Re: [Texascavers] U.S. customs agents killed and wounded outside Monterrey today

2011-02-16 Thread Gill Edigar
Here ya go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUT6mTq5ekM On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Fritz Holt wrote: > That was a politically incorrect song sung by Peggy Lee some years ago. It > was quite popular then but doubt it would be played today. Too derogatory. -

[Texascavers] Cueva de los Tayos

2011-02-16 Thread BMorgan994
"I understand that 'moontalk1 was prevalent?" Ecuadorean army? Air Force? Helicopters? Celebrities? That was long before the mines were planted. What a bunch of pussies! I went a good way up into the Cordillera del Condor with my caver girlfriend Ann Harman. Never got to the Cueva de los T

[TCMA-List] REMINDER-- Ezells Cave Preserve Clean-Up

2011-02-16 Thread Jon Cradit
THIS COMING SATURDAY - - From: tcma-list-boun...@tcmacaves.org [mailto:tcma-list-boun...@tcmacaves.org] On Behalf Of Saj Zappitello Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:50 PM To: tcma-l...@tcmacaves.org Subject: [TCMA-List] Ezells Cave Preserve Clean-Up Cavers, we need your help! The Texas Cave M

texascavers Digest 16 Feb 2011 23:59:14 -0000 Issue 1250

2011-02-16 Thread texascavers-digest-help
texascavers Digest 16 Feb 2011 23:59:14 - Issue 1250 Topics (messages 17188 through 17205): Re: Mystery at Jester Cave!!! 17188 by: Tim Stich 2011 Cave Cavort 17189 by: BMorgan994.aol.com 9th Annual Austin Cave Festival announcement 17190 by: William H. Russell

[Texascavers] Re: Fort Stanton Cave needs your help

2011-02-16 Thread Lee H. Skinner
the Fort Stanton - Snowy River National Conservation Area is part of the National Landscape Conservation System. Last night three amendments were offered to H.R. 1, the FY11 Continuing Resolution bill. �They are ugly: One will completely DEFUND the National Landscape Conservation System

Re: [Texascavers] U.S. customs agents killed and wounded outside Monterrey today

2011-02-16 Thread John P Brooks
to quote a famous song by Gil Scott Herron: "the revolution will not be televised"apparently he was wrong in this instance. He also had a great song entitled "Whitie on the moon"...which is appropriate music for another topic of discussion today --- On Wed, 2/16/11, Diana Tomchick

RE: [Texascavers] U.S. customs agents killed and wounded outside Monterrey today

2011-02-16 Thread Fritz Holt
That was a politically incorrect song sung by Peggy Lee some years ago. It was quite popular then but doubt it would be played today. Too derogatory. Geezer -Original Message- From: bgillegi...@gmail.com [mailto:bgillegi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Gill Edigar Sent: Wednesday, February

Re: [Texascavers] U.S. customs agents killed and wounded outside Monterrey today

2011-02-16 Thread Gill Edigar
Mañana. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:49 PM, caverarch wrote: > Mexico needs a kind of revolution those happening in Tunisia and Egypt: a > broad "social" one in which the majority of the Mexican people decide that > they cannot abide either the cartels or the death squads any longer. I don't > know

Re: [Texascavers] Re: Harrison Schmitt

2011-02-16 Thread Jon
  One year we were getting boats checked in at the start of the "World's toughest boat race" - 260-mile canoe race down the San Marcos river.  As we were getting boats checked the dignitaries came walking around.  One of them was the guy that was going to start the race,  Jim Lovell.   He stood

[Texascavers] Re: Harrison Schmitt

2011-02-16 Thread Mark Minton
I have a minor connection to astronaut Harrison Schmitt myself. Many years ago Nancy Weaver and I stayed at a bed and breakfast in Silver City, New Mexico that was run by Schmitt's parents in their home. We slept in his old bedroom. Not surprisingly, they had a lot of astronaut memor

Re: [Texascavers] U.S. customs agents killed and wounded outside Monterrey today

2011-02-16 Thread caverarch
Mexico needs a kind of revolution those happening in Tunisia and Egypt: a broad "social" one in which the majority of the Mexican people decide that they cannot abide either the cartels or the death squads any longer. I don't know how that can come about, especially without a lot of bloodshed. b

[Texascavers] Met Buzz Aldrin at the same event

2011-02-16 Thread speleosteele
Geary Schindel e-mailed and told me his story of meeting a lunar astronaut, Harrison Schmidt, the only geologist who went to the moon. Geary encouraged me to post about meeting Buzz Aldrin later the same night I met Neil Armstrong. About an hour after talking to Neil about the caving expediti

[DFWgrotto] Fwd: [Texascavers] Ezells Cave work day

2011-02-16 Thread Diana Tomchick
From: Jim Kennedy mailto:jkenn...@batcon.org>> List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: February 16, 2011 9:31:41 AM CST To: CaveTex mailto:texascavers@texascavers.com>>, TCMA Board of Directors mailto:bo...@tcmacaves.org>>, TCMA Board etal mailto:e...@tcmacaves.org>> Subject: [Texascavers]

[Texascavers] U.S. customs agents killed and wounded outside Monterrey today

2011-02-16 Thread Diana Tomchick
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/15/AR2011021506693.html?hpid=artslot When does the revolution begin? Diana * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Diana R. Tomchick Associate Professor University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Department of Bio

[Texascavers] Ezells Cave work day

2011-02-16 Thread Jim Kennedy
Cavers, here is a reminder for a caving activity this weekend. We need your help! The Texas Cave Management Association (TCMA) will be having a work day to spruce up one of our properties, the Ezells Cave Preserve in Hays County. We plan to prune limbs, cut weeds, haul off junk, and just general

[Texascavers] Another Year

2011-02-16 Thread Association for Mexican Cave Studies
Greetings Cavers, It been another diverse year for the AMCS Photo of the Week. We've enjoyed many excellent photos both historical and of current events. I particularly enjoy the responses, which are forwarded to the photographers. Please keep digging in those archives, and keep the camer

Re: [Texascavers] Cueva de Los Tayos, Ecuador--long

2011-02-16 Thread Speleosteele
I read about this caving expedition to Ecuador not long after it happened. Then, about three years ago, I was at an event in Chicago with my job (memorial for Steve Fossett) that Neil Armstrong attended. When he came into the reception afterwards I could sense the stir it caused and see people