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Mexican Trucks Are on Our Roads
Townhall.com ^ | November 8, 2011 | Phyllis Schlafly

Posted on 11/08/2011 10:30:17 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: 1rudeboy

Yep, forgot about that. Does the crooked Mexican government own all our politicians?


21 posted on 11/08/2011 11:20:31 AM PST by Terry Mross (Where is the OPPOSITION party? I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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To: Terry Mross

Only Phyllis Schlafly can save us. And she doesn’t know how to count.


22 posted on 11/08/2011 11:21:54 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: ridesthemiles
You will have to elaborate more about how insured truck drivers will make my premium for uninsured drivers go up.

If you choose not to get vaccinated, not my problem . . . .

23 posted on 11/08/2011 11:24:08 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Kaslin

Mexican trucks have been on US roads for decades and decades. Ask any resident from San Ysidro, Ca to Brownsville, Tx.


24 posted on 11/08/2011 11:36:40 AM PST by csmusaret (The only borders Obama has closed is a bookstore.)
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To: 1rudeboy; Terry Mross; ridesthemiles

Well well. Rudeboy trashing conservative warhorse Phyllis Schlafly while leading the charge for Mexico.

Some things never change around here. But then some libertarians haven’t any use for nationalism, at least when it comes to this country.


25 posted on 11/08/2011 11:39:34 AM PST by Pelham (Every nation that rose to power did so by protecting its manufacturing base)
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To: Kaslin

Just follow the oil trails...


26 posted on 11/08/2011 11:53:44 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Kaslin

Let me understand this:

The American taxpayers are providing electronic recording devices for Mexican trucks, which include GPS units.

At the same time, a company Barry the Imposter has personally invested in—LIGHTSQUARED—is trying to go into production of their new broadband business, which will destroy GPS systems currently in place. There are 23 satellites which provide GPS locations for millions of military & civilian units of GPS. LIGHTSQUARED will make them inoperative.

I am concerned about this abuse of established companies & systems, but apparently Barry the Imposter & his minions in Washington DC are not.

I wonder if anyone has bothered to tell Barry & his fellow traveling companion, MOOOCHELLE, that even Air Force One is dependent on GPS systems now in place.

Every airplane flying commercially, every plane in private hands, every On Star vehicle, Every ship at sea- Every military vehicle & plane is dependent on GPS as it now operates.

What will happen to all those units? That damage will it do to our USA military strength? How many of our people in uniform will be in serious jeopardy???

Barry the Imposter is also Barry the Destroyer.


27 posted on 11/08/2011 12:10:21 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Kaslin

Let me understand this:

The American taxpayers are providing electronic recording devices for Mexican trucks, which include GPS units.

At the same time, a company Barry the Imposter has personally invested in—LIGHTSQUARED—is trying to go into production of their new broadband business, which will destroy GPS systems currently in place. There are 23 satellites which provide GPS locations for millions of military & civilian units of GPS. LIGHTSQUARED will make them inoperative.

I am concerned about this abuse of established companies & systems, but apparently Barry the Imposter & his minions in Washington DC are not.

I wonder if anyone has bothered to tell Barry & his fellow traveling companion, MOOOCHELLE, that even Air Force One is dependent on GPS systems now in place.

Every airplane flying commercially, every plane in private hands, every On Star vehicle, Every ship at sea- Every military vehicle & plane is dependent on GPS as it now operates.

What will happen to all those units? What damage will it do to our USA military strength? How many of our people in uniform will be in serious jeopardy???

Barry the Imposter is also Barry the Destroyer.


28 posted on 11/08/2011 12:10:33 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

Whooping cough is rampant because both the extremes of the right and left are retarded idiots that believe vaccinations will result in death/dismemberment/mental retardation/kidnapping by aliens/possession by Satan/etc.

The sooner these morons die off from the diseases they don’t want to be vaccinated against, the better.


29 posted on 11/08/2011 12:21:13 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: 1rudeboy
I heard that they have no brakes, also. And they are steered by the wind.

Sounds like the 1972 Dodge Dart I had.

30 posted on 11/08/2011 12:42:57 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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To: Kaslin
Thanks for the post.

However, it was written by a technical illiterate. "Mufflers" don't have anything to do with air quality.

Mexican trucks are not required to have catalytic converters. Many of them are powered by very old diesels on their third 3-million-mile overhaul. If you have ever driven on a Mexican highway with their trucks and god-forbid buses, you would remember the peculiar smell of Mexican fuel ...you would be deaf from the noise of their jake-brakes ....and blind from the thick black smoke they spew. Mix that heady aroma with a bit of essence of burned clutch and fried brake, season with 10 million unsanitary taco stands, the use of roadside ditches as open latrines, and you could probably smell Mexico from outer space. Some neighbor!

There is also a reason why Mexican country-folk (aka "peasants") wear those tire-tread sandals (huaraches). The country's "roads" are lined with tread cast by Mexican re-tread tires. Free shoes!

¡Ay Chihuahua, dude, where's my clothespin!

31 posted on 11/08/2011 1:22:10 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (So you're telling me Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure this eligibility stuff out?)
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To: Pelham

I have no idea what you’re talking about. I didn’t trash anyone other than point out the obvious. The Mexican government, that is crooks, have owned every politician since Reagan.


32 posted on 11/08/2011 1:33:34 PM PST by Terry Mross (Where is the OPPOSITION party? I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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To: Kenny Bunk
Free shoes


Been lots of free shoes littering Texas highways this hot summer we've had. Kinda like running a gauntlet during the nighttime hours.

33 posted on 11/08/2011 1:44:00 PM PST by deport
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To: Terry Mross

The post wasn’t addressed to you. Go look at the first name in the list.


34 posted on 11/08/2011 4:34:43 PM PST by Pelham (Every nation that rose to power did so by protecting its manufacturing base)
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To: Kenny Bunk

You must be one of them big government types that likes all kinds a regulation Kenny!

We don’ need no stinkin’ catalytic converters and brakes and sewers and traffic rules and stuff.

Juan Galt


35 posted on 11/08/2011 4:41:23 PM PST by Pelham (Every nation that rose to power did so by protecting its manufacturing base)
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To: Kaslin

I’ve already noticed an increase of “retreaded” tires shedding their new rubber on our highways these days...You see this debris all over the roads these days...They are a hazard, and will cause injuries and deaths if not taken care of...

A properly credentialed commercial (American) vehicle cannot operate on retreads (at least that is what I recall), unlike the unregulated trucking industry in Mexico...

So once again our country has to endure the unsafe practices of another country for political reasons, above the safety of its own citizens...

When a government risks the lives of its citizens for political reasons, when would it be proper to hold them criminally accountable for those decisions???


36 posted on 11/09/2011 6:13:25 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus' sayin')
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To: 1rudeboy

I wonder, do any of us believe that Ronald Reagan might have initiated some of these programs, just to see how much rope it would take to hang those who would abuse and expand the issue beyond its original intent???

Seems like a lot of those things RR did have succeeded in ferreting out the moderates and extremist in the two political parties...

Just thinking outside the box...Honestly, what do you think???


37 posted on 11/09/2011 6:18:30 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus' sayin')
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To: Pelham
If Schlafly is smart enough to write "Barack Obama allowed the first Mexican truck" [emphasis added], when Mexican trucks have been operating in the buffer zone for decades, and in the U.S. interior for a couple of years, then she is a warhorse that needs to be put out to pasture.

She is either smart enough to know she's engaging in demagoguery, or she is so stupid she can't count. Take your pick.

There is a third possibility: she is banking on her name to get away with either, as it appears that she has succeeded in your case.

38 posted on 11/09/2011 6:34:13 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Pelham
I am somewhat pro-sewer, actually. But I am anti-catalytic converter because having a 1500-degree lump of red hot metal under one's posterior is no way to go through life ... or even Mexico. Were Global Warmers scientifically serious they would have to be dead-set against catalytic converters. Besides being hotter than a Mexican porn star, CCs do a fantastic job of converting harmless water vapor and CO2 into the far more dreaded NOx (the "x" because the warmholes don't eggsackly know what that is either).

BTW, is there one candidate from either party who knows the difference between a a Victrola and a Venturi? When I am elected, all American family cars will be powered by small, digitally managed, turbo-charged diesels, will get 45 mnpg, have chrome bumpers, no airbags, round sealed beam halogen headlights ($14.95 @ Pep Boys), weigh in at less than 1 1/4 ton, and sell for under $12,000, with AC and the 8-track. No PW, PDL, PSeats, PS. Auto trans is a must. They will be tax free, up to that spec. After that, you can buy whatever the hell you want with a 25% surcharge.

39 posted on 11/09/2011 6:41:14 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (So, you're telling me Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure this eligibility stuff out?)
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To: Kenny Bunk
KB, if those diesels are SUVs that is a winning platform. I say toss your chapeau in the ring!

You don't have a bevy of pissed off women in your background who can scuttle your campaign, do you?

PS I am somewhat pro-sewer, actually.

As was Benjamin "Beast" Butler, the yankee oppressor of New Orleans! The local femmes fâchés were in the habit of dousing the Beast with the contents of their chamber pots which likely added to his enthusiasm for plumbing.

40 posted on 11/09/2011 8:02:14 AM PST by Pelham (Every nation that rose to power did so by protecting its manufacturing base)
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