Persephone, have you heard of fired adobe? That's how I'm going to build my dream home in Costa Rica.

I have a great book by Nader Khalili on the subject, well worth checking out.

you people take life waaaay too seriously. it's only 'tasteless' and 'unimaginative' because you are offended by it - and why? Because deep down you know it's the truth. The same reason anyone gets offended by anything.


as for a better country with a higher standard of living? Even though that is completely subjective...Canada and Costa Rica are two places I am very fond of over this shithole country.

p.s. i'll save you the "then leave mah country booy!" speech. I do, on a regular basis.

I disagree with the comedy tag on this one. The film is a serious documentary. It's not about a funny subject. We have the most expensive health care in the world, along with the highest infant mortality rate, and the second lowest life expectancy for any nation which isn't in the third world.

Lets take a look at the World Health organization's ranking of the worlds national health systems. Don't look for the USA in the first 3 rows. We are at #37. Dominica and Costa Rica have better health systems. Yep we are getting the best that capitalism can provide for the money we spend, we are only just above Slovenia, Cuba, and Brunei.

Top 10: France, Italy, San Marino, Andorra, Malta, Singapore, Spain, Oman, Austria, Japan
11-20: Norway, Portugal, Monaco, Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland
21-30: Belgium, Colombia, Sweden, Cyprus, Germany, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Morocco, Canada, Finland,
31-40: Australia, Chile, Denmark, Dominica, Costa Rica, United States of America, Slovenia, Cuba, Brunei

While you might say it could be worse, I would say we could be an even bigger joke. This clip doesn't deserve a comedy tag, America's health system does. This clip is showing people thanking god, that Michael Moore had the balls to point it out. Understanding there is a serious problem is the first step towards fixing it.

*nochannel *politics

Cockpit video of US/Brit friendly fire incident Part 2

It's unreal how little information passed on when targets are being prosecuted, but when the blue on blue occurs, Skychief and Costa 58 jump in to call POPOV35 to abort, post incident.

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Wow, that's interesting. I didn't know that about the F-bomb nashbar. It sort of goes against the idea that societies get more and more liberal over time.

It's funny because in some ways the US seems more conservative ... and then on TNT you see an ad for "Girls Gone Wild Super Costa Rica Lesbian Edition" during dinner.

That's an awesome article. The Exile rocks. Obvious that the Russians bought the tiara. Gotta love the magnitude of the screwup which only served to highlight all this.
I love the fact that they spun this to make it sound like some sort of 'drama' instead of a complete disaster. OMG - I can't believe they did a take 2. Notice that Mrs. Costa Rica had already disappeared by that point. Oh man, you can also see that so many of the contestants had already left. Wild.
Also love the shot a quarter way in where you see people already leaving.
Damn.
So "Women's Entertainment" - the We Network - really did air this. Incredible.
From the Exile:
"Their disrespect of Russians was most clear in the way they failed to provide adequate translations for the Russian audience. Since the event was getting filmed for an American audience, they had to give the impression that the audience understood Thicke's stupid one liners. Therefore, he talked extendedly without a pause for translation. It was so wrong that the Russian crowd mutinied, shouting Thicke down until a translator jumped in."

rickegee, you've gotta vote for your own vid here, this is a stellar find.