Archive for July, 2008
Talking Smack about the Dominican Republic
To the mailbox!
You’re a gringo and talk a lot of smack about the DR. What gives you the right? How would you like it if I (a Dominican) started a blog and trashed the States? If it’s so bad why don’t you leave?- Rafael in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
Does the U.S. Need Election Observers?
The services of elections observers are now used more than ever around the globe. They come from the United Nations, regional institutions, individual states, and non-profit/non-governmental organizations like the Carter Center. What exactly do these observers do? Basically they observe the election cycle from start to finish and publish reports about their findings. The reports [...]
La Virgen de la Altagracia performs a Miracle in the Dominican Republic
One of my favorite things about living in the Dominican Republic is the convenience of the local colmado. A “colmado” is basically a neighborhood convenient store that stocks just about everything you may need on a whim and – get this – will deliver right to your door no matter the quantity. I’m talking about [...]
How to be a Wedding Crasher
Most of us don’t have the guts (or the stupidity) to “crash” a wedding in real-life like Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn did in their 2005 hit movie Wedding Crashers. So, this post is for those of you who’d rather do so from the comfort of your very own PC/Mac.
McCain is no Tim Russert; Obama is no Tiger Woods
(Today’s post was written by my father Dick Miller. Dick was raised a Republican, steered by good math grades and financial necessity to a career in engineering and high-tech software. He is now a born-again anthropologist/historian (it was always in him) and wants JFK (and Jackie) to return to the White House.)
I don’t generally get [...]
Dominican President Leonel Fernandez’s Global Aspirations
Dominican President Leonel Fernandez continues to take advantage of every opportunity possible to tell the Dominican people how smart he is instead of just leading the country as he promised. Most recently, according to DR1’s Daily News, instead of laying out his domestic plan for sky-rocketing fuel prices and a flimsy economy, he decided to [...]
Conspiracy Theorists Rejoice!!!!
By now I’m sure you’ve heard of the unscheduled stop taken by Senator Obama’s plane on a recent campaign flight. The unplanned detour into St. Louis was uneventful and thankfully no one was hurt. Reportedly, an emergency slide inflated mid-flight in the tail cone. The area in which the slide inflated was [...]
Protecting the President of the United States
John F. Kennedy once commented famously that as long as an assassin was willing to give his own life, killing the president was not impossible. That has turned out to be true for a lot of politicians around the world who, in spite of excellent security, have fallen victim to an assassin’s bullet or blast.
The [...]