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PUERTO RICO - $28 million in AIDS funds returned to feds - The ...
Nope. I retired at 55 because my wife, who is also an attorney, wanted to live in the Caribbean. Did you retire here because the the male prostitutes were cheap way back then? (Saturday | post #22)
PUERTO RICO - $28 million in AIDS funds returned to feds - The ...
You are correct. Most lawyers practice until they are old and incompetent. Many practice until they are your age. They practice until senility. I don't mind you calling me a 'redneck lawyer.' It's still above what you accomplished in your life--you are Willie Lohman--without a family to give a damn. (Saturday May 10 | post #10)
PUERTO RICO - $28 million in AIDS funds returned to feds - The ...
YIPR: You're the only person I 'know' in your building. Those capital letters are just you screaming in the wind. I merely attacked your specious argument about my 'agreeing' with Coqui with the same brand of innuendo you use to attack those who you disagree with when you have no valid argument. I was successful enough as a lawyer to retire at 55. I've never been removed from a court room. This forum has no significance or decorum. As I stated originally in this thread, you are a hypocrite. But you are so much smaller than that. I must stoop to your level out of boredom. Goading you into publicly loosing your temper and self-respect certainly isn't much of a challenge. (Saturday May 10 | post #8)
PUERTO RICO - $28 million in AIDS funds returned to feds - The ...
Here is the only thing I remember ever agreeing with Mark Lauer about (other than a FEW coincidentally and commonly held opinions we may share regarding you): "Coquilogan is correct. The US media couldn't care less about WHAT happens to HIV/AIDS patients in Puerto Rico." Most of the 'morons' I know in Puerto Rico live in your building. (Friday May 9 | post #6)
Editorial - A shameful delinquency - The San Juan Star - May 8,...
YIPR: Is your explanation of why 1/2 the citizens refuse to vote for statehood because the members of the PDP are more politically effective than the members of the PNP? The 1993 and 1998 referendums took place while the NPP was in power in both the Governor's palace and the ELA houses of the legislature. Where is your argument about how congress MUST do what the majority of Puerto Ricans want? Where is your argument that the US congress will willingly allow entry of a Spanish speaking state because...? All you did to prove that 'statehood would prevail' is to tell me how much you hate the members and supporters of the PDP. The US Congress is the ONLY body that can grant statehood to another political entity, whether incorporated territory, as the Northwest Territory, an unincorporated territory, like Guam, or an independent nation, as Texas was when admitted. Where is your argument about HOW the US Congress would be willing to admit Puerto Rico? The PDP and the PNP have very little to say about the matter. The status of Puerto Rico rests exclusively with the US Congress, barring insurrection. (Friday May 9 | post #10)
Biovail shifts focus, closing Puerto Rican plants
Today (May, 9) I read that 250 people will lose their jobs in Dorado and Carolina. (San Juan Star, May 9, 2008 page B-1) Biovail is by it's own admission a company with a failing business model. They are retrenching to Canada. They intend to move their 'repackaging' business elsewhere. That would be somewhere they can increase and decrease their workforce as necessary without bumping up against the convoluted Puerto Rican labor laws that actually make employers who hire people steer clear of Puerto Rico. The only businesses moving here are capital intensive and need few employees--just enough to keep the machinery operating. (Friday May 9 | post #1)
PUERTO RICO - $28 million in AIDS funds returned to feds - The ...
How hypocritical can Yankee by? NO ONE has promised to stop poting here more than YIPR. Coquilogan is correct. The US media couldn't care less about WHAT happens to HIV/AIDS patients in Puerto Rico. They don't even cover what happens to them in the US until the rate explodes, as it has in San Francisco again. Face it, Yankee. Almost no one in the US even KNOWS that Puerto Rico is a part of the US. Of the ones who KNOW Puerto Rico is part of the US, a majority wish it weren't. There are a precious few of gringos who love and appreciate Puerto Rico for what it is. You have been here too long without contacts to those from the heartland of America. Since you are exclusively East Coast, I suspect you never KNEW how Americans in the heartland felt about anything, much less what the few of them who know about Puerto Rico think about Puerto Rico. It isn't good. (Friday May 9 | post #4)
Editorial - A shameful delinquency - The San Juan Star - May 8,...
I didn't use 'magic' or 'wishes' to explain my position. I used analysis and logic. Do you believe the US Congress would vote for a Spanish speaking state when 30 states have outlawed the official use of any language but English? Do you think the lawyers in the US would promote a jurisdiction that does NOT use the language they use for all their legal business? Do you think that in the current anti-immigration environment the American electorate are going to vote for congressional representatives that promote and support the inclusion of a Spanish speaking state? If you 'believe' those things, tell us WHY! Don't just tell us 'your wishes.' Do you know the old axiom--"Wish in one hand, defecate in the other: See which one fill up first." So far, 46.7% is the highest percentage that statehood has ever received in the referendums held by Statehood governors. Statehood has not even attained the largest number of votes in a referendum, let alone a majority. When do you expect this 'strong majority' you admit is necessary for consideration? (Friday May 9 | post #8)
Editorial - A shameful delinquency - The San Juan Star - May 8,...
YIPR has two dreams--that statehood will be granted to Puerto Rico and that the Archbishop of San Juan will sit by and allow the 'statehood' party to bring true Separation of Church and state to this island. Neither are on the horizon. The question of statehood for Puerto Rico has NEVER been a question of how many Puerto Ricans support independence or how many support statehood. It has always been, and will continue to be, "How many congressional representatives support statehood?" Congress will NEVER allow a Spanish speaking state into the Union. Thirty (30) states now have 'English Only' laws. Their congressional representatives will NEVER go against the laws of their own state. Legal proseedings in Puerto Rico must be practiced in English for the Congress to consider statehood for Puerto Rico, just like Utah had to abandon 'polygamy' to become a state. THEN Utah waited for ANOTHER 10 years for Statehood. How many decades has YIPR been crowing "statehood in 10 years!" Neither he nor I will live long enough to see such a change in the 'status' of Puerto Rico. The people who live in Puerto Rico have nothing to do with 'statehood' for Puerto Rico. (Friday May 9 | post #6)
ACN Business Opportunity lauching in Puerto Rico on Mar 30
It always takes a while for a 'pyramid scheme' to pay off for the guy on top. They usually collapse fairly quickly, though. As far as Donald Trump endorsements, I believe he usually gets paid to put his name on anything. (Thursday May 8 | post #18)
Star and Stripes: Puerto Rico's Own Olympic Dreams - Wall Stree...
When re-instituted in 1894, the Modern Olympic Games were developed for rich, male 'amateur' athletes to compete among themselves, allegedly to 'promote international understanding through athletic competition.' By holding the Olympic Games in a different country every four years, rather than maintaining a permanent location, it is almost inevitable that Nationalism will rule the very existence of the games. Germany ultimately made the Olympics a competition between nations in 1936. It has continued thus ever since, right up to the blatant professionalizing of the athletes themselves. Now, the entire purpose of the Olympic Games is to 'show off' a nation to the rest of the world--and to generate television revenue. (Thursday May 8 | post #2)
Editorial - A shameful delinquency - The San Juan Star - May 8,...
Are these funds that YIPR says are 'federal' really block grants to the ELA, like the block grants provided to the PAN program? The ELA has much greater control over block grants. It can set it's own parameters for funding, distribution and compliance on many if not most such block grants. I have no idea whether the Archbishop of San Juan has an opinion regarding these alleged failures to distribute. I suspect the Archbishop doesn't take part in the programs to 'provide services to drug addicts, HIV/AIDS patients, school dropouts and victims of abuse and domestic violence' other than blessing everyone affiliated with these programs. Does the Archbishop contribute any of the Church's prodigious assets to these groups? (Thursday May 8 | post #3)
FBI seizes evidence from 2 PREPA offices - Raids said linked to...
YIPR: I believe you. I'm merely tempering metal. "Tito" is like the rest of them to me--available for attack AFTER they have been found guilty. And the Feds aren't in charge of that. But I do believe that politicians deserve stricter scrutiny than some attention seeking 'screaming everyman' who allegedly beats his significant other. (Wednesday May 7 | post #5)
FBI seizes evidence from 2 PREPA offices - Raids said linked to...
I wish I could read the letter YIPR wrote to the San Juan Star when Rossello's cronies started getting led away by the FBI. I suspect YIPR didn't have much work for St. Jude back then, unless it was prayers for acquittals for all those 'statehood' icons. Little people apparently pray for small rewards. YIPR should pray that the leaders of his party (the PNP) stop preying on the citizens of Puerto Rico, too. These rats will all abandon the Puerto Rican ship when the US finally cuts off the money to the independent nation of Boriken, but not until that day. We'll see the San Juan (Mariel) Boatlift at the same time as the undesirable leeches flee the island. (Wednesday May 7 | post #2)
Odinga and Obama's father were both members of the Luo tribe. In Africa all tribal members are considered 'cousins.' All those 'web sites' you told us to google lead back to the same few Republican Jesus freak sites. The internet is GREAT! One million Obama sites with unsubstantiated rumors. Puerto Ricans LOVE unsubstantiated rumors. They even make life decisions based on unsubstantiated rumors. Facts NOT NECESSARY here. Freddy must be a transplant from here. Whack job! (Wednesday May 7 | post #2)
