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2011-01-07 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Mexico Imports Millions of Tons of Trash to Southern Arizona Annually

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2011-01-07 12:28|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 "Shouldn't the headline read Mexico exports...?", he asked pedantically.

Posted by SteveS 2011-01-07 13:08|| 2011-01-07 13:08|| Front Page Top

#2 And the lefty tree hugging moonbats complain about my son and his dirt bike....

Posted by 49 Pan 2011-01-07 13:24|| 2011-01-07 13:24|| Front Page Top

#3 "Shouldn't the headline read Mexico exports...?", he asked pedantically.

Once the legals have made their way across the border, whatever they've brought with them and dropped on this side of the border becomes an import from Mexico, SteveS. Had they stayed on the Mexican side and tossed it across, that would be an export. See how easy it is? ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-07 14:34|| 2011-01-07 14:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Tons, I'd believe. Millions of tons stretches credulity. The USS Ronald Reagan weighs 20628 tons. According to the article, 2,000 tons a year. But even that is a stretch.

A Ford f350 pickup weighs about 6 tons. That is 333 pickups worth of trash.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-01-07 16:11|| 2011-01-07 16:11|| Front Page Top

#5 whatever they've brought with them and dropped on this side of the border becomes an import from Mexico

"Not so fast", he replied. Now you have changed the preposition. And the subject as well. I'm OK with illegals importing trash *from* Mexico (actually I'm not!), but that is still a long way from Mexico imports stuff *to* somewhere. Even though it is just across the border.

And while we're going on, shouldn't an F-350 count for a round of drinks?

Posted by SteveS 2011-01-07 21:42|| 2011-01-07 21:42|| Front Page Top

#6 only one - it's an overweight version of the F-150 *drink up!*

Posted by Frank G 2011-01-07 21:47|| 2011-01-07 21:47|| Front Page Top

#7 SteveS, I do love being out-argued. I'll pay for that round of drinks.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-07 22:51|| 2011-01-07 22:51|| Front Page Top

#8 All in good fun, tw. Extra credit to Anonymoose for using numbers and actual math. Next round is on me. Q-Ship!

Posted by SteveS 2011-01-07 23:59|| 2011-01-07 23:59|| Front Page Top

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