I'm trying to get..........
back to the format I was using a couple of years ago. That is, first some current event rant in which I slay dragons and set things right, then, a quote of the day and,finally, the Mexico As I See It segment.
Yesterday I wrote a screed about Wikileaks. I ran out of gas before getting to the rest so, today, I'm playing Ketchup.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Stupidity has a knack of getting its way - Albert Camus
MEXICO AS I SEE IT:
Well, I can tell you my host country is plenty pissed with France. They, the French, want their girl, Florence Cassez, to do her sixty years jail time in France. They also don't believe she got a fair trial here on kidnapping and murder charges. Don't know where they got that idea.
The French also say the witnesses against their compatriot were probably offered a deal or, even, paid outright to testify. Supposedly Florence didn't know any thing about drugs, murder and kidnapping. Don't know where they got that idea.
The Mexicans say her testimony, that she was just staying at the ranch with her narco boyfriend and did not know all those others brought there were kidnap victims doomed to die, is bullshit. Can't imagine where they got that idea.
Mexico says Ms. Cassez got a fair trial and was proven guilty. She stays in Mexico because Mexico doesn't trust the French to carry out her sentence. Can't imagine where they got that idea.
There also happens to be a yearlong festival of the Mexican Culture going on in France. Sarkozy has criticized Calderon publicly for not honoring the French request and Calderon has accused Sarkozy of trying to bully him into compliance. Now the Mexicans have pulled out of the festival in France. So, France is left with a year of Mexican festivals with no Mexicans. While the Mexicans will forego an opportunity to polish their worldwide tarnished reputation.
So, we're in a grand snit, a real live Mexican standoff.
As the blacks say: First liar ain't got a chance.
And you thought Egypt was the only big news in the world.
Yesterday I wrote a screed about Wikileaks. I ran out of gas before getting to the rest so, today, I'm playing Ketchup.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Stupidity has a knack of getting its way - Albert Camus
MEXICO AS I SEE IT:
Well, I can tell you my host country is plenty pissed with France. They, the French, want their girl, Florence Cassez, to do her sixty years jail time in France. They also don't believe she got a fair trial here on kidnapping and murder charges. Don't know where they got that idea.
The French also say the witnesses against their compatriot were probably offered a deal or, even, paid outright to testify. Supposedly Florence didn't know any thing about drugs, murder and kidnapping. Don't know where they got that idea.
The Mexicans say her testimony, that she was just staying at the ranch with her narco boyfriend and did not know all those others brought there were kidnap victims doomed to die, is bullshit. Can't imagine where they got that idea.
Mexico says Ms. Cassez got a fair trial and was proven guilty. She stays in Mexico because Mexico doesn't trust the French to carry out her sentence. Can't imagine where they got that idea.
There also happens to be a yearlong festival of the Mexican Culture going on in France. Sarkozy has criticized Calderon publicly for not honoring the French request and Calderon has accused Sarkozy of trying to bully him into compliance. Now the Mexicans have pulled out of the festival in France. So, France is left with a year of Mexican festivals with no Mexicans. While the Mexicans will forego an opportunity to polish their worldwide tarnished reputation.
So, we're in a grand snit, a real live Mexican standoff.
As the blacks say: First liar ain't got a chance.
And you thought Egypt was the only big news in the world.
posted by bbuckman | 11:41 AM
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