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tasco66 comments on How low will he go? Obama gives Japan's Emperor Akihito a wow bow

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tasco66 comments on How low will he go? Obama gives Japan's Emperor Akihito a wow bow

Last week, it was the turn of the messiah's banker to get the bow: http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091118/i/r3100408959.jpg?x=400&y=280&q=85&sig=D34F4tkrlJgAMShzwJxVNA--

tasco66 comments on U.S.-Colombia FTA: American Workers Wait as Congress Dithers

Colombia Trade Deal Enters Fourth Year of Limbo Posted by Daniel Griswold Sunday marked the third anniversary of the signing of a free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia. It is an embarrassment to our great nation that this agreement with an important Latin American ally still sits on the shelf three years later, a victim of congressional trade politics. As my Cato colleague Juan Carlos Hidalgo and I argued in a 2008 Free Trade Bulletin, and as I wrote in a more recent op-ed, the FTA with Colombia is a win-win for Americans. It fully opens the Colombian market and its 44 million pro-American consumers to our exports, while deepening our ties with one of our most dependable allies in the Western Hemisphere. The AFL-CIO and other opponents of the agreement demand that Colombia further reduce violence against trade unionist before approval can be considered, and the president and Democratic congressional leaders have dutifully agreed. Never mind that the number of trade union members murdered in traditionally violent Colombia has declined dramatically under President Alvaro Uribe. Congress and the administration keep moving the goal posts, much to the frustration of the Colombian government. Meanwhile, since the agreement was signed, U.S. companies have paid $2.3 billion in unnecessary duties, according to the “Colombia Tariff Ticker” sponsored by the Latin America Trade Coalition. On the foreign policy front, Colombia faces continued threats from the Marxist FARC guerrilla movement and its anti-American neighbor, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Refusing to enact the trade agreement with Colombia only reinforces suspicions in Latin America that the U.S. government is unreliable. http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/11/23/colombia-trade-deal-enters-fourth-year-of-limbo/

tasco66 comments on Federal deficit sets October record of $176.4B

Debt-hit U.S. faces surge in interest payments Cost of servicing ‘huge mortgage’ may grow by $500 billion annually by ’19 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34103722/ns/politics-the_new_york_times

tasco66 comments on Things expats do to drive you crazy!

They think they are so superior to Colombians...

tasco66 comments on Support for Health Care Plan Falls to New Low

aztec, as our lefty friends like to say "no problem, just get the rich to pay for it"....

tasco66 comments on What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?

Can the USA still be called a democracy after this? Uribe and Micheletti need to send a strong protest about the corrupted practices of the US Senate... Funny thing is, I don't remember Bush paying Dems or Republicans hundreds of millions to vote for the war with Iraq... Maybe that's what the messiah meant by "change"?

tasco66 comments on What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?

The messiah sure is making some big changes in US politics

tasco66 comments on What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?

If this plan is so good, why does it take $300 million to get a Dem vote?

tasco66 comments on The End of Bolivian Democracy

vlad revolutionaries do a lot more than changing the constitution, they take control of ethe judicial system, civil servants, businesses, media, corrupt the electorate process etc...

tasco66 comments on Medellin featured in Invest Overseas

Invest Overseas reader finds Medellin article to be "very accurate" "Just finished reading your very accurate comments on Medellin, Colombia. I have been visiting Colombia for the past eight years, usually twice a year. I land at Cordova Airport in Rio Negro, then travel to my second home in the pueblo of El Carmen de Viboral, about 30 minutes south. "Everything you mentioned about Medellin is true. I enjoy this big, cosmopolitan city more than many other I have visited, including Rio, London, Toronto, Frankfort, or Niarobi. But what I really like about Colombia are the smaller towns and pueblos that you find everywhere. These are the places to go to really get to know the country and the people. "I plan to move to El Carmen before Easter 2010 to teach English. For me, at 68 years of age, it will be quite a change! I'll be living in the beauty of the Andes foothills. If I need a quick Caribbean fix, I can hop on Avianca, and, an hour later, I am in Cartagena. "I recommend Colombia enthusiastically. It is safe, beautiful, and very affordable."

tasco66 comments on Spirit Airlines -- is there a catch?

"Spirit Airlines -- is there a catch?" None that i can think of:

tasco66 comments on Mr Haddeman

That sounds like the typical BS made by an attorney that only another attorney can understand... Try selling your muesli, I mean cereals to hotels, they are great for breakfast buffets.

tasco66 comments on Mr Haddeman

Johnny, how can that be? I often eat alpina bon yurt muesli (müsli) in Colombia http://www.bonyurt.com/

tasco66 comments on Mr Haddeman

muesli is from England?

tasco66 comments on Davalos twins of Medellin...amazing

Next time I am in Medellin I will make sure to check if those booties have been photoshop or if they are the real thing... I will report back here if the twins don't give me a heart attack...

tasco66 comments on Great News! The Festival Gastronómico Mexicano is Coming to Cartagena!!!!!

Miguel_Clavo looks like you have not tasted my empleada's sancocho, it is to die for.

tasco66 comments on Support for Health Care Plan Falls to New Low

If this plan is so good, why are Dems asking $300 million to vote for it?

tasco66 comments on Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years

I want to see the face of our lefties when she becomes more popular than the messiah...

tasco66 comments on For all you Anti-Uribe Farc loving bloggers!! Here is what your farc boys do for fun.

"tasco66 - OK, my apologies if you are not a US citizen. .... you seem to have quite a neo-con attitude. I assume that you are an admirer of George W. Bush. Am I wrong?" Wrong again. I was against the invasion of Iraq...

tasco66 comments on The End of Bolivian Democracy

Typical example of how "revolutionaries" seize power and hold on to it.

tasco66 comments on Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years

Falling again, now at only 48% approval http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

tasco66 comments on What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?

Sweeteners for the South By Dana Milbank Sunday, November 22, 2009 Staffers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase. On the eve of Saturday's showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn't secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. The wavering lawmaker was offered a sweetener: at least $100 million in extra federal money for her home state. And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor midafternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote -- and to trumpet the financial "fix" she had arranged for Louisiana. "I am not going to be defensive," she declared. "And it's not a $100 million fix. It's a $300 million fix." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR2009112102272_pf.html

tasco66 comments on Global Warming Fraud Exposed as Copenhagen Approaches

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR2009112102186.html?hpid=moreheadlines

tasco66 comments on Chavez - Mentally ill?

medefockinllin says "I am not a Chavez supporter" But he repeats Chavista propaganda like a parrot...jajajajajaja, just too funny.

tasco66 comments on For all you Anti-Uribe Farc loving bloggers!! Here is what your farc boys do for fun.

medefockinllin I am not a US citizen. You obviously have no clue what you are talking about... Now go dream of Colombia turning into another Chavista failure on another board...

tasco66 comments on Is Colombia in an Economic Depression?

"Same goes for here tasco credit credit" OK, tell me which bank will give me a zero down payment mortgage in Colombia?

tasco66 comments on Medellin featured in Invest Overseas

You guys are really tough on the author. He is not claiming to be an expert like the PBH members who commented on his article. This is basically a trip report for some person's 1st visit to Medellin. I believe he is referring to a studio which is different than your typical 3 bedroom apartment. And Parque Lleras does remind me of some place I have seen in Europe such as in Greece or Portugal…

tasco66 comments on Is Colombia in an Economic Depression?

"That they tend to present themselves as being better off than they actually are. In the States it's the opposite." I don't think so. In the States everything the middle class buys is on credit...they are living way above their means...

tasco66 comments on Medellin featured in Invest Overseas

Of course medefockinllin can not understand an article on Medellin that does not mention the word prepago in every sentence…

tasco66 comments on For all you Anti-Uribe Farc loving bloggers!! Here is what your farc boys do for fun.

"nobody on this site supports farc, wtf is this post all about? it makes no sense whatsoever The Argentinean revolutionary on welfare in Canada, talks just like his master Chavez...jajajajaja

tasco66 comments on Chavez - Mentally ill?

"French intelligence officers seem at least to me, to be somewhat legitimate targets." Who said there were no terrorist supporters here?

tasco66 comments on Piedad Cordoba Vende Patria Chavez la compro

Por traición a la patria y conspiración denuncian a Piedad Córdoba http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/politica/articulo-traicion-patria-y-conspiracion-denuncian-piedad-cordoba

tasco66 comments on Venezuelan police captured a leader of a Colombia-linked paramilitary force

Funny they never seem to cath Farc leaders in Venezuela or Ecuador, despite the fact that they are all hiding there...

tasco66 comments on Venezuelan police captured a leader of a Colombia-linked paramilitary force

Desi said: "bla, bla, bla....is less worth than Uribe's paraco cronies" The Chavista El Aissami accused Colombian President Alvaro Uribe of "institutional and moral decay" for his government's ties to paramilitary groups What is the difference Bill?

tasco66 comments on Colombia says will not be provoked by Venezuela

medefockinllin read my posts before making stupid comments. This is what I said "Chavez is more like Mussolini, a big mouth, but not a real threat to his neighbors" get it know?

tasco66 comments on For all you Anti-Uribe Farc loving bloggers!! Here is what your farc boys do for fun.

Lcacique, the only tactic you use is chavista lies…with the revolutionary on welfare in Canada supporting your every posts...a bit like the Obermann show and all his invited left wing guests …jajajaja

tasco66 comments on For all you Anti-Uribe Farc loving bloggers!! Here is what your farc boys do for fun.

"Para-supporters are the only people who downplay the reality of inequality or applaud Uribe." So when Uribe had 90% approval rate, 90% of Colombians were Para-supporters??? Everybody who voted for Uribe is a Para-supporter??? Only on PBH can you read that kind of BS.

tasco66 comments on For all you Anti-Uribe Farc loving bloggers!! Here is what your farc boys do for fun.

"Only a FARC-supporter would try to blame Uribe for the FARC burning people alive on a bus." Farc supporters always put the blame on Uribe or the so called "inequalities in Colombia" to justify the horrific crimes of farc terrorists

tasco66 comments on Colombia says will not be provoked by Venezuela

"Hitler was crazy in most peoples minds but look what he did!" Chavez is more like Mussolini, a big mouth, but not a real threat to his neighbors...hopefully the Venezuelan pueblo finish him off like the Italians did with Mussolini.

tasco66 comments on "All we want is prosperity, not to destroy our people with military rifles," Uribe

"The translation into "English" is appalling. What a piece of crap El Tiempo is." Did you read the post? It says "Translated by: Google.com". Next time read the whole message before making stupid statements

tasco66 comments on "All we want is prosperity, not to destroy our people with military rifles," Uribe

I don't think el loco understands that language...

tasco66 comments on Chavez - Mentally ill?

He always supported world terrorism...nothing new here.

tasco66 comments on Circling Sharks Smell American Blood

Yep, the messiah better listen to his bankers, before they cut off his line of credit…

tasco66 comments on Outages dim Chavez popularity

when dictators start talking about going to war, you know the end is near...

tasco66 comments on Colombia says will not be provoked by Venezuela

"I think Colombia DID already provoke Venezuala" By refusing to follow the Chavista revolution maybe??? jajajaja

tasco66 comments on For all you Anti-Uribe Farc loving bloggers!! Here is what your farc boys do for fun.

Yep, desi you are right, these coward farc terrorists only target poor and defenseless campesinos…

tasco66 comments on Another reason, why the people in Colombia don`t like Piedad Cordoba

Looks like the flow of money from Venezuela to her bank account has not been interrupted, unlike the poor government workers in Venezuela who have not seen a paycheck for months...jajajaja, you just have to love these so called "revolutionaries"

tasco66 comments on Colombia says will not be provoked by Venezuela

"why should he respond to a ill and crazy person? True, maybe I should do the same with the little revolutionary on welfare in Canada

tasco66 comments on Colombia says will not be provoked by Venezuela

Nice to see Uribe not lose his cool in front of the nut case’s desperate attempts to set off a conflict between the two countries…