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Rico's rants: Rio Olympics, raw sewage

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A curmudgeon looks at the world. Rio Olympics, raw sewage. Reported in July of 2015 that water quality at the outdoor sites scheduled to host competitions during next summer's Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics. Will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press. Lake (photo), hosted a junior rowing competition. Here's what happened:. No gold medal is worth that.

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Rico's rants: How El Chapo builds tunnels

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A curmudgeon looks at the world. How El Chapo builds tunnels. In The New Yorker. At 8:52 pm on 11 July 2015, Joaquín Guzmán Loera. The drug kingpin known as El Chapo. Sat on the bed of his cell in Altiplano. Mexico’s only super-maximum-security prison. Surveillance footage appears to show a small screen glowing on a table nearby; inmates are not allowed cell phones, but this rule is not always enforced. Guzmán. 8217;s shoulders probably brushed the walls as he passed. Climbed a wooden ladder toward groun...

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Rico's rants: History for the day

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A curmudgeon looks at the world. History for the day. On 13 August 1961, Berlin. Was divided, as East Germany sealed off the border between the city's eastern and western sectors in order to halt the flight of refugees. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Now provides a Welsh phrase for the day here. The current readership of Rico's Rants. Is better displayed using. The XStylus Touch for the iPad. The video, awaiting funding. ClustrFuck, reset again. Places to buy Rico's stuff and thus support his act.

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Rico's rants: More history for the day: Alcatraz

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A curmudgeon looks at the world. More history for the day: Alcatraz. Has an article about Alcatraz:. This day in History. A group of Federal prisoners classified as "most dangerous" arrives on Alcatraz. A twenty-two-acre rocky outcrop situated a mile and a half offshore from San Francisco. California. The convicts, the first civilian prisoners to be housed in the new high-security penitentiary, joined a few dozen military prisoners left over from the island’s days as a military prison. In 1934, Alcatraz.

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Rico's rants: SEPTA stands for...

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A curmudgeon looks at the world. Something obscene, if only Rico. Could deconstruct the acronym. The problem occurred several days ago, when Rico. Was sitting, as he frequently does, at Stop 18889. Awaiting the Route 105. Bus to go home. The bus came by at a high rate of speed, and not only didn't stop (even though there were two of us, both disabled, waiting), it didn't even slow down. The angry call that Rico. Received the usual "oh, we're so. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). ClustrFuck, reset again.

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Rico's rants: Marines and the flag in Havana

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A curmudgeon looks at the world. Marines and the flag in Havana. In The New York Times. Who took it down, and put it back up:. Around noon on 4 January 1961, after spending hours feeding mounds of government documents into an incinerator, three American Marines. Assigned to the embassy guard force in Havana. Cuba turned their attention to a solemn task: lowering the American flag. As they stepped outside, the Marines. Photo, left), one of the Marines. Saluted the flag as Larry Morris. The enmity between ...

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Rico's rants: The Civil War quiz

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A curmudgeon looks at the world. The Civil War quiz. The Civil War quiz will be open for entries from now through 12 April 2010 (the anniversary of the beginning of the War in 2011). Send an email containing the questions (at least the numbers; Rico's not a mindreader) and answers to mseymour@proofmark.com. And be sure to include your snailmail address to receive a prize should you (hopefully) win. The answers will be posted on this website on 13 April 2010. Is not required to enter, it is. 11 What was S...

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Rico's rants: Ferry service to Cuba

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A curmudgeon looks at the world. Ferry service to Cuba. In the Miami Herald. About travel to Cuba, at long last:. Ferries carrying both passengers and cargo may soon ply the Florida Straits between Florida and Cuba for the first time in more than a half century. The US government granted licenses to at least five companies— Airline Brokers Co. And America Cruise Ferries of Puerto Rico. 8212; to begin offering ferry service. And ports in the Tampa. In the 1950s, before the Cuban Revolution. It doesn&#8217...