Posted on 05/07/2006 5:33:36 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, May 7th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich.; Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Washington Nationals co-owner Mark Lerner.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Bush impersonator Steve Bridges.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.; Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas; Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; outgoing White House press secretary Scott McClellan.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt; Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan.; Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.; Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie; former CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin.
And Mickey Mouse is like Arnold Schwarzenegger. "I'll be back" lol.
It was never under DOD in peacetime. It was part of Treasury for 177 years before it moved over to the Department of Transportation in 1967 and then to DHS in 2002.
Upon declaration of war, or when directed by the President, the Coast Guard becomes a Service within the Navy with the Commandant reporting to the Secretary of the Navy (he reports to the Chief of Naval Operations for military functions concerning the organization, training, and readiness of operational forces assigned to the Navy). The Coast Guard is a military Service and a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States at all times. It is a Service in DHS except when operating as part of the Navy on declaration of war or when the President directs.
The Coast Guard, whichever administrative structure it falls under, offers the best compromise on that question as well as the institutional abilities to carry out the various missions. The Coast Guard already guards our nations "border sovereignty" by guarding our sea lanes.
The US Navy guards our sea lanes.
Maintaining the integrity of the borders requires some different skills and lots of additional and different equipment, but it's the same mission. In addtion the CG has a great tradition of responding to natural and man made disasters. Finally they are not covered by Posse Comitatus and have police powers, unique in the US Armed Forces.
The US Coast Guard's mission is to protect the public, the environment, and U.S. economic interests – in the nation’s ports and waterways, along the coast, on international waters, or in any maritime region as required to support national security. It has about 39,000 military personnel and 7,000 civilians.
I'd model new CG units on Marine Expeditionary Units and base them at strategic points along our southern border. Add in the ability to move such units from their bases to anywhere in the continental US to respond to disasters and you have a interesting force structure. I'd start by stealing an MEU or two on rotation out of Iraq. Move them to the new bases and have them start setting up camp as traditional MEUs. Give them the mission of border control under emergency conditions. Call for volunteers from each MEU to form the core of a new cadre. Keep them and transfer out the rest of the MEU as you get in new CG recruits to fill billets.
What you are proposing is a new, land based mission for the CG. We already have 10,000 border patrol agents in DHS who are doing the same thing. What we need are more border patrol agents, physical barriers, and technology to control our southern land border with Mexico. The Coast Guard is tasked with protecting our sea coasts. Why create a new mission for the Coast Guard?
Cool! Thanks for the info. Will need to check with our in-laws to see if they are taking advantage.
Don't think you have no competition in this pursuit!
Oh Puleeze,knock off the accusations. How do you know that I am not Italian? I generalized because a lot of freepers know about the Baltimore Pelosi's, and it is decades ago. Links today would be far and few between. My point is that she talks about Corruption as if she and her family were strangers to it. They are not. Maybe we will post a thread by itself for Baltimore Historians that can fill everyone in on the matter. I have been on FR for about 6 years now and I have seen many,many posts on the matter. I did not save them.
Who made you God?
The debating point of a true liberal. Hey Dave S who made you adequate?
I LOVE that Opinion Journal show..it is so informative..without the talking over each other debates that are annoying and tiresome...
I forgot about John Gibson...I like his show also..I wish they would repeat it later in the evening..
Caputo is good...until he insists on having Playboy bunnies, or Victoria's Secrets models on....I am not really "into" looking at mostly naked women...lol
Yes, but you know what I meant.
What you are proposing is a new, land based mission for the CG. We already have 10,000 border patrol agents in DHS who are doing the same thing. What we need are more border patrol agents, physical barriers, and technology to control our southern land border with Mexico. The Coast Guard is tasked with protecting our sea coasts. Why create a new mission for the Coast Guard?
The border patrol ain't cutting it and they are too tied up with "la Migre" to be anything but "the enemy" to immigrants. If they are moved in as part of the CG structure you have a very good beginning of the force structure necessary. Add in the MEU type RDF under the CG command structure and tradition and I think you have a winning formula.
It's all about how they are perceived.
The BP has an image which is both incapable of doing the job and universally perceived as "the bad guys." How many movies can you think of where border patrol types were the bad guys? I can think of quite a few. Now, how many movies can you think of with CG types as the bad guys? I can't think of any.
And the drug cartels would s**t bricks.
Thanks for that info,but this was not General Wikipedia type info , this was insider info from Baltimorans(native ballmer'ns) involving kickbacks and in the Brother's case sexual assault. I could not remember her Maiden name off hand. You are right,there have been a lot of posts over the years talking about how the apple does not fall very far from the tree, and why.
If Conyers gets the chairmanship of the House Judiciary Committee, there will be impeachment hearings. He's already practiced by holding his fake ones.
Great! ROTFLMBO
My daughter has acne medication that costs 2x that amount.
I bet he gets on his knees every night and PRAYS for his chance to "get" President Bush.
You got that right. His son makes every conservative cringe. His adopted son is more like him than his natural Son. I do not even think he looks like the Reagan side of the family.
Good point, I woult have probably gotten there but for the late night last night. Wasn't Reagan great?
Do you ever feel that we are Amateur shrinks for these mentally ill people? I cannot imagine being so driven that you would suffer humiliation after humiliation for decades and still put yourself through more to come for a Power that you will never achieve. she is not willing to admit that she is such a mean,nasty,two faced,hanger on turn-off to even Dems that she will never get a plurality of voters to pick her to be President.
Agreed it wasn't general wikipedia type info, but was starting there to get her maiden name and info on her dad. I did a search of her dad's name on msn and other variations (including his resignation from congress) but couldn't come up w anything except info about her and her bro. I think the info is out there, just doesn't appear to be on the internet. Curious that he resigned from congress - - just couldn't find why.
" Which image is NOT Pelosi on MTP, Sunday, May 7, 2006? "
Pelosi also has the Joan Crawford, Mommy Dearest look.
I bet she shrieks " No... Wire ...Hangars " in the House cloakroom .
Don't be too hard on VandenHoople, my favorite trust fund Marxist. She is the greatest comedy act on TV.
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