The High Priests of the Church of Global Warming are now being forced to come out of the shadows in desperate attempts to extricate their red hands from the cookie jar of Junk Science (and our wallets).  One irony is that like a broken watch that is right twice a day, the scientists who are lying today will eventually be correct as our Earth cycles into a period of warming again and all of today’s data will look just fine. 

Fortunately most of the stuff we’ve done “to help save the Earth” is good.  They didn’t have to lie.  People, for the most part, are good and will do good things if given the chance.  It looks like this Man Made Global Warming scam was propagated and deified for the age old vice, mammon.

We noted today that Good Old Dr. Jones over there in England says that his group’s adjusted data agrees with everyone else’s and “even if you were to ignore our findings, theirs show the same results.”  He cited a website that has a lot of Global Warming data where his data can be verified. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/   Very sad.

*Update--It has been discovered, after continuing examinations of the "gazillion" hacked emails, that Dr. Jones and colleagues received, according to the "Telegraph.co.uk", over 50 grants totalling 13.7 million Euros/$20.1 million in addition to their regular salaries to run their"number generating center" at the university--"Ka-ching".

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html

POSTED DECEMBER 1ST, 2009

 

 

 

 

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 15 December 2009 )
 
A SUPERB PARASITE  E-mail

ImageHere’s a recent message viewed on a popular interactive website that was posted after someone from the U.S. visited Costa Rica.  

 

It's written by a young woman who becomes “sick”,  after drinking from the local water supply after a few days in the land of Pura Vida. 

Notice the sequence of dates.

She shall remain nameless.

 

 

uuuuggghhh...sooo sick...pretty sure I picked up a parasite in Costa Rica from drinking the water...superb!!! Sat 19 Sep 10:48 via web

 

However, reading a few of her previous 140 character-long posts, it appears things may not be quite as they seem---

 

No class tomorrow!!! hanging around, maybe napping, then out to the bars later???? who knows! Thu 27 Aug 15:58 via web

 

ughhhhh tooo much alcohol..soo sick last night! Fri 28 Aug 07:53 via web                                       Image

 

Well good news is my family doesn't hate me for coming home at 4am and puking my brains out! Early night then San Jose tomorrow with Sam!!! Fri 28 Aug 21:22 via web

 

Out to lunch, packing with sam, maybe out to dinner, hopefully passing the eff out then off to the airport at 3 am Wed 16 Sep 15:02 via web

 

Running on 2 hours of sleep but still having a fire and some drinks! Thu 17 Sep 18:01 via web

 

Still jet lagged but excited to go back to Philly tomorrow!!! (surprisingly) Fri 18 Sep 17:30 via web

 

uuuuggghhh...sooo sick...pretty sure I picked up a parasite in Costa Rica from drinking the water...superb!!! Sat 19 Sep 10:48 via web

                                                                                              

Yeah, that terrible water in Costa Rica, with all those parasites; must have interfered with her delicate digestive system.  It looks like she was attempting to kill the parasites with medicinal doses of alcohol.                 

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SERIOUS WATER DRINKERS

 

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MUST HAVE BEEN THE WATER

Traveler’s Tip #258—the local water in most cities in Costa Rica is pretty good.  If you are visiting for a short time and don’t want to risk it, drink bottled water.                                                                                                         However, Kamikaze-style Partying (the drinking age is 18) with little sleep, combined with fun daytime activities under a Costa Rican sun, could also affect your general sense of well-being.  We ask, however that you don’t cast aspersions on Costa Rica by using the water as an excuse for inhaling mass quantities of intoxicating, flammable liquids.

 

Traveler’s Tip #259---The following Costa Rican products are not water:                                 

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LOOKS LIKE WATER--BUT ISN'T

Cacique Guaro, Guaro is short for “Aguardiente” (burning water).  In Jaco Beach, bars will have promotions with free Guaro drinks.  Possibly mis-labeled at 70 proof, Cacique Guaro is probably responsible for more lap dances, fall downs, porcelain god prayers and pregnancies than any other adult beverage in CR. 

Ron Centenario is a locally made rum available in various stages of aging.

Ron Centenario 20 years* special mention---the gift that won’t be forgotten. (buy it in the duty free store at JS airport)

 

Ron Bucanero Special Reserve is a CR produced rum that is prefferred by some---may be hard to find.

 

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LOOKS LIKE BEER---TASTES LIKE WATER
BEER-Imperial, Pilsen, Bavaria, RockIce—Cheap and lightweight; kazillions of litres of these cervezas are consumed every day.  Lite beer drinkers will feel right at home.  Molecularly speaking, very closely related to actual water and widely consumed as such.  Bavaria (Ba-vah’-ria) has more flavor, being a dark beer.

 

 

 

http://newopticalillusions.blogspot.com/2008/03/drinking-water-in-waterfall-illusion.html (photo of man drinking waterfall)

Last Updated ( Sunday, 20 September 2009 )
 
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