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Sunday, April 6, 2008

Learn up on your Mexican
Mood:

lazy
Topic: Travel

US May Heighten Travel Alert to Mexico

The U.S. ambassador to Mexico (NOT the guy in the pic above) warned that the United States may issue a heightened travel alert next week.

In recent years, Mexico has suffered a wave of organized crime and drug-related violence that killed more than 2,500 people last year alone and more than 200 people have been slain in Ciudad Juarez this year in what amounts to a turf war between drug cartels.

14 slain in drug shootout near US border

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Unlike the United States where criminal offenses are divided into "felonies and misdemeanors," in Mexico depending upon the seriousness, criminal offenses are categorized into the 'social value' established and protected by the law.

If you are a traveler to mexico and are detained by a police officer and accused of an offense, the first step is to declare that you know your rights and want to telephone your hotel or the U.S. Consulate.

Tourists are not required to go anywhere with the police until they have found someone to defend them.

Also, under Mexican law, a prosecutor must draw up papers and charge someone with a crime within 48 hours of arrest.

Recently, a Canadian college basketball star had been released from a Mexican jail after being arrested for vicious assault which his family contends he is innocent of.

Run-in with Mexican law a cautionary tale

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One more thing, if you are driving to Mexico, you may want to consider Mexican auto insurance. This press release explains why.

You could be jailed and your car impounded if you have an accident.

Thank you for visiting.

Machs Cafe today.

You can always learn up on your Mexican before leaving too. From the movies of course. Its another film put out last year now in limited release.

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Btw, ...chances are much of your car was built in Mexico.
Aircraft makers flock to Mexico

Posted by mach1231 at 6:47 PM PDT

Updated: Monday, April 7, 2008 11:08 AM PDT

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Saturday, April 5, 2008

Attention EVERYBODY...the hottest Mom in Hollywood
Mood:

special
Topic: Entertainment

Hollywood Parenting 101

Demi Moore beats her kids with a strap!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxK7JGUqtBE

And also loves blood-sucking leeches and takes turpentine baths!

"I'm sure there are a lot of people who think I'm a bitch." Demi Moore

Isn't she great folks? 45 years old. smart, sexy, FUNNY! Married to a 30 year old though. How cool is that?

Great, great interview with David Letterman though in case youre interested... - -to promote her latest film 'Flawless' a diamond caper film which is set in the 1960's but opens with the camera angles focusing on women in various positions of power, from different backgrounds, most of them handling some kind of business on PDAs or cellular phone...

note: Flawless premiered 11 February 2007 in Germany. The film opened in limited release in the United States on 28 March 2008

Found a trailer for it but it wasnt easy. Yah, it was: hard to find. How fitting for a diamond movie . Is it a gem? Looks like it is. :)

Demi is the latest of celebs to travel to Austria/Germany for alternative health care. Last one I heard of was Farrah Fawcett who sought treatment in Germany and also created a mild brouhaha (47 people arrested and 17 police officers were injured) at the very mention of her BREASTS.

Posted by mach1231 at 1:17 PM PDT

Updated: Saturday, April 5, 2008 2:19 PM PDT

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Butterflies, wheels, angels and hope
Mood:

not sure

Turns out there may be charges laid after all.

UPDATE FOR RYP AND THE BLACK FLAGGERS OF YE OLD BLACK FLAG CAFE

on this thread and news story ..

the story has re-surfaced.

ABC NEWS has the goods to deliver. Is it for the Smoking Gun, is it?

Her memorial page has been viewed 90,000 times.

Personally< I feel so badly and sad for the parents of this little girl. The level of devastation they have suffered is as both heart-wrenching to watch as it is unbearable to contemplate.

They looked like such good and loving parents. They probably were. And are. It's a real sentiment that in my finest sense of hope, would be shared by this dearly departed angel winged girl, should she be viewing things from a different perspective above us all with the Lord.

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Posted by mach1231 at 12:48 PM PDT

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

I still don't believe it
Mood:

special

I am posting neat videos I found on YouTube to my own blog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmu2FTHhqQg

I don't care. This is fun.

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IN THE NEWS RECENTLY: Hot air balloons that carry passengers (for hire) should have safety standards equal to those required for other types of aircraft that fly commercially.

Click the pic.

Vicki Van Meter

Vicki was just 11 and in elementary school in Meadville, Pa., when she flew a single-engine Cessna 172 from Augusta, Me., to San Diego, Calif.
On June 4, 1994, the day after she graduated from East End Elementary School, in Meadville, she took off from Augusta in the other direction, and became the youngest girl to fly across the Atlantic.

Vicki was a graduate of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania with a degree in criminal justice.

She served two years in the Peace Corps in Cahul, Moldova, and most recently worked as an investigator for an insurance company.

R.I.P Vicki Van Meter

http://www.daylife.com/article/0aBTf9Y8Hk0Et

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Garnett Edward Lowe Jr., credited with installing the first instrument landing and radar systems in airports in the Us and one of the pioneers of post-crash reconstructive investigations died recently at age 84.

Posted by mach1231 at 10:43 PM PDT

Updated: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 9:47 AM PDT

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Big Trouble in Little Serbia

And you thought the Cold War was either never started or never ended?

Trouble is always around the corner.

While Russia throws a wild curving pitch to Kosovo in the form of aid, Putin is also criticizing the US for arming the newly recognized country just as a Serb rail company has retaken control of rail lines in northern Kosovo.

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Indeed, 5 years after Serbias first democratically elected leader was assasinated, it still appears to be a country without a compass.

(Still waters run deep. )

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As Poland and the Czech Republic <---(almost ready) are negotiating to host U.S. missile-defense systems Bush is adamant that these would be geared toward intercepting attacks from Iran or elsewhere in the Middle East.

So Russia is opposed. But dont worry says Bush, this has nothing to do with Georgia or Ukraine joining NATO.

And btw were are still chums.

Hell, no, this aint Cold.

But Russia aside for a minute, at the moment 3 Balkan countries are having their NATO credentials considered (which Estonia, Latvia Hungary and Germany support) but at least one of them faces opposition from Greece unless they get their name changed.

And ahead of that curve, heres a guy who is already looking at Montenegro joining NATO.

And now Israel already wants to join NATO!?

Well, maybe not.

We are all getting a little bit ahead of ourselves arent we?

If these 3 countries get in, maybe one by a new name, and Montenegro joins NATO, Italy can off shore its nuclear power from there and get power from across the sea.

Hell, apparently they can already get smuggled cigarettes from there, so whats a little nuclear power between friends?

Not between old/old friends we hope. Especially if hes been huddling the mafiosa.

Something about having old friends like Milosevic, smuggling cigarettes, hiding the mafia....and Italian nuclear power ...might create instability in the region. Of course this is humour.

Make way for a Mediterranean Union.

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NATO is billing this week's summit as its biggest ever, attended by more than 50 world leaders. Next years in 2009 will mark the first time a NATO summit would be hosted by more than one country.

France and Germany both. Funny positions to be in since both oppose backing NATO entry for Georgia and Ukraine.

So will France block Ukraine from NATO, thereby appease Russia(?) and in turn not send more troops to Afghanistan?

Something tells me the implications on what happens on this could be enormous.

Even if we are lowering the bar of expectation for the meeting of 26 NATO leaders.

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Lets get together again. Next year.

Posted by mach1231 at 11:01 AM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 12:38 PM PDT

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Click me!

Posted by mach1231 at 1:24 AM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 1:34 AM PDT

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i love denise richards dot com
Mood:

caffeinated
Topic: Entertainment

A blog is: an on-line quasi-historical electronic documenting tool that records the thoughts, feeling(s) and live views of the participatory members of an free online internet community.

By rote of participation, members are free to opine,judge,assert and offer to others their own free wheeling record and view on the window of the world as events large and small intersect to form unique precepts on how mass media has shaped our lives, tastes and contributed to stereotypes and misconceptions.

So, saying adieu and to hell with all of that nonsense ...

Ladies and genetlemen of the blogging stratosphere and purveors of the internet universe, I offer you Ms Denise Richards looking particularily happy of late...

The ever beautiful Ms. Richards finally won the right to legally reclaim her maiden name - two years after her divorce from Charlie Sheen had been finalised.

My whole life I had never ever heard anyone call DR by her former married last name. Had you?

Not even from a tattoo fairy....

Posted by mach1231 at 12:06 AM PDT

Updated: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 12:54 AM PDT

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Monday, March 31, 2008

Childrens Rights
Mood:

chatty
Topic: Crime and Punishment

In 1911, Janusz Korczak was the first person in the world to formulate a declaration of children's rights...

Dateline Vancouver BC Canada :

Group celebrates children's rights hero

This is interesting because it is at a time in history in the here and now that when Omar Khadr (a Canadian citizen) is on trial as a terrorist, his lawyers have argued that cite violations of juvenile justice rules set out by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child .

Omar was a 15-year-old child soldier when he allegedly killed a U.S. serviceman during a firefight in Afghanistan.

Mr. Khadr will be the first ever child soldier tried for alleged war crimes by any Western nation, including the United States.

Today, Mr. Khadr is the only remaining citizen of a Western country incarcerated in Guantanamo.

Lt.-Gen. (ret'd) Romeo Dallaire is the former Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda and writes in the National Post. His moral outrage is an indictment of the powers that be which run Ottawa.

Full article here.

Telling in the trial that speaks volumes about the hubristic nature of the scenario that led to Omars capture and imprisonment is that of an American officers testimony that he was about to order the execution of Omar Khadr before U.S. Special Forces operatives intervened during the terror suspect's capture in Afghanistan in July of 2002.

The soldier who interrogated Khadr was later drummed out of the service for killing another prisoner he was interrogating.

With at least two now well known cases of Canadians languishing abroad in foreign prisons with no help from their respective governments, and with a current worry-wart mentality that "every Canadian charged outside the country in future might demand help from Ottawa in mounting a defence" if we don't include Mr. Khadr as qualifying for inclusion in the Charter of Rights....

..then what good is to be signatory to and ratifying theUN Convention on the Rights of the Child?