Cindy Stein around 1990 on a Suzuki GS700E, (helmet free).


                                   
                                       Beto's home state, Morelos                                                                            Viva Zapata

   The Strategy.  Go back to Mexico, this time as the legitimate candidate of a major party.   
   .   Rouse the Hispanic-Immigration Reform- Lobbyists in Washington.  Last ditch try and    
          best idea yet (below) to get their attention.  While I'm thinking about it- contact the Democratic
          National Committee too.  At this point, they've all  stunk.  I wish Hispanic groups would stop
          sending me "immigration alert" texts TELLING to call my REPRESENTATIVE.  Their insensitivity
          is hurting my feelings- my rep. is Frank LoBiondo.
   .   Idea!  Drive a car to a friend in need, instead of flying.  Drive it over the border- into inhospitable
           Mexico-  and l leave it with a deliriously grateful Beto.  I've done it before!
           Update-  In the news, 8/05/2010   Car Bombs.  The latest tactic by the drug cartels. Just what I               needed to hear.  Not to make light, but I might need a red cross insignia saying this "gringo" is
           neutral.
        
   . .  Preparations:  With great fanfare, I auction  my Trans Am and antique GMC Pick Up on Ebay.
         Advertise-(annoy) above (Hispanic) groups in Washington about the auction.. Someone-
         somewhere finally  acknowledges an  email-  next, I show up on the radar of somebody important
         (@ New York Times).   Unconnected to that, two car hobbyists buy the cars.   Use the
         proceeds to buy a 2000 or newer, small, fuel efficient car which I will then drive with Jersey
         plates into the war zone- MEXICO.  2000 or newer- because of some silly red tape- Mexican style.
 
    .   Step 4  Using said publicity ....because steps 1-2-3 are such sure bets.... try and raise $2000  
          dollars for  expenses (from the  undocumented community) or the same folks I might 
          represent next January.  ( Note: Step, #4, will be the most difficult step of a potentially
          very clever scheme.......that's unfortunate. Will continue working on leadership-organizational
          skills- practicing  with Hispanics.  Look for a knock-out blow to anti-immigrant LoBiondo upon
          return.)

  .   Take 100's of pictures while I'm in Mexico and post a new web site when I come back.   Details
           to be worked out and made public at appropriate time. 

    .     I win! The shear audacity- some would call madness- reaches a tipping point and I'm 
           "discovered."   My ideas (and my poise) triumph over the incumbents dissemblings
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more............Mary W.- an occasional guest on FOX TV's the Strategy Room and radio- on facebook.   Who else do I have?
July 26: Mary takes a break between appearances on FOX's strategy room, and a turn filling in on a 6pm FOX radio show.

Gary Stein
Mary W. is back.. I watched you on FOX. Bob Beckell is not getting any less arrogant, he's getting worse. Mary W. when I head down to Mexico by car, I'm writing you along the way. Mary P. too. I'm going to beat my Congressman, or maybe I'll die trying. It's wicked down there.  The place is ripe for a Revolution, but the people are too decent......so we pretend they don't count and we poke fun...... and don't give two "figs." But, half a world away, we're nation building. Sounds logical?

July 26 at 5:03pm

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Richard Cohen and his wife, Meredith Viera

Richard Cohen / Alas, leaks on war in Afghanistan tell us nothing new

Friday, July 30, 2010 The Atlantic City Press

....Along with the Wikileaks revelations, the most telling news story about Afghanistan also appeared in Monday's newspapers. It concerned the allegation that prisoners in a north Mexican jail were armed by officials and allowed out at night to commit murder. This, I emphasize, was Mexico, a Western nation, just across the Rio Grande, and yet we can hardly comprehend such levels of corruption - or, it seems, do very much about it. Yet, on the other side of the world, in an Eastern nation, tribal in character and so very, very poor, we undertake to turn its constabulary into some spiffy and efficient force and do the same with the army. The Wikileaks documents say - anecdotally but convincingly - that this is not happening. Again, this is something we already knew - anecdotally but convincingly. The Obama administration will go through the motions of hunting down the leaker and denouncing the leaks, as it actually should. (Government is entitled to so
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Next Up- Jonah Goldberg......

End poverty: Export capitalism

By Jonah Goldberg 8/03/2010
A recent episode of NPR's This American Life (quite possibly the best reportorial journalistic enterprise going today — an admission that might cost me my right-wing decoder ring) focused on the plight of Haiti. The island nation was a basket case long before last January's horrific earthquake. Indeed, despite the fact that the country hosts some 10,000 aid groups and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), it has gotten worse over the past half-century. Haitians on average make half as much as they did 50 years ago. Despite the best of intentions, aid agencies simply haven't made the country better.....

.....Which is why Schramm argues that the U.S. military should take the lead in bringing "messy capitalism" to places such as Afghanistan. Entrepreneurialism is surely a mind-set, but it is also a skill. And the United States, of all countries, should teach it — even if it seems that the Democrats would rather un-learn these lessons here at home.

There's a rich body of research suggesting such an effort would pay off.

According to Hernando de Soto, a Peruvian economist, the Third World brims with entrepreneurs, but they must work in the black market because the legal economy bars them. In the early 1970s, when de Soto started his work, it took a Peruvian 200 days of full-time work, and staggeringly expensive fees and bribes, just to start a business legally. De Soto estimates that if the world's poor could just be given clear title to their land, they'd gain access to $9.3 trillion in capital, to borrow against or sell.

Even if that's too rosy a prediction, one thing is clear: The way we've been doing things abroad in places such as Haiti hasn't worked very well, while entrepreneurialism at home has fueled staggering economic growth.

And heck, maybe if we turned Afghanistan and Haiti around, we might return to the same policies here as well.

Jonah Goldberg, a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors, is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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