Category Archives: South of the Border

Morning at the Panama Canal

Posted on May 28, 2009 | Comments Off on Morning at the Panama Canal

Fun to watch the freighters make their way through the Miraflores Locks of the engineering marvel.

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Viva Cinco de Mayo

Posted on May 5, 2009 | Comments Off on Viva Cinco de Mayo

Any holiday that celebrates a French defeat (for which we must, in part, remember Gen. Ulysses Grant) can’t be bad–even if our alleged intellectual president uses it to demonstrate his abysmal grasp of the Spanish language. If he was W., we’d never hear the end of it, and the Hispanic caucus would be demanding an apology. Not now, of course. That sort of media hurrah is reserved for Republicans.

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The Aporkalypse

Posted on April 30, 2009 | Comments Off on The Aporkalypse

Cytokine Storm. Sounds like the title of a Larry Niven space opera. It’s the Internet’s latest scare meme that’s supposed to explain why those twenty-something Mexicans died of the, uh, swine flu. Yawn. Call me when the CDC-confirmed death toll reaches a thousand in the first world. Then I’ll, maybe, get alarmed.

UPDATE:  Yes, this is where I got the title. Credit where it’s due, after all. Even if it’s late.

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Swine time

Posted on April 28, 2009 | Comments Off on Swine time

While Twitter’s no-context modus lends itself to enhancing panic, Google’s swine flu map does the opposite. It shows that, so far, much of the "worry" is overblown. Not quite as much as it was in 1976, but still close.

Via Slashdot.

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Swine flu

Posted on April 26, 2009 | Comments Off on Swine flu

This seems really overblown to me. So far. But Drudge is on top of it. So we’ll just keep up with him.

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The clueless seven

Posted on April 8, 2009 | Comments Off on The clueless seven

Yep. Those are our congress critters. Ignorant to a fault. But, hey, Fidel, the white dictator of a majority black and mixed-race population for fifty years, was cordial. He didn’t let any of his black political prisoners out as a sop to "liberal" sensibilites. But you can’t have everything. Hopenchange, you know.

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Mexican guns

Posted on April 6, 2009 | Comments Off on Mexican guns

Instapundit clings somewhat precariously to the military weapons wielded by the Mexican drug cartels to try to show that not all their guns come from the U.S. Fox News, to which he links, has apparently taken his side of the argument.Their concern, of course, is new gun sale restrictions here at home.

The San Antonio Express-News, while conceding that the military stuff probably didn’t come from our side of the border, nevertheless makes a convincing case that most of the non-military stuff that has been traced did–much of it from Texas retailers. Michael Yon has uncharacteristly attracted more than a few irritated commenters for wading into the argument. I’m glad he did, though. I know more now about it now than I did before. On the other hand, as Instapundit notes, some of the guns probably have come from Mexican army deserters.

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