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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 02:25 PM
What I like about the People of Baja


Their ability to live in a Cardboad Shack and still laugh and have a smile on their faces as they send their Kids off to School!
The Kids for the same Smiles and Laughs as they swim in the surf among the Stringrays.

The fisherman on the beach with that "I will catch one look"" after two hours fishing.

The calm and peace on the faces of the older women as they come out of the Mission after Mass.

The faces of the People standing around the Fish Taco Stand in La Paz, eating smiling,flirting, giggling and having a great time.
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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 02:33 PM


I'M WITH YOU, SKEET.

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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 02:35 PM


Yeah I agree Skeet. That is why I live here. I came to hang out with the Mexican people who know that family, friends and a good fiesta is much more important than the material stuff. They are great teachers.
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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 02:48 PM


You got my vote... Ditto's



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rolleyes.gif posted on 12-15-2009 at 02:49 PM
Happy feets, do your stuff


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Their ability to live in a Cardboad Shack and still laugh and have a smile on their faces as they send their Kids off to School!


Unfrickinbelievable.




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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 02:56 PM


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Their ability to live in a Cardboad Shack and still laugh and have a smile on their faces as they send their Kids off to School!


Unfrickinbelievable.


Which???? living in cardboard shacks??? laughing and smiling???? or sending their kids off to school?????

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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 04:13 PM


I like the fact that the store owners in La Mision have taken the time to remember my name. How a cheesy little carnival brings out everyone in their best clothes. How people I barely know, or do not know at all, will stop by my house and help me, without being asked. Then refuse pay for help or materials they have let me use. Smiles from the bag boy at the market, for a 10 peso tip. How a gringo can steal the prettiest daughter from a family, and instantly treat me like I've been in the family for decades. The intense gratitude I witness evey time I give a few fish to the workers at the marina, or a few lures to the marines guarding the marina. The list goes on. Baja is my new home, for these and many other reasons. Gracias Baja!!!
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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 04:33 PM


You are a Lucky Man/ Mi Amigo!
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thumbup.gif posted on 12-15-2009 at 04:42 PM


Sometimes Skeet makes me go>>>>>:?::rolleyes::spingrin:, but the Skeet in this post is the one that makes me go>>>>>:bounce::yes:

His love of the Mexican People is genuine and it shows his heart.




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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 04:45 PM


Quote:
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Their ability to live in a Cardboad Shack and still laugh and have a smile on their faces as they send their Kids off to School!

Happy feets, do your stuff
Unfrickinbelievable.


This is, by far, the most entertaining bit of stupidity offered here in this forum since I've been here.
Gawwwdamity...I wish JR could see this.

Skeet....Die...please.
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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 04:50 PM


I don't see it that way, Dave and Dennis. While poverty is difficult to witness, they know how to live simply...and smile. I can't imagine what it must be like for them. Of course their misery is obvious, but the way they manage to play and smile and enjoy the simple things that we often overlook is heartwarming.



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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 05:09 PM


Dennis. It is obvious to e that you are a DRUG ADDICT!

I feel very sorry for you and will forgive you for you being an Burro Hole...Let us Pray that Dennis will be forgiven and find a heart so that he may Smile and be Happy as the poor mexicano Baja People Are.

They are so much more than he will ever be !!

God Bless you
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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 05:12 PM


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I don't see it that way, Dave and Dennis. While poverty is difficult to witness, they know how to live simply...and smile. I can't imagine what it must be like for them. Of course their misery is obvious, but the way they manage to play and smile and enjoy the simple things that we often overlook is heartwarming.



Pure ***ing bulchit, Tony. It isn't about how they handel it, live simply as you say. It's how you and I look at and do nothing about it.
"Smile and enjoy"....You said that? What the *** is heartwarming about that? That they forgive us, their observors of their miseries?
They don't. They hate us for our noblesse oblige.
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"the way they manage to play and smile and enjoy the simple things"
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You make them sound like pets.
Sorry Tony. We disagree.
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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 05:16 PM


Well, alrighty then, Pet Detective!

We have and still do plenty for them. None are my "pets". Some are friends, however.

To observe smiles is not to be without compassion.




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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 05:43 PM


We do see things differently, at times, we NOMADS.

I TOTALLY disagree with Dennis's point on this, and I do NOT believe the Mexicanos that Skeet is talking about "obviously live in misery". I don't believe for a second that "they hate us", either. That would be like me saying I hate Donald Trump because he is successful and rich????? Could not be further from the truth. I admire his success, ability and smarts-------and that is it!! but I don't envy him. I envy the spirit that the back-country Mexicano's display daily, and try to stay as positive thinking as they do-----their attitude is something to aspire too.

Like always, everything is relative. I remain totally supportive of Skeeter's point here.

Wonderful people-----period, and I admire and respect them.

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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 05:44 PM


Wow... it is Christmas time and the nastiness goes on. Sometimes people are happy with what they have, so don't fault them or Skeet's observations.

Dave, you were happier when you were making those great pastrami sandwiches... Will you ever again...?




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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 05:54 PM


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Dennis. It is obvious to e that you are a DRUG ADDICT!

he may Smile and be Happy as the poor mexicano Baja People Are.



Oh gosh...you know my secret, Skeet. How did you know?
Is there any way you can help me so I can shake my drug habit? I dream of the day...well, they may be heroin dreams but, dreams none the less, that I may grin like an idiot in tough times just like your Christmas Card Mexicans who, after being dispossed of their land and told to work for nothing, take a nap up against a cactus that doesn't hurt anywhere near the pain that they were dealt from their liberators such as you, Skeet, who has made their life better while not speaking a word of their language and treating them equal....if equal is a slobbering obedient child.

Write your book, Skeet. I need a laugh. When your first draft is ready, run it through spell-check...sit back...and watch your computer explode.

I'm done defending you. It goes nowhere.
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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 06:00 PM


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Their ability to live in a Cardboad Shack and still laugh and have a smile on their faces as they send their Kids off to School!


It is truly amazing that a man who claims to be a minister could be so lacking in empathy and be so unaware of the human condition.

What a goyishekup.




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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 06:07 PM


What's a "goyishekup."??
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[*] posted on 12-15-2009 at 06:08 PM


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What's a "goyishekup."??


I can't tell you. You have to be a MOT.




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