...many Argentines became enraged and took to the streets of important cities, especially Buenos Aires. They engaged in a form of popular protest that became known as cacerolazo (banging pots and pans). These protests occurred especially during the period of 2001 to 2002. At first the cacerolazos were simply noisy demonstrations, but soon they included property destruction, often directed at banks, foreign privatized companies, and especially big American and European companies. Many businesses installed metal barriers because windows and glass facades were being broken, and even fires being ignited at their doors. Billboards of such companies as Coca Cola and others were brought down by the masses of demonstrators.Here's an example of what the situation is like in Argentina today, from the personal experience of the Argentinian blogger:
When I was 20 years old I lived in a 1st world country, 8 years later it’s a mixture of cheapo 3rd world tourist sites, a bit of tasteful 1900 architecture, surrounded by sights fitting either Ecuador, Colombia or some kind of war zone, and it all went to hell in a hand basket in less than a year. The change was amazing for anyone that cared to notice. Libraries, churches, town theaters, it all closed and later reopened having been replaced by bar-***** house joints, “All for 2$” shops, Bingos, casinos, self proclaimed churches, many with links to Umbanda Brazilian rituals. A perfect example of the decay in our society trough the last years.
We were wondering what is happening with your prisons in Argentina?
They are terribly overpopulated. sometiems [sic] 5X over their maximum capacity. Problems and revolts in prisons are common.
What happens when the power goes out or when the government can't afford to pay the officers to go to work?
Well, they don’t just let them go, that would be wrong, right? :) What they do, is pretend they are looking over them but granting them more liberal minded rights.
They don’t say “We can’t afford more prisoners so we let them go.” What they do is send them home with a bracelet that’s supposed to monitor the prisoner in his home.
Problem is these things don’t work, nor do cops care to control the system or the prisoner. So we end up having “prisoners” that are supposed to be under control, but they are just free to do whatever they want.
You must try by all means not to stay outside with the door opened for long periods of time. It has become clear by now that that’s when robbers attack the most. What I do. I have a front metal gate apart from the wooden garage door, both operated by remote control. I open the gate and garage door and right away start getting in , closing the gate behind me as soon as I have space. Most of the time I am armed, and I’m extra cautious at times like these just in case.
Instead of thinking of thinking about “The little house on the Prairie” scenario, a middle ages Feudal Lord-Vassal relation ship is much more accurate to depicture [sic] what small producers are going through in our own in my [sic] country, after the 2001 crisis.
So, if you are a producer with a few acres of land (less than 300/400), and you don’t have a critical mass of production , just being an extremely hard worker isn’t enough, and what is happening today to these people may happen in America in the future.
Find some market, some niche, be an entrepreneur because if you do what pretty much everyone else already knows how to do, you’ll end up working so that the middle man makes the profit, while you barely survive.
When people borrowed too much to pay too high of prices on property, where did all this money go? Well, the money went to ‘us’. Americans. Those who were good enough or lucky enough to sell the property when it was overvalued, when it was high, when selling was the smart thing to do. So, how can ‘we’ (America) be broke, when we still have the money? When it just changed hands from the stupid, to the smart?Here's a true story. A widow used to live near our neighborhood. The young woman had a good job working from her home and thought the $150K home with big trees and several acres would be ideal for her three young children. She told the neighbors that she really loved the place and that the real estate agent had worked very hard to make sure she could afford to buy it. I concluded she had been able to purchase the house with a relatively small down payment and low, but variable, interest rate.
Because you have told me you will vote for Barack Obama and I know you are an intelligent reader, please do some private internet searching (googling) before November 4. Search terms should include the word "Obama" plus the following words (you can choose what you want to believe):
- Abortion partial birth
- Gay rights
- Acorn voter fraud
- "Huntley Brown"
- "Janet Porter" Muslim
- "Jeremiah Wright"
- "Bill Ayers" "Bernadine Dohrn"
- "Frank Marshall Davis" "Sex Rebel"
- mother mercer atheist
- dreams socialist meetings
- Occindental college record
Few children were abused by priests. But if all Catholic school children can be made to take part in a safety program that robs them of innocence in a different way, then the Father of Lies has someone else doing his work for him, work that reaches more than his last effort. And he even has the apparent sanction of the Church as the project moves forward.My mother told us kids never to let anyone touch us (except the doctor when a parent was there). Modest clothing was necessary for a good reason--to protect us from bad people. Period! Why isn't that enough?
...my dad was an elementary school teacher [science], so often our dinner-table conversations were about current events and about those things that an elementary school teacher teaches students — much about government and much about our nation...It is almost certain that these dinner-table conversations in the 1970s occasionally would have discussed religion, and likely critiqued the goings-on in the Catholic Church of that time. Sarah's family believes in many traditional Christian beliefs, and Sarah Palin, in many ways, acts and lives as though she were still an active Catholic.
“I was the same age when we left here [Skagway] as my daughter Piper is now,” she said. “I enjoyed watching her, seeing how things were through her eyes.” Palin said she used to walk “by myself – I don’t know if parents do that now –around town to the neighbors,” home from catechism [my emphasis], and remembered the wind blowing, drying the clothes in the back yard. Also going to her dad’s basketball games – he coached the [Skagway] high school team.Sarah Palin would have been a five year old catechism student in 1969. Thus, the Heath family remained practicing Catholics while they lived in Skagway. It is clear that only after the Heath's left Skagway in 1969 did they stop practicing their Catholic faith. Although other things in the Skagway Catholic community may have loosened the Heath's grip on their Catholic faith.
During his early years he could be seen shoveling snow off the walks in the winter and in the summer cleaning up trash in the yard. He wore a pair of coveralls when he was doing his work stoking a wood burning furnace in the cellar of the church and raking up the yard. The ladies of the parish were worried about him not getting enough to eat or eating the right food.The Heath family stayed in Skagway for approximately a year after Bishop O'Flanagan's retirement in June 1968. No scandals are documented as happening in the Catholic church of Skagway while the Heath family resided there, but 1967-1969 was the time when massive changes began to be instituted in virtually all the Catholic churches in the world. The only other observation is that the small Skagway church may have had no resident pastor during this time, because in 1991 the parish was said to be served by visiting priests.
On Feb. 6, 2003, Podvin appeared in a televised interview with Channel 2's Maria Downey and declared he had been sexually abused as an 18-year-old by Monsignor Frank Murphy, a priest who worked in parishes around Anchorage from 1960 to 1985. Podvin said he was going public because the Anchorage Archdiocese had failed to acknowledge that any local priest had sexually abused youngsters here, and he was also critical of retired Archbishop Francis Hurley, to whom he complained about Murphy in 1982 but who never personally responded afterward until after he went public.The appalling story of Fr. Murphy's sexual assaults of young boys in the Anchorage Archdiocese over many years is told in gross detail in another article from the Anchorage Daily News. One wonders if Sarah Heath's older brother, who would have been ten years old in 1972, encountered this abusive priest.
Under Jadot, 15 archbishops were appointed: William D. Borders to Baltimore, Patrick F. Flores to San Antonio, Peter L. Gerety to Newark, James A. Hickey to Washington, Raymond G. Hunthausen to Seattle, Francis T. Hurley to Anchorage, Oscar H. Lipscomb to Mobile, Edward A. McCarthy to Miami, John L. May to St. Louis, Edward T. O'Meara to Indianapolis, John R. Quinn to San Francisco, John R. Roach to St. Paul, Charles A. Salatka to Oklahoma City, Robert Sanchez to Santa Fe, and Rembert G. Weakland to Milwaukee.Traditional Catholics recognize many of the above archbishops as clear enemies of the Catholic Church. The actions of these archbishops resulted in massive defections from the Catholic church in the 1970s and 1980s--both of priests and people. Fortunately, these archbishops have been replaced and the Catholic church is beginning to grow again in spirituality and numbers.
One Fr. John De Celles [STL], speaking in Old St. Mary's Church this weekend, delivered a homily to rebuke Nancy Pelosi, who publically offered a gross distortion of the Catholic teaching on aborticide. It is, if you will, the modern version of St. John the Baptist rebuking Herod, another figure who saw nothing wrong in slaying innocent children.Wright noted that the entire sermon given on Labor Day weekend has been posted on the web. I read it and am very impressed. So who is Fr. John De Celles whose sermons are so good that one will be picked up and reprinted by the well-respected National Review magazine?
You may recall that last summer Father attended a week-long seminar to learn how to say this Mass. He attended another seminar this summer to both review the rubrics of the Traditional Mass and to focus on the High Mass. In addition he put a lot of time and energy into preparing for [offering the Extraordinary Form on] August 15th.The FSSP priests are seeing a lot of good results from their training other priests to offer the old Latin Mass. In addition, I've noted over the years that the best prepared homilies seem to come from priests who are favorable to the old Mass.
Those efforts paid off in many ways. We expected some people would attend the evening Mass on the 15th simply because it fit their schedule. We did realize a few might have had no idea this would be the Traditional Mass despite weeks of announcing that it would be. And we thought a number would attend because it was a sung High Mass.
We estimate that there were 600 people here that night. The overwhelming response was a positive one, actually an extremely positive one, which was wonderful to hear. It provided, as we hoped, an opportunity for parishioners to experience the beauty of the “Old Mass.”
who is discussed in ALASKA magazine of February 2008. Here are a few quotes from the cover story, "Palin's Way," by Melissa DeVaughn on "America's Hottest Governor." It's her favorite room [kitchen] in the large but unpretentious home her husband, Todd, designed and built five years ago.... Todd's floatplane is docked just a hundred yards away [on Lake Lucille] at the edge of the neatly mown lawn....Having such a high-powered wife does not faze Todd, who refers to himself jokingly as the "First Dude."So what I learned about Todd Palin is that he is at least as good an individual as Sarah Palin--likely even better as he is a very strong and loving husband and father! The governor of Alaska seems to know that too, as she introduced Todd to the country as "the man she admires the most in this world."
While Sarah does the work of governor, Todd remains the quintessential Alaska man. He stays busy with his week-on, week-off job with British Petroleum on the North Slope. He's also one of the state's best snowmachiners, and has won the grueling 2,000-mile Tesoro Iron Dog race four times. In the summer, Todd fishes acommercial site in Bristol Bay and spends time flying his airplane, a hobby he has enjoyed for 20 years.
Having his wife become governor changed the Palin household, he said, but not in a monumental way. "Her schedule dictates my schedule, but with her being mayor for so many years, we were already used to it," he said. "The kids are very adaptable. There are thousands of Alaska families that adapt, whether you're a contract guy who's gone for the summer season, a sloper or in the military, we have a lot of families who don't have the 9-to-5 schedule."
On this day, Todd Palin is preparing to change into work clothes and help oversee construction of a community playground in Juneau. As First Dude, he is a champion of vocational education for Alaska students. "I'm a product of on-the-job training that was offered to me in 1989. And growing up in the high schools that I attended, we had great shops, mechanic shops and carpenter shops. In recent years, that has not been a high priority, but that is coming back. So I've told the commissioner of labor, 'Wherever you can use me in that role, I am there for you'."
"My slope job has provided for my family," he said. "when an opportunity is given to an individual, it is what that person does with it that matters. As I travel the state, that's a big concern, getting kids motivated. I am meeting kids that can't read a tape measure or just don't want to work, so it's the same message wherever we go. Step out. Once you step out and are given an opportunity, you can change a life"
Todd's family is spread from Bristol Bay to Homer.... when [daughter] Bristol revealed she spent $20 on leg waxing--'That was supposed to be gas money,' Todd Palin said disapprovingly [and Sarah Palin concurred!]
Here's an abbreviated list of past and current leadership duties of Gov. Sarah Palin:"She appears to be the most 'likable' of the four major Pres/Vice Pres candidates. This may have been a stroke of genius on the part of McCain, time will tell. The democrats' reaction strikes me as confused and ridiculous so far. I don't think they were ready. She is not the type of person you can attack head-on and walk away looking very good. I'm feeling better about the Republican ticket's chances in November already. Looking toward the future, I'd give her a greater possiblity of being President of the United States someday than Hillary."Vice-president Sarah Palin will need to select good advisors, just as President Reagan did in the 1980's. For starters, I'd recommend Pat Buchanan who seems to have some of the best insights on foreign policy, including Russian, Chinese, and Middle East problems.
So let me spell out exactly what that change would mean if I am president...I will cut taxes -- cut taxes -- for 95 percent of all working families. Because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle-class. [How does Obama define "working families" and "middle-class." "Economy like this" also gives him an 'out'. ]
And for the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as president: in 10 years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East. [Yes, but please tell us how much less energy our country will be using at the end of ten years?]
I'll help our auto companies re-tool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America. I'll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars. And I'll invest $150 billion over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy -- wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and 5 million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced. [This paragraph should be re-read a third time! Does Obama have plans to unseat Congress, control wages, run businesses, and add 5 million new jobs to the federal payroll?]
Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation to provide every child a world-class education... [If w-c implies the best education that money can buy, not every student can or will absorb a w-c education.]
I'll invest in early childhood education. I'll recruit an army of new teachers, and pay them higher salaries and give them more support.... [What's wrong with current teachers? Does Obama really mean an ARMY of new teachers drafted into federal government service?]Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible health care for every single American. If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. [Just like in Canada, where my friend's father would have died because it takes months to get Canadian permission for open-heart surgery. Instead, he came to San Antonio for the surgery.] If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves. [Get ready for more medical tourism.] And as someone who watched my mother argue with insurance companies while she lay in bed dying of cancer, I will make certain those companies stop discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most.
Now is the time to help families with paid sick days and better family leave, because nobody in America should have to choose between keeping their jobs and caring for a sick child or ailing parent. [Who's going to pay? Private companies already are struggling to stay alive while competing with India, China, and other developing countries.]
Now is the time to change our bankruptcy laws, so that your pensions are protected ahead of CEO bonuses.... [Translated: Bankruptcy laws need to be more lenient so that people who have spent themselves into deep debt can be relieved of their promises to pay what they borrowed. Uninsured medical expenses will be used to justify the easing of bankruptcy laws, although the changes will apply to every debtor who simply bought too much using their credit card.]
