MEXICO CITY (AP) - Nearly 150 inmates escaped Friday from a state prison in the northern Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo, and authorities said the breakout was probably helped by prison employees.

The public safety department of Tamaulipas state, where the prison is located near the border with Laredo, Texas, said 141 inmates got out through a service entrance used by vehicles, “presumably with the assistance of the prison staff.”

The department said the prison’s director could not be located, adding that he and other officials were under investigation.

Eighty-three of the prisoners were being held for trial or had been convicted of crimes like theft, assault and other state offenses, while 58 were being held on federal charges, which include weapons possession and drug trafficking.

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141 inmates escape Mexican border prison

141 future Democratic voters or the biggest lawn service in Texas? Either way, this story from the AP illustrates the horrendous corruption that IS the nation of Mexico.

It is an almost certainty that the escape was aided by Mexican prison officials and guards. The story states that guards are intimidated by prisoners and threats to their (guards) families, and that leaves the guards feeling that they have no other way to go.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon would be well served to get control of his own nation and it’s corruption, curb his criticism of U.S. policy stay out of U.S. affairs.

More than 30,000 drug war deaths in Mexico since 2006

Mexico City – The 12,456 gangland killings reported in Mexico between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30 brought to 30,196 the number of drug-related murders since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and militarized the struggle against the cartels, the Attorney General’s Office said Thursday.

The figure was disclosed during a luncheon with the press hosted by Attorney General Arturo Chavez Chavez.

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More than 30,000 drug war deaths in Mexico since 2006

Over 30K killed in this *Drug War* since 2006 and 12,456 gangland killing so far, this year alone? And the bleeding hearts can’t understand why people like me want to see every illegal invader rounded up and deported? And they call me a racist because I want to see our borders secured by ANY means necessary?

I have to ask, just WHO is the real American patriot? And WHO is the FAUX Conservative?

But there is some good news;

DREAM Act Goes Down in Flames in Senate

An immigration bill that would blaze a trail to legal status for hundreds of thousands of undocumented students went down in flames in the Senate on Saturday, delivering a critical blow to Democrats and Hispanic activists.

Even though the House approved the DREAM Act last week, the Senate fell five votes short of the 60 needed Saturday to advance the bill past Republican opposition.

President Obama said in a statement it was “incredibly disappointing” that Senate Republicans blocked the bill.

The DREAM Act, which opponents have decried as a “nightmare,” is now likely to languish for years with Republicans taking back control of the House and picking up an additional handful of seats in the Senate next month.

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The biggest surprise for me was the number of RINOs that had previously supported this DREAM Act that turned their votes around. I know how hard I blasted our U.S. Senators on the issue. Cornyn and Hutchison were both hard line supporters a while back. Maybe they saw the writing on the wall. Maybe this last election cycle woke a few RINOs up to reality.

And what is, to some, the biggest story of the day;

Senate votes to overturn military gay ban

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a landmark for gay rights, the Senate on Saturday voted to let gays serve openly in the military, giving President Barack Obama the chance to fulfill a campaign promise and repeal the 17-year policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

Obama was expected to sign it next week, although the change wouldn’t take immediate effect. The legislation says the president and his top military advisers must certify that lifting the ban won’t hurt troops’ fighting ability. After that, there’s a 60-day waiting period for the military.

“It is time to close this chapter in our history,” Obama said in a statement after a test vote cleared the way for final action. “It is time to recognize that sacrifice, valor and integrity are no more defined by sexual orientation than they are by race or gender, religion or creed.”

The Senate vote was 65-31. The House had passed an identical version of the bill, 250-175, on Wednesday.

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My reaction to this may shock some of my Conservative and Christian friends, but will come as no surprise at all to my Libertarian friends. I personally don’t care if a service member is a lesbian or a homosexual. I don’t care if they want to announce that they are homosexual. If it doesn’t affect their job performance, if it doesn’t affect their ability to serve in a position of military secrecy, if it’s not something they are doing on the job, why should it matter to me if they are homosexuals?

I also don’t care what anyone does or doesn’t do in the privacy of their own bedroom.

I don’t care how they do it, how often they do it or who they do it with. What a person does in privacy has NO effect on me, or my life, in any way. As long as they don’t tell me that I have to accept their sexual preferences, and as long as they keep their activities private, I honestly don’t care.

Anyone that has ever served knows, anyone that is serving right now knows, and anyone that has ever been a student of military history knows, homosexuals have always been a part of ALL military services, into antiquity. The military is a, pardon the pun, a target rich environment for a homosexual male.

Personally, I don’t believe that homosexuality is a normal function, and I can’t accept the idea that it is the natural way things should have evolved, but, somehow, I can’t help but believe that America is faced with far more important issues than who is wearing lacy pink panties under their BDUs.