Bernie that is. You know who I am talking about. The Ponzi Artist. Should he be called an artist? After all there are con artists, right?
Who's to blame? The one who made off with the money or the gullibles that got made? The dupeworthy or the super duper?
History repeated itself with the announcement, make that expression of guilt from the one who used all his strong arm tactics to convince the world to watch people ride cycles on a hill. You know who I am talking about. The one and only Lance who made people wear yellow rubber bands. Was that supposed to make us feel good about our postal service? Which although has vans to deliver mail seems to be slower like they were on a cycle? That would be India circa 1980s..
Are those that got taken to the rubber to blame or the one who rode on rubber wheels?
I think frankly that for every scam there is a scamee waiting to be scammed. To take advantage of people's inevitable ability to get suckered is also equally human. How else did capitalism come about?
For that matter communism too. In the former man exploits man and in the latter they said it was the other way round.
Go figure!
Our first foray into Central America. That elongated isthmus that forms the geographic boundary between two vast continents of North and South America. Specifically landing for NYE 2026 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Capital city for this region that does not have its own army, instead relying on its big bro the Estados Unidos to the north is a metropolis of approx. 500K people. Largely wilderness and with both a Pacific and Carribean/Atlantic coast the country is rich in bio diversity. In Spanish it means the rich coast so named by Columbus landing in early 16th century and being mesmerized by the local tribes sporting gold jewelry. Our stay included visiting the foothills of a large strato volcano called Arenal and enjoying the naturally heated thermal baths for a while. Lunching amidst lush forest and watching indigenous species of avian noise makers fly overhead. Toucans, some sort of pea hens, multiple song bird species completed the spectacle. Iguanas and a lonel...
isms are more or less alike..the difference is the umber of years it takes you to figure it out...so like fashion, they will come and go, and come back. As for con artists, they are proof that man can be creative..or else we might have been apes still..or fish!
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