On the way to work, I listened to Mike Segal on KFYI. He was talking about the fact that 384 Border Control Agents have been removed from the Southern border with Mexico and sent to the Northern border with Canada. There is also a report that indicates that there are 1300 miles of our Southern border that are not secured at this time.

If we have that many miles of unsecured borders on the south we do not need to remove agents. The biggest problem with illegal immigration is on our Southern border. It does occur along our Northern border, but in far smaller quantities. Since the biggest problem is in the south, it would be logical to have the staff in the south get more people than the north. There probably are still more border control agents on the southern border than the north, but that is not the point. Weakening our ability to stop people from coming across our southern border should be the first priority of the Border Control and the Department of Homeland Security. Since Barack Obama and Janet Napolitano are removing agents from our southern border, they obviously do not think that it is a high priority problem.

Whenever it comes time to identify whether someone is legal or not, Democrats always do not want their legality checked. In voting situations, Republicans continually call for voters to show identification before they vote. Democrats always put out some lame excuse that the Republicans anticipated and solved. In any case, photo id at voting is not done. Why is it not done? Who would benefit if an illegal alien voted? If you are in the least amount honest, you would have to say that the Democrat would be the one to get the vote of an illegal alien. In the Obamacare bill, the Republicans put forward a bill that would require identification before receiving Obamacare. The Democrats defeated that measure. Why? Because they intend for the illegal aliens to get Obamacare, either by making them citizens or just allowing it without checking.

The Department of Homeland Security put out a memo that basically said that illegal aliens should not be arrested until they commit a crime. I may be mistaken, but isn’t crossing the border illegally a crime? As a result, cities like Phoenix are seeing an increase in crime. The crime they are seeing is the type that is common down in Mexico. That is kidnappings. On KFYI, Mike Segal went through a couple of cases in the past week here in the Phoenix area. One of the cases involved a pregnant woman. She is still in the hospital. The arrests happened on Thursday. One of the kidnappings Mike Segal outlined was at 9:30 n the morning, in a parking lot. That is pretty brazen, to commit a crime like that in broad daylight.

The Obama administration seems to be telling us along the Southern border of the United States that the border is unimportant. If people can cross without permission, what is the purpose of the border? In order to keep our country, we have to maintain our borders. This administration is not maintaining our borders. This administration is weakening our borders to allow more illegal aliens to come into this country. It must feel terrible to be a Border Control Agent right now. You would know that the Federal Government does not support what you do. My guess is that there will be a number of Border Control Agents that will bail on the department and work for Sheriff’s Offices, Police Departments and Highway Patrols in the states they are working in right now. That would mean a loss of highly trained and experienced personnel. That is never a good thing.

While driving to work today, I listened to Mike Broomhead on KFYI. His topic was on the hate some Muslims feel toward America. Mike received a phone call from a man who said he lived in Saudi Arabia outside of the military base. In other words, he was living in the Muslim sector of Saudi Arabia proper. His point was that we as Americans cannot understand the hate that some Muslims have for America. Mike got huffy about that point as he had been talking about it all morning, but the caller did have a point. We can say we know that Muslims hate us. We can believe that we know Muslims hate us. But until confronted by the hate, you have no idea how bad it really is.

A couple of times in my life I have been confronted by someone that truly hated me or what I stood for. No matter how much I was intellectually prepared, I was always surprised at the level of hate. I would have said that I knew that these people hated me. I would have said that I knew that they wanted me dead. But until confronted with the hate, I did not understand. I think that is the point that the caller to Mike Broomhead’s show was trying to convey.

When you put the level of hate involved in radical Islam with nuclear weapons, you have a situation that is untenable. Radical Muslims can never be allowed to get a nuclear device that works. They also can never be allowed to use the nuclear device. With Nero (Obama) fiddling while Rome (the United States) falls down around him is a sorry state to be in.

Barack Obama has telegraphed to the radical Muslims that we are the weak Americans that they thought we were by going after the people that did the interrogations while George W. Bush was President. He is doing it for a couple of reasons. The first is to get people to stop talking about Obamacare. That is working as I am not talking about how bad Obamacare is for the country. The second is to throw a bone to the far left nuts in his party. They cannot get over George W. Bush and probably never will. Feeding them the interrogators is a way of placating them at this time. It keeps them happy and on board at a time when Obama needs them to be on board.

The interrogators did nothing wrong. They deserve medals for what they did since 9/11. They do not need a witch hunt led by nut jobs on the left. The interrogators followed the rules as they understood them for the past 8 years. The Bush Justice Department decided not to prosecute them for any alleged crimes. That should have been the end of the investigations into their actions. But the left wing nut jobs have to have their red meat, so Obama delivers them up on a silver platter.

What should happen out of these investigations is this: Any investigator that recommends that an interrogator be charged with a crime should be fired for incompetence. Under the Obama administration rules for torture, my employer could be charged with torture. My work hours are such that I am required to be at work late Tuesday night and I have to be in early on Wednesday morning. According to the guidelines for sleep deprivation that the Obama administration put out, that would constitute torture? Of course that is a silly argument.

Obama is going to get us into a hole so deep that I am not sure we will be able to get out of it. He seems bent on allowing terrorists to get nuclear weapons. If they get nuclear weapons, we are in big trouble for a long time. This is especially a problem since Obama wants to reduce or eliminate military programs that are designed to keep us safe. It is going to take a very strong President to get us out of the hole, if it is even possible.

One thing that we have not heard much about since January 20 is Iraq and Afghanistan. There are new rules of engagement for both countries. In Iraq, there is also the anticipation that the Iraq security forces will take over most of the security in the major cities. With the bombings in Bagdad yesterday, it is time to look at Iraq and Afghanistan and see how we are doing.

While President Bush was in office, the news media told us every day that the policies that the Bush administration had taken were failing. Every day they gave us body counts on how many American soldiers were killed and injured. They also included totals for Iraqi citizens as a total, not separating out civilians and terrorists. It was all designed to show that George W. Bush was failing. Since Barack Obama has taken office, there has been a virtual news blackout. You would hear a story every now and then. But for all intents and purposes Iraq and Afghanistan have almost ceased to exist.

Yesterday, there was a series of bombings in Bagdad that has killed at least 75 people and wounded 300. Had George Bush been President, we would have almost non-stop news coverage. With Barack Obama as President, it is reported, but not pumped up. The bombings do bring into question the Iraq strategy of having the Iraq Security Forces supply security in the populated areas of the country.

In listening to the Mike Broomhead show on KFYI, I learned the rules of engagement for our soldiers in Afghanistan. The soldiers are not to fire unless they can GUARANTEE that there are no civilians in the area that will be hit by a stray bullet. The priority for the soldiers is to withdraw from the scene. The nonofficial term would be retreat. American soldiers do not retreat, they withdraw. The effect is the same. We are perceived as weak by the Taliban and others that we are fighting when we withdraw instead of fight. There is nothing worse for a soldier than withdrawing when the soldier knows he/she can win the fight. That will destroy morale more quickly than anything you can imagine. I am not sure that is the goal of the Obama administration, but it sure seems like it from where I sit.

I am not privy to all the ins and outs of the rules of engagement. All I know is what I hear on radio, TV and the internet. But, I put what I lean from those sources with what I see happening with the rest of the country under Barack Obama and a pattern becomes very clear, very fast. Every time Barack Obama has a chance to put Americans first, he puts them second. Every time there is a chance to advance the interests of the United States, he rejects it. Every time there is a chance to improve the economy of this country, he tries to destroy it. That, to me, is a pattern. The pattern I see is not good. I would have to say that from the pattern I perceive Barack Obama does not have the best interests of the United States at heart. I could be wrong. There may be some plan going on that I am not able to perceive at my level. But, every time Obama has a chance to boost Americans he cuts them off at the knees. Every time he has a chance to boost our long time friends and allies, he cuts them off at the knees or ignores them. Every time he has a chance to help our enemies, he gives them a hand. When a friend and ally acts within its Constitution, he comes out for the person who wanted to be a dictator. It is like we went through Alice’s Looking Glass on January 20. In Lewis Carroll’s, story about Alice and the Looking Glass, everything was backwards when she went through the looking glass. I am getting that impression more and more as time goes on.

One good thing that is happening right now is that Americans are waking up. Americans are standing up to their elected representatives and telling them that they are going too far. This is gratifying to me. It makes me think that there is hope that we will get out of this backwards land at some future time.

The Democrats cannot take criticism. When the protests against the socialist takeover of our healthcare system began, the Democrats sat in stunned silence. Then, they started crying that it was unfair. Their next tactic was to declare that the protesters were Nazi’s or Nazi sympathizers. Their next tactic was to pack the rooms with people that supported the takeover of the healthcare system and union thugs. All of those tactics did not work and just dug the Democrats into a deeper hole. What are they to do?

If you think that I am going to answer that question, you have another thing coming. My thought and one that I gleaned from Mike Broomhead of KFYI is to let the loony left have their chance to speak. The more that they speak; the deeper they dig a hole that it will be difficult to get out of. The harder it is for them to get out of the hole, the better I like it.

In all the reports from the Townhall meetings between the Representatives and the people, the worst has to be the meeting in St. Louis, MO. That is where the meeting was packed with people from SEIU, a powerful union. When people protested that they were not being let into the meeting, the union thugs decided to beat up the people that objected to having their Constitutional rights trampled. The worst part of that report is that the police on duty for crowd control did nothing to stop the union people from beating up the elderly people objecting.

There is no bigger supporter of the police than me. I was a Deputy Sheriff in Colorado for four years. I also worked part-time in North Dakota as a policeman. To say I support the police is an understatement. I know that if I had been on duty, the union people would have been going to jail with a felony assault on the record. Any policeman that I have known and any department that I have had contact with would not condone the police standing by and allowing innocent citizens to be beaten up. Any department that I have had contact with would have fired the policemen in question as soon as the report got in. They would not have put them on leave awaiting an investigation into the incident. That kind of conduct smells of corruption and corruption cannot be allowed at all, ever. It is like the 1930’s in Chicago, New York or Boston, where the mob ran the police. I am not sure where this incident will lead. But, if there is footage of the police standing by while the beatings took place, I look for heads to roll. The heads will be the police that stood by and the police leaders that told them not to interfere with the union actions. If there is a connection between SEIU and the police union, then all involved should go to jail for corruption and racketeering as well as conspiracy to commit assault. Since this is a Democrat run state, I do not look for much to happen. Democrats are good at covering up their messes. If the tape gets out of the police standing by, then something will have to happen.

We need to let the Democrats on the far left continue to have their say. The more they talk the better it is for our side. If they ever shut up, then we have to do the heavy lifting. In this issue, the heavy lifting will be easy. People like their medical care. They want some tweaks to make it better. They do not want wholesale changes that will make everything worse. That is why this is not selling for the Democrats. They thought the idea of covering everyone would sell, and it hasn’t. It hasn’t because people like the insurance plans they currently have. The plan the Democrats are proposing will make most of them change insurance coverage. If the Democrats had come up with something that just addressed covering the uninsured, the plan would already be in place. But, the Democrats saw an opportunity to have the whole loaf instead of the half loaf that covering everyone would have meant. Their greed was their undoing. Thank heaven for the greed of the left.

The worst part of this whole thing is that if the Democrats in Congress wanted to pass their health destruction plan, they could do so today. The problem is that it would mean that almost all of them would lose in 2010. They want some Republicans to give them cover so the debacle will not be so bad in 2010. So far, the Republicans have stood firm. Let’s hope they continue to do so. Standing on principle on this issue is a winning idea for 2010 and 2012.

Today on my drive to work, I was listening to Bruce Jacobs. He started reading an article from the newspaper Pravda. The Russian government owns Pravda and tells it what to print. So, it was a bit surprising to hear hard hitting journalism actually coming from that newspaper. It was a better summation of what is happening in the United States than I have heard from any newspaper or online source to date. This report from Pravda can be found at KFYI.com.

Pravda said that America is now moving away from capitalism and toward Marxism. This happened because the American public has been dumbed down because of a poor education system. The education system teaches pop culture instead of the classics. So that the American public know more about American Idol than what is going on in their own government. The article also said that the final step in the change from capitalism to Marxism was the election of Barack Obama.

They praised Barack Obama for his lavish spending ways. They said that if this spending continues for another year, which seems likely. Nobody is stepping up to stop him from spending. The United States would resemble the Weimar Republic at best or Zimbabwe at worst.

The Weimar Republic was Germany prior to 1932. It had high inflation and high unemployment. The unrest that resulted from those problems led to the election of Adolf Hitler. Part of the problem with the Weimar Republic was the restrictions placed on it after World War I. Those restrictions and payments that it required made Germany go broke.

Zimbabwe is an African country that should be the richest country in Africa that does not have oil. Instead it has an inflation rate that is over 1000%. Everyone is poor and the government is in power only because it has all of the guns. Mugabe, the ruler, kicked the white landowners out of the country and put city people on the land and told them to live there. The country had fed the southern part of Africa. After he kicked out the people who knew how to grow food, the country had to import food to survive. Now, everyone is living in a state of constant starvation.

The American media sees no problem with anything that the Obama administration has done. They have hidden all the faults (however large) and emphasized any potential benefit (however small). It has gotten so bad, that I have a rule of thumb. That rule is: If the main stream media reports it as true, it is false, unless I confirm it as true from a trusted source.

Right now, the main stream media is hiding one of the biggest scams to come along since global warming. That scam is Obamacare, the Obama administration takeover of health care or 1/7^th of the American economy. If this happens as rumor has it, we will all be sorry. The rumors have the plan as some form of one payer system, disguised as an insurance plan. It will be rolled out as government insurance, to compete with private insurance. It won’t take long and the only health insurance you will be able to buy will be government health insurance. Then, we have a one-payer system, just like England and Canada. They do not like their system and are trying to think of ways to get rid of it. We will not like this one and will complain, but it will be too late. After the fact complaining will not do the trick. We have to stop it before it becomes the law, rather than after.

Their might be a silver lining to the Obamacare plan. It would be that the wealthy would have a health care plan that would be cash only, no insurance. That would be a market based system and would be the envy of the world. Unfortunately for the great unwashed in the US, only the wealthy would be able to have access to any doctor they wanted. Most of us would have to go to the doctor that the government insurance plan told us we would see.

Our problem in the US is that we have a media that is not acting like the “free” media it is supposed to be. A free media would be a watchdog media on both liberal governments and conservative governments. Our media is a watchdog only on the conservative governments. On the liberal governments, it is their lapdog. It is like they become our Pravda, only a willing Pravda, not paid Pravda. That is much, much worse than the real Pravda.

Today is April 15. It is time that many people will be attending the “Tea Parties” that are being held all over the country and even in some foreign countries. How many will attend is anyone’s guess. The one here in Phoenix is on the lawn in front of the Senate offices in Phoenix this evening. KFYI will have many of their talk show hosts there to speak to the crowd. Since KFYI is the most listened to station in the valley, I would expect a good turnout at the Tea Party.

There are rumors that ACORN and other left wing nut jobs are going to try and infiltrate the Tea Parties to try and stir up trouble. If they manage to stir up trouble, they will discredit some of what the Tea Parties are trying to achieve. The goal is to protest the massive tax increase that is coming and also the other socialist policies of the Obama administration. Since people know that there might be people from left wing goon squads present at the meetings, there should not be much trouble.

Since I have to work this evening, I cannot attend our Tea Party in Phoenix. I will be there in spirit. I wish I could go, but I do not have enough time off to afford to go. I agree with the goals of the Tea Party and wish them well. I will most likely support whatever activity comes out of the Tea Party here in Arizona.

Since I support the Tea Party and write this blog, I am probably on the Janet Napolitano’s list of subversive people. I doubt that there is a more patriotic individual in the country. But because of the definitions that Homeland Security is dealing with, patriotic Americans are listed as subversives. There was a report written in the Homeland Security Department that got leaked to the press that gives out all this information. This report details how anyone that believes in the second amendment and the right to bear arms is a subversive. Anyone who does not support and Obama administration is a subversive. Anyone who is a believing and practicing Christian is a subversive. Since I am guilty on all counts, I must be a subversive. All along, I thought that I was a patriotic American. That is what I have been taught that patriotic Americans believed in since I was a child. Up until January 2009, the government believed that patriotic Americans had those qualities. Now, the worm has turned and those qualities are now unpatriotic. How things are turned upside down in my country.

I support the Tea Parties because I want my America to be the America she has been. I want patriotic Americans honored for being patriotic Americans. I want heroic Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force personnel honored for their service. I want their stories told like we told the Audie Murphy story from World War II or Sgt. York from World War I. Those stories make men and boys want to emulate those heroes. It makes better patriots out of all of us. Unfortunately, we do not get to hear about the heroes of the current wars. I am sure that there are heroes that are not being recognized. We need to hear their stories. We need their stories made into movies just like they used to do to raise patriotism.

Whatever the outcome of the Tea Parties, just talking about them is a success. They sprang out of nowhere and have grown into something big. There is no single leader of this movement. If this movement can be harnessed and focused, we can take this country back in two stages, 2010 and 2012. It also might put some spine into the backs of those noodle backed Republicans we have in the House and Senate. The Democrats keep giving the Republicans fantastic talking points to completely destroy the Democrat positions, but the Republicans are unfocused and drop the ball. If they had a spine, that would not happen and we might even get America back by June.