That’s gunfire from Old Mexico across the Rio Grande into UT-Brownsville:
“UTB/TSC Emergency Warning #5
The campus is closed and evening classes have been canceled today and Saturday, Nov. 6, because of gunfire taking place across the Rio Grande.”
One more reason to remove the prohibition on marijuana, cocaine, etc. to wipe out these Mexican drug cartels. It’s Al Capone all over again.
Via Instapundit.
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Posted in South of the Border, Texana
Tagged gunfire across the Rio Grande, Mexican drug cartels, University of Texas at Brownsville
Built in 1749. Where the Mexicans put Fannin’s troops before the massacre.
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Posted in South of the Border, Texana
Tagged Fort Defiance, Goliad, Our Lady of Loreto Chapel, Pecidio La Bahia
Count me as one of the world’s few who have not seen the Chilean rescue on the rube tube. Bigger audience apparently than the World’s Cup soccer to-do. With more to come:
“I’ll be first on line to buy [their book] to find out how they maintained their discipline in rationing such small amounts of food during that first 17 days when they didn’t know if they’d be rescued. I can imagine doing that for a week or so, but as one week turns into two and you’re starving and desperate, discipline is bound to break down — or not, apparently.”
I did pass by the spectacle last night switching channels looking for the final Texas Rangers game. And there is the inevitable skepticism: “I think it’s all a hoax… the ‘rescue’ is actually happening on the desert in Arizona…like the ‘moon landing’/sarc.”
UPDATE: And then they were all rescued. The end. Or, only the beginning?
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Posted in Science/Engineering, South of the Border
Tagged Chilean mine rescue
And those of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Chile.
All have filed “friend of the court” briefs joining Democrat Obamalot in suing to suppress Arizona’s tough new illegal-immigration law.
“As do many citizens, I find it incredibly offensive that these foreign governments are using our court system to meddle in a domestic legal dispute and to oppose the rule of law,” Arizona’s Republican governor said in a statement.
Especially when they are propping up their governments by sending their poor to us.
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Posted in Obamalot, South of the Border
La Linda used to be a fairly decent-sized Mexican mining town of about 5,000 people, shipping its fluorspar north across the border on a bridge built by Dow Chemical in 1964.
(Fluorspar is used in plastics, refrigerants, stainless steel and electroplating.)
The traffic stopped in 1997 when the bridge, which was also being used by smugglers, acquired an impassable cage preventing passage in either direction.
“The distance between Del Rio, TX and Presidio, TX is now the longest stretch on the border with no crossings. [385] miles as a matter of fact. Overnight, La Linda died.”
Course the illegals and the drug smugglers can still cross the Rio Grande below the bridge, and they almost certainly do. It’s just not as easy as it was before. AndyJ at My Old RV has the rest of the story in Eerie Silence – The Ghost Village of La Linda.
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Posted in Blogosphere, South of the Border, Texana
Tagged La Linda, My Old RV, The Caged Bridge
The hero of Cinco de Mayo, i.e. the unlikely defeat of the French at Puebla, a wonderful story (the frogs were taking a coffee break when the Mexicans attacked) never better told than here. The general was born near Goliad, where his statue is today. His father was a soldier at the nearby Precidio La Bahia. Looks like the local doves have been at work on his head, however.
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Posted in Scribbles, South of the Border, Texana
Tagged Cinco de Mayo, Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza, Goliad, Precidio La Bahia, Puebla, Texas
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September 7, 2010 in South of the Border, Texana, Weather/Climate
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
