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Late Night: Open Thread: Smugglers' Blues

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Wed Dec 23, 2009 at 12:20:13 AM EST
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After spending the past 3 hours reading discovery in a new drug case, the only thing that's popping into my mind is this 1984 video by Glenn Frey, a song later made famous by Miami Vice. (Great lyrics too.) Some things are still the same as in 1984 -- informants and wiretaps still rule the day. The differences seem to be drugs are cheaper, Mexico predominates, the busts involve smaller overall quantities but bond is harder to get and sentences are much longer ... and cell phone records bring everybody down.

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    Max Baucus Supports Medicare for All (none / 0) (#1)
    by Dan the Man on Wed Dec 23, 2009 at 12:29:55 AM EST
    of the sick residents of Libby, Montana

    This is crazy. (none / 0) (#2)
    by phat on Wed Dec 23, 2009 at 12:53:50 AM EST
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091223/ap_on_re_us/us_health_care_deal_states

    COLUMBIA, S.C. - The top prosecutors in seven states are probing the constitutionality of a political deal that cut a funding break for Nebraska in order to pass a federal health care reform bill, South Carolina's attorney general said Tuesday.

    Attorney General Henry McMaster said he and his counterparts in Alabama, Colorado, Michigan, North Dakota, Texas and Washington state -- all Republicans -- are jointly taking a look at the deal they've dubbed the "Nebraska compromise."

    This is pretty much over the top.

    So, when is that NAFTA (none / 0) (#3)
    by jondee on Wed Dec 23, 2009 at 08:36:08 AM EST
    Free Trade rising tide going to start lifting all the boats -- for the betterment of all of us, here and in Mexico?

    Some might say the narrow, Free-Trade-A-Vision reality tunnel that was supposed to produce a "transformative" (like H1N1 is transformative) magic bullet (not like those cartel bullets) "for all peoples here and in Latin America" is closely related to the myopic economic dogma that midwifed the financial crisis.

    Or maybe those thousands of murders, rapes, "disappearances" etc in Mexico are just the birth pangs of another, more fiscally enlightened, new world order -- brought to us by the 100k a night speaker fee crowd.

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