Mexico Trucker Online

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I thought it was a good idea to start something like this as there is much happening in the blogosphere and in the news that doesn’t warrant a full post are who has been covered by others in a manner of excellence I cannot duplicate.
I want to start our, not with a news story but [...]

An interesting and neutral article regarding the renewed attempts to free convicted felons Ramos and Compean appeared in todays San Antonio Express News
The article confirms what I have said all along here about the involvement of Ignacio Ramos’ father in law in successfully having this case tried in the court of public opinion which did [...]

Bill would mandate “Black Boxes” in all CMV’s
Two U.S. senators today urged tougher regulations aimed at improving bus safety in response to last week’s deadly accident that killed 17 Vietnamese Catholics from Houston.
Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued statements calling for the passage of their legislation, known as the Motorcoach Enhanced [...]

So what’s going on here? Are we so fixated on legally operated, safe Mexican Cross Border trucks that we totally ignore the commercial bus industry in the United States?
On the heels of Friday morning deadly crash in Sherman Texas that killed 17 and injured more than 35 people when the recapped steering tire blew out [...]

Marco Antonio Solís is without question one of the most important figures in the rise of Mexican and Latin music to world prominence during the last two decades of the 20th century.
Born in Michoacan, Mexico, Solís was only 12 when he formed his first group, Los Hermanitos Solís, with brother Joel.
He was still [...]

The violations discovered in the bus belonging to Angel Tours that crashed in Sherman Texas Friday morning points to the stupidty and ignorance of a small percentage of people obsessed with ending the Cross Border Pilot Program, which has operated safely for the past 11 months, while ignoring American common carriers who flaunt and ignore [...]

The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down it’s ruling yesterday in the case of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean and Justice was affirmed. US Judge Katherine Carbone was foud to have run a fair trial and the verdict hinged on who the Jury or 12 chose to believe. The Prosecution or the [...]

The circuit court said today that “the trial of the case was conducted fairly and without reversible error.” It affirmed the men’s convictions on five counts each, including counts of discharge of a firearm in commission of a crime of violence, which the court said carries a minimum term of

With all the vitriolic hatred being thrown about against Mexicans, whether legal or illegal and the celebration of the recent Supreme Court ruling concerning the Second Amendment and the NRA’s stated goal of unrestricted gun ownership, once again violence has been visited upon innocents.
In Knoxville Tennessee on Sunday, Jim D. Adkisson, 58, an unemployed truck [...]

The latest wave of sick and perverted hatred from the nativists who seem to control elements of talk radio comes in the form of Jon Justice a wannabe talk show host on 104.1 The Truth, an FM talk station in Tucson Arizona.
It began with a rally against Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio stepped up [...]

Federal regulators formally approved the merger of the nation’s only two satellite radio operators Friday, ending a 16-month-long drama closely watched by Washington and Wall Street.
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.’s $3.3 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. will mean 18 million-plus subscribers will be able to receive programming from both services. Executives say [...]

“We also scan 100 percent of truck cargo entering the United States from Mexico and more than 90 percent of the truck cargo entering the United States from Canada. Just a few years ago, we didn’t scan any of this cargo for radiation” - Michael Chertoff
Secretary of Homeland Security

The US Department of Justice,National Drug Intelligence Centerhas published the document NDIC Accomplishments, Fiscal Year 2007 which some are suggesting shows ties between Mexican drug cartels and Islamic terrorist groups.
The site in question, and I am not going to give them the pleasure of a link to this site reports:
“Information from intelligence and [...]

World Net Daily is reporting that Judicial Watch a so called “watchdog” group has filed suit against the US Government in an attempt to obtain details on the immunity agreement given Osvaldo Aldrete-Davilla for his testimony against ex Border Patrol Agents and convicted felons Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean who without provocation, shot him in [...]

Damned, I got excited for a moment here. But, wrong Bozo!
Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83.
Has Dick Cheney been sworn in yet?
Although not the original Bozo, Harmon portrayed the popular [...]

How appropriate is it that on July 4, 2008 we are freed from the hateful thoughts and rhetoric of this vile excuse for a human being.
Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, [...]

I saw this item on WorldNet Daily and thought it was some more of thier silly rabble rousing alongside of such potential wet dream candidates for the right wing loons such as George Noory for President in 2012 perhaps with fellow loony tune Jeremy Corsi as his running mate.
A New Jersey newspaper reported Dobb’s refusal [...]