The home team trails in the third quarter as the underdog visitors steadily advance the ball. Coaches are nervous; fans are grumbling. Desperate for a turnaround, the home team announces a surprise rule change: From now on, the visitors are banned from crossing the 50-yard line. Sounds absurd, but that’s what Congress proposes to do with NAFTA, the free-trade accord it approved in 1993. Sure, NAFTA might not be a crowd pleaser. It is, however, a treaty that legally binds the United States. The rules don’t change just because the home team is in trouble. NAFTA has always included provisions ….Read More
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 with a heads up to a blog that is awesome. Not only for it’s content, but for the marvelous graphics. The Unapologetic Mexican is the site I speak of. For a thinker, it has great comment and the eye candy is beyond description. Those ….Read More
The mystery of diesel fuel disappearing from trucks in Seguin appeared solved this week when a San Antonio man with a specially rigged pickup was arrested on theft charges, police said. Yan Gomez, 30, was caught Wednesday as he pumped fuel from a truck, said Lt. J. San Miguel of the Seguin Police. “He had a Ford pickup with a spare tank in the back, and long hose he’d put into the tanks of the semis. He also had an electric pump,” San Miguel said. Gomez was charged with theft and later released on $1,000 bond. His truck was impounded. ….Read More
