Monday - October 16, 2006

Wash Day

_{Randy Bish - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review}

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The War On Drugs

Just when you thought the war in Afghanistan couldn’t get any worse, the Taliban bogs Canadian troops down in a quagmire of ... weed? Stupid Taliban. Don’t they know Canucks can only be defeated with mass quantities of beer? Eh?

Troops Battle 10-Foot Marijuana Plants
_{OTTAWA (Reuters) - Fri Oct 13, 8:48 AM ET}

Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy - almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet-high marijuana plants.

General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, said on Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana.

“The challenge is that marijuana plants absorb energy, heat very readily. It’s very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices ... and as a result you really have to be careful that the Taliban don’t dodge in and out of those marijuana forests,” he said in a speech in Ottawa.

“We tried burning them with white phosphorous - it didn’t work. We tried burning them with diesel - it didn’t work. The plants are so full of water right now ... that we simply couldn’t burn them,” he said. Even successful incineration had its drawbacks.

“A couple of brown plants on the edges of some of those (forests) did catch on fire. But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action,” Hillier said dryly.

One soldier told him later: “Sir, three years ago before I joined the army, I never thought I’d say ‘That damn marijuana’.”

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   Sunday - October 15, 2006

GET OVER IT!

The Muslim babies are crying again and guess what .... I DON’T GIVE A FLYING DAMN! I am sick and tired of this constant whining and complaining. To hell with them all, dammit! This miserable bunch of cretins has gotten on my last nerve now.

I have a message for the entire Muslim world: .... GET OVER YOURSELVES!! We are sick and tired of you crybabies peeing on our leg every time something “offends” you. Now get your sorry asses out of this perpetual self-pity and anger thing you seem to be locked in! We are sick and tired of it! In fact we might just decide to get mad ourselves and nuke your sorry asses just for entertainment!

I turn on the tube and what do I see
A whole lotta people cryin’ ’don’t blame me’
They point their crooked little fingers at everybody else
Spend all their time feelin’ sorry for themselves
Victim of this, victim of that
Your momma’s too thin; your daddy’s too fat

Get over it
Get over it
All this whinin’ and cryin’ and pitchin’ a fit
Get over it, get over it

It’s like going to confession every time I hear you speak
You’re makin’ the most of your losin’ streak
Some call it sick, but I call it weak
You drag it around like a ball and chain
You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain
You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown
Got your mind in the gutter, bringin’ everybody down
Complain about the present and blame it on the past
I’d like to find your inner child and kick it’s little ass

Get over it
Get over it
All this bitchin’ and moanin’ and pitchin’ a fit
Get over it, get over it

    "Get Over It” - The Eagles  

2012 Olympics In London To Clash With Ramadan
_{LONDON (SPERO NEWS) - Sunday, October 15, 2006}

Muslim groups from across the world are criticising the organisers of the 2012 Olympics in London after it was revealed that the games will take place over Ramadan. The most holy month in the Muslim calander, which will take place from the 21 July to 20 August in 2012, involves fasting during daylight hours and will affect an estimated 3,000 athletes.

The organisers are working with the Muslim Council of Great Britain to find ways around the problem. Joanna Manning Cooper, spokesman work the games said: “We did know about it when we submitted our bid and we have always believed that we could find ways to accomodate it.” Nevertheless, this will come as a huge embarrasment for the organisers who have tried to ensure the event involve all of Britain’s ethnic communities.

A quarter of the athletes who took part in the 2004 Athens Olympics were from predominantly Muslim countries and the fast will put any athletes involved at a clear disadvantage.

The chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, Massoud Shadjared said: “This is going to disadvantage the athletes and alienate the Asian communities by saying the don’t matter. It’s not only going to affect the participants, it’s going to affect all the people who want to watch the games.”

The president of the National Olympic Committee of Turkey, Togay Bayalti, said: “This will be difficult for Muslim athletes. They don’t have to observe Ramadan if they are doing sport and travelling but they will have to decide whether it is important to them."It would be nice for the friendship of the Games if they had chosen a different date.”

The games will run from the 27 July to 12 August to coincide with the British Summer holidays. The summer holidays are a six week period running from mid July to early September. During this time, public transportation is generally less crowded and it will be easier to find the 70,000 volunteers needed to keep the games running.

The International Olympics Committee has specified that the games must take place between July 15 to August 31. Giselle Davies, IOC spokesperson said, “We give a window to the five bid cities. The host city selects the dates within that window.”

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A Complete Failure?

I think I’m going to go off somewhere and cry .... NOT! Poor old Gorby’s head tatoo has poisoned his brain after all these years (or is that a map of the Crimea - inquiring minds want to know).

Everyone’s a critic nowadays. As if we didn’t already have enough asshats criticizing the US, now we have old, retired commies harassing us. Sore losers are everywhere nowadays ....  from Massachusetts to Moscow ....

U.S. Wasted Chance To Improve The World: Gorbachev
_{BERLIN (WAPO) - Friday, October 13, 2006; 12:07 PM}

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who played a key role in ending the Cold War, said the United States had squandered an opportunity to improve global politics after the Cold War, a paper said on Friday.

In comments that were among the harshest he has made about the United States, Gorbachev compared U.S. foreign policy to one of the deadliest diseases on the planet—AIDS.

“Today our American friends are suffering from an illness worse than AIDS. And I would say this is the victor’s complex,” Gorbachev was quoted as saying in an interview with the Netzzeitung.

Unable to extricate itself from its Cold War mentality, the United States was playing a dwindling role in world politics, while Russia, China, Brazil, Europe, India and Japan were becoming stronger, Gorbachev said.

North Korea, which said on Monday it had successfully completed a nuclear test, was an example. Only China and Russia were in a position to handle Pyongyang, he said. Washington will in future have to act less on its own and get used to a position of diminished importance, he said.

“The Americans will have to understand that in future they will have to cooperate and make decisions jointly, instead of just always wanting to give orders,” Gorbachev said.

He said the United States and other Western countries had missed an opportunity to make the world a better place after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 ushered in the end of communism.

“At that point, the West focused more on its geopolitical interests,” Gorbachev said, adding that Western countries had been more interested in cashing in on the “unbridled burst of globalization” that followed the end of the Cold War than in improving the international political climate.

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Kerry Barks

Like a really bad case of syphilis., John “F’ing” Kerry refuses to go away. Even after applying the 2004 vote as treatment, this walking, talking Democratic disease keeps making everyone uncomfortable.

Straw polls show him way behind every other Democrat in the run-up to 2008 but he hasn’t clued in yet that everyone just wishes he’d go away. Perhaps he has appointed himself the Barking Democrat attack dog? That’s my guess. That way others like the Hildabeast seem almost rational.

I’m not so worried about the 2006 elections as I am the 2008 Presidential elections. I predict Republicans will hold on to a narrow majority in the House and Senate. Very narrow. In two years though, we’re going to see what will probably be one of the nastiest Presidential races in recent history.

In the meantime, Kerry continues to bark ... and bark ...

With Eye On 2008, Kerry Goes After Bush
MANCHESTER, N.H. (WASHINGTON POST)
Sunday, October 15, 2006

Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) barely said hello to the New Hampshire Democrats who filled a banquet room here Friday night before unloading on President Bush. “This war in Iraq is a disgrace,” he said in the second sentence of his speech at a party fundraising dinner.

Thirty-two minutes and 14 standing ovations later, the man who lost the 2004 presidential campaign left little doubt that if he runs again in 2008, he intends to be the chief prosecutor of the record of the Bush presidency.

“A lie, a lie, a lie and a lie,” he said after recounting Republican claims that Iraq is not in a civil war, that North Korea’s nuclear advancement is former president Bill Clinton’s fault and that Democrats were behind the release of salacious e-mails that Mark Foley sent to former House pages.

It was as if the Kerry of 2006 was channeling the Howard Dean of 2003. “What we have in Washington is a house of lies, and in November, we need to clean house,” he said.

Kerry spoke to an audience that included many of the activists who helped propel him to the nomination two years ago. But after Bush’s victory, many of them are decidedly cooler to a Kerry presidential campaign in 2008.

The University of New Hampshire released a survey Thursday of presidential preferences in the Granite State. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) led the field of Democrats with 30 percent, followed by former senator John Edwards (N.C.) at 16 percent and former vice president Al Gore at 10 percent. Kerry ranked fourth with 9 percent.

None of this seems to discourage the Massachusetts senator. He said he has been getting a far different sense from conversations with Democrats during his travels this fall. “I’m very encouraged,” he said in an interview a few hours before his speech. “I know what the conventional wisdom is, and it’s had a good record of being wrong.”

Kerry believes he was defeated in 2004 in large part because of what he calls two lies from his opponents: one about the way America went to war in 2003, the other far more personal—the Swift Boat veterans’ attacks that challenged his Vietnam War record, crippling his campaign in August 2004.

- More Kerry Krap at the WAPO ...

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Weekly Darwin Award

Man’s Rush To Marry Ends In Tragedy
_{Karachi, Pakistan (AAP) - October 14, 2006 07:07pm}

A Pakistani man has committed suicide outside his fiancee’s home after he thought he accidentally killed her while trying to persuade her to get married early, police said today.

The man, Ahmed Ashraf, was shooting a gun in the air outside his fiancee’s home in the southern city of Karachi on Friday as part of his efforts to persuade her to get married two months early when a stray bullet accidently hit her, police said.

“He was so eager to get married he stood in front of his fiancee’s house and started firing shots in the air to catch her attention,” said investigating officer Ghulam Hussain.

The young woman was coming downstairs when a bullet ricocheted off a wall and hit her. She fell down screaming “I have been shot”, Mr Hussain said.

“He thought he had killed her and within seconds shot himself. The girl is fine. “It is a tragic accident. They were engaged to be married with their parents’ consent on Dec. 25. He was insisting they get married earlier.”

Mr Ashraf had told his fiancée he would do something drastic if she didn’t agree to get married straight away. The woman insisted the marriage date had already been set and there was no need to hurry, Mr Hussain said.

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Sunday Funnies

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   Saturday - October 14, 2006

Barking Moonbat Of The Week

I’m sorry. I just don’t get it. Why uproot a child from his home country and take him away from his father, even if the country he lives in is dirt poor? Why not build the father and son a nice house, help him get started in a business of some kind, make sure the kid gets all his shots and pay for his education? Then the kid has a full-time natural father to learn his culture from, grows up healthy and well-educated and when he grows up he will be an asset to help his country climb out of poverty.

To me that would make more sense than dragging the kid out to a completely alien environment and left in the care of a nanny while his adoptive parents jet-set around the world on tour. Not to mention the fact that to the rest of the world it looks like a rich Westerner is buying a modern version of a black slave.

It’s all wrong on too many levels to enumerate. Coupled with Madonna’s ridiculous behavior in the past, we have no choice but to finger her with The Award this week. She is overdue for selection. Let’s hope and pray the kid’s first words don’t include “Massuh” ....

Madonna Leaves Malawi With
Adoption Order But Without Toddler
_{BLANTYRE (AFP) - Friday October 13, 08:09 PM}

“Queen of Pop” Madonna jetted out of Malawi, leaving behind the 13-month-old boy she plans to mother and a storm of protest from local rights groups over the fast-track adoption process.

The US diva left the administrative capital Lilongwe on a private plane after a judge granted her an 18-month interim order on Thursday allowing her to take David Banda, the son of an illiterate farmer, out of the country.

However the youngster will have to be reunited with the 48-year-old singer at a later date as vital paperwork was still to be sorted out. “She left Malawi without David because there was very little time to sort out passport and visa issues,” said Penston Kilembe, director of child welfare services in the ministry of gender, children and community services.

Kilembe said David would later join Madonna, who left addresses in London and Los Angeles, where government officials can reach her and monitor the boy’s progress in foster care for 18 months in line with the conditions in the order. The London-based Madonna, who already has two children of her own, must return at a later stage for the adoption to be given final approval.

The order will allow Malawi to hammer out a new law, due to be passed by parliament next year, to ease adoptions by foreign nationals. Under current laws, expatriates adopting a Malawian child have to live in the country for 18 months and are monitored by social workers before they get full adoption rights.

The swift granting of the interim order has angered some rights groups which called Friday upon the Malawian government to put the order on hold in the interests of the child’s future. “We have the opinion that the speedy process of adoption will not work for the best interests of the child David,” a petition signed by 13 rights groups said.

It urged the government “to put on hold or delay the implementation of the interim order granted to Madonna,” adding: “It’s not like selling property, it is about safeguarding the future of a human being who because of age cannot express an opinion.”

Tom Ligowe, senior assistant registrar at Lilongwe high court where a judge granted Madonna the order, said officials would track the child’s welfare and could revoke it if he was not well cared.

But children’s rights activist Maxwell Matewere, a spokesman of the group which petitioned the government on Friday, said orphans were at “high risk” of being alienated from their blood family and being mistreated by their adoptive one. Matewere, director of Eye of the Child charity, said David should be able to “enjoy full rights on adoption and not interim protection...he should be able to contact his father.”

Yohan Banda, the 32-year-old father of the latest addition to Madonna’s brood has told Britain’s The Sun newspaper that he was “very happy” that a celebrity was adopting his son, who would have a better life now.

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You Can Lead A Horse To Water …

… but you can’t make him drink. That was my first thought when I heard the news last night. My second thought was “Don’t any liberals listen to talk radio?” My answer to myself was “Self, obviously they don’t.”

This has been almost predictable from the beginning. The only question was how long it would be before Air America crashed. They played fast and loose with charity money, ran up big bills and never could attract an audience. Can you guess why?

Because nobody in their right mind wants to listen to the mindless drivel coming from the Left. “Bushchimphitler”, “No blood for oil”, “Cheney conspiracy”, “Haliburton payoffs”, etc. The list goes on and on. Not even the Angry Left could be convinced to tune their radios to this crap. Then again, the Angry Left is probably too busy listening to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly so they could build up their anger.

Personally, I never listened to Air America and the only knowledge I have is from readers who have told me what they heard. I thought they were joking. Obviously I was mistaken. Anyway, this bunch isn’t going to go away. They’ll reorganize and they will figure out a way to pay off their creditors (to the tune of $21 million shekels).

In the meantime, poor Al Frankenstein will have to suck it up for the $300 grand he is owed. The real downside to this is that Janeane Garofalo will probably not be able to afford the face-lift she so desperately needs ... not to mention Al Franken’s much needed psychotherapy ....

Air America Parent Files for Chapter 11
_{(LA TIMES) - October 14, 2006}

Red ink finally got the better of the nation’s blue-state radio network. The parent of Air America Radio, plagued by management and financial problems since its inception, filed Friday for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

The filing in New York by Piquant, the network’s parent company, became necessary after negotiations with one of the privately held company’s founding creditors broke down, said Air America spokeswoman Jaime Horn. She declined to identify the creditor, but Piquant has had troubles in the past with its business partner, MultiCultural Broadcasting Inc.

The liberal radio network, which bills itself as a progressive spot on the dial, will remain on the air — including on Los Angeles affiliate KTLK-AM (1150) — while operating under Bankruptcy Court protection.

“By running such a poor business they did a disservice to liberal talk radio by making it seem like the problem was that they were liberal,” said Michael Harrison, the publisher of Talkers magazine, a talk-radio industry trade publication. “Before you change the world, make sure you pay your bills.”

Last month, the network’s star commentator, comedian Al Franken, complained publicly that his paychecks had stopped. Air America made headlines when it was founded two years ago, trumpeting itself as a response to radio’s many conservative voices such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. The network’s on-air talent has included actress Janeane Garofalo and talk-show host Jerry Springer as well as Franken.

The Bankruptcy Court filing shows an operation in a deep financial hole. Assets of $4.3 million are far outstripped by $20.3 million in liabilities, according to the filing. Creditors include Franken, who is listed as being owed $360,749.

During the bankruptcy proceedings, Air America will continue to operate with funding from Democracy Allies, an investor group that includes Rob Glaser, chief executive of RealNetworks Inc., who made his initial fortune as a Microsoft Corp. executive.

Glaser, who once served as chairman of Air America, holds a one-third stake in the company. He resigned Friday as a director of Piquant. Horn said that Scott Elberg, who has been at the network since 2005, had been named its chief executive. Before joining Air America, he worked on two radio stations in New York.

“Nobody likes filing for bankruptcy,” Elberg said in a statement. “However, this move will enable us to concentrate on informing and entertaining our audience during the coming months.”

From the start Air America has lost money, including $13.1 million so far this year, according to the Chapter 11 filing. In 2005, its operating loss reached $19.2 million, up from 2004’s $8.6 million.

The network also has become a revolving door, the filing indicates. Two board members, Douglas Kreeger and Tom Embrescia, have left. In June, Gray Krantz left as president. Executive Vice President Tom Athans and Chief Operating Officer Carl Ginsburg exited in July.

- More on the story from the LA TIMES ...

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Saturday Silliness

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   Friday - October 13, 2006

As The World Turns

Ex-Fiance Files Suit Against Wilbanks
_{ATLANTA (WSB-TV) - 5:49 pm EDT October 13, 2006}

Saying that his personal and private life was “virtually destroyed” by runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks’ pre-wedding flight to New Mexico, former fiance John Mason filed a countersuit against her for emotional distress today.

The lawsuit says that Mason “today, carries the scars of (Wilbanks’) bizarre behavior and is still the subject of national media attention, humiliation and embarrassment.”

Mason also says in the countersuit that he is entitled to recover monetary damages as the result of being defrauded by Wilbanks not going through with their April 2005 wedding.

The countersuit also disputes sections of Wilbanks’ lawsuit against Mason, filed last month. Wilbanks claimed he took advantage of her hospitalization to defraud her of her share of the proceeds from a book deal about their adventure.

Wilbanks’ lawsuit follows a dispute in recent months over personal items, such as a new vacuum cleaner, a ladder, a gold-colored sofa and various wedding shower gifts, that she claimed Mason never returned.

Wilbanks, then 32, ran off four days before she was to be married in a lavish wedding in 2005. She turned up in New Mexico, claiming she had been abducted and sexually assaulted. She later recanted, saying she fled because of personal issues, and pleaded no contest to telling police a phony story.

She was sentenced to two years’ probation and performed community service that included mowing the lawns at public buildings.

Mason says in his lawsuit that Wilbanks’ “actions were intentional, malicious and fraudulent” because he and his friends and family believed the April 30th, 2005 wedding would happen.

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The Angry Left, Part XXVI

The Angry Left Plays Dirty

Remember the Joe Lieberman-Ned Lamont race? Two months ago it was all political junkies could talk about, but now, according to the New York Times, it “has become little more than a footnote overshadowed by the national struggle over control of Congress in a midterm season punctuated by scandal.” One reason is that, despite being upset in the Democratic primary, Sen. Lieberman, now running as an independent, “appears to be comfortably ahead.” One recent poll gives him an eight-point lead.

The Lamont camp is showing signs of desperation, as the Associated Press reports:

A black leader who had accused Sen. Joe Lieberman of lying about his civil rights record said Thursday he accepted Lieberman’s word that he marched with 1960s-era activists against segregation.

“It is true that he marched with Dr. King, but I believe Dr. King would be disappointed in his record as a senator over the past 18 years,” said Henry E. Parker, a former state treasurer, in a statement released by the campaign of Lieberman’s rival Ned Lamont.

“I accept the fact that Senator Lieberman provided documentation that he participated in the civil rights movement in the 60s,” added Parker. . . .

Earlier, the Connecticut Federation of Black Democratic Clubs, which includes 20 clubs across the state, endorsed Lamont and questioned whether Lieberman had marched for civil rights. Lamont attended the event.

These so-called black leaders treat the civil rights struggle as if it had no intrinsic importance--as if it were merely a club with which to pummel a political opponent, all in the service of a white left-liberal politician. What a disgusting display.

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The Great Wall

The article in the October 6 edition of the Washington Post that Michael Reagan refers to in the editorial below begins like this:

Doom and gloom. Republicans are liars. Bark! Bark! The WAPO splashed this crap on the front page in a last ditch effort to help bring down Republicans in Congress. Unfortunately, Michael Reagan did a little research into the bill and it turns out the WAPO was, as Humphrey Bogart put it in a memorable scene from “Casablanca”, misinformed.

It is true that Congress allocated an initial $1.2 billion for the fence that will cost, according to the Congressional Budget Office, about $3.2 million per mile. That’s enough for about 370 miles of fence to begin with but it’s a start and DHS has already confirmed their plan to start building the initial 370 miles of 15-foot-high double steel fences-with a high-speed-access road running between them along the California and Arizona border.

Perhaps the WAPO thinks the entire border security project, which will take years to build, should be funded all in one gulp the first year - and is should all be spent on a “Great Wall Of China, Western Version”? That would make no sense whatsoever. Perhaps the WAPO needs to take a refresher course in basic economics - and basic geography, if they have the time.

There’s even more to the story. Michael Reagan went directly to the source, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), who wrote the bill to find out the facts of the matter. If you’re tired of Mexico flipping us off on the border issue, read on ...

Go To The Source For The
Facts About The Border Fence
- by Michael Reagan

For reasons I’ll never understand, some of my fellow conservative talk-show hosts have turned to that bible of liberalism – The Washington Post – to get the “facts” about the U.S.-Mexico border fence just authorized by Congress.

If they wanted to get the real story—and not the misleading one they read in the October 6 edition of the Post—they could easily have done what I did and called Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and the man who wrote the bill mandating the building of the 700-mile border fence.

Chairman Hunter knows what he is talking about. He also wrote a bill in the 1990s during the Clinton administration that created the 14-mile-long double fence in San Diego.

The new bill, he told me, uses the same language as his first bill and will have the same effect – the fence will be built despite the Post’s insistence that it won’t. The bill doesn’t say the fence will be built or may be built – it says flatly that it shall be built.

Here are the facts. In a story headlined “In Border Fence’s Path, Congressional Roadblocks,” the Post reported that as soon as Congress had authorized construction of a 700-mile border fence last week, members “rushed to approve separate legislation that ensures it will never be built, at least not as advertised, according to Republican lawmakers and immigration experts.”

According to the Post, “… the House and Senate gave the Bush administration leeway to distribute the money to a combination of projects—not just the physical barrier along the southern border. The funds may also be spent on roads, technology and ‘tactical infrastructure’ to support the Department of Homeland Security’s preferred option of a ‘virtual fence.’”

These so-called “loopholes”, the Post said, “leave the Bush administration with authority to decide where, when and how long a fence will be built, except for small stretches east of San Diego and in western Arizona. ”

In other words, the Post interprets the bill as a scam meant to win votes but not really mandating that the 700-mile border fence would ever be built. The truth, according to Duncan Hunter, is that the amendments, were passed because if they built the wall as described in the first bill they would have been building it through homes and other buildings.

So they needed to amend it to make sure that other people could have the discretion to build the wall around buildings instead of through buildings. His press conference Wednesday, President Bush was asked: “Are you committed to building the 700 miles of fence, actual fencing?”

His answer? “ … We’re just going to make sure that we build it in a spot where it works … we’re actually building fence, and we’re building double fence in particular—in areas where there is a high vulnerability for people being able to sneak in.

“You can’t fence the entire border, but what you can do is you can use a combination of fencing and technology to make it easier for the Border Patrol to enforce our border … And so I look forward to not only implementing that which Congress has funded, in a way that says to folks, the American people, we’ll enforce our border.”

The president described the plan as “a combination of fencing and technologies—UAVs, sensors … You’ve got some rugged country; you’ve got stretches of territory where you don’t even know where the border is. You’ve got urban areas, like El Paso, or Southern California, where people have been able to sneak in by use of urban corridors. And so, therefore, fencing makes sense there.”

The president cited areas of the Arizona sector, where there are “literally neighborhoods abutting the border, and people come—a hundred of them would rush across the border into a little subdivision, and the Border Patrol would catch two or three, and 97 would get in.”

Buttressing Duncan Hunter’s claim, the president noted: “This border requires different assets based on the conditions—based upon what the terrain looks like. And that’s what we’re doing.”

Finally, If you want to make sure the fence is never built: vote Democrat on November 7.

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   Thursday - October 12, 2006

Late Night Spell-Checker

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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:

1. Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
2. Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
3. Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
4. Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere

It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.

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