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Glove Slap: The U.S. ambassador to Mexico spoke volumes with one provocative word.
Houston Chronicle ^
| 8/22/05
Posted on 08/22/2005 6:32:07 PM PDT by Crackingham
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To: Crackingham
What's the Spanish word for this?
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posted on
08/22/2005 6:38:09 PM PDT
by
DTogo
(U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
To: Crackingham
I'm crying a river for the Mexicans right now. Their brazen indignation toward the country that is stupidly providing them welfare and fertile ground for their drug gangs and other crimes is the height of arrogance.
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posted on
08/22/2005 6:38:39 PM PDT
by
Excuse_My_Bellicosity
("Veni, vedi, Vichy." ("I came, I saw, I capitulated to German occupation forces."))
To: Crackingham
A longtime political associate of President Bush, Garza is not a professional diplomat. All the more reason he's qualified to be an ambassador.
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posted on
08/22/2005 6:41:28 PM PDT
by
Undertow
("I have found some kind of temporary sanity...")
To: Crackingham
"may be to let the Mexican government get a sense of how severe this issue is from a U.S. point of view. For a real "feel" of the US point of view..........
"el Presidente Fox, phone call on line two - a Senior Tom Tancredo, from Colorado, USA wishes to speak with you."
LVM
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posted on
08/22/2005 6:42:45 PM PDT
by
LasVegasMac
("God. Guts. Guns. I don't call 911." (bumper sticker))
To: Crackingham
Maybe our Mexican friends will be so insulted they will pick up and go home.
Nope, didn't think so.
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posted on
08/22/2005 6:43:39 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: DTogo
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posted on
08/22/2005 6:44:35 PM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Crackingham; HiJinx; gubamyster
According to analysts, Garza's remark probably achieved its purpose. Because Mexico and the United States are so politically and economically enmeshed, withdrawing an ambassador or enacting some kind of sanction would be harsher measures than the U.S. government wanted to take. At the same time, the border violence to which Garza responded is of deep concern here. American officials are pressing for Mexico's federal government to actively pursue border kingpins and narco-traffickers' safe houses, but in Nuevo Laredo at least, the murder rate has actually increased since federal intervention two months ago. Good for Garza! The Mexican government can whine all they want. Garza did the right thing.
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posted on
08/22/2005 6:46:59 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
To: TheSpottedOwl
This is still just talk. I say let the Mexicans put it vote. Let them become another 31 states in The U.S.
To: TheSpottedOwl
Mexico needs tourist dollars for those who do not come to the USA.
If the violence issue gets more MSM airplay, Mexican tourism is screwed.
To: Crackingham
"...This might be the U.S. calling Mexico's bluff, and indicating this is not business as usual..." Bullchit, mexico lives on illegals going to the U.S. and sending dollars home-PERIOD!
Mexico will do nothing except demand that the U.S. allow mexican citizens free access to everything in America, and the American government looks like it fully intends to do as the mexicans demand.
Our politicians make noises like they intend to address the issue but nothing EVER comes from all of the noise.
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posted on
08/22/2005 7:09:07 PM PDT
by
skimbell
(Now in its 42nd year and still no Exit Strategy for the War on Poverty.)
To: Crackingham
'Bout time words like that were used. Why bother to pussyfoot around?
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posted on
08/22/2005 7:10:33 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
To: one more state
Interesting thought, I could just see the parade of Democrats to immediatly recruit new members.
I wonder if they would support the new states becoming english speaking .
To: Crackingham
I have often been a vocal advocate of Mexicans, as most that I know are great people. I also advocate learning a foreign language. But there are, inevitably, bad apples coming across our border. The following story from the small town where I work illustrates the dark side of uncontrolled immigration. One of the shooting victims was my co-worker's Dad, at her brother's wedding reception.
Monday, August 8, 2005
Owner of Club Rio reacts after Saturday shooting
By Scott Kimbler GAINESVILLE GA. (Little Mexico)- Four people are injured in a drive-by shooting Saturday night in Gainesville.
Gang Task Force Member Sgt. Scott Ware said there was a confrontation among two gangs at Club Rio around 11:30.
"Following the fight someone came back and performed a drive-by shooting into the club striking four people." Ware said. "They appear to be bystanders."
Jose Isidro Macias, 20, Gainesville was arrested and charged with the shooting. He is charged with two counts aggravated battery, four counts aggravated assault and four counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
The owner of Club-Rio, Maria Retana said the people that were hit were inside the building were two party goers and two employees.
None of the victims sustained life threatening injuries.
"They were able to apprehend the suspect based on the camera." She said.
Retana praises the response of law enforcement to the shooting and says she will try to prevent future shootings. "We will work with the gang task force," Retana said. "To prevent anything like this from happening."
She added there was some sort of disturbance where two apparent gang members were asked to leave the reception just before the altercation took place in the parking lot.
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posted on
08/22/2005 7:24:13 PM PDT
by
Sender
(Team Infidel USA)
To: DTogo
Wow nice wall! Plenty of surface area for the Mexican gangs to spray paint and tall enough to make sure they do it only on the south side!
I'll bet we could get enough volunteers to build several hundred miles of this. Many would mix the concrete by hand.
To: Crackingham
We are all inured. Hardened. Even debauched.
Mexico is narco-terrorist territory. It's not even a state any longer. Just a loose confederation of competing outlaws.
American citizens are being murdered regularly on BOTH sides of the border by these scum. They are flooding our nation with drugs. They are flooding our nation with peons because they REFUSE to build a functioning industrial society.
The wealthy elite of Mexico think of themselves as princes ... not captains of industry. They sit on their corrupt asses and collect their 'mordita' from both the peons and the drug cartels.
What we should be doing is financing a revolution down there.
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posted on
08/22/2005 7:30:09 PM PDT
by
mercy
(never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over TWO YEARS now)
To: mercy
You would be stopped by a Mexican on a sidestreet in Zacatecas, and asked in an amazing tone, "SENOR, HOW COME YOU KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT MY COUNTRY???"" :-)
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posted on
08/22/2005 7:37:42 PM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(**AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT IS NOT SO MUCH "WHO" WE STAND FOR, BUT RATHER "WHAT" WE STAND FOR**)
To: one more state
They might vote for unification with the states. The only problem I would have is their corrupt political families, corrupt cops, and murdering scum drug gangs.
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posted on
08/22/2005 7:42:34 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
To: longtermmemmory
Only if MSM thinks the story will hurt Bush. I wonder if anyone is keeping accurate stats on Mexican tourism? I wonder if Sammy Hagar still hangs out in Cabo, for that matter...
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posted on
08/22/2005 7:45:15 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
To: mercy
Amen to your excellent reply!
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posted on
08/22/2005 7:48:12 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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