"We the People...Update

Just a quick update. On July 3rd in "We the People..." I suggested that if Congress just agreed to talk about drilling in ANWAR and off our coasts the price of a barrel of oil would drop below $100. They haven't started talking yet but...President Bush recently lifted the ban on drilling off the coasts and ummm....guess what? Since he lifted the ban, it's suddenly been discovered there's currently an unexpected surplus of both oil reserves and refined gas. The price of a barrel of oil has dropped from it's all time high of $145 plus and closed today at $128.88. That's almost $20 in two weeks. I won't be so vain as to suggest that I knew what I was talking about but...makes you wonder if I was on to something, don't it? Of course, if it drops much further, I'm confident Iran will shoot off another missle or President Ahmforjihad will give a speech or sneeze or something that will shift the price upward again.

On the border....Have you heard anything in the news about the ongoing flood of drugs and illegals? I haven't, but during the week of 6-16 July, Border Patrol agents in Tucson Sector seized over 8,579 pounds of marijuana valued at $6,863,200. Arrests include 18 violent criminals, including 8 sex offenders, 6 gang members, and a homicide suspect. There were also 11 incidents of our BP agents getting "rocked" along the border. That's the quaint "custom" of illegals or smugglers throwing rocks at the familar green and white vehicles driven by the agents because they know they can do it with relative impunity since the BP is stretched so thin they can't chase and apprehend the rock throwers and still do their jobs.

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/border_security/border_patrol/weekly_blotter/0706_0716.xml

But during the same period, both Senators McCain and Obama met with La Raza and once again promised "comprehensive border reform" That's of course, the phrase that usually means "amnesty" for illegals already in this country.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mccain15-2008jul15,0,6247901.story?track=rss

La Raza, for those of you who don't know, is the Latino organization closely associated with MECHA who on their own web site speak plainly about their ulimate goal of reclaiming the southwestern United States for the Latio race. http://www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html

Are you brushing up on your Spanish yet?

As for the Global War on Terror....I've not been watching the Obama circus make it's may across Afghanistan and Iraq. What's the point of watching the networks "Oooh and Aaah" over the Senator who had his mind made up before he went over. Combat troops out of Iraq by 2010. McCain at least has said "no timetable" let the situation on the ground and the commanders in the field tell us when it's time to come home. He wanted to speak his point again in an OpEd piece in the New York Times but was told no thanks. Not unless you change your positions to one more like Senator Obama's.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/21/nyt_op-ed_page_sends_mccain_ir.html

Well....that's about enough for today. I'm still recovering from driving 500 miles round trip to watch my step son play in the 10-11 year old Little League state tournament in Johnson City, TN. Maryville beat Smith County Saturday 16-15. JD went 4 for 5 and Smith County scored 9 runs in the bottom of the sixth to almost pull it out. That....is a part of America that I pray to God never changes.