texascavers Digest 11 Jul 2012 23:40:27 -0000 Issue 1588 Topics (messages 20334 through 20338):
Re: Mexican drug wars
20334 by: S S
Maya Calendar Translated!
20335 by: S S
Paging Jill Dorman
20336 by: Denise P
TSS work session
20337 by: Ron Ralph
Longhorn Cavern Sporting New Lighting System â Official Dedication to be Held
July 19
20338 by: germanyj.aol.com
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I guess we could wonder wether this gun is a six shooter or an eight shot all day.
But just remember, Russian roulette is 100% safe, unless the gun goes off. Now I haven't really seen anyone actually blow their brains out all over, but in this case I'm willing to accept that its probably not a great idea to find out first hand.
I think an appropriate analogy in this case would be the old saying "You can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a bulls ass, but I'd rather just take the butchers word for it. '"
SS-- Sent from my HP TouchPad
On Jul 7, 2012 7:24 AM, freddie poer <[email protected]> wrote:
It probably is. I still go to Mexico quite frequently and what I have noticed is that what makes the news here, I don't see in the news there, and visa versa. Makes me wonder where this news is coming from and how much of it is true. Meanwhile, I do not know of a single person who has witnessed any of it firsthand. Nonetheless it has been very effective in scaring off American tourists including what I formerly considered brave American cavers.
--- On Fri, 7/6/12, Mixon Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Mixon Bill <[email protected]>
Subject: [Texascavers] Mexican drug wars
To: "Cavers Texas" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, July 6, 2012, 9:09 PM
For those wanting to keep up on the Mexican drug wars, there's a long article in the July 2 issue of The New Yorker. I recall earlier press reports that the Mexican army had seized a remarkable about of meth. From the article:
"In February, the Army announced that it had seized, in a "historic bust," in Tlajomulco [Jalisco], fifteen tons of methamphetamine. The street value of that much meth was, by the Army's figuring, some four billion dollars. If true, that would make it the largest meth bust in history. But was it true?...
"I tried to get to the bottom of a single bust--the "historic" meth-lab raid in Tlajomulco that confiscated some our billion dollars' worth of drugs. Were the drugs seized really worth that much? Well, no. The more experts I consulted, the lower the number sank. Maybe it was a billion, if the meth was pure. Then was it really fifteen tons of "pure meth," as widely reported? Well, no. There had been some confusion. There were precursor chemicals. A lot of equipment--gas tanks, reactors. Maybe it was eleven pounds of pure meth. Eleven pounds? Nobody wanted to speak on the record, but the spokesman for the federal presecutor's office in Guadalajara, a young man named Ulises Enríquez Camacho, finally said, "Yes, five kilos." Eleven pounds. The fifteen tons had been methamphetamine ready for packing, according to the Army. But it was not "finished product," and there had been only five kilos of crystal. In the U.S., where meth is often sold by the gram, that amount might be worth five hundred thousand dollars. So the reported value had been inflated by a factor of eight thousand?"
I hope the body count is not off by a factor of eight thousand.
--Mixon
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--- Begin Message --- And the new Mayan translation says...... "Please re-order your new kartum calendar at www.ozotlcalendarclub.com. "
Awwww man! All the hype and it was just prehistoric spam! Wa wa waaaa..-- Sent from my HP TouchPad
On Jul 5, 2012 2:29 PM, Mark Minton <[email protected]> wrote:
A second archaeological reference has been found to the end
date of the Maya calendar. It does not portend any doom and gloom.
<http://phys.org/news/2012-06-maya-archaeologists-unearth-monument.html>
<http://tulane.edu/news/releases/pr_062812.cfm>
Mark
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--- Begin Message ---Hi-Please contact me off list. Thanks, Denise TSA Secretary
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--- Begin Message ---Cavers, Our next scheduled second Wednesday work session of the Texas Speleological Survey will be on July 11th, tomorrow night, at the JJ Pickle Research Center. Use the front entrance on Burnet Road north of highway 183. Both publication sales and the library will be open. The door will be open at 5:00 p.m. and stay open till we adjourn. Remember it is best to arrive before 6:00 pm and drinks are on me. Come by and help out and search the files for your favorite caves. If you have a desire to see the files and unpublished maps, come by and take a look. If you have questions, please contact me at <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] or call my cell. I will be happy to send you a link to the map of the Campus if you need directions. Ron Ralph Cell: 797-3817
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--- Begin Message ---Hey Cavers! Longhorn Cavern Sporting New Lighting System — Official Dedication to be Held July 19 BURNET — Add one more reason to visit or revisit Longhorn Cavern State Park this summer other than its constant 68-degree environment. Workers have rewired the National Registered Landmark and replaced decades-old incandescent lights with hundreds of energy-saving, 12-volt halogen lights to better illuminate the cavern’s most outstanding natural features. Read the release: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/newsmedia/releases/?req=20120628b
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