[Roamsaffots]

I know 2 santiago diputies who (upon elected) bought themselves SUVs and 2002 camries in the first month. These guys walk around with a bodyguards and spend most of their time in santiago. Aren't they suppose to be working in the capital? Anyway, they spend money like water and always seen in bars and expensives clubs.

[fruttomma]

Sense of humor is not one of the things I have this morning. I am in a homicidal-rage mood.

[jaydicassdhy]

This:,including a nice foto of the beautiful chests filled with "Goodies, is front page in "Diario Libre" today!
Lila Alburquerque,alias Marie Antoinette,(I can't spell in English,never mind French!)(As is her custom)gave "Christmas Baskets"(Actually beautiful painted chests,the size of "foot lockers",to the 149 fellow Deputies in the "House of Representatives" yesterday.Now for the "GOOD" part! The "chests" contained "Don Perignon,Carlos I,and Holland Cheeses,etc.Each "Chest" cost 25,000 pesos,thats right,25,000 pesos EACH!!! As there are 149 "deputies" that is:25,000X149=3,750,000!!!!! ="Un-******* Believable"!!!!!!.....This comes only one day after the price of "Pan de Agua"(Small roll that millions of poor dominicans eat with some "Hot Chocalate" every day for breakfast) doubled in price!!!! The arrogance of this government is beyond my conception! How much are the dominican people able to endure?
On another "Bright Note",it looks like the Government will not have many of the sites for the 2003 Pan Am Games ready in time for the games!"Duh!" So the events,maybe swimming,as Venezuela's promise from Hipolito's "Buddy" Chaves of 16 million dollar to finish the pool,is "late"!,may have to be held in other countries.In "defense of Chavez,he has been busy with some "internal problems" lately.I'm sure that the check is in the mail.Not Dominican Mail I Hope! Since they are mostly out of business!No wonder people like the "All-Inclusives" so much,they are isolated,and insolated from the day-to-day troubles of the DR! Cris

[fruttomma]

A book. A frigging book. That is an always-appropriate Christmas gift. Make that an expensive book if you wish. Why couldn’t she give them a damn book? Oh, I remember. Some of them can barely read, let alone know how to pronounce Dom Perignon. I bet some of them will serve it “on the rocks”, maybe mix it with Coca Cola. Sweet merciful crap!

I am royally ****ed. It is un-freaking-believable, the utter shameless slack-witted arrogance, Holy Mary Mother of Jesus! The nerve! The bloody nerve! Humanity just lost another 10 points in my Scale of Worthiness, now comfortably sitting behind amoebae and junkyard critters. If nature were a sentient being I am sure she would have wiped us off the face of the earth long ago, like the dingleberries of the planet that we are.

Now my Christmas wishes for our Senators and Deputies:
May the seven plagues of Egypt be visited upon you. May you only find the earwax-flavored beans in the Bertie Bott’s All-Flavors Beans of life. May you all become helplessly impotent. And bald. May Santa bring you the only gifts that you all deserve: cement shoes. And then toil in eternal hell fire.

[evennyNiz]

Believe it or not. I am still alive, have not lost a finger and have been able to post from an underground computer.

Two nights ago several men dressed in black fatigues knocked on my door with Uzis in hand and I had to jump out the rear windown and go into hiding in a Dominican Underground tunnel.

From our headquarters here we are looking into the Capotillo situation. The boys out there are holding their own. The SWATS came in arrested a couple of hard working fools returning from work so they can show something to their bosses. But the gang is safe. No SWAT team can handle Capotillo boys. They may call the Mossad for help.

There are bigger problems for Hippo now. We now have Al Qaeida here and a branch in Capotillo. Worse yet, five of our top and richest businessmen in DR are Muslims and love Bin Laden. Even Hippo has been infiltrated by Al Qaeida. Just look at at the Arab names in his administration. We even have an Arab leader who has taken up our green areas on Lincoln Avenue and has placed his name all over . In fact this man is related to Allah and to he placed two letters before his last name to hide his family tree. One of those Muslims is running our banking industrys regulation. Another one is District chief for one of our political parties and even had a self-kidnapping in his family to cover up a money transfer operation. The kingpin of money laudering for the group is the king of casino gambling, another arab sheik. We are sorrounded!!! Hey AZB show your true colors now. Are you or arent you?

Plaza Central is a gathering place for Al Fatah. Has anyone seen Hakib lately? Last time he was ripping off the ladies at the Hispaniola Casino. Watch him. If you want to see Al Qaeidas just go to UNIBE. We I gotta go before I get spotted.Hahaha! catch me if you can. I am the descendant of Mansa Musa, the great Muslim Emperor from West Africas last Muslim Empire!!!

TW

[onlineslotetes]

Porfio_Rubirosa,

Loved every bit of your post! It definitely helped me start my day with a great laugh. Keep'em coming!!

DR_DEFENDER

[fruttomma]

You want to hijack this thread and turn it into a civilized discussion on DR political situation? The nerve!

Just kidding.

You should start a new thread in the Debates Forum. We are too busy here flaming the government and too upset to come up with intelligent answers (at least I am).

[ultramDoctoo]

Golo was not able to post today. He asked me to pass along a message. He will post again as soon as we can get a laptop to him at his new address: Cell 1110, La Victoria. He asks if we can send lawyers, guns and money. On the bright side, he says that his cellmate is close friends with Tulile.

Pib has been missing since being stopped at an army roadblock yesterday. She was last seen clawing against the force of two dozen soldiers for the bottle of Midol from her glove compartment.

Mondongo, DR_Defender and DR_Techie have headed for the hills. However, they have been surrounded by the President's security team at Junior's Bar and Pension in Jarabacoa. They say that they're not coming out for anything. Of course, they said that before the military arrived too.

To avoid arrest, I have cleverly disguised myself as a Catholic bishop. Wait! Oh crap, what did Hippo say???

[onlineslotetes]

PIB, count me in on this one. I know it's not right but I would love to wipe the smile off the Hippo's face. Say, maybe we can come up with ways on how we can exterminate this brainless, lying, currupted, unorganized, insentive, FOOLISH and mental (so called) president along with all the snakes around him that only have venom to offer while pretending to be giving out milk. Damn it!!!!! I can't stand this!! Hey, maybe the Hippo wants to lock me up now for exercizing my freedom of speech........oh, what the hell...what's the point, it's not going to change a damn thing. It's sad but true

[Lydiaswingert]

Please put this in perspective for people like myself who really do not know much about the culture, politics etc. of the Dominican Republic. I have been reading DR1 daily news and the forums for quite some time now and I am very confused.

I hear the desperation and disgust in your comments regarding the current economic situation and the political corruption. Some contributors indicated that they are ready to leave the DR or at least divest themselves of anything more than minimal financial ties to the DR.

I also read in these forums that many people are so upset with life in the U.S., Canada and other countries that they are counting the days until they can move to the DR for a better way of life. I am sure that the fundamental qualities of the people of the Dominican Republic and the life style that these qualities create are the reasons for migration to the DR.

Is it possible that the very positive qualities of the DR, which encourage migration to the DR, are the very same qualities that allow, if not encourage, the existence of political corruption?

What kind of influence, positive or negative, does the migration of affluent foreigners have on the political and cultural environment of the DR?

Is a political uprising (revolution) possible in the DR? If so what problems will this present to the people who have migrated to the DR.

These are some of the thoughts and questions running through my mind. Am I being naïve or are some of these points worth further discussion?

[LICraig]

Defender: Don't be surprised if Hippo does lock you up...They are very efficient when it comes to that. It's happened to several people already who have been jailed for speaking publicly against the government. Like the guy who said there was not water in his town, and Hippo ordered his arrest for being a "Liar".

[Sillaycheg]

What's even more unbelievable to me is how people can just sit around and let this piece of shiet goverment get away it. No wonder they do whatever that hell they want, nobody gives a damn if they're stepped over! And those that do say something about it are now being arrested and they're freedoms of speech violated to protect the honor of the very man who could care less about anyone else. Who's protecting the honor of the people? What is it going to take before someone does something....I AM SO FRUSTRATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ugosanchezo]

Man, the heat in this thread is melting the remnants of snow here in N. Jersey.

I feel bad for those of you living in DR that have to deal directly with the cr**p these gangsters in power are dishing out.

Hopefully future government can somehow recoup the dignity the country deserves (and some of the stolen $$$).

[ultramDoctoo]

Pib,

You're the cooking expert. Let's solicit recipes on how to best prepare him for a Christmas feast. I recommend roasting on a spit with an apple in his mouth. Baste him well to avoid over drying. And, in keeping with his stated policies, he should be served over a bed of yucca and platanos.

And, best of all, the poor ignoramaces who supported him in the first place will appreciate real PRD generocity for a change. He's so fat that hundres of poor folks could share a piece of him.

Other recipes welcome.

[MidwestMadman]

Unfortunatly at least on the north coast they dont seem to even be aware or care what their stupid burro is doing to them.
J.H

[fruttomma]

Now people, we have to cut the guy some slack. He's got talent. I mean, they guy is able to keep at all times his disproportionately large bald head in his equally sized a** AND at the SAME TIME keep both his feet in his mouth. I don't know what you call that, I call it talent. I bet the Cirque Du Soleil would like to talk to him.

[Sillaycheg]

I with you Pib! Right now I wouldn't just strafe the national palace, I would go for the kill. take them all out, I really don't see how there could be one good person in this freaken government.

I used to have a strong desire to move back someday but I can't see past all this disgust.

[evennyNiz]

Well, Hippo said just this afternoon that he is not going to tolerate being made a fool by the power companies and that there will be no blackouts.

Well Hippo.....I am sitting right now on an 8 hour blackout. But I got my own power company. Go screw yourself. I got a plant and an inverter ready. Heheheheheheheheh..all the way to your last hair in that empty head of yours....if you read this come on down and lock me up.....I have about $50,000 pesos ready to post a whole page in the Dominican newspapers about your lousy, undemocratic, populist, inefficient, corrupt government if you dare arrest me for speaking the truth. Those who are afraid of you have no fck...guts!!!Cmon...make my day and sent Candelier in his goddam helicopter to pick me up. And by the way I still have not bought my sticker for my license plates and I drive everyday and you and your AMETS cannot stop me, and I wont buy the fuc..ng sticker until January 1, 2003 whe its legally due, and you and Candelier cant make me....But I will drive!!! Just in case look for the fast motherfkkkr TransAm with 350lbs of torque ready to blow the ass out of stupid AMETs. I can take anyone of their cycles and slow jeepetas and stupid 4 cylinder Mitsubishis, I laugh at their radars on the Americas Highway and just fly by them at 120mph...try catching me. Just so that you know too, I kicked the hell out the census canvassers from my home. I told them to stick their forms up their ass. And you know what? People are still waiting for the census bogus results...Ah?

TW

[mArVHDO6]

Death for doing "Whoopi"

Until they change that no end to holy war in sight.

[fruttomma]

Originally posted by Porfio_Rubirosa
Pib has been missing since being stopped at an army roadblock yesterday. She was last seen clawing against the force of two dozen soldiers for the bottle of Midol from her glove compartment. Feh! There's no power on earth like that of a ****ed woman on PMS.