...It's not the future for the dog, either I say that because he's standing at the back door barking at me because I'm out here, and that means I cannot be inside giving him pesto pasta left over from supper: the GALL. It's never the future for a dog, but they're aware of it, inasmuch as they have a keen sense of expecting what is to come, but that's just displacing the Present into the realm of Desire, and barking until it comes true. See also, politics.
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As a commenter said:
Another amazing piece of slice-of-life mixed with musings and interpretation of animal thoughts. Im amazed whenever I see James do it, even though I know hes done it before.
Alas! The old cliches about Mexico are coming home again. Veteran New York Times newsman Scottie Reston once said that "Americans will do anything for Latin America -- except read about it." When four people connected with the U.S. consulate in Juarez were gunned down in March, three of them American citizens, it didn't dominate the headlines here. The murders came on the heels of 79 Americans killed in Mexico in 2009.
How to account for this refusal to appreciate a primary security problem escalating along our 1,500-mile southern border? In the mid-1980s, when I was returning from decades in Asia, it didn't take any special perspicacity to recognize the classic problems of "underdevelopment" were present right here, not in distant parts of Africa and Asia. Mexico and the U.S., then as now, shared the only land border between a modern industrialized economy and the Third World. The book I wrote then -- the title hyped but certainly appropriate now, "Mexico: Chaos on Our Doorstep" -- only needs statistical updating to apply to the situation today.
That other classic Mexico cliche also bears repeating just now. Porfirio Diaz, the late 19th-century dictator, observed, "Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States." There is no denying that we provide the world's largest market for "recreational drugs" -- conservative estimates put Mexico's total drug smuggling in 2009 at between $25 billion and $40 billion, more than the country's No. 1 export, oil. There is evidence that smugglers also supply the illicit weaponry from the U.S. that fuels a hideous war among crime "cartels" battling for control of the traffic inside Mexico (and increasingly on this side of the border) and against the government.
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Thereis evidence that smugglers also supply the illicit weaponry from the U.S. that fuels a hideous war among crime "cartels" battling for control of the traffic inside Mexico (and increasingly on this side of the border) and against the government.
Sheesh. Even in an otherwise reasonable and informative article, this journo can't resist the urge to keep pushing this proven bald-faced lie.
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"Americans will do anything for Latin America -- except read about it."
Not that the Euro-American centric MSM would cover it anyways except when Ronnie was awash in the Contra affair. About the only place someone who's interested in news from south of the border on a routine basis can get it is from Univision et al. The border has been intentionally buried by the tranzie MSM because of their narrative not because there is not 'news'.
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Saved me the trouble, Ricky. As you say, "sheesh"! I mean, it's not as though drug cartels in Latin America have any other way of getting firearms than to go through the hoops of illegally acquiring them in the US - I mean, what better options would they have? What's especially impressive is how they acquire weapons in the US that are not for sale, and use them extensively in their little wars. Surely our Second Amendment must be responsible for this little bit of evil sorcery??
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You have to ask yourself, as a drug lord would you prefer an American made semi-auto rifle that costs $1500 or a fully automatic AK-47 that costs $400?
What would you prefer to face a military or other drug lords with?
Simple logical logistics and supply point to other suppliers than the US.
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I check the online versions of the El Paso Times and the Brownsville Herald, both give better coverage of events south of the border than the rest of the MSM does, put together.
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conservative estimates put Mexico's total drug smuggling in 2009 at between $25 billion and $40 billion
So somebody is making a helluva lot of money. Am I the only one who suspects the corrupting influence of all this money might have something to do with the lack of government action and MSM coverage?
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I mean, if you have kids you can bet that someday somebody is gonna wave a joint in their faces and ask them if they want a hit.
"C'mon," they'll say, "just a puff can't hurt you."
They'll be older and cooler and very persuasive. Then it'll be lines of cocaine on a mirror or a little taste of smack. I'm talking about kids, mind you, twelve years old and maybe even younger. They don't always have the experience, wisdom or maturity to resist that kind of temptation. Don't you wish you had a government that would do something about it instead of a bunch of crooked bastards who are just as bad as the ones running Mexico?
Janet Napolitano looked the other way when she was governor of Arizona and she's looking the other way now. There is no way in hell this bitch is on the up and up and anybody who would give her a job has to be just as bad.
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There is no way in hell this bitch is on the up and up and anybody who would give her a job has to be just as bad. Some of Obama's weird behavior makes me think he's using coke now & then.
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Some of Obama's weird behavior makes me think he's using coke now & then.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing
Watching and listening to The Annointed One is admittedly quite unpleasant, but Ive wondered the exact same thing Hupo. Very strange performances some of them. Harvard University and the teleprompter can't be blamed for ALL his run-on lecturing and verbal blunderings. Besides, leopards seldom change their spots. I think there will be books written about this scoundrel long, long after we're gone.
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Some of Obama's weird behavior makes me think he's using coke now & then.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418
As a former coke head (over 25 years ago) I can assure you he is a user. I pray to God everynight to deliver us from this evil POS, before huge numbers of us get killed.
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How do you know, Secret Asian Man? What are the indicators?
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I told my stepkids how they smuggle drugs up someones butt to get them across the border then fish them out of the toilet on the other side. It'll be some time before those kids think of drugs without the crap connotation. Hopefully long enough.
The reaction I got from the kids was priceless and it makes me wonder why schools don't emphasize this sort of thing. Heck, they can google it and find out I'm telling the truth. I didn't specify which drugs, however. Best to let them think its all drugs for now.
Contrary to the notion that the cartels depend on semi-automatic rifles bought illegally in the United States, the cartel conducted its attacks with a variety of weapons that cannot be legally bought anywhere in our country. As the Los Angeles Times reported, "In coordinated attacks, gunmen in armored cars and equipped with grenade launchers fought army troops this week. . . . The army said it confiscated armored cars, grenade launchers, about 100 military-grade grenades, [and] explosive devices" in addition to a large quantity of ammunition.
Contrast that reality with the fiction perpetuated by politicians on both sides of the border. NRA members certainly recall that soon after President Obama took office last year, Attorney General Eric Holder stated his support for an "assault weapon" ban as the solution to Mexico's drug violence. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal.), the sponsor of the federal "assault weapon" ban in 1993, soon called upon President Obama to support the Inter-American Convention Against Illegal Arms Trafficking, claiming, "According to the Mexican government, about 90 percent of the weapons they seize from Mexican drug cartels came into the country illegally from the United States." Newspapers around the country fell for the ruse hook, line and sinker, parroting the 90 percent claim, as well as the utterly absurd, mathematically impossible claim that 2,000 guns cross from the U.S. into Mexico each day.
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Classic case of outlaws having guns when guns are outlawed. OTOH, if you were an ordinary, law abiding Mexican you might want an AR-15 or a shotgun or anything else you could get your hands on just for self-defense. Some of these narco terrorists might not be so cocky if they had to take the odd pot shot from an armed citizenry.
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#13 ebbang coke heads are usuallreal cocky.It's obamas fault I am now a drug user since i find myself popping a xanax every time i turn on the news
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How do you know, Secret Asian Man? What are the indicators?
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305
Well, there is the cockiness, the rambling, the alternating between what appears to euphoria...then irritation, his thin skin and the clincher for me was the weird nose picking thing at the Health Care Summit.
I was giving him the benefit of the doubt vis-a-vis coke abuse, but when I saw that, I knew right then. That infinitesimally brief expression he got when he realized what he was doing spoke volumes.
Barry be a coke head.
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It's obamas fault I am now a drug user since i find myself popping a xanax every time i turn on the news
I use cheap bourbon. I would prefer the good stuff if I could afford it.
The CRPF and local police on anti-Naxal operations perform a thankless job but a few basic counter-insurgency measures could have prevented the deadly Dantewada attack, writes B Raman.
6/4 will go down as a black day in the history of India's [ Images ] counter-insurgency just as 26/11 became a black day in the history of Indian counter-terrorism.
In a well-prepared and well-executed attack of unprecedented mobilisation, precision and savagery a large number of Maoists (Naxalites [ Images ] -- estimated by the local police to be about 1,000 strong -- ambushed a combined party of over 80 members of the Central Reserve Police Force and the district police returning from road security duty and managed to kill 75 members of the CRPF and local police force on April 6.
The Maoists had reportedly taken up position on a hill overlooking the route by which the party was returning after performing its task. It is not clear whether the route was a regular road or a motorable jungle track. The ambush took place in the thick Mukrana forests of Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district.
The fact that the Maoists were able to mobilise such a large number of persons for the ambush would indicate that they had advance indication of the return of the CRPF party by that route. They might have had advance intelligence of the plans of the party or they might have assessed that the CRPF might be returning by this road after watching the CRPF men conduct search and destroy operations in the area for three days.
A rule of precaution in counter-insurgency operation is that you don't use the same route for going to an operational area and returning. Often, this precaution is not followed by the security forces either due to carelessness or due to the fact that the security forces do not have much of a choice due to the poor development of roads in the jungle areas in which the Maoists operate.
One may recall an incident a couple of years ago when a large police party had gone by boat from Andhra Pradesh into Orissa. The Maoists had noticed them going and had correctly assessed that the party would be returning by the same route. When they did, a large number of Maoists had taken up position on a raised feature overlooking the river and they literally mowed down over 50 members of the police party.
We have probably not learnt the right lessons from the river ambush and facilitated a deadly road ambush in thick forests by not following basic dos and don'ts of counter-insurgency. The CRPF and the police have to perform a thankless task for want of proper road and telecommunications networks in the Maoist-infected areas. While the Maoists are trained to trek long distances by foot, the security forces tend to be road and vehicles-bound.
They become sitting ducks for the insurgents, who surprise them with explosives and landmines and then mow them down with hand-held weapons. The reflexes of the security forces tend to be weak as could be seen from the fact that there have been very few instances of an ambushed security forces patrol recovering from the ambush and retaliating against the Maoists. Ambushes always tend to be fatal for the security forces with very few instances of successful counter-ambushes by the security forces.
Continuing serious deficiencies in rural policing and in police-rural communities relationships have been coming in the way of village help for the police by way of preventive intelligence. Counter-intelligence in the rural areas to prevent the penetration of the security forces by the Maoists is also weak. The fact that only one member of the police was killed in the ambush makes one suspects possible collusion between the Maoists and some members of the district police.
Since the Maoists and the local police recruits are recruited from the same rural stock, possibilities of penetration of the new police recruits by the Maoists are high.
The time has come to think in terms of using helicopter patrols and spotter drones in our counter-insurgency operations against the Maoists in areas covered by thick jungles. An important question to be examined in this connection is how to prevent civilian casualties of villagers and residents of jungles and avoid environmental damage. B Raman
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A reader of National Review writes:
Obama, Rahm, Biden, Gibbs and probably some of the rest of the administration suffer from a severe fake macho complex. I think I've just invented a term here, so let me explain. Fake macho is the act of engaging in stereotypical male activities with great fanfare and publicity.
Bush, by all accounts, is a fitness enthusiast. Yet, I don't remember hearing as much about his activities as I do about Obama. Bush quietly woke up early every morning and hopped on the stationary bike. . . .Thus, his first pitch entailed walking to the mound, throwing the pitch and walking away. It was simple and serious; consistent with activity that is done often and sincerely. It did not come across as purely for show.
By contrast, I know every team that Obama follows in all of his favorite sports. I can tell you how his final four brackets looked the past two years. I know that he enjoys golfing much more than Bush and plays basketball on a regular basis with other guys (and only guys!) within the administration and Congress. Thus, he trots out there for his first pitch and engages in silly theatrics. He even brought his own props! (Oh and look, it is that same Chicago White Sox gag he did last time.) Then Obama throws a horrible pitch, laughs and almost makes a little-girl-like "oops" gesture with his hand over mouth.
All of this is accentuated by his staff. I know that Gibbs is from Auburn and was disappointed last year when they didn't make to the tournament and tweeted about his love for Auburn the day Alabama visited the White House. I know that Rahm Emanuel does stereotypical things like yell at people while naked in Congressional gym showers, sends dead fish to political enemies, and spent an evening after an election victory on top of a table shouting a list of people (mostly men) he was going "f***." Don't forget my favorite, what is the best way to resolve a manly dispute? Why, over a beer in the Rose Garden!
Certainly some of these are natural things that men enjoy; but endlessly promoting them in a "hey, look I'm a real man" manner is downright creepy. This is fake macho.
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Punks and wannabes. They've become a national embarrassment. They produce cringes every time that meet serious leaders of much lesser nations-- last week it was Israel, this week it's Canada and India.
Next to Obama, Chavez and Putin look dignified and Ajad looks wise.
2012 can't come soon enough. Rid us of this vain and foolish little man.
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Barry reminds me of, like, THE Really Cool Kid in high school. He doesn't have to do much of anything except show up. His fawning sycophants will do the rest for him. All he has to do is be cool.
And there's nothing wrong with that. Unless you have the lives of three hundred million people in your hands. Then the Cool Kid who really can't do much ain't so cool any more...
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VP Joe Bidet, being the seasoned political unit that he is, will come to the fore and assume the Alpha-Male leadership role needed to stem the loud, swirling, yet ebbing eddy of plots and schemes targeting his naïve, dark, Kenyan king.
For king and Chi-town crew! they chanted as the white porcelain government machine consigned them all to Sea Duty.
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
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