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DENNIS
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Opps, sounds like I may have offended someone--- |
Not at all. I honestly just misread your post.
Thanks.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by arrowhead
http://tijuanapress.com/index.php?option=com_content&vie...
Long story in Spanish. The Reader's Digest version:
An American named Troy Vincent Hunt, was married to a Mexican woman and they had a daughter. Six years ago, when the daughter was one year old, the
mother was killed in Mexicali. After the funeral, the mother's family asked to take care of the baby and took her to Sinaloa. Hunt lost track of his
daughter. He went to the state government building in Tijuana this morning with his lawyer to deliver a letter to governor Osuna. The letter asked
Osuna to intervene in his behalf and ask the governor of Sinaloa for help getting his daughter.
Hunt stood outside the building telling his story. A government official, named Gerardo Martinez, took him inside but would not allow his lawyer to
accompanying him. Moments later, Hunt was dragged out by two Mexican immigration officers, and I presume deported. He was in the country legally.
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A few week ago, baja norte authorities announced the creation of a "tourist" police and i mentioned it was all bogus publicity. As you can see, this
is the real goodwill and the real face of northern Baja politicians. They don't care about no one.
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DianaT
It is all bound to change as world politics change---
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International gerrymandering. Scarey concept. |
Yep and it has been going on for a long time. For many years the most accepted world maps in the Western World put Europe right in the center and it
ended up looking much larger in comparison to other places. All a part of power politics.
There are many very interesting world maps today that look nothing like the ones we are used to seeing---some political, some not----some are just a
matter of how one flattens the globe and makes it two dimensional--
Then again, the Flat Earth society is alive and well.
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sub-continent?
and of course if you're at the north pole every direction is south
I think north being up on a map is more than just a convention of some sort because otherwise all the words on the map would be upside-down or.....
AND..............................
I'm from the U.S. of N.A. and got dragged out of Key West one spring break back in the days. Now there's some news!
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
They don't care about no one. |
It's really difficult to know what happened here without more details. This one really requires an open mind up to this point.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by k-rico
sub-continent?
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I thought you were heading to Sub-Baja. Are you on the road?
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by k-rico
sub-continent?
and of course if you're at the north pole every direction is south
I think north being up on a map is more than just a convention of some sort because otherwise all the words on the map would be upside-down or.....
AND..............................
I'm from the U.S. of N.A. and got dragged out of Key West one spring break back in the days. Now there's some news! |
North being UP is a convention, a convention created in the European dominated world---long time ago. Not to worry, on the maps with South being up,
the names are all printed upright. 
And your news, I think is definitely as important as the original topic here----I bet you did NOTHING to deserve that treatment, nothing, nothing,
nothing.
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DENNIS
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Heaven is up. Right? Actually, Puerto Vallarta is south. Im confused.
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DianaT
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Heaven is up. Right? Actually, Puerto Vallarta is south. Im confused. |
As George Carlin used to say, it is right above those clouds---but is that up??? Where is the top of the universe? Is it any wonder, that
astronomers have a higher rate of suicide?
One can quickly become a speck of insignificance----
Gees, sitting here too long. Hurt my hip this morning out trying to take a photo------time to take the Naproxin and get out of here.
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Is it true that water circles the drain in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres?
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CaboRon
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Is it true that water circles the drain in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres? |
Yes
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Bajahowodd
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What happens when one is on the equator?
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Does this mean that Vicente Troy Hunt may be from Greenland? |
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What happens when one is on the equator? |
You can't flush the toilet.
carpe diem!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
What happens when one is on the equator? |
Up becomes east or west.
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I was thinking maybe the water just dropped straight down.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DianaT
One can quickly become a speck of insignificance----
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One is that at birth. The decent quest becomes a way to be more than the speck.
A Buddhist reference would be a stone. One that would be used for building.
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We went to Madagascar a few years ago. It is known as the "8th Continent" because of the incredible flora and fauna that is native only to the island
nation. We also went to Egypt and sailed "up" the Nile while heading south to "Upper Egypt"? When I was in Fiji I saw the water in the toilet rotating
the wrong way.
Hope the child involved is safe and happy wherever it is.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by elgatoloco
When I was in Fiji I saw the water in the toilet rotating the wrong way.
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but for them it's the "right" way to rotate and our toilets rotate the wrong way.
and, just curious, but I thought that "up the creek..." meant going against the current to wherever the headwaters of the river might be, irregardless
of whether that direction was headed, north or south....and I guess...east or west....
interesting discussion...
[Edited on 10-19-2009 by BajaNuts]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaNuts
and, just curious, but I thought that "up the creek..." meant going against the current to wherever the headwaters of the river might be, irregardless
of whether that direction was headed, north or south....and I guess...east or west....
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/up_the_creek
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