Posted on 09/11/2007 7:12:14 AM PDT by claudiustg
You have to hand it to President Bush — he is persistent.
The Iraq war would be a good case of persistence, if not exactly a good war. But let’s not get distracted by that war this week as there are many more examples of Bush’s persistence which don’t carry the emotional baggage of Iraq.
Without taking time to analyze each and every one of them, there were the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, the proposal to turn U.S. port security over to the Mideast city-state of Dubai, the dogged loyalty to Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales, and the two failed efforts at “comprehensive immigration reform.”
To those we may now add the president’s continuing effort to break down the borders of the nation anyway he can.
I have already in this column written extensively on the foolishness of an open border with Mexico, the cupidity of the proposed North American Union, and the absurdity of putting Arabs in charge of shipping through U.S. ports.
But last week, with hardly anyone noticing, the president took another shot at chipping away at American sovereignty by opening our southern border to Mexican trucking firms in a pilot program that he clearly wants to expand quickly.
According to the Associated Press, “The U.S. plans to give as many as 25 Mexican firms permission [to haul their cargo anywhere in the United States] by the end of September and add another 25 companies each month until hitting 100 by the end of this year under the one-year program.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyinterlake.com ...
Read the following taken from a Road Geek Site:
http://www.roadnotes.com/interstate/index.htm
“Mile Markers and Exit Numbers
Mile Markers
Mile markers, or mileposts as they are also known, are the vertical green signs on the edge of highways placed at one-mile intervals. Mile marker numbering begins at the most southerly or westerly point in a state. For example, if you enter Colorado from New Mexico, mile markers will increase as you travel north through Colorado. Likewise if you were to enter Colorado from Utah, mile markers would increase as you travel east through Colorado. California is the only state that does not use mile markers. Instead they use a Post Mile system with numbering beginning and ending at county lines.
Exit Numbers
Interstate exit numbers are determined by one of two methods. The first, and most widely used, is based on the mile marker system. Using this method, the first exit number on an Interstate as you travel south to north or west to east is determined by its distance from the state line. For example, if an exit is located between mile markers 4 and 5, it is numbered as Exit 4. The next exit, if located at mile marker 8.7, would be numbered as Exit 8. Thus you would know that you must travel approximately 4 miles to reach the next exit. Using this method of exit numbering helps to determine the location and distance to a desired exit.
The second method of numbering Interstate exits is the consecutive numbering system, which means Interstate exit numbers begin at the most southerly or westerly point and increase consecutively as you travel north or east. Using this method, the first exit on an Interstate as you travel south to north or west to east is Exit 1. Each exit thereafter increases consecutively as Exit 2, Exit 3 and so on. Few states use this method of numbering Interstate exits.
California’s Numbering System
As mentioned above, California does not use mile markers nor does it indicate exits with a number. This is changing, however. In January of 2002, California began erecting signs displaying exit numbers based on the mile marker system. Completion of this project is expected in 2008. The exit numbers and mile marker numbers used in this web site for California are based on the new proposed numbers that California has assigned.”
(me again)
Wikipedia also has two good articles on exit numbering:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_number
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_numbers_in_the_United_States
California has always been an oddball when it comes to road issues (The 1964 mass decertification of many US Highways, It’s unique version of the US Highway sign). It’s initial proposals for Interstate numbers were rejected by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) because they bore no resemblence to the rules laid down by AASHTO for numbering interstate highways. Don’t even get me started on Interstate 238.
Not everything in this world revolves around immigration. The renumbering of California exits is a case of Caltrans finally playing be the rules that everyone else uses.
I don’t consider it a rant. It is a clear depiction of the elitist mindset, how they are oblivious to the harm they are doing to America, and their greed. You nailed the essense of the battle we face.I consider illegal immigration the number 1 threat to the survival of America. We must rid ourselves of these parasites in D C or our country is finished!
I am not a trucker, but I realise their important role in everyday life.
If all the truckers in this country pulled over at the same time, this country would be in a real mess in one week.
In most cases, stores today don’t have warehouses, they depend on “just in time” deliveries.
In one week their shelves would be empty. People would be scrambling to buy the last can of water chestnuts. Any produce left in the coolers would be turning to slime that no starving third world famine victim would eat.
Homes out of heating fuel, gas stations out of gas. I believe this is the real picture of a trucking shutdown. Factories out of parts, their production lines shut down. This whole country depends on the trucking industry, and these elected officials, supposedly representing us, don’t have the balls to stop Mexican trucks.
Wher have all the MEN gone? they are too busy sucking d#$%s in airport toilets, or looking for their next bribe.
When a real American comes along, the formerly “main stream media” either ignores him, or trashes him for not having “compassion” or “feelings”. Today you have to think with your heart, not your head. It is much more “compassionate” to create jobs so people can fend for themselves, than to give them handouts.
Maybe the teamster “thugs” will be the salvation of this industry and all the industries that keep us all employed.
If it takes action against Mexican trucks, then who is to say what action is appropriate. If it were your lifestyle being taken from you, how far would you go?
He should be declared insane or charged with treason, or both.
Not true. I work at WM and while I have heartburn about the way they do things, hiring illegals is not one of them. They are uber-strict on the legal requirement. They are big targets for anyone with a grievance and don't want to invite problems.
Right on!
I was not referring to Walmart's hiring practices but to the experience of being a customer there.
The experience of shopping in upscale speciality stores where prices are much, much higher than Walmart and where the elites shop, is exactly the same as it always has been. In that world, illegal immigrants do not exist.
But in many Walmarts, a non-ethnic, heartland American now feels like he is in a third-world bazaar where ~he~ is the one who feels out of place and disrespected.
You could tell this was the governments goal years ago when we started seeing street signs with pictures on them instead of words and letters. Remember walk, don't walk? No we get a picture of a hand. Government and public school forms come in what, ten different languages now? Press 1 for.....
In some places you go into a crowd and all you hear is Spanish.
I lay blame to our federal government for their aiding and abetting the destruction of our borders and sovereignty.
Uh huh...Stand at the Port of Long Beach, watch the dozens of super structure cargo ships coming in from China every day, loaded down far below the water line, and watch most all of them leave empty, or with scrap metal, empty containers etc.
Are you suggesting that maritime shipping companies have yet to discover that sailing with an empty hold costs money?
Uh huh...Stand at the Port of Long Beach, watch the dozens of super structure cargo ships coming in from China every day, loaded down far below the water line, and watch most all of them leave empty, or with scrap metal, empty containers etc.
Are you suggesting that maritime shipping companies have yet to discover that sailing with an empty hold costs money?
I have no idea what the Chinese and others in Asia are thinking.
Are you suggesting the above is inaccurate, and our trade with China is fair and balanced?
Yes or no?
I've come to consider my President a traitor.
A “requirement” means absolutely NOTHING without enforcement.
Illegal aliens are REQUIRED to show up in court if they are arrested for a crime, yet the overwhelming majority of them do not. They are also REQUIRED to posses valid licenses if they drive, REQUIRED to not be drunk or high, and REQUIRED to keep their vehicles inspected... yet they don’t, because there is little to no enforcement of the law.
Laws mean nothing without enforcement, and lack of enforcement across the board is the main reason we are awash in illegals.
Precisely. Which is why the writer should have written the same instead of falsely claiming that there is no requirement in the first place.
I would think that is a quality you want in a President. You might not agree with everything Bush does, but his persistence is what got us (for example) the tax cuts.
Is there something you disagree with here? If so, state it.
And are you suggesting the above is inaccurate, and our trade with China is fair and balanced? Yes or no?
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