Bulger Captured: Will Gardner Art Follow?
Jun 23, 2011 2:55 PM
By Ulrich Boser
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Bulger Captured: Will Gardner Art Follow?
Jun 23, 2011 2:55 PM
James "Whitey" Bulger, the infamous Boston mobster, was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday night. He had been on the run for 16 years, despite appearing on America’s Most Wanted a dozen times with a $2 million reward for his capture.
Blog: Popular Forensics
The Escape Artist
Dec 7, 2010 11:01 AM
You may or may not have heard of I Love You Phillip Morris, released this past weekend and billed as the new Jim Carrey movie. "New" is a laugh because it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January 2009. But then it was batted around by distributors understandably nervous about a film in which the main characters (Carrey and Ewan McGregor) are jailbirds who happen to be gay lovers. That may also be the reason why the box-office receipts, at least in the States, have been weak. Which is a shame. The reviews are mostly good, and the story—about an upstanding citizen (Carrey) who outs himself, then turns to crime to support his flamboyant gay lifestyle—is true, if a bit embellished. It's a story, in fact, that I've known about for more than 10 years.
Blog: Ex-G-Man
Pueblo Magico Destroyed
Nov 16, 2010 7:58 AM
The Zetas are taking on the Gulf cartel in a little 'magical city' between McAllen and El Paso Texas along the US Southern border. It doesn't get much closer than that in this kind of fire fight. The police station in Ciudad Mier, the town under attack, was burned out and destroyed. The fight is going on as I write to you. The residents were told by the Mexican feds to get out of 'Dodge' and take 'refuge' in the Lions Club (no pun intended) in the nearby town of Miguel Aleman. My sources tell me that Aleman could very well come under attack as the spiraling slaughter escalates. The town was small, only about 6,500 citizens; but now, there is no school, no clinic and most stores have been closed. Utilities such as electricity and water are drying up. The whole social schema of life; baaptisms, weddings and family gatherings are disrupted. This is not a 'taco' western cowboy movie setting; this is war!
Blog: Ex-G-Man
El Komander and the Drug Balladeers
Nov 11, 2010 8:12 AM
In the military I've traveled Route 66 and drank in the street bars and when traveling in the Bureau kind of repeated some of my antics. El Komander would have titilated my interest as the drug balladeer outside Los Angeles in Rialto where he holds sway to the narco ballards in the huge nightclub catering to young wannabe narco gangsters. The lyrics are heavy on the drug stuff about border gunfights and beheadings and horror crap. The narco ballards follow the 'rap crap' and are becoming an 'in-thing' with young would be druggers methed up or coked up enough to tolerate the 'asesino' references about murder and drug carnage. It started in Mexico gravitating to LA and beyond and will be up our way 'soon'. The millions who are potential fans have made El Komander's song, "El Katch" a best seller. Some say it's becoming an identity thing. The appeal is to drugs and danger a knock off tied to the previous gangsta rap. It glorifies the fast and furious lifestyles of the drug-rich and notorious-famous. The buzz in law enforcement is that sponsors are cartels and drug lords who originally paid 'balladeers' for their service. So, in the slaughters south of the border these 'artists' presumably get a pass when others are massacred. Strange world we live in.
Blog: Popular Forensics
Truly Hard Time
Nov 7, 2010 11:43 AM
Prison films are a dime a dozen, and even the best—Brubaker, The Shawshank Redemption—tend to make saints of their inmates, demons of their guards and/or wardens. Not so A Prophet, a French film that took the major European film festivals by storm last year and got itself an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film. Its look at prison life is unflinching, and there are no saints to be found among its characters.
Blog: Ex-G-Man
Americans--The New Departed
Nov 2, 2010 7:02 AM
Just on the wire. Four Americans were shot and killed in Mexico; three in Juarez and one in Tijuana. This will be another open case. Apparently, all of those killed were with Mexican 'friends' and that association is being investigated to determine why these Americans were killed. The Mexican feds grabbed an American believed to be a gang member of the Aztecas, whose hit men work for the Juarez cartel on both sides of the border. Juarez still owns up to one of the world's deadliest cities in this turf war between the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels before you add the Los Zetas. This year alone over 2000 people have been killed in this city which is just across the border from El Paso. I spent part of my military there but don't recall this much violence. Now, it appears that the new departed are Americans! It is inevitable and my sources tell me that it will get worse.
Blog: Ex-G-Man
No Respect--No Push Back--No Police
Oct 28, 2010 9:22 AM
I already discussed that 'no respect' is a "euphemism for causation and continued attacks on the people of Mexico.' But, now, on the whole police force? The entire 14 man (no women reported) police force quit 'en masse' after their 'brand new' police station was riddled with high impact automatic weapon fire and grenade launchers. Sounds remarkably like something out of Afghanistan! And, to that point, has the Afghan war been transported to our borders in the form of the Mexican drug war?
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The Pastor Who Would Have Said NO!
Oct 25, 2010 10:10 AM
The Zetas were busy last week with multiple slayings at a Party house near the US Texas border and at a drug rehab establishment near the border. In both instances the 30+ slayings are thought to be reprisals for suspected rival gang newbies or at least, potential adversaries in the escalating drug war carnage. That's the down and dirty side of the Zetas.
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anon posted a message in
Aug 11, 2009 6:05 AM
I think it's time to move on.......
Ulrich Boser started a new thread
Jul 29, 2009 8:46 AM
While I'm tired of all the news on the Gates case--see here for my get-some-perspective post--it seems like...
Ulrich Boser posted a message in
Jul 21, 2009 4:58 PM
Thanks. I'll take a look....
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