NEW INSECT IN THE MOST DOCUMENTED

ONE of the difficulties of following most gardening blogs beside the abominable hedges, turf, abundant palms, artificial looking ponds, fountains too often out of proportion is their lack of problems of any kind, except the pet weed of most gardeners..

Insects beneficial, ugly or not, visit our garden with rare frequency, except damned white flies, they love Brugmansia, Duranta repens to name two, having moved with us. 

The moth in the Bouganvillea flower above, appeared once. The ugly caterpillars munching on the Carica papaya leaves, appeared out of the blue yesterday.

I am not certain of the botanical name but I dare suggest, just by the caterpillar skin color, these may be Cramer's sphinx or Erinnyis crameri.  If I am mistaken have the courtesy and bother to share any information on this regard.

I consider them ugly as hell, quite the opposite to that other sphinx, green/black, a seasonal visitor on our Plumerias....you know them for sure.

   that is that

LITTLE ACTS SOME RESULTS A LITTLE HOPE

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED  some acts, results from action. Today a couple form the Environmental Board, William Borres, with a co-worker arrived early to our residence to measure the decibels from the night and day noise sound track by the callous bastards, backyard neighbors Universidad Sagrado Corazon. See the links below for an idea. Complaint URU-00-13-65-0010, for the record.

 

http://atilamatamoros.blogspot.com/2012/12/usc-impunity-chronicles.html

 

  http://atilamatamoros.blogspot.com/2012/12/usc-impunity-chronicles-ii.html

 

 It has been a five year struggle, fortunately I have not become some Norwegian fellow with automatic weapons, still sane, but how long?

 

At any rate, noise is a terrible torture. Puerto Rico has become a shit hole of noise of all kinds, at all times. Having concrete as the only construction material that lame, dull, bland, architects and engineers use to build houses only makes matters worse, since concrete inside/outside become resonant chambers amplifying every sound/noise imaginable.

 

At any rate, I fell some hope for the time to come, since the first time I filed a complaint 3 years ago, I had to wait for almost a year to receive a visit from this agency.

 

I can not determine if the change in our government administration colors from blue to red is part of the equation, but it does not matter, the point is that they came 2 weeks after my first visit.

 

I want to thank Mr. Borres, Milagros, and Jose Alicea Pou , director of noise issues of the Environmental Board, for their performance in a timely fashion.

If I prevail or not, is not the issue at this time, but the intense satisfaction of just the possibility of it on one hand,  and the diligence of public employees in an isle corroded by fraud, bankruptcy and indifference.

 

For all the above, I have some reason to smile. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHEN THE BUBBLE BURST THE COOKIE CRUMBLED

REMEMBER when the toxic loans and surrounding Wall Street maladies and diseases exploded like a dead horse in the heat?  Who got the blame? And...who paid for it?  It seems that states of law in half of the globe have become states of fraud, scams and debt.

The money/debt is a part of the puzzle. I know. I woke up from a dream/nightmare with all these in mind.  Have you heard the expression conventional wisdom?  It is only conventional lies, in truth, the gullible accept, being imposed through brainwashing in schools, church and family.

The most stupid value in any culture is maternity and motherhood. Women are really slaves with only two routes egg chicken baby layers or prostitutes.  There is a third possibility, single mothers in welfare.  Why, for what?  When I was an adolescent, a pregnant 12 year old was an aberration, expelled from school, pretty much like having leprosy. Nowadays they have their own reality show.

Maternity and motherhood a charming trend with the church, any church--bai di guay--if there is just one god, why do we need 12 religions...each one claiming to be the real one...screw them. The destruction of the globe with 7 billion people could be explained in these terms with no MIT degree.

More absurd are the wedding rituals in every culture, costly, unnecessary.  In the west hemisphere, more than one half end in divorce.  The wedding industry has also a reality show.  Most of the darkies/whities women are shaped like orcas/manatees, a real joy to watch them trying to fit in a white dress looking like a sleeping bag, with their too often underdeveloped teeties bursting as in the tittle.

The infatuation with having children in an overcrowded/overpopulated globe is hard to comprehend. It makes me puke literally when I see those photos of naked women with a belly like the dead horse mentioned above, holding the creature inside with one hand over and one under the belly bottom, with the most retarded expression of tenderness, as if an overcrowded/overpopulated globe could support one more infant.

The fertility industry, those bastards making possible old gizzard women getting pregnant and having triplets are part of the equation.
The adoption industry is also part of this legal crime. Have children, do not worry, no abortions please...just like stray cats and dogs. Let somejuan else take care of your lack of will, intelligence, education and else.

I expect, seriously, that any reader by now, has made his/her own picture/photo of their own reality, no matter where you are not virtually, but geographically.

Most people believe all the conventional lies their parents, teachers, reverend and priests, politicians preached in the beginning or all through their lives. Honesty is the best policy they used to claim.
Study hard, so you can have a better future, most of the time, not difficult since 5 out of 10 parents in the world can not read or write or are functionally illiterate.

Here in the Puerto Rico shit hole, the false academic prophets are still singing the mermaid tunes: Study for a better future. Moderfuckers what better future?  The one with 100 billion national debt you creatively developed in two generations or 60 years?  Take that better future, shove it up your rectum.

What we need now in the shit hole and the globe is imagination and ideas to solve the unemployment, the exploitation  When I look at it conventional lies permeates the whole spectrum of society to such levels that when I look around, it is frustrating, depressing.

There is a lack of analysis, a little depth. No one mentions gold/diamonds when discussing the destruction of the earth. It is just coal, oil, gas or forests here and there.  The automobile industry and highway/housing developing industries are guilty of non stop destruction, a consequence of non stop population growth, bastards.

In some countries of the west, the unemployment rate among young people is the same or worse than the adult segment of the population. How many economists, financial wizards are required to change a light bulb?  How many countries could develop an economy capable of absorbing the majority of their population, considering in these countries the elderly continues living longer?

Meanwhile the debt, the selling and buying debt is like a monopoly game that only bankers and politicians, not the working people, seem to understand, play and decide.  Those retired and working or with below employment pay the consequence. Less public education, medical services, transportation and else.

this is the better future? 

USA SCREW THE WORLD

It is really difficult to comprehend that remarkable lack of introspection shown by the government of the people.  Their last
demonstration of foolishness will suffice.  NOW, women in military forces,  are totally equal to men, they will be free to kill and maim.

This is the same country manufacturing, developing drugs to get pregnant in an overpopulated world, instead of the opposite, contraceptives.  A place where having guns legal or illegal is a constitutional right, with the circular, cyclic slaughters from mentally disturbed young and not so young people custom and use.

Following the USA economic model has made two grossly overpopulated countries in Asia, China and India, the most polluted as a collateral damage of that 'miraculous' economic development during the last 15 years.  Development that everyjuan in the west applauds, without much concern regarding the contamination of water/air, vital to life.

It is not different from global warming.  The sweeping under the carpet for decades of the C02 in the atmosphere, remember the ozone holes?  In Australia this still in debate, global warming created an intense drought in 2011, floods Macondo like in 2012 and now fires pretty much like those in hell.

The morbid obese and fat acceptance claque should create the global warming acceptance, that will make for a perfect world.
These fat folks can barely walk.  They eat and eat and eat, huge portions following the USA trends of enlarged menus, with high sodium, high calories.  This reminds yours truly of the automatic weapons, very effective to kill many people at once.

Food is not different, fast and not so fast food.  A week ago I had the dubious pleasure to sit among 9 relatives and friend. Seven are obese, rarely walk, not even a mile a week.  Soon most will have the same maladies that a couple already show. Diabetes, high blood pressure with eventual kidney failure

Breast implants are one more thing to blame USA, Holstein like, mammal glands are the rule. In Puerto Rico, women the most stupid they are show breasts like vejigas, out of proportion, some times as big as their empty heads.  In the past, in our Caribe culture, Lbutts were the standard of beauty...not any more.

Since misery loves companion, let the record show that following the values of some countries could ruin yours, since nothing really works out of context.

In Puerto Rico, the bankrupt/asphalt/concrete isle the public debt--100 b-- is so scary the feebleminded conforming the government, elected by mongrels and retards, has started a new trend that will leave them islanders without anything of their own.  The international airport has followed the destiny of some highways and a bridge,  all been leased to some foreigners looking for a fast buck for the next 40 years.  This twisted action seems appropriate to pay some 500 million of the 1,000. Nobody knows how the rest will be paid in the long run, to the kind bankers making the loans.

Puerto Rico lacks people with a little introspection and vision.  They like to listen to things like: Somos mas grandes/Puerto Rico lo hace major, when in reality these bastards can not swipe their butt properly. Always thinking big, the more the merrier like. That is how they spent 100 million in an imaginary gas pipe around the isle and around 300m in some port without permits. 

Imagine a country with an unemployment rate  Spain like in the first act. In the second, the governor elected by his looks, calls for a press conference to announce 10,000 jobs and under employment opportunities to flip burgers, fried chicken or watchmen.  Afterwards, the imbeciles in the diploma manufacturing enterprises, complained those are not the jobs their college graduates require.. Buajaha they demand high paying jobs, with security as in seniority, life employment as in never never land.  I am tired...

that is that

Now, never mind the public debt-100 b--they are daydreaming again about universal health care...without any. 1

NO MORE TECHNOLOGY PLEASE!

PERHAPS you remember the tons of lies predicated, amplified, day and night when compact disc players arrived more than 3 decades ago.  One of my favorites spins around the possibility of dancing a flamenco over them, without any damage.

As a result, cassttes, a perfect tool for most purposes, became obsolete and have almost disappeared.  The same happened with vynil, a somewhat cumbersome tool requiring care and maintenance, not to get into stylus, and the excessive exercise by today standards to get up, clean, put on another record.

The most important aspect of many records besides the beauty of many covers, is the information provided including the inner sleeves protecting the records.  In consequence every record was in this regard like a reference book. 

One can go beyond and state that cardboard and paper are organic
with smell, texture and colors changing with time. 

Going to a record store, to check old and new offers was a real amusing trip requiring no money, similar to visiting a library to read, learn or just kill time in a productive fashion.

One more transcendental issue was the quality of the music recorded, the sound. Then and know experts and musicians claim that  compact discs  had cold/flat quality unlike vynil, warm and live. For that reason people like Elvis Costello, still record in all formats including vynil.

The arrival of compact discs destroyed all the above. The gullible, threw away their vynil records and cassettes in bunches in the garbage.

Stereo equipment was also part of the picture. I remember the first sophisticated strereo I ever saw and heard music at home. It was the residence of the Monteverde family in Caguas.  What a trip!

The possibility of controlling bass and treble and will makes in my opinion the pleasure of listening to music complete.

My first 35 watts per channel, was a Harman/Kardon receiver, with Epicure speakers, a Sanyo turn table.  Later it was one of those popular for some time of the same brand, a Pioneer.

Now it is Sony, Teac, Technique and Bose.  Yes, I still use the turn table and cassette player. One of the first records I ever bought, Sergio Mendes, Equinox, and 45 years old is still playable.

Now if you think all these is garbage, fine. However, take a minute for a little meditation exercise. Music nowadays is available mostly digitally, what the hell can you learn just listening to some, mostly garbage provided and sold by the piece and promoted by youtube or else.


The really sadly amusing aspect of technology in music today, is that super sophisticated sound and recording equipment is used to listen to regueton and hip hop, the most illiterate and unsophisticated music ever created globally by whites/blacks and mongrels, preferably with 500 watts of distortion!

In brief all this information/anecdotes are useful to extrapolate. It you take movies for example. I still prefer black and white films.
Special effects, lots of murders, rape, poor scripts, lousy music, plus the same crap, often with 1,2,3 parts is the offer.  What about the new rip off...3D?

Automobiles?  There is one hybrid with a hundred miles a gallon.
However, when you look at China, India, USA, Puerto Rico, and you observe those massive traffic jams, it seems that the fuel and electricity will run over in  a distance of five miles with the snake like traffic jams 24/7.

Hybrid/transngenetic seeds?  Find out what happens when traditional farmers get trapped around those agribusiness monsters of soy/corn you name it, start using glysophate in humongous amounts around flora/fauna and people.

Repeat after me....No more technology! Pretty please with sugar on top.

that is that

BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL BOARD

YESTERDAY I made my decision, taking the

efficient, clean and costly elevated train on a peregrination to the mentioned agency.  The office, in a second floor of a building of   classical concrete ugly Puertorican lego architecture, painted in a checkered style in tones of green and sinking, even though it was recently built in 2006.

 

I went to complaint once again against the university right of this sentence. 

This over rated, expensive and polluting institution next door

installed new air conditioners the size of one of those cars

ugly as hell ,Smart.  The humming and zooming is such that

I can not find a room in our residence to hide with the constant

noise, similar to a CD 10 blowing against our residence and vicinity.

 

It is not the only nuissance created to the still decreasing majority of  USA citizens from Puerto Rico living in the immediate surroundings, by Universidad Sagrado Corazon.

 

 

WITH the recent change of government colors, there is an apparent change of attitude in the employees, seeming friendly and efficient. However the same lack of logic and systematic effort is present.

The secretary was absent. My complaint was taken by Edwin Borres a technician, written in paper, not a computer. I still do not have the record number and will have to make a phone call to find out.

When I requested the email address of Carmen Lamboy, the absent secretary, nobody knew it. Some woman in the premises had to make a phone call to find it...In Puerto Rico everyjuan refuses to use electronic messaging, preferring to waste time with telephones.

The greatest surprise, was to discover that the new director, of Junta de Calidad Ambiental, is Jose Alicea Pou.  It is a bright, talented fellow. I had the chance to shake hands and exchange some ideas about noise and related issues. Mr. Alicea Pou was featured in one of my passed away blogs, when approached, one or two years ago about this noise problem, in his private enterprise.  

 

Wish me luck!

ASPARAGUS SETACEUS COSTLIEST IN THE INVENTORY

There are 3 Asparagus in our garden.  One was in situ, another bought in Guanica, a couple of years ago before they became popular, accessible and overused in the Santurce area.

This one featured was collected in the abandoned residence down the street next door. I had to dig deep to reach the roots.  It was, an old plant, probably planted between 20/30 years ago, when they were fashionable in the area.

I know because this fern like climber, is only found in very old houses, no longer available in nurseries, and one of the reasons for my interest.  Setaceus were very known and popular during my high school years. They were standard use in corsages,  a corny accessory in the wrist of females,  used in proms, weddings and such.

At any rate, the area where I dug, was used to poop by stray cats, for years.  I did not think about the consequences for one minute.
Since the digging went down around 12 inches, gloves would not have protected yours truly.

I got bitten by Necatur americanus, a relative of Ancylostoma braziliensis.  I noticed the bite, but gave not much thought to it until a couple of days later, I was awaken around 2AM for five days in a row. Cutaneous larva migrans, the sensation is an intense under skin burning similar to salt, lemon, soap in your eyes, plus something moving under the skin, therefore the migrans in the name.

Some time ago, I watched a documentary of a similar disease caught by some tourist in Costa Rica,  some time ago, I had an idea of what could be the problem, visiting my dermatologist on the following Monday.  The prescription killed the culprit in just two days.

It affected my gardening for some time, wondering If I could get
it again. Fortunately, being more careful, I am not at risk.   For these reasons, this plant has cost me more than any other in the over one hundred species collection.

that is that

GARDENING ISSUES

DURING 2009 I was able to make the first seed exchange with Hazel Topoleski, a fellow gardener from Texas and member
of a gardening site I used to visit then.

There were about twelve kinds of seeds, of the total, only one survived, Black Eyed Susan, a rarely seen vine in Puerto Rico.
I am lucky, since plants requiring a cold dormant period,
pass away most of the time in tropical contexts.

This one was a fugitive for the last two years. I thought it was dead, but yesterday, while doing some weeding, I noticed it has made a healthy comeback.