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2008-02-28 Home Front: Politix

"Virtual Fence" is an "Actual Failure" - Delayed for at least 3 Years

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Posted by DepotGuy 2008-02-28 12:32|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 10X20 concrete slabs with razor wire on top don't have a lotta technical problems seeing how they require minimal software.
But what do I know...

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-28 14:24|| 2008-02-28 14:24|| Front Page Top

#2 ...or is it coming along exactly as planned?

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-02-28 14:58|| 2008-02-28 14:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Fire that hack fool, Chertoff.

Posted by Omung Squank9908 2008-02-28 15:03|| 2008-02-28 15:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Show of hands:

How many of us on Rantburg DIDN'T see this coming?

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That's what I thought.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-02-28 15:07|| 2008-02-28 15:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Fire Chertoff the jackoof and put Tancredo in there.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-02-28 16:50|| 2008-02-28 16:50|| Front Page Top

#6 But think of all the little migrating desert critters (turtles, snakes, deer, sheep, and etc.) that have been environmentally harmed by the fence.

Posted by borgboy 2008-02-28 18:06|| 2008-02-28 18:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Repeat after me:

There will never, ever, ever be a fence of any sort, real or "virtual". The drug cartels will continue donating to politician's kids' college funds as long as required to keep that border open for drug smuggling.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-02-28 18:34|| 2008-02-28 18:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Hundreds of millions of dollars and friggin bureaucrats can't even erect a decent Potemkin village these days. They just don't hire semi-competent petty foggers like they used to.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-02-28 19:01|| 2008-02-28 19:01|| Front Page Top

#9 why don't they just build the freak'n fence like we instructed them to? I really don't think that our Senators and congressmen understand that they are our servants, not our masters.

Posted by Crease Poodle1618 2008-02-28 19:06|| 2008-02-28 19:06|| Front Page Top

#10 It works like this:

Politicians vote to build a fence but no money is allocated to build it. The threat of the fence is enough to cause the drug cartels to instruct their minions here in the US to begin pouring donations into political campaigns. Congress then leaves the funding out of the appropriation bill.

Next year it will be the same thing. As long as the politicians get paid off by the drug cartels, they will never vote to build the fence. Note that these donations wouldn't be coming direct from the drug cartels, they would come in the form of dozens of maximum individual donations.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-02-28 20:23|| 2008-02-28 20:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Shoulda kept Brownie and ditched Chertoff.

Posted by KBK 2008-02-28 21:43|| 2008-02-28 21:43|| Front Page Top

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