Wassablog?
Mothers Day

How to Get Along
Internet Scams

¿Hipanic or Latino?
You're Puerto Rican If
Jesus' Resurrection
Puerto Rican Anger
PR on Welfare?
NY P.R. 2007 Parade
Elton Juan?

Where's Fidel Castro?
Miss Universe 2006
The Monster Rabbit
L.A. Cuatro Festival
Dia de San Juan in SF
3 KINGS DAY
El Yunque in Danger?

"Let your 'yes' be 'yes,' and your 'no' be 'no.' Anything
more than this is from the devil." (Matthew 5:37)

Food at PR Festivals
"Being able to save $$$ on the tickets is great. The problem that may not have been addressed is, people are left to have to purchase food and drinks on the grounds..." READ MORE

Puerto Rican Restaurant to Open 59.4 miles east of Los Angeles
(59.4 mi – about 1 hour 3 mins up to 2 hours 10 mins in traffic)
orn and raised in New York, Alvino says he wants the restaurant to appeal to people of all backgrounds.

"We wanted to be in the business of educating people about our culture, our food and our history," says Alvino, whose parents were born in Puerto Rico. READ MORE

¿Pirates Loot? Relics Found in P.R.
Intercepted by Don Jibaro Barbanegra

know that we had pirates, and one was a Puerto Rican... named Cofresí. Whether he is connected to this story, I don't know, but it sounds fishy (pun intended). You tell me.

Police divers checking a report of human remains, and really old stuff off a Puerto Rican beach may have made an archaeological discovery: bones and possible artifacts from a colonial-era ship. The colonial era is, of course, the one we had before the one we have now. The divers found a cannon, pieces of a ship, human bones, a sword, a Burger King cup and a medal engraved with the name Isabel II, said Sgt. Angel Rivera Rodriguez, a spokesman for Puerto Rico's police department. READ MORE

Out of The Frying Pan...
Update by Don Jibaro
he wheels of time grind on... well, more than it should be, but I am grinding much better. Last month was a scary one, car accident, arrhythmia, etc... but today no more. The biggie was a diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmia, or atrial fibrillation, an offbeat heart rhythm that involves the two upper chambers (atria) of the heart. It’s like dancing with someone who limps.

You may have noticed that JIBAROS.COM has changed the theme colors and I added some new items... including "Don Jíbaro's Dictionary", (see below) matching a serio-comic graphic to an uncanny definition. I have also added some commentaries from my wife Irene and my daughter Frances. READ MORE

Update on Don Jíbaro's Health
by Irene (Mrs. Don Jibaro)
rlando visited with the cardiologist today. She says that he can live with an "arrythmia" in the heart. that is, the atrial fibrillation is when the heart speeds up instead of pumping at a normal speed. rlando (DJ) visited with the cardiologist. She says that he can live with an "arrythmia" in the heart.

Atrial fibrillation is a cardiac arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) that involves the two upper chambers (atria) of the heart. It can often be identified by taking a pulse and observing that the heartbeats don't occur at regular intervals He's taking medications that control  this and he was taken off of the aspirin and the water pill. (His blood pressure was dropping too low with them).

Now, his job is to concentrate on losing weight anddoing his exercises provided by a physical therapist for an hour a day. He can still drink one cup of de-caf expresso a day. He's already lost forty pounds. The report was positive and we wanted to thank all of you for your words of encouragement, uplifting us in prayer, and your cards/visits/e-mails and, phone calls have been what has given us the strength to "hang in there!"

We are so grateful.
Thanks so much,
Irene for the Vázquez familia;
Orlando, Raquel, Panchis, Sammy and Sparky the Beagle
("The prayer of a righteous man, availeth much")
 

Cuba Missions Trip Update
Mission Trip 2008 Update 7-16-08
Depart from USA - Sunday, August 17th 
Return to USA - Sunday, August 25th

rganized Fundraisers are now over. Though, the team is still welcoming any and all donations for the trip.  The Cuba Missions Team meets every Sunday to go over the vacation bible school lessons and activities that will be put on for the children of Sancti Espiritus. 

Campus Crusade for Christ has donated several VHS cassetes of the "Jesus" story that will further share the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Spanish to the people of Cuba.  I want to thank the many people who have given of their time and money to support this missions trip to Cuba.  God will bless you for your generosity.  Please keep our team and the trip in your prayers.  Thank you very much!

Sincerely, Frances

See Details on this trip
See current donors list

HOWSiDOiN Dept.
A Message from Irene Vázquez (Mrs. Don Jíbaro)
ate last month, Don Jibaro (Orlando) had an accident. The van accidently ran over his left foot causing a four inch open gash that required thirty stitches. He was getting out of the van while it was still moving and the door knocked him down and dragged him. His body is suffering from post trauma and chest contusions/a sore rib cage when he breathes. A month ago he fell on the other leg and tore a ligament....  READ MORE

FOOL, n. A person who claims to be present throughout the intellectual circles and dilutes himself through the channels of moral activity. He's a wannabe omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He claims he it was who invented letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the conga drum and the circle of the sciences. ...and also created patriotism and taught the nations war -- founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and The San Juan Ferry. In the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up in the porch with a sewing kit to mend garments of the passersby... (No, it's not me.)
SEE THE AMAZING FOOL

HOW TO SPEAK AMERICANO Dept.
Dumb Oxymorons
That Chaps Your Hide
by Don Jibaro Barbanegra

long with the Spanish, I studied academic English and its literature in the schools of Puerto Rico from 1952 to 1964. My teachers made sure that the phonetics and dictions were executed flawlessly. However when I came to USA in 1973 I found that English was spoken much different to the stuff I had learned. They had stuff called "SLANG" that could be used to fit on any lirterary exchange READ MORE

LICENSE AND REGISTRATION DEPT.
Don Jíbaro gets run over by car... his own car
Report by Don Jíbaro Barbanegra
—"¿Hello? ...This is 911. What's the nature of your emegency?"
—"¿Hello? HELP HELP !!!"
—"Sir, what's your emergency?
—"I got run over by my car and I'm on the floor bleeding..."
—"Sir.... You got run over by WHAAT? ¿Is this a joke?
—"NO JOKE, my name is Orlando and I'm wounded and bleeding on the corner of Limonite Blvd.and Hamner Ave."
—"Sir, the Paramedics will be there in about 3 minutes." READ STORY

"Yo conozco el buey que faja y
la víbora que pica" —Tio Genaro

N U M B E R S

4,400,000,000,000 - $ combined wealth of the world’s 1,125 billionaires in 2008.

97,500,000 - million approximate number of American households that receive CNN, a reach surpassed only by Discovery, TNT, and ESPN.

735,000 - number of telephone numbers registered with the Do-Not-Call list on the day it went into effect.

10,000 - $ reward offered for Jesse James "dead or alive," for which a fellow gang member shot him dead at James’s home in Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1882.

1,933 - length in miles of the border between the United States and Mexico.

824 - estimated 2008 population of Vatican City.

25 - length, in feet, of the tether attaching Edward H. White II to the Gemini spacecraft.

5 - fingers on one's hand.
MORE NUMBERS

The Puerto Rican Jesus

Controversy by Don Jíbaro Blackbeard

F YOU VISIT any town in Puerto Rico, most likely you'll see a church in the town's main plaza. Inside that church, for the most part, Jesus will be the focus of the congregation's faith. It has been like that for hundreds of years since the Spanish Friars were sent to proselyte the inhabitants of the the "New World". I didn't make it so, you didn't either, but that's just the way it is; and nothing is going to change that... not even statehood or independence, should it either ever come.

 
What's Wrong with the English Language
by Don Jibaro Barbanegra
My regarded opinion on linguistics rests on the premise that there's nothing more beautiful than romantic poetry or prose recited in the Classic Castillian Spanish while holding a long stem rose between... READ MORE

She Says Found The Chupacabras? I say that Mama is waaay Off...!

 

MOLIENDO Y COMIENDO DEPT.
Making Puerto Rican Sofrito
José Puras grows sofrito ingredients in his backyard, (culantro leaves, aji dulce, etc.) and has fresh sofrito all year long. He also has a website where he sells the seeds for almost nothing... He just loves the stuff. made with FRESH Culantro (Recao), and Ajies Dulces grown in his backyard.
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The Caribbean's largest convention center, big enough to house 10 U.S. football fields, is the first step in a grandiose Puerto Rican Isla Verde urban development program its promoters say will pump more than 400 million every year into the local economy. Do you believe it?
Ay Visnen Santa!