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dwmte7 comments on Sign Petition to Save Palestinians' Mamilla Cemetery i have a deep love for israel, and have lived and worked there a lot over the years. and IN FACT, it is the most hospitable--in the western sense--place anywhere around the region. HOWEVER, i hold a deep disrespect/dislike for zionist postures and procedures. kalder is right on and really speaks the world's view of the tactics used and the outcome of those tactics. take away the stage dressings, and you're talking about people.....human beings. all one needs do is make a visit to gaza to see the tragedy wrought by these zionist tactics. one leaves from the experience with no wondering why the gazans hold such deep seated hatred for their neighbors. like kalder said, in a civil and sane way, if israeli tactic were to move towards a modest, centrist position and act even remotely 'neighborly' a giant step would be taken to bringing a bit of sanity and peace to the area. holding this 'never say die' position is in no one's interest. and you cannot keep sequestering land, destroying property, prohibiting the entry of humanitarian aid and expect anyone in the world to believe that your interest is peace. no body gives a fuck, 'who came first, the chicken or the egg'.........who did what, when, and to whom is of no significance and value at this hour. what is important, is a measure of humanitarian sanity.
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dwmte7 comments on What happened to Fastpitch?? at the end of the day, i seriously wonder if all this 'tit for tat' has changed a thing. you're all well educated, intelligent people, but persist in these sandbox arguments that go nowhere. each, from his point of view, poses logical arguments, but the condition of the suffering, homeless, hungry, displaced, hopeless and worse, remains the same. how, in seriousness, can we help them?
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dwmte7 comments on RE: Elmo's invite back to PBH. I spoke to Elmo and he says STICK IT UP YOUR --- PBH MODERATORS bill..........thank you again.
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dwmte7 comments on Old age retirement better in the USA , then Colombia where my family is in envigado...the community is very conscious about recycling and not littering. there's lots of attitudes to change; it takes time, but i find that once colombian peoples understand about pollution, they do change.
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dwmte7 comments on Old age retirement better in the USA , then Colombia to be honest, sb, i can't keep up with her. she's went from having a chance at the airforce academy (having a senator and a pentagon staff officer in her corner) to wanting to be a veterinarian, to a wildlife somethingarother to a diplomat, to astronomy. damn....children today have options open to them that weren't even thought forms when i was young. and you're right about working for the govt has definite positive aspects to it. i voted that route (georgetown....as it's three miles from her oldest brother, it's as prestigeous as schools get and she qualifies for up to a full scholarship) trying to argue with her...even disagree with her...is futile, so i just go with the flow.
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dwmte7 comments on In memory of JB (and his hero)
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dwmte7 comments on Colombian Ethics interesting,robert. the old, pensive goat, becoming more and more reclusive as age increases...remember, capricorns are the ones who keep the show on the road. if it weren't for family around, especially children, i'd be overbearingly serious and focused on things best reserved for isolation, caves and yogis/hermits/monks....i could probably leave the world.....like the old yogis say after spending their due time as householders....."oh!, for my 40 years, the begging bowl and the road." the four types of signs, earth, air, fire, water are broken into three classes, 'cardinal', 'fixed' and 'mutable' the cardinal signs initiate or create. the fixed, maintain or sustain, and the mutable prepare things/thoughts/conditions for change. then it once again reverts to a cardinal state. a sentient, watered down, discripion of the wheel of birth and death, but on a material plane. whether it is your life...being cardinal....you initiate. your life, an idea, a challenge, a situation and that which has become (either mental or physical) passes to it's fixed state and then on to it's final and mutable state. your life reflects that. in greek mythology, it was the "fates", 'clotho', 'lakesis' and 'atropo'. clotho spins the thread of life. lakesis, measures it and atropo cuts it. these fates, three knarley old gals, stand around the twilight well and determine the tenor of all life. does that help, you old goat? what's your ascendent sign and where is your moon positioned?
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dwmte7 comments on In memory of JB (and his hero) i agree with your comments en re the jihadis and their murderous history.....but that avoids my pointed question. were YOU specifically, in your life ever confronted and threatened--in person--in your life. not at all meant as grounds for dessent, rather an honest curiosity.
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dwmte7 comments on Aromática de Coca.... when it came to it's refined state...the powder, perico, i never did like putting it in my nose, i always just ate it. a very big difference. you can sleep when you want to and your whole resperatory system stays clean and the fine 'hairs' in the nasal passages don't get all congested with what is more often than not--especially in the u.s.--anything but the real product. mother always said when we were children to 'keep our noses clean'.
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dwmte7 comments on What happened to Fastpitch?? thank you winsurfer for making note of cacique's poignant note. d
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dwmte7 comments on Aromática de Coca.... my friend told me that if one is eating the leaves they also have to eat lime (mineral) to break down the whatever.
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dwmte7 comments on Old age retirement better in the USA , then Colombia bill, i really love davis. although the family home is fresno, we grew up and farmed in dixon...twelve miles away from davis. farmed all around davis, winters, woodland, sacto, lodi, stockton, rio vista, vacaville, et al. and back when growing up, davis was called the 'cal aggies' as it was the principal agricultural school anywhere. in the sixties, an art colony began to develop there and things really changed. then the med school came in. now, it's a mega versity unlike any other. and sleepy little dixon is a costly--almost cultured--place to live. i really wish she'ld give it a thought and we could move back to california. i can't afford to move back to colombia right now...in fact just visiting is a challenge for us. but at least back in calif the whole family with the exceptionm of the oldest would be together.
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dwmte7 comments on Aromática de Coca.... capt. i intentionally used the word 'marching', because if you listen to music of the alta plano--andean--you'll note a definite rythmic beat akin to a marching pace. i guess they don't call it 'marching powder' for nothing.
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dwmte7 comments on Colombian lottery yeah........but florida ain't never gonna be colombia. it's nice, but not that nice.
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dwmte7 comments on Colombian Ethics " I am just killing time here waiting at the airport" sorry pwt, the extrapolation was mine. i just try to walk a path that lends a hand, that heals, not hurts; that teaches, not tortures, and that saves, and doesn't discard. we all have redemptive qualities within us...everyone, EVEN ME, who's done far more than i ever should have. my father never laid a hand on me in my life...what's more, he spoke so little, many assumed he was silent or mute. but that gift of his forgiveness (and LORD knows i gave plenty of reason/cause to be deserving of punishment) ended up being a gift i could pass on to my children.....all eight of them. now don't get me wrong. that gang of youngsters managed to, collectively, do EVERTHING IMMAGINABLE.....twice. but the gift i was given, i passed to them, and they will pass to their children....that's how it should be. if we eat, that means there's food enough for two. if someone has fallen, we are obliged to lift them up. if they have erred, we must guide them, if they are lost, we must show them the way. how can we ever be so poor as to not give that which we have in abundance? and what is it exactly that we have in abundance? GRACE. the gift of life, health, a home, family, friends, love and so much more............can we not share this? is ANYONE so guilty that is in OUR lives--not some abstract person somewhere out there in the world--that we cannot forgive and extend a hand and guidance to? i'm by nature a pretty stern person. even severe.....i'm a capricorn...and a cardinal capricorn....but age and time and experience has tempered me, and the forgiveness and GRACE that GOD has given me in abundance, convinces me that i must...am obliged to, reciprocate, and give in return. confessedly, i fail, daily....but the good that has been given me in my life is such, that i am constantly reminded to give it back and pass it on. each and every one of us is in need of something.....help/love/encouragement/forgiveness/comfort, etc in one degree or another. just imagine how wonderful it feels to be allowed to give it.....if even in small measure....at least we gave. and if life has taught me nothing else, it's that you CANNOT feel bad, for doing good. douglas
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dwmte7 comments on Juepa je!!!!!!!!!!!! all right my friend. give her a hug from all of us and let her know it was/is a job well done. all the best to both of you in the days ahead in your life. d
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dwmte7 comments on In memory of JB (and his hero) i want to ask you straight out, vinod. has any iranian or arab ever come up to you and threatened your life? history as the world knows it and time knows it, is not my/our/your history. it's just history. and there's a shitload of it. that is not to slight nor diminish one page of it.......but our tears, anguish and anger will not wash out a word of it. but if you look at YOUR history, and the probability that no iranian/arab ever came up and threatened your life, doesn't that speak volumes? we've come a long way. i've had the history to know and work with the islamic world at length.....i married an iranian muslim and really loved and respected her family. too, i have known some bad muslims. BUT, my friend, i have known some bad hindus as well and even found myself in poona, in a life threatening situation with a 'mad' hindu. so the hate and conflict that pervades our world is wide spread across cultures...and although the jihadist madmen certainly dominate the world's bad news, that doesn't mean that there is no 'good' news. you are living proof of that. horrors are going on all around us, every day. not just in africa, or south america, or afghanistan or iraq or pakistan or india or tibet or where the fuck ever.............they're happening in our back yards, in our neighborhoods and schools, in the work place and in the parks. and it's not because the perpetrators are islamic or jew or budhist or hindu or christian or whatever, it's because they're weak, sick human beings. now you can easily counter with a host of 'but's,......but, that's my very point. don't you see, that the LORDS of karma have kept you and your family safe, free from the intrusions and agony of assault? be thankful for that. be thankful for every GRACE that adorns and protects your life. douglas
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dwmte7 comments on RE: Elmo's invite back to PBH. I spoke to Elmo and he says STICK IT UP YOUR --- PBH MODERATORS it took a long time to develop a 'deep' respect for elmo. a long time. and don't get me wrong, i'm not elmo's bussom buddy. i have traded a few e's with him and he's always been cordial and quite mature. do i miss his presence? i do. and i have a feeling he might come back, and although i don't "know", i have a gut feeling he misses many of the pbh family as well. so send him good thoughts and he'll certainly feel them, as in the thought world, there is no distance. and if he ultimately decides not to return, your/my/our good thoughts will never have been wasted. fue bien, modefoce.
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dwmte7 comments on Colombian lottery ya know, pwt, over my years in colombia, time after time i've heard about endless scandals en re the lottery. i.e. no one ever really wins, it's just scam city. do i know? fuck no. did i ever win? fuck no. do i know anyone who ever won? fuck no. i have however heard some horrific tales about "those who won" but died (mysteriously) before they could enjoy the spoils. so for that, be careful. and if you win.....pay someone else to walk up to the window and pick up the loot. now where should you retire to enjoy that ole filthy lucre? LORD, colombia i so incredibly vast and incredible, the choice is yours....choose wisely and don't tell your neighbor your a rich man, cause they might be a jaramillo.....je je
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dwmte7 comments on Colombian Ethics pwt....you said you're in the airport................VIA CON DIOS, be well and fare well and keep in touch. douglas
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dwmte7 comments on Colombian Ethics i'm in favor of respecting folks AND their views. all are valuable, as they are us. i can't say as i follow your lead, as your way is not mine. and i can't imagine who on pbh who has as much time as--yourself for an example--to take time out of their "busy" day to contribute to so many posts.....can't be all that busy...(as for myself, being busy means doing what i do and i must confess, at my age, that aint much) so i do have time in my day to hang out and make comments.....but, for myself alone, i try and employ my thoughts/observations/feelings/opinions/comments and asides to areas where they might serve a greater purpose than lauding myself, inflating my bluster, or my adjenda, and hopefully be useful to others in a way that moves the show forward with the least abrasion possible. over the years here on pbh, i've been saddened when ever someone left or was tossed under the bus. and that is across the board with only one or two exceptions where the concerned was truly filthy in word and action and nothing seemed to convince them that the whole of the pbh family was more valuable than themselves...we are all different, see live from our unique perspective and angle of incidence and for that alone, each observation and feeling is of equal value and equally different. mimicing others has never been my forte as i managed to get myself in enough trouble on my own and by my own devices let alone try to copy/reflect some one else. so i am wholly responsible for my thoughts/words/deeds, with out exception. i can fault no one nor point a finger at another, as i, myself am riddled with fault. and if my years have had any value, i solely hope it is to caution youth that at the end of the day, there is no 'THEY' only me/i. and no one is to blame by myself.
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dwmte7 comments on homage to a patriot thank you so much, aji, for sharing and doing honor to your grandfather. i salute him.
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dwmte7 comments on homage to a patriot aji, let me join jim in once again saluting your grandfather...and all those fathers, grandfathers, brothers, sons, daughters, wives and mothers and sisters who gave all there is to give. "no greater love hath a man than to give up his life for another" that kind of says it all. compared to all the hooplah and bs here on pbh, somehow we totally miss and ignore the ones who made/make it all possible. semper fi to all that served and who serve. we salute you all. dwmte
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dwmte7 comments on Aromática de Coca.... rocco...an attorney friend of mine, years ago, walked the andes from somewhere in colombia (i believe) to machu pichu with another attn friend of his. he told me that they chewed the leaves while 'marching' along. but after many days, he said the 'lime' just dried out his mouth and lips so bad, he couldn't continue. what was your experience?
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dwmte7 comments on Old age retirement better in the USA , then Colombia thanks GOD, stocktrader, she's not a party dog. she's just a study a holic. and serious about everything to a fault. but she has her sights set on univ of florida at gainsville. we'll have to see how it goes. she still has her senior year ahead of her, so if you have children you know, plans can and do change. i guess i'm guilty of trying to plan for her.
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dwmte7 comments on RE: Elmo's invite back to PBH. I spoke to Elmo and he says STICK IT UP YOUR --- PBH MODERATORS actually........nothing is further from my desire, ma. i am just fully tired of every thread being filled with antagonism and fault finding and castigating the moderators and peter. for my first four years here on pbh and before that on colombiaexperts. there was never a rift, an argument an insult. but now, nearly every thread is laden with this childishness. ENOW
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dwmte7 comments on RE: Elmo's invite back to PBH. I spoke to Elmo and he says STICK IT UP YOUR --- PBH MODERATORS kalder called like it is, period. IF EVERYONE WOULD ACT LIKE AND ADULT AND MODERATE THEIR OWN TONGUE, THERE WOULD BE NONE OF THIS. unfortunately, so many choose to dig into other peoples shit because they can't/don't/wont wipe their own ass. GROW THE FUCK UP.
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dwmte7 comments on BBC.COM.........RIGHT NOW i chatted for about 20 minutes..........it was fun being in on the world's first chit-chat.
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dwmte7 comments on Colombian Ethics i agree with most comments on how lisa handled it. by the same token i'm at her defense that she didn't do it, it was done for her by her novio. and if my assessment of lisa is correct and i've been a friend--cyber--for many years...i doubt if all the issue behind the hoopla even entered her mind.....UNTIL it was pointed out to her. i am in agreement with everyone here that she would do well to talk to john.....but that is between john and her, not a lynch mob, which this has become. and as for some issue with cowboy...even the mods clarified that, IT WAS NOT LISA who called cowboy's wife a dirty name. now as for everyone digging--to this hour, through many threads--deeper and deeper into lisa's shit. grow up, give it a break. we are all living testimony--to a man/woman--that we are unable to change anyone else, we are total failures at changing ourselves. (this is a classic tale of take the log our of your own eye before searching for the splinter in the eye of another). and as to her having whatever level of ethical standards............i'm fully convinced that that judgement is in the hands of GOD, and clearly not in ours, when we, too, harbor much failing and eniquity within ourselves. lisa has been stripped down, flogged and stoned, far in excess of her guilt. which guilt she has, but that matter is between her and john gorden and if i know john as i feel i do, he would not/does not treat this matter/lisa like this. and in closing my personal take on this, yes, i think lisa should take this matter to john and i'm sure that she will find him and exemplary gentleman about and regarding the whole issue. as for those of you with stones in your hands, lisa did nothing to you.
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dwmte7 comments on Old age retirement better in the USA , then Colombia oh! and i forgot.......that means mom and i are stuck here for four more years. P(O*&(*&^*&^%&^%$^%$#$#!
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dwmte7 comments on Old age retirement better in the USA , then Colombia thanks jaramillo............georgetown is 53,000 a year and she's eligible for a full scholarhip...she's summa cum laude in a very academically high private catholic school and georgetown is a cath. univ. she has the support of senators here in florida for her participation and winning a my space competition--nation wide--for how to bring down teen age pregnancy. she's obviously a little jewel--"in order to see the beauty of laila, you would have to borrow majnun's eyes" (laila and majnun, a persian love story like romeo and juliet....just much nicer)--what can you tell children. were she my first child, i'd go to bat and twist her arm. as luck has it, she's my eighth and i'm too old to go to war. it's their choices (they think they're so damn smart these days) and they have to live with them. as for u.c. davis....my mother was in the botany dept there. we farmed all around there. know it like the back of my hand. up until a couple of years ago, the family owned apartment buildings there. now the grandfolks are passed and it's just my children who are all around--her brother's and sisters. SO WHY THE FUCK DOES SHE WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL IN FLORIDA????? you tell me. this fricken gives me grief.
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dwmte7 comments on PoorWhiteTrashes guide to making friends on PBH "bad ass" now theres a chuckle. sorry, cara, wrong m.o.
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dwmte7 comments on Muslims chop up 500 Chrisitans.... i thought i kept the link, but it's lost to the jihadi web shadows.
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dwmte7 comments on thomas jefferson i spent a whole life with guns...even took them to colombia. but then i went through this wierd delima and decided to get rid of them all. now, i'm rethinking my decision. i really don't want them around, but i have a family here and there's craziness a foot in every quarter. and i don't mean the islamic jihadis...i mean crazies of every type...pedophiles, rapists, robbers, murderers and on and on and fricken on. the jihadis are just the bloody icing on the cake.
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dwmte7 comments on What happened to Fastpitch?? i admit to a similar frustration as to not knowing what to do with the muslims. they refuse to note that THEIR actions turn not just their world, but THE world into a deathly hell. how do you reaon with that? the nuclear option is really not on the table right now....we had the legitimate option when they did 9/11....we knew all the 15-18 al qaida site in afghanistan and we have tactical 'battlefield' nuke that only take out say a 3-5 mile radius. we blew the opportunity. then we decided for what ever reason, the war was in fucking iraq. BRILLIANT!!! it's not important who/why/what reason.....it's water downstream. but the net result was that the al qaida was able to splinter and send their nasty tentacles all over the place. now? who knows. there's no support for a collective action against them as too many countries are willing to live on their knees for oil and don't want to upset the apple cart. and the fricken oil barrons--arabs--would rather put up with those murderous killers than kick them out of the house...even with them bombing schools, mosques, markets, men/women and children....you figure. they come live all over the world in our communities, send their children to school, join the PTA and the next thing you know they are trying to blow up airplanes, undergrounds and stations. it's fuckin madness. i like to think of myself as wise enough to get through life with few ripples but as for this shit delima, i really am clueless. it's been many years since i worked in iran and was married to the iranian lady, but i still can manage a bit of farsi and i was in a restaurant not long back and i'll be damned if the guys in there weren't talking shit. like how evil we are, how we need to be 'done' and 'shown', etc. fuck! these nut cases are everywhere. this is no exception. go into some of the mini marts and just observe how the owners look at you. look like they wanna talk shop and have a beer? dont think so...............! if any of you mind giants have anything other than bullshit ideas and rhetoric, you autta bring it out, let folk know, because we're not playin sandbox here, this ain't no joke. it wont be long til the shit starts hittin the fan all over the place. and unless you have some idea as to how to address such an event, you/i/we are in serious deep shit.
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dwmte7 comments on What happened to Fastpitch?? not to worry, john's like the catcher in the rye....he's out there watching, listening. hello, john.
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dwmte7 comments on 16 and still here. when i first landed in medallo you could by a fat gram for a dollar/fifty.
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