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Chris Simcox, of the Minutemen, describes the architecture of the planned border fence. Check out how smart this is. (Via Pajamas Media):
Start with a 6-foot deep trench so a vehicle can't crash through; behind it, roll of concertina (coiled, razor-edged barbed wire), in front of a 15-foot high heavy-gauge steel mesh fence angled outward at the top.
Behind the fence will be a 60- to 70-foot wide unpaved but graded dirt road, along with inexpensive, mounted video cameras that can be monitored from home computers. On the other side of the road will be a second, 15-foot fence, with more concertina wire on its outside.
So if people scale the first fence, in many cases there will be enough time to catch them before they can scale the second fence.
This makes a previous comment from Governor Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz., look pretty silly. In December, she said:
"You show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder at the border. That's the way the border works," Napolitano told the Associated Press.
Actually working hard to solve a problem doesn't seem to have been of interest to Governor Napolitano. Once again the Minutemen are leading the way in defense of our border.
Wednesday's episode of South Park was not only extraordinarily tasteless and unfunny -- it also didn't have any of the show's main characters in it. Not one.
I don't think I'm too far out on a limb to say that the South Park writing staff may be on strike due to last week's censorship of their efforts to show a cartoon of Mohammed.
I wouldn't put it past Matt and Trey for one second. They're the biggest profit center of the network. They may be on strike -- that is, refusing to do an episode with the main characters, and refusing to do a remotely funny episode -- until they get uncensored. And you know what? They'll win. They'll win precisely because the network has shown that they can be bullied, when it censored them in response to radical Islamist intimidation. And the network is in more immediate danger from the loss of its biggest income-generator -- South Park -- than it is from some hypothetical response from the radical Islamists.
This may be the gutsiest move we've ever seen from the writing staff of a TV show.
And by the way -- if that's what's really happening -- Wednesday's episode was hilarious: it was intentionally unfunny.
Let's see how this plays out.
