Pelicans at Parque Marina preserve, Costa Rica
IT’S NOT EASY BEING A PELICAN IN COSTA RICA—NOR A PORPOISE NOR AN ALLIGATOR EITHER.
These animals, among others, are given protection in a Marine Park in Puntarenas from the hazards of their life styles (like water dives of pelicans) and of the human animals who sometimes harass them. A gated park provides a place to which pelicans can converge to receive snacks and medical assistance and provide educational opportunities for children in sea animal displays—including themselves—within their gated community.
(Tico Times)
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EURASIA GAMES: DENMARK AND INDIA SWAP RULES LIMITING VISAS TO TRAVEL FROM ONE TO ANOTHER OF THESE COUNTRIES.
Tensions following the 2011 decision of a Danish court not to compel extradition to India of a Danish man accused of smuggling weapons to an Indian separatist group leads to rules and regulations making it more difficult for Danes to travel in India—and rules making it more difficult for Indians to travel in Denmark.
(Copenhagen Post)
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IMMIGRATION REFORM: “CONGRESS MAY SIMPLY ERECT A BUREAUCRATIC DAM IN PLACE OF A BROKEN BORDER WALL, LET CORPORATIONS CONTROL THE FLOOD GATES, AND STILL EXCLUDE MILLIONS OF IMMIGRANTS.”
Michelle Chen examines the state of the current efforts to provide a “path toward citizenship” for undocumented immigrants and finds that it provides a “path” that is impassably rocky for “unfavored” groups like domestic workers but relatively easy for the business interests of major lobbying groups like farm and high tech industries. If the “power of money” in politics ever needed graphic demonstration, this may be it.
(In These Times)
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RUSHING TO BEAT THE RIGHT-TO-WORK BAN IN MICHIGAN.
Several teachers unions’ in the state, including that at Wayne State University in Detroit, are attempting to complete contract negotiations by March 28, when the state’s new law prohibits provisions which require union membership as a condition of employment. Critics call “foul,” saying it circumvents the spirit of the legislature’s intention in passing the law.
(Detroit News)
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BIG BARGAINS ON PURCHASE OF FORECLOSED HOMES IN ORLANDO AREA? NOT SO MUCH ANY MORE.
Though the trend in selling prices varies by localities, in general would-be home buyers are finding lesser bargains than might have been available about 4 years ago. This is despite the inventory of such properties on the books of lender banks remaining high. It appears that they are yielding to pressures not to “release” homes for sale at a pace that would create a “price massacre” on their sale.
(Orlando Sentinel)
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Quote of the day…
A reasonable assumption, I repeat a reasonable assumption, can be made that the two of them were members of the militant wing of Hezbollah.
Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, on his government’s “evidence” that two of its citizens who allegedly bombed a tourist bus to Israel were linked with Hezbollah.
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