An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Morning Coffee 02/28/08
U.S. border “virtual fence” to be delayed: report
Technical problems have forced the Bush administration to retool a high-tech “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border and will delay the first phase for at least three years, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
There are an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States, many from Mexico. Immigration is a highly charged topic and a major issue in the campaign for November’s presidential election.
Department of Homeland Security officials and congressional auditors told lawmakers on Wednesday that problems found in the 28-mile pilot project built near Nogales, Arizona, by Boeing Co. will require a change in plans, the Post reported.
High tech is nice, but nothing will ever replace real people, with real guns and a REAL high fence. Moat….gators…..piranhas.
8 Wounded in Los Angeles Street Shooting
Police are searching for a gunman who wounded eight people at a busy South Los Angeles bus stop and trying to figure out why he opened fire into a crowd of children and adults.
Armed with a semiautomatic handgun, the man apparently was aiming at somebody but missed his target and shot others at the bus stop just after schools let out Wednesday, Lt. Ruben De La Torre said.
Are they sure he wasn’t just shooting people at random?
Nude runner arrested near Aurora
Authorities are still trying to figure out what prompted 28-year-old Kevin Lininger to run naked up and down South Shawnee Street near Aurora today.
“He didn’t demonstrate any signs of alcohol or drug use,” said Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson.
Isn’t it COLD in Colorado this time of year? Nutty!
‘We should wipe out Hamas leaders’
Israel, he said, must rather go the way of upping targeted killings among the full gamut of Hamas leadership.
“We must not let anyone involved in the shooting stay alive,” Sheetrit, who is also a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said. “I am opposed to hesitation and in favor of wiping out anyone who is in Hamas; from the military and political echelons, no matter who.”
I’m not so sure just taking out the ‘heads’ is going to do the trick. They seem to regrow them in short order, so it would be a never ending battle.
As the possibility grows that voters may bestow the nation’s highest public office on an African American, serial public apologies — largely by Democrats — show just how sensitive race remains. What is less clear is how race could help or hinder Obama, who has struggled to keep it in the background.
J. Sidney McCain lost points with me when he delivered that useless apology. He didn’t have a whole lot of point to begin with, so losing a few puts him back on the bottom of the heap. B. Hussein is an empty suit with pretty platitudes.
Gov wants Cole Hall demolished
As a frigid wind swept across campus, student Laura Wayman silently took in the memorial of snow-crusted teddy bears and dying red roses lying outside Northern Illinois University’s Cole Hall Wednesday afternoon.
Wayman, 21, had not heard the big news delivered earlier in the day by Gov. Blagojevich and NIU President John G. Peters: The site of the Valentine’s Day massacre was to be torn down and replaced, nearby, with a new “state-of-the-art” facility — Memorial Hall.
Other than the obvious, is something wrong with the building? Is it full of asbestos? Are the walls crumbling?
Investigation of Clemens Is Sought
In a letter sent to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said it could not definitively say if Clemens had lied under oath during its investigation into his challenge of accusations contained in the report on baseball and drugs prepared by George J. Mitchell. But the committee said it believed that the Justice Department should pursue the matter.
I wonder if Congress has a clue of how ridiculous they are making themselves appear to the public?
Children held hostage in Cameroon
John Fru Ndi of the opposition Social Democratic Front, denied being behind the unrest but he said he could understand the frustrations felt by Cameroonians because of the high cost of living.
“It’s a miserable situation and the government has not addressed this,” he told the BBC’s Network Africa programme.
“The people have no other alternative than to express themselves by marching on the streets to draw government’s attention to issues affecting their everyday lives.”
And by using children as shields, this will help their cause…….how?
Ford seeks further prison delay
Six months after being sentenced to prison for bribery, John Ford is proving harder to incarcerate than to convict.
U.S. Dist. Court Judge J. Daniel Breen, who has twice delayed Ford’s prison report date, listened Wednesday as the former state senator said he feared his children would be “put out on the street” if he is not there to provide food and shelter.
That judge needs to be removed from the bench. Ford isn’t the only person who has been sentenced to jail time with children. If this weasel hadn’t broken the law, this wouldn’t be an issue. Why should he be given special treatment? Just because his name if Ford? I don’t think so!
Sen. Bond: House finds time for steroids while FISA sits
Senator Bond (R-Missouri) contends Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) are “getting their marching orders from the MoveOn.org and CODEPINK constituency” of their party. Bond is denouncing Reid for arranging another vote on a resolution that would cut funding to U.S. troops and order a military withdrawal from Iraq.
According to Bond, the work in the House is “even more ridiculous.” He believes its top priority should be to vote on the bipartisan terrorist surveillance bill (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA) that overwhelmingly passed the Senate.
Feckless weasels bowing to moonbats. Our so called representatives have sunk to a new low.
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Re: Ford
I’m thinking he’s for a lot of dirt on a lot of people down Memphis-way. It’s the only way he could be getting away with the crap he pulls.
I’m thinking the dirt should start spilling! I’m wondering what he’s got on that judge. :/
Leap Year Leap Day Links…
I just thought the photo above was beautiful, so I figured I’d add it. Something about it seemed to me to fit with the mysteries of Leap Year. I know, leap year is not all that mysterious, but the photo seems to me to be. I shamelessly grabbed t…