That's two BEST POST EVER's I've received in a day now.

Conspiracy?

Don't go to Llanfair PG, it's not that exciting really. And it'll rain.

There's a pretty badass castle on the mainland near the island Llanfair PG is on, called "Caernarfon" I think. It's fukken' huge.

I wish I had

"Best post ever" posts are getting old.

hahah THEY ARE. Get over it.

You're getting old.



...Seriously. Time is working against you.

My boss was talking about what he's going to do when he retires in a couple years..

If it's really as sweet as he makes it sounds I can't fucking wait.. lol.

I like how this thread went from talking about violence on the Mexico-Texas/US border to... I'm actually not sure if it has a solid subject any more O_O
Either way, I'm here (after quite a long absence due to internet failures/failure all around) to reaalll this one back in.

Took a trip down south not too long ago, I think it may have been 5 months ago, and by 'down south' I mean a little town called Acuña. You might know it from the work of literature/film No Country for Old Men and Kill Bill. Now why I went down was to get some muscle relaxants for my knee (this was obviously pre-op) and to soak in all the border town has to offer (Cheap booze/medication/amazing mexican food et cetera). Within thirty minutes of being on the border, I am happily greeted by soldiers with M-4 assault rifles and Assault shotguns in the back of an armored car traveling down the road infront of Ma Crosby's (relatively famous restaurant) and moments later followed by the sounds of gunfire. This was the last time I've been down there, for good reason obviously, and it's made a turn for the worse it seems. Now, I understand we need to beef up border security for our own security, Drug runners are starting to run South Texas into the ground and it won't stop there. I'm not sure how much National Guard can do if it becomes a full blown warzone down there, it honestly scares the living shit out of me. Daggar isn't the only one who's losing friends to the whole fiasco either, I've lost one just reccently, though not particularly close, and I have a friend who's cousins were killed as innocent bystanders in the El Paso-Juarez area. The media plays it down, compared to Iraq or A-stan, and sure, it isn't a war, but shouldn't our primary concern not be the problems abroad, but maybe the fact we have American civilians dying on American soil? I mean... if they can smuggle in and muscle in drugs on a daily basis, what stops them from taking maybe a more volatile payload through? Say a dirty bomb? How much would it cost to pay them to attempt that do you think? That scares me more than any Middle Eastern conflict or problem with North Korea.

Sorry for your loss, Graham.

It really is getting out of hand. More people have been killed in the drug cartel wars than American soldiers have been killed in the War on Terror.

I saw this documentary on Current about the drug wars in Mexico.
It wasn't made really recently, but recent enough to show that people are dying very very frequently, and often its people who aren't directly involved in drug trafficking.

http://current.com/items/89845362_narco-war-next-door.htm

Its pretty sad.
And scary.
Its also done by one of the journalists that was imprisoned in North Korea. Just a side note.

It's getting to the point where I can only think of maybe 3 people who I know who live in Texas and aren't or haven't been affected by the war on the border. It's way out of hand.