Football, Drug Cartels and Beatles survey

AUGUST 29, 2010




HAPPY SUNDAY



Sycamore High School won handily in Chicago on Saturday evening. The DeKalb – Sycamore game could be a real fun game to watch in two weeks. The night game is scheduled for Sept. 10, 2010. Plan on attending the local rivalry game.



Do you think Sycamore and DeKalb could beat the uninspired and uninspiring Chicago Bears? They looked pathetic Saturday night against the Arizona Cardinals in a 14-9 loss at home.



This week there was some news in the papers and on the TV about a mass killing in Mexico involving a Drug Cartel. 72 people were murdered. Sounds like the United States is going to have to mount our white horse and charge into another country that does not like us or want us there.



Remember the Virtual Fence we were to build between Mexico and the United States to control illegal immigration. We built it so well, we cannot find it. It is invisible by design but we ought to know where it is. Do we know where it is and if it is working? You can Google numerous sights on the web and see video of illegals crossing into our country from Mexico. If these cameras can find them why can’t our trained border control guards?



Apparently the 72 murder victims were kidnapped and murdered after their families could not pay the ransom demand. Kidnapping is a big problem in that part of the world.


According to the Huffington Post:
Ten interesting facts about the Mexican Drug Cartels
1. A recent U.S. government report suggests that "Two large and important states bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse: Pakistan and Mexico."

2. Mexico has one of the highest kidnapping rates in the world: An average of 70 people are abducted each month.

3. More than 1,100 guns found discarded at Mexico shooting scenes or confiscated from cartel gangsters were traced to Texas gun merchants in 2007.

4. One of Mexico's most notorious drug kingpins, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, escaped a maximum security prison in 2001 by driving out in a laundry truck.

5. This year Forbes magazine included Joaquin Guzman, a Mexican drug lord, on its annual billionaires' list.

6. A drug cartel hood named "The Cook" reportedly dissolved the bodies of 300 victims in acid as part of the grisly work he committed for crime bosses.

7. The FBI has reported 75 open cases of Americans kidnapped in Mexico.

8. In a poll by the daily newspaper La Reforma, Mexico City residents ranked public insecurity as a worse crisis than the economy by a 5-to-1 margin. In the past year, 20 percent were crime victims.

9. In the past year, Mexico's civil drug war has claimed some 6,300 lives.

10. Grammy-nominated singer Sergio Gomez was kidnapped and his genitals were burned with a blowtorch in December 2007, presumably for singing narco corridos, or "drug ballads."



www.huffingtonpost.com

It is a good website although often times infuriating and wrong.



A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson is a wonderful read. It is a book you can read for five minutes and enjoy it or pick it up and read until you have finished it. Either way, when you put the book down, you will be smarter. Much of the information you learned before, so this book offers a refresher course. The rest of the information you and all of us should have learned before. This book belongs in every home in America. The author also has a kids’ friendly version, suitable for younger readers or anyone else with a shorter attention span.



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Tell me your favorite Beatles song. We will get our survey going too. Rate your top three, 1 through 3.



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