Curiosities, curiosities and more DR curiosities

Golo100

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-“Polibromas” pg.2 of “El Nacional” mentions that a rich Dominican daddy bought a $US250,000 2004 Lamborghini Murcielago for his son, but his fat son did not fit in the cozy cockpit. He resold the Lambo for $US377,000 to another rich daddy. I have one better…Frank Troncoso, the Agua Alaska mineral water guru, bought 4(four) yellow 2004 Gallardo Lambos and before they arrived he sold 3 to his friends and kept one!!
-If Public Works Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado had not spent the money for the construction of the new pedestrian bridge at the Maximo Gomez and 27 de Febrero Avenues’ intersections(a future white elephant that looks good) he could have rebuilt the ready-to-collapse Duarte Bridge. Problem is Hipolito cannot inaugurate a bridge that was built 50 years ago, while the pedestrian walk is ready for ribbon cutting within a week to 10 days for his reelection inauguration marathon. Attaboy Miguel!!!
-If by the same token, Maldonado doesn’t paint the car lanes on Las Americas highway soon we may end up with cars turning into amphibious machines as they fall off the Caribbean sea cliffs on this most dangerous highway.
-At last someone has the courage to say so..Constitutionalist Frogmen commander Montes Arache recently stated that “hero” Colonel Francisco Caama?o De?o was not prepared, capable or intellectually fit to lead our nation if he had succeeded with the 1965 April Revolution. I have been saying this for years only to be insulted and scorned by revisionists of our history. Colonel Caama?o was nothing more than another Hipolito in uniform. No sooner I heard his famous April 25, 1965 speech I knew we were in the hands of an inept rock ages cowboy. This speech is perhaps the worst ever in our history, where his main theme of unity could philosophically fit in the empty space of an atom. Caama?o did not even have the sense to wear a t-shirt under his sweaty uniform and arms pits and looked like a pig honking and babbling run-on sentences and idiocies. Montes Arache was his second in command and could have been a better leader. Hipolito picked up his cowboy hat from Caama?o and dreams of being another pig. He is.
-On the eve of the April 1965 Revolution anniversary, can you imagine what would have been of us if LBJ did not have the vision to stop this fake rebellion? Just look at the leadership: Col. Caama?o a former swat team commander who manslaughtered, tortured and oppressed our university students for years; General Lachapelle, a lowly lieutenant from my old neighborhood who was better known for chasing girls than becoming one of our “prominent” military historians. Lachapelle knows as much history as I know atomic energy; Hector Aristy, the legal mastermind under Caama?o, a bohemian who today is one of Hippo’s advance reelectionists and new-rich; Rafael”Fafa”Taveras, a revolutionary who turns your stomach as the most Pro-Hippo lambon in history; Jose Francisco Pe?a Gomez, a Haitian born voodoo lover who aspired to become president to reward Haitians by turning back our independence to that non-nation’s orangutans. I could go on and on. Thank god for LBJ. This was another USA Grenada-type victory.
-Another one of our 200 generals has been appointed to supervise the distribution of fuel in DR and be sure we don’t get shafted at the pumps. I rather have the gas stations’ attendants supervising this operation than one of our corrupt Hippo generals, who may end up collecting “taxes” for his reelection campaign.
-We may be facing the equivalent of “nuclear winter” if and when a hurricane touches the Samana coast and we end up with flying ashes all over the island from the “rockash” dumped by Trans-Dominicana de Desarrollo and our own environmental agency.
TW
 

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Last week my brother-in-law (well known importer), got visit from one of the generals at the service of Sanchez-Baret.

Wow, I did not think things would get this low. In short he was asked to give money, keep in mind he is as far as one could be from the PRD, so this was taken as a threat for obvious reasons.

This has only increased his resolve as well as others of us, to get rid of this government as it has been a living hell to deal with aduana among other fronts.

What we fear the most is that transition period if/when the PRD loses, this will be the longest 3 months in recent history.
 

Robert

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Golo100 said:
- new pedestrian bridge at the Maximo Gomez and 27 de Febrero Avenues? intersections(a future white elephant that looks good) he could have rebuilt the ready-to-collapse Duarte Bridge. Problem is Hipolito cannot inaugurate a bridge that was built 50 years ago, while the pedestrian walk is ready for ribbon cutting within a week to 10 days for his reelection inauguration marathon. Attaboy Miguel!!!

I'm surprised they haven't covered it in PRD banners already.
In fact, I think that's the only reason they went ahead and built it.
 

Robert

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Narcosis said:
What we fear the most is that transition period if/when the PRD loses, this will be the longest 3 months in recent history.

Yes, this is when even the paper clips will be stolen.
Is this the law? Who states this period is required?

If I was an incoming goverment, I would kick them all out on May 17,
that's after I had recovered from the hang over :)
 

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Bravo once more!

Golo100 said:
-?Polibromas? pg.2 of ?El Nacional? mentions...QUOTE]

Bravo once more Golo100....you are always right on the money!....Keep them coming and....E PA FUERA QUE VAN!
 

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Thanks

Thank you Golo,

Always a joy to read your of the beaten path news and history.
Keep it coming.

Cheers
Bok
 

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PRD, you won't find a more wretched hive of scum and villany...one must be cautious when dealing with these neanderthals...
 

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It will look like Baghdad after the fall of Huesien!

Government offices looted of airconditioners,furniture,hospitals stripped of what little they have,after all,the Clintons "stripped" the White House,and pulled Dirty Tricks like glueing drawers closed.and locking everything,and throwing the keys in the garbage!
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Golo100

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You are so funny!! Yes you are absolutely right, I wouldn't be surprised if they strip the national palace marble floor clean and just leave the cement base. Already, I hear they are stripping offices clean. By the time August 16 arrives Leonel or whoever wins will have to set up tents and recreate government all over again.
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true / sad

Golo100 said:
You are so funny!! Yes you are absolutely right, I wouldn't be surprised if they strip the national palace marble floor clean and just leave the cement base. Already, I hear they are stripping offices clean. By the time August 16 arrives Leonel or whoever wins will have to set up tents and recreate government all over again.
TW

How true and how sad! The PRD should be outlawed as the Communist Party was years back. They have not got it right yet in 3 attempts; they represent the worst of the worst in this country and have a constituency of the uneducated, parasites (live off the government and public funds) and those without principles or convictions. The people are becoming more aware though and perhaps a conscientious majority will prevail from now on.
 

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As an addendum to Golo's post

I heard today about one of Santo Domingo's magnates--Tavarez by name--made the mistake of driving his 2004 Mitsubishi Montero out to Punta Cana.
He no sooner got there than he called his secretary and told him to find him a "comfortable vehicle" and to send the chauffer to bring the Montero back to Santo Domingo.

On the way back Mr Tavarez rode in a Toyota Land Cruiser and loved it!. He immediately went to the Topyota dealership and asked for one. THEY PUT HIM ON THE WAITING LIST!! At US$92,000!!

And people say we are a poor nation....Somebody has a lot of loot!

HB
 

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Hillbilly said:
I heard today about one of Santo Domingo's magnates--Tavarez by name--made the mistake of driving his 2004 Mitsubishi Montero out to Punta Cana.
He no sooner got there than he called his secretary and told him to find him a "comfortable vehicle" and to send the chauffer to bring the Montero back to Santo Domingo.

On the way back Mr Tavarez rode in a Toyota Land Cruiser and loved it!. He immediately went to the Topyota dealership and asked for one. THEY PUT HIM ON THE WAITING LIST!! At US$92,000!!

And people say we are a poor nation....Somebody has a lot of loot!

HB

I think the DR must have more Land Cruisers per capita, with the exception of a few Arab nations.

I also hear it has been really hard to get any sort of jeep in white.
I wonder who has been buying those?
 

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People, keep in mind that statistically (which tend to under-represent anything, especially in the DR) 10% of the population are RICOS! In other words, 800,000 people! For a country the size of the DR (both geographically and demographically) that is a lot of rich people.

In addition to that, it has been estimated that the middle class makes up about 30% of the population. Thats about 2.4 million people. Of course, the statistics for the middle classes are now outdated, thanks to Hippo, there might be less middle class, but the numbers are still pretty large for a Caribbean country.

And to finish this statistics thing, the poor makes up the other 60% or 4.8 million people with roughly half of those having families abroad sending them American greenbacks.

That explains why the Dominican Republic is a country with Mercedes and Lexus poping up frequently (for a suppose poor country), why you see gass guzzling Jeepetas speeding across the country, and yet, you still see millions of vespas (pasolas) creating problem on the road, and some out dated people on horses and donkeys. Not to mention the conchos, which I must confess - these cars don't appear as battered up as they used to- there are still lots of them falling apart leaving peaces on the road so it can damage some other car. Oh well, that keeps the mechanics employeed! :D

But statistics aside, the Dominican Republic is a country that can only be fully understood by Dominicans only. After all, name me another country where a small wooden shack would have a satelite dish clinging to it's tin roof and a shiny Nissan next to it. I've seen such crazy thing many times in the DR. Or what poor country filled with shacks have people that keep the inside of their shacks so neat and clean, with clean table cloths and everything. Or a poor country with so many Mc. Donalds and/or other American fast food chain, considering that American products are getting much more expensive with the sliding of the peso. The Dominican Republic is just unique! Don't try to understand it, just accept it!! Enjoy! :)
 
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kudos Mr. Golo!

Me quito el sombrero y lo saludo se?or Golo! You're again scoring major bonus points for this one. I don't think that I share your ideology -I sense that you fall somewhere to the Right of that wild Texan George W.- but your analysis about Caama?o is not just far Right, it is more importantly, far Correct.
The colonel has unquestionably been turned into a martyr by the local leftist intelligentsia. And this image of national hero has been further embellished and exploited by the populist, kleptomaniacal heirs of the Old Left currently taking their turn at abusing power from the national palace and congress.
He was a protoHippo, simply a caudillo-wannabe under the pretense of constitutionalism and social equality. Too bad a foreign superpower had to intervene in '65. But in the long run, that other wild Texan, Lyndon B., ended up doing the DR a favor. Your other reports about leeches roaming around potholes in their ostentatious machines are, as you well know, just par for the course in the wonderland of the DR.

-Tordok
 

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It appears to me that the Dominican Republic is a living example of someones(Idon't know who said it) remark that, in a (Democracy((??))), when the constituency learns that it can vote itself(by the use of politically inept, corrupt leadership) a "free lunch", then Democracy is doomed!!!

We see the evidence of the truth of this on a daily basis. With a Socialist economy and a "clientist, democratically(this is realy a misnomer) elected government", we see the levels to which both the people AND the economy will sink.

Unfortunately, the DR doesn't have either the political will nor the economic strength to pull itself out of the throes of national bankruptcy it finds itself in. And the leaders continue to try to place the blame for the dellema(sp?) on sources other than themselves and the constituency that elected them.

I have seen so very much inaccurate rationalization regarding the problems of this country, I wonder if it is not an endemic, built in fault perpetuated genetically! It absolutely amazes me that some people can continue to embrace a faulty ideology for so long a time in the light of evidence contrary to the success if that ideology.

Nature, through history, teaches us that it is the fittest which survive through adaptation, and nothing else will do so unless it adapts to those change that occur.

While some ideologies make it hard for the individual to "weather the storm", those that do have always come out stronger and better for having adapted.

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Nal0whs said:
After all, name me another country where a small wooden shack would have a satelite dish clinging to it's tin roof and a shiny Nissan next to it. I've seen such crazy thing many times in the DR. Enjoy! :)

Have you ever driven through the Appilachian Mountains up away from the cities. The Dominicanos from the Campos and hillbillies will get along fine. Just change the language and change the music.
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Golo100

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I agree with what you say at the end of your reply. However, that 10% rich is overstated. The upper 10% have all the riches but they are not all alike. The real upper crust in DR is about 1%. Naturally, that 10% lives very comfortably and perhaps better than most people in other nations.

Bear in mind that living in DR is like you say, an unique experience. Take for instance other countries like South Africa. In a recent study Johannesburg was listed as one the most desirable cities in the world to live in and the country as one of the best bargains in terms of standard of living and conditions. Yet, Johannesburg's barrios are among the most dangerous and poorest in the world and the highest AIDS infection in the world. South Africa has among the highest class differences with the poorest drifting away financially more and more from the rich. For a thrid world country we are not unlike others and some more developed nations share our problems alike.

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Golo100 said:
You are so funny!! Yes you are absolutely right, I wouldn't be surprised if they strip the national palace marble floor clean and just leave the cement base. Already, I hear they are stripping offices clean. By the time August 16 arrives Leonel or whoever wins will have to set up tents and recreate government all over again.
TW

Maybe that wouldn't be such a bad idea!!
Start with a ZERO Government Payroll and save a billion pesos per month!!
Then make damn sure they hire ONLY HONEST(?) workers!!

Who knows, it might be a good thing.

Texas Bill