The "Is It Paid-For?" Scam

Yankee Nation Democrats and Yankee Nation Republicans sing the same song.  It's called "Is The Tax Cut Paid For?"

One would think that, by this time, the Republicans would be singing a different song than the Democrats.  What is it that they don't understand about it?  "Paying for" a tax cut is simply language which means this: "We're not going to cut programmatic spending in any meaningful way and if we don't steal "x" amount of dollars from the taxpayers we'll divert it from another part of the coffers".

In this way, everyone is happy.  The Yankee Democrats are happy because their Big Brother programs are still ensuring their loyal voters.  The Yankee Republicans are happy because they are duping their constituency into believing that less money coming in means that some program will have to be cut in order to balance the Yankee Nation budget.

Boehner & Company, instead of seizing the opportunity to make some meaningful reduction in the reach of The Empire's tentacles, are singing the Pelosi & Company song of "Is It Paid-For?"  You really can't blame the Republicans for it, I guess.  After all, they're supposed to be Conservatives - aren't they.  They're simply doing what Conservatives have been doing for the last thirty years: conserving that which has been handed to them.

For every wild-eyed spending Democrat who prowls through the halls of the Yankee Congress like Darth Vader, there seems to be his shadow personality of a Republican who is no more than the shadow creature of Anakin Skywalker.   Boehner and Pelosi have played their parts well; very few of their constituents are even aware of the symbiotic relationship that continues to make a mockery of meaningful freedom from their tyranny.

The Vader/Anakin couplet is noting new to the Yankee Nation's powerful and empire-sustaining back room dealing.  It has been going on for many years and the only aspect of it that ever changes is the names inscribed on the cast of characters.

In the case of the empire that is the Yankee Nation, it doesn't need to "strike back".  There is precious little that can stand in its way as it plods ever forward in its breathtaking developmental spurts.  Maybe, someday, someone will ask the Yankee Nation functionaries how the empire got to be so ponderously huge.  As did Topsy, someone will answer: "I expect I grow'd".

Shame upon the empire builders.

Deo Vindice

Fast and Furious Crime

The latest take on the criminal "Fast and Furious" escapade of Barry Soetoro and his Yankee Nation Attorney General is from the Democrat Party hacks.  They are contending that no evidence exists to prove that the operation was "fatally flawed".  In other words, the concept of the operation was valid but the mechanics of it were not.

If there is not anyone in the Yankee Nation's capitol city who would dare to press criminal charges against this pair of decidedly inept executives, then maybe some may be found after next inauguration day.

The Yankee Nation's weal has long since been eclipsed by a gathering gloom of murky and ham-handed ineptitude.

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Hunting Humans

Actor spent a long time thinking about the dynamic of what he was doing: hunting humans.  "After all", he thought, "that's exactly what the government pays me to do".  It wasn't like the combat a Marine experiences; the Border Patrol was of a different quality.  Hunting humans as a Border Patrol Agent was a more solitary affair than it had been in the Marines.  In the Marines, Actor had numerous other Marines around him.  he was their leader; their Lieutenant.

In the Border Patrol, Actor hunted by himself.  At the most, during a chase, he would hunt with one other Agent.    This was the case with all Agents in the Old Patrol.  They would team-up for a chase.  It went faster that way.

Actor liked night hunting most of all.  Signcutting and chasing the sign was a huge thrill but, most of all, Actor loved was the Old Patrol called "Stillwatch" or "Laying-In".  Stillwatch was similar to what Actor had learned in the Marine Corps as "Ambush".  Actor loved to do stillwatch at night.

Night hunting is closed-in by darkness.  Everything seems to be closer than it really is.  Even when the sky is cloudless and the moon in at its full phase the darkness creates a protective veil of anonymity that cannot be pierced unless the hunter wishes it to be.  Secluded along a like point of entry or near an expected course of Tonk travel, Actor and his fellow Agents could wait to spring their apprehension at a time they chose.

Tonks often though stillwatch was unfair to them; especially when it resulted in their arrest.  Actor knew better.  It was the Tonk who decided to enter the Yankee Nation without inspection.  It was the Tonk who chose the spot at which he would "Jump the Line" with the intent of not being detected.  It was the Tonk who chose to sneak.  Actor and his fellow Agents chose to stillwatch in order to play by the Tonk's rules.

Stillwatch at night necessitated proper precautions: not bathing in scented soap before the shift began, not smoking, chewing or dipping during the stillwatch, not using a flashlight for any reason and completely concealing the Agent's vehicle.  Sometimes the vehicle concealment would mean placing it in "hull defalade" behind a canal bank.  Other times, it would require Actor to hide his vehicle in a citrus grove or on a crowded parking lot (if the stillwatch was done in town).

When laid-in, Actor had plenty of time to think.  The subject of his thoughts were usually centered-around lessons taught to him by senior agents such as Mundo, Dean, Anglico or Terry.  Sometimes when Actor was stillwatching he had one of his own Trainees with him.  Before they laid-in, Actor would tell the Trainee to do nothing but watch what he did.  The only time the Trainee was to act was if the Tonks were combative and were too numerous for Actor to subdue on his own.  That was they way the older Agents had taught Actor and it was the way Actor taught his Trainees.

Laying-in at night (or even in the daylight) offered solid proof to the Tonks that there was actually someone who could anticipate their movements; that there was someone just a little smarter than they were.  For Actor, the activity was a validation of all he had learned from the Agents who had gone before him.  If he could get inside the Tonk's heads for even a short period of time, he knew that he could rain all over their parade.  That was the way it had always been done - ever since there was a Border Patrol.

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Don't Hold Your Breath

This coming Friday, the Yankee Nation Supreme Court will decide whether or not it will hear the New Jersey case concerning the actual birthplace of Barry Soetoro.  All anxious birthers may read the story in a Yankee periodical.

Whatever the outcome, Barry's illegal alien aunt will probably still remain in the Yankee Nation.  His Kenyan half-brother will have to remain pining-away in his hut situated in their family's homeland.

Given the current social ethos of the Yankee Nation, there are probably very few who even care where Barry was born.  They seem to be uniformly surprised that anyone would even care about the subject.  Such a state of affairs serves to indicate just how far the Yankee Nation electorate has degenerated into being a vastly different herd than the original breed (when the Constitution actually meant something).

What does it take for the Yankee's Supreme Court to hear a case?  It's called the "Rule of Four".  If four of the Justices agree that a writ of certiorari should be granted, the the writ of certiorari will be granted the petitioner and the case will be placed on the docket.  Maybe there will be four Justices who would want to grant the writ ... but will they?  Remeber what I wrote about holding your breath.

One may always hope for a pleasant surprise.

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Weaponology - Present Tense

In years past, my off-duty weapon of choice was a 1911 Combat Commander.  Its size, weight and caliber (.45 ACP) were perfect for my perceived needs.  These days ... not so much.  Some years ago, I sold the Commander and bought an Officers' Model; somewhat smaller but still a 1911.  It was then that I finally realized that whatever 1911 I was carrying on a daily basis as a civilian felt like I was toting a boat anchor around between my belt and my shirt.

Kahr P45

Please, don't lecture me on the wisdom of having a "good gun belt".  I had (and still have) several of them.  The weight of the all steel 1911 was still there.  It was then that I wised-up, defected from the John M. Browning god and bought a Kahr P45.

At 18.7 ounces, the Kahr has worked well for me.  With a 6+1 loading capacity of .45 ACP, I do not believe myself to be "outgunned" by possible threats walking the mean streets of urban Texas environments.

Everything about the P45 denotes that it is truly a weapon for the armed professional.  The trigger has a smooth surface and there are no external safties.  Aggressive chekering is provided on the frontstrap and the backstrap.  The rifling is polygonal and the Khar is more accurate that I am capable of being.

The rifling, however, is the problem.  Those of us who are "into" the shooting sports tend to shoot a lot ...and then shoot some more.  In order to do this, finances dictate that most of us load our own ammunition.  Loading ammunition containing the correct projectile to be fired through polygonal rifling (full metal jackets) can border on being fairly expensive.  It is much cheaper to reload with lead projectiles.  The reason that it's not too wise to shoot lead through polyginal rifling is that even hard-cast lead bullets tend to foul the barrel quickly and cleaning it out requires a long scrubbing session.

My solution?  I still shoot only FMJ's through the P45, but I went out and bought a Kahr CW45 with which to practice.  The CW45 is essentially the same as the P45 except that the CW  has conventional rifling and is, therefore, "lead friendly".

My eyes are older than when I used to happily lug 1911's hither and yon and my groups have "widened-out" a bit.  The Wife Unit suggested that I include a current "group photo".  Oh, to have younger eyes and tighter groups!

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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.

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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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