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ellbee2 comments on French Slink Home Tails Between Their Legs Well put droble77. Some (dare I say most) posters on here seem to be innately negative people.
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ellbee2 comments on For Rubito and all Anti-Governnment Kooks Sorry vic & others, your right. I posted this in the wrong forum. Can I move it?
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ellbee2 comments on Paranoia is not an excuse Rubito...I'm creating a post just for you. Take a look and let the killing begin.
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ellbee2 comments on French Slink Home Tails Between Their Legs "We do not act under blackmail or under pressure from media campaigns," OMG, that is hilarious.
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ellbee2 comments on "my guess is she ended up acting like s single woman even though she really loved her husband".... This is a classic oxymoron. With out knowing all the details of the story, it sounds to me like she created her own destiny and as the other posters correctly pointed out, she selfishly altered the child's life to boot. Sorry, no sympathy from me.
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ellbee2 comments on Sen. Clinton's "Chief Strategist" takes flack over Colombia Poco..wow. You can honestly say you have never benefited from any government policy? Ever go to school/state university? Drive on a highway? Mail a letter? Collect unemployment? Visit your local library? do you plan on collecting your Social Security? You have a voice in these and all government policy, its called a VOTE. Do you eschew this privilege as well?
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ellbee2 comments on Clinton Aide Met on Trade Deal miamimike...this should clear up if she opposes or supports the trade agreement (and I agree with her) ............................................................................................................................................ http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=4113 Hillary Clinton Statement on Pending Trade Agreements "I have long said that we need smart trade policies that advance labor rights, the environment, and our economic standing in the world. "I support the trade agreement with Peru. It has very strong labor and environmental protections. This agreement makes meaningful progress on advancing workers' rights, and also levels the playing field for American workers. Most Peruvian goods already enter the U.S. duty free, but our exports to Peru have been subject to tariffs. "However, I will oppose the pending trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama. The South Korean agreement does not create a level playing field for American carmakers. I am very concerned about the history of violence against trade unionists in Colombia. And as long as the head of Panama's National Assembly is a fugitive from justice in America, I cannot support that agreement. Accordingly, I will oppose the trade agreements with these countries. "We need to vigorously enforce our trade agreements. As President, I will appoint a trade enforcement officer and double the enforcement staff at the office of the United States Trade Representative. I will also systematically review every trade agreement to ensure that it is delivering benefits to American workers. I will also expand the Trade Adjustment Assistance program so that workers negatively affected by the global economy get the help they need. And as President, in my first months in office, I will take a time out from new trade deals to assess their impact before going forward."
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ellbee2 comments on "I implore you to pray for me and my team as we head down there." BTW jmb 161, I got it too. Sorry for the slings and arrows your recieving for something you didn't write. and to goin south...please provide us with these legitimate studies on prayer and plant growth. Cuz I ain't buying it. (and don't invoke the name of Masaru Emoto, because he has been proven to be a quack many times over)
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ellbee2 comments on "I implore you to pray for me and my team as we head down there." ahh,.. sorry goin south, but once again your wrong. Read this if your capable. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/health/31pray.html
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ellbee2 comments on Juanes on PBS, Rocks The great thing about people like goin south is you don't even have to point out their stupidity, they do it for you simply by opening their mouths. I'm not that big a fan of latino music, but I am a fan of Juanes and what he represents as a man and global citizen. People like the idiot above and others on this forum could learn a lot from him about tolerance and trying to create a more harmoniuos world to live in, instead of spewing the all negative, confrontational crap.
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ellbee2 comments on Lucky for him he does not live in Colombia Rubito says.."They're hanging out with gold-diggers and/or paying for sex".... Your making an assumption that all people that visit/live in Colombia are there for some sort of hedonistic lifestyle or that it is an unavoidable circumstance. People have different experiences in any country depending on what company the CHOOSE to keep. It's obvious you are drawing your opinions from personal experience and no matter where YOU go in this world YOU will CHOOSE to see something quite different than most of us.
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ellbee2 comments on Sounds like your problem is rooted in something other than the word Gringo being used...
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ellbee2 comments on Columbian guerillas vent anger on French hostage as Sarkozy swears he will rescue her himself Rubito...PLEASE do us all a favor and try some of your Yogic self elimination tactics now!! Good grief ! Did you eat paint chips as a child?
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ellbee2 comments on 2008 Fact Sheet: U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Essential To Our National Security So why didn't you post your opinion then? I , for one, am glad it was posted...I hadn't seen this report. Why YOU only add comments to antagonize is what baffles me. LIGHTEN UP!
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ellbee2 comments on Anthony Bourdain "No Reservations" travels to Medellin! His honesty, true delight in adventure, and self-deprecating humor are so refreshing in today's world of superstar chefs and pompous restaurateurs. I hope he does a show in Colombia ,if for no other reason than to help people realize that Colombian (or any other South American country) food is nothing like Mexican food as most of the world thinks.
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ellbee2 comments on IRS investigating Obama They are also investigating a Baptist minister who they claim went over the line with his politicking for Huckabee. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23155264/
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ellbee2 comments on Britain is better than Colombia I had spotted dick once, but my doctor gave me some pills for it....
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ellbee2 comments on drinking water in Colombia Ok, Ok.... sheesh. I should have said Bogota water . Excuse for my "sweeping" comment. Also I prefer my water with a hint of Scotch, or more correctly I prefer my Scotch with a hint of water.
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ellbee2 comments on drinking water in Colombia The water in Colombia is very safe and quite delicious. One of my students is the head of the Chemical Engineering Dept. at Andes University and he can't understand why so many people drink bottles water in Colombia (or anywhere). No fear of Montezuma's revenge here!
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ellbee2 comments on leaving Colombia They took your car too? Where you carjacked? How much cash? Sounds very premetidated to me.
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ellbee2 comments on Why not raise the minimum salary to try and stem corruption? Well said Tequila...I agree.
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ellbee2 comments on Cost of living in Colombia I agree with David P. You are made to feel like a social leper should you opt for a old car, modest home etc. I'm going through that crap now with my son who is a 26 yaer old newlywed, new Father with a decent job and he is buying everything he can get fianaced for. i.e 2 new cars, house RENTAL $1,300 month, big screen hi-def TV, new furniture......breaks my heart to see him do it and forever be under the thumb of all that debt. But it is in fact the AMERICAN WAY
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ellbee2 comments on Why not raise the minimum salary to try and stem corruption? I agree with gabo and Hollywood, we need harsher and more aggresive justice in the courts. I also think the general population needs to adopt the "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" attitude. People need to throw the bullsh*t flag more in thier everyday life. No more saying "well, that just Colombia". Screw this no confrontation attitude that is the norm.
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ellbee2 comments on OK, point taken, my bad. I just get tired of people comparing the economics of Colombia and the USA. If money is a persons motivation then you don't need to be Alan Greenspan to figure out salaries are MUCH higher (probably 4-6 times more on the average) in the USA for any job.
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ellbee2 comments on Here we go again!! WHY COMPARE TO USA???? What's your point????????? Why not compare to China or Germany or Iraq or New Zealand?? Again I ask ... whats you point?
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ellbee2 comments on Why not raise the minimum salary to try and stem corruption? OK, and this is directed at morphus and Enrique. There are extremes in all situations, What we are trying to discuss here is Colombia and what can be done to help a bad problem. Corruption. No one here is saying that ALL Colombians are bad. Quite the opposite, we all, for our own reasons want Colombia to succeed and be the best it can be. To only sit back and spout of about the super rich or try to compare to USA, like you do is ludicrus.How about you offer up a solution or a real opinion?
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ellbee2 comments on Why not raise the minimum salary to try and stem corruption? "trickle up"...that almost sounds dirty haha
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ellbee2 comments on Why not raise the minimum salary to try and stem corruption? By the way, welcome beisbollover! Good first post. I'm a huge baseball fan myself. Unfortunately, I am a Royals fan!! Love the Cubbies too....so you know my mantra is "Wait 'til next year!"
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ellbee2 comments on Why not raise the minimum salary to try and stem corruption? Well Chele, I did just wake up....but I assure you I am not naive. I love a good debate and welcome all points of view, it's how we learn and grow as human beings, but please try and reserve your personal assesment of me to yourself. I know there is corruption at all levels and greed sometimes is the motivator, especially when it involves the rich, but it's common knowledge that when unemployment rates rise so do crime rates. Thats not culture driving that statistic...it's need.
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ellbee2 comments on Cost of living in Colombia So true Lowell. One the hardest things for me to adjust to when I was first living in Bogota was the "It's Colombia" excuse I constantly had to deal with. I don't understand how people can just put up with bad service, questionable business practices and general attitude that its OK to try and screw somebody.
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ellbee2 comments on Why not raise the minimum salary to try and stem corruption? One of my students (Colombian) told me that Uribe did, in fact, increase the salary for police to help lure better and more committed personal. I can't find any verification of this online though. gabolicious...I can't agree with your statement about corruption being cultural, Are you suggesting that Colombians are culturally predisposed to being dishonest? I think not...I believe most people in any culture or counrty, choose dishonest means of supporting themselves based on economic need and when the have NO OTHER options. It's a matter of survival in most cases, I believe.
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ellbee2 comments on Does anyone have some information on the volunteer group "letsgovolunteer" ?? Why do people constantly try and compare prices of goods and services in the States (or any other place) with those in Colombia? I understand the need to know the cost of things for budget reasons, but to say it's cheap or a good deal doesn't equate. Try telling someone living in Ibague making 500.000 pesos a month that 60.000 for the bus to Bogota is "cheap". It's a completey different economy and lifestyle. Lest we forget the name of this web site....so Scotty whats your point?
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ellbee2 comments on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_(word) The differences in usage of the cognates cause some cultural friction between U.S. nationals and Latin Americans; Latin Americans, in particular, may object to the primary English usage of American, feeling it unfairly appropriates the term, even though no country besides the United States of America uses the term "America" in their name (other than American Samoa, a US territory). Mexico uses the words "United States" in its official name of the United Mexican States (from Spanish Estados Unidos Mexicanos).
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"IS there such a thing as a poor liberal?" Kalder your equally uniformed.... MOST lower income people are Democrats/Liberals (along with all minorities)! Look at the charts in the link if you are capable of understanding real hard statistics and then maybe you will stop making such stupid remarks...but I doubt it. http://people-press.org/commentary/display.php3?AnalysisID=95
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You guys are really funny...you just can't bring yourselves to say you agree with Michael Moore. Typical right wing mentality...deny, deny, deny, even if it's a good idea or makes sense to you. You hate the messenger so much you can't admit you agree with the message! You have to use language like "interesting" or "entertained" Hilarious! P.S. Scotty everytime you put your fingers to the keyboard you show just what an idiot you are! keep it up cuz your idiotic statements crack me up.
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ellbee2 comments on Warning to you romantic gringos elmodefoque...I just spent 8 months in Colombia and I guess we run in different circles. I NEVER felt like women were after me for money. I did on occasion feel a bit of a novelty in being a Gringo, but no more than I would have a cultural interewst in someone I met, say from france, here in the States.The woman I met (socially) were all fun and classy. Some came from well to do families and some were dirt poor, but never was I asked for money or felt like I was "buying" thier affection or interest. I'm wondering if the class of women you are drawing has to do more with your attitude towards them. I sense from reading this post and some of your other comments you don't exactly shine in the chivalry department. I'm not so naive as to not know there are women in all cultures and economic level that seek out men to improve their lives, but to suggest that this attitude is typical of most Colombian women is a little vain on your part. To think you some how have your finger on the pulse of Colombian women and their wants and needs is a sad commentary on you.
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ellbee2 comments on BOGOTA SPORTS BARS Yes...TGIFRIDAYS has Direct TV with a big screen and several other TV's. GO BUCKS!!!!
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ellbee2 comments on Colombian hostage taken with Betancourt freed OK, slguy. It really won't matter what I offer up to you as support for what I believe is a failed policy in Colombia. You will discount my opinion and that of others as "unsubstantiated political posturing" because it doesn't jive with what you believe. I can respect that you have a differing opinion and welcome your point of view on the results of Plan Colombia. As a tax paying American citizen it is my right and responsibility to voice my opinion about where my hard earned tax dollars are spent. Although I can not provide you with a detailed "money trail" of Plan Colombia money to the Paras, it is my opinion that if it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck and looks like a duck...it's probably a duck. Are you denying that there is a history of the Colombian government being in cahoots with paramilitary groups and that the possibility that a connection with the current administration still exists? I want answers to these questions before we continue to sign a blank check to Colombia. So again, I ask you. Do you feel Plan Colombia has ben a success? Your obviously an intelligent guy, so make an intellligent argument for continuing the monetary support for a country that tolerates human rights violations. Or convince me they are not happening under Uribes watch.
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Tell us Scotty, what do you know about Russia or the Russian people. What information do you use to base your opinion on? I suspect you hold the same naive beliefs about Russia the way most other people in the world think about Colombia. Isn't Colombia a place where everyone lives in the jungle and snort/grow Cocaine? But, really...tell us about the Russians please.
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ellbee2 comments on Colombian hostage taken with Betancourt freed UMMMMMMMMM.... it Bill Clinton who proposed Plan Colombia and I'm pretty sure he's a Democrat. Your statement about being partisan just for the sake of "duty" is exactly why Republicans no longer control the Senate and soon will not hold the Whitehouse. Americans (Republicans and Democrats) are sick and tired of partisan politics. http://democrats.senate.gov/journal/entry.cfm?id=289655&
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ellbee2 comments on Colombian hostage taken with Betancourt freed Really, this is just too easy! Shall I go on? "The paramilitaries have taken control of a good part of the (Uribe) administration," former President Cesar Gaviria, leader of the opposition Liberal Party, told reporters last month. The scandal began early this year when two political parties that support the conservative Uribe -- the Bush administration's closest ally in South America -- expelled five of their congressional candidates for ties to right-wing paramilitary militias, which have killed tens of thousands of civilians and run drug-trafficking networks. But the affair exploded last month after the Supreme Court ordered the arrest of three legislators and a former congresswoman -- all Uribe allies -- for being part of a paramilitary group that brutally massacred 16 villagers in 2000 using rocks and machetes, a trademark paramilitary method of murder. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/16/MNGM8N0V001.DTL
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ellbee2 comments on Colombian hostage taken with Betancourt freed Yet another person who's lost touch with reality.... this guy actually froze the payment of money to Colombia over concerns about Uribe's & Montoya's connection to paramilitary groups, but he was just being irresponsible...right slguy? “I have withheld the release of those funds because I – and other Members of Congress – are concerned about reports of paramilitary infiltration of the Colombian government and military, as well as extrajudicial executions by the military. These reports are not new, but more information has recently surfaced. There are even reports that the chief of the Army, General Montoya, commanded troops who collaborated with paramilitaries. I do not know if these reports are accurate, but we have an obligation to assure ourselves that they are not. We do not want our aid to go to anyone with links to paramilitaries. Uncovering the truth is important, and so is acting on the truth. http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200705/050207c.html
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ellbee2 comments on Colombian hostage taken with Betancourt freed Here is another "irresponsible and dislocated from reality" persons opinion of Uribe's government....Oh, and by the way, he's an award winning Colombian journalist. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/18/opinion/edmorris.php http://hrw.org/audio/2007/english/defenders/colomb16822.htm
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ellbee2 comments on Colombian hostage taken with Betancourt freed First of all I'm not arguing a case for unions, that's a completely different subject . This is about human rights violations (and the murder of unionists is just one example) in Colombia that Uribe's amdinistration turns a blind eye to. The fact that these thugs are not attempted to be tracked and prosecuted by the Colombian government sends a pretty blatant message and some could argue it is akin to having Uribe's blessing. “Colombia has a long and ugly history of killing trade unionists, and a dismal record when it comes to bringing their killers to justice,�? said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. “To make the country safe for unions, the authorities must ensure these cases are vigorously investigated and prosecuted.�? Twenty-six trade unionists, including five union leaders, have been killed in Colombia this year, according to Colombia’s largest labor federation, the Unitary Headquarters for Workers (Central Unitaria de Trabajadores). The National Labor School (Escuela Nacional Sindical), a prominent labor rights group in Colombia, has recorded more than 2,500 killings of trade unionists since 1986. Approximately 98 percent of these killings have never been solved. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/11/07/colomb17269.htm So slguy, if the US is giving money to a country that supports this behavior within it's own borders, it is in essence, "paying" indirectly for it to continue. That is in fact reality and you can call it BS if you so desire. So here is my question to you.....tell me how Plan Colombia has succeeded in your opinion?
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ellbee2 comments on Colombian hostage taken with Betancourt freed I only have time to reference "evidence" now, more to follow. http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia268.htm In the past 20 years, more than 3,000 Colombian unionists have been assassinated. And of the 144 unionists killed worldwide last year, 78 were Colombian—eight more than the previous year. According to the International Confederation of Trade Unions (ICFTU), there were 1,165 documented murders of Colombian trade union members between 1994 and 2006. However, the state has convicted the perpetrators in only 14 of these cases—an impunity rate of over 95 percent. A review of the numbers shows that the ratio of labor leaders killed relative to the number of unionized workers in Colombia is higher under the Uribe government than it was during the 1990s. Last year, one out of every 6,800 union members was assassinated. This rate of extermination is significantly higher than during the mid-1990s when an average of one out of every 8,100 unionists was killed. Because the level of unionization in Colombia has declined to only four percent of the workforce, the percentage of unionists being killed today is markedly higher than a decade ago.
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