Another Week on the Cochise Strip

Self | 20 April 2003 | JackelopeBreeder

[madfly]

WE can't be bothered with this - we are too busy boycotting French wine and complaining about Canada - after all, they were our friends and they hurt our 'feelings' and that is more important than actually trying to preserve the country.

Yes, didn't people have great fun calling the French names, feeling so very proud and patriotic. If anyone wants an eye-opener, please read this post of mine from one of Allan Wall's recent translations of what's been reported in the Mexican media since the war began. I wish O'Reilly or someone would interview this American who lives and works legally in Mexico. He holds an FM-2 residency and work permit, and serves six weeks a year with the Texas Army National Guard, in a unit composed almost entirely of Americans of Mexican ancestry.

This is outrageous!

Mexican Foreign Secretary Derbez made the rather startling announcement that Mexico was considering direct negotiations with the Saddam regime over U.S. soldiers who are dual citizens of the U.S. and Mexico!

[madfly]

ping

[Madcelt]

Hey Madfly you got the link to the thread awhile back where "aliens" were responsible for a 324 million dollar surplus in "social security". I think I need it to check out foxnews story. I have already written SSA and asked for a "breakdown" on that surplus. I personally have known at least several people( making a decent amount.) that have died in thier 50's and 60's and never used SS. I want to know how many "others" were like them.

[WRhine]

Thanks much for reporting the REAL NEWS on what's happening at our southern borders. The whole border region should be considered a National Disaster Area. Where is the Press on this?

[JackelopeBreeder]

Just once I'd like to post some good news.

Unfortunately, this afternoon I got confirmation that some time Saturday night drug smugglers pushed 2200 pounds of weed through the border about 4 miles west of where we were operating. Feel like I got seriously punked.

They got caught about 25 miles north of the border after passing through Fort Huachuca.

[Missouri]

Thanks for the heads-up of the goings-on at the borders. I just wonder what it will take to get everyones attention about this subject.

[PRND21]

Don't fence me in

You prefer a wall, correct?

[JackelopeBreeder]

Lighten up, I've been wanting the lyrics to that one for a long time. And if you can find the old Roy Rogers version there in Ell Ay let me know.

[JackelopeBreeder]

Small world is an understatement.

I can't remember the exact sequence of events, but I ended up at a party at Alice's house off Camelback when I was a senior in high school. Hair down to my fanny and all that rot.

Anywho, about 10:30 at night his next door neighbor decided to join the party. His next door neighbor was Barry Goldwater.

Old Barry shanghai'ed my wrecked 17-year old ass into passing umpteen cases of Coors and Budweiser over the fence along with a case of Jack Daniels. I couldn't have been more scared if the bad fairy from Sleeping Beauty had popped up in my face.

About an hour later, Barry caught me trying to sneak off with a bottle of JD. I received the stern lecture from Hell and was formally introduced to the concept of the shot glass -- but only after surrendering my car keys unto his possession.

A couple of months later he made it up to me by agreeing to be the guest speaker at our high school graduation. He also took me for a ride in that thoroughly whacked out VW bug he had. Try to imagine a VW Bug with the control panel from an F-4 Phantom. Weeehaaa!

[Brownie74]

Bingo!!

[madfly]

Lol, what a great "Barry" story!

In my senior year (1963) my best friend and I snuck out of the house and tried to get into the Camelback Inn on election night, hoping to see him. Well we weren't on the list and got turned away. We parked up a ways in the desert and treked through the barren waste to the back fence and jumped it. Found a cute young waiter and talked him into getting us "Staff" badges. Barry never showed up to concede the election, so we drove up to his house and hung out with some media folks.

I used to drive up to his house a lot and drive past that electronic eye at the bottom of his driveway, then do a huey and beat it. Never got busted, I guess he didn't mind.

You're story is much better. Hoisting booze over the fence to Alice Cooper's house, what a hoot!

[JackelopeBreeder]

Barry was something else. It's a damn shame others really didn't know the real man behind the myth. He had a grip like a bear trap; let's just say that turning my car keys over to him that night was not entirely voluntary. Yet the keys were back in my pocket the next morning - late morning - after I slept it off.

Another thing - he and Alice kept dragging my drunk teen-aged ass back into the conversation. I have never been one of the world's great intellectuals and was one of close to a hundred thoroughly hammered people at that party. I seriously doubt the three of us were the last semi-rational people there.

I really wish I could remember what we were dicussing that night.