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[quote=”bradbard”]Poor persecuted and defenseless Jews in Israel, is that what you are saying davidrushton?
The same Israel that has more weapons per capita than any other country? http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/mil_wea_hol_percap-military-weapon-holdings-per-capita That is one of the largest arms exporters in the world and
Are we talking about the same Jewish people who have over 200 nuclear weapons in the Middle East? The same Jewish people who are calling for Iran not to enrich uranium which Iran is legally allowed to do based on the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty? Only four nations are not signatories of the NPT: India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea. Talk about an axis of evil.
The same Jewish people who have made many of the important decisions within the US administration to send our US armed forces who are now dying in Iraq to protect Israel?
The same Jewish people who are now calling for the destruction of Iran.
The same little Israel that is the only country on earth to have legalized murder and also considers torture legal and jails activists without trial
The same Jewish people who crushed to death 23-year-old Rachel Corrie, an American nonviolent human rights protester and have assassinated other non-violent protesters
The same Jewish people who have deported 4,000,000 people
The same Jewish people who have been condemned by the UN over 500 times
The same Jewish people who have who have killed more than 50,000 innocent civilians and injured hundreds of thousands more. Who refuse to allow pregnant women to cross their checkpoints and watch them die trying to give birth?
Imprisoned 250,000 + imprisons children for political reasons
The same Jewish people who were given more than $6.8 million per day in 2007 by the US taxpayer while US has a surplus and the USA is the largest debtor nation on earth? Israel is the largest recipient of US. aid in the entire world. It receives more aid than that given to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, put together.
The same Jewish people who have demolished 60,000 Palestinian homes
The same Jewish people that is the only country on earth to build illegal settlements on occupied lands
The same Jewish people that allows a political party that publicly advocates ethnic cleansing of the native citizens
The same Jewish people that has towns and cities allocated exclusively for one ethnic group
The same Jewish people who are now planning to construct around 2000 new houses in another ILLEGAL settlement in the West Bank? http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=50032§ionid=351020202
The same Jewish people who threatened a “holocaust” in Gaza the crowded home to 1.4 million Palestinians? http://www.medialens.org/alerts/08/080303_israels_illegal_assault.php
The same Jewish people who whined and cried about a kidnapped soldier while the Israeli army had abducted around 60,000 residents; around ten thousand and five hundred of them are still imprisoned in Israeli jails, in addition to 543 who are detained before the outbreak of the current Intifada.
The same Jewish people who have ignored the World court who ordered Israel to tear down illegal wall http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/jul/10/israel3
The same Jewish people that have killed 982 Palestinian children since September 29, 2000 while the Palestinians have killed 119 Israeli children have been.
Take a look at ‘Israel – The World’s Biggest Terrorist State’ http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=7WBB0svwMdY&feature=related
And you MUST see http://www.ifamericansknew.com/
Why have the Jews been persecuted?
Go on! Call me anti-semite!
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Excellent factoid. Post it in Wikipedia.
I guess I’ll quit complaining about the few hours loss of service once or so a week. I have a 2mb DSL
If anyone has health issues with a pet parrot or toucan I bred exotics in Miami for 20 years, before there were any bird vets.
DO NOT let any vet here recommend treatments unless it’s his specialty.
The first thing that MUST be done with a sick parrot is a CBC. Cultures are BS until you know the blood work.
I also have medical books that are psittacine specific.Interesting thread.
I suffered from chronic tachycardia for about 15 years.I’d get attacks 3 to 5 times per years and have to go in for an adenocard conversion. I saw every useless S.O.B. “cardiologist” in Miami, Hotlanta and Buffalo.
They all wanted to get me a radio frequency abla$$tion.I moved down here and within a couple of months, sho nuff, I had an attack.245 pbs.
My neighbor is a cardiologist Tico and happened to be at his second home here on the lake. We ran over to the little clinic in Tilaran and he stayed with me while a most excellent Tica doc hooked me up. She and my neighbor discussed options.I told him my history. He rolled his eyes and told her to “load me” with Isoptin and put me on 400 mg/day. I went back in about 2 months and she cut it in half and demanded I call her immediately if I felt like I was on the edge of another attack. She cut it in half again, 3 months later.
I’m on 80 mg, once a day. No attacks in 5 years now.Everyone has a different story. A good friend of mine is a Cuban doc that moved here 9 years ago from Havana. His specialties are kidney and gastro surgeries.He has an office in his house and works at the Liberia hospital with his scalpel during the day.
Best damn doc I ever had in my life.
Pura Vida.Does this mean that my 30 y.o. guapa housekeeper doesn’t really want to stay with me until I die ?
Damn. Maybe I shouldn’t have bought her that Beemer :shock::lol::lol::lol::lol:I don’t do condoms either but one of my good friends is a Tico dentist and said everything is fine.
Whores. Horses. Same inspection required.
Pura Loco !LOL.
I suggest moving to Costa Rica.
The central valley is El Salvador.
“waiting to be chastised by Scott” LOL[quote=”grb1063″]Again, CR is trying to pass a new blanket law to attempt to disallow foreigners to have guns based on a handful of events involving illegal Jamaicans that occurred last year and the various drug cartels. By doing so, they take away a law abiding citizens ability to lawfully own a firearm, but those that are criminals and here illegally will continue to possess illegal firearms. Take away the guns from the law abiding citzenry and only the government and criminals will have guns. The government can’t keep up with the criminals as it is.[/quote]
That’ll never happen.I only hang out with Ticos and all of my buddies are well armed business type people.I don’t have any Tico friends that [b]don’t[/b] have [i]something[/i] in their house and many have concealed carry permits.
Naturally I avoid gringo beaches and the central valley like the plague so it’s pretty peaceful up here.Don’t forget the dippity doo so you can spike your hair up and look like a rooster.Gotta ” fit in”:wink:
For what [i]should[/i] be obvious reasons:?: I no longer maintain any accounts in the nation formerly known as the US of A.:shock:
I find BCR to be very helpful and professional and their online services make life pretty easy.
The other day I tried to grab c/100,000 out of the ATM and twice got error messages and no cash.. I got home and saw that c/200,000 had been deducted. I called the branch and the gal told me to come in at 2.
At 205 My account was credited.
The CLP floats around a bit but is not likely to collapse.
I feel the colon is stable enough to call a ” safe” currency too, if one must be tied to FIAT money.[quote=”chuck1″]I can’t think of five concerns about living in Costa Rica. But I do have three.
I spend 9 months a year here and my No. 1 complaint is the high cost of living, at least in the urban area of Heredia where we live. Wages are low and prices are high. Just the opposite of what it should be, and certainly of what it is in the USA. On every return trip to Costa Rica, I bring a large suitcase filled with Wal-Mart items — from shampoo, toothpaste and sun screen to home electronics. You name it, whatever it is, unless it’s locally grown or made in Costa Rica, costs twice as much here than in Charlotte, NC, where I also maintain a home. Even at the Wal-Mart-owned stores, like Hipermas and Pali, the prices are much more than in US Wal-Marts.
Cell phones are another good example, my wife and step-daughter both needed upgraded phones this year. I bought new Nokia and Sony Ericson models off ebay and had them shipped to my house in the states, saving hundreds of dollars over what they would have cost here, even at Hipermas. (Just make sure you buy the “unlocked” versions that have the band used in Costa Rica. Easy to find.)
Second, the infrastructure is severely lacking. Suffice it to say there are no rocket scientists in Costa Rica. Even a good engineer is hard to find. Example, the Autopista del Sol, the so-called Caldera Highway that runs from San Jose to the Pacific Coast. All of 77 kilometers long, this road was 30 years in the making, just opened a few months ago, and is now closed in part due to rock and mudslides, which any Tico could have told you would happen during the rainy season, which lasts a long time. OK, a Spanish company built it, but you have the blame the Tico politicos for hiring them and not overseeing the engineering. Of course, not that Costa Rica has the engineering competency, talent pool or equipment to build or oversee something as simple as road construction.Telecommunications is another example. The only reason it’s as far along as it is now is because the government finally caved in a year or two ago and agreed to allow competition, which, actually, has yet to happen. The internet: Yes, you can get high speed internet in your home (gracias a Dios), but try keeping it on during a rain storm, which happens frequently. The internet service is our neighborhood, at least via the cable TV company, is totally unreliable in rainy weather, and all electric power goes out frequently.
If the idea of having to put your used toilet paper in a waste basket instead of flushing it down the toilet turns your stomach, you won’t be very comfortable in Costa Rica. Since the country has no modern sewage treatment plants, you have to live with rinky dink septic systems, often installed by complete incompetents, that would clog even faster if you were to put toilet paper in them. And get used to the idea of seeing the streets in your neighborhood flowing with soapy bath and washing machine water. That’s because, from most houses, non-toilet water drains directly into the streets, down a storm drain and into the nearest river or stream. Oh yes, and the manhole covers on these drains are often missing, leaving huge open caverns that will swallow your car.
Which brings me to my third complaint. Despite the country’s eco image, Costa Rica is one of the most littered places you’ll ever live or visit. Drive down any main thoroughfare through San Jose to the Pacific beaches and you’ll be horrified by the amount of trash on the roadsides. Even in Tico neighborhoods of $100,000+ homes, you’ll find trash in front of houses, along the curbs and in the streets. It’s really unbelievable. And where does all this trash end up, in the rivers and streams and along the shorelines, some of which are the most polluted in the world. It must be a cultural thing where people think nothing of littering and where anti-littering laws are either non-existent or never enforced and dogs run free.[/quote]
Hmmmmm This brings a question to my mind. What the Hell are you doing here 9 months of the year ? LOL
OH. BTW. CR [b]DOES[/b] have a rocket scientist.His name is Frank Chang.
http://www.adastrarocket.com/aarc/AdAstraCostaRicaWell.My take is if you buy anything, anywhere in the world, you’d better damn sure like it enough to keep it…perhaps forever.
This movie isn’t getting any better.
In the not so famous words of Gerald Celente.
” There is no recovery. It’s a coverup ! “[quote=”maravilla”]The lunatics are running the asylum!!! i wouldn’t expect anything less of them.[/quote]
That’s why I call them Murkins.
They aren’t competent enough to get an [b]A[/b], in anything.
It’s an Idiocracy.Overnight backpacking to the Rio Celeste waterfall. The most majical place on earth.
Climbing Miravalles is fun too but only for those in good shape.If you speak Spanish I recommend Mainor Rojas.
He semi-finished my place while I was traveling back and forth from the Empire.
He took progress photos and emailed me every day.
He’s honest, picky, an electrical engineer, and built many hi-end houses up this way.He has become a good friend.
Nearly all of the gringoz he built for also have construction experience so he picked up many, many tricks from guys like us.He also has a furniture builder working for him that makes the guys in Sarchi look incompetent.
He beat the estimate of another Tico ” contractor’ by 30 grand. He charges realistically.
Mainor Rojas_8701 4419Doug. Arenal Botanical garden.com.
Tilaran
