SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican Republic’s tourism industry grew 5.9 percent in March compared with the same month last year, and 1.1 million visitors arrived in the first quarter.
Tourism minister Felix Jiménez said last month’s arrival of Canadian and U.S. tourists grew 9 and 7.4 percent respectively, whereas flow from England, Belgium and Spain also posted growth.
The official said among Dominican Republic’s new tourism markets are Russians, Mexicans (12 percent), Ecuadorians (103 percent) and Peru (27percent). "In general, during the past month of March 389,075 nonresident foreigners arrived at the country by air."
Eases stance on Tourism regulatory body
In another topic Jimenez suggested new proposals to ease his position on the bill creating the National Tourism Development Institute (Indetur).
Although the official defended the private sector’s involvement in Indetur’s Governing Board, he said the agency wouldn’t have the power to negotiate public debt.
The Tourism chief spoke in a press conference Monday afternoon after meeting for around 4 hours with the Chamber of Deputies Committee to study the bill, which forced the other representatives of the industry to hastily explain their views.
From: Dominican Republic
Tourism not reaching the poor
Miguel Ceara-Hatton, of the United Nations Development Program and coordinator of the Human Development reports for the DR, highlighted the fact that the DR has many challenges ahead if tourism is to translate into progress for the poor of the Dominican Republic. He said that new data that is just becoming available because of in-depth research into development indicators at municipal level has made it possible to compare national indicators with indicators in the leading tourism areas, Puerto Plata and La Altagracia (Punta Cana). He says that the findings show that human development indicators lag behind in these two provinces, which are home to the largest concentration of hotel rooms.
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maybe i am not so crazy, after all. i said all of these things in several postings, but only served to anger certain sectors. tourism is the number one money earner in terms of hard currency, but is the most exclusuionary resource we have in this country. foreign speculators , which some folks here like to call ïnvestors¨, and their dominican sell out enablers, have turned the industry into a bonanza for a few wealthy types, with the majority deriving little or no benefit. it is not surprising that the fortunes of those on the perimeters of punta cana, la romana and puerto plata are bleak. the industry serves to offer marginal opportunity to locals. the majority of the major players are all foreigners, with locals holding menial, subservient positions. the country is absolutely crawling with foreign administrative personnel, all living pretty nicely, thank you!. the old ronald reagan policy of trickle down economics is in full swing. the theory is that if the foreigners get even
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richer, they can probably hire two housekeepers instead of one. less unemployment...hooray!
From: Zimbabwe
welcome back dread..
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thanks, cibaeno. was a little indisposed for a while, but i am back with the posters.
From: Canada
who posted your bail?
From: Zimbabwe
"who posted your bail?"
LOL. we may disagree often but at least you make me laugh on occasion, goulet.
From: Canada
we missed your whining and complaining from left field....time 2rize is not in your league when it comes to liberal lefty socialist whining.....welcome back
From: Canada
cibaeno was also trying to carry the torch....but like carly simon says....".nobody does it better "
From: Canada
we have seen this leftist hooey before.....and this timefrom of all people a U.N. organization.....what kind of credibility is that....Do you think that it is not getting into the hands of the needy fast enough I agree ....but you guys want to start moving squatters onto Casa de Campo......like your buddy Mugabe,and you will get the same ...COLLAPSE....free space in Cap Cana marina for yawlas etc......lets redistribute the wealth.....it wont work......The leftists and sindicato officials will never get enough.....stop whining and complaining and start working
From: Dominican Republic
we missed your whining and complaining from left field....time 2rize is not in your league when it comes to liberal lefty socialist whining.....welcome back
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You right about, not being on dreadlocks league, but i did not know that it was categorized as "whining" i always thought it was plain old "Common Sense."
From: Canada
just kidding you .....no offense please
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just kidding you .....no offense please
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lol non taken,like i told you before, i do not get annoyed that easily.
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goulet, i cannot change you, so i will not try. we are different animals. you are basically the type of individual who believes in sweat shops and slavery, and i believe in a fair days pay for a fair days labor. you call that being a lefty and supporter of mugabe. i have no polite , printable words for people who think like you. you are the type of individual who believes that any methodology for making money is acceptable. you correctly assess tobacco as a detriment to society and a danger to health, but you do not repudiate the traffic in tobacco products, because it generates wealth. you remind me of the rush limbaughs of the world who see attempts to reduce pollution as an obstacle to commerce. i agree that i am a whiner. i want to see a day when people who have never been given an opportunity receive one. and as to the subject of mugabe: i disagree with his position on expropriating property owned by whites. however, maybe he thinks that if european white folks had stayed in
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europe instead of going to africa and stealing everything that was not nailed down, including the very people, then this debacle would not have happened. he calls it oppression, slavery, exploitation, theft and a disgrace to history: you call it commerce.
From: Canada
dred your own people brought their tribal brothers to the coast for exportation and its a stretch from that to say I believe in slavery and most unfair of you to say so
Written by: muchacho, 24 Apr 2008 10:57 AM
From: United States, New York City
QUOTE: you are the type of individual who believes that any methodology for making money is acceptable.
Yet he can't, for the life of him, see how the new Metro will enhance tourism and help the country make money.
I do an awful lot of travelling. One of the things that I tend to notice is the travel brochures hyping the "Pais' clean, efficient Metro", or "the best way to get around New York is the subway", or "the way to deal with London's chaotic traffic is the London Tube" or "Berlin's U-Bahn is a model of efficiency". These things not only impress, but draw tourists.
Yes you can dwell on all the other things that need to be done. Poverty...it has always existed and in all likelihood will continue to exist for some time to come. Foregoing the building of the Metro will not erase it overnight. Crime likewise. I know that the country should put its priorities in order, and right now, the fierce competition with other Caribbean islands for tourism should be one.
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muchacho, can you explain to me how a 9 mile subway attracts tourists. i am pondering your observation, with little success. and, while you are at it, kindly enumerate for me the people whom it impresses. when you are done with that, explain to me the tangible benefits of impressing people.
From: Canada
dred lets go back to your dirty dealing of the you know what card and how I support slavery and oppression....an apology is in order
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Dred.
OUCH!! I've been on the sidelines observing for months and generally on your sideline. I think Goulet deserves an apology on this one. You're above dealing cards from the bottom of the deck. Save those cards for RubiRosa....
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Goulet, i retract what i said about you being a supporter of slavery. maybe that is extreme..however, on the issue of black people selling out their fellow blacks into slavery really pisses me off. revisionists seek to assert that black people are equally to blame, because they helped to round up slaves for sale. well, it is not as though africans were holding a garage sale on captured opponents, when some Europeans happened by the coast on an afternoon regatta. europeans started the thing, just as they colonised every country they could, and stole what they could. history on slavery and colonisation cannot be re written. and it continues in a more benign guise today. sorry if i get angry, but the thing i hate most is exploitation, and there is just too much of it around. i do not side with mugabe´s actions, but i cannot say i do not understand his anger. maybe if some of your ancestors had been lynched, you would be angry too!!
From: Canada
slavery was prevalent in Africa long before the arrival of Bartholomew Diaz and Vasco Da Gama
From: Canada
that is not revisionist ......but the Afrocentric kwanza B.S. that hooey is revisionist and a lie....you should take this up with Stanley Crouch he would give you a good throttling...and if what goes on in your beloved Africa to day is benign then you are in denial.....you buggered it up there meaning your people just like they did in the USVI and they have all the power ....political ,judiciary and constabulary and you cocked it up and you continue to blame the whites.....you wont be happy until Dominicans talk like the Rev Wright of Obama fame
From: Canada
when I refer to mugabe I do not refer to confiscation of land of the most productive part of this former thriving country....that is old news....your support for this tyrant demonstrates exactly where your coming from uber racist.....this Idi Amin in a saville row suit is not even wanted by his own people ....your twisted sense of solidarity puts you in the same grouping as sharpie sharpton and the rest of those passe losers you cherish...I suppose you will edit this like when you were exposed as a misogynist but it just shows what a phony blowhard you are...pompous know it all ......It is a shame you are allowed to be an educator ,but then again they took richard ayers they will take anybody
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"MAYBE" that is extreme as you say.........the introduction of slavery to Africa was not like electricity or the steam engine it always existed there and still does.....No professor of African studies with lumpy or bogus credentials can honestly say that is not true except to his poor students or he would be laughed out of any forum of educators unless they were wearing dashikis and again................................... How dare you say I support slavery
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you might not like what Jeremiah Wright says, but i defy you to dispute him with reason and logic. you are all over the shop with silly assertions...never have i ever proclaimed myself to be a supporter of Mugabe. i defy you to show me one passage where i support him.. i say that i can understand his anger at europe, though i do not agree with expropriation of white lands from people who are born in the country. anyway, i am always at pains to avoid arguments on race with people, because we see things differently. i do not know you, but your apparent disdain for negritude leaves me to assume that you are a caucasian, and , as such, we have no common point of departure. the way people see others is deeply rooted, and, even the most progressive people revert to type with a few beers. my aunt, now deceased, was married to a german, who never missed an opportunity to get drunk. he would proceed to become sullen and confrontational, and never, ever, did he pass up the opportunity to
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call her a ni..er. so you see, i stay from these racial one on one exchanges. in my time in the DR, i am exhausted from hearing Europeans say sentences such as .. She is a nice girl, but sometimes she forgets her place and i have to remind her what she is. and this is usally said to the approval and accord of all the other euros present. so you see, Goulet, it is a matter of whose ox is being gored.
From: Canada
dred you are probably a fine fellow and no dummy.....but Mugabe is a fool and tyrant not because he confiscated white peoples property he is an idiot and a fool because he ruined a viable and what could have been a shining example of economic and racial accomplishment but instead he personally destroyed it.......and he was always a fool
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/opinion/30darnton.html?ref=opinion this is about Mugabe from the very liberal leftist NYT....todays....now we go to the rev wright
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if ruining a shining example of economic and racial accomplishment can be laid at the door of Mugabe, then the same can be said of george bush and the republicans. america is in economic ruin as we speak, and there is lingering anger over such racial insensitivities as Hurricane Katrina. so go pick on bush sometimes. i am yet to hear you criticise any white folks. oops..i forgot...its those recalcitrant darkies who screw up everything..
From: Canada
The Rev Wright has exposed himself in ways {left brain right brain] changed his position told so many absurdities he is now a huge liability to Obama and he is saying it loud and clear ......if you claim an education to not take up with his wackos theories .....Dred i have always suspected you were a separatist .....now that Obama has thrown him under the bus what happens next ?
From: Canada
the Republic of a America will survive George Bush your cheering for its downfall will have no effect Bush I do not believe is a racist ie. Colin Powell,Condoleezza Rice and many more I do not consider them recalcitrant darkies and i do not side with people who say " if we had known they were going to be that much trouble we would have picked the cotton ourselves".....you would be surprised to know me I am sure
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Goulet, let us get a few things clear about the situation in america and the political arena. Jeremiah Wright is just a convenient scapegoat in the political cycle, which has its inevitable endings. before the campaigns are over, the republicans will resort to the one fail-safe method of sabotaging the outcomes: inject race into things. remember Willie Horton? i can guarantee you that the preponderant majority of americans have not heard Rev. Wright, and most of those who have heard have not listened. it is no different from Iraq; 75% of americans agreed with Bush to invade Iraq, but only 11% knew where Iraq was on a map of the world. i think Obama is a bum...he is an unprincipled opportunist who threw Wright under the bus to save his own ass. he should have told white america to stop being the eternal paternalists that they have always been. always telling you who to listen to, who to associate with, from whom to take your intellectual direction. i am sick of people trotting out
From: Canada
dred remember first he threw his poor little white granny under the bus first.....at that time he was your guy.......Now that he has to disown all the wackos in the dashikis.Wright ,Farakhan etc. he is a bum
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the list of usual suspects whom black people should emulate. i do not tell white people whom to read, whom to listen to, etc. adults have a right to think for themselves, however misbegotten their ideas may be. but, as you chose to do, do not instruct me to listen to some Uncle Tom like Stanley Crouch. Mitt Romney belongs to a church, which had in its teachings, until very recently, the tenet that black people were cursed and not allowable into heaven except as slaves. yes, a part of their basic teachings: not the opinionated rant of some maverick disciple. yet, no one in white america asked him how he chose to be a member of an avowedly racist religion. they actually defended his right to "religious preference and privacy". soooo transparent!
From: Canada
dred do you really believe that left brain right brain lunacy? say yes and I will understand everything
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there you go again, Goulet, asserting that Obama was my hero at some point. i have never written one sentence in advocacy of his candidacy. but, i guess that to you he was my hero, because, as we all know, not only do us darkies all look alike, we all think alike.
From: Canada
right brain left brain....your dodging
From: Canada
maybe you are a follower of Elijah Mohamed idont know maybe a Rasta thats some pretty spaced out stuff ...that would explain everything
From: Canada
maybe you are a retired Nigerian banker who knows the question is ......right side left side.....do you believe in that rubbish
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Goulet, i am not an antrhropologist, and i try never to dabble in subjects with with i am unfamiliar. Rev Wright makes the observation that there are cultural differences between the races, and that is undeniable. one simple example: none of the black folks i have known in my sixty plus years have ever put their parents in old folks homes, to be cared for by strangers until their deaths. we do not consider our infirm antecedents as burdens, but the objects of care and devotion. caucasians, on the other hand, find their wobbly fathers to be obstacles in their path to "fulfilment", and get them out of the way. i could go on forever in giving examples of how we differ in cultural terms. we have the same biology, and, by and large, the same aspirations, but are very different creatures. that does not mean that i support seperatism.
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Rasta...pretty spaced out stuff. Goulet, can you regale us with your knowledge of the Rastafarian religious tenets. do you know what their beliefs are, or are you just another person who decries stuff you do not understand?
From: Canada
every thing you said was reasonable and you mention an interesting point about the elderly.....I however think this has more to do with economics than culture....as the black middle class grows they to will find this to be in many cases the best way to handle a universal situation.....BUT....Rev wright is a nut and that type of jive will never be mainstream.....his lunacy gave hope to many people who needed it at the time .....His time and the others like him their time has passed
From: Canada
no please enlighten me on the core beliefs of rastafarian teachings
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tell me about the conquering lion of judah etc.
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Goulet, putting one's parents in old folks homes has nothing to do with economics...well, yes it does. you might call me rev wright before this is over, but the difference is where the races place money on their scale of importance. caucasians find it more important to remove the impediment of sick family members, so they can make money with less fetters. black folks place money on a lower rung, believing that they should give back to those who gave to them. this is why, as laughable as it may appear, numerous black athletes and entertainers have a crew of hangers-on, parasites who have no apparent value. yet these people are well taken care of by the successful brethren, who saw them as childhood friends. that is why guys like mike tyson have no money: they gave it all away. similarly, if you get sick in the DR, the people who visit you in the hospital, and take care of you, and bring you soup and flowers, and clean your apartment for your return home, are all Dominicans who do not
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have a pot to pee in. your rich gringo "friends" will talk about your plight over a beer in the closest bar, while they grope the butt of some local lovely. it is the "left-brain vs right brain" notion of rev wright: people of color place more value on the subject, which is the human being. caucasians place value on objects, which are the material things and shiny objects.
From: Canada
wow thats way out there.....now the the Rastafari stuff I gotta hear this ....go ahead...you mention tyson what about the Spinks they were a pair
From: United States
when you characterise my observations as being "way out there", what do you mean? is this stuff news to you? as to rastafari, go to wikipedia!
From: Canada
do you believe that nuttiness that stupidity.....left side right side.....pure ignorance.....rastafari your going nowhere smoking dope all day.....and attributing putting seniors in very expensive resthomes with round the clock medical care to white people.....is like me saying cannabalism is your bag or mass murder and cutting of peoples arms is a black trait..dred your intellectual stock is plummeting like Obamas poll numbers.....Are you going to Denver to protest with Al and Jesse
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actually, Goulet, mass murder is more a white trait... most of the serial killers, the kids who shoot up places like colombine, guys like hitler, etc, are white. you are the guy smoking the dope...the more i read you, the more pity i have for you. i think you are demented, seriously. one minute you agree that more white people put their elders in old folks homes than do black fols...you even try to attribute it to economics..the next post you call it a nutty idea. i really suggest a visit to a medical practitioner in your case. i used to consider you just plain obnoxious; the skunk that crashed the party. now i feel pity for you, because i think you are demented, and need help. you have never, in all the months of posting, ever stated anything that made sense to anyone who passed the sixth grade in school. you are pathetic in the true sense of the word; an object of pity.
From: Canada
pathetique....you left out wayne williams.........left side right side ? so according to your previous post you have decided to throw the partially white guy under the bus? the bum you said is that correct?no more campaigning on this site for Obama.....correct?
From: United States
Goulet, i am beginning to think that you post on this site for entertainment, and really have no plans for serious commentary. i think you do it just to be a pest. why in God´s name do you not consider something like x-box or nintendo? that is more in keeping with your current intellectual wherewithal. that would allow you to play with a set of keys without causing chagrin to sane people.
From: Zimbabwe
"why in God´s name do you not consider something like x-box or nintendo? that is more in keeping with your current intellectual wherewithal. that would allow you to play with a set of keys without causing chagrin to sane people."
LOL. Hilarious.
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you call what you say serious commentary....you have a very outsized opinion of yourself and that is your problem dred your huge inferiority complex....whatever lurks in your closet has made you bitter...you dedicate yourself telling Dominicans they should be more like you and rev wright....no ones buying what your selling ....got that
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actually , Goulet, an outsized opinion of one´s self is commonly referred to as a superiority complex....Jeezus H Christ, as Cibaeno would say, you are one dumb mutha...
From: Canada
that is what I said you think everyone is superior to you.....your use of vernacular will not increase your low opinion of yourself
From: Canada
cibaeno is quite willing to speak for himself I know this from numerous encounters
From: Canada
as i recall the last time you committed suicide you attempted a jonestown but nobody else took the kool aid do you think it would be any different this time
From: United States
more wit and wisdom from the yukon comic.
From: Canada
dred is it because when you were little and people called you names and it had such an impact on you that now when you become frustrated and angry you resort to name calling and not very clever ones at that
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goulet, you have got to be the stupidest human being i have ever encountered in my life. accusing me of name calling..aren't you the moron who has a new name for me every day? h rap dred? huey dred? rasta boy? i do not call people names..it serves no purpose. and while on the subject of names, is there a reason why you chose the term COLONIAL to be a part of your nom-de-plume, or is it purely incidental? might that be a part of your mindset? that would possibly explain your appreciation of exploiters, and your contempt for the indigenous people of the developing world.
From: Canada
dont make me start calling you a pompous fraud again which you are.....further and faster and get of your high horse like you are some kind of humanitarian ...and you have never lived anywhere else in the Caribbean you are a tourist punto period because you would know .....Stateside know it all blacks are disliked even more than red necks in places like the USVI and that is a fact stokely.....you came to the DR for the women ...dont you remember you pay for it one way or the other thats what you said Mr humanitarian or are you a misogynist as well as an uber racist ?and Obamas a bum Vernon Jordan a sellout and Stanley Crouch a tom or has your position changed on these fellas again
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what brought you to the DR, goulet? to administer a batey? to traffic in indentured servants across the border? or just some simple real estate swindles? a piece of detrituis such as yourself, distorted by moral absence, an incessant bore in the extreme, and as ignorant as one could expect from any creature that stands on two legs, has no human motives that could be beyond reproach. the jury is still out as to whether or not you are human. any creature who would advocate the return of ian smith in preference to mugabe is not worthy of living among civilised people. to dismiss the misery of the ian smith regime as äncient history¨is beneath contempt. but you are scum, a mindless reprobate ,who should be quarantined. why dont you ask the Jewish people if they consider the Holocauist ¨ancient history¨? you have the IQ of a sack of hammers, but have an opinion on everything. sadly, they are just opinions, which you never defend with data, because you are absolutely unlettered
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and have no grasp of things academic. you have justly managed to germinate a mountain of contempt towards you on this forum, since you contribute nothing but misery. as one poster observed of you ¨goulet, you are like a high pitched noise which resvolves in my head¨.but i am hopeful that one day, before the Savior returns, you might actually contribute something intelligent, instead of your CNN -style loops.....slimy race card from the bottom of the deck....uber racist....grassy knoll....global warming nazis...did rush limbaugh program you? if he did, you should let him know that it is time for an update. the same old bumper sticker phrases are wearing thin, along with the patience of most of the readers of conscience who have a brain. get thee hence, Goulet, and go read a book or two. you know what books are, don´t you? i am sure you have seen them on TV!
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actually the BBC took a poll .....I.am right they would rather have it the way it was ...because the liberators stole everything and now they have nothing to eat.....A runoff election fair and square right dred.....I know you still backing sharpton and his tawna brawley stand say it aint so dred
From: Canada
dont say nothing about the jews your bunch have got antisemite written all over them why dont you admit it you live in Hymie Town dont you ?
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yes, Goulet, i am sure that in your mind apartheid was a better way of life for the black folks in zimbabwe. as i said before, you seem to have given a pass to people like pik botha, george wallace, ian smith, cecil rhodes, and the rest of your philosophical fellow travellers. the only people you trash on this forum are black activists. but remember, goulet, that these guys did not invent racism; racism invented them. you maginalise slavery ,because black chieftains sold their own to white slavetraders. well, if you take that foolish approach, you can also marginalise the horrors of hitler against the Jews, because some Jews were collaborators with the third reich. but i guess that reason and analysis means nothing to you; all you do is to spout unfounded opinions, which have no sustainable academic basis.
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now we are getting things out in the open!!! ¨your bunch¨?
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now that we are at this point , Goulet, might you explain to me what you mean by the term YOUR BUNCH?
From: Canada
dred in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king .....in the world of ebonics you must be considered intelligent...."..you are a one eyed jack but they can see the other side your face"
From: Canada
sharpton ,jesse ,farakhan wright etc the list goes on and on
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you know what I mean black sepratist racists like yourself
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Goulet on 5/5/08 "you know what I mean black sepratist racists like yourself"
Goulet on 4/24/08 "dred lets go back to your dirty dealing of the you know what card and how I support slavery and oppression....an apology is in order"
The pot calling the kettle BLACK!!
Dread I take back my earlier admonition.
From: Canada
dread ...you are not going to be invited to any MENSA picnics and thats not because you are black...
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in the world of ebonics???? why don´t you just get it out of your system and call me the n word, like i know you want to? after all, you have lashed out against all people and things black, kwansaa, jesse, rap brown, stokeley, malcolm... your bunch..and the list goes on. sorry Goulet; black folks are here to stay...get used to it!! as to MENSA, i guarantee you i have a higher IQ than you do...
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nyabinghi, you only need to read between the lines to see why i made that assertion against Goulet. i guess you now see my rationale for the labels i attach to him. i accept your retraction.have a nice day.
From: Canada
racist scmuck uber racist scmuck dred ...remember what you said about Obama he was not black enough for you because he did not stick up for the wacko minister....he was a bum ....was that from your right side or left side you pompous air bag ...I would not guarantee anything If I were you.....Just remember you are the one who said Obama was a bum....you are always so quik to go to violence with your glock jive etc ..you are also a misogynist jerk in your attitude toward women and last of all you are always going to be a miserable loser
From: Canada
why dont you commit suicide again this time permanently no one is going with you rev jones
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still using the same tired old lines. nobody said that Obama was not black enough..just another figment of your dementia. if you could comprehend,you would understand that i meant that he should not have to answer to anyone for his ecclesiastical associations; mitt romnney was not importuned to answer for mormon teachings. then again , why do i bother with you? i have never resorted to violence in any situation, but you are the type of person who, if you were made to look down the barrel of a nine, i would understand why. your sense of humor comprises childish taunts and harrassment, and for that some guys get wasted. there are people who do not abide that nonsense. but then again, you are tough from a distance; in Brooklyn we call guys like you PUNKS. jive -ass cowards, who pester people with childish behaviors. i wonder why you have lived in so many places, but the term persona non grata¨ quickly comes to mind.
From: Zimbabwe
" i wonder why you have lived in so many places, but the term persona non grata¨ quickly comes to mind."
LOL...good one.
touche sir pussycat:)
From: Canada
you are an ***** comparing Romney to Obama....EVER WONDER WHY YOU.... ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO IS not one political commentator only the lunatic fringe of the black power movement ...meaning you
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your complex is showing again ......and you should try to live in the USVI those guys would run your kind out of town on a rail smart ass stateside blacks gonna show them how to do it ....thats why you talk that jive to the Dominicans because you can get away with it.....and besides a guy who always buys it like yourself has got a better chance here...next time go on vacation somewhere else
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you are criticizing a whole religion ie Mormons ...before your time Romneys father made a stand for the rights of certain people before it was a fashion Mormons are productive members of the community...Rev Nut Case says white people created HIV.....and their brains are different etc etc you know Romney did not get married or have his children baptized and dedicate books to some one like that then turn around and say he never heard him say that stuff.....Oprah sure did and she got the hell out of there...and that is why nobody could say that about romney he has a history he did not go to clan meetings ..and speaking of intellects yours is aggressively mediocre...your puffed up pretensions to intellectuality are a dead give away to your insecurity.....every time you call anyone names you refer to their intellects or IQ....I would be very careful ..you may have fooled a bunch of hayseeds but you could not survive in the game with your attiude even if you "only had a brain".TIN MAN
From: Canada
one more thing dread your phony humanitarian concern makes me want to throw up
From: Canada
"By the late '60s, however, this bitterness and ethnic narcissism were retooled as a form of militancy, then of black "pride" and, later, of black indoctrination masquerading as scholarship. When militants with the biggest mouths found out the difference between hot lead and hot air, they devoted themselves to the latter. They headed to colleges and universities and, once there, they fanned out into history, sociology and political science. What has remained in place is a defeatist line that tends to preach inevitable failure for black people who are doomed to be crushed under white racism." dred read this it is right up your sidewalk it picks you out of the crowd you pompous loser
From: United States
no Goulet, humanitarianism is what makes you throw up, not phony humanitarianism. i am sure you send congratulatory greeting cards to all enlightened slumlords who evict indigent widows because the rent is a day late and 5 dollars short. did you consider throwing a cocktail party and fundraiser for the guys who dragged that man behind the pickup truck? did you march for the cops who shot Amadou Diallo 41 times, even though the guy only had a cellphone on his person? how are your lynch mob buddies these days? laid any flowers at the grave of your boys like george wallace lately? how are pik botha and ian smith? any afterlife reunions planned wit them? maybe you are too busy despising humanitarianism and rooting for your sweatshop brethren to pay those guys notice. good luck in all your ventures; hell, you all rolling in high clover; there is alot of carrion for you to eat, what with all the people who have been laid waste due to the mortgage meltdown. now you can buy their houses
From: United States
for pennies on the dollar, just the way you like it.heck, it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good. so, when you can take time out from buying food stamps from desperate indigents and selling them at a profit, all the while decrying the morality of the sellers, you can turn off the heat on some old lady who owes you 5 dollars interest on the loan you gave her at 100% interest. get thee behind me, Satan!
From: Canada
all that hyperbole and zero substance....I pegged you ....ethnic narcissism......is that what you teach?
From: United States
no, i teach people to despise reprobates and detritus such as you; the jetsam of the world. you are absolutely worthless, and reside firmly atop the junkyard of humanity. a plague on both your houses, you odoriferous reptile; you are the poster boy for abortion.
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Miguel Ceara-Hatton, of the United Nations Development Program and coordinator of the Human Development reports for the DR, highlighted the fact that the DR has many challenges ahead if tourism is to translate into progress for the poor of the Dominican Republic. He said that new data that is just becoming available because of in-depth research into development indicators at municipal level has made it possible to compare national indicators with indicators in the leading tourism areas, Puerto Plata and La Altagracia (Punta Cana). He says that the findings show that human development indicators lag behind in these two provinces, which are home to the largest concentration of hotel rooms.
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LOL. we may disagree often but at least you make me laugh on occasion, goulet.
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You right about, not being on dreadlocks league, but i did not know that it was categorized as "whining" i always thought it was plain old "Common Sense."
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lol non taken,like i told you before, i do not get annoyed that easily.
Yet he can't, for the life of him, see how the new Metro will enhance tourism and help the country make money.
I do an awful lot of travelling. One of the things that I tend to notice is the travel brochures hyping the "Pais' clean, efficient Metro", or "the best way to get around New York is the subway", or "the way to deal with London's chaotic traffic is the London Tube" or "Berlin's U-Bahn is a model of efficiency". These things not only impress, but draw tourists.
Yes you can dwell on all the other things that need to be done. Poverty...it has always existed and in all likelihood will continue to exist for some time to come. Foregoing the building of the Metro will not erase it overnight. Crime likewise. I know that the country should put its priorities in order, and right now, the fierce competition with other Caribbean islands for tourism should be one.
OUCH!! I've been on the sidelines observing for months and generally on your sideline. I think Goulet deserves an apology on this one. You're above dealing cards from the bottom of the deck. Save those cards for RubiRosa....
LOL. Hilarious.
Goulet on 4/24/08 "dred lets go back to your dirty dealing of the you know what card and how I support slavery and oppression....an apology is in order"
The pot calling the kettle BLACK!!
Dread I take back my earlier admonition.
LOL...good one.
touche sir pussycat:)