Sotelo's DHS Makes An End-Run

Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the Yankee Nation (ICE) has opened a 24/7 telephone line.  The purpose of which is for apprehended persons who "believe they may be" citizens of the Yankee Nation to call and receive counseling from an on-duty ICE Agent.

How is it that someone does not know of what country he is a citizen?  By establishing such a service, the Yankee Nation's Executive administration is doing a naked end-run around existing law.  As with much of what comes out of the mouth of Barry The Pretender, this new service is all for show.  Any advice that the Tonk may hear over the telephone would be neither admissible nor germane to proceedings in an Immigration court.

Also, it would be interesting to know what instructions have been given to those worthies who are manning the phones. Are they giving legal advice, or are they simply on duty to mollify the ruffled feathers of Tonks who are too stupid to know their nationality?

Certainly, this new development mandated for ICE personnel is nothing new.  During the administration of Carter The Incompetent, INS Commissioner Leonel Castillo placed faux Tonks along the border to document supposed brutality on the part of law enforcement people.

Even though it is nothing new, it is still a step farther toward a totally demoralized cadre of Border patrol Agents.

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Barry and Christmas

Barry The Pretender, ever the vacationer, has taken a new low in military relations.  Sunday, 12/25/11, the Yankee Nation's Chief Executive appeared at the Base Chapel as MCAS, Kaneohe Bay to celebrate Christmas under the watchful eye of the Navy Chaplain on duty and as many cameras as possible.

We are told that, for twenty years, Barry was a frequent attender for the "worship" services conducted by the Rev. Mr. Jeremiah Wright in Chicago.  As the Yankee President, he seems to have developed into a "Christmas and Easter" attender at Christian worship.  One wonders what was going through the minds of the Marines and sailors who were also present as they witnessed the cheap and tawdry camera-mugging behavior of their Commander-In-Chief.

One may also wonder that, if Barry really is a Christian (as he proclaims), why was he not in attendance at worship services last Sunday at St. John's in the Yankee Capitol city?  After all, St. John's is just right across the street from the Yankee's Executive Mansion.

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The Empire

The Yankee Nation is an empire.

An empire is a political unit composed of a number of territories that are ruled by a single supreme authority. Tempting as it may be, placing a date/time stamp on the beginning is not possible.Some may desire to take the "empire date' back to the Jacksonian period.  Others may choose the infamous tenure of the delusional Lincoln.  Still others may want to date the beginnings during the time of Theodore Roosevelt.  In the end, it's impossible.  The Yankee Nation didn't start out as an empire; it slowly morphed into being one.

Gradually, the several States became less and less important and decreased in their measure of sovereignty as their respective citizens allowed the gigantic maw of Leviathan to gobble-up most shreds of self-government.

More recently, when Texas drew a new map of Yankee Nation Congressional districts, the Yankee Nation legal thugs jumped on her with both boots (with hobnails affixed).  The Yankee Nation Supreme Court has frozen Texas' Yankee Nation elections and Eric Holder (the unindicted criminal of "fast and furious" fame) has flown to Texas to utter a rant speech on the subject.  The fact that our Department of Public Safety has allowed him entry into the State is humiliating for all Texans.

The first of the last gasps of the 10th Amendment is just as difficult to date as is the Yankee Nation's transition from being the United States to the Yankee Nation Empire.  Was it the 18th Amendment.  How about 1867's Ex Parte McCardle?   Was it the 14th Amendment?  The debate can go on for a long time with good and scholarly support for all contentions.

What is certain is that The Yankee Nation is a very different entity than was envisioned by the Founders and Framers.  The Yankee nation is no longer simply a Union of sovereign States.  It is now an empire composed of territories/states (which have the names of States).  Each of them and many of their composite citizens owe and pledge total fealty to the powerful overlord that is known as the Federal Government.  Such a state of affairs is no longer a Union; it is an Empire.

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Big Government Republicans

Just out of the photo (to the viewer's left), is another Big Government Republican: The Aggie.  It is a continuing source of wonderment to my that these three are as popular as they seem to be among Yankee Nation Republicans.

The Aggie gained his ascendancy to the governor's office solely due to Bush 43's decision to seek to inflict his own big government ideas upon an unsuspecting electorate.  He has, recently, dropped in the polls but has not yet bowed-out of the contest.

Gingrich has comported himself as what he is: an educated political prostitute.  (You may read more on the whore on Old Rebel's blog.)  Romney, ever the patrician, seems to have maintained an aloof attitude and is strangely reminiscent of Bush 41 (who was described by a former Texas Governor as having been "born with a silver foot in this mouth").

Each of them: The Aggie, Gingrich and Romney are held to be one kind of "conservative" or another.  What, though, does a "conservative" do?  The conservative conserves or maintains what has been handed to him.

Should any one of these Big Government clowns become the Yankee Nation President, there is little doubt that he would mostly conserve that which Barry Soetoro will have handed-over to him.

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Barry's Sinking Ship

Posted on the VOA website is the story that in a television broadcast broadcast (today), Barry Soetoro 

"said the structural problems in the economy have been building for two decades and that repairing them would take more than one term in office and "probably take more than one president"

Barry The Pretender is half-right on this one.  It will take a long time for the Yankee Nation to repair the damage done to their economy for which Soetoro has consistently blamed his predecessors.  The damage done to the economy by Slick and by Bush 43 is undeniable, but Barry's fiscal carnage has made both of them look like Greek gods of statesmanship in comparison.


Barry continues to blame the newly-recalcitrant members of the Yankee Nation Congress who are valiantly attempting to prevent him from wreaking even more Progressive havoc upon the hapless and mostly willfully ignorant citizenry.


In his speech, Soetoro likened himself to a ship's captain whose vessel is going through a violent storm.  If that is true (which it is), the storm is one of his own creation.  November of 2012 seems a very long time to wait for a mutiny.


Deo Vindice 

Yankee Nation Exceptionalism

It appears as if Barry Soetoro has been shamed into stating a belief in something his actions and previous statement indicate that he doesn't really believe.  The belief?  That the Yankee Nation is  endowed with what Republicans refer to as "American Exceptionalism".

From a rag in Atlanta

"We don't just think about what's good for us, but we're also thinking about what's good for the world.  That's what makes us special.  That's what makes us exceptional".

I'll bet that that's not exactly the definition of
"exceptionalism" you learned when you took your history course in school.  That's allright.  Barry can alter any definition to fit his own warped sense of purpose.

It's bad enough that most of the Republican candidates for the Yankee Nation President's office believe in the standard definition of "American Exceptionalism": that it is the Yankee Nation's duty to export their corrupted notions of what the Founders envisioned and put into place.  Now, we see the Yankee Chief Executive declaring the same thing.  What further proof is needed for one to become convinced that there is no real difference between Barry and the majority of his Republican antagonists?

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Bring It On Home ...

Since the 1970's, the Yankee Nation has seen a monumental societal change.  Many Black families are migrating to the South.  This movement of people is in direct opposition to decades of traffic going the other way.

The bad news for the Yankees is that the majority of Blacks fleeing the harsh environment of their own country are college-educated (50.5%).  Those with less education tend to stay on the Yankee Plantation.  The chief reason for this dynamic is that the South offers much more employment opportunities for the educated than it does for the uneducated.  Does Barry Soetro know that there is a "brain drain" going on in his country?

Many Blacks who migrated North in the first half of the 20th Century chose their destinations according to where they had access via local railroads and where other family members and friends had migrated before them.  Dwayne Walls, in Chickenbone Special, recounted an old quote about the Black residents of a rural community in North Carolina" "These people know only three palces to go: Heaven, Hell, and Baltimore."

Some of the migrants returning South follow the same paths their ancestors had carved out when they moved North.  But not all Blacks are returning home.  Most were actually born in the North and, consequently are heading for rapidly growing metropolitan centers.

The Black migration has resulted (for us in the South) in an increase in direct proportion to the overall Black population in the Yankee Nation.  Our problem is not the Blacks moving Southward; it's the non-Black population moving here.

The non-Black migration (read "White") is the largest change agent for Southern culture.  Those Yankees are bringing with them their strange tastes in food, their off-the-wall ideas about social paradigms, their strange political ideations, their insufferable accents and their offensive tastes in music.  It would be much better if Barry were to encourage them to stay in the North and to encourage all the Copperheads to come here in their place.

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Georgia In The Vanguard

U. S. Crane in Waco, Georgia has declared that their new company policy is that there will be now new hiring taking place until Barry The Pretender is sent away from the Yankee nation's capitol city.

The article (clickable above) includes an editorialized rant concerning Bill Looman, the company's president.  They believe that Looman is a certified member of the lunatic fringe.  For all I can tell, the man is a patriot of the highest order.

Soetoro's economic policies have place small businesses in an impossible position when it comes to even the most rudimentary functions of both maintaining production and expanding their market base.  The comments at the end of the referenced article tell the woeful tale of those who have imbibed Barry's Kool-Aid.

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Please, Sir, More Gruel?

Yankee Nation Congressmen - especially Henry Cuellar (D), Laredo, are beginning to beg ask the Yankee Nation governmental functionaries to deploy some returning military non-human assets to the Mexican border.

These people never seem to learn that technology is not the solution to the problem.  The solution is as follows:

• DHS must remove administrative sanctions which prevent Border Patrol Agents from exercising their statutory authority.
• Yankee Nation Congress must re-institute the Bracero Program of the 1950's.
• CPB re-institute Line Operations exactly as they were before Jimmy Carter.
• OTM's and Mexican nationals to be repatriated to the interiors of their respective nations.

Of course, the absolute best solution would be a new Southern Confederation.  With that, whatever DHS, CPB or the Yankee Nation Congress thought or enacted wouldn't matter at all.

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Been There. Done That

Actor and Terry had worked a long, long time in the desert that night.  Because of Jimmy Carter's gas rationing for the Border Patrol, no Agents had been assigned to work day shift on the desert area East of  the Port of Entry at San Luis, Arizona.  It is a vast region which included a few asparagus farms, citrus groves and the MCAS Yuma bombing range.

When they finally got to their AO on the 4P-12A shift in the desert, it was 1730 and the last recorded sign cutting run had been at 0800 that morning.  Terry picked up a drag at Avenue 5E and Actor picked one up by the airstrip near the Port and, to save time, they started dragging toward each other.

When you're working a drag there's not much to do.  If you do it right, you're not driving move than 5 miles per hour so time passes slowly.  Since Terry was dragging toward the sun, the lines and shadows of the sign he was dragging-over appeared more prominent than if he had the sun at his back.  He crossed-over numerous pieces of sign that was obviously hours old.  Each time he did, he called the characteristics of the sign in to the station to be labeled as "got-aways".  Actor did the same.

Along about 1E,  a different sort of sign caught Terry's eye.  It was sign of Tonks carrying burdens.  Terry un-hooked his drag and followed the sign a short ways into the desert.  Then he called Actor.

"Actor", Terry said, "I've got a group of ten headed for the groves.  It looks as if they're mules."

Actor knew the drill.  He had to finish the entire drag by himself (somebody had to do it) while Terry started following the sign.  Actor speeded-up his drag to ten miles per hour so as to get in on the big chase as soon as possible.

By the time Actor had completed the drag,  Terry has already found the sign in the citrus groves and was on foot (by then, it was somewhere around 2130).  Actor cut for sign perpendicular to Terry's route of travel in the groves and found it on the other side: back in open desert and heading for still more groves.

This time, it was Actor who was on foot; going through grove after grove of lemon trees - on the sign.  Terry cut perpendicular to Actor's route of travel and found the sign leaving those groves and headed for a hard surface road.  Actor raced back to his vehicle (a dodge Ramcharger) and joined Terry in following the sign.

In the end, it was Actor who found the mules.  They were hunkered down in a drainage ditch by the hard surface road.  In the ditch with them were bales of kilos of marijuana with ropes attached to them to make them into huge backpacks.  Near the road was a overturned Coca Cola can (the marker for the driver of the load car so he'd know where to stop and take on the load).

Processing Tonks is easy enough but processing a drug load is a huge headache.  The Agents have to take sworn statements from everybody - translating them from Spanish into English and then back again.  After that, the apprehending Agents have to "mark" all of the kilos.  Actor and Terry marked each one with their initials and the date of apprehension.  After all that was done, they had to transport the drugs to the DEA (in those days, that's the way it was done).  Actor and Terry photographed the load, put it into their vehicles and drove it to the DEA's office in San Luis.

The story didn't end there; at least not for that particular load of drugs.

About a month later, Actor was working the railroad yards and Terry was working the area around Morelos Dam.  The Patrol Agent In Charge called both of them on the radio to report to the station.  When they arrived, what they saw made them angry; angry enough to loose any trust they had ever had in the DEA.

There, on the Station floor, were numerous kilos of marijuana.  Each had Actor's and Terry's initials on them along with the original date of apprehension.  A couple of Agents working the 12A-8A shift had apprehended that load.  No one said anything.  They just stood there and fumed.

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Big Mac Attack

You thought that they'd gone away and died, didn't you?  Hardly.

Freddie Mac has just asked the Yankee Nation functionaries for a further "loan" of  $6 billion.  This money is in addition to all the money given to The Mac previously and to the millions of Yankee dollars that have recently been paid in bonuses to F.M.'s top executives.

The story in Habledash relates the sordid details of Barry The Pretender's out-of-control Yankee Nation administration being more than ready to distribute your money into a black hole without so much as asking your permission to do so.

A year from now, you can pretend that you're getting rid of big government Democrats by voting for, what is right now, any one of the numerous gaggle big government Republicans who want to serve the Federals.  In the end, there can be only one who'll be nominated; it probably won't be the one who needs to be.

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Eric Holder Has No Shame

In testimony today before the Yankee Nation Senate,
John Cornyn (R), Texas asked Soetoro's Attorney General if he had apologized to Agent Brian Terry's family.

Holder, ever the lawyer, replied to the question that he wished would have been asked instead of the one actually asked.  Not only has the Yankee Nation Attorney General not apologized to anyone (Terry's family, the Border Patrol, Yankee Nation citizens) but it appears as if the man is willing to take no responsibility for BATFE's misadventures that were conducted during his watch.

"When we are born, we cry, that we are come to this great stage of fools" - William Shakespeare

It is a truly sad thing to realize that the Bard was correct.  Barry The Pretender and his coterie of fellow fools do not even possess the requisite ethical thought to even know that they should have shame.

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Barry's People Wasting More Time ...

Of all the matters that the Yankee Nation's Chief Executive's staff does to occupy the time of day, this has got to be one of the more time-wasteful.

Barry's staff engages itself in catering to the bizarre ideations of the fringes of our culture.

If Space Tonks actually existed (and the Yankee Nation government knew of them) is there anyone who believes that the adults who maintain the secret would share it with a fool such as Barry Soetoro?  The fact that there were around 17,000 signatures on the petition is scary enough; that's equal to the population of Canton, GA.

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Border Patrol "Trespassing" In Yankee Nation Parks?

The Yankee Nation Department of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior have barred the Border Patrol from normal operations in "protected" areas.

They are afraid of Border Patrol vehicles tearing-up the landscape as Agents chase Tonks and smugglers of all types.  Maybe the real reason is that Barry The Pretender has decided that he needs many more new Democrats for 2012.

Details here.

Next thing you know, there'll be brand new voting precincts in all of the Yankee Nation parks close to the border.

Deo Vindice

Zombie-In-Chief

NBC in the Yankee Nation Capitol has carried the story of how some folks in Mosby's Confederacy have taken umbrage to a recent depiction of Barry The Pretender as a zombie.

Loudoun County Democrat Party members have appealed to none other than Governor Robert F. McDonald who has pronounced the artist's conception of Barry as being "shameful and offensive".

In philosophical circles, the discussion of zombies is real and on-going.  They (those caught in zombiehood) illuminate problems about consciousness and its relationship to the physical world.  Zombies, in fact, raise epistemological difficulties: their existence reinstates the problem of "other minds".

Barry's tenure as the Yankee Nation's Chief Executive has been a continuous illustration of the dynamic of "other-mindedness" within political leadership.  The Mind of Barry seems incapable of accepting the simple facts of his own rejection by those he supposes that he leads: us.  When everything within his ambient culture points to the fact that one thing is true, Barry persists is conducting himself as if it weren't.  Economics and Constitutional Law are two areas in which he has not only exhibited zombie-like behavior but has proven that he is a victim of the condition as well.

My own family's roots are in the Loudoun County area and I stand in awe that any of those good citizens there would take offense at the truth.  After all, Barry as a zombie isn't all that much different from Richard Nixon crawling our of a sewer:

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All Saints

Today, 1 November is the feast of All Saints.  Tomorrow, is the feast of All Souls.

I have never mentioned religion on this blog before but, as a faithful Anglican, I'm making note of it here.

the Saints are not divine, omnipresent or omniscient.  However, because of a Christians' common communion with them (with and through Jesus Christ), we remember what they bore while they still on their earthly pilgrimage.  We also celebrate the fact that they, right now, are enjoying eternal life with The Lamb of God.

May all people everywhere turn to Him and find
"the crown of life that fadeth not away".

Deo Vindice

The Cost of Illegal Aliens

Mexico's largest revenue stream is the money sent home by illegal aliens working in the Yankee Nation.  In actual terms, the yearly amount is around $8 billion.  What they earn and spend here is somewhere around $52 billion.  Naturally, they tend not to file and pay income taxes.  Totaled-up, the wage cost to unemployed Yankee Nation citizens is $60 billion that those Yankee Nation citizens could have made if the Mexicans weren't making it.

El Presidente,  Felipe Calderon, and his predecessors in that office have preferred to let things stay the way they have been for the last fifty years.  Rather than develop their sorry third world nation into a productive member among the community of nations, they have been content to become the primary leach among the three countries that comprise what we know as "North America". Jack Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Beorge W. Bush and Barry Soetoro have, each, seemed to agree with their economic philosophy.

As it now stands, the Yankee Nation can no longer sustain the loss of the financial blood that has been sucked by these fiscal vampires.  The problem here is: no one in charge seems to want to do anything about it.  The ears of the Yankee Nation "leadership" have long been deadened to the cries of the public for redress of this most foul condition.  The few sovereign States that have enacted their own legislation to solve the problem within their own borders have been met with threats of prosecution by the Federals for their courage to draw a line in the sand.  More than that, the Federals of the Yankee Nation (including Barry The Pretender) have suggested that such attempts are racist, bigoted and thoroughly un-befitting of such a melting pot of diversity as the Yankee Nation believes itself to be.

It's almost as if the Federals of the Yankee Nation would be greatly relieved if we would simply go away.  The time is rapidly approaching when we will have to do just that.

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Banjo Work

It isn't Texas music, but it's the music of my own family's roots; you'll either enjoy it or you'll hate it.  It's Frank Fairfield doing Poor Ellen Smith.

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Texas SCV

The Aggie (James "Rick" Perry) has made his decision: he will not support the adoption of  a Sons of Confederate Veterans license plate in Texas.

In an earlier blog post, I noted that the prospect looked dim.  The Motor Vehicle Board was locked in a 4-4 tie.  Now, apparently, there has been another appointee (by the Governor) to the Board and the issue may not even come up for another vote.

Jerry Patterson, the Texas Land Commissioner, is running for Lieutenant Governor (the office of which, in Texas, wields more power than that of the Governor), supports the SCV plate and has hinted that the issue may not be as dead as The Aggie would like it to be.  Patterson suggested that the whole affair may end-up in court as a First Amendment issue.

NAACP, of course, has collected 22,000 signatures against what they have named the "hate plate".   The SPLC will probably show up here sooner or later.   Meanwhile, the Texas Division of the SCV has been lending its support of the Buffalo Soldiers' sons to have their own plate.

The Aggie is on the losing end of this affair.  His opinion is, obviously, for sale.

Did you hear that a skeleton was found in an old building in College Station, Texas?  Yep, it was the Texas Aggie Hide-And-Seek champion of 1938.

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If You're A Moslem, Forget It.

This is a must listen ... (it's only a minute).  You'll be glad that you did.

The speaker is a Texan and teaches classes which lead to a Texas Concealed Handgun License (CHL).

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The Aggie Is (now) Politically Correct!

The Texas Tribune told it all.  Today, The Aggie (Texas Governor, J. Rick Perry) has proven to the Yankees that he is not the bumpkin they suspect him to be.  Barry Soetoro, Rick believes, is a natural-born citizen of the Yankee Nation.  I guess that Moslem-Yellow curtain behind Barry at his press conferences must mean that he was born in Hawaii ... right?

It looks as if The Aggie wants that job in the Yankee Nation capitol city very badly.

I guess this means that it's time, again, for another Texas commentary on Aggies in general (and maybe Rick in particular)

Q: Why does an Aggie keep a coat hanger in the backseat of his car?
A: In case he lock his keys in the car.

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Yankee Nation Debt Clock (In Real Time)

This thing is not the sort of satisfying bedtime reading most folks want.  It is, however, informative.

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

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Po' Folks? The Yankee Nation's Got 'Em All

Yankee Nation Senator Jeff Sessions (R), Alabama is fit to be tied.  It appears as if,by the end of this year (2011), the Yankee Nation will have spent around $80 billion Yankee Dollars on the food stamp program.

As reported in the Daily Caller -

The Alabama senator introduced an amendment to three spending bills on the Senate floor last week to end the categorical eligibility requirement. It was voted down, 41 to 58.

Seven Republicans voted against his proposal, including Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, Indiana Sen. Dan Coats, Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the amendment would have saved the government $10 billion over the next ten years without changing the SNAP program’s current eligibility requirements.

Just to place some perspective on how much $80 billion dollars is (at least in Yankee Nation terms) it costs

• $24 billion and change to operate the entire Yankee Nation Justice Department - including the Bureau of Prisons and the FBI.
• Around $30 billion a year to operate the Federal's Highway Administration.
• $4 billion Yankee Nation dollars to fund the Border Patrol.
• $10.6 billion a year to run their Internal Revenue Service

Are we to believe that there are that many poor people inhabiting the Yankee Nation?  They must be more numerous that housefiles in Mexico.  Think of all the money the Yankee Nation could save if even half of the food stamp recipients were discovered to be frauds and summarily removed from the system.

$80 billion is a lot of jack, but ... hey, it's all fiat anyway; isn't it?

Deo Vindice

Tracking Humans

Some time ago, I told you about drag roads and drags.  For the Old Patrol, the drag road was where sign was usually "cut".  Signcutting, however, is just the first installment of tracking.  Once you find the sign, the next job is to tell how fresh it is.

The photo to the left shows foot sign on top of a "running W" tire tread sign and parallel to a "straight line" tire sign.  If we know that the "running W" was on the drag road no more than two hours ago, then the foot sign can be no more than two hours old.

People who don't want their sign to be cut across a drag road will often attempt to brush-out their foot sign.  At the bottom part of the photo to the right, you can see a crude brush-out.  The remedy here, of course is to see what known tire sign is covered by the brush-out (to determine the sign's age) and simply follow the brush-out until it turns into foot sign you can identify.

It is helpful for a tracker to have a general familiarity with the area.  This is especially helpful when tracking Tonks: if they're headed in one particular direction, you can accurately guess where they're headed.  For example, a popular truck stop on the Interstate Highway.  Sometimes, however, the tracker may not have knowledge of the area.  That's when it's always best just to stick with the sign.

Tracking humans is not always as easy as it appears on the drag road.  Often, the tracker may not have seen actual foot sign for several hundred yards.  What then?

To the left, you can see "rock sign".  The rock to the left is in its natural position whereas the rocks to the right have been depressed into the soil.  As long as the depressed rocks are along the sign's route of travel, it's a safe bet that the sign you've been following is the same sign that made the depression.  You simply keep on the same azimuth and be on the watch for confirming footprints.

Foot sign isn't the only sort of "sign" that a tracker follows.  Sounds, odors, light, shadows and animal movement are all sign for the experienced tracker of humans.

One night, Actor was tracking a group of six Tonks through a lemon grove when his flashlight batteries gave out.  A gentle breeze was blowing from the 3 o'clock position to the last known route of travel and it was pitch black inside the grove.  Actor was impressed with the almost overpowering scent of lemon blossoms as he kept on the Tonks' last known line of travel.  Then, ever so slightly, Actor smelled the unmistakable odor of unrefrigerated hot dogs from his 3 o'clock.  The Tonks were no more than 25 feet away and were all hunkered-down under a lemon tree.  After he had made the apprehension, the Tonks told Actor that they had planned to stay under that tree until morning when the Patron would show up in the grove and (hopefully) hire them to pick lemons.

There are probably a few Agents in the New Patrol who have learned the art of tracking humans, but in the Old Patrol all of us had to learn it.

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The Imperial Barry Soetoro

Our friends at Sad Hill News have revealed that, at 1400 on 9 November, all radio and television transmissions will be summarily cut-off.

This (need you even guess?) is courtesy of the JBT's of Homeland Security.

The shut-off will be for a test of the Yankee Nation  "Emergency Alert System" and only the President of the Yankee Nation has the authority to flip the switch.  Barry The Pretender has, now, decided to seize control of civilian communications - at least for as long as the "test" lasts.

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Big Government Republicans

The three Big Government Republicans who each want to be President of the Yankee Nation have, each, their own remedy for that sad nation's sickness.  The Blow-Dried Mormon has his 59 Points, The Aggie has his oil & gas proposals and The Godfather (with apologies to James Brown) has his 9-9-9 plan.

The Dallas Morning News has a comparison of them here.

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They're Serious, Aren't They?

Yankee Apologist

The showman P.T. Barnum is said to have advised us that, "There's a sucker born every minute".  W. C. Fields, the actor, refined the message with the mandate, "Never give a sucker an even break".   Both men offered sage advice for anyone who would seek to profit from the 'easy marks' among us.

Barry The Pretender is one of the current crop of showmen who have taken these Yankees' advice to heart.  There is, however, another.  This one happens to prey upon the frustrations of Yankee Nation citizens who long for an elusive something out of the past.  This something is a state of being which the suckers can't quantify, but they feel in their guts that it, somehow, used to be present in the ethos of the New World.

Just as Barry Soetoro (The Pretender) has pandered to the secret desires of the Left, there is another dude who has done so with the Right.  Barry The Pretender has done it by peddling the sorry philosophy of one Saul Alinsky.  Barry's antithetical twin, Glenn Beck, has done it with the Right.

Beck is the Yankee Nation apologist that caters to the high school dropout.  A thorough jingoist, Beck has his believers believing that he has done massive amounts of "research" into the history of the Yankee Nation.  He has foisted his Classics Illustrated version of Yankee Nation history on those of his listeners who probably lack the opportunity (or the knowledge) of how to check the facts that he presents as gospel.  A year ago in August, he held a massive rally at the feet of the statue of A. Lincoln in the Yankee's capitol city.  The implication was that, not only did Father Abraham bless the goings-on, but that he would approve of them as well.

Would have Lincoln approved?  Most assuredly, yes.

Beck offers a phony shred of hope to those who believe that all hope has been eclipsed by Barry and by many who have gone before him.  His unique ability to convince the masses that it will all turn-out well in the end is currently rivaled only by Barry's ability to convince his followers of the same.  The fact that Beck frequently extols the supposed virtues of someone such as Lincoln (who removed Habeas Corpus rights for his enemies) is all that any thoughtful person needs to know about him. 

Now, Beck claims to have moved to Texas.  It's a great attempt at trying to authenticate himself and he might blend-in with all the other Yankee ass clowns in Dallas and Houston, but we have all the carpetbaggers we can handle right now.  We don't need anymore.

Deo Vindice

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Al Awaki the Citizen and Barry the - Whatever He Is

Barry The Pretender has managed a new first.  He is the first Yankee Nation Chief Executive to publicly admit that Federal troops explicitly targeted a natural-born YN citizen.  So much for the Constitution.

Oh, it must have slipped my mind!  Barry Soetoro and his friends believe many strange things concerning the Constitution.  Among those things is that it is a "living document".  "Living document" are code words which mean that , as the Constitution ages, it changes and morphs to accommodate new social beliefs.

One may wonder just how this "living document" has changed so much that it has completely abrogated the Bill of Rights for anyone deemed nasty enough by Barry and his gaggle clowns to be denied those rights.

Barry is not the first Yankee Nation authority figure to crow about having hunted-down enemies of their state and killing them.  He is the first, however, to acknowledge having done so against a citizen of that Nation.

Rather that deny that he was complicit in the crime, he seems to have taken some perverse joy in the affair.  After all, Al Awaki was instrumental in planning attacks against the YN.  To Soetoro's mind, that must mean that the Constitution does not apply to him.  Since when?

Even the despot A. Lincoln would never have gone that far.  Lincoln's authorization to murder Jefferson Davis was a plan to murder a leader of a nation foreign to the Yankee Nation (of which Davis was not a citizen).  Barry The Pretender has truly taken a step farther than any of his predecessors in that office.

Deo Vindice

Circle The Wagons

For Barry The Pretender, the "Good Old Days" were those when even his worshipers still believed what he said.  Now, those who still claim a deep and abiding love for him must dangle that love from the anchor point of Barry's skin color.

If transparency was to be one of Barry's chief goals, the dude has failed - miserably.

In order to obscure truthful answers from the mounting chorus of questions people have over Yankee Nation Obama Care, Barry's people have had to issue new disclosure guidelines to his trusted employees in the Department of Health and Human Services.

Now, all inquiries are to be directed to Barry's spin doctors:

"The News Division of the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA) is the principal point of contact, at the national level, for news media and general public inquiries about the Department of Health and Human Services and its agencies. "

Managers of whatever level are no longer permitted to discuss Soetoro Care as it appears as if the Yankee Supreme Court is actually going to entertain one of the numerous lawsuits brought by the States.

Now that Barry Soetoro The Pretender is officially over his head with competency issues, it's time for him to circle the wagons and to muzzle the mules.

Deo Vindice

Dr. Barry's Snake Oil

The depths of the damage being done by Barry The Pretender and his misinformed notion of the commonweal is finally getting off the ground.

In 2011, there has been a 9% increase in the premiums for families' health care insurance.  In 2010, those premiums rose only 3%.  In real dollars, a family premium was a hefty $13,770 in 2010.  2011's price gouge is a whopping $15,073.

What has happened is that the insurers have increased their premium rates in anticipation of the profound negative influence Barry's Yankee Nation Health Care will affect them.  When that system becomes fully operational, any new premium increase greater than 10% will have to be "justified" to the Yankee Overseers.  That's why the health care insurers are jacking things up now.

While the Yankee Nation economy is tanking and the health care industry is adjusting in panic, Barry The Pretender is stumping across the Yankee Nation trying to convince the citizenry that his snake oil tastes really great.  Maybe he'll find a few gaggles of fools here and there who'll believe him.

Why some bold Yankee Nation Congressman has not brought charges against Barry for his high crime of abject incompetence is something I'm hard-pressed to understand.  His trial in the Senate would probably result in acquittal anyway.

Deo Vindice

The Yankee Nation

Some of my readers have asked me why I insist on referring to the "Yankee Nation" instead of the United States.  It is a fair question.

The short answer, as many already know, is that the federal association of States - as we now exist - are no longer united in any meaningful sense.  There are far more instances of separation of purpose, values and political philosophy among us than existed under the Constitution when it was written.  There are even more differences between our present condition than the unity that existed under the Articles of Confederation.

But there is more.

From the outset, the States found differences among themselves.  Current Revisionist historians would like us to believe that the chief difference between the North and the Southern States was the "Peculiar Institution".  Certainly, there were Northern people who owned slaves as did Southrons.  The chief differences, however, were ones of pride versus humility.

Locked as they were into a seemingly self-perpetuating cycle of supposed intellectual superiority,  people of the North (especially the "scholarly class") supposed that very little enlightenment existed outside of  New England.  The system of higher education of the North, constructed by Puritans and Congregationalists, tended to rely upon the proofs of circular logic to legitimize their high opinions of their thoughts.  Later, this dynamic was also morphed into an East/West dichotomy.  (When your blogger graduated from a well-known school in Virginia and was headed to Arizona, the faculty was horrified.  "Agent Nowhere Man", they said, "you know, of course, that the synapses don't fire as well West of the Mississippi ... don't you?")

The pride among the Yankees is as brutal as it is demeaning to their supposed inferiors.  Because we enjoy life at a different pace, because we speak English more closely accented as it is in England, because our choices in food tend to be more basic and because our existence is more aligned with the soil than it is with political thought we are judged by Yankees to be less-than-equal to them.

When the Brig. Gen. Stand Waite, CSA - a Cheokee - heard of General lee's surrender on 9 April 1865, he was truly amazed.  Both Lee and Waite (worlds apart in social experience) were both men of the soil.  Finally, Gen. Waite surrendered at Doaksville, Indian Territory two months later.  Lee moved on from Richmond to the presidency of Washington College; Waite moved into financial disintegration.  Both men, however, remained with the soil.  It was what they knew and it was who they were.

In the same month that Gen. Waite surrendered, Gen. Joseph Shelby, Texas Gov. Pendelton Murrah and others went to Mexico in search of new soil.  They never found it.  My own ancestors returned to the Tidewater area of Virginia and into the hands of Carpetbaggers - probably wishing that they could have gone to Mexico to make a go of the Colonia Carlota.

"And for a Carpetbagger, I do not give a damn.
So it's forward to the frontier, soon as I can go.
I'll fix me up a weapon and start for Mexico."

The Carpetbagger was the second instance of Yankee Nation active aggression against the South.  The first (the War to Prevent Southern Independence) was characterized by active force of arms against us.  The Carpetbag Aggression was simply backed by the threat of force of arms.  Officially, Yankee Nation Carpetbagging ended in 1877; unofficially, it has been going on ever since then.

They have moved in among us.  We have sent our children to be educated in their universities.  Worst of all, we have hired many of them to teach in our universities to teach our future leaders and Statesmen.  Because this dynamic has been going on for more than three-quarters of a century, many Southrons have fallen prey to belief in large portions of the Yankee myth.  Insidiously, elements of that myth have crept into the belief system of many of our Southern "leaders".  The current Governor of North Carolina comes to mind.  The Yankee myth was bad enough when it simply stayed in the North.  Now, however, they're telling it to us on our own soil.

The myth that they tell themselves about us is that we are backwards, less educated and more "religious" than they are.  That, they believe, cements our status as being less-than-equal to them in all respects.  It is their belief and that belief is their religion.  The average Yankee worships his sad belief just as surely as we worship the Holy Trinity and they have spent decade after decade in their attempt to convince us of its veracity.

My contemporary, Old Rebel, has recently posted a link to Valerie Protopapas' open letter to a famous Yankee Nation protagonist, Bill O'Reilly.  O'Reilly is a True Believer in all myths of the Yankee Nation.  He is an ardent proponent of The Yankee Nation sending Yankee Nation troops on foreign military escapades.  In the company with other Yankee Nation apologists (Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, etc.), O'Reilly (and the others who have never served one day in the military) have no problem exposing young people to danger for all the wrong reasons.

O'Reilly, Limbaugh, et al, collectively and individually suffer from the deep delusion that Yankee Nation myths are solidly true.  Since they are such unquestioning True Believers, then they also believe all portions of the myth such as: Southrons are unalterably backwards and are in need of close supervision by our ethical and intellectual betters.  We cling, they believe, to a contorted understanding of the Constitution and must be protected from the potential fruits of our error.

We have grown weary of their protection and their arrogance; we yearn for freedom.

Deo Vindice

FBI's Cover-Up. Barry's Response? > Silence

Agent Brian Terry

Our friends at Habledash have reported something new in Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's death last December.

As some of my readers may be aware, primary investigative jurisdiction for crimes against the persons of all Yankee Nation law enforcement officers lies with those lovable clowns at the FBI.  With their public faces painted in a very serious expression, Attorney General Holder's minions did, indeed investigate the murder scene.

What they found (for public consumption) was that Agent Terry was killed by weaponry purchased through BATFE's "Fast and Furious" debacle.  Those were "straw man purchases" made by shills at gun shops on our side of The Line with the express intention of delivering them to drogistas in the Land of Manana.

Now, it has been discovered by CBS News (will wonders never cease!) that a third "Fast and Furious" weapon was also involved.  Its existence, however, was covered-up by Holder's boys and girls of the FBI.

One may only guess as why the cover-up had been made.  Maybe the reasons will be brought to light someday and maybe they won't be.  One thing is certain though: the responsibility for implementation of and cover-up of Agent Terry's death is now a multi-departmental affair within Barry The Pretender's Yankee Nation administration.

Will this affair bring them to their long-deserved justice?  We wait .......

Deo Vindice

Barry The Pretender - In Texas?

What?  No shemagh?  If it's a hat, why isn't Barry wearing a white hat?

He's a very good pretender.  Pretender to the Yankee Throne, pretender to be the man-of-his-house, etc.  He's a good pretender.  Soon, he'll be pretending in Dallas.

Keep in mind that most large cities in Texas tend to be filled with those of a non-Constitutional bent.  Houston (our largest city) has a mayor who is both a Democrat and a very public lebian.  Dallas' mayor is equally liberal but without the overt sexual baggage.  Barry should be able to find a few folks there who won't mind shelling out large piles of jack just to get the chance to assure him that they love him.

Barry's other mission in Dallas (Slow Joe was there today ... he was just "dragging the bucket" and not making any public speeches) will be to tout his American Jobs Act.  Never mind that no Democrat has, yet, introduced it as proposed legislation.  Barry will put on another hat and, momentarily, try to convince people that he's something that he's not.  His act has worn very thin and even elements of the Black Congressional Caucus aren't buying it anymore.

Maybe, if we give him enough cookies, he'll just go away.

Deo Vindice

Barry: An Individual With A Disorder

Barry The Pretender, President of the Yankee Nation is a troubled man.  Narcissistic Personality disorder isn't anything funny; it's probably something he has struggled with most of his life.  Certainly, I'm not the first to suggest that he suffers from it.  It's fairly obviously that he does.

Barry's search for love and attention, most likely, began with his abandonment by his father and by his mother who sloughed him off to her parents.  Growing to maturity was something that never happened for Barry.  He seems to be emotionally stuck at an age when most children learn and accept their identities and receive love and affection for maturing in it.

As adults, suffers, such as Barry, have an inflated sense of self-importance and an inflated preoccupation with themselves.  It's always about them.  Always.  They have unreasonable expectations of favorable treatment and - especially for Barry - take advantage of other people in order to achieve their goals.

Who were the dupes?  Who were the people whose advantage was supplanted by The Pretender?  Generally, it was the 52% of the Electorate in the Yankee Nation who cast their votes for the clown.  It was those who were either too deluded or too enamored with skin color to discern the difference between the empty promises of a charlatan and those of a genuine statesman.  Specifically, the deluded were the vast number of Yankee Nation Blacks (96% - 97%) who voted to take four more years of voluntary servitude on the Democrat Plantation of the Yankee Nation.

Poor Barry.  Afflicted as he is, he has surrounded himself with fawning sycophants and with fellow sufferers from the same disorder who aspire to garner any crumbs of love which are the leftovers after Barry sweeps them from his table.  Each of them (and all of them as a group) are truly sad testimony to a nation whose grasp of its original social contract is failing.  Barry's silly charade as a leader was revealed after the abject failure of his First Great Stimulus Plan.  It collapsed altogether with his pathetic cry to raise the ceiling of the National Debt of the Yankee Nation.  (My own Congressman, Pete Olson, should resign in shame because of his vote for Barry's plea).

The emperor, flummoxed as he is, stands defiantly naked and has recently asked crowds to: "If you love me, pass this this bill!" (his further attempt to enforce his will through cheap manipulation).  He might as well have said: "If you love me, bake me a cookie".  That, after all, is what he really meant.

Deo Vindice

Move Over, George Jones

Many across the South are aware that Texas is experiencing the worst drought in many years.  Because of the drought, our potential for wildfires is very high.  Numerous wildfires have been burning around the State for some time.  Many of them are in Bastrop County (about 30 miles South of Austin).

The Aggie pulled-off his campaign activities for a few days and was supposed to go to Bastrop today.  He never showed up.  When contacted, one of his aides remarked: "He's in Austin".

Could it be that Carney didn't actually tell The Aggie that he had to be in Bastrop.  It's as good of an excuse as any.  Beaumont's country singer, George Jones, is known in the business as "No-Show Jones".  Could The Aggie steal it from him?

Deo Vindice

Know What Texans Know

"You can spend about five minutes on the governor’s official website confirming that Rick Perry is yet another big-government, corporate-welfare lover from the Republican side of the Republican/Democrat regime, whose policies are fundamentally no different from the Clinton/Bush/Obama policies of years past."

The above quote was not written by wild, Progressive liberal Democrats.  It appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal.

The question, "is The Aggie a big government RINO?",  is not really being asked within the Yankee Nation.  I know more than a few Tea Party people who are all ready to start giving slobbery kisses to the new "savior of the Cause".  "He shoots coyotes with his little .380ACP while jogging. doesn't he?'  "He talks tough about The Border, doesn't he?"  "He's from the South, isn't he?"  It seems to me as if many "Conservatives" are treating The Aggie in the same manner as Progressives treated Barry The Pretender.

The RINO question has, however, been asked and answered here in Texas.

Not long ago, The Aggie attempted a monumental land grab that was named the Trans Texas Corridor. It was a scheme to take a lot of private land by imminent domain and turn it into a super highway that would run from Mexico up to the Oklahoma border.  Texans fumed at the idea and The Aggie couldn't figure out the reason why.  After all, he had just been pushing the idea that his handlers had told him to push.

Is The Aggie even a little more desirable than Barry The Pretender when it comes to being the Chief Executive of the Yankee Nation?  Of course he is.  But you need to know what he is.  After all, The Aggie is only as Constitutionally-aligned as is his closest advisor.

Deo Vindice

Meet The Aggie's Chief Advisor

David M. "Dave" Carney is the uber-strategist for The Aggie. He has been associated with him since '03 or '04.

Officially, Dave Carney operates Norway Hill Associates which is a political consulting firm that specializes in being first among equals.  He is the chief individual (suggested in the post immediately below this one) on The Aggie's staff who knows how to run things other than tractors and combines.

Carney is a equal opportunity brain-behind-the-scenes operator.  It seems as if back when it was Kerry vs. Bush 43, Carney worked to get Ralph Nader on the ballot in New Hampshire.  He achieved his goal and Kerry's people were "squealing like pigs".

It is certain that much of what comes out of The Aggie's mouth has been planted there by this individual.  The rest that comes out of The Aggie's mouth is just the simple, soulful goodness of our wonderful Texas Aggies.

Deo Vindice

Would I Vote For Him?

Why are there no cold drinks in College Station, Texas?
The Aggies forgot the recipe for ice.

The few readers of this blog have probably been wondering: "If Agent Nowhere Man is continually exposing the downside of The Aggie (J. "Rick" Perry), does that mean he'd vote for Barry The Pretender?"

No, it doesn't.  Given the demonstrated results of Barry's tenure in the Yankee Nation's highest office, given Barry's ideological bent and given Barry's childish mean-spiritedness, I'd vote for an amoeba before I'd vote for Barry.

The Aggie is what he is - an Aggie (they've been the butt of Texans' jokes for over a century).  The Agricultural and Mechanical University of Texas does produce the world's best horse doctors, the world's best farmers and the world's best handymen.  If I wanted someone to build a house for me, I'd choose an Aggie over any of his competition.  When it comes down to me, I'm neutral.  I went to St. Mary's University in San Antonio (among the Roman Catholic colleges in Texas, there are numerous jokes about St. Mary's ... "it's the Harvard of Mexico", etc. etc.)

Aggie jokes were made possible by the snobbery of the graduates of the University of Texas at Austin (who have always fancied themselves as being intellectually superior to other mortals).  The jokes are fun and most Aggies I know laugh just as hard at them as anyone else.

The Aggie (here, I intend Perry) is a good and decent man who knows how to surround himself with people who know how to run things other than tractors and combines.  He's done a good job of doing that.  True, he used to be a Democrat - but at least he was smart enough to change sides after he figured out who the real loonies are.  I come from a long line of Southern Democrats.  My Daddy was a Democrat.  Why?  Because Lincoln was a Republican.

Yes, I'd vote for The Aggie to be the next Chief Executive of the Yankee Nation.  However - I'd rather vote for Texas' secession from the Yankee Nation.

How do you recognize an Aggie in a department store?
He's the one trying to slam the revolving door.

Deo Vindice

Them Low Down Pipeline Blues

Barry The Pretender's stellar cast of synchophants has done it again.  The first assault upon Southern economy was the illegal moratorium on exploration and drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.  Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi drilling industries have suffered greatly because of it.

Now, Barry's State Department has given the o.k. for a 1,711 mile pipeline that would carry oil drilled in Canada to refineries in the Houston area.  The Keystone XL pipeline would open in 2013 (well after Barry is ejected from his position as Pretender to the Yankee Throne).

Canadians, no doubt, are elated over the prospect of having a new market for their oil.  The effrontery was continued by the State Department by suggesting that this move will produce many new jobs (in Canada) and reduce Yankee Nation dependency upon Middle Eastern oil.

If creating Canadian jobs were really a high priority, Barry could just have well sent them enough foreign aid to build a couple of new Labatt's breweries.  If reducing dependence upon Middle eastern oil were a real concern for him, Barry could just go ahead and lift the Moratorium.

All of last week, people protesting this rank insult to Texas and to the Gulf Coast South have been demonstrating in front of the White House.  So far, 376 of them have been arrested.

All right.  I get it.  Barry doesn't like Texas and he doesn't understand Texans.  But what he is doing is also going to affect two other southern States.  Maybe Bobby Jindal and Haley Barbour are now on his "list" of the governors of States that he'd rather see economically destroyed.

Deo Vindice

How Kinky Can One Become?

"These days, of course, I would support Charlie Sheen over Obama.  Obama has done for the economy what pantyhose have done for foreplay". - Kinky Friedman

Those are Kinky's own words.  For those of you who don't know who he is, Kinky ran for Governor against Rick Perry in '06.  He lost monumentally (4% of the vote).  Before his political involvement, Kinky has been known in Texas as an author and the front man for the band: Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys.

The article (clickable above) has Kinky coming-out for The Aggie as the Republican nominee.  We Texans know that the Kinkster is a Democrat - kind of after the fashion of Harry Truman.  For him to endorse The Aggie has required the swallowing of quite a bit of crow.

Friedman's chief support in Texas came from the rural areas (everyone liked his "Five Mexican Generals" plan).  It appears as if Barry The Pretender is so ... so other that even Democrats such as Kinky are bailing.  The American South has quite a few like Friedman (I am presenting him because he's the one I know).  Watch for more of the same from various Southrons who will be backing The Aggie to be the next President of The Yankee Nation.  But remember: The Aggie is a Democrat in RINO clothing.

Deo Vindice

My Evil .218 Bee

An article today in the Texas Tribune caught my attention.  It seems as if the the clowns of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) have un-Constitutionally placed a new requirement upon Yankee Nation firearms licensees in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.

Any sale of two or more long arms greater than .22 rinfire caliber and with a detachable magazine (the article calls it a "clip") to one individual within a five day period must be reported to BATFE for their "analysis".  A San Antonio dealer, 10-Ring Precision, has filed suit against the Yankee agency.

Please note that this dictate goes far beyond the normal Evil Black Rifle Fear.  It includes anything that is larger than a .22 rimfire.

Enough is enough.

Deo Vindice

The Best Texas Singer-Songwriter ... Ever!

Townes VanZandt, 1944 to 1997 was the guy who wrote "Pancho and Lefty" and numerous other pieces.  Most of his adult life was spent singing in dive bars and sleeping in cheap motel rooms.  I first saw him in a cheap honky tonk in Harlingen, TX.

Jerry

Ski Bum, Yankee Cop, The Scotsman, Mingo and Actor sat together in chairs lined-up against a windowed room in the Yuma Sector headquarters of the Border Patrol.  They were pre-Academy trainees.  A P.I. who was a training officer had placed them there several hours previously.  When he did so, he forgot to mention that Trainees were lower than dirt; that no one of any account would even speak to them unless it was absolutely necessary.

Periodically, a grizzled officer with grey hair walked through the room not even appearing to glance at the Trainees.  He passed through several times and then only secretaries peeked around the corner at them.  No one asked them if they were thirsty  Time dragged on.

The Trainees began to talk among themselves about where they came from.  Yankee Cop had just come from a small police force in upstate New York.  the Scotsman had just gotten out of the Army, Mingo out of the Navy and Actor out of the Marine Corps.  Ski Bum was wearing Jesus sandals and shorts (it was August in Yuma); he had just come from the Ski Patrol in Squaw Valley.

Finally, the grizzled grey-headed officer returned.  His eyes had the set of a drill instructor and his facial skin had the color and texture of a fifty year-old saddle that had been used daily and had never seen a can of saddle soap.  He had round, circular pewter-colored eagles on his shoulders. Yankee Cop on the far end of the line was audibly hyper ventilating.  The veteran officer stopped in front of Ski Bum and stared at him with complete disdain.

"Boy", the old P.I. began, didn't your Mamma ever buy any long britches?  Where are you from?"  (None of them knew that he already knew everything about each one of them)

"California", Ski Bum met his stare.

"It figures ... damn Hippie!"  Then he sidestepped over to Actor.

"You must be Captain Actor.  How do you like it, now that you're actually going to have to work for a living? Do you think the fact that you were an officer in the Marine Corps means anything to me?"

Actor met his stare as had Ski Bum.  "That'd be a Mustang officer, Sir.  You see, I was enlisted before ....."

The old P.I. cut him off,  "I know what a Mustang is Captain Actor!  You and these other slobs can just stand by to stand by".  Then he left as unceremoniously as he had arrived.

Later that day, the Trainees discovered that the old P.I. was Jerry, the officer in charge of the Yuma Station.

Farther on  that afternoon, the Training Officer came to collect the Trainees for a manual labor detail of building drags.  He asked them if they had met Jerry.  Ski Bum and Actor explained their short conversations to him and he became positively slack-jawed.

"He talked to you?  He actually talked to you?  He never talks to Trainees.  He hardly even talks to me!  Jerry was a Sergeant in the 5th Marines at the Chosin Resevoir.  After Korea, he joined the Border Patrol and worked his way to to what he is now.  He's one tough S.O.B. - and he talked to you.  You are truly a lucky bunch of Trainees".

Later, much later, Jerry and Actor actually became friends.  He did the same with The Scotsman