Tuesday, June 29, 2010

CNSNews.com - Napolitano: ‘You’re Never Going to Totally Seal That Border’

Washington (CNSNews.com) – Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, whose agency is charged with securing America’s borders, told an audience in Washington, D.C., in reference to the U.S.-Mexico border, “You’re never going to totally seal that border.”

Secretary Napolitano's brilliance has never been more evident, not! Alexander the Great would direct his troops to attack the strongest point, something that is almost counter-intuitive. He reasoned that if an enemy spent that much energy to protect something, then capturing or destroying it would be the quickest way to get the enemy to fold. The rest, as they say, is history. Similarly, if we continue to focus all of our energy and forces on the border it only makes it more attractive. Like Alexander, those wanting to enter illegally believe there is great wealth to be earned on the other side.

Napolitano and the rest of the myopic minions of the Obama administration lack a holistic approach to securing our borders. Border security is nothing without working with Mexico to improve wages and job opportunities to on the Southern side. Border security will continue to fail if there are no incentives for employers on the Northern side of the border to hire local workers versus illegal workers. Border security will continue to fail as long as we do not see the connection with demanding higher minimum wages.

CNSNews.com - Napolitano: ‘You’re Never Going to Totally Seal That Border’

Friday, June 25, 2010

Kafkaesque?

Why aren't the Canadian citizens outraged about this crap? Of course the United States has no room to gloat; on this day our great legislator Chris Dodd effused about the 2,000 pages of financial reform "No one will know until this is actually put in place how it works". We have to turn to actor turned savior Kevin Costner for a solution to the oil spill. Egads!

'Secret' law lets police arrest for failing to show ID near summit

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Confidence Waning in Obama, U.S. Outlook - WSJ.com

Why is this surprising? We want elected officials who have a blank slate. If they have had an opinion on anything, they won't make it through the election process. Imagine someone like a Teddy Roosevelt running today, he would get annihilated in the media. Instead we get people like our current President, who was able to survive the election process because he lacked any track record to predict his future performance. He made speeches in in an even tone without ever getting emotional. Unfortunately the world tends to abuse even keel kind of guys. The war in Afghanistan has only gotten worse since he took office and the President has been disconcertingly quiet on the oil spill in the Gulf. There was a piece out last week asking if the President should become an "angry black man". The piece went into a bunch of silly nonsense for at the end, President Obama is the quintessential 21st Century, race not withstanding. He has no experience for experience would have caused him to have a track record. He has no track record because he has never had to make a decision. Had he done either, it would have been used against him in the election. The question we must ask ourselves is do we want to continue to elect political savants or actual leaders?

Confidence Waning in Obama, U.S. Outlook - WSJ.com

Chaos at Conn. airport renews tarmac-time debate - Yahoo! News

This crap won't change until someone finally dies of a heart attack or gets killed by an outraged fellow passenger. TSA and DHS are playing with a ticking time bomb for no reason.

Chaos at Conn. airport renews tarmac-time debate - Yahoo! News

Earthquake tremors empty college

A reminder that Southwestern Ohio can experience earthquakes. Northern Ohio has experienced several smaller quakes along the shore of Lake Erie. Canadian earthquakes can be felt in Ohio even though more people focus on the New Madrid fault to the south. When Mt St Helens erupted, the tremors here were strong enough to shake windows and glasses in cabinets.

Earthquake tremors empty college

Monday, June 21, 2010

Dubai to have security cameras 'everywhere' - Yahoo! News

If we aren't careful, the US will follow Dubai's same road led by Secretary Napolitano. In this journey US citizens will be asked to forsake our civil and Constitutional rights to have a safer homeland. The Bush Administration gave us the US PATRIOT ACT which overrode many civil rights in the name of homeland security.

President Obama ran on a campaign promise of change. In regards to homeland security, he and Secretary Napolitano aren't changing and seem to be only furthering the dilution of civil rights started under the previous administration. The President is seeking the power to shut-down the Internet in the event of a cyber attack. The definition of such an attack of course remains illusive. One hacker living overseas attacks the Pentagon servers, does this mean no Hulu for the rest of us?

Now Secretary Napolitano wants to increase surveillance of Internet usage by US citizens for fear if she doesn't, homegrown terrorism will run amuck. Secretary Napolitano hasn't met a US citizens that doesn't pose some kind of homeland security issue, rather it be a convert to radical Islam or merely a drug dealer. of course, where is her outrage and laser like focus on real threats to the homeland like BP? The entire ecological and economic systems of the Gulf Coast are in jeopardy, yet she is off worrying about what some undergrad may be looking at in his or her dorm.


Dubai to have security cameras 'everywhere' - Yahoo! News

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Boxer Declares Climate Change as the Greatest Threat

The author of this piece is overlooking the obvious; Boxer is stating why the US military will be used to protect the planet. Regardless of where you fall on this topic, the US government sees a lot of opportunity to further its agenda under the guise of "climate change". The oil spill in the Gulf coast is generating outrage from the President but rather a rehash of the cap and trade policy. How the hell does selling carbon credits help clean-up the Gulf coast?

The residents of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and even Texas rely on the Gulf of Mexico to provide their livelihood. Fishing and tourism are two of the biggest industries based on a healthy Gulf. What has escaped the notice of the media is how many residents as rely on the Gulf to provide their food. Yes, we saw the President choking down some mudbugs but for many, eating the local fauna is their only source of protein. Imagine what is going to happen to these people who can no longer catch or hunt their own food. They will be forced to leave but to where? Will they be able to catch or hunt the same kind of food that they are used to? Will these relocated people be accepted by their new neighbors?

Instead of thinking about this, we get Senator Boxer and others making nitwit claims that the environment WILL become the next reason for war and not admitting that for our brothers and sisters on the Gulf and may already by too late.

FOXNews.com - Boxer Declares Climate Change as the Greatest Threat, But Opponents Slam Theory