The Mexican press, believe it or not, is pretty good about writing about such a large arms seizure, so I have my doubts this is a recent seizure. Since there is little information other than pretty pics of cool weapons and some geographical information, this post goes to opinion.
Update at 12:06:48: Rantburg's Mexico desk already covered this arms seizure. See here.
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I remember seeing these photos on Rantburg (and elsewhere) previously. That's still more than a battalion's worth of guns and ammo - far too much to be in the hands of someone like the Zetas. As a member of the retired military, I wouldn't object to pulling a week's duty guarding the border, as long as there were some decent RoE. Just give me a weapon, lots of ammo, and a clear field of fire (plus a little backup - I wouldn't want to be there all alone). As an old PI, I can guarantee we could find all the trails leading across the border, and recommend where to put a fire team to plug the biggest holes. Unfortunately, our government won't do anything until a few dozen citizens are slain all at once in a massacre. I don't think we'll have to wait much longer.
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Mea Culpa....
TFN, I'm going to assume that all news I have access to is DEBKA-sourced.....48-hr cool-down period mandatory....
With their own economic policies in complete disarray, Democrats have turned to a tried-and-true tactic: Blame the opposition for your failure. It may be too late -- their incompetence is starting to show.
Recent events, along with the continued bleeding of the U.S. economy and Wall Street, underscore the desperation of the party in power to escape responsibility for its failures.
Case in point: The president, speaking in Wisconsin on Wednesday, lashed out at Republicans: "We already tried the other side's ideas. We already know where their theories led us. And now we have a choice as a nation."
We must have missed the Democrats' attempt to enact broad-based tax cuts, for instance, to boost the economy like they did each time they've been tried in the past. Truth is, "the other side's ideas" have been studiously ignored in our financial crisis and recession.
Unemployment remains close to 9.7% and, based on even White House estimates, is unlikely to improve much. Vice President Joe Biden himself has noted that, under current Democratic policies, "there's no possibility to restore 8 million jobs lost in the Great Recession."
Of course, he too blames the GOP, though his party has controlled Congress since 2006 and its earlier policies, such as the Community Reinvestment Act and the creation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, were responsible for the 2007-08 financial meltdown.
Democrats like to style themselves as the party of the little guy. But small businesses are going bankrupt in droves while unemployment among black males is averaging 16.3% -- well above last year's 14.8%. In March, 1.8 million African-American men were without work -- the most on record.
Now we see signs the economy's improvement may soon stall -- and perhaps even slide backwards. On Thursday, we learned that June auto sales dropped 4.3% while May pending home sales plunged 30%. Consumer confidence has fallen sharply, and financial markets are in a tailspin.
Also this week, the Congressional Budget Office reported that federal debt by year-end will soar to 62% of GDP -- highest since World War II, when the U.S. went deeply into the red and killed off the private economy in order to beat the Nazis.
Worse, the CBO said debt will hit 87% of GDP by 2020, rise above its record peak of 109% by 2025 and hit a stunning -- and financially ruinous -- 185% by 2035.
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Change you can believe in!
*sigh*
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Bad headline. "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
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Argentina nationalized private pension funds in 2008 under the guise of shielding them from the economic meltdown. But the funds have been used by lawmakers. That couldn't happen here, could it?
Socialist President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said the state was protecting private retirement from "policies of plunder." By moving tens of billions from the private sector and placing it in the public fisc, she claimed to be providing "an example" for others to follow as the global financial crisis heated up.
The Argentine Congress, making a promise it didn't intend to keep, said it would make sure the money would be used for pensions. Instead, it was used for government spending. Nearly $30 billion was stolen from the citizens of Argentina by the government that was supposed to protect them from thieves.
Democrats have been casting a similar greedy eye on Americans' pensions since at least the 1990s, though they typically kept their ambitions quiet. But in January, the lid on envy began to boil over.
Bloomberg reported that the Treasury and Labor departments were inviting public comment on ways to promote the conversion of 401(k) and individual retirement accounts into annuities or other steady payment streams.
A month later, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and policy analyst Peter Ferrara, reacting to the appeal for public comment, warned in our On The Right column that "Washington is developing plans for your retirement savings."
Then in May, based on what she had read in the Annual Report of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, Connie Hair wrote in Human Events that "the radical solution most favored by Big Labor is the seizure of private 401(k) plans for government disbursement."
The selling point for these plans would be much like the fiction that was peddled in Argentina: The funds would go into a pot that the government would protect from economic decline before they are distributed to retirees.
That sounds a lot like the mythical Social Security lockbox, in which Washington seizes a portion of Americans' private income, then uses what it doesn't pay out in Social Security benefits to finance the general budget.
So it not only can happen here, it does happen here. It just hasn't yet spread to the private retirement accounts that Americans put their money in after Washington has taken a significant chunk of their paychecks to fund the crashing Social Security program. But it will, if we keep electing the same class of candidates that have created the problems plaguing us today.
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The Argentines have already had at least one Reign of Terror: 10,000 Desaparecidos in the 1970s. The govt took a leaf from the Nazi's playbook, "Nacht und Nebel" (night and fog) in which people just disappeared, hence the term "Desaparecidos"
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Here's the Divorce decree from liberalism and tyranny.
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists
and Obama supporters, et al:
We have stuck together since the late 1950's or the sake of the kids, but
the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a
divorce.... I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of
future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what
is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile
and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is a model separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a
similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two
sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively
easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets
since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to
the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our
firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. We'll take the nasty, smelly
oil industry and you can go with wind, solar and biodiesel. You can keep
Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell (You are, however, responsible for
finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them).
We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies,
Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have your beloved lifelong welfare
dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies and illegal
aliens. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks.
We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood .
You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to
invade and hammer places that threaten us. You can have the peaceniks and
war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll
help provide them security.
We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.. You are welcome to Islam,
Scientology, Humanism, political correctness and Shirley McClain. You can
also have the U.N.. but we will no longer be paying the bill.
We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take
every Subaru station wagon you can find.
You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors.
We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. We'll
keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I'm sure
you'll be happy to substitute Imagine, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing,
Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World.
We'll practice trickle down economics and you can continue to give trickle
up poverty your best shot.
Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our
flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like minded
liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete.
In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you which one of us will
need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American
P. S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbara
Streisand, & Jane Fonda with you.
P. P. S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our
country
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If the law student ever had a relationship with a psycho, which the left and liberalism mostly closely resembles, he would know a divorce is not enough.
She'll come by at odd hours, tear filled, puffy eyes, begging you to take her back or she'll do something desperate.
She'll bring the cops to your door because you failed to fulfill some obscure part of the divorce decree to her satisfaction, except, she'll tell the police you threatened her.
She and her lawyer will drag you into court to try to get you to pay her credit card bills, her auto repair bills or her insurance bill; not that that is in the decree, just so her lawyer can collect fees from you.
The fun is infinitely varied and literally never ends.
No, a divorce is not enough. Like a case of herpes, you are stuck with this crazy individual for the rest of your life until she decides you aren't stuck with her. Your best hope, outside of someone else shooting or stabbing her, is that she finds someone else she can make even more miserable than you.
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heh, Bad is right. My ex is on Husband #4. It was only after hubby #2 that she lost interest in making my life hard. Guess it's a "who's currently on my list"
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It was only after hubby #2 that she lost interest in making my life hard.
Awwwww, she just already cleaned you out got a soft spot for 'ye. Still good news, is good.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
