-Just what we needed: a weekly radio program for President Leonel Fernandez(just like Chavez's "Alo Presidente". As if we need to hear Leonel's never-ending boring speeches. Reagan was more fun!!!
-Be honest...Are Dominican holidays and long weekends fun anymore? Don't you just get bored with everything closed down? Do Dominicans work?
-Is "Aventura" beginning to repeat itself with the same themes for their songs? I can't tell the difference anymore between their songs.
-How many bachata groups can this music genre handle? It turns out every Dominican kid wants to become a bachata singer. It's getting boring and ridiculous.
-What twerps are still listening to merengue? Don't merengue "fronts" look ridiculous with their stupid choreography?
-The end of regetton may be coming soon. As soon as you start hearing pop artists featuring regetton music and singers in their albums, you know the end is near. Nothing kills a music movement faster than encroachment by invaders from other fields like rock, pop, etc. Remember what killed "disco" music. It took Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra and cartoon characters singing disco. Remember the Shea Stadium burning of disco records?
-Shakira and Alejandro Sanz turn to regetton and place "Torture" in the #1 spot in Billboards' Latin music. The beginning of the end for regetton!!!
-Where is Tego Calderon? Did Daddy Yankee buried him alived?
-Why is Johnny Ventura back? Does merengue need this music fossil?
-This is why I like rock's meat grinder. It forces the retirement of most artists and brings in the new. Can we ask dignity out of Milly, Eddy Herrera, Sergio Vargas, Fernando Villalona and these boring old timers who just don't want to retire. I forgot...it's just that Dominicans are pseudomasochists. They keep electing the same politicians too.
-Why does the Dominican senate and Camara de Diputados need TV commercials? Have you seen the disgusting commercial where congress president Pacheco sings....Paz,Paz,Paz, queremos vivir en Paz!!! Pardon me Mr Pacheco..it is us who want to leave in peace without you!!!
-Why do people maintain the fallacy that Trujillo killed so many Dominicans? The truth is that Balaguer ordered more Dominicans killed than anybody in our history. Hipolito Mejia presided over a reign of terror where drug dealers protected by him killed hundreds. Hippo's first killing took place even before he was president. During the presidential campaign, one of his aides killed a man who showed Hippo a bunch of "yerba". The man was killed right before Hippo's eye at point blank and nobody was ever jailed for this horrendous crime against freedom of speech. Hundreds were killed without reasons known. Leonel's government aides are no different. Every day we hear of abuses and assaults with deadly weapons by his people and nobody does anything about it. Trujillo was a pussycat compared to these gangsters.
-The word "hero" has become a misnomer in DR. Almost any Dick and Tom can be called a hero. Can anybody tell me why Caama?o, Hermanas Mirabal, Tavares Justo, Imbert Barreras, are called heroes? What did they do? What did they fight for if not for power? It's that what being a hero is all about?
-Just a reminder...Colonel Francisco Caama?o De?o killed more student protesters during his reign as chief of the "Cascos Balncos"(the police's swat squad in the 60's)than Trujillo did in 30 years!!
-Does Dominican Republic have any real historians? 80% of those belonging to the Dominican Historian Society are not qualified, including two of its most prominent members.
-DR's biggest ego belongs to Channel 5(Telemicro owner)Juan Ramon Gomez Diaz. Not a day goes by without him televising programs where he self-promotes. He makes everyone miss Nazir Atallah(who should be making a comeback soon as he tries to run for Santo Domingo mayoralty or a senate spot in 2006..God help us) But Mr. Gomez Diaz should pay more attention to his faulty management of Telemicro, which goes off the air for hours at a time for lack of either diesel fuel for his emergency electric plant or just doesn't repair it. What good is all this ego-publicity if you can't keep a TV station on the air?
TW
-Be honest...Are Dominican holidays and long weekends fun anymore? Don't you just get bored with everything closed down? Do Dominicans work?
-Is "Aventura" beginning to repeat itself with the same themes for their songs? I can't tell the difference anymore between their songs.
-How many bachata groups can this music genre handle? It turns out every Dominican kid wants to become a bachata singer. It's getting boring and ridiculous.
-What twerps are still listening to merengue? Don't merengue "fronts" look ridiculous with their stupid choreography?
-The end of regetton may be coming soon. As soon as you start hearing pop artists featuring regetton music and singers in their albums, you know the end is near. Nothing kills a music movement faster than encroachment by invaders from other fields like rock, pop, etc. Remember what killed "disco" music. It took Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra and cartoon characters singing disco. Remember the Shea Stadium burning of disco records?
-Shakira and Alejandro Sanz turn to regetton and place "Torture" in the #1 spot in Billboards' Latin music. The beginning of the end for regetton!!!
-Where is Tego Calderon? Did Daddy Yankee buried him alived?
-Why is Johnny Ventura back? Does merengue need this music fossil?
-This is why I like rock's meat grinder. It forces the retirement of most artists and brings in the new. Can we ask dignity out of Milly, Eddy Herrera, Sergio Vargas, Fernando Villalona and these boring old timers who just don't want to retire. I forgot...it's just that Dominicans are pseudomasochists. They keep electing the same politicians too.
-Why does the Dominican senate and Camara de Diputados need TV commercials? Have you seen the disgusting commercial where congress president Pacheco sings....Paz,Paz,Paz, queremos vivir en Paz!!! Pardon me Mr Pacheco..it is us who want to leave in peace without you!!!
-Why do people maintain the fallacy that Trujillo killed so many Dominicans? The truth is that Balaguer ordered more Dominicans killed than anybody in our history. Hipolito Mejia presided over a reign of terror where drug dealers protected by him killed hundreds. Hippo's first killing took place even before he was president. During the presidential campaign, one of his aides killed a man who showed Hippo a bunch of "yerba". The man was killed right before Hippo's eye at point blank and nobody was ever jailed for this horrendous crime against freedom of speech. Hundreds were killed without reasons known. Leonel's government aides are no different. Every day we hear of abuses and assaults with deadly weapons by his people and nobody does anything about it. Trujillo was a pussycat compared to these gangsters.
-The word "hero" has become a misnomer in DR. Almost any Dick and Tom can be called a hero. Can anybody tell me why Caama?o, Hermanas Mirabal, Tavares Justo, Imbert Barreras, are called heroes? What did they do? What did they fight for if not for power? It's that what being a hero is all about?
-Just a reminder...Colonel Francisco Caama?o De?o killed more student protesters during his reign as chief of the "Cascos Balncos"(the police's swat squad in the 60's)than Trujillo did in 30 years!!
-Does Dominican Republic have any real historians? 80% of those belonging to the Dominican Historian Society are not qualified, including two of its most prominent members.
-DR's biggest ego belongs to Channel 5(Telemicro owner)Juan Ramon Gomez Diaz. Not a day goes by without him televising programs where he self-promotes. He makes everyone miss Nazir Atallah(who should be making a comeback soon as he tries to run for Santo Domingo mayoralty or a senate spot in 2006..God help us) But Mr. Gomez Diaz should pay more attention to his faulty management of Telemicro, which goes off the air for hours at a time for lack of either diesel fuel for his emergency electric plant or just doesn't repair it. What good is all this ego-publicity if you can't keep a TV station on the air?
TW