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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Iraq is ignoring all other nations on earth and giving no bid oil contracts

to America's biggest oil companies, only. How did that happen? I want the US government to assign me some no bid contract award for just a few million, and soon. Please. Gracias. Sign in to see full entry.

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Let's make friends with the wild and wooly Irani, as gas is $.40 there.

How much are the Iraquis paying for one gallon of gas in Baghdad? Gotta go Goggle that. Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Drinking coffee again and wanting to strangle someone

When I read that our beloved president was urging all of us frightened and underemployed and over taxed and underserved citizens, those of us paying up to $5 a gallon for gasoline this year, urging us to NOW, quick before he leaves, to finally approve, we must see how necessary it is, off shore oil... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Mexican gas cheaper than ours, let's buy from Pemex...not OPEC...

So. Arizona drivers head to Mexico for cheaper gas June 7th, 2008 @ 10:13am by Associated Press YUMA, Ariz. (AP) _ Southern Arizona motorists who live close to the border are learning they can save a few bucks by heading to gas stations in Mexico. Mexico's state-owned petroleum company, known as... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Sales Tax Refunds to Gringos, etc. who visit Mexico

Sales Tax Refunds for Visitors to Mexico http://www.mexperie nce.com/blogs/ mexicoinsight/?p=84 Starting in June 2008, Mexico’s tax authorities will launch a scheme that enables visitors to reclaim the sales tax, known in Mexico as the Impuesto de Valor Agregado (IVA), currently a rate of 15%, where... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

I believe that the falling levels of education and reading and learning are

America's scariest new vital statistics. They scare me and make me worry about the future well being of the nation. When I hear that Obama is a Muslim and Hillary is a bitch and McCain is the only America loving patriot on the ballot, I cringe in shame. The intelligent generation is dying and the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 11, 2008

I, like many Americans, have the song Chocolate Rain stuck in my head.

There is this fellow pseudonymed Tay Zonday, who looks to be 13 years old, but is a grad student, who has a very basso profundo voice, and who wrote and produced a video on Youtube. The juxtaposition of that baby face and deep voice has brought him many viewers and sharers and then a rapper covered... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

A recall on Honduran cantaloupes, salmonella...

And, Japan won't buy our mozarella with dioxins. Wonder why? We will. You try to eat healthy, healthily and find that it can only be done by growing the darned foods yourself. I may try farming next year, urban farming. Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Minimum hourly wage, averaged in Mexico is $.61 an hour.

Last year at this time, it was $2.04 or so. Now, do you understand the migration? When I was young, America had a huge middle class. Eveyone in America seemed to be middle class. The rich kept a fairly low profile, not flaunting their economic superiority as they do now, and the poor could get by on... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 22, 2008

China has learned the first principal of governing, Act Like Geo. Bush.

Do what you will, when you will, as you will and damned the torpedoes and full speed ahead in Tibet. Rather than get tangled up in listening to opposition or complaints, just do what you feel must be done and let everyone whine endlessly into the night later.....and ignore that, too. God Bless China... Sign in to see full entry.

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I wondered if anyone was reporting from the frontlines of American Society, embedded with the poverty stricken and reporting on what happens each day when you live in the greatest country on earth and earn enough to survive and not much else. I wondered if anyone was explaining America to others and thought that, since I was already embedded in this ongoing cultural experiment, I might tell what it's like.

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