Category Archives: South of the Border

The war next door

Posted on March 26, 2009 | Comments Off on The war next door

After complaining about how ignored the drugs wars in Mexico have been in Big Media, I stupidly misssed a recent, pretty complete look at the issue in Rolling Stone. It even addresses the notion (really the only solution) of legalizing heroin/cocaine/marijuana. But regulated and taxed, as alcohol is now.

It would stop the war in Mexico, but, ironically, it would also hurt their economy by putting a lot of growers out of business. The Small Wars Journal is hosting a discussion on legalization. But we’ll have to wait for a pol with the guts to advocate it, let alone get it passed. Meanwhile, if the rest of Big Media wants to look more relevant than it does now, it should turn its attention to the war on our own borders–though, of course, it would involve actual work and real danger for the two phone call gang.

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Road rage

Posted on February 25, 2009 | Comments Off on Road rage

In Mexico, these days, it involves more than one person with a gun. Try two in a shootout with bodyguards. Sorry, link went bad. Try this general story on the battles. The only hope for them or us is legalizing drugs here, but our pols are too cowardly to try it.

MORE:  Even Latin American presidents can see it. Too bad they can’t convince ours. Indeed, idiots like Eric Holder haven’t had enough. He thinks keeping assault weapons from honest people also will help. Riiiight.

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FYI: Texas Guard is not on high alert

Posted on February 24, 2009 | Comments Off on FYI: Texas Guard is not on high alert

Or any alert, at all, in contradiction to some emails and other "news" making the rounds quoting completely misquoting State Sen. Dan Patrick. (Well, it looks like he did say there is an alert of some kind, but it’s not clear to me what he means, tho it sounds like just the state emergency center’s planners in Austin.)

As far as I know, the Texas guard is NOT on high alert or any alert. If it was it would be in the papers and on the television because it would be impossible to hide. If some guardsman didn’t let the cat out, his girlfriend or wife would. So, for now, as far as I can tell the state and feds are still just planning for any future trouble on the border.

UPDATE:  But the president is considering sending the guard to the border–for what? He isn’t sure yet.

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Iraq safer than Mexico

Posted on December 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Iraq safer than Mexico

It’s official, size ten flying shoes to the contrary notwithstanding:

"The police are generally helpless, hundreds of thousands of middle-class Mexicans have fled the border region, often to the United States (if they had dual-citizenship, which many do). Those without money must hunker down and wait for someone to win this war."

We could put the gangsters out of business and stop it all, if Barry had the nerve to end the failed drug war.

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Seablogger blogs a cruise

Posted on November 8, 2008 | Comments Off on Seablogger blogs a cruise

His Holland America cruise ship has "a nice deep sea heave," Alan Sullivan reports, as he sails into hurricane weather out of Miami. The water in the upper deck swimming pools is "jumping and sliding like limbo dancers." He had to pay one hundred dollars for two hundred fifty minutes of Web connection time via satellite, so he’s limited in what he can do. But he’s already promising photos soon. Click on the blog title at the top of the page to check for the latest post.

UPDATE:  A nautical tracking map shows where his ship, the Noordam, is at the moment. 

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Tijuana surpasses Baghdad’s body count

Posted on October 11, 2008 | Comments Off on Tijuana surpasses Baghdad’s body count

The narco wars continue to rock in Old Mexico, but don’t expect Big Media to get too exercised. Hey, it’s dangerous down there on the border. Somebody with a reporter’s notebook might get hurt.

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Boycott Conoco (& Citgo, of course)

Posted on September 8, 2008 | Comments Off on Boycott Conoco (& Citgo, of course)

That would be the first step for gasoline and diesel consumers to take between now and November, when Russia plans to send warships to Venezuela for an offshore military exercise. It should be considered an act of war, but one with a simple solution. Next, as the Seablogger suggests, President Bush should start milking the strategic reserve, so we can cease buying oil from Hugo Chavez until early spring. That should be long enough to collapse the Venezuelan economy, bring Hugo down, and send an unmistakable  message to his successor. None of which would be necessary, of course, if we were sensibly drilling for oil to replace the purchases that keep dictators like Hugo in business.

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