News "Quickies"

Here’s a couple of “quickies” from around the news world that might give you all a chuckle…..

• From Reuters: The United States has captured a suspected leader of Mexico's powerful Gulf drug cartel and one of the country's most wanted men, Carlos "El Puma" Landin, while he was shopping in Texas, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said today.

(Oyy! Does anyone else think it’s funny that he was caught while in the United States SHOPPING - for God sake? Is there any question now about why we’re having trouble with stopping illegal immigration? We allow drug lords in for shopping sprees! More on ’tracking’ visitors later. )

• Everyone already knows that George Soros supported the Democrat Presidential candidate to the tune of $26 million during the last election. This related Soros item comes from The Heritage Foundation: George Soros said, referring to the Bush Administration, “America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany…We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.”

(That’s right everyone…we’re supposed to take cultural and political thought lessons from that “Open-Minded” champion of democracy...George Soros! Soros calling Bush a Nazi is like Teddy Kennedy chastising Lindsey Lohan for her drinking problem! )

• Fox News & CNN reported yesterday: During 2006, 5.8 million visa holders entered the United States utilizing 70 different visa programs. i.e.: H-1B, F-1, 'Touristas', etc. - - For the sake of argument, let’s imagine that during the previous 10 years, a “similar” number of visas were issued each year. Fair enough? So, let’s say somewhere between 2 and 5 million visa holders entered the U.S. annually during 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005. With me so far? Good. For the sake of this ‘quickie’ that means the United States issued entry visas to somewhere between 20 & 50 million folks during the period from ’96 through ’05. – And they say we don’t care! - Add in the 5.8 million for 2006, and you end up with between 25.8 million and 55.8 million visa holders entering this country in the previous 11 years. Everybody agree? Good! Here’s the rest of the report! - - When the State Department and The Department of Homeland Security were asked recently how many of these visa holders remained here after their visa periods expired, both organizations indicated they have no method for tracking visa holders once the visa’s were issued. Neither DHS or the State Department has a method for knowing who left and when, nor who stayed after their visa period expired!

(So let’s see now…it’s 6 years after 9/11. It’s bad enough no one can tell us whether there are 12 or 20 million illegal aliens in our country. We’re worried about the Amnesty plan that Congress just tried to sneak by us – but we defeated that! But now you’re telling me that the 2 Federal Departments most responsible for this country’s security and safety following the terrorist attacks on 9/11, can’t tell George Bush let alone you & I, how many visa holders left the U.S. or stayed after their visa’s ran out????)

……… Having read these “quickies,” maybe they make you as “nuts” as I am. Some days I seriously wonder if it wouldn’t just be a lot easier to “roundup” all the politicians everywhere – collect all their good buddies down on K Street – put them all on a cruise ship named the “S. S. Minnow II” and send them off on “a cruise to nowhere!” If we play our cards right it’ll be too late before they realize there’s no steering, no GPS, no ‘comms’, no lifeboats, and not enough fuel to get back! And if we give them enough booze they’ll never hear the rushing water…….

“Just sit right back, and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship….”