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Weird colombain dating service for gringos.
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How many hours from armenia to bogota???
can anybody recomend a tour guide for El Nevado Del Ruiz?
We will be staying in Manizales and doing a day trip to the Nevado. Thanks
Translator's revenge...Priceless
Read the following explanation before looking at the picture! Most Syrians struggle to even read Arabic, much less have a clue about reading English. So, how do a group of Syrian protest leaders create the most impact with their signs by having the standard 'Death To Americans'(etc.) slogans printed in English? Answer: They simply hire an English-speaking civilian to translat e and write their statements into English. Unfortunately, in this case, they were unaware that the ...
Does anybody know about this guy and his business for forgieners in Medellin??
http://www.medellin-vip-hotel.com/
Washington and Colombia Planning To Check mate chavez (crazy?)
By Stephen Lendman 6-2-8 So says Heinz Dieterich Steffan - German sociologist, economist, political analyst and Hugo Chavez consultant who claims he coined the phrase "21st century socialism" in the mid-1990s. He currently teaches at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City and writes often on Latin American issues. In a May 21, 2008 Kaosenlared.net article and follow-up Montevideo, Uruguay debate, Dieterich was blunt. He said "Washington does not want to lose (Latin Amer ...
"To Sacrifice Man and His Freedom"
Listen to Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who helped overcome Communism only to discover that there is a new ideology that threatens "to sacrifice man and his freedom": environmentalism and its global warming hysteria. Below is an excerpt from a press conference given by Klaus to launch the English-language translation of his book Blue Planet in Green Shackles. Klaus has also challenged Al Gore to a debate (http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/208338,czech-president-klaus-ready-to-debate-go ...
republicans are in denial
Robert Samuelson's latest column( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052702554.html ) is an interesting look at the basic paradox of global capitalism. Never before in history have so many people been lifted out of poverty so quickly—yet this process is almost uniformly opposed by "progressives" and "humanitarians." Why? Samuelson cites an international panel which examined once-impoverished societies that experienced explosive growth over the past few deca ...
Another History Lesson for Obama
The more he opens his mouth, the more clueless, inexperienced, and willfully naïve Barack Obama seems. I say willfully naïve—which is something of a contradiction in terms—because it seems as if he has spent the past twenty years deliberately shutting out of his consciousness any facts that might undermine the "idealistic" posing of an impressionable college student. But it will be hard for him to shut out the history lessons he is starting to get, as bloggers and political rivals fill i ...
Another "Winnable" Counterinsurgency in colombia
Australian counterinsurgency expert (and adviser to Gen. Petraeus) David Kilcullen replied to a question about whether Iraq was "winnable" by pointing out that most counterinsurgency wars—about 80% of them—are won by the governments that fight them. Iraq may soon be added to that statistic, and we can also soon add Colombia's counterinsurgency against the leftist "narco-terrorist" group FARC. The FARC's leader, Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, has just reportedly died, and his nickname has pro ...
The cause of high oil prices is not OPEC. It's NOPEC
The cause of high oil prices is not OPEC. It's NOPEC: the domestic legislative cartel in Washington, DC, that has spent decades saying "no" to every plan for oil exploration and drilling. Below, the Power Line blog provides another telling detail from the congressional testimony of American oil company executives, who explain that they are not "big oil"—because private Western oil companies have been deliberately stunted and starved of fuel by their own governments. "'Big Oil'," John Hin ...
Democrats using old Soviet propaganda posters
There has been a bit of a buzz going around on the blogs recently about the creepy posters being designed for Barack Obama by various volunteer artists and graphic designers—posters which are invariably described, correctly, as recalling old Soviet propaganda posters. The article linked to below gives an overview of the trend, while the Power Line blog provides some of the images, along with the comment that this has "a whiff of the totalitarian." Maybe the whole esthetic ambience of 20th ce ...
the Democrats regard the entire capitalist economy as a giant conspiracy
Following their Marxist premises, the Democrats regard the entire capitalist economy as a giant conspiracy on the part of big corporations to exploit the poor. And so when oil prices increase, relative to recent levels, they immediately blame it on the profit-seeking of big oil companies—and then they call the oil company executives before a congressional hearing to answer for their supposed crimes. But in recent Senate hearings, the oil executives responded by providing a lot of hard facts ...
What happend to the artist fromerly known as Pow wow??
I forgot the current name he was going under...I noticed some of his posts were deleted.
Environmentalists wild Predictions
Now that another Earth Day has come and gone, let's look at some environmentalist predictions that they would prefer we forget. At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind." C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be rever ...
Global cooling?
global warming hysteria will be to environmentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was to socialism. The environmentalists have invested so much of the credibility of their movement in the claim of runaway global warming, making it the whole organizing principle of a "green" lifestyle, that the failure of the world to warm will permanently discredit the whole movement. And the world is, in fact, failing to warm. Global warming has been stalled for a decade now. Global temperatures reached th ...
Google the phrase "2 girls 1 cup"
I personaly cant see the video....has anybody else seen it??
Environmentalism's Berlin Wall
I wholeheartedly approve of "climate change." It happens four times a year, at least where I live, and we call it "seasons." At any rate, it is a gorgeous Spring day outside, one that should not be spent inside writin. A friend sent me some articles yesterday showing the collapse of the scientific claims behind the other kind of "climate change," which I reprint below. "I wanted to pass along an article ("Global Warming Researchers Reverse Stance on Storm Intensity") published April 13th wh ...
Sound Money and Free Markets
I've linked to a few articles blaming the recent phenomenon of food shortages around the globe on subsidies for "biofuels," which divert crops and farmland from the production of food to the production of fuel. Deroy Murdock has another article on that topic, calling for "emergency legislation to repeal ethanol-market meddling." But I'm also aware that this is only one factor and (for all of its merits) is being a bit overblow—so I was glad to find the two articles below at today's RealClear ...
The Race card in the elections
I've noticed a disturbing pattern in the past few days: an attempt by various commentators, mostly on the left, to characterize Barack Obama's failure to "close the deal" in the Democratic primaries as evidence of the deep-seated residual racism of whites, who refuse to vote for Obama simply because he is black. This is a massive and obvious evasion, which John McWhorter argues against in the article below. In reality, it is black voters—who support Obama by overwhelming margins—who are vo ...
Little Ice Age in Southern South America?
Recall our long essay series a few years (e.g., here) ago regarding the now-debunked “Hockey Stick� depiction of hemispheric and/or global temperatures. In 2001, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) rolled out a depiction of temperatures over the past 1,000 years, and as seen below (Figure 1), the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age all but disappeared, and the warming rate of the most recent 100 years looked nothing short of incredible. The second plot ...
For Pasty Gringos: How get that colombiana to notice you
Learn to dance salsa, and vallenato. ohhhh and dont wear white socks with sandals.
Anybody watch the 60 minutes interview with Al Gore???
Man, what a joke that was. Lesly Stahl kept throwing snowball after snowball at him. Never really challegend him at all. One question was how was he able to fund the 300 million dollar ad campaigh that he is going to run trying to get people to support law changes in favor of global warming. Big Al replied with the profits of the book and movie (Inconvient truth).......yeah right....what he failed to mention is that alot of companies that are involved in alternative energy(ethonol, etc,et ...
Weather Channel Founder: Sue Al Gore for Fraud
The founder of the Weather Channel wants to sue Al Gore for fraud, hoping a legal debate will settle the global-warming debate once and for all. John Coleman, who founded the cable network in 1982, suggests suing for fraud proponents of global warming, including Al Gore, and companies that sell carbon credits. "Is he committing financial fraud? That is the question," Coleman said. "Since we can't get a debate, I thought perhaps if we had a legal challenge and went into a court of law, w ...
You know your in Colombia when..................
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The Israel of Latin America
The Israel of Latin AmericaWe must buttress Uribe. By Rich Lowry. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reached for what he considered the ultimate insult when he called Colombia “the new Israel.� If by that he means a country better governed than its immediate neighbors, that dares to protect itself against terrorists across its border despite getting bludgeoned for it by the international Left — he had a point. Colombia killed Raúl Reyes, the second in command of the narco-terrorist Rev ...
Democratic Party Death Watch
A few years ago, I wrote that the Democratic Party is dying, and here's why I think that's still true, even though the Democrats will occasionally be able to take advantage of a Republican tendency toward suicidal behavior, as they did in 2006. With their last-minute reversal of Barack Obama's momentum—and he did have real momentum, showing steady gains both in national polls and in previous primaries—Democratic voters in the Texas and Ohio primaries have ensured the continuation of Hill ...
Global warming??????? I wish!!! Im freezing my arse off here!!!
"Forget Global Warming: Welcome to the New Ice Age," Lorne Gunter, National Post, February 25 Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966. The US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901–2000 (20th century) average." China is ...
Obama could be the first afirmative action president.
If you have paid attention to the news lately, its seems alot of people are going to vote for Obama just because he is black, and they think its time a black man was president, never mind his ideas(not that he has any). ...
The Coming Obama 'Theocracy'
People mocked Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney for their religious backgrounds often during the presidential campaigns, but at least they never claimed to be on a mission to save the souls of Americans through government action…. Michelle Obama gave a speech at UCLA earlier this month in which she told supporters that her husband was the only man who could fix American souls—if we elect him President first. Here's the transcript: "In 2008, we are still a nation that is too divided. We liv ...
has anybody been on the route from bogota to Neiva?
There this litte city that seems to sit on the edge of a Canyon. It has number of resorts and such. I always wanted to stop and take some pictures but i was always in a bus. When your going through the city some parts both on your left and right seem to dip down hundreds of feet into a valley...Does anybody know what im talking about? ...
Ninel Conde, a wetback goddess
The love of my life.
http://www.ninel-conde.com.mx/nueva/index.htm
Latte Liberals v Dunkin Donut Democrats
I suppose this should be no surprise. While the Republican Party is deeply split over ideological issues, the Democratic candidates have no significant ideological differences and instead are splitting the vote based on the left's holy trinity of race, class, and gender. That's what the data from Super Tuesday's election results seems to show. White women are voting for Hillary Clinton to support a woman. Blacks vote for Barack Obama to support a black man. And the vote is also split on the ...
Costeno version of SoHO mag
"Latte Liberals v Dunkin Donut Democrats
"Latte Liberals v Dunkin Donut Democrats," Gerard Baker, London Times, February 8 I'm not sure when the term latte liberal replaced the old champagne socialist as the favoured term of derision for the well-heeled leftie but it looks an increasingly useful metaphor for understanding how the deadlock in the Democratic presidential primary election might be broken…. The reason the race is so close has nothing to do with policy differences. I'd wager that not one voter in a hundred could nam ...
In Venezuela, Faith in Chavez Starts to Wane
Not all countries are successfully able to throw off the shackles of dictatorship—but all dictatorships do collapse, in one form or another. There can be no other result from the irrationality, chaos, and paranoia of a regime that rules by force. Hugo Chavez's rule in Venezuela is currently going through that process, as the country experiences runaway inflation and shortages of food and other vital products, despite huge oil reserves and high oil prices—while Chavez dreams up crazy theo ...
RIP Gringoinbogota...Thoughts, prayers, and memories
Gringoinbogota(Dongringo) (Elreydelostrolls)(other various names) real name unkown,Bogota resident for 6 years, profiled died/deleated wednesday afternoon on PHB website, cause of death: commited blogger suicide by asking moderators to delete his account. Born in USA. Retired to Colombia to live the good life and be that big fish in a small pond. Seemed to work in some form as a trader, many have questioned his methods. Also very active PHB, where he gave out some good adviced along with alot of ...
Nice video on bogota and colombia
Any body ever been to the Isla de tierrabomba???(by cartagena)
The festival we are going to is there.....whats the Island like???
questions about Cartagena
Does anybody now how far away from Bocagrande is Manzanillo beach????? Also how much should it cost to go to Rosoria Islands??? Are there daily boat rides?? Thanks eric
How long does it take to travel from Bogota to Cartagenna by bus?
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Need 2 more to go to the Summer Dance Festival in Cartegenna Dec. 31 to January 7
Four of us have an apartmen and we need 2 more to help lower the cost's. If you interested ill put you in contact with my friend. SDF is one of the biggest electronic festivals in the world...5 days of the worlds best Dj's on the beach!!!! ...
Has any body been to the Guatape Damn???
This place looks amazing ...
Ahmadinejad Visiting Leftist Regimes in South America
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Vilified by world leaders wary of his nuclear ambitions, Iran's president is turning to South American leftists who are embracing him as an energy and trade partner and counterweight to U.S. influence. On the heels of a U.N. General Assembly appearance in which he said Iran will ignore demands by "arrogant powers" to curb its nuclear program, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was headed to Bolivia on Thursday to establish first-time diplomatic relations with the Andean nation. He ...
Damn Travel agent pissed me off
So the other day im trying to get info about Cartegenna during New Years. I call the travel agent and ask if she knows any deals in CTG. She said that she would have to do Check and that it might take some time because she she had to check each Hotel out so that i wouldnt get a gun pulled to my head...........when she said "gun put to my head". I about lost it...mind you she was kinda of being a smart ass to begin with. I asked her staright up "why the fuck do you say that" her reply: "Well ...
Looking for 2 more people to rent an apartment in Cartegenna Dec 30 till Jan 7 for The Summer Dance festival
Me and a friend are looking to go to the techno festival in cartegenna..we want to rent an apartmento down there during this time but need 2 more peeps. If anybody is interested..email me and ill let you know more about it. Eric ...
Found this website for foreigners that want to buy real estate in colombia
Thought i would share it with you all...Dont know if its any good or not. The person who runs this website is a real estate agent. http://www.buycolombiarealty.com/index.html
Your experience with corruption in colombia.
I just got done talking to a colombian friend that imports goods from China to colombia. Some of her containers are stuck in Baranquilla becuase DIAN wants her to pay them off in order to release the containers. I was wondering if anybody else has any experience with that kind of stuff? ...
what happendo to all the colombia hooker talk???
And were the hell has Elmo been...sheeshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh good God and baby jesus whats happening Here, i go to colombia for 2 weeks and the shit has hit the fan
The Japs are coming
I was in Villavicencio and was told by some of the locals that the japanese were going to build some in hotels in Villvicencio...anybody hear that????
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