LOL! Whatta mark-up!!!

Louie -- you're looking at IVOS at work. That's a brand new acronym I just made up. It stands for Inependent Variables of Stupidity. You're not looking at wildly illogical policies from a high level of government, but wildly illogical applications and interpretations. Now it may be that the sheriff's daughter and the rancher's son had had an unfortunate culmination to their relationship, for example...and the rancher coached the son into leaving town to study football and avoid responsibility ...there's any number of possible elements out of sight. As for the border boys, if they were asleep at that particular switch for five years, allowing trunks full of pills to cross unchallenged, I guess the smugglers would grow to expect that, until some new guy shows up with a bright idea about inspecting cars... All you're seeing in a news story like this is the tip of a complex pile of events.

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