Lowell:
How did you make out in the hurricane? The pictures are frightening!
Cheers!
Doug
On Aug 30, 2005, at 9:25 AM, Lowell G. McManus wrote:
> The tripoint perspective of the human cannonball story relates
> (vaguely) to the
> fact that the several states of the Mexican union stop somewhere
> around or
> slightly above the high-water mark on the coasts. Thus, wave-swept
> Mexican
> beaches theoretically are under jurisdiction that is exclusively
> federal. This
> creates a tripoint (of sorts) between the USA, the Estado de Baja
> California,
> and Mexican federal territory near the trajectory of the human
> cannonballer.
> The relative significance of such a tripoint in the grand scheme of
> things might
> be subject to question, but some BoundaryPoint members have never met
> a tripoint
> that they didn't love.
>
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> BorderPoint groups
> is the atmosphere that sometimes prevails in each.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jimvandura" <jimvandura@...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:27 AM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Questions Re: first known legal entry into
> usa at a
> tripoint ..., etc.
>
>
> > Hi! I am new here, and on the borderpoint list. So maybe that's why
> I don't
> > see how this
> > human cannonball can be flying over a tripoint. What kind of a
> tripoint would
> > this be? I see
> > the boundary all right but I don't get the (tri)point! (Does it
> have something
> > to do with the
> > vertical extension of sovereignty ... ?)
> > Also, yesterday we mentioned some local Spanish tripoints on the
> > borderpoint list, and
> > today some of the same people from there have been discussing
> international
> > borders
> > here on the BoundaryPoint list. I don't get this either. The group
> blurbs led
> > me to expect
> > just the opposite!
> > Would someone please explain what is going on?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jimmy
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos
> <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
> >> http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/31869.html
> >> human cannonball overflight photo looks to be more or
> >> less exactly where the mexican federal maritime &
> >> littoral territory ends & baja california state
> >> territory begins
> >> just on the mexican side of the fence
> >> exactly 20 meters above the high tide line
> >> as i recall
> >>
> >> & notice too how the new seawall construction last
> >> heard from in
> >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/18084
> >> seems to be progressing
> >> or may even have been completed already
> >>
> >>
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