The Aruba T-shirt

Thank you to the people who have written to tell me they enjoyed and relied on my translations. As it is most probably obvious, I stopped doing translations. The reason? Purely a cost/benefit one.

For quite some time, there has been nothing of substance coming out of Aruba, as it relates to the Natalee Holloway investigation. Personally, I got tired of being shocked and appalled at the pettiness and small-mindeness of Aruban 'news'. I have all the information I need to confirm the conclusions I arrived at early on in the case. I will rely on the MSM for filtering the real news down to us, if there are any to report.

The way I now feel about this whole ordeal was pretty well represented by a recent incident. My mother was cleaning out her closet to give away unused clothing to the Salvation Army. Lo and behold, she found an old (but unworn) T-shirt with 'Aruba' emblazoned on it. She later told me, she got pissed off and threw it in the garbage, instead of putting it with the other clothes to give away. In the garbage. Yes. Not even good enough for someone else to wear. That sums it up for me.

I do hope that Natalee's family gets answers, if not justice, one day. I also wish that I could feel badly for the Aruban people. However, the people who have represented them, have done so badly. Or they were louder. Who knows. It's really not my problem, it's theirs.