Daddy-YO's blog

(Again following BlackEagle_node/16692)

(Again I tip my hat to BlackEagle (node/16692), and apologize for my tardy contribution to the discussion he initiated.)

Guru fyl, you 'know' your powerplay against Nicanor, labeling his post with the shouting, blood-red mad [THREAD HIJACK] was rash and wrong. You titled your forum thread, "What is the History of Health Care in Nicaragua?" (still active, at this time) but then cover Canada's model, Hillary Clinton, access in the U.S., the insurance industry, and Costa Rican health care in your lead post. Didn't you hijack your own thread, with political not historic comparisons? (For purists who complain one can't hijack his own -whatever-, let's say 'detour' it.) And with so few words about Nicaragua. Besides Nicanor wrote about Nica health care and, for the love of what is dear in Nicaragua, about his sick daughter. Fyl, how is your daughter? Well, I sincerely hope.

Though married to a Nica I'm here only half the year, on a tourist visa which allows me a 90 day visit. (I'm not interested in Permanent Resident status here, or anywhere for that matter.) I realize I could pay for extensions here but eventually I'd have to leave the country (the CA-4 group actually), stay in CR (or Mexico, Belize, USA, etc.) a couple days and re-enter Nicaragua for another 90 day permit. With the kids starting school Feb 1-3, I ducked out a little early.

Dear RSJGringita & LillyC - I could corroborate your ‘observations’ with some of my own; I sympathize with your struggle to express perceived cultural differences.

And dear, feisty mujermagnetica - I’m not sure I understand where you’re coming from at all, but that’s my failing, for you certainly write well.

To NL power broker Nicareal, I only ask, "Dear Landlord, Please don't put a price on my soul."

And to dear zapoyol, who kept the ball bouncing on this theme with his public verbal auto-flagellation (node/16533)_____ Here’s my bit:

Unless you can directly profit or lose by what's done, unless your action makes a difference, talking politics is really oral masturbation (few are so gymnastically flexible to actually accomplish onanism thus). By that I mean people get off on wagging their tongues. Venting political opinions is a real release, especially for us news junkies. We all have opinions, a sort-of mental infection of partial information, hormonally-driven. We vote, in democracies, but what do we really know about A versus B? What we're told. And who/what do you believe?

Recently, OK 2 weeks ago, fyl started a thread titled, "Who is the most Nicaraguan here?" He clarified it with, "While I have no intention of claiming I am "the most Nicaraguan" I do want to suggest we all think about what that means." I visit a cyber too infrequently, so when I came back to add my 2 cents, the blog thread he started was already old news, buried under all kinds of e-verbage. So here's my bit,

Yes SandinoG (NL_node/15804), often fyl's histories of Nicaragua read like some sort of leftist catechism. Most of the time I just let 'em pass, figuring it's his agenda, and, for all I know it's why he's in the position he's in, running NicaLiving.com. Still, I enjoy reading balanced writings, especially about a place I call home, so when someone who knows better or simply different replies, it's beneficial; it helps flesh out the truth.

It passes through middle class hands several times daily; the poor touch it less frequently. The ultra-rich that rule Nicaragua may rarely see his piercing stare (seemingly contemplating the bearer), as their accountants report numbers from Nicaragua while they spend dollars in Miami. It is the likeness of Rubén Darió on the blue 100 cordova bill (worth ca.$5.00 US to the moneychanger), with pursed lips and a thinker's hand on his jowl, and a high, unwrinkled forehead under a boyishly perfect haircut.

She showed up at our place in León a theoretical-month before the baby was due. The bus ride through the mountains of the state of Matagalpa was a rough ordeal. So within a couple days she was taken to the local 'free' hospital downtown to deliver.