Couple of years back I told a guy I worked with- the subject of Mexico had come up- that there are places

down there I'd love to see, but no way I'd go there right now.  His opinion being to nod and say he had family down there, but not a chance he'd visit under current conditions.

Yesterday I had the radio on, and someone said one of his daughters had called and said she was going with some friends to Mexico for spring break; he said 'The hell you are!' and when they asked why he asked if they'd seen the news lately?

...They sent their message in the form of burning cars, torched businesses, and highway blockades across at least eight Mexican states (Jalisco, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Colima, Nayarit, Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas).
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One day you’re eating ceviche and guzzling tequila, the next you’re dodging roadblocks manned by heavily armed guys who really don’t like losing their boss. And hoping you or your family don’t become an “accidental” backstop for cartel bullets.

There are beautiful places down there, but no, thank you, not for the foreseeable future.

Meanwhile, outside of here,

Mexico has gone major sporty again.  Seems the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was wounded when the Mexican Army went after him, and died.  And said cartel has gone apeshit all around the country, with the expected 'shelter in place' and such warnings.

Would you want to get on an airplane out of one of those cities right now if you'd read anything of what all these cartels own and do?


Sen. Sanders(Commie-VT) says doesn't know where his birth certificate is, and doesn't know how to get a new one.

Hey, don't give up, guy; it's probably somewhere in one of those three or four houses(don't forget to check your trunks) you own.

What?  The commie mayor's followers hate cops in general?  And he encourages them?

You surprised?

Speaking of that wonderful National Health Service in Canuckistan, wonder how many people died in the same kind of ways and the families, or some of the people involved, haven't talked about it?


And from Occasional-Cortex: "If you think I don't understand international matters, it's YOUR FAULT!"
Oh, of course.

Now I need to take care of some things, and hopefully keep healing.

Tell us the cartels own you without saying it outright

The United States managed to arrest Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord, but Mexican prosecutors — and the president — now say they are considering bringing treason charges against those who handed him over

Some general stuff before I become productive for a while

Mexico can't (or won't) defeat the cartels, so they've become 'job creators' and such.  Yeah, that'll work out.


Remember the Littoral Combat Ships that were supposed to save us all?  Holy crap, the Navy is screwed.


Great, a worm that could be used to disable trucks.

There are places in Mexico I'd love to see, but not until

this crap has been dealt with.  Which may mean never.

How screwed is Mexico?

Intense fighting has erupted in the Mexican city of Culiacán, where masked gunmen threw up burning barricades and traded gunfire with security forces after authorities arrested one of the sons of the jailed former leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
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However, the patrol was quickly overpowered by cartel gunmen, and the decision was taken to withdraw to protect the lives of the National Guard and restore calm in the city, where gangsters had set up roadblocks and were unleashing heavy automatic gunfire, Durazo said.
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“The decision was taken to retreat from the house, without Guzman to try to avoid more violence in the area and preserve the lives of our personnel and recover calm in the city,” Durazo said.

Miguel notes
By this decision, the President recognizes that the state of Sinaloa is in total ownership of Chapo Jr. and the Cartel and they are incapable to remove them.  Mexico is not being held hostage by the Cartels: they were bought by them. Elected Government is just but a fake veneer of legality to still show an image of “stability” to the world.

If nothing changes, I give it about a decade before we have our first Narco Regime with a Capo openly being the Head of State and the rest of the Cartels with a piece of the country. Just like Lucky Luciano did creating The Commission but write large and in full disclosure.

Ho-lee crap

Intense fighting has erupted in the Mexican city of Culiacán, where masked gunmen threw up burning barricades and traded gunfire with security forces after authorities arrested one of the sons of the jailed former leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
'Intense fighting' including trucks with heavy machine guns mounted in the back.

Well, if you can't count on the authorities to do something,

or people have come to believe they won't, people will start acting.  And not in ways the authorities will approve of.


The Energy Department is all upset about that letter from the President-Elect.
“My members are upset and have questions about what this means. These are all civil servants who do their jobs,” Tony Reardon, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said in a statement.

“They have no wish to be caught up in political winds — they are nonpartisan employees — scientists, engineers, statisticians, economists and financial experts — who were hired for their knowledge and they bring their talent and experience to the job every day,” he said, adding that the union “will do all it can to ensure that merit system rules are followed.”
If they've been acting within the rules, they are protected by that system; if they've been acting outside the rules, then they're not and shouldn't be.

Can you say "If we tell them what we've actually been doing, I'm in trouble!" ?


More of that non-existent vote fraud we're not supposed to worry about.
Detailed reports from the office of Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett show optical scanners at 248 of the city’s 662 precincts, or 37 percent, tabulated more ballots than the number of voters tallied by workers in the poll books. Voting irregularities in Detroit have spurred plans for an audit by Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson’s office, Elections Director Chris Thomas said Monday.
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Overall, state records show 10.6 percent of the precincts in the 22 counties that began the retabulation process couldn’t be recounted because of state law that bars recounts for unbalanced precincts or ones with broken seals.
Gee, you'd think someone involved in the process had been playing games with the vote count or something.

Tab clearing

Human history just got a bit more complicated


If this information is correct, the clowns running that school should be sued for everything they have.  And will have.  This is freaking disgusting.


Most of the press made a point of not checking his background before the '08 election; you expect them to start holding him responsible for anything now?


Tar and feathers.  Possibly whips and clubs.
In a draft policy statement jointly issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Education, federal bureaucrats have — on their own initiative — subordinated parents to a secondary role in the rearing of their children. While the draft is neither finalized nor binding (yet), it serves as a clear shot across the bow of every freedom-loving parent who naively believes that his parenting principles, priorities and practices will be protected and respected by government.


Screw Panama and- especially- Mexico.  When there is another major attack here, there's a good chance they'll be partially responsible for it.  And if you think that's not intentional on their part...


Speaking of Mexico and our 'more secure than ever' border...


Of course she would; she'll forgive anything for someone socialist enough.


Wonder of this 'well-educated' idiot has ever heard of the Dredd Scott decision?

Meanwhile, south of the border,

“The army took away our high-powered weapons such as AK-47’s and AR-15 and left us with only shotguns, we can’t go up against grenades with our limited weaponry. We are on the brink of extinction; we are being killed with the complicity of the government.” Josefa Contreras, autodefensa leader in the area, denounced.
The Mexican government has had this policy for a long time: "We may not be able(or want to) stop the cartels, but we can deal with you uppity peasants!  Better you raped/beaten/robbed/tortured/murdered than we allow you to have sufficient arms to protect yourselves!"  And a lot of people seem to be pretty sick of it.

This keeps going, at some point there's going to be a serious blowup between citizens trying to stay alive and the government.  And it'll get nasty.  Think what the border will be like then...

Some more information on the biker shootings in Waco,

including some autopsy results.  Includes some other links, and to say some of it doesn't look good for the LE involved just might be an understatement.


Ah, Mexico: where the .gov won't protect you from the cartels and other open criminals, and damn sure does not want you to protect yourself.


The cops are openly admitting it was a racial attack, which is a step forward.


I've got a set of Caldwell electronic muffs I bought a few years ago*. They still work, but the pads on the ear cups were starting to crack. Badly.  So I dug around and found the web page for the company and asked "Do you have replacements, and if so how much?"

Message back, which included a picture: "Look like these? If so, we have them."

My response: "That's them."
 
Their response: "We'll send you a pair."

Came in yesterday, fit perfectly. Customer service, it's a wonderful thing.


*No, they're not as fast-acting as, say, Peltor.  They work.

When the subject of the Fairly-Socialized Multi-Cultural Paradise of Sweden comes up,

refer them to this.  And this.  I'd heard it was bad, but damn.

Also, next time someone starts that "Hate speech should not be protected under the 1st Amendment!" crap, after you ask them just who'll decide what 'hate speech' is, make sure they got to this part of the second link:
This remark led to Michael Hess being charged with "denigration of ethnic groups" [hets mot folkgrupp], a crime in Sweden.
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...During his trial, he provided evidence of how sharia law deals with rape, and statistics to indicate that Muslims are vastly overrepresented among perpetrators of rape in Sweden. However, the court decided that facts were irrelevant:

"The Court [Tingsrätten] notes that the question of whether or not Michael Hess's pronouncement is true, or appeared to be true to Michael Hess, has no bearing on the case. Michael Hess's statement must be judged based on its timing and context. ... At the time of the offense, Michael Hess referred neither to established research nor to Islamic sources. It was only in connection with his indictment that Michael Hess tried to find support in research and religious writings. The Court therefore notes that Michael Hess's pronouncement was obviously not a part of any reasoned [saklig] or trustworthy [vederhäftig] discussion. Michael Hess's pronouncement must therefore be viewed as an expression of disdain for immigrants with an Islamic faith."

Translation: "It doesn't matter that what you said was true, We don't like it!  And you're lucky you're not in jail for it."  That's what 'hate speech' laws would mean here, too.


Speaking of other countries and idiot policies,
Mexico’s theory is that, since any gun in the U.S. might at some point conceivably cross the U.S. border, all U.S. guns have to be controlled in the name of controlling the international arms trade.
My theory is "Hey, Mexico, why don't you worry first about changing your country from a corrupt third-world hellhole in large part controlled by cartels and oligarchs in which commoners having arms for self-defense is punished?  And where people think that crossing a desert, or sending their KIDS, to sneak into another country is a good idea?  THAT just might help more than blaming us.

Here's hoping Amherst loses both ears, the tail,

and their endowment.  A very short summation by Ace:
Yes, you read that right. The Kangaroo Court found that the boy was likely blacked out unconscious from drinking during the accuser's performing of oral sex on him, but that this is never an excuse.

Apparently, if you're asleep or unconscious, and a woman performs oral sex on your unconscious body, you can be later be accused and convicted (in a college civil tribunal) of rape, if she decides that this was all rather ill-advised.
If a male did that to a female, he's a rapist.  A female does it to a male... he's a rapist.

I hope his attorney goes for the throat; a few of these colleges, and the idiots in charge of this, losing their ass will be the only thing that'll get their attention.


Sue the selectmen for this crap, and throw in the CoP; he damn well knew this was bullshit.


What it takes to live and work in Mexico.  Bribes, fees, forms and all.  While the bastards say they should be free to come and go here anytime they wish, AND get all the benefits they want.


That is one big damn fish.  With big damn teeth.
The massive predator, measuring 20-plus feet and boasting the girth of a fat hippo, was featured last year by the Discovery network, which aired part of a tagging effort that involved local researcher Mauricio Hoyos Padilla. 

The shark, perhaps 50 years old, was said to be one of the largest white sharks ever tagged and videotaped, and on Tuesday Hoyos posted newly released footage of the same shark on Facebook, under the title, “I give you the biggest white shark ever seen in front of the cages in Guadalupe Island… DEEP BLUE!!!”
Read this book last year, and she mentioned that the big sharks, especially the biggest females, had a girth that was flat amazing; looking at that picture, I believe her.

Tab clearing

Senior officials at the Social Security Administration (SSA) tried to hide a damning report on a $300 million computer system that lawmakers have called a “boondoggle” in order to protect President Obama’s nominee to lead the agency, a whistleblower claimed in an interview with FoxNews.com. 


Ignore all the other progressive crap: they admit the reason they want Murthy as Surgeon General is to attack the 2nd Amendment.
The debate is over for now — it was indeed over long before the Sandy Hook massacre — and no more room exists even for a mild piece of legislation, like an assault-weapons ban, that might have done a little good but that mostly makes gun-control liberals feel better about themselves. Yet if we remove the debate from a gun context, if we approach our epidemic of gun violence from the point of view of a doctor serving the health and welfare of all Americans — well, that changes things. Or could if Murthy is given a chance.
'Nobody wants to take your guns!' my ass.


Linked to this piece once before, but worth linking again if you've missed it before: Street robberies, the basics


Our noble AG really has a soft spot for the Black Panthers, doesn't he?  Wonder how many people it'll get killed...


Ayoob has some posts on Ferguson.  Haven't read them yet, need to get to that.


Once more, hippies: yes, Hitler & Co. were socialists.  Deal with it.


More on the most recent massacre in Mexico(that I know of, at least).
But the government sure as hell doesn't want the honest commoners having arms; THAT would be destabilizing, or something.

Tab clearing: "Enemies list? Shut up. That was a staffer.

Nobody knew anything about it."


Yeah, just the sort you'd want teaching your kid.
If you were Nation of Islam, anyway.


Rep. elect Mia Love.  Gets by because of white privilege...
No, these idiots aren't kidding.


Ontario Provincial Police want people to get a internet license, get rid of that troublesome anonymity thing.  I think they should have their badges and toys taken away from them.


'Higher' Education in Illinois.  We'll probably find out he's a good friend of the Presidents' friend Bill Ayers.


And right across that border we're not supposed to worry about, politicians and cops and cartels, murdering shitbags all.


And more of what 'higher' education has become: oversensitive whiny grievance-mongers who really don't like free speech.  Or intelligent speech for that matter.

Meanwhile, over that southern border we're not supposed to worry about securing,

Mexico's top prosecutor says a mayor and his wife ordered the attack on 43 students who have been missing for nearly a month. The couple — of the town of Iguala in the southern state of Guerrero — are now fugitives.
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He said that on the night of Sept. 26, as the students were heading toward Iguala in several buses they had commandeered, the order to stop them came over the local police radios — and that is was given by "A-5," the code name for Iguala's mayor.
Local police intercepted the student's buses and started shooting, killing six people and rounding up the 43 students. According to the attorney general, the students were taken to another police force and then transported to the outskirts of Iguala. Those orders, he said, came from the head of the Guerreros Unidos, whom federal authorities captured last week.

Attorney General Murillo Karam said investigators are still trying to positively identify the remains of some 30 bodies found in nine graves outside Iguala.
But we're not supposed to worry about the border and who's crossing it, oh no...

Saw something on this early in the month, original story here.

Side thought: wonder if any of the guns Holder & Co. ran to the cartels were used in these murders?

'Free speech'to the CSGV means "Say what we want you to,

or we'll try  to ruin you."
Yeah, I'd imagine they'd love to play Dzerzhinsky, camps, cells and all.


So let's start treating Mexico as the hostile government it is


Oh no, couldn't possibly be a connection, noooo....
The CDC hasn’t suggested reasons for the current uptick or its origin. Without that answer, some question whether the disease is being spread by the presence of tens of thousands of illegal immigrant children from Central America admitted to the U.S. in the past year.

The origin could be entirely unrelated.

However,a study published in Virology Journal, found EV-D68 among some of the 3,375 young, ill people tested in eight Latin American countries, including the Central American nations of El Salvador and Nicaragua, in 2013.

Though the U.S. government is keeping secret the locations of the illegal immigrant children, there are significant numbers of them in both cities in which the current outbreak was first identified, Kansas City, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois, according to local advocates and press reports.


Reading, writing, arithmetic and approved social activism; and they wonder why people think the schools are crap.


Humvee I can see, but someone explain why the hell the coroner needs any military arms for his job..
"I just wanted to protect myself," he said.
So buy a gun with your own damned money.


Why I despise the UN, Part Something:
“In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law [and] these rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations," it reminds mere “world citizens” of their place.
"Yes, you can have your freedoms, as long as they do not displease Us."

In Virginia is a DA named Claiborne Richardson,

who apparently is an idiot.  And needs to be removed from that office.

Not to mention some police who, since they apparently have actual crimes(vs. 'stupid teenagers being stupd') so under control that they have the time to screw around with this.  Also that the female was also sending nekkid pictures of herself, but she wasn't charged, and couldn't a lawyer who wanted to make hay with that?


Yes, Mexico is actively helping this mess.  Openly, now.  Wonder just what kind of sanctions could be done on this, assuming some politicians who have the balls to do so?

Also, some of what Mexico is helping shove over our border.


New Zealand wants to get rid of that troublesome 'innocent until proven guilty' and 'right to remain silent' stuff in some cases.  Guess which ones?
Both major parties claim the current system is not upholding justice for victims, and are looking at changes that would effectively make it easier for prosecutors to obtain convictions.

National wants to explore allowing a judge or jury to see an accused's refusal to give evidence in a negative light, while Labour wants to shift the burden of proof of consent from the alleged victim to the accused.


Hey, Connecticut, how's it feel to know your politicians are sending more jobs to another state?

More results from the Smart Diplomacy of Obama

A trusted law enforcement source is reporting that shots are currently being fired on the Mexican side of the U.S. border. The shots are intended to harass the increased presence of Texas law enforcement personnel.


Add that to the disease threat:
“It’s like a crapshoot,” Spratte says. “You may or may not be letting something in with a disease we haven’t had in the U.S. before.” He says he knows of an active case of tuberculosis that passed through the facility, along with people who had scabies and others who had measles. There was even one case of leprosy, he says. “I don’t think the people in the interior U.S. realize it’s a different world,” Spratte says. “This is the U.S., but it’s a different part of the U.S. This is almost like a different country.”
And in conditions like these, the stuff will spread:
He says the living conditions of the people at the McAllen station make him nauseous. The people detained at the center — unaccompanied children, adults and families — are placed in the sally port, an outside garage with chain gates on either side that allow air to flow through the facility. Spratte says the sally port at the McAllen Border Patrol Station may hold up to four buses or multiple vans. The vehicles pull up to the gates to unload people who are then taken inside for processing. “I can smell it before ten, 15 feet away,” Spratte says. “You walk around in there, it smells like funk.”   He says the problem will only get worse, as “pretty soon all of Central America is going to be in the U.S.”

Mexico couldn't deal with the cartel, the locals got tired of it and did,

and now the government wants to 'legalize' them.  And register their guns, of course.
The ceremony in the town of Tepalcatepec, where the movement began in February 2013, will involve the registration of thousands of guns by the federal government and an agreement that the so-called "self-defense" groups will either join a new official rural police force or return to their normal lives and acts as voluntary reserves when called on.
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With Saturday's ceremony, a federal commissioner now in charge of the violence-plagued state hopes to end the "wild west" chapter of the movement, in which civilians built roadblocks and battled cartel members for towns in the rich farming area called the "Tierra Caliente," or "Hot Land."

The new rural forces are designed to be a way out of an embarrassing situation, in which elected leaders and law enforcement agencies lost control of the entire state to the pseudo-religious Knights Templar drug cartel. Efforts to retake control with federal police and military failed. Eventually government forces had to rely on the vigilantes because of their knowledge of where to find the cartel gunmen.

Lots of them are saying "Screw that" to the registration idea; past history tells them that would be a bad idea.  And they don't trust the government to keep after the bad guys, either.
"This (demobilization) agreement is just something to please the government," said Rene Sanchez, 22, a vigilante from the self-defense stronghold of Buenavista. "With them or without them, we are going to keep at it."