he found it interesting that although there was no manmade LINE or WALL or anything, (to maureens point) there was still a natural line (the rio grande) preventing that CRAP from spilling over into the USA (as good as it can)
even i got that, and i dont get anything usually :) Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. -- siddhartha gautama On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > What do you find interesting? It's old news really, except that they > have a turf war going on amongst the drug people. They've been killing > women in Juarez for years, and nothing is happening about it, allegely > because law enforcement is inbolved. Just curious... this doesn't make > the newspapers in Kansas? If you are taking it that Juarez is typical > of Mexico as a whole it is not, and not even all that typical of the > border towns, which the Mexicans call "the armpit of the world." Acoma > and Laredo are reasonably safe last I heard. Palomas is having its own > turf war though. Once you get away from the sleaze of the border > though, much of Mexico is very friendly and quite safe. > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:09 PM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: >> I found this article very interesting, especially in light of the recent >> discussion prompted by Maureen's thoughts on a borderless society. >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/us/23elpaso.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1232737222-Pp/kpR0tF8+Lct1G305/ZA >> >> Ciudad Juarez, Mexico is separated from El Paso, Texas only by the narrow >> Rio Grande river. Juarez is basically a war zone, while El Paso is the third >> safest city in the United States. >> >> -- >> I'm callin' all friends >> And people i've met on the way down >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:286537 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
