^^^ Finally

 

I guarantee I'm not the only one.

 

I know that but you are the worse one to beat.

 

OK.

 

Well Jack, I just got off of the phone with an ex high school sweetheart of my sister that has remained a family friend and he lives just off of 286 north of the "park" as he calls it. He would love to sell out since he thinks he lives in a war zone but he can't find anybody that's willing to buy let alone live there. There is no law and the the Sheriff of Pima Cty has already told the locals that if they get in a bind, expect to take care of it themselves as he does not have the resources to cover the area. Maybe you live in the more protected area of Arizona like Phoenix but the folks that actually live near the border aren't feeling as safe as you. The refuge covers 118,000 acres and the map is correct.

I guess my views are particularly slanted. Considering a good friend from church that sells real estate went missing for about a month after showing a ranch only to have her body parts show up in a 55 gallon drum on the side of the hiway might have something to do with it.Or maybe finding the neighbors cowboy on the side of the road gut shot from drug dealers who shot him for his truck so they didn't have to walk. Or maybe it's the friend down the road about 3 miles that was found with his wife tied to the bed and gang raped before they slit her throat. His 8 year old girl was found choked to death on his private parts and then they did the columbian neck tie death on him. They found his truck at Rio Bravo, the home of the drug dealers in this part of the world but it's so bad there even the law won't go in there. They would be grossly out gunned and probably out numbered. So I guess if you want to call me a zonie, whatever that is, I probably meet the criteria. But when it's your friends and neighbors that are dying for nothing, you'll be a zonie too- I guarantee it.

 

Texas sounds like a truly awful place to live. Why would you stay there? Just for your information, a "Zonie" is someone from Arizona, we don't live in a war zone.

What "map" are you talking about? Here's a link to the official Government page for Buenos Aires: http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges...a/buenosaires/ Show me I-8 on the map (which Fox News implied bordered the refuge). Tell me how the "park" as you call it is "closed". As I said, I've been into Buenos Aries many times and have driven the Ruby road several times too. I'm honestly sorry you're afraid of this area, but I'm not. I'm saddened your sister's friend can't sell his property, but, the market IS depressed. Perhaps his asking price is too high.

And, since you bring up the Pima County Sheriff, the Sheriff of MY County, here's what Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, a Republican, has said about the new Arizona Immigration law. He called the law "racist" and "disgusting" and "stupid" and, in his "nuanced judgment" it could not be enforced without mandatory racial profiling. The Tucson Police Chief has made similar statements.

We live in Pima County, not Phoenix, and regularly travel to the south. As I said, we don't feel we have anything to fear.

- Jack

 

Ah, Stealth, I honestly don't care where I am on YOUR "ladder of respect". What matters is where I am on my own. You are free to form your own opinions about things. That's what's so great about this Country of ours - we get to have opinions and are allowed to express them.

- Jack

 

Yep.

 

This is probably as good a place as any to close this thing down. Everyone seems to have had a say in it and there's not much point in dragging it on.

- Jack