Mexican bizarre

You can't make this stuff up. Not even Fox News can make it up.

Mexican border town mayors are complaining because the United States returns their Mexican-citizen criminals to Mexico.  The mayors think it best for the U.S. to keep the thugs on the U.S. side where Norteamericanos can pay for their keep. Failing that, we should at least fly them to their Mexican home towns.

Ciudad Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes blamed U.S. deportation policy for contributing to his city's violence, saying that of the 80,000 people deported to Juarez in the past three years, 28,000 had U.S. criminal records -- including 7,000 convicted rapists and 2,000 convicted murderers.


Funny, I've been reading for years that illegal immigrants are gentle souls, moving here only to satisfy our desire for cheap lettuce.

Never mind the trouble a guy has of picturing U.S.authorities catching, trying, and convicting an illegal of murder, then punishing him with a  bus ticket to Juarez.



H/T to Wyatt Earp

Whatever optimism I still have about the human race was depleted when I flipped on the electric teevee for a news check. HLN was reporting that a white woman moved into a black neighborhood three months ago and, one month a go, hung up a confederate flag. The neighbors are petitioning the city council -- I didn't catch where -- to make her take it down.

Wrong. She has a perfect right to fly the flag. On the other hand, I would not actively object to a new ordinance making her wear a temporary tattoo on her forehead.


"I am a tasteless old bitch, and not smart."


Six months sounds about right.

California Open Carry

The City of San Diego has confessed that its cops didn't know or didn't care what they were doing  a couple of years ago when they harassed and arrested Samuel Wolanyk for openly carrying an unloaded handgun. That is legal in California, but several street officers, their sergeant, and the booking officer didn't know it.

The bad and wholly unnecessary bust case was settled for $35,000 and a letter from the cops affirmatively stating that Wolanyk was an innocent citizen, wrongly arrested,

The city got off too cheap, if you ask me.

True Laws Are Real (2)

When you rebuild the roof over a bay window without a building permit, you commit a criminal act in a certain small  town -- even if your repair does not change the foot print of the house.

Without an official "variance," you can't get a building permit because,  you scum, you live in a "non-conforming structure."  That's because the home sits 30 feet from the  rear property line rather than the required 35. That travesty is a relic of the era before it occurred to local politicians and busybodies that government ought to decide what is neighborly -- and aesthetically pleasing -- through zoning laws crafted like a cheap rayon sock. One size fits all. Never mind that your modest little cabin occupies less than 1000 square feet on an acre-plus  in a town where a lot 50 feet by 200 feet is usual.

It costs $200 to apply for a zoning variance. It takes about two months, if you're lucky, and requires a set of engineering drawings and a survey map. You need to appear at a Board of Adjustment  meeting,  tug your forelock again and humbly explain why it is a hardship to have your roof leaking perilously close to your laptop.

If the board says "no," it still gets to keep your $200. Then you either  live with the leak or smear big globs of black tar over where you think it  originates. That's legal.

Tip O'Neil should have written two corollaries. Tyranny is local. So is idiocy.

And if that ain't the Lord's own truth I'll kiss your arse on the rooftop and give you an hour to fiddle up  a crowd.