Category Archives: South of the Border

Those Israeli mind rays

Posted on September 24, 2009 | Comments Off on Those Israeli mind rays

Barry’s preferred president of Honduras, the deposed Manuel Zelaya, needs to be fitted with a tinfoil hat. To stop the mind rays from the "Israeli mercenaries," he tells the Miami Herald, who are trying to assassinate him.

But all is not lost. The dictator’s club is delivering food to his basement room at the Brazilian embassy, when they can spare the time from enjoying Barry’s own denunciation of the Israelis. Birds of a feather, indeed. Now that their Honduras op has been exposed, we’ll just have to wait and see what the Elders of Zion have to say about it. (Hmmm. That was quick.)

UPDATE:  Un, Manuel, President Let Me Be Clear is down on you now. Must be your tinfoil hat.

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Mexico’s crystal caves

Posted on September 20, 2009 | Comments Off on Mexico’s crystal caves

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Deep in a Mexico cave, six hundred feet below the Chihuahuan Desert, spelunkers dress like astronauts because the temperature is 128 degrees F. More photographs here.

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Another blow for ‘peak oil’

Posted on September 3, 2009 | Comments Off on Another blow for ‘peak oil’

Before it was in North Dakota. Now it’s deep under the Gulf of Mexico. Whether we need it or not is one thing. (Although it would be good not to be so dependent on dictators and absolute monarchs for it.) But the idea that we’re running out of it is pure baloney.

Via The Seablogger.

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“Hellstorm” Jimena

Posted on September 1, 2009 | Comments Off on “Hellstorm” Jimena

It’s the surge that will get the tourist beaches and fishing villages in Baja California, since the near-Category Five hurricane will lose some of its now-155 mph winds by the time it comes ashore tomorrow.

But, as the meteorologists say, a hurricane is not a point, and Baja is already getting plenty of wind, rain and waves. Meanwhile, we wait to see if we’ll get any of Jimena’s endgame, i.e. good rain. Benefiting from someone else’s tragedy, as usual with these things. Accuweather is still calling for thunderstorms for us, but has pushed them out to Saturday night now. Jim Spencer at KXAN sees a better chance Friday night than Saturday.

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Rain expected

Posted on August 31, 2009 | Comments Off on Rain expected

It’s not on the local or national forecasts yet, but Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi is predicting moisture coming into Texas this week from Jimena, the major hurricane (sustained winds of 145 mph!) the NHC is predicting to whack Baja California tomorrow night:

"The low level center may never fully come up, and peel away, but abundant mid and upper level moisture should come a calling."

Thanks, Joe, we’ll take it! This sort of thing has happened before, but it’s been a while.

UPDATE: By late Monday, Joe is still sticking to his forecast for us, but it’s not explained. Meanwhile, Accuweather’s Frank Strait sort of disagrees, saying we have only a slight chance of some storms by Friday. Deep South Texas he notes is already getting storms from Jimena, but, as for us in Central Texas, we’ll just have to wait and see.

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Morning Glory Clouds

Posted on August 29, 2009 | Comments Off on Morning Glory Clouds

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You don’t have to leave the planet to find weirdness. These tube clouds can move at sixty clicks an hour with no discernible wind to push them. They form every spring over Australia. The Seablogger says we also get them over the Midwest (and elsewhere in the world) the morning after a night of severe thunderstorms.

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Unintended health consequences

Posted on August 22, 2009 | Comments Off on Unintended health consequences

Ross Perot’s 1992 giant sucking sound soon will be "the sound of Grandma going to one of the scores of new hospitals in Tijuana, Nogales, and Ciudad Juarez that will cater to Americans getting around the restrictions of ObamaCare. Yes indeed, the President’s health care plan will do wonders for the Mexican economy."

Heh.

Via The Passing Parade.

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