How Stupid Are They?

[E7]

I wonder. If I decide to drive, next Spring, to Arizona, Colorado , and New Mexico, and, despite the protests of friends , on onto Mexico, shall I conclude I'll need my passport with me?

Probably, if you want to avoid being called "Senor Murph" in perpetuity!

[up148]

Really? Simples - it's all about money.

ABSOLUTELY!!! I wish someone would investigate Gov. Mary Fallin.

Well, I'd wager it's a lot more than 1 person and over a lot of years......like that lame state congress you noted.

Oh, it is for sure, but her administration is the one who lowered the production tax in 2014 when the state was in decent shape financially and they just refuse to connect the dots (at least publically) now that the state is in trouble. State has been GOP forever and I do hate to see them lose that, but the way they're acting, they deserve it.Damn near criminal.

BH

[Rufus T. Firefly]

State has been GOP forever and I do hate to see them lose that......

Money doesn't care about political parties; it just buy which one it needs to get what it wants.

[Roy]

I wonder. If I decide to drive, next Spring, to Arizona, Colorado , and New Mexico, and, despite the protests of friends , on onto Mexico, shall I conclude I'll need my passport with me?

You definitely need your passport to go to Mexico. I'd also advise you get a Rent-A-Wreck before you cross the border, and take care to securely park your MB for the duration. I'd stock up on bottled water and food, and not eat or drink anything indigenous.

Why do you want to go to Mexico?

[rex desilets]

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Why do you want to go to Mexico?

There is the frisson of danger from the cartels or the local constabulary..

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I wonder. If I decide to drive, next Spring, to Arizona, Colorado , and New Mexico, and, despite the protests of friends , on onto Mexico, shall I conclude I'll need my passport with me?

You definitely need your passport to go to Mexico. I'd also advise you get a Rent-A-Wreck before you cross the border, and take care to securely park your MB for the duration. I'd stock up on bottled water and food, and not eat or drink anything indigenous.

Why do you want to go to Mexico?

I'm not sure, just for something different, but judging from what you have said, and what E7 has imagined, perhaps not, especially given the part about leaving my Benz somewhere and driving something else. Nope. Never. It's the Benz , my Honey, and me or I stay home and fight off the M-13s or whatevers where at least I am familiar.
Ok. You convinced me. Asta la vista, Mexico .

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I wonder. If I decide to drive, next Spring, to Arizona, Colorado , and New Mexico, and, despite the protests of friends , on onto Mexico, shall I conclude I'll need my passport with me?

You definitely need your passport to go to Mexico. I'd also advise you get a Rent-A-Wreck before you cross the border, and take care to securely park your MB for the duration. I'd stock up on bottled water and food, and not eat or drink anything indigenous.

Why do you want to go to Mexico?

I'm not sure, just for something different, but judging from what you have said, and what ninjas imagined, perhaps not, especially given the part about leaving my Benz somewhere and driving something else. Nope. Never. It's the Benz , my Honey, and me or I stay home and fight off the M-13s or whatevers where at least I am familiar.
Ok. You convinced me. Asta la vista, Mexico .

Drive up to Quebec City for a few days. Get a room at the Château Frontenac.

[robert.]

Drive to any home depot in Trenton NJ. Grab a taco and pretend your in mexico.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Drive to any home depot in Trenton NJ. Grab a taco and pretend your in mexico.

No. Not in Trenton. Do not even slow down there.

[webenda]

It's the Benz , my Honey, and me or I stay home and fight off the M-13s or whatevers where at least I am familiar.
Ok. You convinced me. Asta la vista, Mexico .

If the Savadorian MS-13 gang comes to Tucson, I am fleeing to Mexico where it is safer.

Sixteen miles (as the Benz drives) from you Murph, three friends — Terrance Aeriel, 18, and Dashon Harvey and Iofemi Hightower, both 20— were gunned down on the playground of the Mt. Vernon School in Newark. Another 19-year-old victim was sexually assaulted, stabbed and shot, but survived. Prosecutors said five of the six men charged with the crime were members of the MS-13 gang. One of the men told investigators he helped start the gang's Newark clique, and said the killings were ordered by gang members in New York--a test for a new member. Five of the six received sentences of more than 155 years in prison each for their roles in the murders.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Drive to any home depot in Trenton NJ. Grab a taco and pretend your in mexico.

No. Not in Trenton. Do not even slow down there.

Good lookin' out, Rufus. Thank you, most sincerely. That's what I would conclude.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

It's the Benz , my Honey, and me or I stay home and fight off the M-13s or whatevers where at least I am familiar.
Ok. You convinced me. Asta la vista, Mexico .

If the Savadorian MS-13 gang comes to Tucson, I am fleeing to Mexico where it is safer.

Sixteen miles (as the Benz drives) from you Murph, three friends — Terrance Aeriel, 18, and Dashon Harvey and Iofemi Hightower, both 20— were gunned down on the playground of the Mt. Vernon School in Newark. Another 19-year-old victim was sexually assaulted, stabbed and shot, but survived. Prosecutors said five of the six men charged with the crime were members of the MS-13 gang. One of the men told investigators he helped start the gang's Newark clique, and said the killings were ordered by gang members in New York--a test for a new member. Five of the six received sentences of more than 155 years in prison each for their roles in the murders.

Thanks, very much, Wayne, for the heads-up and concern, but we are well aware of the implicit danger of driving anywhere near (even lanes on the Parkway can be dangerous when they get close to) Newark, and the city of Paterson, very near by, just had a young woman stabbed (so said her neighbor) and, likely, grabbed and "disappeared" into a car's trunk, all only yards from where I used to live. Both those cities have shootings and/or armed robberies, car-jackings, and home-invasions nearly every day, as reported by the local newspapers and TV news. I don't drive into that city ever either, not for any reason, not even to receive the Vivere Christus Est award, recently, from the Bishop at the Cathedral for our corporal works of mercy. We hired a driver to take us in and to deliver us home afterwards.

It may only be a matter of time until they are coming through our windows or rear-deck sliders to see what we have. Well, I am prepared to receive and greet them with more than a Corporal Work of Mercy.

[webenda]

It may only be a matter of time until they are coming through our windows or rear-deck sliders to see what we have. Well, I am prepared to receive and greet them with more than a Corporal Work of Mercy.

Wasp spray?

[Roy]

A .44 Magnum?

[Roy]

Drive up to Quebec City for a few days. Get a room at the Château Frontenac.

That sounds nice. So Murph, have you ever been to the West Coast?