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Thread ID: 108513	2010-04-01 01:47:00	Good Thing Aussie-Land Is Friendly	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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871619	2010-04-01 01:47:00	. . . . . . . . along your border, that is . Texas and Arizona have had a war going on with the Mexican drug cartels for years and this is getting very out of hand now . At least 30 residents of El Porvenir, located about four miles from the Texas border town of Fort Hancock, have crossed into the U . S . and asked for political asylum, telling authorities that they fear for their lives . Residents of a small Mexican border town under siege by at least one of the country’s most notorious drug cartels are fleeing into a tiny Texas community, which is on high alert and preparing for a surge of illegal immigrants should a street battle break out with another cartel – or if gunmen begin carrying out a threat to start killing the town’s children . At least 30 residents of El Porvenir, located about four miles from the Texas border town of Fort Hancock, have crossed into the U . S . and asked for political asylum, telling authorities that they fear for their lives . Fort Hancock officials tell FoxNews . com that they consider the situation serious . “We just got word that the cartel has threatened to kill children in schools across the border unless parents paid $5000 pesos,” said Mike Doyle, chief deputy sheriff of Hudspeth County . And that time might come sooner than later . Schools Superintendent Jose Franco said word has spread that everyone in the Mexican town must stay indoors while members of rival cartels prepare for a shootout . MORE::: Arizona Rancher's Murder Exposes Deadly Gaps in Border Policing, Tancredo Says By : Judson Berger - FOXNews . com Former Colorado Rep . Tom Tancredo, reacting to the murder of a well-known Arizona rancher by an assailant authorities believe was an illegal immigrant, said violence on the border has spiraled out of control and the federal government seems powerless to stop it . In this Aug . 6, 2009, photo, (see below) a U . S . Border Patrol agent opens a barbed wire fence leading to a road lined with vehicle barriers marking the U . S-Mexico border near Hermanas, N . M . (AP Photo) Former Colorado Rep . Tom Tancredo, reacting to the murder of a well-known Arizona rancher by an assailant authorities believe was an illegal immigrant, said violence on the border has spiraled out of control and the federal government seems powerless to stop it . Tancredo, who has called on the Obama administration to deploy the National Guard in response, told FoxNews . com Tuesday that the killing shows how bad the situation has become for Americans living north of the Mexican border . "The violence on the border is . . . getting worse all the time," he said . "This is just a horrible manifestation of it . " NOW WE CAN GET TO THE BOTTOM OF "WHY"? Lawmakers Demand Administration Deploy National Guard, Border Patrol After Killing Lawmakers from Arizona and New Mexico are ratcheting up their demands that the Obama administration deploy hundreds of National Guard troops and Border Patrol agents to the Mexican border after the killing of a prominent southeast Arizona rancher . Lawmakers from Arizona and New Mexico are ratcheting up their demands that the Obama administration deploy hundreds of National Guard troops and Border Patrol agents to the Mexican border after the killing of a prominent southeast Arizona rancher . Local police say Robert Krentz, 58, whose body was found slumped over his ATV on his ranch Saturday, was probably shot to death by an illegal immigrant . Footprints from the scene of the crime led back across the Mexican border . In the wake of the shooting, state and federal lawmakers have called on the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon to revive stalled plans to beef up border security and protect the people who live near notorious drug-running routes . "The federal government must do all it can within its power to curb this violence and protect its citizens from criminals coming across the border from Mexico," Sen . John McCain, R-Ariz . , said in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano . McCain called on the administration to "immediately" reconsider sending National Guard troops to the border . "We must make the security of our borders one of our top national security priorities," he said . Arizona Gov . Jan Brewer also renewed her calls for additional National Guard troops, calling the Krentz killing a "horrible and unnecessary tragedy . " That demand came on top of a request from three members of New Mexico's congressional delegation for more Border Patrol agents in the Boot Heel of the state, and a tough call from former Colorado Rep . Tom Tancredo for the National Guard to be sent in . Tancredo, in a statement through his Rocky Mountain Foundation, said the National Guard should be sent in to aid the Border Patrol . He decried the Obama administration for not completing border fencing along the area near where Krentz was killed, and he said Napolitano's claim that the border is secure is a "lie . " "The residents here know better," Tancredo said . Krentz's family has been ranching in southern Arizona since 1907, and Robert was known for his generosity -- bringing water to illegal immigrants and helping those who were injured while trying to cross the desert . The family, though, had repeatedly expressed their concern to authorities that illegal immigrants were damaging their property and disturbing, even killing, their livestock . Robert's wife Susan wrote to Congress in 2007 saying their ranch had suffered $6 . 2 million in damage "because of illegal foot traffic . " "We are in fear for our lives and safety and health of ourselves and that of our families and friends," she wrote . Rep . Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz . , also said in a written statement Sunday that "all options should be on the table" after the shooting, including the possibility of sending more Border Patrol agents and deploying the National Guard . The Obama administration last summer had been considering a plan to send up to 1,500 National Guard volunteers to the southern border to help with the counter-drug effort, but that was stalled over disagreements about funding and other issues .	SurferJoe46 (51)
871620	2010-04-01 02:22:00	Australian border is 1200 miles away at its closest, its good because the snakes cant get here.	prefect (6291)
871621	2010-04-01 02:25:00	Some USA citizens think there is a bridge between Auckland and Sydney.	Sweep (90)
871622	2010-04-01 02:30:00	I got to thinkin' and then I remember all the times I told youse guys to put all your outboard motors on the West beaches and sail toward the Northern Hemisphere and just join up with California - and then my mind wandered to the site clock and how it was always wrong and that it's funny that no-one is complaining about it any more and then I scrolled down to check if you had indeed moved, even a little and had entered a new time zone yet, which would be a dead give-away that you had taken my advice about all those outboard motors and had actually started the move to a nicer area of the globe but I couldn't even find the stupid clock and I figgered that Australians had now invaded NZ and taken the clock away and youse guys were all zombies or clones and not really NZ-ers at all but Aussies who were pretending to be youse guys and I was making great numbers of THEM angry at me and that I should retract all the bad things I said about them (Australian) even though it was for youse guys in the first place since you're gonna give me free beer and not the Fosters junk beer when I finally get my visa and US passport all straightened out - but mostly this is about the clock...................... Where'd the clock go?	SurferJoe46 (51)
871623	2010-04-01 02:41:00	we had a clock?	nedkelly (9059)
871624	2010-04-01 03:45:00	Times winged chariot has done a flit?	R2x1 (4628)
871625	2010-04-01 08:25:00	I got to thinkin' and then I remember all the times I told youse guys to put all your outboard motors on the West beaches and sail toward the Northern Hemisphere and just join up with California - and then my mind wandered to the site clock and how it was always wrong and that it's funny that no-one is complaining about it any more and then I scrolled down to check if you had indeed moved, even a little and had entered a new time zone yet, which would be a dead give-away that you had taken my advice about all those outboard motors and had actually started the move to a nicer area of the globe but I couldn't even find the stupid clock and I figgered that Australians had now invaded NZ and taken the clock away and youse guys were all zombies or clones and not really NZ-ers at all but Aussies who were pretending to be youse guys and I was making great numbers of THEM angry at me and that I should retract all the bad things I said about them (Australian) even though it was for youse guys in the first place since you're gonna give me free beer and not the Fosters junk beer when I finally get my visa and US passport all straightened out - but mostly this is about the clock...................... Where'd the clock go? We have indeed moved closer to Australia (without the help of outboard motors :lol:), we're not called the Shaky Isles for nothing! tvnz.co.nz (How is your visa/passport prob going?, might be snowing by the time you get here (joking (mostly), we don't see much snow on lower altitudes except in middle of winter especially the South Island (average temps 5-7 degrees C, July))); is our autumn (fall) at the moment. Some sights for you to see :thumbs: www.nzescape.com Would recommend this http://www.shotoverjet.com/ (Water jet propulsion system invented by NZ'er (http://www.hamiltonjet.co.nz/)) Cant help with the clock, sorry, not my department :).	feersumendjinn (64)
871626	2010-04-01 20:50:00	Robin Williams summed up the Aussies see video (tvnz.co.nz) :banana	gary67 (56)
871627	2010-04-01 21:18:00	I saw the whole thing on the david letterman show on prime yesterday. Very funny.	nedkelly (9059)
871628	2010-04-01 23:10:00	I saw the whole thing on the david letterman show on prime yesterday. Very funny. We saw it at work on one news yesterday and even the Aussie who works for us was in stitches	gary67 (56)
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