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And you have proven my point, Bill, and that is that your posts speak for themselves no matter how you try to twist it all around.
Bill, Bill, Bill, to equate ANYTHING that happens on this forum with the suppression of information during the Third Reich is just a bit of a stretch, don’t you think? And yes, it was offensive, but part of what you have always done in your posts is to defelct the focus from you and the questions other members have asked you and manipulate words as though the more you repeat your mantra the more it makes it true, which is the very first premise of disinformation. And that is what you are doing now — you are telling me that making a reference to “suppression of information” on this site being tantamount to what the Nazis did was NOT distasteful, and your defense of your statement is that you are Jewish, which does what – give you license to make such ludicrous statements?! Come onnnnnnnnn. Please, in the future, leave the Nazis and their greivous acts out of your reference to this site. Oh, and it wasn’t just that comment that miffed my friends — it was the entire tenor of your postings which were basically temper tantrums that portrayed you in a very unflattering light — hardly the image one wants to have of an executive for a land development company with whom they may one day invest.
I don’t know Jen and I missed the party at the B and B, but I guess I will meet here eventually. Thanks for the link.
I was not going to comment on this recent situation and the baseless accusations Mr. Gale was throwing around, UNTIL he tried to equate Scott’s moving of his posts to what happened in Nazi Germany. I found that comment vile and offensive and a cheap and dirty shot. Obviously, Mr. Gale, you did not lose anyone in a concentration camp. My family did. And to equate childish bickering to a Nazi regime was where you crossed over the line. I sent that entire thread to a Jewish friend of mine who was *thinking* about looking at one of your projects. They will look elsewhere now — not because of anything Scott said, or anything that anyone else said, but because of WHAT YOU SAID, Mr. Gale. You shot yourself in the foot. Have a nice day.
NAFTA did nothing in Mexico but make the rich richer. Just ask any of the 400 Mexican immigrants who were at the fiesta I attended last week. Does the peasant in Mexico have a better life? NO! He’s trying to get across the border to work here. Free Trade is just another word for globalization — it ain’t about benefitting the little guy — yeah, maybe some gringo will not have to pay such exorbitant taxes on his monstrous SUV he wants to bring to Costa Rica, but for the rest of the folks, it’s bad news. I don’t want to eat GMO food and I’ll take ICE any day over WorldCom, MCI, or Sprint, or any one of those crooks who ripped people off. Don’t kid yourself, if the World Bank and the IMF are involved in anything, it’s the kiss of death. Ask Evo.
So WHERE did they get the bed? That’s REALLY important information, Debbie. I don’t know JustJen — do you have a link to her blog? I wonder if I know her. Is she in San Ramon?
I’m ahead of ya. We already have that tee-shirt!! My husband is a big Geronimo fan, so I bought it for him. But thanks! LOL
I’ll match you and raise you $20.
I’ve been sitting here all week shaking my head at some of the infantile responses of certain persons. There’s some very good shape-shifting, deflection, and downright manipulation going on, but for the most part it was pretty entertaining.
When are you coming down to Puravidaville? Still staying at the B and B? Have you been reading Andrew’s blog from South America?
The weather is fabulous in San Ramon, not too hot. I like it because it has everything and yet it feels like a small village. It also doesn’t have a McDonalds, a Starbucks, a KFC or any of that gringo garbage fast food that is ubiquitous. It still have little mom and pop stores, restaurants, etc. It also has all the medical stuff — good dentists, a clinic, hospitals, good doctors. What more do you need? And I like seeing cowboys on horses riding in the main streets.
Both high blood pressure and cholesterol can be controlled with diet and exercise and if you move to Costa Rica you can sign up for one of the other healthcare systems which are a lot less than Medicare Part B — Will you get enough from social security to qualify as a pensionado and have your husband be your dependent? if so, what are you waiting for? Come on down.
That’s an understatement! When I opened my corporate account at Banex last year, I had to provide them with my corporate papers and cedula, the electric bill, a notarized letter of reference from my bank in the US, a copy of my apostilled police report, my tax returns for three years, and a letter from me stating my intended use for the account and the appoximate amount of money I would be running through it in any given year. I gave them all this paperwork and they took my bank account application under advisement for 5 days. Then I had to have two other acount holders go with me to talk to the Gerente — and they hammered him into opening my account. Every time I ever went into that bank after that, I made sure that I always said hello to the Don and exchanged pleasantries, but when I approached him about opening a personal account so I could have a debit card, again he took my application and sat on it for a few weeks and finally told me that they would open an account the second I got my residency, even though I had given them copies of my stamped application showing I was in the process. At the top of the account application, I noticed written in English this little warning: “This application is in compliance with the Know Your Customer program.” And if any of you do not know the Know Your Customer program I suggest you bone up on it — it is part of our anti-drug anti-terrorism program to track money worldwide. UGH!
Jenny — I could not agree with you more. And maybe that is one reason I have always like a Latino culture because they still put emphasis on love and family. I went to a Mexican fiesta last weekend — we were the ONLY gringos in a crowd of 400+ for a “mis 15 anos” celebration for the daughter of a Mexican immigrant we rescued 11 years ago when he first crossed the border and had only the clothes on his back and a family in Mexico that he wanted to bring here. We gave him a job, a place to live, and helped several of his relatives. He invited us to this celebration and there must have been 75 children there — all well behaved (despite all the Coke they were drinking! LOL), and I watched the parents and their children and it was a complete anomoly to how American families are these days. I would bet there was not one Mexican child on Ritalin at that party. And all 400 of those people were related — most were Mexican immigrants who got here because some other relative crossed the border and got settled. I’ve never been to such a large gathering and felt so much love from everyone toward everyone. In California and other states now, the State owns your children. You are just their caretaker, sort of like a dog or some other pet. I observe families in Costa Rica and I see the same kind of respect of children toward parents and grandparents and this is the kind of culture I want to live in, not a culture where some spoiled brat steals a Hummer and rams it into a police car.
Jenny — I would never call you an old woman because we are only a few years apart! jejeje —
As for ffordable healthcare — you’re right about it being too expensive for the average person, but if I were an immigrant, with no papers, I could go to the hospital and get treated and not pay. Dentists are a whole other story — last summer my dentist here wanted to charge me $575 to have a filling replaced and a deep cleaning. I went to Costa Rica and had both done for a total of $42. First class work, with a first class dentist. The HMOs destroyed the healthcase system in the States; healthcare now barely resembles what I remember it being when I was much younger (which seems like a long time ago!).
As for being a Marxist — my ex-mother-in-law was a card-carrying member on the UWS back in the 30’s — maybe some of it rubbed off on me. LOL
I did as much research as I could about the “kinds” of crimes committed in Costa Rica before I made my final decision to move there. Yes, petty crime is rampant, and a few tourists have been murdered over the years, and there was one shoot-out during a bank robbery in Arenal (I think it was), but I found no incidence of mass murder, or murder-suicide, or your basic shoot-out in a public place. anyone who follows the news in the US hears about these things all too frequently. The people I know in Costa Rica who were victims of petty crime did stupid things — left their house unlocked, their possessions in a car, their wallet in a back pocket, a purse slung over their arm. The same crime likely would’ve happened in any US city as well. we have crimes of a more menacing nature, and yes, they are related to the mass drugging of our population with drugs that have violence as a side effect. Here’s a little blurb I saw this morning — how many times is something like this happening every day in America? More times than we can count.
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=34392
Runaway teen uses Hummer to ram police cars By: Dave Balut
St. Petersburg, Florida – A runaway teenager now faces felony charges of attempting to kill a police officer after her joyride spun out of control.
St. Petersburg police say 15-year-old Maggie Jacobs stole a Hummer H2, and backed up over onto one police car, then ran over a second patrol car.
The hummer crushed the engine of that second cruiser, but the officer escaped with only minor injuries.
Jacob’s mother says her runaway daughter suffers from severe bipolar disorder and has been without her medication for two months.Kim Jacobs, Maggie’s Mother:
She’s starting to take her medicine and she’s starting to realize the real impact of what she did and it’s horrible, I can’t believe that this happened. Now that Maggie Jacobs is facing felony charges, her mother hopes her daughter will finally get the treatment she needs.Before anyone blames an untreated mental illness for this incident, it is more likely that the poor girl was still suffering from the withdrawals of the drugs she was on two months before. They’ll have her in a chemical straitjacket now, and the worse is yet to come. I have yet to hear about a similar incident in Costa Rica.
Freedom in the US is only a perception. You’re not really free at all. All your phone calls on those phones you could’ve gotten here so easily in the US are monitored by the No Such Agency (NSA). Your bank accounts are constantly monitored for suspicious activity and if you so much as make an atypical withdrawal or deposit, you are reported to Big Brother. i’ve owned a half dozen businesses in the US and the bureaucratic paper trail was a freaking nightmare, not to mention the taxes, (city, state and federal), and all the other stuff you need to operate and be legal. If you live anywhere near a big city every movement you make once you leave your house is being videotaped. They know where you are at all times, they know your driving routes, they know everything about you, including what you buy at the supermarket. They can also come to your house, kick in your door, lock you up and never tell you why. They can also search your home when you aren’t there and never even tell you. This does not fall into my definition of freedom, but rather some pre-Third Reich tactics that anyone who lived in Europe during the war will recognize as creeping fascism. Yes, I can imagine that dealing with ICE is a stressful event, but I’ll take that frustration any day over the erosion of rights that is constantly happening here in this country.
