We Asked For Border Security and All We Got Were These Lousy Signs…

Sep 3rd, 10 / 0 Comments

This is exasperating.  If you don’t want to read the post, just know that these signs were posted to tell (English-speaking) Americans to avoid public lands in the United States because they’re not safe. Found at Wyatt Earp’s (link), this is what Azatlan looks like to you:

From CNS News (link):

(CNSNews.com) – Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said requests by Arizona law enforcement personnel and Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) for 3,000 National Guard troops along the state’s border with Mexico have been answered so far with 1 percent of that number deployed there this week.

“We have a whopping 30 [National Guard troops] this week that are showing up,” Babeu told CNSNews.com. “It’s less than a half-hearted measure designed to fail.”

But the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has placed 15 signs along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 that links San Diego with Phoenix and Tucson warning travelers of drug cartels and human trafficking operations.

“DANGER – PUBLIC WARNING, TRAVEL NOT RECOMMENDED,” read the signs placed along Interstate 8. “Visitors May Encounter Armed Criminals and Smuggling Vehicles Traveling at High Rates of Speed. Stay Away From Trash, Clothing, Backpacks, and Abandoned Vehicles.”

“BLM Encourages Visitors To Use Public Land North of Interstate 8,” the signs say.

“I think the American people are outraged that we can fight wars half-way around the world, send our nation’s treasury and our most precious resources – our American heroes that serve in the military — and yet here in our own country somehow they believe it’s okay for us not to have a secure border,” Said Sheriff Babeu.

“And that it’s okay to put up signs in my county and parts of America to surrender parts of our country to foreign born criminals,” Babeu added, “warning our own American citizens to stay out.

In May, President Barack Obama said he would deploy 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to help quell the violence there, which is less than half of the 3,000 troops requested by Babeu, Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever, Sen. McCain and Sen. Kyl for Arizona’s border during a press conference on Capitol Hill in April.

The Obama administration has said it will deploy National Guard troops to the southern border incrementally to eventually have 1,500 troops in place. In addition, $600 million in “emergency border protection funding” was approved in legislation the president signed into law in August.

I wish you xenophobes would shut up about the border already!  If our President had said during the campaign that he believed that America somehow didn’t have the right to the land North of the border, we never would have elected him.  I want to know why he refuses to enforce the border and protect the literal Constitution of this nation.

Now ask yourself: if the TEA party or Glenn Beck held an unauthorized convention in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Area, trampled wilderness, littered, and had drag races (let alone illicit substances)*, how long would it take to get the National Guard there?

(It’s purely rhetorical because we follow laws and clean up after ourselves) By the way, there’s only one thing that I could think of that would anger me more than the original sign- here it is:

TEIN

PC World, illegal immigration, leviathan, terror war

Friday Photo

Sep 3rd, 10 / 0 Comments

Captions or Photoshops (highalpine03 at yahoo dot com) welcome:

(Photo taken by Fred Comegys News jUrinal/Delaware Online. Original caption: “(Rep Mike) Castle (ed.RINO) — shown Wednesday at a Delaware National Guard event — says he has nothing to gain from it. Both primary candidates, however, have plenty to say about each other — just not in person” .)

My caption: “Yep, Sarah Brady wants me to ban these too”.

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Poorly Edited Headline of The Day

Sep 3rd, 10 / 0 Comments

Who knew one missing preposition by the News Urinal staff could make me laugh so hard (link):

N.J. man assaulted bottle at party following christening

This happens way more than you think. I’ve assaulted a bottle too at a christening party.

News Urinal, funny

Dum Leddar To Dah Editer

Sep 3rd, 10 / 0 Comments

I’m posting this one before I even send it to the G.I.N.  The fellas are going to love this. I think anyone on the left has lost the right to call anything that conservatives do “cultish” after the 2008 election.  The iconography, the chants, the tears, fainting at rallies, and the “O”. But as usual, you can tell what the left is doing by what they accuse the right of doing, as Linda Haring of Newark, Delaware illustrates (link):

Last Saturday’s letter comparing the tea party movement to a cult is on the mark. But, I also wish to add Fox News, with Glenn Beck, as leaders of this cult movement.

The people who buy into these ideas are nothing more than brainwashed sheep, following mindlessly, to the preachings of these cult leaders. They preach doom, gloom and hate. Above all, they are against anything President Obama says or does.

That’s anti-American, if you ask me. But, alas, the sad part is how many seemingly smart people become cult followers!

Thank God that some free-thinking people still exist. I would not like to see the outcome of these hateful cults, if not for the free thinkers.

Linda Haring, Newark

Let’s review a few things. First, this is “against anything” a President does… well, retroactive 20 months (link):

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Bad Ideas, G.I.N. discussions, News Urinal

Congratulations Teamsters!!

Sep 3rd, 10 / 0 Comments

The Teamsters’ union has won this year’s “Most Decertified” union award! Originally at UnionFreeAmerica (link), Via BigGovernment (link):

Teamsters Union Wins 2010 Most Decertified Union Award

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is the winner of Union Free America’s 5th Annual “Most Decertified Union Award.”  This honor is awarded to the labor union that lost the most decertification elections during the preceding 12 months.

The judging was based on an analysis of the reports of election results on the National Labor Relations Board’s web site for the period August 2009 through July 2010.  During that time the NLRB conducted 251 decertification elections.  Employees seeking to rid themselves of a union won 157 or 63 percent of them.

The Teamsters union won the “Most Decertified Union Award” by being decertified 48 times during that period.  The Teamsters were involved in a total of 64 decertification elections of which they lost 75 percent.

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) came in a distant second by being decertified in 9 out of 15 elections, or 60 percent.

The International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) won honorable mention by being decertified 8 times. This may seem paltry compared to the Teamsters, but IUOE deserves recognition for being decertified in 8 out of 8 elections.

The Teamsters outstanding performance was not enough to help the Change to Win federation edge out the larger AFL-CIO in the competition. AFL-CIO unions participated in 99 decertification elections and lost 69 of them while the Change to Win unions participated in a total of 101 decertification elections, but lost only 60 of them.

Colorful certificates commemorating these achievements have been sent to the Teamsters, Food and Commercial Workers and Operating Engineers unions.

Happy Labor Day!

Awards, funny, union thugs

World Gone Mad

Sep 1st, 10 / 0 Comments

I’ve thought for a while that the world’s gone nuts, so I didn’t think anything could really phase me.  But I’m just kind of rattled today.  Yesterday on my drive home from work I saw the first responders arrive to an apparent suicide off a bridge on the other side of the interstate. They were all looking over the edge and I knew what happened. I had some craziness at work which I shan’t discuss that phased me, and then I looked at the news:

Acid Attack (link):

VANCOUVER, Wash. — A 28-year-old woman severely burned when a stranger threw an acid-like liquid in her face was listed in serious condition in a Oregon hospital.

Bethany Storro, of Vancouver, Wash., was getting something out of her car in downtown Vancouver when the attack happened Monday evening, her mother Nancy Neuwelt told The Oregonian.

Neuwelt said a young woman walked up to her daughter, said: “Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?” and tossed a cup of liquid in Storro’s face.

Algore Follower Takes Hostages at the Discovery Channel? (link)

Obama takes credit for Iraq victory, nobody mentions that he said the successful surge would fail (link). No fossil media mention 21 soldiers’ deaths in 48 hours in Afghanistan.

Drug cartels run parts of Arizona (link).

New documentary says tens of thousands of felons, sex offenders travel across border with impunity (link).

John Cusack gone batty (link).

Oops, missed one (link):

Cops: She won’t get abortion, so he rapes her in front of kids

By JASON NARK

Philadelphia Daily News

narkj@phillynews.com 856-779-3231

When the woman who gave birth to two children with Thomas O. Hill said that she had another on the way, police in Burlington County say, the ex-con insisted on an abortion.

But the woman wanted to keep the pregnancy, police said, and an argument over the issue inside her home on Union Landing Road, in Cinnaminson, turned violent Sunday.

“He got pissed off at her,” said Cinnaminson Police Det. Sgt William Covert.

Hill, 24, of Camden, is accused of sexually assaulting the woman in a bedroom where three children, including two of his own, were sleeping, Covert said.

One child allegedly was knocked off a mattress during the assault, Covert added.

“She’s claiming he raped her and he says otherwise,” Covert said.

The woman, who is four to six weeks pregnant, appeared to have injuries to substantiate those claims, Covert said.

It just feels like bizarro world.

Fear Mongering, G.I.N. discussions

Mexican Civil War: 8 Killed In Cancun Bar

Aug 31st, 10 / 0 Comments

I think a lot of  people dismiss the possibility that the Mexican government could collapse, and the incredibly bad aftermath.  Kill the money that tourism brings in, and you’re on your way to collapse.  Or, if someone promises law and order, what will that government look like? (link):

At least eight people were killed Tuesday when a group of men tossed Molotov cocktails into a bar in the tourist friendly Mexican town of Cancun, officials said.

Authorities said six to eight men entered the Castillo de Mar bar and threw homemade bombs, killing six women and two men who were inside.

Investigators said they do not know of a motive for the attack, but the bar was reportedly the victim of two extortion attempts, allegedly by the Zetas drug cartel.

“The death of eight people is confirmed. Six on site — including four women — and two others in hospital, also women,” prosecutor Francisco Alor Quezada, from the southeastern state of Quintana Roo, told AFP.

Local media reports said the attack happened at around 1a.m. local time Tuesday. It set off a fire which destroyed the bar, which is in a residential area not frequented by tourists, officials said.

As if we don’t have enough refugees here and dependents on the system, what happens if the Mexican government collapses?  I guess the narco-socialistas like Chavez, Ortega, and Evo Morales in Central and South America couldn’t have anything to do with these attacks. They’ve been a little quiet lately.

Flashback:

Mexican leftist EPR (narco-socialists who’ve bombed infrastructure) group tied to Al Qaida

SHTF, illegal immigration, terror war

Mexico’s Civil War Continues

Aug 30th, 10 / 0 Comments

465 Federal police charged with crimes since May!  (link):

Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) — About 3,200 Mexican federal police have been fired since May for failing to do their work or being linked to corruption, Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas said Monday.

Of those, 465 have been charged with crimes.

In addition, Rosas said at a news conference, another 1,020 officers face disciplinary proceedings for failing confidence exams.

The probe started in mid-May, said Marco Tulio Lopez of the federal police internal affairs department.

“Investigations of our department began many months ago and this is the result,” federal police spokesman Ramon Salinas told CNN.

Among the officers who were fired, Rosas said, were officials in Ciudad Juarez who were publicly accused by fellow officers of corruption several weeks ago. In that incident, two groups of officers shoved and fought each other outside police headquarters.

(link):

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – Gunmen killed the mayor of a town in the drug-plagued Mexican border state of Tamaulipas on Sunday in a region where suspected cartel hitmen recently massacred 72 migrants, the government said.

Hidalgo Mayor Marco Antonio Leal Garcia was the second mayor to be assassinated in the past two weeks in the area, which has become a battleground between the Gulf and Zetas cartels.

President Felipe Calderon condemned the attack on Leal Garcia, which left the mayor’s daughter wounded.

“This cowardly crime, and the reprehensible violent acts that occurred recently in this state, strengthen the commitment of the Mexican government to continue fighting the criminal gangs that seek to intimidate the families of Tamaulipas,” Calderon’s office said in a statement.

(link):

15 Slain in Acapulco, Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Fifteen people were found shot to death Friday in and around the Pacific coast resort town of Acapulco, authorities in the southern state of Guerrero said.

Acting on an anonymous telephone tip, police discovered the bodies of six men along the highway linking Acapulco with Mexico City.

The victims’ hands and feet were tied and their eyes covered with duct tape, Guerrero police said, and beside the bodies were messages from the killers to rival criminal groups.

Authorities declined to reveal the content of the messages.

Two other men were found dead on the Acapulco-Zihuatanejo road. Those bodies were also bound hand-and-foot and accompanied by messages.

Four shooting victims were discovered later Friday at a toll booth on one of the main routes leading into Acapulco, likewise with messages from the killers.

That was also the story with two men found fatally shot in the parking lot of a department store in the resort city.

Nothing to see, here, folks…

World War IV

PC World, Vol 4387

Aug 30th, 10 / 0 Comments

Dan Rubin covers the government overreach story of the day. Stormtroopers save bird from criminal! (link):

Daniel Rubin: Pennsylvania Game Commission leaves bird’s rescuer in a fowl mood

By Daniel Rubin

Inquirer Columnist

The Miracle Bird of Elizabethtown led the Outdoors page of a Lancaster newspaper one morning this spring, a feel-good tale if there ever was one.

The column told how Pati Mattrick, a 57-year-old grandmother and preschool teacher, had rescued the hatchling from a howling rainstorm four years earlier. And now the bird was returning the favor.

Mattrick’s German shepherd had discovered the tiny creature – pink, fuzzy, and soaked – buried in the backyard ivy at the foot of a towering spruce. She carried it inside and placed it in an incubator fashioned from an old aquarium, a Tupperware bowl, a linen napkin, and a heating pad. She named the tiny bird Stormy Girl.

Unsure what her charge ate, Mattrick rounded up some worms and bugs, razoring them into bite-size specks. She e-mailed wildlife rehabilitation shelters to learn more. The bird, they said, was unlikely to survive.

But Stormy Girl did fine, growing feathers, filling out on a diet of fruit and nuts, and finding its singing voice. Mattrick learned her new friend was a house finch. The bird would serenade her as it followed her around the house. “She thought I was her mother,” Mattrick says.

Which was just what Mattrick needed, since the last of her four daughters had moved out and she didn’t feel well enough to teach anymore. The bird, she says, helped lift her depression.

The column, by outdoors writer Ad Crable of the Intelligencer Journal/New Era, ran May 11. Two mornings later, about 9 a.m., a knock at the door startled Mattrick. More alarming were her callers: a Pennsylvania Game Commission officer and three armed policemen.

They’d come for the bird.

Who knew you couldn’t keep house finches in the house?

Certainly not Mattrick. But the Game Commission knew. Those garden-variety fowl – the Cornell Lab of Ornithology estimates there are as many as 1.4 billion of them on the continent – are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty of 1918.

Mattrick was breaking the law.

I must confess, we nursed a lost baby robin and injured catbird back to life when we were kids (though we released them).

But by the way, birds are pretty dirty creatures to have outside of a cage. I wouldn’t do it for hygiene reasons moreso than migratory birds.

Bad Ideas, Feeding Seagulls, PC World, leviathan

Why I’m Not A Republican: Delaware GOP Ruling Class

Aug 30th, 10 / 0 Comments

In response to Michelle Malkin’s piece encouraging insurgent Delaware GOP Senate primary candidate Christine O’Donnell (link), I agree with the sentiment but O’Donnell’s got a pretty big hill to climb.  Remember the (un-PC) joke “what do fat girls and mopeds have in common? They’re fun to ride till your friends see you on them”?

In general, the GOP treats conservatives like we’re figurative “mopeds”. Fun to ride (in elections) until your progressive Democrat friends find out you were hanging out with neanderthal pro-lifers or NRA members.

I can’t stand Delaware Rep Mike Castle (Rino)’s views on a lot of things: gun control, stem cell funding, cap-and-trade, not to mention the joy he seems to get from bucking the party. His letters back on issues quote the Brady Campaign (to ban handguns), the Center for American Progress, and left-leaning environmental groups. He’s running for US Senate to replace Biden seat-warmer Ted Kaufman.

I predict that if elected, he can’t wait to out-Brown Scott Brown, and to out-Snowe Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. He’s not even being tested. I expect he’ll ride the anti-progressive wave this Fall and then go give progressive representation. Generally, I like his opponent Christine O’Donnell, but it looks like there’s no point holding a primary as far as the party’s concerned. This is why so many like me have left the GOP- they decide the candidate, we’re just supposed to hold our noses and vote:

Also: Covered in the News Urinal’s poli-blog DE GOP lashes out at O’Donnell (link).

Accurate Predictions, Bad Ideas, News Urinal, Politics