A Few More Days

Today is a holiday, did I neglect to mention? The holiday is for the day way back in ’68 or so when the US still had occupation of the canal here. At that time, a group of Panamanians had decided they were going to steal the US flag from the pole on one of their military bases here, had made it into the base, and were shot by US troops climbing up the pole. Seems a little drastic to me, but in keeping with yankee history. So the Panamanian people never forget, they made a national holiday out of it.

This was told to me by Lee, whom I ran into tonight, telling me that perhaps tonight was a good night to just lay low. Interesting, and I got to borrow one of his books for my trip to Boca Brava. On loan is a book titled “Big Oil and Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf”, by Dean Henderson. Written in 2005 and signed by the author, no less, it’s a good 430 pages in relatively small print, and indicative of the Library of Lee. It is from his collection that I first set eyes on a book titled The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, I forget the author at this point. I felt it such an important summation of current events that each member of my family now has a copy. He tells me they have finally finished paving the road all the way out there. That’s a relief. They were working hard on it last year, but had only made it about 60% of the way there. This should make for a much better drive. Read more “A Few More Days” →