The online Cypress Times of little Cypress (northwest of Houston) is gaining notoriety today for this apparently inaccurate report of a Mexican drug gang’s cross-border invasion of some ranches near Laredo. A little call to the watch commander of the Laredo PD seems to have cleared it all up. Heh.
Via Instapundit.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles, South of the Border, Texana
Tagged Cypress Times, Gulf Cartel, Laredo, Los Zetas, Mexican invasion, Texas
What Hurricane Alex did to the Rio Bravo (Mexican version) at Laredo with another storm with more rain on the way today and tomorrow.
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Posted in South of the Border, Texana, Weather/Climate
Tagged Hurricane Alex, Laredo, Rio Grande, Texas, Tropical Depression 2
This one’s inactive, in Port Isabel, just a few miles from the Mexican border, across the causeway from South Padre Island. Photo by Larry Weiss.
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Posted in Blogosphere, South of the Border, Texana
Tagged lighthouse, Port Isabel, South Padre Island, Texas coast
Nice to see the 16-year-old sailor attempting to solo circumnavigate the planet is alive and at least semi-well, considering the dismasting of her boat in the rough Southern Indian Ocean. Presume she will be rescued soon by the Aussies.
If she can blog, we can presume she won’t under too much stress waiting. But it would be nice if the saltwater hadn’t corroded the power port on her Kindle way back in April. Or if Jeff Bezos had seen the way clear to deliver her a new one.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Library, Sailing, South of the Border
Tagged Abby Sunderland, Kindle, solo circumnavigate, Southern Indian Ocean
The latest telephone poll taken by the Arizona Governor’s office asked whether people who live in Arizona think illegal immigration is a serious problem?
29% responded, “Yes, it is a serious problem.”
71% responded, “No es una problema seriosa”
Meanwhile, Obamalot is assiduously guarding the northern border. Figures.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, South of the Border
Tagged illegal immigration, open borders, US-Canada border, US-Mexico border
BLITZER: Do Mexican police go around asking for papers of people they suspect are illegal immigrants?
CALDERON: Of course! Of course!
BLITZER: If somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America through the southern border of Mexico and they wind up in Mexico, they can going get a job?
CALDERON: No, no, no.
BLITZER: They can work?
CALDERON: If somebody do that without permissions, we send — we send back them.
Via Rush Limbaugh and Ann Althouse.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, South of the Border
Tagged Ann Althouse, Arizona, CNN, Felipe Calderon, illegal immigration, Mexico, Rush Limbaugh, Wolf Blitzer
Of all the city council’s silliness over the years, its new boycott of Arizona over illegal immigration takes the booby prize. The funniest part, though, is the boos so far outnumber the yays in the letters-to-the-editor at the daily:
“In a town as reliably liberal as Austin, wouldn’t one assume that a few would stand up for the city council — if their action was at all defensible? The fact that no one seems willing to fight for this silly boycott makes it clear just how important it is to the Statesman’s readers.”
Hmm. That also may be going too far. But it’s pretty funny that the situation has reduced Obamalot to orchestrating an astroturf letter-writing campaign.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, South of the Border, Texana
Tagged Arizona, astroturf, Austin City Council, boycott, illegal immigration, letter-writing campaign
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
