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After we received so much positive feedback for our first article about The Best 15 Wedding Venues on Lake Atitlan, we decided to create a list of the best wedding venues in Antigua Guatemala. Antigua is such a beautiful and unique place to get married. Antigua is full of colorful streets and vistas of looming volcano peaks. This quaint and quiet town is now starting to be recognized as an up-and-coming location for destination weddings.
So if you still haven't decided on a wedding venue, definitely keep reading. This list is the ultimate resource to help you find the best wedding venues in Antigua Guatemala.
~ First Things First ~
Our biggest piece of advice for getting married in Antigua is to hire a wedding planner — this goes especially for couples who are planning a wedding from abroad. Having someone who knows the details of booking certain venues, their policies and whether they work for your budget will save you a lot of time and headaches. If you need recommendations for wedding planners, shoot us an email and we will send you a list of the best wedding planners in Guatemala.
When deciding on a wedding venue, be sure to consider a few things. Knowing the size, style and date of your wedding can make all the difference when deciding on the location. Rainy season in Guatemala usually starts around May and goes until October, with a short break in July or August. Dry season is usually from November until April. Again, a planner can be a great help when finding the right place for you, especially if you are set on a specific date.
All the photos in this list were taken by us. We have covered weddings in all the venues listed. If you want to see more photos of a particular place, please send us an email and we will happily send you a full wedding gallery.
We have divided this list into Ruins and Hotels and included as much relevant information as possible. If you would like more information on a venue, please leave a comment below or contact us! And without further ado, here is our list of best wedding venues in Antigua Guatemala.
Best wedding venues in Antigua Guatemala ~ Ruins
(Click here to jump ahead to the list of Hotels)
The first part of our two-part venue recommendations begins with the gorgeous church ruins that are spotted all over Antigua. These venues are some of our favorite locations where we have photographed weddings. The ruins are amazing because they have minimal visual clutter and are centrally located. They are also a blank slate in terms of design and decoration, so the options here are endless.
Ruins of Santa Clara
(Click here to see a wedding we photographed in Santa Clara)
The entirety of Santa Clara includes a beautiful garden with a fountain, a few arched walkways along the sides, a beautiful, temple with an open ceiling and altar, all of which could be used for various special moments throughout the day.
Also, just outside the ruins is the Pila Pública or Tanque de la Unión, an infamous yellow washing station where we have photographed many couples who are getting married inside of Santa Clara. This building is a wonder for photos, since it provides a myriad of angles for amazing pictures.
There are more uncovered areas of Santa Clara than covered, but in the dry season, this location is a dream!
Ruins of Capuchinas
(Click here to see a wedding we photographed in Capuchinas)
The entrance into the temple has two towering wooden doors, making for an epic entrance into a ceremony or onto the dancefloor.
Ruins of San Jose El Viejo
(Click here to see a wedding we photographed in San Jose el Viejo)
The walls of the temple are already equipped with candle fixtures and the small garden in front is perfect for a cocktail hour between the ceremony and reception. All of San Jose El Viejo is covered apart from the courtyard outside, so it's a nice cozy venue even in the rainy season.
The space is perfect for a ceremony and reception for a modest-sized wedding (between 50-150 people). If you're looking to host a larger event, there is the option of having the ceremony take place at San Jose, then moving the party to Porta Hotel, which is just across the street.
One of our favorite things about San Jose is the afternoon light, in the afternoon and just before sunset, when the sun shines in through a couple of windows towards the back of the temple creating a beautifully lit, picture-perfect scene for any wedding ceremony. Hands down, one of the best wedding venues in Antigua Guatemala.
Ruins of La Recoleccion
(Click here to see an engagement session we photographed at La Recoleccion)
At the entrance is a long pathway that leads to what was once a church, similarly constructed in the 18th century. The church existed intact for less than a decade before an earthquake destroyed it and it was left to ruin.
This ruin, however, is one of our favorite places to photograph because of the rocky landscape that exists where a church once stood, creating a backdrop unlike any of the other ruins in Antigua. Giant pieces of the structure lay strewn around a courtyard that looks like it came from an Indiana Jones movie. At the front of the church is a reconstructed archway and staircase—a famously gorgeous frame for a photograph.
The entire compound of La Recoleccion is massive and while there is no covered area within La Recoleccion, many of its courtyards and gardens could be used as a space for a canopy or tent for a large wedding reception. And with so much space, La Recoleccion is ideal for an "all-in-one" location as well, which makes it one of the best venues to get married in Antigua Guatemala.
Jardin Real De Santiago
(Click here to see a wedding we shot at Jardín Real de Santiago, with preparations at Pensativo)
Jardin Real is also uncovered, but is right next to Ezenario Historico, which can be rented in conjunction with the ruin as an indoor area for refuge during the rainy season.
The jardin (or garden in English) has high, rustic walls along the sides of the garden adorned with bougainvilleas and other flora.
Ruins of La Merced
This is one of the more famous locations in Antigua, because of the church's bright yellow façade that is emblematic of Antigua's color. La Merced itself consists of a cathedral and ruins, both of which can be rented separately or together. The limitation with the church however, is that they only allow ceremonies there for Catholic couples. You can certainly rent the ruins separately from the church if you're looking for just a beautiful rustic place for your special day.
The ruins at La Merced boast the biggest fountain in Antigua right smack in the middle of the ruins, surrounded by arched pathways on all four sides of the fountain's courtyard.
Ezenario Historico
The entrance is a grand, tall wooden door that welcomes you into the first hall, which is tinted a celestial blue in the traditional sponge painting style that is often found in Antigua. Then follows two larger, covered spaces that would function perfectly as the reception hall and dance floor. Both have pieces of the original construction on display, complimented by the wooden ceiling & large windows, which provide wonderful natural light during the day.
Best wedding Venues in Antigua Guatemala
Ruins of Santa Teresa
This ruin is also within walking distance to many famous attractions in Antigua, such as La Merced, the arch and Calle Santa Rosa, a beautiful cobblestone street lined with trees and colorful walls that is great for taking pictures.
Best wedding venues in Antigua Guatemala ~ Hotels
The second half of our list of best wedding venues in Antigua Guatemala includes hotels and rentals. All of these locations provide some accommodation as well as the convenience of a kitchen or restaurant on-site. However, you might want to check with the venue itself regarding catering for your wedding, especially if you are looking for something larger or outside of the hotel's kitchen capacity.
Most of these hotels also have options for indoor and outdoor spaces, which means you'll have less to worry about if you're getting married during or around the rainy season.
Pensativo House Hotel
(Click here to see a wedding that we photographed at Pensativo)
Built out of the previous home of a Guatemalan military general, Pensativo House Hotel is a quiet yet luxurious place to get married in Antigua. With gorgeous white architecture inspired from the ruins around Antigua, Pensativo House is an elegant location where you can host a ceremony, cocktail hour, reception & even the after party all in the same location.
With plenty of spaces to choose from, Pensativo would be great for small and medium-sized weddings (maximum 250 people.) There are also a number incredibly well-lit rooms which are lavishly designed, great for getting ready and pre-wedding photographs.
The courtyards are some of the most beautiful spaces for cocktail hours and receptions that we have seen, with heavy greenery and clean architecture on all sides for a perfectly glamorous event. Pensativo House Hotel also has a large terrace with views facing directly towards Agua volcano, amazing for open-air ceremonies. All in all, Pensativo is surely one of the best wedding venues in Antigua Guatemala.
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Porta Hotel
(Click here to see a wedding that we photographed at Porta Hotel)
When it comes to food, Porta is one of the frontrunners for catering in Antigua, so there will not be limits on choices at dinnertime. There is also a full bar, swimming pool, restaurant, onsite parking and much more which will keep your guests occupied on the days around the wedding.
Hotel Casa Santo Domingo
(Click here to see a wedding we photographed at Santo Domingo)
Santo Domingo has a huge range of options for large and small weddings, but we think that it really suits larger weddings better. Ceremonies normally take place in front of the chapel façade, one of the most ornate and beautiful backdrops for a wedding you can imagine. Receptions normally take place in the Convention Center, a large room capable of hosting more than 500 people (probably more, but that's the biggest we have seen there.) There is another, more open space that is available for smaller events that is also in a different section of the hotel, which has a lovely outdoor courtyard and ample space for seating around 100-200 people (check out Alex & Yasmin's wedding to see an example of this reception space.)
Since Santo Domingo has been a staple in the wedding industry of Antigua for ages, they also have onsite catering, bars and staff to help you plan your big day but as always, we highly recommend an outside planner to help with logistics and communication throughout planning. Best wedding Venues in Antigua Guatemala
Santo Domingo del Cerro
While there are no rooms up at El Cerro, there is a large covered reception area that can accommodate a large wedding celebration. The space is surrounded by a curved balcony, from which your guests can enjoy the view or take in a bit of fresh air during the party. Below this structure is where the majority of the ceremonies happen, all with the view of the city below.
Panza Verde
(Click here to see an engagement session we photographed at Panza Verde)
We love the general design and rustic look of Panza Verde, it's boutique hotel, so you won't find endless corporate-looking hallways of rooms here, rather beautifully decorated walkways leading to unique rooms, each with their own design and character. The hotel has beauty in every last detail and don't even get us started on the food (Spoiler alert : it's AMAZING.)
Finca Filadelfia
(Hagan click aquí para ver una boda que fotografiamos en Finca Filadelfia)
The rooms that can accommodate you and your guests are spacious and comfortable. Amenities of the hotel include a pool, restaurant and even a small chapel for its guests, all away from the hustle and bustle of Antigua. A wedding at Finca Filadelfia could be large or small, since there are a few location options to choose from. We would definitely suggest making use of one of the garden areas for a wedding, especially for couples getting married in the dry season, and obviously don't miss out on the amazing organic coffee!
(Click here to see a wedding we photographed at Conceptió)
This is one of the newer locales for weddings in Antigua and while it hasn't been open for long, it does not disappoint. Located in San Gaspar Vivar, this venue is a short 10-minute drive from Antigua, right next to the small public square of the village.
Within the area of Conceptio is an ample garden with space for an outdoor reception of almost 1000 people, a small pool and house with rooms to get ready and for 12 guests to sleep at the end of the night. There is also a large gallery included in the property that could function as the buffet or bar location, or a small covered dance floor. The gallery has an upper level that could function as an area for cocktails or for guests to observe the wedding happenings from above.
On the property is a small chapel, but there is also the larger cathedral of San Gaspar right next to the venue as well. Your guests could walk from the ceremony to the reception within minutes. The style at Conceptió has more of a modern touch, so this would be an ideal place for a modern or artistic bride.
Best wedding venues in Antigua Guatemala.
Posada San Rafael
San Rafael is another gorgeously designed boutique hotel that couldn't be closer to the center of Antigua. It is within a one minute walk of the arch, La Merced and Central Park. At San Rafael, the beauty is also in the details. The architecture is a modern take on the typical style of Antigua, with cozy rooms and comfortable spaces that would be great for a small wedding. There is courtyard in the middle of the hotel, as well as a library for guests to enjoy during their stay.
The second level San Rafael is the best part, in our opinion. You can literally see the arch within one block on this open-air terrace that rests right above the courtyard. You'll have plenty of volcanic views from this rooftop, as well as many photo opportunities for the big day within a minutes walk.
Very few couples even know that San Rafael is available for weddings, mostly since it's a smaller venue. With the rooftop and gardens included, San Rafael is perfect for a wedding of 100 people or less. As an intimate wedding location for family weddings or elopements, there are few places that could be more beautiful.
Earth Lodge
We shot one of our very first weddings at Earth Lodge, and have since then dream about getting another chance to shoot there. Earth Lodge is part avocado farm, part hostel, part getaway from the hustle and bustle in Antigua. You take your guests about 20 minutes up into the hills of Antigua, from which you will have one of the most spectacular views of the town and the three volcanoes, all from the tranquility of this low-key hotel.
There are a few open spaces that work as ceremony locations, as well as a fully-equipped restaurant and bar that functions perfectly as a reception hall. Earth Lodge is great for relaxed couples, that want something simple and beautiful. There is a bit of a trek down a hill to arrive to the hotel, so make sure you visit Earth Lodge before you decide to get married there in order to make sure it's the right place for you.
Casa Santa Ines
Towards the entrance into Antigua from Guatemala City is Santa Ines, a cute little town built into the side of the hill. Casa Santa Ines is a beautiful boutique hotel in the town of Santa Ines that is perfect for medium-sized weddings. The hotel has a garden area that would beautiful for a reception. There is also a cobblestone entranceway that function beautifully as a ceremony aisle. Santa Ines' property also includes an ampitheatre-like staircase, which could be an epic spot for a small wedding. The view here allows all of your guests the perfect view of your ceremony, with the backdrop of Antigua's green mountains.
Casa Santa Ines maintains the rustic style of Antigua, while all being hidden away in the hills near Antigua. The rooms and shared salons all have a very cozy feel, with comfortable furniture and tasteful décor. If you're looking for somewhere comfortable where you and your guests can enjoy the quiet of San Ines combined with the beauty of Antigua, this venue is for you!
Please tell us what you think of our list of the best wedding venues in Antigua Guatemala!
~ Leave us a Comment ~
Leave us a comment If you think we missed a venue that belongs on this list or we missed a crucial piece of information about a certain venue. All in all, there really is no bad choice to get married in Antigua, Guatemala. Between the ruins, boutique hotels and ancient churches, there are so many beautiful options for couples. We hope we have helped with this article to choose one of the best wedding venues in Antigua Guatemala.
Finally, keep in mind that many couples choose to have their ceremony in one location and then the reception somewhere else. This might be the ideal option for some and a logistic nightmare for others. Again, talk to a planner to see which venues work best for your needs! We've worked with a fair share of wedding planners in Antigua, so if you want any recommendations, please leave us a comment or send us an email!
~ Best Wedding Venues in Antigua Guatemala ~
Such beautiful pictures and great advice! I've been to antigua a few times and I haven't even heard of some of these places—stunning!
My name is Kari. I am a violinist and I love to play music for wedding ceremonies. Do know of any couples planning to get married who would like a classical violinist to play their wedding ceremony or cocktail hour?
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Love this article. What would be the cost to do a PHOTOSHOOT at Santa Clara ruins or at the ruins of la recolacion?

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But What About Runescape Lesser Demon?
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The Basic Facts of Runescape Lesser Demon
Lesser Demons can be discovered in a number of different places around RuneScape from the Wilderness. To receive a scife in Buy RS Gold you have to go to Varrock. Level it should you feel it to be well worth it.
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WarningIf you are really sensitive to spoilers, you may want to skip the next paragraph. Nonetheless, in review, it is a ludicrous call. In the chest you ought to find the 2nd bit of map.
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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
- Last gasps from CIT. Stating the obvious, Fitch Ratings said a "default of some kind appears imminent or inevitable" for CIT Group (CIT), and cut CIT's credit rating seven notches to C. CIT continues to 'evaluate alternatives' and look for $2-3B of private financing, while bondholders were discussing a plan last night to swap $5B in debt for equity. The lender's retail and manufacturing customers were less than reassured, and some companies stopped shipments ahead of an expected bankruptcy-related cash shortage. Sources reiterated a bankruptcy filing could come as soon as this morning.
- GE's profits shrink. Q2 profits at GE (GE) plunged 47%, exceeding analysts' estimates (see below); GE's finance and media units dragged down aggregate performance. GE shares are down 56% over the past 12 months as investors fret its exposure to credit market losses, complicated by the loss of its coveted AAA rating, and after it cut its dividend for the first time in 60 years. CEO Jeff Immelt called the results "solid," and said GE is working to control costs and maintain its backlog, and is focusing on higher-margin services.
- Google beats but sales slow. Google (GOOG) posted better-than-expected earnings (see details below) but also reported slowing sales, suggesting a tech sector bounceback may take longer than some investors anticipated. Sales were up 2.9% for the quarter vs. a 6.2% gain in Q1. Google also received lower prices for its ads.
- Little learned in Paulson testimony. Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson testified in Congress yesterday on the government's role in the Bank of America (BAC) merger with Merrill Lynch, and said he acted appropriately in warning CEO Ken Lewis he could lose his job if he backed out of the deal. The hearing produced plenty of grandstanding as lawmakers angrily attacked Paulson but shed little light on what actually happened. (Read Paulson's testimony (.pdf))
- The Roubini rally. "Dr. Doom" Nouriel Roubini was surprised by media reports that he had improved his economic outlook and expected the recession to end this year, positive comments that helped lift stock markets. Roubini said his views haven't changed and that his comments were likely taken out of context. He does not expect any economic growth before the end of the year and forecasts "a shallow, below-par and below-trend recovery where growth will average about 1% in the next couple of years."
- RHJ bids $388M for Opel. In an attempt to beat out Magna International (MGA), RHJ International has submitted a formal bid for General Motor's Opel unit. RHJ wants to buy a 50.1% stake for €275M ($387.6M) and plans to initiate production cutbacks and pay cuts. The offer requires €3.8B in government guarantees, vs. the €4.5B Magna requested.
- House fights for auto dealerships. The House of Representatives approved a plan to force General Motors and Chrysler to restore agreements with dealerships that were cut loose during bankruptcy proceedings. The measure, which Obama opposes, passed with a fairly split vote of 219-208 and next goes to the Senate where its fate is unclear. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said plainly "when you have a bankruptcy, there are winners and losers," which is "unfortunate, but that's the way bankruptcy courts operate."
- Berkshire is the mysterious 'Party M.' Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) is reportedly the secret 'Party M' mentioned in regulatory filings that offered $1.7B in cash to buy reinsurer IPC Holdings (IPCR) earlier this month. IPC ultimately rejected that bid in favor of a lower stock-and-cash offer from Validus Holdings (VR).
- IBM raises outlook. IBM (IBM) beat analysts' forecasts with its Q2 earnings (see details below) and sharply raised its full-year outlook. The company now expects 2009 earnings of at least $9.70 per share, up from $9.20 per share, as it benefits from its focus on higher-margin businesses in software and services. Despite a pullback in corporate spending, the company says it's well ahead of its plan to reach earnings of $10-11 per share in 2010.
- Jobless claims fall. Initial jobless claims came in at 522K, down 47K from a week ago (revised), better than the 535K consensus and the lowest since January. Continuing claims fell 642K to 6.27M.
- NAHB index pulls up. NAHB's homebuilder sentiment index rose to 17, the highest since last September and not far from the readings seen in late 2007. Though it's a marked improvement over January's all-time low of 8, anything below 50 is considered negative.
- Treasury International Capital. In May, net foreign purchases of long-term securities were -$19.8B, with foreigners picking up $7.9B in U.S. securities, and Americans buying $27.7B in foreign securities. Foreign holdings of T-bills were up by $53.1B.
- Philly business outlook. The Philadelphia Fed's Business Outlook registered -7.5, down from -2.2. The index has been negative for 19 of the past 20 months. The six-month activity index also fell, from 60.1 to 51.9.
Earnings: Friday Before Open
- Bank of America (BAC): Q2 EPS of $0.33 beats by $0.05. Revenue of $32.77B vs. $33.10B. Tier 1 ratio 11.93%. (PR)
- GE (GE): Q2 EPS of $0.26 beats by $0.03. Revenue of $39.08B (-16.6%) vs. $42.16B. 13% growth at Energy Infrastructure was more than offset by an 80% decline at Capital Finance and a 41% decrease at NBC Universal. Tier 1 ratio was 7.4%. Believes its share in stimulus-based projects, which has been limited, will increase in H2. (PR)
- First Horizon (FHN): Q2 EPS of -$0.58 misses by $0.25. Revenue of $491M (-18.7%) vs. $566M. Tier 1 ratio 9.5%. Provision for loan losses decreased to $260M from $300M in Q1. Net chargeoff ratio increased to 4.77% from 3.97% in Q1. (PR)
- Mattel (MAT): Q2 EPS of $0.06 beats by $0.06. Revenue of $898M (-19.3%) vs. $970M. (PR)
Earnings: Thursday After Close
- Cytec Industries (CYT): Q2 EPS of -$0.01 misses by $0.02. Revenue of $685M (-32%) vs. $660M. Sees FY09 EPS of $0.60-0.90 vs. $0.69. (PR)
- Google (GOOG): Q2 EPS of $5.36 beats by $0.27. Revenue of $4.1B ex-traffic acquisition costs (+3%) in-line. Y/Y: Site revenues up 3%; network revenues up 2%; paid clicks up 15%. (PR)
- IBM (IBM): Q2 EPS of $2.32 beats by $0.30. Revenue of $23.3B (-13%) vs. $23.6B. Sees FY09 EPS of at least $9.70 (had seen $9.20) vs. $9.15. (PR)
- People's United Financial (PBCT): Q2 EPS of $0.08 beats by $0.02. Net interest income of $142M. (PR)
- Tempur-Pedic International (TPX): Q2 EPS of $0.22 beats by $0.04. Revenue of $185M (-22%) vs. $173M. Reaffirms FY09 EPS of $0.70-0.90 vs. $0.79 and FY09 revenues of $700M-740M vs. $719M. (PR)
Today's Markets
Strong gains in Asia and Europe overnight, but futures are hugging breakeven.
- Asia: Nikkei +0.55% to 9,395. Hang Seng +2.42% to 18,806. Shanghai +0.19% to 3,190. BSE +3.47% to 14,745.
- Europe at midday: London +0.9%. Paris +0.9%. Frankfurt +0.8%.
- Futures at 7:00: Dow -0.1% to 8663. S&P -0.1% to 935. Nasdaq +0.1%.
30-year Tsy +0.11%. Euro -0.4% vs. dollar. Yen flat. Pound -1%.
Crude -0.1% to $61.92. Gold -0.1% to $934.
Friday's Economic Calendar
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Despite heavy air cover and Apache helicopters on the battlefield, many Saudi army soldiers and mercenaries were killed during their failed attempt to march towards Huthaira and Ramza in Jizan.
The lens of the war media monitored the escape of the enemy fighters from the battlefield while the strikes of the army and the committees were concentrated with accurate hits and a push to the mercenaries of the Saudi army to return back as losers.
It is a new lesson among the lessons of steadfastness provided by fighters of the Yemeni army and the Popular Committees and again by video and image proved the lens of war flags defeat the mercenaries of the aggression and their failure to achieve any progress on the ground.


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Archive for the 'voting machines' Category
The voting machinesPublished May 22, 2009 voting machines Leave a Comment
Plane crashes that make you say hmmmmmmmPublished December 21, 2008 culture of corruption , Republicans , voting machines , VRWC Leave a Comment
Tags: Karl Rove, Mike Connell, Ohio
You silly tinfoil hat-wearing people will of course try to make me think there's a connection between this and this – or possibly even this:
Cheh asks for Sequoia Voting Stystems source codePublished November 12, 2008 DC , voting machines 1 Comment
Tags: Chech, Sequoia Voting Stystems
Cheh Presses Sequoia on Voting Machines
After the Nov. 4th general election, Cheh said she's determined that there are irregularities that suggest systemic problems in the software. She's now pressing the company that supplies the equipment to comply with a previously issued subpoena.
Cheh wants the company, Sequoia Voting Stystems, to turn over the source code for the software, and plans to take up the issue in tomorrow's 10 a.m. hearing on voting problems in the John A. Wilson Building.
Well done Cheh.
The Georgia Debacle 2008 EdtionPublished November 7, 2008 2008 , culture of corruption , voting machines Leave a Comment
Tags: Georgia
Excellent reporting from attydave.
Voting machines elect one of their ownPublished November 5, 2008 2008 , voting machines Leave a Comment
Ohio 2004Published October 21, 2008 culture of corruption , voting machines , VRWC Leave a Comment
Tags: 2004, Bush, Ohio
Odds of Bush win in Ohio '04 1/9600, at best
I thank you for broaching the topic, but my conscience compels me not to thank you for the brevity with which you are treating the topic.
According tNational Election Data Archive at uscountvotes.org (NEDA), the odds of Bush winning Ohio in '04 was no better than 1/9600, and as high as 1 in 16 million.
I dare you to contact NEDA, and run your argument past them. You might convince me if you got the mathematicians and statisticians at NEDA to agree that the poll results you mention somehow are of greater significance than exit poll data. Until you do that, you're not going to convince me that the Presidential election wasn't stolen in 2004, via Ohio.
The Gun is Smoking: 2004 Ohio Precint-level Exit Poll Data Show Virtually Irrefutable Evidence of Vote Miscount
Six Percent of Ohio's polled precints Show Virtually Impossible Vote Counts, and Over 40% Show Improbable Vote Counts, Given Their Exit Poll Results. The Patterns Of Ohio's Discrepancies Are Consisten With Outcome-Altering Vote Miscounts.Ohio's exit poll discrepancy pattern includes three precincts with virtually impossible outcomes and an unusually high number of precincts with significant discrepancy.1
· 6% of Ohio's precincts each have virtually zero chance (less than one in 15,000) of occurring
due to sampling error, given their Kerry official vote count.2 Even if the "within precinct
discrepancy" (WPD) is adjusted for all the precincts to remove any possible effect due to Kerry
voters completing more exit polls, the probability of obtaining Ohio's exit poll discrepancies are
virtually impossible.3
· Over 40% of Ohio's polled precincts have discrepancies having less than a 5% chance of
occurring, given the official vote counts.4 The expected number of such precincts in a sample of
49 precincts would be five such precincts, not the 20 found.
· Ohio's exit poll discrepancies, when plotted against precinct exit poll share show a pattern that is
consistent with vote miscounts that benefited Bush, and
· The pattern of Ohio's exit poll discrepancies cannot be explained by random sampling error or
partisan exit poll completion rate differences.
Ohio's precinct-level exit polls over-estimated Kerry official vote by an average 5.8%. The overall
discrepancy between exit poll margin and official vote margin was double that, 11.7%.
On June 6, 2005 The Election Sciences Institute (ESI) with Mitofsky12 released a report on the Ohio
precinct level exit poll data purporting to rule out vote fraud as the cause of the discrepancies. The (ESI)
report entitled "Ohio Exit Polls: Explaining the Discrepancy" by Susan Kyle, Douglass A. Samuelson,
Fritz Scheuren, Nicole Vicinanza, Scott Dingman and Warren Mitofsky, concluded:
"…the data do not support accusations of election fraud in the Ohio Presidential election of 2004".13
ESI's premise is that if there were vote fraud, then the 2004 exit poll discrepancy would be correlated
with Bush vote share increases from the 2000 election. Finding no such correlation, ESI ruled out vote
fraud as an explanation of the exit poll discrepancies.14 ESI's method of exit poll analysis was included
on October 14, 2005, in a presentation by Warren Mitofsky to the American Statistical Association fall
conference in a talk entitled "The 2004 U.S. Exit Polls".
In an October 31st paper, NEDA mathematically proved that ESI's and Mitofsky's analyses were
incorrect because many counterexamples exist to its basic premise.15 In other words, NEDA proved
mathematically that ESI's and Mitofsky's analysis of Ohio's and national exit poll data is of no
analytical value and no conclusions about the presence or absence of vote fraud can be drawn from
The ESI report had made no attempt to explain or mathematically analyze the actual 2004 exit poll
discrepancies and the ESI report was missing key data. To date, Mitofsky and ESI have provided no
explanation for the exit poll discrepancy that is supported by data and analysis
A history of election auditing (1975 – 2008) is here: http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAna…
Also, there's enough up-to-date coverage of vote fraud issues at bradblog.com to make anybody puke….
There are none so blind as those who will not seePublished October 12, 2008 2008 , netroots , voting machines , VRWC Leave a Comment
I won't miss statements like "Republicans will just use voting machines to steal the election anyway." Such statements irritate me because of both their fatalism and general lack of proof. While I have no doubt that such statements will continue even if Democrats when a 100 seat majority in Congress, they will be less frequent. Kind of hard to argue that Republicans just steal all elections through voting machines when Democrats have such enormous majorities.
The fact is that voting machines must be programmed weeks ahead of the election. The Mark Foley scandal broke at the last minute, after the machines had been programmed. Assuming the machines are rigged, it would have to be very narrowly rigged. If you steal too many votes it is conspicuous, so you have to calibrate it very closely. A last minute political catastrophe throws everything off.
Thank heaven for the army of techies and election integrity activists who have tracked this issue. Lefty blogosphere has been wose than useless.


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Saturday, 17 May 2014
Iguana Nights 4
"So what about Orion, Uncle Wink?" Said Sam, peering over his hands on the picnic table. A shooting star whizzed by the Southern Cross.
"Oh yes, Orion. Well, first of all, there are two Orions, Orion the constellation, and Orion the myth."
"What's a myth?" Asked Millie.
"A myth is just a story about the wisdom that comes from life and death, Millie. Myths teach us how to live and die, the right way, and the wrong."
"What good is that?" Asked Sam.
"Myths connect us, Sam. To the heavens, to each other, and to the sweet mysteries of being."
"Being what?" Asked Millie.
"Just being. People need instruction in how to be, as much as they need to learn how to do."
"Are you going to tell us about the constellation or the myth?" Sam asked.
"I'm going to tell you about both. But guess which one came first?" Asked Uncle Wink.
"The stars?" Millie guessed.
"Well, the stars were there first, and many people other than the Greeks saw other patterns in them, but Orion the Myth actually came before Orion the Constellation."
"When can we hear his story?" asked Sam, now a little impatient.
"After Uncle Wink makes a cup of tea."
Friday, 16 May 2014
Iguana Nights 3
"One of the biggest troubles hitchhiking is having to talk to innumerable people,
make them feel that they didn't make a mistake picking you up, even entertain
them almost, all of which is a great strain when you're going all the way…"
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Carlos had invited me to his parent's house in Guadalajara so, early next morning, Klaus drove us out to the highway, and I introduced him to the fine art of hitchhiking. It took half an hour to get a ride, but fortune smiled. Standing in the wooden bed of an old truck, we drove through endless high rolling hills of giant slate blue agave hedgehogs, the contrasted volcanic soil underneath blood red, from all the tequila gods of Jalisco crash-landing on their radial spear blades. We were tossed on an ocean of two metre high mescal pineapples, each one having to wait a dozen years, until it's heart would be cut open in a Sauza sacrifice. After baking, it tasted like yam candy. When a maguey heart is fermented it makes a light foam white wine known as pulque. It was sacred before the conquistadores arrived, but sanctity changed forever after that. The Spaniards put an edge on everything, and they put pulque through a still. You just can't do that to a plant that is pollinated by bats, without becoming batshit crazy. One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
Carlos' mother was delighted to see both of us, and quickly conjured up a feast of frijoles, carne, sopa, tortillas, and limonada. I was embarrassed later when I found she had raided Serendipity, and secretly done all my laundry. That evening, Carlos took me down to the Plaza de los Mariachis, where I ate the best vanilla ice cream I'd ever had. Roaming charro-outfitted bands of violins, tongued trumpets, vihuelas, guitars and guitarones sang out, and shouted other distillations of Mexico, God, and their own suffering- love, heroes, machismo, politics, cockroaches, betrayal, and death. By now I knew how close death was in Mexico. 'Ay ya yay ya!' rolled out from under sombreros waltzing under the stars. And very late, after too many Bohemias and Negra Modelos, Carlos and I rolled on home to dream.
After a breakfast of sweet rolls, milk and frijoles next morning, Carlos took me downtown, for a tour of the municipal attractions. We visited the Museo Guadalajara, and the churches of San Francisco and Santa Monica (with it's breathtakingly ornamented Baroque porch façade of grapes, corn, and angels). Carlos showed me the Clock Tower, and the bullet hole that Great Grandfather Pancho had shot into it one night, after too much blue agave. The highlight, however, was the murals of Orozco at the orphanage. What teacher worth his salt would have neglected to show me these? The man blew off his left hand with gunpowder in an accident, and went on to paint with the blood and charcoal and colours of the Mexican soil his wound healed into. One mural of conquistador engines raping Aztec culture went through me, like the same 25,000 year-old bull pigments would in the Altamira cave, two years from now. The mosquitoes made sleep impossible that night. I got up around five. Carlos escorted me to the edge of town, and bid me 'buen viaje.' An hour later, I was bouncing along the pretty little countryside just outside Tepatilan, merrily sewing my own space-time continuum.
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Iguana Nights 2
"What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we
are so far from our own country we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive
desire to go back to the protection of old habits. This is the most obvious benefit
of travel. At that moment we are feverish but also porous, so that the slightest
touch makes us quiver to the depths of our being. We come across a cascade of
light, and there is eternity. This is why we should not say that we travel for
Albert Camus, The Notebooks
I bid them 'adios' next morning, and hitched a ride with David and Luis, to 55 miles north of Tepic. David invited me to stay with his family in Mexico City. I bought some sour milk to finish off my Los Comales tortillas. Two guys with a baby in a pickup drove me south. The sign said La Ciudad Mas Amigable en el Mundo, The Friendliest City in the World, and the three guys on the beach who stole my watch must have read it too, because they gave it right back when I told them to. I was in Puerto Vallarta and, back then, it was drop dead gorgeous. Even earlier, in the 16th century, it was a Manila Galleon trade harbour for smugglers avoiding the nasty tax collectors in San Blas, a hundred miles up the coast. A few 2000 ton Philippine hardwood ships, carrying African ivory, Banda spices, Chinese porcelain and silk, and a thousand passengers, would make the four month run from Manila, once a year. The cargoes were then transported overland to Vera Cruz to be loaded onto vessels heading to Cadiz in Spain. The currency was, as it will always be, 'plata o plumo,' silver or lead.
I ate my first meal of tripe in my first taco stand. I followed it immediately with my second meal of tripe in my first taco stand. Nixon was here in Puerto Vallarta in 1970 for treaty negotiations. He likely missed the tacos.
Belly full, I needed a place to stay. It was right across the cobblestone street and it still stands on Basilio Badillo. Serendipity and I waltzed through the iron gate of the Posada Roger, into a large shady courtyard, filled with white noise and cool oxygen from the dripping fountain. There were clay lights and chairs tilted forward on round tablecloths. It smelled of mangos, bananas, frijoles, and marijuana. A girl's laugh echoed off the terra cotta in soft French. Sunbeams caught the smoke through the subtropical trees. I got a five-dollar room and ventured out again. By the time I found my way through the rocks and thorny bushes, to the market and back, my feet were aching. I prepared some frijoles and plantano with my tortillas, and shared them with Carlos, a student from Guadalajara, and a great grandson of Pancho Villa. I lit up my pipe, and let Carlos tell me the story:
Pancho was a 16 year-old sharecropper supporting his mother and four siblings in San Juan del Rio, when he came home one day in 1894, to find the Hacienda owner trying to rape his younger sister. Pancho shot him dead. He fled into the mountains and became a bandit. He robbed trains and stole cattle to survive. During the Revolution of 1910, he became a General. Pancho redistributed land to the poor, printed his own money, and even attacked the town of Columbus, New Mexico. The thousand soldiers the Americans sent to hunt him down, spent a year in their saddles. They never found a trace. In the end, Pancho made a bad deal with the government devils in an attempt to retire- but you can't go from Robin Hood to Al Capone without going through the forty dumdum bullets they put into his Dodge Roadster, on the day he went into town to pick up some gold. His last words were 'Don't let it end like this. Tell them, I said something.' In 1926 somebody stole the skull from his grave. I told Carlos that his relatives were far more flamboyant than mine. As were the four gay caballeros sitting across from us, listening intently. Two were goliaths. One of the little guys spoke.
"Ju see theeze beeg men?"
It was hard to miss them, sitting entwined in their white cotton pajamas.
"They are lovers."
I held off on the pink coffin joke.
"Deed you know that Puerto Vallarta ees the 'San Francisco of Mexico?'
Now I did.
"Are you ACDC?"
"Si." Trying to remember Ohm's Law.
"Que Lastima." I looked up it quickly in Steve's dictionary. What a pity.
Don't let it end like this. Tell them, I said something. I didn't say it, but it was rolling through the skull I still had.
Carlos and I graciously backed out of the courtyard, and took in the more biodiverse nightlife at Capriccio's. It was there we met Klaus, a German traveler who had rented a jeep, and invited us to go with him to Mismaloya the following day.
I woke up quickly in the cold shower next morning. Carlos and I met Klaus outside, waiting in an orange and white VW Acapulco. with running boards and a surrey top. We jumped in the back.
Pedestrians began running for cover down El Camino Real, as Klaus hit lightspeed.
There was no road to Mismaloya when John Huston made The Night of the Iguana here, in 1963. He had to barge the cast and crew down the coast for filming. From where I sat there was still no road, but that didn't seem to bother Klaus, as he played with the chickens along the cliff edges.
"Do you think God drives one of these?" Asked Carlos.
"No, but you can probably ask him from here." I said.
Iguana was about a man's weakness for flesh and alcohol. True to the plotline, Richard Burton was drinking large, and having an affair with Elizabeth Taylor on the set. He played the role magnificently. Klaus was clearly an admirer, and in a party mood. Within an hour we had a table with two Peruvian girls, an American dancer named Leslie, two Norwegian girls, and Monica and Patty, wherever they were from. They all had hibuscus flowers behind their ears. You couldn't see the tablecloth for piña coladas. The swimming was fine, as was the lunch of grilled snapper with salsa, limes and pineapple, under the palm thatch palapas. It was late afternoon when Klaus piled all ten of us into the Acapulco, and drove back to Puerto. The added ballast likely saved my life.
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Iguana Nights 1
"He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense."
Elizabeth Taylor, on Richard Burton
I crossed the Sea of Cortez to the Land of Cortez on August 20, 1980. Dolphins jumped alongside my frijoles, rice and res beef dinner. I tried to sleep on deck but, between the heat, the fluorescent lights, and the dancing gay Mexican girls, it was not my Destiny. Joel and Manuel, two new friends, tried to help by working us up through the rehydration food chain, from leche to gaseosas to cervezas to Seagrams. I ended up drinking the boat water. It took two hours to get off the ferry the next morning. After brunch in Los Comales market, I set up Diogenes in the Mar Rosa campground on the beach, for two dollars a day. After a siesta I cooked some tomatoes and peppers, and ate them with some leftover tortillas from brunch. It was coming on dark when I took a walk down the beach. An inebriated Oaxacan tried to sell me some marijuana, on the waterline. As if. A little further along, at the Oceano, I got involved in a poker game with Doug, Stuart, and tequila. The two Americans lost. When they began spilling their drinks I suggested an alternate venue. We ended up in a line to get into a nightclub called Rockies, but it didn't look good. Until three Mexican girls queued up behind us. There was Margarita and Rosa in front, and an apparition so deliciously dark chocolate behind them, I initially didn't see her.
Over on the other side of Mexico and history, to replace the small pox extermination of the indigenous population, 200,000 African slaves arrived on the docks of Vera Cruz, to work the Yucatan henequen plantations. They were called 'Los Lobos,' the wolves. A band with the same name did a classical rendition of the most famous song in Mexico, 'La Bamba,' a place in Angola that many of them came from. Africa had sent another colour along for the ride. The first epidemic of yellow fever occurred in 1648. They called it the black vomit. There were over two dozen subsequent outbreaks, one of which drove George Washington out of Philadelphia. One of the last occurred in Mazatlan, in 1883. It killed Angela Peralta, the world famous opera diva, shortly after she arrived in port from Europe. She was known as the 'Mexican Nightingale' and, after giving one last aria from the Hotel Iturbide balcony overlooking the Plazuela Machado, she fell into a coma. One of the singers from her company helped complete a hurried wedding ceremony to her paramour, by moving her unconscious head, in nods of assent.
The Africans had long melted into the rest of the cacao, by the time I made out the rest of the Luz Maria. I moved my head in unconscious assent. She was, indeed, the 'Light of Maria.' Oriental eyes, long black hair and an elegance that, had I been with Cortez, would never have allowed me to return to Spain. She smiled at the doorman, he bowed, the waves parted, and we were inside.
I asked Luz Maria why she kept referring to Doug as 'Perrito.'
"Ju say hees name ees 'Dog', no?"
I started calling him Perrito. We danced all night.
Luz Maria brought me breakfast in Diogenes next morning. We spent the day swimming, playing chess and guitar, and eating in Los Comales. We spent most of the night in Diogenes. About four in the morning, a horrendous thunderstorm washed a torrent of sand through the tent. I ran her back to her hotel through the downpour and finally fell asleep, after evicting the hive of insects that had sought refuge while I was gone.
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Bajada 2
I almost didn't see them at first. Their old beat-up half-ton was the colour of the twilight. It came to hard metallic stop and I squeezed in beside them. Baseball caps. They smelled of fish. Raul drove and Alex, in the middle, in silence, passed me an open bottle of tequila. We drove off Highway 1, until we arrived at the ocean. I could just make out a small square whitewashed cement hut with a slanted roof of sticks. It was where Alex lived, and would probably eventually die. In a box no larger than a bus shelter. It had one crooked doorframe but no door nor window. His kitchen was a propane burner; his bath was a bucket. He took one, and I took one after him. We ate some old tortillas, frijoles, and some of the sardines they caught that day. We slept. In the middle of the night came the sound of a truck motor. His wife, Gloria, and their two niños arrived. We pretended to give them room that wasn't there. In the morning I awoke to a dozen skinny cats. I thanked Alex and Gloria. I wondered how a fisherman kept his white pants so white. Raul gave me a lift back to the highway.
There wasn't much traffic in those days, but what did come down the road was undeniably authentic. I didn't put out my thumb for the first ride that day, because it was weaving across both sides of the road like a sine wave on an oscilloscope. It stopped anyway. I got in the back. They were all still drunk from the night before. Thankfully they drove slow, stopping frequently to urinate and show off the gringo to their friends. As we came over a hill and accelerated into the descent on the other side, the driver fell asleep. I looked around. Everyone else was asleep as well. I reached over the driver from the back seat and grabbed the wheel. There was no steering. Somehow I managed to climb into the front seat and bring us to a stop, before we became one with the cactus and the rocks. Everybody woke up to my cursing. They insisted it wasn't their car. I asked whose it was. They didn't know.
"Es robado, hombre."
I looked it up in Steve's dictionary. It said 'stolen.' Jeezuz. I left them sleeping on the side of the road.
What I left them for was an expansive alien forest of cardon cactus around the corner. Among the mesquite and the palo verde, on a rocky slope to infinity, stood a fifty-foot army of ancient grey green sentinels playing their own accordian flesh. The bats that would come to pollinate them at night needed their amino acids for lactation. Turning thorns into milk in this kind of solitude is the ultimate Mexican metaphor.
Then came Hair Trigger Ray, a 50 year-old mobile post-traumatic stress disorder, who made his living by bribing the Federales, smuggling vehicles to sell in a used car lot in Constitucion. He likely started off as a sensitive Mexican kid, but the Americans fixed that for him. I noticed the evil in his eyes when he told me about the thousand men, women, children and animals he shot in Korea and Vietnam. His Californian wife had deserted him, upon his return from the last tour. He spoke continuously of God and the Bible, but most of his nouns, verbs and adjectives began with 'f.' He complained about racism against Hispanics with the same bitter herbs he used to curse every other ethnicity. Yet, underneath all his easily triggered hostility, I saw the vulnerable little boy. He really wanted to be nice. It was just too late. We stopped for a lunch of frijoles and eggs, during which Ray devised a plan to have me drive past the checkpoint in Santa Rosalia. He didn't ask if I had a license. We drove all night, and then I slept in the car. The roosters crowing and barking dogs woke me at dawn. After my cold shower and shave, Ray's wife, Olivia, fixed me a breakfast of coffee, biscuits, and eggs with diced nopales- prickly pear cactus prepared properly this time. We ate quietly under a carmine bougainvillea. Ray slept and Olivia drove me to the highway. It was only after she kissed me goodbye that I realized she could have kept on driving.
The sun grew white hot, and melted the asphalt. Another Raul picked me up, taught me a few more words of Spanish, and took me to the Mazatlan ferry terminal in Pichilingue.
Monday, 12 May 2014
Bajada 1
"Hitchhiking is an open road
Hitchhiking is window without glass
Hitchhiking is loneliness
Hitchhiking is drifting through time and space
Hitchhiking is finding a corner to call your own
Hitchhiking is not unlike the seasons, the tides
Hitchhiking is believing you're Walt Whitman
Hitchhiking is being told you're nothing but a bum
Hitchhiking is learning to cope
Hitchhiking is getting it all together
Hitchhiking is seeing it all fall apart
Hitchhiking is knowing no words but "Thank you"
Hitchhiking is discovering how dark is dark
Hitchhiking is discovering your name whispered in forests
Hitchhiking is rolling out of ice cream wagons into moonlight
Hitchhiking is losing your last pair of pants
Hitchhiking is going naked
Hitchhiking is hearing something crack in the bottom of your pack
Hitchhiking is poetry
Hitchhiking is only a dream
Hitchhiking is falling skywards
Hitchhiking is finding doors locked
Hitchhiking is learning combinations
Hitchhiking is a constant erection
Hitchhiking is a royal pain in the ass
Hitchhiking is the sort of thing that makes you long for chicken soup
Hitchhiking is food for thought
Hitchhiking is nourishment for the soul
Hitchhiking is leaves in the wind
Hitchhiking is an open road"
Paul Coopersmith, Hitchhiking Is, Rule of Thumb
A born-again Christian took me five miles, to the corner of thirst and tedium. The shadows of lizards on adobe walls were the only thing that moved for an eternity. Finally, an 80 year-old retired machinist named Chris, pulled over in his Oldsmobile. Red, white, and blue. Shirt, hair, and jeans. He dropped me at a cantina and wished me 'buen viaje.' The yellow and carmine exterior sported two Carta Blanca beer logos, and an open 'abierto' sign on the restaurant door. I pushed through the swinging doors like I was entering an old western. Three drunken campesinos sat drinking noisily at the bar. I picked a table as geometrically far from them, and as close to the exit, as I could calculate. A gum-chewing senorita came over sooner than I expected.
"Si, Senor?" She said.
Hungry, I had to respond fast in a language that was not my own. What could I order that was safe, easily understood, and available anywhere? I had a tuna sandwich epiphany.
"Un sandwich de tuna, por favor." Thinking myself rather clever.
There was a pause I didn't like, punctuated by shrieks of shrill laughter from the hombres at the bar. Only Mexicans can laugh like that. The waitress looked puzzled, and amused at the same time. Not a good sign.
"Serio, Senor. Un sandwich de tuna?"
I should have backed off, but there was now honour at stake.
"Si, Senorita. Un sandwich de tuna."
She shrugged her shoulders and left. The howling at the bar only got louder. It echoed in the kitchen a few minutes later.
The sandwich eventually arrived. The colour was all wrong. I looked up 'tuna' in Steve's dictionary. It said 'atun'.
I looked up 'tuna' on the Spanish-English side. It said 'prickly pear cactus.' I asked for the fish.
"No hay." She said. We don't have any. I would hear it a lot before I broke the code to eating well in Latin America. Bread is called 'Bimbo' in Mexico. It would prove to be a long study. Before this trip, I had been a vegetarian. In Latin America, it was a synonym for 'communist.'
I left the cantina in time to flag down a supercharged Dodge Dart brown and white Super Bee muscle car, containing two surly looking bandits flying at speed. The Pancho moustache on the passenger side had nasty narrow eyes; the driver was husky with a feathered Las Cruces cowboy hat, and a gold tooth. I shared the back seat with a leather truncheon. The radio was up loud. I knew what shit was. It went along with that masa corn tortilla smell I couldn't get out of my head since I crossed the border. And I was in it now. Gold Tooth pulled out a large handgun and placed it on the dash.
I reached for Steve's dictionary, channeling 'O.'
"Occupacion?" I uttered.
"Policia." He replied.
"Si. Policia Especiale."
And then, as if to assuage my incredulity, Gold Tooth reached under his seat, pulled out a flashing light siren, thrust it onto the roof of the Super Bee, and buried his right boot to the floor. The siren was almost as loud as the radio. Within a few seconds, we had pulled over a loaded pickup truck. Gold Tooth grabbed a pair of handcuffs and sauntered over to the driver's side. He returned a few minutes later, counting pesos.
"Policia Especiale?" I inquired.
"Si. Muy Especiale."
I looked up 'muy.' It said very. My vocabulary was improving, a word at a time. I probably knew enough now to get stabbed.
They dropped me on the other side of a washed out bridge and wished me a "pleasant churney."
The sun slowly melted my afternoon into a syrup of long walks, lengthening shadows, tumbleweeds, and tailgate truck rides. Somehow, I got engine oil all over Serendipity. The smell of the earth grew strong in the desert dusk. I begin to anticipate a scorpion and spider sleepout under the stars. But just when you have resigned yourself to your zig, along comes a zag.
Third Rule of Hitchhiking: Wait a bit longer.
Sunday, 11 May 2014
"South of Tijuana, the highway settles down to a single winding tape of
asphalt... and the country opens up. You don't have to worry which road to
take. There's only one."
Jeopardy, 1953
Steve and Charlie drove me from the First World to the Third World, via Sunday brunch in Capistrano. We ate at the El Adobe, Richard Nixon's favorite Mexican restaurant. I got to sit in his nougahyde chair. I ordered the 'President's Choice.' It turns out that the El Adobe had originally served Continental cuisine but Nixon, desperate to appear like he routinely dined among the common folk, promoted the place as having the best Mexican food in the region. The chef at El Adobe made the switch. The food wasn't bad, but I was going to Mexico, and the notion that I was leaving behind the barrio of the boy who poured ketchup over his cottage cheese as he bombed Cambodia, was going to work out just fine. By the time the swallows came back to Capistrano, I hoped to be well on my way to their snowbird home in Argentina.
After we stopped in San Diego so I could run into the ocean, Steve steered the Honda across the border, into Tijuana. And didn't my cozy little world view change in a hurry? It may have been the birthplace of the Caesar salad, but the delivery room was cluttered with tattoo parlours, jumping beans, donkeys in zebra paint, stilettoed short brown girls leaning outside rooms you could rent by the hour, cheap pharmaceuticals and other drugs, Cuban cigars, and Mariachi madness- an assault on all the senses. We had a farewell beer at a little cantina. Steve handed me his pocket Spanish dictionary, 'just in case.' They dropped me on a narrow tape of asphalt south of the city, where Mexico began and they ended.
Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States. There was a kaleidoscope of plastic litter along the sand shoulder of pavement, against the rocky purple hills and the silence. I was alone with sixty pounds of Serendipity and, even though I had planned for what I thought was any contingency, there was an unnerving shimmer on the horizon. Two guys came over the rise. I saw the sun catch the glint of metal blades flicking open. The long sigh I heard was mine. As they approached, a smoke and dust cloud overtook them, and I aimed my thumb at where I thought the cockpit should be. The bearded driver of the old Ford truck veered over, just long enough for me to toss Serendipity in the back and crack open the passenger door. We were off and running before I hit the seat.
"You looked like you needed a lift."
"Oh yeah."
His name was Hartley, a nice Jewish boy going to med school in Ensenada. Naval reserves. Football player. Saving lives, one gringo at a time. Back at his trailer, Hartley and his classmate, John, started pouring vodka tonics. Too much later, we went for a walk around town. Around the first corner lay a dead dog, in the middle of the street.
"At least he won't have to live in Mexico anymore." Hartley might have been happier in an American school.
The next morning I attended a tutorial. The professor taught in Spanish about tuberculosis. He looked like he had it. After class, I asked Hartley for directions to the highway south. He said he would drive me.
"They don't put up signs in Mexico. Mexicans tear them down and make houses out of them".
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Fish is the first occidental food resource available to the player.
This is a basic food needed by occidental people, including beggars. It requires a 3 wide and up to 2 long area, the rest of the building goes out into the water. It must be built on a coast and requires a road connection.
One fisherman's hut can feed either 286 beggars, 200 peasants, 500 citizens, 909 patricians or 1.250 noblemen, which gives a consumption rate of respectively 4,37 : 6,25 : 2,5 : 1,38 : 1.
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HAVELOCK � Whether there will be a Base Realignment and Closure Commission in 2015 is anybody�s guess. But if it does occur, the results are likely to be severe in some defense communities.
HAVELOCK � Whether there will be a Base Realignment and Closure Commission in 2015 is anybody�s guess. But if it does occur, the results are likely to be severe in some defense communities.
�This will probably be the last BRAC in our lifetime, and it�s going to be brutal,� said Pete Rose, a partner in the Franklin Partnership, Havelock�s hired lobbying firm in Washington, D.C.
�Some members are saying it�s not going to happen, but there is a general consensus that it has to happen with the cuts and the dialing down on two wars and the things of that nature,� Rose said. � � I can�t imagine that it won�t happen.�
Rose, who was in Havelock last week, said a BRAC can be devastating.
�It�s very painful. It�s like a root canal for a community,� he said.
Cherry Point�s economic impact on the region was $2.2 billion in 2012, according to the base�s annual report, and the effort is on to protect those dollars.
Both the city of Havelock and Craven County have hired lobbyists in Washington, D.C., and the Allies for Cherry Point�s Tomorrow lobby group is seeking money from cities, counties and the state in its efforts to fight for the base.
Though President Obama has called for a BRAC in 2015, not everyone locally is convinced it will happen. Jamie Norment, an attorney for ACT, said he did not believe a BRAC would take place.
�The Congress has no appetite for it, but I�ve been told time and time again by civilians and active-duty military at the Pentagon that the Department of Defense needs a BRAC,� he said. �They need to realign. They need to consolidate. They need to move assets around to be more efficient and to maximize their potential, so absolutely we have to prepare for a BRAC whether it occurs in two years or further off.�
Rose said the region can�t take the base and its assets for granted when preparing for a BRAC.
�It�s not enough to just love your base,� he said. �It�s not enough to just go to Washington and tell your members of congress that you love your base, and please don�t take it away.�
Rose said the key is early preparation. A BRAC closure list could come out as early as April of 2015, and Rose said local leaders and residents should spend every day working to make sure Cherry Point and Fleet Readiness Center East are not on the list.
�Whether it�s new missions, whether it�s new military construction issues, anything you can do to demonstrate the long-term viability of this facility,� he said. �The other issue out there is depot consolidation, so you�ve got two challenges. You�ve got not just your operational challenges of assets and personnel but you�ve also got to keep your eye on the depot situation.�
Norment said civilian encroachment on Cherry Point, its bombing ranges and outlying fields such as Bogue Air Field in Carteret County is one of the most important areas analyzed during a BRAC.
�If you don�t have training fields � the value of Cherry Point, even though it�s a wonderful facility, is diminished greatly,� he said. �Anytime we try to build wind turbines, for example, or other kinds of development that encroach on the training ranges, we are going to do a disservice to the future of the air station.�
Havelock has a history of curtailing development and encroachment around Cherry Point, including the creation of Aircraft Installation Compatibility Use Zones to curtail construction at the end of the runways. The city has passed sound attenuation building codes and has worked with the county and N.C. Coastal Land Trust to keep property outside the base from being developed.
Craven County recently passed new regulations on tall structures that limits, and in some cases will prohibit, the erection of wind turbines that military officials say causes unsafe radar interference near the base. The state also has a new law that requires the military to be involved in the erection of tall structures such as windmills near bases and in military flight paths.
Rose said Havelock, Craven County and ACT must work together to present a united message in defense of Cherry Point.
�If there is any disunity or the perception of it, that will have the effect of freezing your potential political support,� he said.
As such, Rose recent met with members of Craven County�s hired lobbying firm, Cassidy and Associates. Marc Finlayson, a consultant for ACT, also recently met with Cassidy.
For the current fiscal year, the state allocated $125,000 to help protect Cherry Point, with $65,000 going to ACT and $60,000 to Craven County. However, currently no money is included in the proposed state budget for lobbying or protection of any military bases in the state.
Havelock is paying $45,000 annually to the Franklin Partnership to lobby for all city issues, which includes issues related to Cherry Point.
�I think you could ask any of them what the goal is and that is to protect and grow Cherry Point, and I don�t think anybody�s in disagreement about that,� Finlayson said. �Be it Franklin Partnership, be it Cassidy, be it Ward and Smith, be it ACT, be it Craven County or be it the city of Havelock, I think that we all agree that that is the goal that we all are striving for.�


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Chicken and noodles
Chicken and noodles
- milk - 1/2 c
- Parmesan cheese - 1/3 c
- can cream of chicken soup - 1 item
- frozen peas - 1/2 c
- chicken, cooked and cubed - 1 lb
- carrots, sliced and cooked - 2 item
- fresh pasta, cooked or 3 c - 8 oz
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A fantasy movie about an arrogant, lazy prince and his more heroic brother who must complete a quest in order to save their father's kingdom.
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This subliminal recording may have nature sounds or custom music as an overlay. All suggestions are set to low frequencies so they are not audible to the conscious mind. The suggestions are meant to address your false limiting beliefs (FLBs) about the given issue. It also contains a Solfeggio frequency tone to increase your vibrational frequency.
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I have the power to create anything that I want through the Great Mind in me
I have the power to change my bad ideas about creepy crawlies
I can easily have good ideas about creepy crawlies.
These good ideas become my reality forever.
These are my new ideas about creepy crawlies.
I am brave.
I let go of my fear for creepy crawlies.
Creepy crawlies are part of nature.
Creep crawlies are normal.
They live with people like me.
It is okay to see creepy crawlies.
They are just insects that are part of the world.
Everything in the world is made of love.
I am made of love.
Everything is better through love.
I send love to everything in the world.
I send love to all animals, even creepy crawlies.
I send love to my family and friends.
The more love I send, the stronger I am.
I am calm when I see a creepy crawly.
I stop myself from running away or shouting.
The love of the world will keep me safe from harm.
The creepy crawlies are nice to me.
I am nice to the creepy crawlies.
I can keep playing even when there are creepy crawlies.
I can keep doing what I want even when there are creepy crawlies.
I am bigger than the creepy crawlies.
I am stronger than the creepy crawlies.
I am braver than the creepy crawlies.
I am no longer afraid.
I only feel happy.
I only feel love.
I feel better now that I'm no longer afraid of creepy crawlies.
My family and friends are proud of me.
I am proud of myself for being brave.
I let go of all my bad ideas about creepy crawlies.
I let go of my bad memories from long time ago.
These new good ideas are now in my mind.
These new good ideas are now what is real
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By Josh Redd, DC on December 10, 2018
When we think of exercise for seniors it's easy to fall into chair yoga, aqua aerobics, or walking. While all those are excellent for improving health and brain function, one of the most important forms of exercise is not just for the young: weight lifting. Science shows weight training is a superior form of exercise for seniors regardless of whether you've been doing it your whole life or have never lifted weights before. About 80 percent of adults fail to meet recommended guidelines for physical activity. Lack of physical exercise is one of the biggest factors to aging poorly and succumbing to chronic diseases such as diabetes and dementia. A sedentary lifestyle increases the risk of such health conditions as: