Back in July of last year I started hollering about the combination of Pakistan, its nukes, and the Taleban. Now we have headlines
of “Nuclear fears prompt Pakistan to prepare attack on Taleban” because the Taleban is doing exactly what I said they would and what our government has been steadily worrying about, which is, trying to take over the whole country of Pakistan.

The Taleban want to get hold of those atomic bombs and use them against India and Israel, and they’re backed by Iran which is also striving hard to develop their own atomic bombs.

Because we have steadily attempted to defuse and control this mess through diplomacy, instead of taking drastic action to end it by bombing Iran back about 50 years and by wiping out the Taleban with a full-on invasion and bombing of the Taleban camps and strongholds in Pakistan, the situation is now very close to dire.

Violence is the language that Iran and the Taleban speak and the only one they understand. This is likewise true for the current leaders of Pakistan. All Islamic nations maintain control through violent suppression of the populace and they laugh at and ignore Western diplomacy. Yet we still see our Western leaders trying to smooth all this out with gentle words when only rapid military action will save the day.

Pakistans government recently ceded some territory to the Taleban, letting them inflict Sharia Law upon the hapless people living there, and it didn’t take them hardly any time at all to swell their ranks and spread out and become a danger to the very capital of Pakistan itself. The reason those leaders did this is because there are strong forces within the Pakistani government itself that are aligned with the Taleban. Pakistans spy agency is notoriously in bed with the Taleban and reports every plan of the government to act against it.

Now one of the following scenarios will take place. Pakistans leaders will direct the army to attack the Taleban full force, in an effort to save themselves, and this appears to be the case as “Thousands of Pakistani troops were massing for an assault on Taleban positions 65 miles from the country’s capital last night after giving the insurgents 24 hours to withdraw from their advanced positions or face attack.”

This, however is only after a “stern warning from American policymakers that Islamabad was doing too little to stem a growing militant insurgency. Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, accused Pakistan this week of “abdicating to the Taleban”, which “poses a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world”.

In other words, Pakistan’s leaders are doing the same fence walking dance they’ve been doing with us for years, in order to keep our aid money rolling in. They’re Muslims, they believe in the Koran, which tells them to obey a set of rules that’s called Sharia Law. These people aren’t against the Taleban, not at all. They see them as righteous Muslims, and they see us as filthy unbeliever invaders. Guess who they support the most? This is about power, about who gets to run the country, and has nothing to do with preventing the advance of terrorism, violence and the domination of Islam. If the current leaders can stay in power and give the Taleban a free rein, that’s exactly what they’ll do.

The next scenario is that this “massive attack” against the Taleban will do almost nothing, the Taleban will back off for awhile and secretly build up a massive force, quietly move in to Islamabad, the capitol, and to villages nearby, and then attack and take over Pakistan.

They’ll have plenty of assistance from factions within the government. They already do now.

Which brings us to the next scenario, of the United States launching an all out attack on Pakistan. The question is, are we going to have the sense to do this before the Taleban attack Islamabad or are we going to wait until after? Another possiblility is that we do nothing and let the Taleban take the country, just as we’ve done nothing about Iran.

No matter how you slice it, we either go to war in Pakistan or we let the Taleban have nuclear weapons. One or the other is inevitable.

Bear this in mind also: Israel is our vassal. Iran is Russia’s vassal. If Israel attacks Iran it’s the same as if we attacked Russia. Israel may be forced to attack Iran in spite of our demands that she lay down and die. At best, this will seriously feed into a new Cold War and at worst it will see Russia attacking one of our allies, most likely poor Poland. Then we’ll have another choice to make, do we defend Poland or trade Poland for Iran?

Golly gee, Maynard. Why can’t we all just get along?

The Food and Drug Administration has been ordered by a U.S. District Court to start allowing young women aged 17 or more to buy the “Plan B” drug Levonorgestrel, over the counter without a prescription.

Levonorgestrel is a “morning after” contraceptive.

Well, that’s a start but what about all those 12 year old and up females we keep hearing about that are gettiing pregnant? At that age, they’re still children. They’re still children at 18 for that matter but that’s a different rant. The point is that when the juices are hot and flowing, brains are shelved for the duration. People that age don’t think ahead, all they care about is what they want now. Then afterward it’s “Oh my God, I could get PREGNANT.”

Why withhold this drug from those who need it most, the Young and Stupid? If the boyfriend didn’t take any precautions beforehand, why be surprised? How many adolescent sex fiends do you know of that go around with condoms in their pockets? We never did. The argument against this, from religious conservative groups, is that parents have a right to be notified and to withhold their consent. Well, that depends, wouldn’t you say? Did they give their consent for their kid to screw? What are we more against, underage sex, or underage pregnancies and unwanted children?

The FDA is trying to enforce its private moral code. They had placed a limit of age 18 or older for buying the drug over the counter until the court forced them to reduce the age limit and they still haven’t actually complied yet. The FDA sent a letter to the manufacturer of Plan B that the company may, upon submission and approval of an appropriate application, market Plan B without a prescription to women 17 years of age and older.”

Approval? By whom? Appropriate? Who designates that? It may end up taking a Contempt of Court decision and a good hard slap to get the FDA out of the moralizing business.

Miss California Carrie Prejean, was cheated out of the Miss USA title by a homosexual judge because she opposes homosexual marriage and may have grounds for a discrimination lawsuit herself — against the Miss USA pageant, a legal analyst says.

“If she really feels some tremendous stress as a result of losing — and I’m certain she’s probably devastated from what happened to her — she can articulate a viable claim for monetary compensation for psychic injury,” said FOX News legal analyst Mercedes Colwin.

Prejean fielded a question during Sunday night’s pageant from celebrity blogger and flaming faggot Mario Lavandeira, AKA Perez Hilton (Paris Hilton. Get it? Dumb faggot.) about whether every state should legalize same-sex marriage. Prejean replied that she is opposed to homosexual marriage, and her answer cost her the crown.
“She lost it because of that question,” Hilton said Monday. “She was definitely the front-runner before that.”

Hilton, scumbag faggot pile of shit that he is, got on TV and called her a “dumb bitch” for being “politically incorrect”.

Hilton, homosexual, said he gave Prejean a zero for her answer, and that made the difference in the outcome.

Prejean, who attends San Diego Christian College, said she saw the question as a test of her faith — a religious trial that could have her finishing in the money, if she decides to sue.

I sincerely hope she does. WHAT IN THE HELL IS A FAGGOT DOING ON A BEAUTY CONTEST JUDGING PANEL, ANYWAY, AND WHAT GAVE ANYONE THE RIGHT TO MAKE A QUESTION LIKE THAT A PART OF THE JUDGING??? Donald Trump set this up and chose the judges. It makes me wonder exactly what his own sexuality is. Hiding in a closet, Donald?

Carrie forgives this cretinous little queer because she’s a devout Christian. I don’t. I’m not a Christian and I don’t like queers exactly because they do nasty crap like this on a regular basis, when they’re not molesting children, wrecking society and making public spectacles out of themselves in the process.

Look familiar? This is a cartoon from the 1934 Chicago Tribune.

It was this profligate spending that made the Great Depression last until the onset of World War II. In fact, it took WAR to finally pull us out of the Depression and it was Global Depression that made the WAR possible.

We all know what happens when we spend money we don’t have. We go into debt! Then if we lose our job, which Americans are now doing, we can’t pay our debt off and the people we owe to go bankrupt along with us. We owe China more than any others and China’s dreams of becoming the next dominant World Power are hooked to their prosperity, which is collapsing along with the value of all those Treasury Bonds they bought by giving us back many of the dollars we spent with them.

The Bush Administration suckered China in by getting them to loan us all that money. That wasn’t the plan, probably, but that’s how it’s working out. Our financial collapse has doomed China to implode and as that sinks in, they’re going to start getting more aggressive on those they see as weaker. They won’t give up their dreams easily and they’ll try to get what they can while they can still get it.

Massive money printing only causes inflation, and inflation at the same time as a depression makes things horribly worse. Look. You have millions of people now with no money because they lost their jobs, and at the same time, prices of everything go up because of the inflation. That is, instead of $2 to buy a loaf of bread, it takes $4 or more. BUT… no one has the $4 to buy the bread, so the bread maker has to sell it for $1.50. The problem is it cost him $1.40 to make it himself, since he had to fire all his hired help, and he can’t stay in business on a dime profit.

So he has to shut his bakery and then no one can buy bread. This means everyone who wants bread has to bake their own or starve. Lots of people starved to death in the Great Depression, here and all over the world. They’re starting to again.

We aren’t spending ourselves out of a Depression, we’re spending ourselves into a worse one than we would have had and increasing the chance of another global war.

If I’m wrong here, in the opinion I’m about to give, will someone, anyone, please explain why to me.

Pirates capture ships and their crews at gunpoint, often after actually shooting at them, and hold them for ransom under threat of death. So far I haven’t heard of any crew being killed in these attacks but it’s only a matter of time.

It has always been, in the past and according to my history books and Hollywood’s swashbuckler movies, that pirates are hung by the neck until dead when captured, if they aren’t killed before capture or summarily executed directly after. Committing an act of piracy automatically ended a persons right to continue breathing.

I think it still should. So does my government, apparently, as the first attack on a ship under the U.S. flag resulted in 3 of the pirates being shot dead and the 4th about to be prosecuted under our laws.

An attempted attack by Somali pirates on a Norwegian tanker was foiled by Nato warships and helicopters after an overnight pursuit in the Gulf of Aden.

Nato said a Canadian warship caught the pirates before releasing them after the gang attacked the MV Front Ardenne.

The alliance said the pirates had been released because they could not be prosecuted under Canadian law. What about the Norwegians? THEY were the ones being attacked. They have no say? They have no right to prosecute the pirates?

On Saturday, Dutch commandos serving with the Nato anti-piracy operation freed 20 pirate captives from Yemen.

What the Hell? Can’t be prosecuted under Canadian law? While acting as a member of a NATO force? Are you kidding? Canada doesn’t recognize International Law? Canada thinks that it can act independently of NATO even while acting as part of it? Canada has no laws against piracy? Excuse me, I have to go lay in wait outside some Canadian ports.

I can see the Dutch doing something stupid like releasing 20 pirates to go attack more ships, their legal system is a mass of contradictions. But a warship under NATO command? This isn’t operating under Rule of Law, this is operating under Pompous Assininity.

Pirates should have their vessels sunk underneath them and be left to drown, or be shot on sight. Captured pirates should be shot dead on the spot, their corpses weighted with a hunk of chain or whatever’s handy, and dumped overboard.

It’s exactly like illegal aliens. If you want to stop the attacks on your soverignty, you have to kill the attackers. They won’t stop until you do. Fear of certain death is a powerful motivator.

Timothy Leary, the LSD advocate of the ’60′s, once said to “Put fire and iron underground, progress is regression.” He had a point. A court case has just closed in Sweden, finding 4 defendants guilty of being accessories to violating copyright law. A Swedish court sentenced each of them to a year in jail and a collective fine of $3.6 million.

The verdict against the founders of The Pirate Bay is being hailed by many as a triumphant win against illegal file-sharing, but I have serious doubts. Pirate Bay is a peer-to-peer file sharing system so people can share mostly music files as well as software, without paying for it. By finding against them, the courts have created a monster.

For one, Pirate Bay is appealing and could still win. Regardless of this, the suit itself has inspired more advanced and far more secret means of file sharing.

“The bigger issue is that unlike Napster, The Pirate Bay and other modern peer-to-peer-oriented networks are far less centralized and simple to shut down. And, even if The Pirate Bay itself were somehow to be shuttered, there are countless other comparable tracking services all over the world. Could they all be targeted and taken down? It’s highly unlikely.”

“Technology is constantly evolving. Just as more advanced decentralized peer-to-peer networks sprung up in the wake of Napster’s shutdown, new alternatives would surface once again were a site like The Pirate Bay to lower its sails. Already, countless other methods exist for exchanging data with ease, and more will only pop up as the months wear on.”

For example: “Just recently, The Pirate Bay team prepared a new service called IPREDator, set to launch publicly any day now. It allows people to surf the Net more anonymously using a virtual private network, or VPN. Unlike other VPN services, The Pirate Bay promises its IPREDator will keep no logs of customer activity and therefore could never turn user information over to authorities.”

Prosecuting people for sharing files has resulted in them increasing their ability to do so, not lessen it. Now people will be able to share virtually anything in complete anonymity, including terrorist plans, pedophilia, criminal plots, what have you, and there will be no way to track it because no traffic data logs will be kept by the service provider.

Google, for instance, keeps IP address logs and computer I.D.s of those who do searches on it, as well as what they search for and what sites they click on. Using an anonymous search service would put a stop to that, something that most of us would welcome anyway, since Googles practices are a violation of our privacy.

Progress is regression. When it comes to crime control, the efforts to stop the small crime of music stealing has not only backfired, it’s made the problem immensely worse by greatly increasing the danger to global security. Brilliant planning and foresight there, people.

French President Nicholas Sarkozy described Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister, as stupid, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, as simply following Mr Sarkozy’s lead and Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, as “absent.” By the end of the lunch, he had also cast the new American president, Barack Obama, as inexperienced and not up to speed on the issue of climate change.

But the best was yet to come. Mr Sarkozy, joking about president Obama’s planned June visit, said “I am going to ask him to walk on the English Channel, and he’ll do it”, referring to Obama’s being touted as a Savior by his more ardent admirers.

Sarkozy is one of a very few politicians of any stature in the world who speaks honestly and says what he thinks and manages to make at least some sense while doing so. He has a big ego and seems to believe that his opinion is invariably the right one, which means he pushes some poor ideas on occasion, but he definitely is refreshing. He also tends to anger those he insults, but his comments tend to spark some pretty revealing responses.

All in all, we learn more about Europes leaders because of his outbursts and improvident remarks than we would otherwise.

Geert Wilders needs to achieve the political power of Nicholas Sarkozy as leader of the Nederlands. With two such leaders in Europe, maybe Europe will have a chance of survival. If in addition, Nick Griffins BNP were to gain some seats in British Parliament, it would force Labour to stop capitulating to and appeasing the Muslims, and if not reverse the Islamization of England, at least bring it to a halt. There’s nothing that frightens entrenched political parties more into doing the right thing than growing competition.

President Shimon Peres rejected speculation Israel might attack Iran to stop it making nuclear weapons and said US-led diplomacy was the solution.

Mr Peres’s office said he had told the visiting US envoy George Mitchell: “All the talk about a possible attack by Israel on Iran is not true. The solution in Iran is not military.” Mr Peres lacks executive powers but is privy to policy-making. A spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to comment.

This sounds like the official explanation for UFO’s. Swamp gas, heat inversions and mass hysteria. Iran has repeatedly sworn to “wipe Israel off the map”, but the solution to this isn’t military? This is a religious crusade by their head ayatollah to bring back “the Mahdi” through the infliction of massive deaths, but they can be talked out of it? Really?

I note that Peres has no actual executive powers, just a functioning tongue, and that the real power, Netanyahu, is keeping silent.

There’s enough rhetoric coming out of Iran without Israel heaping on more. Israel is keeping its own counsel and not interfering with the likely futile efforts of the Obama administration to deal with Iran. The Israelis will deal with Iran when the need arises and in whatever way is needed, regardless of who else says what.

Yeah, I know, I usually pass on the Pap For The Masses crap stories, but before this one gets to be too old news, I just hafta do this. I woke up in the middle of the night realizing that if I didn’t do it, it would be another great opportunity lost.

So with my tongue making a large and very firm bulge in my right cheek…

The First Black Man and the First Black Woman, along with their First Black Children, have just acquired their First Black Dog, which they have named Bo after the First Black Singer, Bo Diddly.

The First Black Dog will reside with the First Black Family in the White House.

JERUSALEM, April 14 (UPI) — The United States and Israel will conduct their most complex military exercise ever, jointly testing three ballistic missile defense systems, officials said.

The exercise, called Juniper Cobra, will be conducted in Israel later this year, and include the Arrow 2 missile interceptor system, the U.S.’s terminal high altitude area defense and the ship-based Aegis ballistic missile defense system, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday.

The test also would likely include launching interceptors from these three systems, Israeli military leaders said.

If Israel is going to bomb Iran’s nuclear and missile sites, then they need to be prepared for retaliation in case they don’t get them all, or if Iran launches before they can complete the attack. It looks like the US is very much involved in the planning and deployment stages, even though we’ve backed off from the actual attack. We don’t want or need to be involved in a third battlefront, but Israel has no choice except war with Iran, and I’m happy to see that we’re at least lending a logistical hand.

At the same time, it’s just been announced that the Obama administration is set to drop a precondition for the start of negotiations on the nuclear issue – that Iran first suspend its uranium enrichment process.

Negotiations have been given added urgency by threats by the new Israeli government to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities to prevent it achieving a nuclear weapons capability. Israel predicts Iran could reach this point by this autumn, so time is running out.
The Israeli president, Shimon Peres, urged the Iranian president to enter into the talks proposed by Barack Obama. If Ahmadinejad doesn’t back down over the nuclear issue, “we’ll strike him”, Peres said.

You can’t get more direct than that. Either Iran gives up nukes by this Autumn, which means September-October, or there will be war between Israel and Iran.

What I think Iran will do is speed up their program and get enough fissile material for a bomb by July or August, either that or buy a bomb from the Russians, and you can bet that we and the Israelis are figuring the same thing. One thing is sure, we’re finally heading into the end game of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

The Iranians are so CUTE, how can anyone not love them? They just issued a demand that the UN give Israel a good slap for “unlawful and insolent threats” to launch an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Irans loud and frequent threats to destroy Israel, to utterly wipe Israel off the map, well, that’s different. Those threats are okay.

Isn’t that just too lovable for words? All they need now is Same-Sex marriage.

The Somalian pirates are accelerating the end of their activities with their own stupidity. Some of them are vowing “revenge” for the deaths of other pirates just killed by France and U.S. Naval forces after those pirates attacked a French yacht and a U.S. cargo ship.

They’re saying that they’re going to start killing any French and American citizens they find among ships crews that they take hostage.

Piracy is a risky business. It always has been. People don’t like being attacked by armed assailants and held for ransom, and the penalty for failure has always been death. If those loudmouthed brigands and their fellows actually start carrying out these threats and killing the citizens of the two nations that are the most likely to take the fight to them, they’ll have plenty to cry about in short order.

The military actions angered one Ali Nur, a pirate who is based in Gara’ad, a coastal village in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, in northern Somalia. “From now on, after the killings by the U.S. and France, we will add some harsher steps in our dealings with hostages, particularly American and French hostages,” Nur ranted. “The killing of our boys was aggression, and the U.S. will see what they get from their operation,” he said.

You do that, you fool, and then watch as the bombs and missiles rain down on your hideouts while the captive ships are swarmed with Special Forces and all your cohorts are killed.

How stupid is this guy? “That was aggression”, whine, whine. What the pirates did wasn’t? With spokesmen of that caliber, it’s clear that these swine have no organized leadership. The only reason they’re still operating is because no one wanted to take the time and expense of wiping them out, and it looks like now they did exactly what they should never have done. They got our attention.

The U.S. military acknowledged Sunday that its actions to rescue Phillips could increase the risk of violence. “This could escalate violence in this part of the world. No question about it,” said U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Bill Gortney.

I certainly hope it does.

Hoorah, hoorah, our Navy acted and 3 of the 4 pirates were shot dead, the live one is in custody while his prosecution venue is decided, and the ship captain is safe.

Next time, you guys, don’t wait, don’t negotiate, just run right up and kill the bastards. 4 days of negotions with those barbarian filth went nowhere and you should have expected that.

But Good Job Well Done, in the end. Whether by skill or luck, it’s the outcome that matters.
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The pirate saga is starting to sound like Jimmie Peanut Carter all over again. Four pirates in a dead-in-the-water lifeboat hold a ship captain hostage while surrounded by U.S. Navy warships, and the negotiations to release him are in their third day.

Will someone with a brain please inform me as to why the first Destroyer there didn’t simply take the lifeboat in tow and steam away? What are the pirates going to do? Shoot their captive? They know it’s instant death to do that, so NO, they won’t shoot their captive.

What they will do is go for a boat ride and be taken to a neutral port where they will be arrested and carted off. At no time will they dare to harm their captive.

So what are we doing instead? Why, we’re negotiating with them! We’re trying to talk them into letting their captive go, while at least 4 other captured ships with lots of pirates and hostages are steaming toward the scene, in order to escalate this meekly handled affair into a massive mess.

What happens when the other ships arrive? How do our warships stop them from reinforcing the four in the lifeboat? Are we going to sink their ships? No. There are non-combatant hostages aboard. Are we going to board those ships and take them over? No. Otherwise we would already have done that with the lifeboat. Are we going to ram those ships? No, that would be silly.

So what are we going to do to stop them? It looks like nothing to me and it looks like nothing to the pirates, too. Otherwise they wouldn’t just charge right in there like bulls with hundred-pound balls.

Our top admiral says the pirate problem may “last for decades”, yes, tens of years, 20, 30, 40, “until a strong government is established in Somalia.” Excuse me? One F-22 could probably wipe out the whole pack of them. Somalia has no government at all. None. We would not be at war with any government, we would simply be performing a police action.

We lost over 50,000 young lives performing a “police action” in Vietnam and 4271 so far in Iraq performing another. We can do battle with huge armies, take huge losses while spending huge sums, but we can’t take out a bunch of poorly armed tee-shirted pirates in little outboard motor boats? This should have been handled quickly and decisively, with finality, instead of letting it grow into the riot it’s now becoming.

If Obama really wants to win back world approval of the U.S., then he better not be a Jimmy Carter now. Getting rid of the pirates would engender global approval and respect. Letting them win will humiliate us.

The following are excerpts from an article by Andy Johnson of the NFMS Public Lands Advisory on the damage being done to our public lands and resources managed by the BLM, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, tribal and state governments and private citizens:

“The smuggling of controlled substances and people has caused significant impact. … Protected areas such as Wilderness Areas, … National Monuments … Wildlife Refuges … were faced with a proliferation of illegal roads and trails, abandoned vehicles, trash, human waste and many other impacts.”

“Over the past eight years in Arizona, literally hundreds of illegal roads and trails have been created across BLM lands by drug smugglers, illegal immigrants and law enforcement officers in persuit. These roads and trails fragment wildlife habitat, destroy vegetation, compact soils, cause erosion, and in many places create an unsightly maze of roads and trails that confuse visitors.”

Nearly 2500 abandoned vehicles were removed from Federal and Tribal Arizona lands in 2004, alone, and all are difficult and expensive to remove because they’re left in washes, riparian areas and remote desert.

“Soiled baby diapers, empty food containers and water bottles, clothes, feces, personal items” are a small part of the trash and contaminants being dumped by the hundreds of thousands of filthy illegal aliens in our “rivers, streams, washes and wildlife and livestock waters. These discards pollute the waters and cause health hazards. The 40 miles of San Pedro River managed by BLM and its tributaries are severly impacted with tons of these items. Trails, rest areas and pick up points also are strewn with heavy concentrations of litter.”

These criminal so-called “immigrants” start cooking and warming fires “that cause thousands of acres to burn each year … and the destruction of natural resources”.

This is how these scumsucking crap heads treat their own country, which for most of them is Mexico. They defecate anywhere it suits them, which is why Mexican water is full of coliform (from the bowels) and other disgusting bacteria that makes clean-living people so sick.

When they come here and treat MY COUNTRY that way, that’s when I say it’s time to start employing firearms to enforce our borders. Shoot them. Give them fair warning and if they keep coming, start firing for deadly effect. They wouldn’t hesitate to do it to us if we were trashing Mexico.

This is just one more good reason out of many reasons why I would like to see our border with Mexico sealed off except for manned crossing points.

After nearly two years of resisting the opening of the U.S.-Mexico border to long-haul trucking operations, the Mexican motor carrier association CANACAR now is taking the U.S. to “NAFTA court.”

When we ended the pilot program designed to allow ours and Mexicos trucks to freely travel each others highways, the Mexican government cried foul and slapped import tariffs on a range of about 90 goods we produce, affecting about $3 billion of our exports to Mexico.

This pilot program, I now find out, was opposed by the Mexican trucking industry since it’s inception. “From the onset of the now-defunct long-haul cross-border trucking program between the U.S. and Mexico, Canacar fought to end the program.”

“Canacar, the association representing both Mexican motor carriers and drivers, has formally requested not to open the borders for trans-border services and to have the pilot program suspended until conditions for a fair competitive environment are existing and that the Mexican trucking industry has the guarantee of not being subject to unfair inequitable and discretional treatment by U.S. authorities,” Canacar National President Tirso Martinez Angheben wrote in a press release in March 2007. They did this because of many problems in Mexico that hampered enforcement efforts of the program.

Canacar feared, among other things, that American truckers will violate “cabotage” rules while in Mexico which forbid hauling from place to place to place instead of just dropping off a load and picking up another one for the return trip. The group also said that Mexico does not have the ability to conduct complete audits on American trucks.

In other words, Mexico never wanted this program in the first place because they aren’t equipped to deal with it. It wasn’t us who wanted it shut down, it was the Mexicans!

As soon as it was ended, Mexico claimed we cost their truckers $2 billion in lost wages for a program that was never operational in the first place, are suing us for that $2 billion and using the tariffs as a hammer to extort the money from us. They get away with the tariffs because the insane Free Trade Agreement we signed with them included that program as a requirement. If they had ended the program first, we could hit them with tariffs instead.

This is just one more example of the utter lack of even residual scruples in Mexican official thinking. No morals, no ethics, no concern at all over right and wrong.

Why??? are we spending billions of dollars building a fence between us and Mexico? This is our country and we have a right to repel invaders. If our border guards choose to capture wetbacks and send them back, fine, but they should also be given free rein to shoot them when they reach our side of the line, too. Instead, we falsely prosecute them when they shoot back at drug smugglers.

The Mexicans think nothing of killing us, and they get away with it every single time. When was the last time you ever heard of a Mexican being prosecuted in Mexico for killing an American? The answer is: Never. How many do you think we’d need to shoot before they stop invading us? Probably only a half dozen.

They’re crossing our borders now and killing our citizens now, in the conduct of their drug battles. Let’s start shooting back!

At the heighth of the Great Depression, US national unemployment rose to 25%. Canada suffered even more with a 30% unemployment rate.

Today our national unemployment rate is reported to be 8.5% with another 663,000 jobs lost here in March alone, for a total so far of 5.1 million unemployed out of a total workforce of 140 million. That doesn’t seem too bad until…

You start looking at the part-time and discouraged, no longer looking, workers. When you factor them in, the unemployment rate is 15.6 percent as of March while the average work week in March dropped to 33.2 hours, a new record low. In addition, the number of people reduced to working part time rose by 423,000 to 9 million.

The rate of job loss nationally is expected to continue through the years of 2009 to 2011. When you consider that 2 million jobs have been lost during just the first three months of this year, compared to a total of 5.1 million lost since the start of 2008, according to the U.S. Labor Department, you can see that the rate of loss is rapidly increasing.

Put another way, there were 3.1 million jobs lost during the 12 months of 2008, for an average rate of 258,300 a month. The current rate of 663,000 will put us at an ADDITIONAL job loss for 2009 of 8 million, on top of the 15.6 million now. However, when you look at the rising curve of job losses as each month goes by, this figure may end up being greatly exceeded unless Obamas massive inflatiion plan starts kicking in. As it is, our unemployment will stand at at least 23% by the end of this year alone and only 2% short of its peak during the Great Depression.

If national total unemployment reaches 35 million, including all those not working that government surveys omit, that will be 25% unemployment, equalling that of the Great Depression. It’s nearly halfway there now, at 15.6%, lacking only a 2% increase.

Many cities and counties are reporting double-digit unemployment rates now and this is bound to increase as the depression deepens. Most of the mass media is still calling this a Recession instead of the Depression it’s become, so if you want to get a true pulse of the situation, just pay attention to the increasing or decreasing number of those saying “Depression”.

Theme music for Our Times: Bing Crosby, “Brother, can you spare a dime”