Move over Campeon and Ramos

Here we go again. There was a confrontation at the border on Tuesday. A group of Mexicans were throwing rocks and chunks of concrete at the Border Patrol agents working the line.

They spotted a few fence jumpers and when they went to take care of it they were met by a mob throwing rocks and concrete at them.

The BP responded with non-lethal pepper balls (are Mexicans immune as a result of their diet of habaneros?) and tear gas canisters.

Two of them didn’t get the message and continued to throw rocks at them.

One of the agents fired two shots, scoring a direct hit on the buttocks. The man’s condition? (I am not making this up) “after undergoing surgery [he] was in delicate, but stable condition,” according to the San Diego Union Tribune.

For those of you who are keeping track, there have been 330 such confrontations at the border so far this year, compared to 254 during all of last year. The natives are restless.

But, mark my words, this agent will wind up in a cell just like Ramos and Campeon. Bush will not protect him. Chertoff will melt like butter. Basham will be unavailable for comment.

And the lawyers at DOJ will be working overtime to prove to Calderon that we don’t condone that kind of behavior by our agents.

Reverence for Life

Ah, yes…another “Save the whales” campaign compared with the abortion statistics.

Well, not whales…actually it is “Save the pelican.” One pelican. On the Golden Gate Bridge. In the middle of the day.

And all the cars stopped and waited for the police to come and rescue the poor bird.

Note the bike riders within a few feet of him. How hard would it be for one of them to shoo him out of the way? Instead two squad cars were dispatched to the scene.

No traffic was stopped for the 208,430 abortions performed in California in 2005. Except maybe to protest the right to kill a fetus. That’s about 27% of all pregnancies in the state.

I stumbled upon a 1946 Time Magazine article. It seems that San Francisco was the place to go if you wanted an abortion in those days. For example, in 1945 there were 18,000 abortions and 16,400 live births.

Listen to the tone of this article: “Fists flying, the D.A. was wading into a sordid abortion racket which he claims lures pregnant women to the Golden Gate city from all over the West Coast.” Time’s changed.

But we’ve certainly developed a love for innocent creatures…like pelicans in traffic.

Hey, that's MY stuff

It seems that foreigners are stealing stuff that doesn’t belong to them.

Well, they don’t actually STEAL it; they ARE paying for it.

But because it is subsidized by the government they save about 50% off the price at retail.

The government has stepped in and is now fining these people about 70% of the value. Finally, the government sees a problem and is taking swift action!

(What is he talking about?)

Well, it goes like this. Diesel fuel is selling for about $2.25 a gallon in Mexico these days. Folks are lining up at the border, going into Mexico, and filling up there.

Actually, there are always lines at the border entry points so it can take HOURS to make the trip.

Yankee ingenuity kicked in and they began taking tanks and barrels with them and getting… oh…100 gallons at a time. This caused the Mexican motorists and truckers to complain about long lines and shortages.

And so the Mexican government now fines US drivers when they come down and fill up extra tanks. And they impound your car until you pay up.

I can think of all sorts of ways to make that model work here in the United States. Too bad our politicians are unwilling to defend our sovereignty!

Threats on his life

You’ve all seen the news item of a Florida man arrested for making public statements threatening Obama’s life. What a kook!

But someone pointed out that he was making similar threats on GWBs life at the same event. The talk show host wondered why the man wasn’t arrested for threatening a seated president.

Perhaps the Secret Service decided not to charge him for threats against Bush because the media wouldn’t cover it anyway!

It brings to mind the comment made on the floor of Congress in 1975 after Lynnette Fromme tried to shoot President Gerald Ford. Weary of the Nixon Watergate days someone said something to the effect, “Finally, a President worth assassinating.”

(If anyone can fill in the memory blanks of the exact quote and who said it, please drop in a comment.)

Obama reveals himself

Perhaps you heard candidate Obama explain that he wants to send me a check for $1,000 to help me buy gasoline.

Being the genious he is, he realizes you can't just print money and send people checks. (At least he's out-thought GWB on that one.)

No, these $1,000 checks will be funded by levying new taxes against the filthy-rich, Republican, oil companies.

I heard Paul Harvey explain the problem with that theory over the radio 20 years ago. I can still hear his unique-sounding voice as he said, "Corporations don't pay taxes. People pay taxes."

And someone sent me a message the other day where he lamented that Democrats are calling 4% profit on a gallon of gas "obscene". But they have no problem with 15% taxes on that same gallon of gas.

If Barack spouts off such ideas now in order to attract the entitlement crowd, imagine what he'll do if he gets elected!

Look around, folks. States like California and Illinois are watching as government runs out of money while driving business away. Obama's energy relief plan is a prime example of how things got that way.

We can't afford more government. And we can't trust politicians to meddle in the business world. They seldom make things better and they almost always make things worse.

Sad story with a happy ending

Among the saddest movie scenes are those where parents and children get separated. Remember “Sophie’s Choice” or “Not Without My Daughter”?

So I was particularly interested in this story in the San Diego Union Tribune today. It seems that this Mexican couple paid some people in Tijuana to sneak them into the United States.

The deal was that they would get everyone across for $8,200, that’s $2,500 per adult and $1,600 per child.

According to immigration they convinced the parents to let them smuggle the children across using fake birth certificates. The kids were ages 2 and 3. The parents would then cross on foot through the hills.

But the parents got caught by Border Patrol and were simply sent back home.

So, what to do about the kids? They were told by the smugglers that they could buy them back for $7,000 or they would sell the kids to someone else.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the rescue. Posing as relatives, they showed up at a motel. ICE proceeded to arrest two women for their role in human smuggling.

The family is reunited, thanks to Uncle Sam. And with any luck ICE will be able to unravel this ring and put a bunch of people in jail.

As for Mexico’s help in the illegal alien crisis, the Mexican military is pointing rifles at Border Patrol agents again. (Sigh)

The McCain Playbook

Once again alien rants scoops the big boys. I have received a secret copy of the McCain campaign strategy.

Here it is:

Blah blah blah…he has no experience…blah blah blah…I served in Viet Nam…blah blah blah…Do you want a rock star for President?… blah blah blah…Did I mention I was a POW?… blah blah blah…Who do you want to answer the red phone at 3 am?… blah blah blah…I like Hispanics, too… blah blah blah…What does he know about war?… blah blah blah…Compare our moms… blah blah blah…Paris Hilton or Hanoi Hilton. You decide… blah blah blah…The only thing he’s done for this country is keep Alan Keyes out of the Senate… blah blah blah… blah blah blah… blah blah blah…

I propose that we move the election up to September 4th. All in favor raise your hand.