This is a Nicaraguan cigar that was given to me by a friend. He stated that I would very much enjoy this one as it has hits of licorice.
The dark Oscuro wrapper is a thing of beauty and the only thing that would make it prettier is if it was a 7X56 size. This is a 5.5X50ish, which is just dandy for the moment however.
Very tightly packed and solid. Very well constructed.
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I will give up with reports on toasting the foot as nobody really cares about that stuff unless you are a cigar snob. If you are I think you are in the wrong place by being here. This is for everyday sort of cigar smokers that just like a good cigar without all the fu fu thrown in to make themselves sound important when they really are not.
This blog is whether the cigar is good enough to buy again or a piece of crap.
There is a good solid cap on this and it is good for punching.
The taste of the wrapper before lighting is truly wonderful just by itself.
Although this is one solidly packed cigar the draw is fine. I expected a bit of trouble but found none.
There is a bit of faint licorice taste to it along with leather and coffee. Actually this is a wonderful medium bodied cigar that I would like to have a box of. I'm almost sad that I lit this one up and didn't save it for after dinner. But I'm not stopping now.
If you find these I would grab a few for the humidor. Good stuff.
What would I pay? $9.00 in a cigar store.
A friend of mine sent me this email, along with eight or nine image of Detroit's slums and destroyed buildings:
The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living
Frosty Wooldridge
(born 1947) is a US journalist, writer, environmentalist, traveler
DETROIT
By Frosty Wooldridge
For 15 years, from the mid 1970's to 1990, I worked in Detroit , Michigan . I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery,
gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti
explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash everywhere!
Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then
hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps!
With Aid to Dependent
Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in one case,
one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit
Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollals.
A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson's
'Great Society' flourish in Detroit . If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing.
Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America, outside of Richard Daley in Chicago, rode Detroit down to its
knees... He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he said, "I am the MFIC." The IC meant "in charge".
You can figure out the rest Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans.
As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds
of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.
Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city for the free government hand outs, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan, but most work
in Detroit. As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.
As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife! Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total separation from America.
Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan, paid
for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC's Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America. English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.
Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city. In Time Magazine's October 4, 2009, "The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell, and how it can rise again," I choked on the writer's description of what happened. "If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane, and submerged by a ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more about it," said Daniel Okrent. "If drought and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we'd see it on the evening news every night." Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice.
But Detroit, once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country. Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision making."
As Coleman Young's corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kickbacks and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city's death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit
"By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit 's treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services," Okrent said. "The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans, unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit today, the unemployment rate is 28.9%. That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent.
At the end of Okrent's report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he said, "That's because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city's collapse, it's also about the erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century.
If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can't find a way to get up, what does that say about America’s future?"
As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner's book,"$20 Per Gallon", the auto industry won't come back. Immigration will keep pouring more and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit , thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America. If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit. Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs.
You have already seen it in Madrid, Spain, London, England, and Paris, France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers and brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture, country and way of life.
My response was:
"I disagree.
Detroit fell because of unions and the nature of cities to put so many people in close proximity. Unions that demanded high pay for little work. Work went elsewhere.
That many people in such tight quarters always spark gangs which drive out reasonable people.
Yes, the Muslims and other immigrants moved in. Housing is cheap.
I'm not worried about the Muslims. I'm worried about the Americans. If we are capable of allowing gangs to rule a city and unions to rule industry, we have no place to go but in the toilet.
The average wage of an UAW worker in the U.S. is $39.68 per hour for a job that should be $12.00 per hour. And they do a piss poor job. Why wouldn't the auto company move to Mexico or Canada? Get more work, better work at a reasonable wage.
No, the problem is not with Muslims, it is with Americans."
American's want to blame all the bad things these days on terrorists. We have had that propaganda drilled into us every day by the Government and the media, neither of which I trust with my wallet or with being capable of speaking the truth.
Very little of the U.S.'s problems have anything to do with Muslims or terrorists. But it is sure easy for the Government to get what they want by telling us that because people are gullible. They want to believe all the problems are foreign and not their own damn fault.
Until the people of America wake up and realize they have created all the problems that currently exist we are headed for ruination. Total.
A person who owns a million dollar plus house in one of the large cities at the moment thinks it is going to be worth that and more in the future. I know of one such person in Minneapolis that owns one valued at 1.4 million at the moment. But I suspect the City will claim it within ten years and it will be worth something on the order of $380,000. as the neighborhood changes and no one wants to live there anymore because of the gangs and crime.
Most people who live this life style are liberals who bring on the problems themselves.
I once asked this fellow with the 1.4 million dollar house what a policeman should do if he found a man standing in his backyard, at night during the summer with a ski mask on. The guy in the ski mask told the policeman he did not live there, did not know the owners, but was doing nothing illegal so refused to give the officer his name and information. The guy with the house said the policeman should walk away.
Of course I don't think he really would want the policeman to walk away without hauling the guy in so he could find out more about what he was up to, but he says that just to make a point of how stupid liberals are about such things, and wants the world to be just as stupid as he is. He would like it if the policeman walked away if it had happened in someone else neighborhood, but not his.
This is why his house is going to be worth 380 thousand in ten years. They bring it upon themselves.
And I will not feel sorry for him.
History is there for us all to see. Most slums of large cities were once the wealthy areas. The slums get renovated to become the new wealthy areas. It keeps revolving as people keep packing themselves into a small area. It is not going to change just because the wealthy don't want it to happen, unless they are truly wealthy, which most are not. They just pretend to be to try and impress others.
This fellow I know with the 1.4 million dollar house has three bathrooms in there. Only one has plumbing that works. He has a different kind of wine glass for every conceivable kind of wine made. But the gate in the back yard is falling off the hinges.
It is all for show. Typical city liberal. Attempting to impress others for self satisfaction.
They just can't stand being regular people.
No, our problem is not with Muslims. It is not with Mexicans, it is not with minorities at all. It is with us. We are assholes. And we want more for doing less. We want to look like we are a class of people better than we are. We want our rights without the consequences. We are a selfish bunch of people in this country that crave attention and money as though that is important to happiness. And that is why we are doomed. It is self destructive.
And that is why we should build fences around cities larger than 50 thousand people to keep them in so they do not infect sensible people and wreck the otherwise good portions of the world.
Take cigars for an example. America produces some of the best tobacco in the world, especially the New England area. How many American made cigars do you see? Basically zero. Why? Because by the time the industry paid Americans ten times what they were worth to produce a cigar it would have to retail for $85. per cigar in order to make the company money. So the tobacco farmers sell their leaves to companies in Central America to make the wonderful cigars we smoke.
Americans do make cigarettes, which if you take away the paper box, the filter and the chemicals they stuff in there leaves you with tobacco leaves smokers pay $312. per pound for.
A bottle of
good California wine will sell for $100. +. Its equivalent counterpart, shipped on a boat across the ocean sells for $35.00.
Americans need to start asking, Why? The answer is unions, greed and liberals.
