The Tijuana River Estuary Interpretive Center, Part 1

The Tijuana River Estuary is provided with a state, county, and federally funded, fully staffed "Interpretive" center. To reach the center, simply take the Palm Avenue exit from Interstate 5, as if you were going to Imperial Beach, and then go west. Where Palm Avenue bends to the right / north, you go straight. When you arrive at the beach simply turn left and take the last available road left again. There is a large concrete monument in front that says: “TIJUANA ESTUARY,” and “National Wildlife Refuge,” and "National Estuarine Research Reserve,” which marks the access to the visitor center. 301 Caspian Way Imperial Beach, CA 91932.

As a safety concern, it would be best not to stop and sit on the concrete monument for a photo. The monument is listing about 15 degrees (it's in a swamp remember...) and might topple over from any side loads.

If you had instead decided to make that last turn a right turn (toward the ocean) instead of a left turn, you would have run into the only boat actually in the water in all of Imperial Beach -- a sunken submarine. Yes, while the City of Imperial Beach has a sail boat on their city seal, there is no way to actually launch a boat anyplace in the city. The only boat that actually exists in the water and in the city is this sunken submarine.

Fate can be mysterious. Yes, so just a few yards off the beach is S-37, an American submarine built in 1918 and which saw action in World War Two. It was responsible for the sinking of a Japanese destroyer, the Natsushio (blowing it into two large pieces) and the sinking of the 2,776-ton freighter the Tenan Maru.

As the levels of sewage from Tijuana (and which flow from the Tijuana River Estuary and Border Field State Park and into the sea) increase, the submarine has become massively encrusted with mollusks.

Anyone who says that the effluent levels in the nearby ocean are low needs to be shown what this non-existent sewage is feeding just a few hundred yards from the visitor’s center.

But you have instead decided to make that very hard turn to the far left and now have arrived at the Tijuana Estuary Headquarters.

The area is considered a “unique coastal wetland” and “among the most biologically productive systems on earth.” The people who care so much about this place go on to say that “Shallow basins. are warmed by the sun … and organic material [is] constantly mixed by ocean tides.” Then there’s “the estuary retains natural, daily tidal flushing ….”

When one sits back and gazes at those words, “most biological productive system, constantly mixed organic material, daily flushing,” it conjures up the image of somebody’s colon.

 The Tijuana River Estuary Interpretive Center, Part 2

While their very own government brochure says: “Equestrian trails are available on the south end of the Reserve, and horses can be rented from neighboring stables.” The reality is (of course) that these very government agencies have done their utmost to bankrupt these “neighboring stables” and to drive them completely out of the area.

So there are no horses to rent and if you try to bring your own horse to this place there is a great likelihood that your horse trailer will sink up to its hubcaps in the well seasoned and germ laded earth.

Much of the funding for this place comes from various federal “programs” which include those for educating children in “estuarine ecology” and “environmental border issues.”

The visitor center offers parking for twenty cars but most of the parking places are filled with white government vehicles. The parking area is constructed not of a hard surface but instead of large stone gravel. The reason for the gravel is that the parking lot may well continue to “settle” and hard pavement would crack (i.e. sink).

A quick calculation shows that there are about a quarter million dollars in government vehicles parked here at any moment.

Since one person can’t drive more than one vehicle at a time, that indicates there have to be at least ten or fifteen government employees someplace around here all the time.

The average burdened labor rate of $100,000 a year makes this place a one to two million dollar a year eco-toy funded directly or indirectly by the taxpayer.

The Tijuana River Estuary Interpretive Center, Part 3

The visitor center is the solid concrete gray green building / bunker to the right and partially hidden in the tall grass.

A brief examination of the building’s windows shows that they are heavier than normal and this might reflect the facility’s allure for frequent burglaries.

If there is one verified migration route well defined in the public records it isn't one for birds but for the “illegal alien border travelers.” This visitor center has to be a fortress to survive the periodic assaults of the people coming from the south.

If you look closely you will notice that the street adjacent to the "facility" is covered in a gentle layer of broken glass from all the automobile burglaries.

Near the building entrance and to the left you will see that building’s floor plan was not all that it should have been and someone inside has filled his floor to ceiling window with what looks like the back of a kitchen sink with dish soap bottles beneath.

To the right is a luxurious restroom. To the front is the gift shop and visitor center. Since the employees have no one to talk to all day but themselves they all seem eager to meet new friends.

To keep them smiling don’t ask how much they make (and if, unlike you, they have 100% fully covered medical insurance), don’t ask why all the mud is such an odd color (and why it blows bubbles) and don’t ask what happened to the guy who’s only trace is that one mud covered tennis shoe (The Swamp Shoe) stuck out there in the mud by the trail.

The Tijuana River Estuary Interpretive Center, Part 4

If you decide to make this part of your itinerary, remember to see your doctor first. Just because you are miles up wind of the real estuary and park does not mean that you can’t inhale something really tenacious and interesting to all those specialists at your local hospital back home. Being famous in the society page of your local paper is one thing, being famous as the topic of a medical journal article is quite another.

 It's all a National Landmark. The ticket to nearly a billion of your tax dollars.

The views from the trails are of tall grass, odd mud streams, and the distant hills of Mexico.

You can see the bull ring far to the south. To the east there is a U.S. Navy helicopter training field and helicopters circle day and night and their thwap thwaping rotor blades are impossible to ignore.

Depending upon the time of year the smells can be interesting. The place offers the smell of decomposing vegetation, decomposing animal matter, a very slight scent of sewage, wafts of burned jet fuel from the helicopters, and the scent of growing vegetation and sometimes even the scent of flowers.

The Tijuana River Estuary Interpretive Center, Part 5

The swamp extends from here at the "visitor's center" to the very distant bull ring and the real California State Park.

The flattened disk of the bull ring and the shiny narrow roadway to the "Park's" only developed area can be seen in this image.

The McCoy Trail

There are several trails to visit here. The McCoy Trail is featured prominently in park literature. The McCoy Trail is actually just a new use for the flat tops of a series of earthen dikes surrounding a vast complex of abandoned sewage settling ponds. So, yes, stepping off the trail can be the most interesting thing you have ever done in your entire life -- especially if you fall through the crust.

You can can come back time and time again and visit the dissolving shoe. The fluids really do vent gasses from some odd forms of fermentation and so staying up wind can be a really good plan.

We must remember that this place is a money magnet. Whether it be from “environmentally concerned” silver haired old ladies or government bureaucrats, the money flows in.

The Tijuana River Estuary Interpretive Center, Part 6

The most prominent geographical feature on this side of the estuary and “park” is the long black line of poisonous creosote soaked pilings stretching off southwards into the distance. The pilings are all that remain of a large local sewer line that fed the massive expanse of settling ponds which are the "Estuarine Reserve." The sewer pipe has long been removed but the thick black poisonous pilings remain. Some find sport in hopping from one piling to the next until they slip and fall in the swamp. No one has yet made it to the end.

With a total budget exceeding a hundred million dollars a year and a magnet for grants from all corners, this “preserve” has a solid future.

Diversity in Every Step You Take, Part 1

Continuing through the Tijuana River Estuary and on our way to the park, we cross several seasonal streams flowing from south to north. These streams flow from about October through April. One can actually estimate the month of the year by a quick but safely distant glimpse at the color and texture of these streams.

All of these streams flow from Tijuana, Mexico into the United States of America. All of them. Millions and millions and millions of gallons of the most bizarre and toxic and noxious fluids ever seen by man gurgle past the odd naturalist and environmentalist in the estuary and park.

The first rains of the season flush the thick scab-like incrustations of chemical pollutants, human feces, and trash from the canyons deep in Mexico. October is the month of brown and gray green waters in the estuary and park which slowly transitions in April to waters that are light tan, fern, or even ever so rarely a silver white (lead and cadmium).

But we need a word from San Diego County Parks and Recreation:

Strategic Initiative: The Department of Parks and Recreation is leading the county’s effort to preserve open space, which provides recreation opportunities, shelters wildlife, and naturally purifies air and water. San Diego County Parks and Recreation Department.

Diversity in Every Step You Take, Part 2

Millions of gallons of raw industrial waste and human sewage bubble across the border each day and poison the water, the earth and even the ocean.

The poisons in these fluids are so bad that the United States Border Patrol Union filed suit against the United States Government to stop their members from having to suffer these pollutants. They won $15,000,000.00.

While the US Border Patrol Agents know this place will kill you, tourists traipse through this place as if these liquids were goat's milk.

Tijuana's chemical and bacteria laden trash floats north and becomes a true celebration in California's Border Field State Park.

Diversity in Every Step You Take, Part 3

It is at stream crossings that the road changes briefly from asphalt to concrete. This abrupt change in road material is to preserve the pavement. If the effluent passing from south to north flowed over asphalt the asphalt would quickly dissolve. Concrete survives.

Parks and open space areas help protect natural resources and wildlife, enhance water and air quality, and improve overall community livability.San Diego County Parks and Recreation Department.

These stream crossings are -- oddly enough -- posted with “No Swimming” signs which are only offered in Spanish. The good news is that just about the only “surfers” ever found anyplace along here were gang members, water logged, and very, very dead.

Diversity in Every Step You Take, Part 4

This diverse land has been a tax money vacuum for about 30 years. Only the most deranged can say this place is "nature's paradise" and a "jewell."

Even the sixth largest newspaper in the United States calls this place "Tijuana's Toilet" and publishing this sigh of relief that the mess might eventually be cleaned up.

It will take ten years for this toilet salvation to arrive and yet the newspaper admits that even when completed Tijuana will "still dump tons of toxic horrors.." into the ocean through the Tijuana River Estuary and Border Field State Park.

A Celebration of Flora, Part 1

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and this is certainly true when we gaze at the flora here in the Tijuana River Estuary and Border Field State Park.Rare plants abound. For example: The entire estuary and park are filled with one of the most interesting of all plants and one that is actually a native of a diverse and distant land: Ethiopia. It remains here in a California park specifically as an excuse for additional charitable grants and federal or state funding.Any modern terrorist yearns for the chance to poison millions — and so the taxpayer funded civil servants here in the Tijuana Estuary and Border Field State Park most certainly aim to please.Yes, everywhere you look in the estuary and park there is enough of this special dark green plant to literally kill every man woman and child on earth at least twice over. Of course, the term we must use is not “dead” but instead the notional term “unexpected departure” is far less harsh. Thanks to these vast fields of special plants in the park, these “unexpected departures” can occur at home, office, or school, and by the millions if not even by the billions.To those of the appropriate persuasion, all it takes is a few special visits to the Tijuana River Estuary and Border Field State Park and even the laziest of terrorists, or shall we say “aerobically and culturally challenged persons”, will find thousands of pounds of the most potently lethal plant material on earth just begging to be harvested.

Ricinus communis

Anyone can have a simple bacterial infection like anthrax. Here in the park grows the singularly most poisonous plant on earth and the one that can be most quickly made into the most deadly plant poison ever invented: RICIN

A Celebration of Flora, Part 2

 The Department of Parks and Recreation offers a wide variety of both active and passive parks and recreation, in settings that appeal to the County’s diverse population. San Diego County Parks and Recreation Department While some may think that appealing to San Diego County's population of psychotic terrorists and mass murderers is taking diversity a bit too far, our civil servants surely disagree.Gloriously, there are at least 10,000 RICIN (Ricinus communis) plants growing in the estuary and park. In fact, they seem purposely planted as ground cover. We dare not call this plant ugly. Instead, we can encourage everyone to use the term “aesthetically diverse” or even “aesthetically challenged”We all must thank the State of California and the San Diego County Parks and Recreation Department’s administration for preserving this wonderful opportunity for all those of a like mind to come, discover, harvest and prepare this most magical of powders: RICIN.RICIN is not a difficult product to create. It is far easier to create than is cocaine. The first thing one does is remove the oil (just squeezing it will work) and then take the remaining mash and process it with alcohol (Tequila will work), or even (since flavor is not a real concern, is it?) gasoline.

A Celebration of Flora, Part 3

Thank goodness, anyone attempting to rid the park of these most exhilaratingly and terminally efficient plants will be arrested. You are, after all, in a park. No picking!The fact that this plant is not native and in fact choking out the native flora seems beyond the California Collective Birkentocker’s ken. In fact, while this entire place could be renamed Death Central for all sorts of reasons, the Birkenstockers are instead out getting state and federal grants to pluck a few garland chrysanthemums from one of the park's dried sewage pits (you didn't know about those?) a couple of miles to the north. How much tax payer money does one get to use “propagules” and “the ecotone” and then actually have the gall to get volunteers to pull the weeds on two acres of sewage scab? Over $50,000. It is quite amazing that we all can look at the pictures of thousand foot tall skyscrapers being leveled on 9/11 by airplanes commandeered by twenty people with two dollar box cutters and yet we allow the most lethal plant on earth to not only grow freely not ten feet from 10,000 convicted felons, murderers and the largest drug smuggling cartel on earth who all hate our collective guts, but have it all be protected by the odd assortment of $150,000 a year American civil servants who “provide nurture to nature and to our children.”If we want to "put a face" on this terror threat.... we can:Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was the little man giving us all those problems in Iraq. He operated cells in places from Iraq to Chechnya to Europe and probably had several right now in the U.S.A.Mr. Al-Zarqawi was -- to quote various officials from the FBI -- the person responsible for "the suspicious white powder found in a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist which contained RICIN."So the terrorists need not bring their poisons with them. They can just clamber over the border fence in the area which is guarded only by One Worlders in Birkenstocks (see "Celebration of Border Diversity" which is ... next) and make their own RICIN right here in the park from "native materials."

A Celebration of Flora, Part 4

To make things even more interesting, RICIN plants do not just drop their seeds. That would be inappropriate behavior. RICIN plants explosively eject their seeds. When one of these plants detonates its seed pod the noise is amazing and the projectiles dangerous. But be warned, if an average traveler, still in a sweat from avoiding a score of Border Patrol Agents, passes you when one of these seed pods detonates he will think it was you who were mean spiritedly attempting to delay his passage with gunfire. He may very well shoot you and the problem for you is that his bullets won’t bounce off like the ones from this seed pod.We all are safe of course, because the possession of RICIN was made illegal under the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism act of 1989RICIN was first used during the Cold War to whack various Bulgarian "activists" who seemed to be broadcasting their differing views from the BBC's radio station in London. In one case an umbrella was modified to shoot a microscopic ball filled with RICIN into the calf of the subject of interest. It really did work and the subject did die -- slowly -- three days later.The ricin molecule contains two main parts; one acts as the weapon, the other as a disguise.If eaten, ricin causes gastroenteritis and hemorrhaging followed by failure of the liver, spleen and kidneys. If inhaled, there is weakness, fever, cough, pulmonary edema, and death.Three micrograms per kilogram of human bodyweight can be expected to kill about half the human population. That equates to a dose of about one fly speck for a 200 pound person.Lastly, no one has — it seems — discussed the consequences of a fire in the Tijuana River Estuary and Border Field State Park. With all of this RICIN bursting from every leaf, stem, seed, and twig, being within ten miles of this place during a fire might prove a truly life altering experience (see “unexpected departure” above).  

Imperial Beach, California

Another way to reach the Tijuana River Estuary and Border Field State Park is by taking the Palm Avenue off ramp from Interstate 5. Imperial Beach is a quaint community enveloping the busy four lanes of mile long Palm Avenue. A quick left on Saturn Boulevard will take you near the estuary and park.

Right now, you will be safe because this is how one gets to the United States Border Patrol Imperial Beach Facility. Yes, as many as 500 well armed U.S. Border Patrol Agents are now between you and the estuary and park.

This Palm Avenue off ramp is about 30 minutes south of San Diego. As you approach the off ramp you will see hills to the south with myriad radio and TV transmitter antennae. You will also see one of the largest flags flying anywhere on earth. It is a Mexican flag. All of what you see in the distance is in Tijuana, Mexico.

By taking that off ramp you are now, notionally, in Imperial Beach, California.

Of course, the United States Border Patrol can’t be everywhere. To keep the crime statistics down, much of Imperial Beach is not actually called Imperial Beach for the summing of murders, rapes, and assaults.

For example: When you entered Imperial Beach you entered at the Palm Avenue off ramp and stopped at the Saturn Boulevard traffic light, just a stone's throw from the “Welcome to Imperial Beach” monument. This is not Imperial Beach. It might say it is Imperial Beach but it is not, technically. It's really Egger Highlands.

Imperial Beach, California, Part 2

The Imperial Beach city seal has a nice white sailboat in the middle but unfortunately, Imperial Beach has no wharves, docks, or boat ramps. The only "boat' within the city limits is a sunken submarine off the beach. The only way to launch any kind of a boat in Imperial Beach is to push it through the sand and into the crashing surf of the Pacific Ocean. So the only "boat" that is actually "moored" anyplace near here is that 1918 submarine quietly gathering a thick skin of sewage-fed mollusks right off Imperial Beach's surf line.

Truth would require that the Imperial Beach sailboat be replaced with sunken World War One submarine.

Imperial Beach is Palm Avenue. While some might take the freeway exit seeking the glories of another “Palm” — that of Palm Springs and its Palm Canyon Drive where Rolex and Rolls Royce blend with well tanned idle women lining up in front of surgical centers for a quick nip and a tuck from their favorite plastic surgeon — here things are really different.

While San Diego is one of the richest places in the world, per capita income in nearby Imperial Beach was $16,003 in the year 2000 which is $9,000 below the official San Diego poverty line. In 2000, twice as many families rented (6,490) here than owned (2,782).

Here we see Imperial Beach's "beach" looking north from Imperial Beach's Palm Avenue.

Imperial Beach, California, Part 3

As you pass the Saturn Boulevard intersection you will see to your right the real Imperial Beach. Here, low cost and diverse housing is offered to all.

It is no slur to say that duct tape is in fact a structural material here in Imperial Beach.

Yes, Imperial Beach is a haven for everything on the left side of the bell curve. This full mile of Palm Avenue is like a 45 rpm record of Slim Williams played at 42, or your car running on seven cylinders when it has eight.

The good news is that from your first moment on Palm Avenue you can see that the exit is just a few minutes ahead.

As the San Diego area seeks out more living space even Imperial Beach is now being eyed as a homesite.

Property values are skyrocketing.

For at least ten years people would rather commute 70 miles each way to Temecula, California than live in close, nearby, homey, Imperial Beach.

The official theme of the city is: “IB, The Place To Be!”

Imperial Beach offers dozens of cozy restaurants and diverse eateries specializing in Mexican foods of all sorts. Prices won’t get much higher than $8.00 unless you slip on the interestingly speckled floor, break the table, and then have to buy it as well.

In the city’s Internet directory of “Specialty Restaurants” they have a listing for and large photo of, a Subway Sandwich store.

They do not have a Starbuck’s

Imperial Beach, California, Part 4

The city is blessed with no real shopping centers or other encumbrances to your transit, so a quick exit is assured. One favorite pastime for residents seems to be visiting gun shows and even they must be held some 30 miles to the north. Do you need a gun here? Well …

Imperial Beach logged crime rates of 885, 997, 845 per hundred thousand people for years 2000, 2001, and 2002. These rates are for things like murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and arson.

A satellite photo of "IB. The Place To Be!" The dark horizontal line is Palm Avenue.

While one might think that a place with a name like Imperial Beach would have a wonderful beach … The city’s own material states: “It’s not something any chamber of commerce would want to publicize, but Imperial Beach has to live with this unfortunate fact: Sometimes the ocean is so polluted by sewage that the beaches have to be closed.”

Of course, the source of this virulent fluid is a complete mystery to the Imperial Beach City Council. You know where it is coming from. An eight year old girl going for her Brownie “Earth Connections” (it used to be called “Ecology”) patch, who dug a three inch hole in the ground at the entrance to the Border Field State Park and went into spasms knows where it is coming from.

But the City of Imperial Beach has (as one would imagine having visited this site) found nearly a million dollars of taxpayer money for a two year study to seek out the source of this mysterious (but quite virulent) liquid.

The government employee partly responsible for this research effort hopes to make this “a long term commitment,” and “a model for all to follow.” What that means is “half a million taxpayer dollars a year for the rest of his natural life.”

Imperial Beach, California, Part 5

We must also understand that Imperial Beach has created its present dearth of employment all on its own. For decades the Imperial Beach City Fathers were making every effort to lure high tax base residential development to the city.

Helix Land Development Company purchased 126 acres for a marina and very high-end residential development. There were to be high rise residential properties, a large shopping center, low density housing (read a million of dollars each), medium density housing, medium high density housing, a yacht club, a large community auditorium, a boat harbor, a golf course, and all schools and roads paid for in full by the Helix Land Development Company.

Not only that, but a critically needed flood control channel was to be built to take Tijuana’s sewage far out to sea.

In the early 1970’s Imperial Beach was fighting tooth and claw to stop the seizure of these border lands by the government for a “park.” Local newspaper headlines such as: “New Action Taken to Save Beach” and “Stites Aims New Attack At State” reflect the desperate efforts of a few visionaries who actually wanted to build a future for the tax paying people of the community.

At the same time, scientists and health officials were adamant that $21,000,000 (in 1970 dollars) should be spent immediately on that flood control channel to protect America from Tijuana's sewage. That never happened either.

As late as February of 1975, the San Diego Union newspaper reported that Imperial Beach residents were marching on Washington, D.C. to stop the seizure of these lands and their conversion into a “park.” All of this was to no avail.

With a subsequent change in “administration” in Imperial Beach, the future of the City of Imperial Beach has been sealed.

Where once people hoped to bring clean water, open space, grass, swimming pools, and children to Imperial Beach what they have instead purposely selected is a steaming, festering, mud land of decaying sewage as a “lure” to tourists the world over, and as an embodiment of the city’s culture and its hope for a bright future. And these "people" are serious.

When you have, essentially, a micturiting, mucous filled swamp as your neighbor, you must understand that all of your neighbor’s “swamp things” will come visit you. The larger your neighborhood swamp, the more things there are to come visit. While the chances of billions of Border Field State Park anthrax spores wafting in huge tan clouds to the north and powdering your doorstep are not that likely, other things ....are.

In the present case you have 2,531 acres of sewage laden bubbling swamp supporting rabid skunks (65% tested are rabid), two kinds of very unpleasant rats, clouds of meat eating flies, wasps, and vast swarms of virus and bacteria carrying mosquitoes of several types (and where the males and the females bite).

All of those entities listed above are fully capable of bussing loads of really tenacious bacteria and viruses to you and to every air breathing thing within at least ten miles of you.

Not only are your kids not safe but even your kid’s caged iguana and gerbil can be face down in shallow graves in the back yard with ice cream stick tombstones from what you bring home from that place, or from your own front yard as these entities run, crawl, skip, fly, or even buzz past.

Imperial Beach, California, Part 6

The City of Imperial Beach says of their swamp: “The Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, Check out Imperial Beach’s environmental jewel!”

Living in Imperial Beach -- or San Diego -- means living near nuclear weapons. We must understand that while California is the seventh largest economy in the entire world (bigger than Red China’s), San Diego by itself is the seventh largest military force in the entire world. Not only does the place have tens of thousands of real assault troops (the United States Marines), but it has a marvelous air force of one thousand six hundred nuclear capable fighters and bombers and lots of really huge black missile launching submarines. Then we have the hundreds of surface ships including cruise missile launching ships.

Finally, San Diego has six nuclear powered aircraft carriers. Each carrier needs more than 5,000 men to run it and even though these things are more than a thousand feet long they can do a zippy 50 miles per hour. plus. Stopping is a problem, but forward is fun.

To hold all those things that can really go BOOM in the night our security forces have placed the special uranium and plutonium powered stuff in heavily secured bunkers right up the sandy beach from the Tijuana River Estuary and Border Field State Park. Yes, right up the beach.

Who on earth might be so interested in these bunkers and some form of general retribution? The ships that landed Marines at Mogadishu, Somalia came from San Diego. The surface ships that sent hundreds of cruise missiles into Baghdad came from San Diego. The fighter bombers that blew up the Iraqi’s homes came from San Diego. The submarines that sent cruise missiles to Afghanistan came from San Diego. The ship that sent the surface to air missiles into the Iranian passenger laden Airbus flight 655 and killed hundreds of civilians was the USS Vincennes, from San Diego.

So it is good that we live in this land of Hope and that we can block out the Darkness. For it is all quite true that many of our simple border travelers come from cities 10,000 miles distant — Baghdad, Kabul, Damascus, Jiddah, and Peshawar — and they are constantly peering over the U.S. Navy’s fencing and at those odd steel reinforced earthen lumps with the heavy steel doors and the too few guards and they are certainly wondering how to peek inside and light a fuse.

Inside these bunkers are enormous amounts of stored energy in the form of uranium and plutonium and other rare metals and which are often tickled by puffs of tritium gas. A pound of uranium is about the size of your eyeball. The retail price of uranium is approximately $10.75 per pound although there seem to be few retail stores open for business outside of Chechnya. Uranium is 40 times more naturally abundant than silver and so it is not nearly as special as we all have been told ever since our “Duck and Cover” days at grade school.

Imperial Beach, California, Part 7

In the present case, a ton can become a kiloton and then a kiloton can become a megaton all so very, very quickly in those bunkers just to the north of the Tijuana River Estuary and Border Field State Park.

Our local border areas with Mexico have been scarred with that mean spirited tall boundary of steel. Much of it is lighted all night long. With its construction, auto thefts in San Diego dropped by about 30% and burglaries also dropped by about 30%.

The city fathers (and mothers) of Imperial Beach seem adamant today that enough is enough and that the miles of border immediately to the south of their city limits should be maintained in their unnaturally bubbling state and untouched by long stretches of additional steel and concrete barriers which may in any way impact the diversity and volume of visitors to the Tijuana River Estuary and Border Field State Park.

Tijuana River Estuary

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Border Field State Park

Land of Diversity, Land of Hope

We would like to thank the U.S. Border Patrol Web Site

for telling it: "like it is"!