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I was born and raised in the Republic of Panama.  My parents moved to the U.S. when I was 16 years old.  I finished high school  in the Charleston, South Carolina area.   I graduated from Baptist College at Charleston (now Charleston Southern University) with a degree in political science and history. I attended law school for a year after graduating from college, but I had learned to fly airplanes while in college and chose to pursue that as my career. After a mid-life career change preciptated by medical issues, I graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in the Spring of 1997 and was admitted to the South Carolina Bar that fall.

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Monday
24Mar

O'Reilly on Media Matters: "Any of the presidential candidates who can deport those swine -- I'm voting for them"

For my first posting since getting up and about again, I chose to post someting about someone who is humerous.  He has become so irrelevant that his rants are merely funny, not infuriating.  I think that it is appropriate for this blow-hard to lead my return to blogging.

Summary: On his radio program, Bill O’Reilly called people” at Media Matters for America “the worst Americans in the country” and stated, “If I could, I would deport them.” O’Reilly also asserted: “But this Media Matters, this disgusting, despicable, far-left website, they do it all the time. And MoveOn and all these people, that’s what they do. They disagree with you, and they brand you a racist.”

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Thursday
31Jan

Argentine Dirty War officers punished

Posted on Tue, Jan. 29, 2008

The Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina —

Argentina’s defense minister barred two retired admirals and a former navy captain from teaching and consulting posts for the military Tuesday, citing possible ties to or sympathies with past human rights abuses.

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Thursday
31Jan

Evolution

Thursday
31Jan

No Respect

Thursday
31Jan

Florida Strategy

Thursday
31Jan

About as Likely

Wednesday
30Jan

2nd migrant flees to Chicago church

Posted on Tue, Jan. 29, 2008

Associated Press Writer

 
Flor Crisostomo, an illegal immigrant from Mexico arrested at a workplace raid at a Chicago site of IFCO Systems in 2006, speaks in Adalberto United Methodist Church where she sought sanctuary Monday, Jan. 28, 2008 in Chicago to avoid deportation. Federal immigration officials say if she doesn't comply with a deportation order later Monday, she'll be considered a fugitive. Crisostomo says she knows her action will almost certainly lead to deportation or imprisonment. But she says she had to act to try and change U.S. immigration laws.
M. Spencer Green / AP Photo
Flor Crisostomo, an illegal immigrant from Mexico arrested at a workplace raid at a Chicago site of IFCO Systems in 2006, speaks in Adalberto United Methodist Church where she sought sanctuary Monday, Jan. 28, 2008 in Chicago to avoid deportation. Federal immigration officials say if she doesn’t comply with a deportation order later Monday, she’ll be considered a fugitive. Crisostomo says she knows her action will almost certainly lead to deportation or imprisonment. But she says she had to act to try and change U.S. immigration laws.

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Wednesday
30Jan

Pays to pay attention

Wednesday
30Jan

9-11 Meaning

Wednesday
30Jan

Cause and Effect

Wednesday
30Jan

Agency claims Justice Dept. blocks probe

Justice Dept. Blocking Probe of US Attorneys’ Firing, Federal Agency Says

FREDERIC J. FROMMER
AP News

Jan 29, 2008 17:24 EST

The head of a federal inquiry into the firings of eight U.S. attorneys claims the Justice Department has impeded his investigation.

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Wednesday
30Jan

Mexico issues warrant for US marine

Mexican Officials Issue Arrest Warrant for U.S. Marine Suspected of Killing Pregnant Colleague

JOHN RICE
AP News

Jan 29, 2008 08:51 EST

Mexican officials have issued an arrest warrant for a U.S. Marine suspected of killing his pregnant colleague, a U.S. Embassy official said Tuesday.

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Wednesday
30Jan

Negroponte's Confession Convicts the Bush Administration

Posted January 29, 2008 | 07:20 PM (EST)


“It (waterboarding) wasn’t used when I was director of national intelligence, nor even a few years before that,” he said. “I get concerned that we’re too retrospective and tend to look in the rearview mirror too often at things that happened four or even six years ago.” - John Negroponte, evil-doer.

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Wednesday
30Jan

2008 Political Oscars

Wednesday
30Jan

Hiring Time, part II

Wednesday
30Jan

Out Of Line: State of the Union

Wednesday
30Jan

The Daily Szep: The State of the Union

Wednesday
30Jan

King Momo kicks off "royal" Carnival in Rio

Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:52pm EST
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Actors posing as Portugal’s royal family joined the fictional King Momo at the start of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival celebrations on Tuesday to mark 200 years since the court’s arrival in Brazil.

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Wednesday
30Jan

Venezuelan bank robbers arrested, hostages freed

Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:31pm EST
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By Fabian Andres Cambero

ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan police swooped on an ambulance used by robbers escaping a bank siege on Tuesday, arresting all four men and freeing a group of captives to end a two-day hostage standoff.

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Wednesday
30Jan

Holocaust-themed Rio Carnival float causes strain

Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:55pm EST
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By Pedro Fonseca

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Carnival float with a pile of model dead bodies commemorating the Holocaust is causing unease before the lavish parades in Rio de Janeiro this weekend.

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