El Paso on Norweigian news

[mudshark]

1600 people killed in gang fights last year in Juarez, the border city to El Paso, the third safest city in the US.

we see you. make no mistake...

[tinkerjack]

You need a fact check jack
Last time I checked Juarez was in Mexico not the Untied states.

[mudshark]

thats what i ment with border city, mate. on the other side of the border that is. Juarez.
been there?

[Lightning Rod]

we must defer to cecil on this one

[tinkerjack]

you defer to Cecil
I know where Mexico is

http://www.last.fm/music/Waylon+Jenning ... +In+Mexico

sincerely
still trucking et al

[mtmynd]

Last week i heard that over 200 have been murdered in the cartel wars this year alone in good old Juarez, Mexico... so bad the Chief of Police quit his job this past Friday -

http://www.elpasotimes.com/juarez/ci_11753103

Just in~ 1 dead in attack on Mexico governor's convoy

more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29353809/

btw: have you heard of the horrific female homicides which are not included in the cartel wars ? Amazingly Wikipedia has that covered. There was also a movie about it in 2006 -

Gregory Nava directed a movie called Bordertown with Jennifer Lopez and Antonio Banderas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hom ... u%C3%A1rez

Anyone remember the Dylan song that had the words

"When you're lost in the streets of Juarez
and it's Easter Time too
And your gravity fails and
negativity won't pull you through..."

[mudshark]

yeah! love that Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues song. so thats what he sang about! nice mind storm, cec, poetical outlaw, texas cowboy, ruler of the butterflyes, pilot of the clouds and king of the sewer, you soul of the desert loins.

crazy them girls in juarez. what a disaster.
ill check out that movie.


(headline news of todays broadcast: police shot man in leg, in Oslo!)

[mudshark]

damn. again this Juarez on norweigian news. some prison riot.
its gotta be pretty bad over there now. not often we get mexican news.

[stilltrucking]

The saying goes

Poor Mexico, so far from god and so close to the united states.


It is too bad for Mexico that they are not mentioned in the old testament, we ripped off half their country and they can't claim it back as biblical land.
It is sweet when you have the heavenly real estate broker on your side.

Forty percent of all federal prisoners in the USA are hispanic.

Are you really from norway?

Must be nice to live behind those mountains with a homogeneous population

[mtmynd]

Hello, Lasse... good to hear El Paso is an news item in Norge.

Here's the latest in our newspaper -

Juárez killings plummet after 3,200 troops arrive

full story: http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_11830672

______

truck -
It is too bad for Mexico that they are not mentioned in the old testament, we ripped off half their country and they can't claim it back as biblical land.

Remember the Spaniards ripped off the Aztecs, mated with many and along came the Mestizos... and thus the New World began...

[stilltrucking]

You make a good point Cecil. Not sure when the New World began. The date for the presence of human activity in north and south america gets pushed farther and farther.

"European man dropped a rich load of knowledge where ever he went. Domini Domini, you are all Catholics now." (Firesign Theatre)

It's no load of crap: Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of humans in North America—in 14,300-year-old fossilized feces.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... icans.html

Norway sounds like a excellent place to live. I wonder why so many Norwegians immigrated to the US? Must have been hard times in the 19th century.

The USA must be the mother of all bastard nations.

[mtmynd]

Not sure when the New World began.

I could be wrong, truck, but i've always thought "New World" was coined after the European discovery of the Americas... because where those folks came from was pretty old.

btw: i forgot that Mexico was also under the French flag after Spain was ousted...

... and we shouldn't forget the six flags that flew over Texas - Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, Texas in the Confederacy, U.S. State... makes six.

History Lesson #689: All life as we know it began in Austin not Africa as it is commonly believed. The armadillos ruled the entire North American continent but were headquartered in Austin at the infamous Armadillo World Headquarters. The armadillos were the giant mammals of the time that barbecued on the dinosaurs, hence the extinction of that breed except for the bones which the armadillo left behind. After they had barbecued all the dinosaurs on the North American continent, in order to protect their own they began a gradual reduction in size to the present day animal which we now occasionally see in the hill country. Despite their best efforts at remaining the hermits of the mammalian race, which is well-known throughout the animal world, the armadillo can still be heard in the very early morning hours whistling Willie Nelson tunes.

[stilltrucking]

You got your facts right.

Another little known fact of history is that Jesus was born in east Texas. Lufkin or Palestine. I forget which..



Speaking of Texans

I often wonder who that God George W Bush talked to all the time. He claimed it was Jesus but I think it was this guy



Sometimes the the white faced god who demands human sacrifice still rules among the things of New Spain.

[stilltrucking]

I have not found many Texans who can name all six flags, they usually get five but they don't come up with the confederate.

I don't think Texans want to think of themselves as southerners, maybe they don't want to remember being on the losing side.

But there is a Jeff Davis County and Confederate war memorial in Anthony.

Texas getting like California, I was lost last week on Death Loop 1604 the two lane highway that circles san antone, the one with the over loaded gravel trucks racing to make another load. Well you know I stopped at a little place called Hamburger Dan's to ask for directions and it took me six or three tries till I found somebody from around here.

I used to see bumper stickers in California that read "Native Californian" now you see Native Texan stickers.

sorry mudshark
just say hi jack
Texas been good to me
They say California is a second chance state, Texas is my third chance state. I could talk about it for hours.

What is a gas to me is when people move down here from the north and are upset because Texicans who have roots here going back hundreds of years are speaking Spanish. Spanish is the native tongue for many Texans.

[stilltrucking]

Wednesday
Bloodbath in Juarez Prison


"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the exception of bad news, which obeys its own special rules..." 'Mostly Harmless'