[skeggsaw]

Nothing to see here. Move along. We now resume our regularly scheduled michael jackson programming.....hey, look what martha is up to now....

The FACT that all this is happening and the gov't STILL insists that nothing is going on AND the sheeple are buying it is making me ill.

If the majority of folk in this country see fit to do nothing about what's REALLY happening, then we get what we deserve.

Keep your powder dry folks.

/rant off

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Hey A_D.

I totally agree with you here. In my world, i believe i'm surrounded by the biggest population of monkeys. I've been bringing this matter to peoples attention for a few years now and it's simply dismissed. The American Idol outcomes are what makes them tick.

We're closing in on a year since the europe stage was almost in effect. I'm not sure what is going on but i do recall reading some piece of chatter where they were saying something along the lines of "As time goes on, their fingers release on the trigger and we become better" .. As in, more participants? Instruments being calibrated and tweaked to a finer degree? The level of surprise due to the unexpectedness factor? All of the above?

I'm just pissed off that nobody sees eye to eye with me, and laugh at this threat. I think it's mainly due to the fact that these fockers are within the system, and invisible. Does the average monkey see a clip of a newly osama speech and simply think "That cave dweller is incapable of hitting us, hes in a cave! look at him, hes in a cave!" . Sorry for the repeat, but thats the way i see them percieving the WHOLE 20seconds of airtime that a videotaped message gets on the MSM.

First it was schiavo 24/7, now it's MJ and the pope. HELLO!!??!?!?! WHatever happened to larry kings round table talks with terrorism experts, the indepth analysis of what is really happening right now. What is going to effect us more, the outcome of MJ touching kids where they pee? Or a dirty/radiological/nuke (Take your pick, they've all been laid out on the table) decimating a city and killing thousands.

It makes me sick. Thankfully enough, this is the one place where I see eye to eye with others, people that realize the enormity of this threat and well, theres the rant i had to get off my chest. Even this new minutemen project, HI I AM A PLAN IN EFFECT 10YEARS TOO LATE! Have fun catching the freaking taco bell dog!

Peece everyone,

-skeggs.

[JustPiper]

U.S. to Tighten Border Controls, Require Passports
Americans Visiting Canada, Mexico, Panama, Bermuda Will Need Passports to Return
By BARRY SCHWEID, AP

WASHINGTON (April 5) - Americans will need passports to re-enter the United States from Canada, Mexico, Panama and Bermuda by 2008, part of a tightening of U.S. border controls in an era of terrorist threat, three administration officials said Tuesday.
Similarly, Canadians will also have to present a passport to enter the United States, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Canadians have been the only foreigners allowed to enter the United States with just a driver's license.

An announcement, expected later Tuesday at the State Department, will specify that a passport or another valid travel document will have to be shown by U.S. citizens, the officials said.

Until now, Americans returning home from Canada have needed only to show a driver's license or other government-issued photo identification card.

Americans returning from Mexico, Panama or Bermuda currently need only a government-issued photo identification card plus proof of U.S. citizenship like an original birth or naturalization certificate, according to the State Department's Web site.

The new rules, to be phased in by Jan. 1, 2008, were called for in intelligence legislation approved last year by Congress.
Safeguarding U.S. borders are a top concern of U.S. intelligence and security officials. The concern increased after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and on the Pentagon.

The travel industry has raised concerns that the changes might hamper tourism, one official said.

The announcement follows a three-way summit last month that President Bush held with Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada and President Vicente Fox of Mexico.

Speaking at Baylor University at Waco, Tex., Bush said border controls with Mexico had to be tightened to make sure that terrorists, drug runners, gun runners and smugglers do not enter the United States.

Besides a passport, re-entering Americans could use another approved travel document like frequent travel cards, which are issued to some people who travel often between the U.S. and Mexico. These cards typically are used to avoid long border-crossing lines.

But in most cases, only passports will do, another U.S. official said.

The new system will deal first with the Caribbean, then Mexico and Canada. It will start at airports and subsequently spread to land crossings, said an official speaking on condition of anonymity.

U.S. inspectors will bear less of a burden with the changes because they won't have to sift through different kinds of travel documents, the officials said.

(Associated Press reporters George Gedda and Lara Jakes Jordan contributed to this report.)

Source: AOL News