Thursday, January 4, 2007
Usury no longer exists. Wanna give me a personal loan??
Let’s just take the word “usury” out of our dictionaries, as it no longer exists. The Bible and Quran defined the word, set its limits, punishments and penalties and told all readers not to engage in this most hellish behavior of man against man. However, times change and after many centuries of...
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Monday, October 30, 2006
keith harmon snow ~lecturer, reporter, extremely decent human being
I received an email late in the day, an invitation to attend a free lecture at the University of Arizona. I have a host daughter from Pakistan, who was raised most of her life in Saudi Arabia. She is very ‘world aware’ and so, I had to go. Keith Harmon Snow was to lecture, intertwining a U of A...
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Friday, September 15, 2006
Free U.S. Telephone Calls to 3 Cities in Mexico
There is a new company in Iowa, Hoi Polloi is its name, in Iowa, can you believe it, which directs your calls to Monterrey, to Guadalajara and to Mexico City, D.F. for free?!?!? I feel like Matthew Lesko here. You call their number, and if you use your "free in the US phone", then the whole call is...
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Thursday, August 3, 2006
Beautiful Brasilian cherry wood floors
I love this country, but I do have to admit that we are the most confused society on the planet. The term 'mixed messages' pretty much covers what I feel like ranting about this morning. I lived in Brasil for awhile and came to love that wonderful mixed up nation, too. Maybe, I just love mixed up...
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Well, getting into The Court Building was fun, not.
I know that this is a personal foible, but I feel guilty when authority figures loom over my personal space. I felt like bin Laden's wife and personal gofer while stripping down and still setting off alarms in the walk through thingie at the Court House today, when entering to apply for a passport....
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Thursday, May 4, 2006
Embedded in a Leaderless Nation
There are no leaders for me to follow. Everyone is afraid to pick up the flag and rally the troops. Having no politics is okay with everyone. Having politics, like Mexican immigrants have, is not okay. If they only truly knew the power that they possess.....scary, no? But no, nothing scares us...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Well, my Six Degrees of Separation from the President of Honduras is over.
Mel Zelaya is the new president, I think. I cannot be sure because I hit the Honduran new site at 2 a.m. every evening, just when they are updating it for the new day and there is nothing on the screen. Sigh.... But, last report, a day or two after the election, he had beaten Pedro Lobo for the...
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Thursday, October 13, 2005
Guatemalans trying to save themselves...
The people are walking, wading, crawling out of the devastated areas, knowing that help will not come to them, they must find it themselves.....I think that there are 45 helicopters in the area now and they can't do enough. People are rescueing themselves and some are dying trying to get out. They,...
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Thursday, October 6, 2005
Huracan Stan kicking Latino Butts and we can help
Hurricane Stan devastated parts of Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and southern and eastern Mexico. Tens of thousands of people are homeless, their farms washed away, their animals and herds gone, their homes full to the roof line with water and mud. People are wandering through deep waters, just...
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Monday, September 26, 2005
Winning the War in Iraq with Honduran Blackwater Dogs
This whole story was triggered by a small story in La Tribuna of Honduras. It was a story about some 105 Chilean men being refused entry at the border to Nicaragua, from Honduras. Nicaragua called them ‘mercenaries’ and believed them to be too dangerous to be allowed entry. Honduras had been...
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