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They're doing it because Mexico's second-largest source of income is remittances sent from individuals in the United States to family members in Mexico. Like most things, it all comes down to money and/or power. The majority of immigrants these days are from other Central American countries, not Mexico, but the Mexican government is happy to see them leave Mexico for the United States. I wouldn't laud Obama's immigration policy, since deportations continue to drop and people continue to stream across the border and agents are almost powerless to stop them. I have friends who own ranches in

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/world/americas/a-mexican-manual-for-illegal-migrants-upsets-some-in-us.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/03/23/mexican-state-issues-how-to-on-border-jumping.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4645782.stm

They've even gone as far as to distribute pamphlets instructing illegal immigrants on how to cross rivers and deserts and how to avoid being caught by the authorities. They also loudly decry the deportation of those who are caught, many of whom have criminal records. The Mexican government essentially wants their citizens to have free access to the United States, while blocking immigrants into their own nation. Although when those immigrants inevitably arrive, the government is quick to shoo them north across the Rio Grande.

Last night my neighbor stepped in a puddle of my cat's vomit while fetching beers during a Game of Thrones viewing. Twice. He's a good egg and just laughed it off.

Nope, I don't think I care to.

I'd call that quite a large downside.

My nearest cinema is an Alamo Drafthouse franchise and for years my neighbors and I would get a growler or two of an IPA to enjoy with the movie, but all of a sudden they changed their policy to forbid growler fills above 8%. It seems that a couple of guys couldn't hold their beer and got a little rowdy. It's frustrating to be denied a 4-pint growler to be shared by 4 people, but they have no qualms about selling 4 individual pints at a higher price than the discounted growler price. Instead of punishing good customers, how about just cutting off the bad apples or barring them from the e

Sounds like they're redesigning the app: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/05/04/apple-music-design-overhaul-wwdc-in-june/

Glad it worked for you! I still dream of the day when we can access any song, any TV show/station, any movie, any radio station and any book from any device, without having to amass huge stacks of physical media or terabytes of physical storage. I think the media companies would be pleased as punch if every person paid $50 for cable TV and bought one CD/DVD/book per month and attended one movie, so just charge us $100 per month and give us access to everything without restrictions. They're still mired in the past, but they'll have to come around eventually. As it stands, it's cheaper, quicke

It may not be within your host's terms of service, but you might be able to try something like these: http://ampache.org/ http://www.fomori.org/cherrymusic/

Yes, that's the only way to do it if you aren't using cloud storage (and that's essentially just using someone else's always-on computer.) You could probably use a $35 Raspberry Pi microcomputer or some other piece of cheap gear. It may take some geeky knowhow, but if you Google it someone probably already has step-by-step instructions. I think Google Play Music used to allow you to upload 50,000 songs for free, but I don't know if that still holds true.

Trump's foreign policy speech was pretty good. He'd have to actually implement it, but it's probably the best foreign policy platform that I've seen from any of the current candidates. It will make me feel slightly less icky about voting for him if the only alternative is Hillary. If he presses hard against her recent gun comments he might actually win the election. What a world we are living in... http://time.com/4309786/read-donald-trumps-america-first-foreign-policy-speech/

I'm fairly happy with Apple Music, although I mainly use the app to play my own tunes from the cloud. There are plenty of ways to stream your own library; I use Plex for movies and TV, but it also does music. I used this app many years ago before there were any cloud music services and it seemed to work well. I can't vouch for it in its current version, but you can give it a shot: http://www.codewave.de/mytunesrss.php

Guitar and Pen, Music Must Change and the title track are lifelong favorites. A slightly sad coda to the original band, but still enjoyable. And I love the crap out of By Numbers. Quadrophenia is practically a religious document in my life.

Twitter is saying that Prince has died.

Angus Young joined the band for a couple of songs at Coachella last night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW7wwIRm-9E I appears that Axl is confirmed to replace Brian Johnson on AC/DC's tour.

Tickets will probably cost a fortune. They might as well try to talk Led Zeppelin into reuniting while they're at it. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-coachella-mega-rock-concert-20160415-story.html

It's a great pale, give it a try. Make sure the price is right, some places try to charge the same $15/6-pack that they charge for Sculpin. They finally dropped Grunion to $10 and now it's my standard beer.

I'm sure the Ballast Point bean counters are trying to make sense of a rash of Grunion sales in a 3-store region of grocers. Myself and a few neighbors buy the stuff a case or more at a time. My current go-to beer.

Most of my neighborhood saw him and Willie last year and he bested Mr. Nelson as far as I'm concerned. They were scheduled to play the same gig next week, but Merle pulled out a few weeks ago. RIP.

Godwin FTW.

Or perhaps it show to what extent Americans dislike Hillary and/or the prospect of another Clinton White House.

That sounds very tasty. I usually plop down $25 for Firestone Walker's anniversary beer, but I try to avoid the hype of expensive, limited release brews. I just can't see myself waiting in line or buying tickets for a special release when there are so many other great beers out there.

I'm sure that was the case. I told my neighbor that she shouldn't even bother calling, but they were very cool. They let me wander around the brewery and were exceptionally friendly. They must be doing a roaring merchandise business, because there were huge stacks of shirts and stuff upstairs and they seemed to have a couple of people filling orders the whole time I was there. The woman said that the new brewery was completed and equipment was being moved in "slowly but surely." Man, Vermont is beautiful. I'd only seen it in the summertime, but it's still quite scenic when it's gray, barr

Probably my favorite UK show of the last year. Very enjoyable.