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Kathie Lee Gifford  ...We Didn't Have It So Bad, We Had Each Otha...  All 19 of the 9-ll Hijackers had had Legal Status in this Country (Snake Story).  My Younger Brother, Tom, was a Pledge of Phi Gamma Delta at Ohio State, and the Boys had a Fund-Raising Drive to benefit themselves.  This was Jack Nicklaus' Fraternity (Fijis) and the Boys told Jack how much money he should give them, what his proper share should be.  And Jack told the Boys ..........   .......... and that  he wouldn't be giving them anything.  Now, this was a really-strong connection and what they should have said was ...Brother Jack, can you help us out?  And what he gives, he gives.  I'm slightly embarrassed to say that I had a relative slightly involved in this, they were silly boys.  My Call-Out to the women of the world hasn't been answered.  Comely Women, Swoop-in and Sweep me off my feet, I'm sad and lonely, you're too shy, be a Woman about-it...  I'm going to a Fight Card today at the Hard Rock, I live next door, I don't even have to cross the street.   ...A Champion Is One Who Gets Up When He Can't See--Jack Dempsey

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Back to Bogata and then over to the Portal del Norte bus station, a really nice and nice-looking girl was a big help to me in getting there, in my Travels I often depend on the Kindness of Strangers.  Bus to Zipaquira, which like Sesquile, is 35 mi. N. of Bogata, to see the "Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira."  Got in about l1 P.M. and found a nice flop, got their last room.  In the morning, Sunday, I went to the Salt Cathedral.  Not that well-known, the Salt Cathedral is considered to be a Jewel of Modern Architecture and even you Non-Catholics should see it before you Buy the Farm.  The Salt Cathedral Complex is Magnificent.  Cut from an active Halite (Rock Salt) Mine which has been mined since 500 B.C. beginning with the Muisca and which has 500 years of Salt left, the Salt Cathedral is 200 Meters Underground.  The Salt Cathedral was built from 1954 to 1995, in addition to the Cathedral there's the equally impressive Stations of the Cross Icons and the Rosary Chapel, where I went to Mass (In the Salt Cathedral there's only Mass on Christmas and Easter).  I was there all day.  You can also do the Mine Tour, you know me, I have to do everything. You put on a Miner's Helmet with head-lamp and you and the others go single-file in total darkness (head-lamp not allowed on yet) feeling the back of the one in front of you, and you're bent-over as the tunnel isn't high.  You come to an area and turn on your Lamp, there the Guide tells you about Salt Mining.  And also everyone is encouraged to swing a Pick and knock-out some Halite from the Walls.  I was easily the oldest-one, it was mostly men and women in their early 20's.  The Boys' Effort dislodging the Rock Salt was very Feeble but my short, compact, swing was knocking-off Chunks, I heard Murmurs.  I was the only one on the Tour from a Baseball-Playing Country, the Pick is like a Heavy Bat.  The Girls' Effort, and one was 6'1", was so poor that I wondered if they scratched the Wall, I'm sorry to say but if we were relying on them our Shakers would be empty.  

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My Truth-Telling has some of the News People Upset, say Ms. Joyce on L.V. CBS Morning News, I'm sorry, please return.  I do my Blog at the Flamingo Library, near Maryland, in L.V.  I get it for no-extra where I live but prefer to get out and about, this Library's physical attributes are good, big and brightly-lit.  But it's full of Transients who sometimes scream Obscenities and this is allowed.  The Librarians, Security Guards, and Transients sorta meld, into the Dregs.  It's commonly thought that the Librarians want as many Transients in here as possible so they can ask for more money.  I just read that S.I. and Simone Biles say that St. Sebastian is the Patron Saint of Athletes, yeah, I guess he is, Archers, too, strangely (shot full of arrows).  (See My Blog of July 28, 2009)  I graduated from the 8th Grade at St. Sebastian's in Akron, and, yes, on his Feastday of January 20, everybody in the School got a real big hard-candy arrow.  Simone is only 4'9" and it's easier to look good at that height.  In that Ray Rice Video she was coming at him.  Ray dragging her off the elevator unconscious is the funniest thing I've ever seen, I laugh every time.  He would have looked more gallant had he carried her off in his arms but he might have strained a muscle and used-up Football Energy.  Rice is really getting a bad deal, he didn't deserve to be cut, it wasn't that big of a thing.  I, for one, don't want to see Jennifer Lawrence naked.  She didn't deserve that Oscar for that so-so movie.  On Sept. 7, 1996 Tupac Shakur was gunned-down in his limo after leaving a Mike Tyson Fight and they have the outfit he wore on display at the Hard Rock minus any bullet holes (?), shot 4 times.  The Watch I'm wearing has also been in 118 Countries with me, a Pulsar I bought for $35 in a Supermarket 30 years ago, any countries that I was in prior to buying it I've been in since I bought it.  Say Banzai to this Noble Watch.   

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Still Mooching?  You bad people.  I went to see the Laguna de Guatavita, 35 mi. from Bogata.  The first bus broke down, I took a taxi back to the bus station.  The 2nd bus dropped me off 6 miles from Sesquile, from where I had hoped to get transpo to the lagoon.  I saw nothing going towards the town and stood on the side of the road for awhile.  Ah, but some guy had his car parked and was going towards it, I asked would you take me into town?  He said he would for 10,000 Pesos, 5 U.S., I said sounds good to me (I often travel by the seat of my pants, often not knowing where I'll be going next or how I'll get there).  Once in town I offered my new friend 60,000 Pesos to take me to the Laguna and wait for me, he said yes.  It was a rocky, dusty 12 miles.  Once there, I caught the last tour of the day, 13,200 Pesos, you have to take the tour, and they tell you the background in Spanish and then you hike way up and I could barely do it at their fast pace, and we reached the Laguna de Guatavita.  It's not all that big.  The new Muisca King would go out on the Sacred Lake along with the Shamans, Priests, and Nobles and they would apply sticky substance to him and then coat him with gold dust (El Dorado, the Gilded One) and he'd jump in the lake washing the gold dust off, then everybody would dump copious amounts of gold and jewels into the lake.  The Spanish, always eager for gold, tried to drain the lagoon in 1545 and lowered the water level somewhat and found much gold, but were unsuccessful in draining the Sacred Water.  There were after many attempts by various people to drain the lagoon, and all failed.  Finally, in 1900 any further attempts to drain the lake were forbidden, and no doubt there's much wealth on the bottom today.  My friend, the driver, went on the tour himself, he had done this in his youth but not since, and they didn't charge him.  All in all, the tour was 2 hours, there was an English-Speaking tour guide but I just stuck with the Spanish.  There was an American couple on the tour, I asked where you from? And the woman said, Florida, afraid that if I learned the City that maybe I could use the information against them (?).  My driver drove me back to Sesquile from where I got a bus back to Bogata, I gave him 70 thou for a grand total of 80 thou on the day, 40 U.S., and he seemed very happy, I liked the guy.  To see the Lagoon that was the source of the Legend of El Dorado made me happy beyond expression.

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We got our Flag from my Uncle's Casket.  My mother's uncle, my great-uncle, was with the Americans in France during WW 1 and was mustard-gassed.  It didn't kill him immediately but it shortened his life and he died in his early 40's.  We're losing our American Culture, why, there's hardly any Americans who know how to do the "Rebel Yell" (a series of quick, high-pitched screams).  Eerily, I've heard the UNLV Cheerleaders do it perfectly.  I see my Primary Care Doctor every 4 months.  At the end of our meeting I always thank her cordially and she acknowledges cordially, then we part.  But last October, instead at the end, she ran out of the room.  I told this to Scott and he said, What did you do to her?  ...Nuthin'...  I don't get along with anybody all the time.  At my Health Club they have fine facilities, amongst them a steam bath.  And I get right next to where the steam is coming out and see how much and how long I can take.  You build up your stamina.  Scott is the only one I've seen, of the great many, who can take it as long as I can, to me, this means the "Steam-Off Challenge" where the 2 of us go until only one is left sitting (the loser crawling towards the door).  

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McKayla lusting for the Competition, ohh.  I worked with that girl.  Hopefully, McKayla will get Religion and Reform (Mary Magdalene), I did my part.  John Walker (Family of Spies) just died and his brother, Arthur, died in July, after 29 years in prison and having to die in prison.  They got John to cooperate by going easy on his son Michael (all of them in the U.S. Navy), Michael being locked-up at "22" and released at "37."  Jerry Whitworth never did cooperate and got 365 years (what, the judge thought a year for each day of one?)  John began his spying for the Russians in 1967 as he was willing to sell out his Country for Money (Judas), and this lasted until 1985 when John's ex-wife turned them all in.  As dumb, just sheer idiots, that the United States has been run by with these crumby Presidents and their Retardate Administrations, this would have gone on forever instead of 18 years.  The minds of the American People are weak, I'm sorry.  Maybe the Amer. People will realize this and also try to Reform and elect myself, Ed Preusse, as the next President, I couldn't do any worse only better.  I was practicing my Tango Steps this morning (See My Blogs for Jan. 25, 2009 and Sept. 26, 2009) and I'll return some day to the La Confiteria Ideal in Buenos Aires and show them I've gotten better (Tango is the most sensual and beautiful of the dances, to see wonderful dancers at a Tango Show in B.A. is something one should do in their lifetime).     

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The Indians are showing some life, think how moribund they'd be without Corey Kluber and Michael Brantley.  PR to Bogata, my 3rd time in Colombia, 48 mil pop., 440 thou sq. m., Capitol is Bogota, 7.4 mil.  The Spanish arrived in 1499 and began gradual Conquest, Independence from Spain in 1816, they lost Panama in 1903.  Bogota has always had the reputation of a dangerous city, just have your Wits about You and you should have no problem.  Not that this applies to you People, but if you're going to be a little girl about it you have to stay at home and drink milk, mother's milk.  Bogota is a real fun place, lots of interesting things.  I stayed at the "Hotel Lido," a nice flop right there in the Historic District near the Plaza de Bolivar, managed by a nice, young man who was in the U.S. Air Force for 8 years and served in Iraq.  The seat of Congress is the Capitolio Nacional, once torn up when Pablo Escobar was riding high.  A place I love, which I went to twice, is the Museo de Oro, the World's best gold museum.  Just fabulous treasures from the pre-Hispanic Cultures, the most famous is the "Muisca Raft," the only known representation of "El Dorado," the "Gilded One."  Went to their Art Museum, Museo Botero, which in addition to Colombia's Fernando Botero's many works, often depicting himself, there's an excellent Impressionist Collection. Went to the Police Museum, where you have a police escort escorting you through the various interesting exhibits including Pablo Escobar's gold-adorned Harley and a blood-stained roof-tile from Pablo's final moments.  To the Museo Arqueologico featuring pre-Hispanic exhibits.  Iglesia de Santa Clara is now a museum with paintings and statues of Saints.  Bogota is at 8660 ft. but I didn't feel the altitude and during the daytime in May it was nice and warm.