Category Archives: South of the Border

Where is the outrage?

Posted on September 29, 2011 | Comments Off on Where is the outrage?

“…elements of the U.S. Departments of Justice, State, Homeland Security, and Treasury are responsible for supplying an arsenal to narco-terrorists waging a civil war against an American ally [Mexico].

“Our federal government may bear responsibility for at least 200 murders committed with ‘walked’ firearms, in what Mexican Attorney General Marisela Morales describes as a ‘betrayal‘ of her country by the Obama administration.”

Democrat scandals, particularly Obama scandals, just seem to disappear. Now, if Bush did this….

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History lesson for Al Gore

Posted on September 25, 2011 | Comments Off on History lesson for Al Gore

“The Great Hurricane of 1780, also known as Hurricane San Calixto, the Great Hurricane of the Antilles, and the 1780 Disaster is the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record.

“Over 20,000 people died when the storm passed through the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean between October 10 and October 16. Specifics on the hurricane’s track and strength are unknown since the official Atlantic hurricane database only goes back to 1851.”

This was long before carbon dioxide from fossil fuels began to accumulate in the atmosphere. Hurricane Katrina, et al, have been pikers by comparison.

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At last: Agreeing with Dhimmi

Posted on July 27, 2011 | Comments Off on At last: Agreeing with Dhimmi

Unfortunately the champion of Palestinian murderers and world dictators generally has so little political credibility that his new coming out for an end to the drug war will have little influence. Pity that.

Although Dhimmi Carter (h/t Monkey In The Middle) is a great, alternative name for him.

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Cartels we can live with

Posted on July 12, 2011 | Comments Off on Cartels we can live with

Texans already beat the feds by buying gallons-per flush toilets in Mexico. Can a post-2014, D.C.-defying, black-market trade in incandescent light bulbs be far behind? I think not.

Meanwhile, the pols debate repealing the incandescent-deletion (bye bye 100 watt bulbs in January, 60 watt ones in 2014) which, while supported by Obamalot, actually was signed into law by Bush Jr. in 2007. With the, ahem, support of Big Light, i.e. GE, Phillips, et al, which will make a lot more money on the switch. And they, or something, have quashed repeal so far.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Rancho Roly Poly, Scribbles, South of the Border, Texana

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Big Corn takes hit

Posted on June 24, 2011 | Comments Off on Big Corn takes hit

Via a Democrat, no less. Worried about the 2012 elections, no doubt.

“The 73-27 vote on an amendment sponsored by California Democrat Dianne Feinstein—33 Republicans, 38 Democrats and both independents in favor—was the kind of supermajority that usually waves through new subsidies for the fuel made from blending corn and tax dollars.”

Well, if this is enacted, the corn tortilla consumers of Mexico will be happy.

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Texas at 175

Posted on May 20, 2011 | Comments Off on Texas at 175

 

 

 

Texian volunteer at the Alamo, a reenactor on this 175th anniversary of the Texas Revolution.

At least his physique is plausible.

Too many reenactors these days, particularly Civil War ones, are aging fatsos with white hair. Reflecting our overfed, indulgent culture, rather than the more austere 19th century.

Photo by San Antonio author Celia Hayes whose good gallery of such snaps is here.

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Graffiti in the jungle

Posted on April 25, 2011 | Comments Off on Graffiti in the jungle

I can’t say I like Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s short-short stories much. At least not the ones in The Girl On The Fridge collection. Most of them end too abruptly, just about the time I’m getting interested in the tale. Suppose to be the latest thing, these quickies, but most of them read like the writer ran out of imagination.

One of the few I do like is one that echoes something my Israeli pal Snoopy-the-Goon told me about young people coming off of their obligatory IDF active duty. Many of them leave Israel and light out for the Himalayas or somewhere else tough and adventurous, preferably somewhere no one else has been.

So, in The Journey, the hero does just that, winding up in the jungles of South America, satisfied that he’s finally found a place no other human has trod. Until he sees some secondary growth at the base of a large tree. It barely conceals something carved there. Something old. This: “Nir Dekel, August 5, Paratroopers Kick Ass.”

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