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Ana was looking at an item in Wikipedia and noticed that it was available in many languages, including Ladino. We looked at it and it looked almost like Spanish. Thus, the search began. The best answer seems to be here. From that page

Another "connect the dots" story appeared in Salem News. It is written by two Marines and ties together ast week’s shooting of two Pentagon guards with the death of Marine Colonel James Sabow at MCAS El Toro in January 1991. While Colonel Sabow’s death was considered a suicide, it looks more like it was a case where he had to go because he knew too much.

The popular discussion here right now is about exploitation by (primarily) Canadian mining companies. While it is one of many issues, it is a good one to try to address. While my activism work was primarily on a different issue (nuclear power) and in a different country (the US), I will toss out some ideas that come to mind. That said, it is up to Nicaraguans, not us extranjeros, to take the action I am going to describe.

While I am a usano, I haven't been in the US for over eight years. So, other than a list of unemployed friends up there, I don't know how bad it really is. Well, on Facebook, a friend had a link to an article about a bank closing in Illinois. I'm not sure why I followed it but I did. The link is to pantagraph.com.

The main story is not that exciting. But, a few things caught my eye. First, from the article body

As many of you may have noticed, I labeled myself as a Green Libertarian. I have since had a few people tell me that it makes sense and/or they consider themselves Green Libertarians as well. I don't know if it is time for us to create our own political web site (olet me know, seriously) but there certainly is something to talk about. Here are some related observations.

• I see people regularly saying "I am Liberal on X but Conservitive on Y". Maybe they are Green Libertarians.

I am in the process of updating Living Like a Nica and was thinking about how many people make a lot of assumptions which ends up getting them in trouble. While LLN covers a lot of them, it doesn't cover them all. Those of us that grew up in what I would call the golden years of the US, were taught a lot of things that are hard to un-learn.

Amazing how inconvenient it is to not have Internet when, well, it is your only communications method. And amazing it didn't get fixed by filling out the right form and then sending a backup letter to the owner of the company. And ...

In any case, I seem to have connectivity and not having it was not the fault of anyone in Nicaragua. Now I have a bit of catching up to do.

It's the pro-life vs. pro-abortion labels again. This time, lifesitenews is doing it. Their article title is Pro-Abortion Movement Exploits Tragic Case of Pregnant Cancer Victim in Nicaragua.

The labels always have irritated me because they are so political. If someone asked me (in real words, not political words) if I was pro-abortion, I would say I certainly was not. What I mean by that is that:

• I would not suggest aborting as a method of birth control.

In case you didn't get that, it is a reference to the folks on "Ship B" in Douglas Adams' Hitchikers Guide to the Universe. Ship B was sent on ahead of the other ships and was filled with the important people to colonize a new planet. It included marketing executives, hair stylists and telephone sanitizers. For those who don't like Science Fiction, I highly recommend these books as they make fun of Science Fiction with Science Fiction.

Every time I go to BANPRO (since the competent manager was transfered to Managua) I remember why I hate to go there. Today was no exception.

I have an account there that was for a now long-defunct S.A. I would get monthly statements and then they stopped. Why? BANPRO inactivated the account for lack of activity. Not particularly abnormal. Well, today, as ex-President of the ex-company, I went to BANPRO to close the account. I even filled out the "log book", their new way of doing what should be "take a number".