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[quote=”costaricafinca”]”my wife has expenses with health”. [b][i]Do not expect to get everything covered by CAJA [/i][/b][/quote]
not in the least and why I ma restrained right now from moving part of FT, amongst other issues (like work). Same here, our deductibles went up, along with what I pay monthly to cover here (over $500 now, pre tax). Last yr we spent 6-8K, though a fraction if we were uninsured and paying out-of-pocket…
[quote=”costaricafinca”]I read this earlier, and it is a total disgrace![/quote]
sounds more like a personal miff by official, got pissy and took it out on a guy that is trying to make a living and be industrious….
[quote=”maravilla”]there was a LA reporter following the Contra-Cia-drug connections, he is now dead under mysterious circmustance with a lot of questions still out there and discrepancies……Webb was his name, I thnik…..
anyone have a link to the Tico Times story?[/quote]Gary Webb was his name and he died from [b]two[/b] self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head. his book was brilliant, but it cost him his career and probably his life.[/quote]
true that the book cost him, the “self inflicted” though is questionable, a lot of gaps and ? in evidence if I recall….a lot of truth tellers somehow wind up with “self inflicted” wounds….there was a Brit scientist that managed to put a couple of shots into himself with of all things a shotgun….not easy to do, most likely helped by observed other parties at the scene….Ortega, for good and bad, might need to stay under radar..Neocons in US would love to get a hold of him no doubt……Like Noriega….
[quote=”Scott”]The last time I flew into Heathrow, I was taken aside to be eye scanned – “for your protection” – remembering that I am, and always have been a British citizen.
The UK is the model ‘police state’ and all those surveillance cameras have proven to be pretty much bloody useless in crime prevention…
Talking about the police state and Big Brother… Here’s an hilarious little factoid for you …
The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell’s 1984 has become a reality – in the shadow of the author’s former London home.
“On the wall outside his former residence – flat number 27B – where Orwell lived until his death in 1950, an historical plaque commemorates the anti-authoritarian author. And within 200 yards of the flat, there are 32 CCTV cameras, scanning every move.”
It’s sickening and, it’s coming to a U.S. city near you if it’s not already there..
Scott[/quote]
interestingly, a few yrs back on the show Criminal Minds, there was a FBI chief in NYC-mother US, father UK citizens and she was heading up FBI (US shows increassingly showing foreign people coming to US in enforcement or dual citizens)…anyway, she was rather snarky to the regualr characters how NYC does not have cameras all over like the UK and noted it was not for preventing crimes at all, jsut apprehension later! For your own good, of course…..the show then for 2 episodes gave us a “thank gosh those cameras are there” when the team went after some yet unknown “domestic terrorists” cell…..good old polcie work replaced by constant surveillance and thank goodness for it is the message…..
[quote=”maravilla”]plenty of cheap organic food here. i wish there was a whole foods here, but hey, we’ve got automercado where you can spend $16 a pound for cherries!![/quote]
sweet, eventually would like to either get simnple house w/land or at least, if wind up in condo, get a peice of land somewhere and grow a few things.
Why narrowed my search to either CR or Ecuador.[quote=”smekuly”]Guru
you speak as if “life is fair”
when in fact it is NOT[/quote]
true dat!
none the less, injustice and oligarchs still piss me off……I mind my own, so should others…..[quote=”maravilla”]Thanks for the quick response. My income should be fine. (More than $1500). I just won’t have the resources to buy property, so I’ll be needing to rent.[/quote]
you should be fine then. my fixed expenses here, plus what i spend on food, are less than $1000 a month. but that’s for me, hubby, and two perros who only eat organic human food. i could feed a whole other person on what i spend on them. but we don’t have a car, and my house is paid for, and we live very frugally by choice. we have highspeed internet, CAJA (the medical policy), and anything and everything we want or need. other people think we live like monks because we don’t have cable TV, and don’t go to bars or restaurants (by choice!). the same monastic lifestyle in the States would cost me double. you will probably have to spend between $350 – $450 for a nice place to live. cheaper places are available but they would be very Tico basic.[/quote]
my wife has expenses with health, me so far-knock on laminate desk-no real big issues at all. I can too life frugal with little needs (Caja and Organic food a definate yes0about to leave work for Whole Foods or Kroger organic section myself, what I got to work with…) I spend extra for non-flouride toothpaste, organics,etc…..
Just recalled, we had a fellow in my area that was growing pot in his house. Some one rated him out and our “inter-agency drug force” swooped down on his home. A fellow I know that went through police academy with me, nice guy and single father (wife and he divorced) was wounded slightly….grower? killed, shot right there.
Maybe he knew they were cops and shot to protect his weed or what he perceived as his rights to grow his own weed.
maybe-and in US this is happening more and more-the police did not announce nor produce a warrant, but kicked in the door. Beleive me, I hear my door kicked in and I am wear my .357 is, I would shoot anyone coming in armed….either way, over some weed, one guy is now dead and my former classmate was wounded, albeit, slight and likely shook up for a long time (few cops invovled in shootings are like in the movies, shurg off and off into sunset with the girl..)
[quote=”maravilla”]yep. ortega’s right. but the war on drugs makes way too much money for a lot of people, so good luck getting that to end. if only the CIA would just get out of the drug business. . . .
a lot of drugs come through central america on their way to europe now, too. those countries are awash in heroin, crack, and cocaine.[/quote]
exactly, big money that is not giving up easily…….some yrs ago, there was a LA reporter following the Contra-Cia-drug connections, he is now dead under mysterious circmustance with a lot of questions still out there and discrepancies……Webb was his name, I thnik…..
anyone have a link to the Tico Times story?[quote=”DavidCMurrayLes, there’s already a mandatory death sentence for the top guys. It’s called their competitors.
Seriously, though, the experience over a number of centuries is that the death penalty is a minor deterrent if it’s a deterrent at all. Nobody enters upon an illicit activity planning to be caught.[/quote]
:lol::lol: on competitors comment
Death penalty is largely not a deterrant other then to the dead guy…..does not address underlying society/family issues that may have played a role. Would agree with the late John Paul II, in modern times, the death penality is largely obsolete for other means to deter and to keep the dangerous out of society….the Ted Bundy’s, sure, he had a way of escaping and wreaking havoc……as a cop, recall being taught that when it comes to fleeing suspects, we could shoot in some instances-like mass murderers getting away,etc.
The death penalty is often over-used and often, on minorities out of proportion to other killers that are affluent, white or both……
Not 100% opposed to death penalty, but it is over used and other means often not explored amongst the “hand um high” couch vigilantes….[quote=”2bncr”]Spot on David.
I don’t agree at all with Danny boy.
It has nothing to to with controlling the appetite for drugs.
The world from shamans to vagrants has always been a drug culture.
Anything that alters/impairs your preception consciouness is a drug.
Some have been made illegal.
Its not about controlling illegal drug and the appetitie for them. That appetite has / does / amd will always exist.
All drugs should be legaal.
Did prohibition work?
Dah?
Like Marvy said and I have said – there is too much money in the military industrial complex to change the status quo.
That is you good little followers building your goverment so it supports the Military Industrial complex that maintains the status quo so it can keep making the rich mega rich!
The Bill O types that want to stamp out any rekinlinding of a spark of civil disobedience do so to maintain the great US goverment that squanders YOUR money like a large version of the Costa Rican goverment – which it is!
So all you good little followers that demonstrate your indocternation and fear of the US goverment exemplify your indoctrination by following the rules here too. Maybe the CR goverment can grow up to be jusy like its US counterpart?
Wouldn’t that be nice.
All you have to do is be complicent by your silence and rule following. easy no?[/quote]
well put and spot on about who really controls and calls shots…careful though ,you might get labelled a racist garbage haterizer :D:lol:
MJ in its natural state, was used for medicine, some say, far healthier in low use then Xanax,etc.
Ortega not all bad, seems to have changed a bit over yrs…
Least we figure, CIA role in running drugs during Vietnam and from C/S American in 80’s…hook people, esp poor non-whites was the rule to cul them and also, to run money to the Contras…..worked out well for our world controllers…..bad for most people, cops shot dead to worry about MJ and inner cities and non-white communities esp hard hit….
most men missing in prison or dead.
Interesting story on MJ, how govt used media to lie about the ills of MJ, then call for it to be outlawed, yet made youth curious. Reefer Madness a part of propaganda…..
Not saying “do drugs” or “smoke weed”, but again, many used it, esp Indians, for medicine for nerves,etc….unrelated to peyote,etc…..
Ortega right, no market, no sales and he knows that markets created in part and run by US govt (certain corrupt officials,etc.). Again, during Nam, they shipped over drugs in body bags of soldiers killed.
Some MJ now souped up in Govt or Big Biz labs, can be more dangerous, but in its orignal, natural form, could prove beneficial and yes, hemp I am told is great for many uses…..[quote=”PatFromTX”][quote=”maravilla”]it all depends on how much you get in SS. you need at least $1000 to qualify for residency, and if you have to pay rent in a safe area, it is very likely that $1000 a month will not be enough to live on. you certainly won’t be able to afford rent AND a car on a grand.[/quote]
Thanks for the quick response. My income should be fine. (More than $1500). I just won’t have the resources to buy property, so I’ll be needing to rent.[/quote]
kep us posted, would like to know how it goes!
