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"Larry" wrote in message
... One of my female friends just built her SECOND house in Playa Del Hermosa Jaco, Costa Rica. CR is very American-friendly. She used local architects, builders, craftsmen for everything. Every drawer pull, handle and handrail was made by local blacksmiths, by hand. It's beautiful! Hermosa is CR's surfer paradise on the Pacific. http://www.jacowebs.com/Kelies/FrameSet.htm Not ONE pool.....two!...(c; CR might be a great place to move to. Very little "government" standing in your way, especially if you're doing something to improve Costa Ricans. Nice place. We loved Belize, but haven't been to CR. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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![]() "Roger Long" wrote in message ... Here is the beginning of the end of boating as we know it in the US of A. http://www.marinelink.com/Story/Coas...it-206253.html Tennis anyone? Oh, no, that's right, those balls could have anthrax or radio isotopes in them. -- Roger Long "but we know very little about the 77 million U.S. boaters or the 13 million recreational vessels that ply U.S. waters," Allen (US Coast Guard Commandant) said." Lets see now, 1 hour to check up on each of those 77 million potential terrorists works out to 43,750 years worth of work if we assume 220 working days in the year at 8 hours per day. Of course your government could hire 43, 750 new bureaucrats to cut it down to 1 year. Get ready for a tax increase. |
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"Roger Long" wrote in news:45f15693$0$28142
: Here is the beginning of the end of boating as we know it in the US of A. If I leave the country and come back, any other way, I'm inspected by border agents....plane, train, car....but not yacht. We leave Florida and go 250 miles to catch the Gulf Stream. We drop out of the stream 90 miles S of Charleston and sail into Charleston Harbor. We are never stopped, never questioned, never challenged...even by calling us on the radio. CG can't find us if we're in trouble without our 406 EPIRB lighting their way, so I know they haven't been tracking us on some sophisticated satellite system the military runs or they could. When we sail up the Charleston Jetties in the ship channel from sea, we never see anyone! We could BE anyone. The boat has no positive identifying markers of any kind. It says, "Lionheart - Atlanta, GA" across the stern but we could have had that painted on her while they loaded her thermonuclear device into the V-berth in (pick any port). They really DO have a point. The Mexican border isn't anywhere NEAR as open as the South Carolina Coast! Any boat from anywhere can come ashore, even right up the main shipping channel into Charleston and NOONE IS TRACKING THEM! NADA! There's no picket ships at the 3-mile limit, a really ABSURD edge of the US waters, when it should be 200 miles and HEAVILY defended from all intruders, foreign and domestic. I could set off a hydrogen bomb in INTERNATIONAL waters 3-miles off NYC, out of the jurisdiction of the US Gummit by its own stupidity and make the WTC inside job look like a pittance! The crater from a BIG bomb is 5 miles across....inland to New Jersey! How stupid is that? The USA needs shoreline RADAR and SOSUS and must force EVERY vessel that leaves/enters the 200 mile exclusion zone to be fully transponding AIS....JUST LIKE THE AIRPLANES squawk IFF. Hell, you could dock the bomb 8 miles up the Ashley River in front of my house, and be 800 yards from the main gate of the Charleston Air Force Base and NOONE WOULD KNOW OR SEEM TO CARE YOU WERE THERE. Of course, this assumes America is under attack from WITHOUT, which it was not. America was attacked from WITHIN, by its own government. 9-11 wasn't the first time or the first hairbrained scenario to come from the isolated Pentagon stupidity machine.....set to blow up bogus airliners over Cuba to coerce Americans into a pre-emptive invasion against Castro....remember? If W and the NeoCons had been in that seat, instead of a dove Democrat, Cuba would be like Beirut, today. Larry -- CAUTION - STAY AWAY FROM THE HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE US/MEXICAN BORDER. (after my plan to dump all nuclear waste 1 mile inland from it.) |
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On Mar 9, 7:44 am, "Roger Long" wrote:
Here is the beginning of the end of boating as we know it in the US of A. http://www.marinelink.com/Story/Coas...ate-in-Small-V... Tennis anyone? Oh, no, that's right, those balls could have anthrax or radio isotopes in them. -- Roger Long This is one of those situations where we can remind the powers that be that America's boaters can be part of solution, not just another problem. We know our waters and fellow boaters better than any Coastie can hope to attain. In all prior wars, we have been viewed as allies, not enemies. To my way of thinking, the current "stay away" policy makes sense and should be sufficient for all purposes. Granted, this is a different war, and a different administration (which seems to view ordinary citizens as a threat). I am hopeful (but not confident) that liberty will not be seen as inconsistent with security; it is shameful that we are being attacked for our liberties and respond by taking them away. Perhaps if we can elect a few people who are more interested in preserving our rights than in concentrating power for the benefit of their friends, we will return to the country that so many have admired and emulated for centuries (as opposed to the current attitude, where our leaders are despised). If the Coast Guard is willing to listen, I'm willing to help them come up with policies that make sense. If they decide to track every day sailor, the CG will no resources for the jobs that count. Steve Hayes |
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What a stupid posting. You think the democrats are going to solve your
problems? You think these people care about your liberties? Are you dumb or what. Take a listen to Al Gore. He goes on and on about global warming. Then he gets into a private jet to go and talk some more. Or some of the liberal ideas about protecting you from yourself. The liberal phonys such a Hilary, Al, Al Sharpton, etc will tax you off the earth. And while you are living in a shack they will tell you why it is so good for you and they had to do it for the "Children". I hate em all. The Repubs, the Democrats... all of them. My basic philosophy.. Leave me the F alone. Ameria was a great country. Not anymore. It is a cesspool. The federal government which you want to give the liberals control of can't even control the border between the US and Mexico. What are you going to do when there are more Mexicans living here than US, US Citizens? "steve_hayes_maine" wrote in message ups.com... On Mar 9, 7:44 am, "Roger Long" wrote: Here is the beginning of the end of boating as we know it in the US of A. http://www.marinelink.com/Story/Coas...ate-in-Small-V... Tennis anyone? Oh, no, that's right, those balls could have anthrax or radio isotopes in them. -- Roger Long This is one of those situations where we can remind the powers that be that America's boaters can be part of solution, not just another problem. We know our waters and fellow boaters better than any Coastie can hope to attain. In all prior wars, we have been viewed as allies, not enemies. To my way of thinking, the current "stay away" policy makes sense and should be sufficient for all purposes. Granted, this is a different war, and a different administration (which seems to view ordinary citizens as a threat). I am hopeful (but not confident) that liberty will not be seen as inconsistent with security; it is shameful that we are being attacked for our liberties and respond by taking them away. Perhaps if we can elect a few people who are more interested in preserving our rights than in concentrating power for the benefit of their friends, we will return to the country that so many have admired and emulated for centuries (as opposed to the current attitude, where our leaders are despised). If the Coast Guard is willing to listen, I'm willing to help them come up with policies that make sense. If they decide to track every day sailor, the CG will no resources for the jobs that count. Steve Hayes |
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![]() "NE Sailboat" wrote in message news:5ETIh.3955$vb.3377@trndny04... What a stupid posting. You think the democrats are going to solve your problems? You think these people care about your liberties? Are you dumb or what. Take a listen to Al Gore. He goes on and on about global warming. Then he gets into a private jet to go and talk some more. Did you see his utility bills? He owns three or four houses. His primary home in Nashville,TN has electricity bills enough to pay for twenty average-size homes. ****ing fat hypocrite Democrat asshole! Getting rich from the new religion of human-caused global warming while, if you believe his movie, he personally is more damaging to the globe than twenty to thirty more responsible average everyday human beings. And remember what this asshole said about the President not too long ago. Talk about pot-kettle-black . . . Boy, are we ever fortunate Gore lost the election. "(George Bush) betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place!" -- Al Gore Or some of the liberal ideas about protecting you from yourself. The liberal phonys such a Hilary, Al, Al Sharpton, etc will tax you off the earth. "Many of you are well enough off that...the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." -- Hillary Clinton And while you are living in a shack they will tell you why it is so good for you and they had to do it for the "Children". All the while they talk about their great concern for the children, they count on the fact most Americans have such a short memory they won't remember children like those living with the Branch Davidians that Bill Clinton and Janet Reno roasted alive. And they hope you don't recall the midnight Gestapo raid that kidnapped Ellian Gonzalez and forcibly returned him to Cuba. I hate em all. The Repubs, the Democrats... all of them. I don't hate them. I despise them for the socialists they are, and lately, are openly bragging they are. I despise even more the ignorant asshole voters who have their hands out thinking they are entitled to be given something for nothing so they vote for the person who they think will see to it they get the largest handout possible. My basic philosophy.. Leave me the F alone. You got that right! Ameria was a great country. Not anymore. It is a cesspool. The federal government which you want to give the liberals control of can't even control the border between the US and Mexico. What are you going to do when there are more Mexicans living here than US, US Citizens? It's all part of the socialist plan. A rich ruling elite patterned after Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry etc. And a bunch of peasants groveling at their feet. But the hypocrisy is what gets me. They act like they are just so concerned about the "little guy" and the planet and all the while there is only one thing they're really concerned about and that is their selfish selves. They use stupid people to further their agenda and the stupid people they use are way too stupid to wake up and see how sorely they are being used. Take the majority of African-Americans, for example, they vote Democrat election after election while Democrats pay lip service to helping them out. Then even while getting nothing for generations they keep on voting Democrat. This is the kind of stupidity and greed the socialists count upon. Lie and lie some more. Count on the fact that most voters are either too stupid or too greedy to take offense. There is one instance where everybody of sound mind agrees that Bush and Cheney lied. That's Bush and Cheney said, during the 2004 presidential campaign, that Kerry and Edwards were "worthy opponents". --Capt. Neal Wilbur Hubbard |
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