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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Wow! pretty psycho-brutal. I hope the injured recover.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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She's married to the astronaut, I think.
Yeah, just heard it on CNN.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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She's married to the astronaut, I think.
I don't know what that means.....
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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semi automatic weapon...six dead...what the f*#k is wrong with republicans in country.
Taking back the country...you as#@&%es are nuts.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Come to your own conclusion.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Dude...how the f*#k dies somewhat who knows everything like you can't get a job...one would think they be knocking down your door.
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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Looks like she took her last whipper:
http://www.ajc.com/news/arizona-congresswoman-dies-in-798542.html
I'll be very curious as the details, as I would not be surprised if it was a gullible Tea Bagger who'd listened to once too many Glenn Beck apocolyptic rants about the left and chose to try and save the country on his own...
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Who is on Sarah Palin's political hit list?
Palin's list on Facebook includes 17 Democrats in Congress who her political action committee will work to defeat in the November elections:
Ann Kirkpatrick (Ariz.), Harry E. Mitchell (Ariz.), Gabrielle Giffords (Ariz.), John Salazar (Colo.), Betsy Markey (Colo.), Allen Boyd (Fla.), Suzanne M. Kosmas (Fla.), Baron P. Hill (Ind.), Earl Pomeroy (N.D.), Charlie Wilson (Ohio), John Boccieri (Ohio), Kathy Dahlkemper (Pa.), Christopher Carney (Pa.), John M. Spratt, Jr. (S.C.), Tom Perriello (Va.), Alan B. Mollohan (W.Va.), and Nick J. Rahall II (W.Va.).
On her Facebook page, Palin provides a map of the United States with a gun crosshair over each of the states of the Democrats that Palin is targeting on her list.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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The people in Arizona fearmonger about the Mexican drug cartels, illegal aliens and desert be headings
but the real problem is the right wing wackos bent on revolution
and the right wing Governor and her death panels
How Many dead now Jan Brewer, from your hand and your fear mongering
If that is not a troll, you are not only an idiot, but you're misinformed.
EDIT: Bob, please try to contain yourself.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Blue wrote: If that is not a troll, you are not only an idiot, but you're misinformed.
F*#k you as#@&%e.
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MTucker
Ice climber
Arizona
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"The gunman, whose identity has not been released, is reportedly in custody."
That guy is going to get the NEEDLE.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Rox wrote: Yeah. terrible thing.
I'm LMAO right now.
real sensitive.
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dirt claud
Sport climber
san diego,ca
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DR F writes:
"the people in Arizona fearmonger about the Mexican drug cartels, illegal aliens and desert be headings"
Why don't you go hang out in Mexico or the border for a while and then tell us that the border violence is being over exagerated. I have plenty of family in Mexico that I talk to and confirm the cartels have pretty much taken over, especially at the border towns.
Ciudad Juarez Residents Flee New Homes to Escape Drug War Violence
By EMILY SCHMALL Posted 12:00 PM 12/06/10
Across the border from El Paso, Texas, a mass exodus triggered by a murderous war for drug trafficking routes into the United States has left huge swaths of Ciudad Juarez uninhabited, rocking Mexican home builders and gutting the large industrial city of its upwardly mobile working class.
Residents are fleeing many towns along the Mexican border, but the migration is perhaps most acutely felt in Juarez, which until recently was among Mexico's fastest-growing cities, its industrial jobs attracting immigrants from across the country and Central America.
Before the border violence escalated, Mexico's biggest builders were successfully weathering that nation's worst recession since the 1930s, banking on the quick assembly of millions of new homes fueled by government-subsidized mortgages. But now they're canceling projects in Juarez and other border cities, and abandoned homes are attracting the side effects of Mexico's drug war: violence and extortion.
In May, Consorcio Ara, Mexico's third-largest home builder by market share, halted a housing development in Reynosa, a border city in the state of Tamaulipas, after squatters demanded payment in exchange for protection. Ara also abandoned a development in Ciudad Juarez after repeated threats and robberies.
"We decided it best to finish the work we had started and leave the investment for another time," said Germán Ahumada Russek, Ara's chief executive.
A Construction Surge to Meet Huge Demand
The economic situation underlying the current crisis is far different than it was during the peso devaluation crisis of 1994, which sent interest rates surging and led to widespread mortgage defaults. Now, the Mexican government has imposed rigorous credit standards and capitalized a collective mortgage fund with mandatory contributions by workers. The model was hailed as foolproof, and the Mexican government sold billions in bonds supported by new homeowners' monthly mortgage payments.
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Mexico's five main home builders worked rapidly to satisfy what the government estimated in 2009 was a 8.5-million unit deficit in housing. Empresas Ica, Mexico's biggest construction firm, opened a prefab housing plant in September where 90-square-meter homes can be assembled in as little as three hours.
Today, more than 100,000 houses backed by government mortgages in Ciudad Juarez now stand empty, almost all of them vandalized, the daily newspaper El Diario reported. The population of Juarez has diminished, and unemployment has shot up from virtually zero to 40% as the violence has taken on a fever pitch.
"Some people have gone back to where they are originally from because of the economy," said Hector Arcalus, Juarez's city manager, adding that at least 15 new housing developments had been planned for the city.
From Prosperity to Murder Capital of Mexico
Ciudad Juarez, until recent years the emblem of the prosperity Mexico enjoyed in the 1990s, is now the country's undisputed murder capital, as hundreds of abandoned and vandalized homes at the Riberas del Bravo project attest. The new development of two- and three-room homes, built expressly for maquila workers, is now a wasteland of bloody shootouts.
Diana Olvera Castro, 29, and her husband, a maquila worker, live with their three children in a downtrodden abyss of vandalized homes, missing doors and windows and tagged with gang graffiti.
"They put me in charge of the home next door. The following day they started dismantling it. We preserved what we could but the following night they came back," she said. "You can't leave, not even during the day, or you'll come back to find your house in shambles."
Riberas del Bravo is a microcosm of Juarez's steady destruction. "It's not the worst of the slums or the squatter settlements where we're seeing this violence, it's these middle class developments that are becoming increasingly dangerous places to live," said David Shirk, head of the Transborder Institute at the University of San Diego.
"It's the people who were working at the maquilas, who lost economic opportunities that were created for them by globalization, so it's their kids and their young family members that fill the ranks of the so-called ni-ni's – those who neither study nor work," he said.
Juarez has seen an estimated 7,000 killings since late 2007, when President Felipe Calderon took office and declared war on drug traffickers and the criminal organizations who had gained strength in the power vacuum of Colombia. But until the violence abates and the jobs return, this once-thriving city will continue to unravel.
See full article from DailyFinance: http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/ghost-towns-ciudad-juarez-residents-flee-new-homes-to-escape-dr/19733204/?icid=sphere_copyright
There are many things that are being feared needlesly, this sure as hell isn't one of them.
I don't know how you can make this claim, unless you prove that every story written about the violence is fake. The evidence is overwhelming
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Rox... I know you think you know everything...even how to run restaurants when you have never done it.
Seems like a white male in his mid-20's was the shooter.
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MTucker
Ice climber
Arizona
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Going to have to agree with F
The people in Arizona fearmonger about the Mexican drug cartels, illegal aliens and desert be headings
but the real problem is the right wing wackos bent on revolution
and the right wing Governor and her death panels
How Many dead now Jan Brewer, from your hand and your fear mongering
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MTucker
Ice climber
Arizona
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Seems like a white male in his mid-20's was the shooter.
Typical Right Wing Nut. Unemployed that is out for revenge.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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**Palin's list on Facebook includes 17 Democrats in Congress who her political action committee will work to defeat in the November elections:
Ann Kirkpatrick (Ariz.), Harry E. Mitchell (Ariz.), Gabrielle Giffords (Ariz.), John Salazar (Colo.), Betsy Markey (Colo.), Allen Boyd (Fla.), Suzanne M. Kosmas (Fla.), Baron P. Hill (Ind.), Earl Pomeroy (N.D.), Charlie Wilson (Ohio), John Boccieri (Ohio), Kathy Dahlkemper (Pa.), Christopher Carney (Pa.), John M. Spratt, Jr. (S.C.), Tom Perriello (Va.), Alan B. Mollohan (W.Va.), and Nick J. Rahall II (W.Va.).
On her Facebook page, Palin provides a map of the United States with a gun crosshair over each of the states of the Democrats that Palin is targeting on her list.**
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Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
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Right...left...liberal...who gives a crap? The real problem is everyone thinking that someone deserved or was asking for something. You know absolutely nothing about who did the shooting. Could have been a pissed off ex for all we know. She was just trying to take politics to the people, get out of the office and talk with those actually out on the streets. I don't care what side she was on. She was doing what people complain they never do enough. Pull your head out...
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Why would a "right-winger" shoot a Rep who was against illegal immigration? One who who wanted to tighten border security???
Bob, have drink, you're hysterical.
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She was just trying to take politics to the people, get out of the office and talk with those actually out on the streets. I don't care what side she was on. She was doing what people complain they never do enough. Pull your head out...
You're on a roll today with posts I agree with....
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