Posted on 02/15/2003 7:35:59 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:40:22 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
For more than a decade, Cancun, Mexico, has been party central for the boozed, be-thonged and besotted boys and girls of spring break. But this year, the drink-till-you-drop college crowd will find less-indulgent hosts.
A majority of the Caribbean resort's hotels, bars and clubs that cater to the student trade have signed a ''civility agreement'' to enforce laws that in past years often were ignored, officials say. Among them are bans on underage drinking and public nudity.
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MZ, did you get as much snow? We spoke to my f-i-l last night, and he indicated your town wasn't quite as buried as ours, although he may just have been confused.
Other news, from NY Post:
CHELSEA Clinton may be allowed to traipse all over Europe, but Lauren Bush has been told to stay home. According to New York magazine, the White House told the First Niece she could not spend June studying in London or walk the runway in several couture shows due to security concerns. With war looming, the Secret Service has deemed Europe too dangerous. Instead, the beautiful Bush may end up taking acting lessons in New York and spending time in the Hamptons with her mom, Sharon.
Good President's Day guys.
Yoko finally figures it all out after 70 years...
NEW YORK -- More than 30 years after the breakup of the Beatles and on the brink of her 70th birthday, Yoko Ono has become philosophical about the days when many Beatles fans hated her and blamed her for the band's demise.
John Lennon's widow says that over the decades she believes people have come to understand her and her place in the history of the Beatles better. told the New York Post for a story in Sunday's editions.
Ono, who turns 70 on Tuesday, is expected to be feted by more than 200 guests at a cocktail reception at a Manhattan restaurant.Even less exciting info...
"When Arizona Sen. John McCain criticizes the White House, his comments usually receive wide coverage in the mainstream press. That is, at least when he criticizes the Bush White House," according to www.NewsMax.com.
"However, Sen. McCain's scathing denunciation of the Clinton administration's bungling of the North Korea nuclear crisis this [past] week has yet to appear anywhere in print," the Web site said.
"NBC 'Today' Show host Katie Couric asked the celebrated Republican maverick on Wednesday about the advice ex-President Clinton offered the day before, where Clinton urged the Bush administration to begin an 'intense, exceedingly high-level engagement' with Pyongyang and then offer 'a grand bargain' to resolve the crisis.
" 'My reaction,' said McCain, 'is that the greatest failure of the Clinton administration was the agreement they made with North Korea, which allowed them to reach the stage where there are today, where they have nuclear weapons.'
" 'We supported their regime,' he continued, 'with over a billion dollars and fuel while 2 million of their citizens starved to death [and] 200,000 of their people are in gulags reminiscent of Joseph Stalin.'
"McCain recommended that the U.S. not negotiate with North Korea, but instead begin intensive talks with China, South Korea, Japan and Russia to force Pyongyang to comply with the nuclear nonproliferation treaty."Link
Good for McCain. The silence of the media elite is deafening. Funny how the anti-war types turn a blind eye to the brutal denial of basic human rights on the part of Saddam, Kim, et al., but they'll call Bush a butcher. Go figure.
"Bonjour, you cheese-eatin' surrender-monkeys."
-Groundskeeper Willie
July, 1995
McCain recommended that the U.S. not negotiate with North Korea, but instead begin intensive talks with China, South Korea, Japan and Russia to force Pyongyang to comply with the nuclear nonproliferation treaty."
I heard someone say on one of the Sun. talk shows that before clinton it wasn't practice to talk directly with Pyongyang about these matters. We apparently left it to S. Korea. Clinton and Halfbright changed all that for us.
Here's Krauthammer's take on clinton's legacy for anyone who missed it.
Cajun fried frog legs for lunch anyone?
In an impromptu news conference Sunday, Mexican President Vicente Fox (news - web sites) said he spoke by phone with both Blair and Bush and asked them to avoid "unilateral" action against Iraq. He said he spoke with Blair early Sunday, and with Bush "several days ago."[Uh, you dialed the wrong number idiot, shoulda been calling Saddam]
"The pressure is strong," he told reporters. "There is a lot of urgency to solve this quickly, before it turns into a war."
Fox said he will also try to persuade Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to support peace. The Spanish leader is scheduled to meet with Fox this week before traveling to Texas to hold talks with Bush.
Within the European Union (news - web sites), Spain is one of the staunchest supporters of Bush's hard-line stance against Iraq, despite strong public and political opposition at home.
Fox, whose country is a member of the U.N. Security Council, said he believed Iraq could be disarmed without war.
"This is what we are working for: A solution together, a solution between all to avoid war and also to assure an end to terrorism," he said.
The Mexican leader has been a vocal opponent of military action against Iraq, calling world leaders around the globe in an effort to find a resolution to the conflict.
When asked what Mexico was doing to prepare for a possible war, Fox said the government was ready for "any scenario," adding that "no one should worry here."
"But now, the important thing is Mexico's voice, the moral authority of Mexico being heard," he said. Link
LOL!
I'll take some Cajun frog legs when they run out of chicken. :-)
I have my kids cleaning the leaves of my artificial ficus tree and sorting the bag of all the missing socks. They are moaning..... I think they'd prefer to be in school!!!!!!!
Go get 'em girl!
Look at the dork with the Alfred P. Newman (?) sign... everyone else is dressed in at least a coat, loaded with brains is in a short sleeve shirt.
MZ - it really isn't too bad here. We dug out part of the driveway, and Mr. M was able to take the evil SUV 4WD to work. Of course, I'm stranded here (there's no way the other car will get out unless I shovel the whole thing, and my back is killing me), but at least it forced me to sit down and finish doing this year's taxes. I'm enjoying watching the neighbors' cats and dogs through the window as they deal with the snow.
On Monday, French President Jacques Chirac said his country would oppose any effort to draft a new U.N. resolution to explicitly authorize war against Iraq at this time.
"There is no need for a second resolution today, which France would have no choice but to oppose," Chirac said as he arrived for a European Union (news - web sites) summit in Brussels, Belgium.
Bush administration plots next move in Saddam Hussein showdown AP
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