Steaming Load Award - A Double Duece Drop!

Oh Wow! Boy do I feel sorry for Porcus & Spike the Wonder Tyke over at PIG.

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f this is a sign of what's coming for the Korrectnik's in year 5, Sparky's & Sparkette's you better buckle up!

It looks as if Hambo may have broken through his steel reinforced door. Maybe it's too much sugar from the frosting on their birthday cake - but he dished up a double duece drop of the Steaming Load Award this week....

Steaming Load #1: The Virtual Fence

According to a Washington Post news item, the Vicente W. Bush’s ‘virtual’ fence along our border is a ‘literal’ failure. Despite all the bloviating by that jackass Chertoff, and all the other presidential minions, the damn thing doesn’t work. That’s not breaking news to this pagan scribbler and it shouldn’t shock you either, PIGster Sparky.

For the fetid facts, I let the Post do the heavy lifting:

‘...Investigators for the Government Accountability Office had earlier warned that the effort was beset by both expected and unplanned difficulties. But yesterday, they disclosed new troubles that will require a redesign and said the first phase will not be completed until near the end of the next president's first term.

Those problems included Boeing's use of inappropriate commercial software, designed for use by police dispatchers, to integrate data related to illicit border-crossings. Boeing has already been paid $20.6 million for the pilot project, and in December, the DHS gave the firm another $65 million to replace the software with military-style, battle management software...’

‘..."The total cost is not yet known," testified Richard M. Stana, the GAO's director of homeland security issues, because DHS officials "do not yet know the type of terrain where the fencing is to be constructed, the materials to be used, or the cost to acquire the land."

The pilot virtual fence included nine mobile towers, radar, cameras, and vehicles retrofitted with laptops and satellite phones or handheld devices. They were to be linked to a near-real-time, maplike projection of the frontier that agents could use to track targets and direct law enforcement resources.

GAO investigators said that Boeing's software could not process large amounts of sensor data. The resulting delays made it hard for operators in a Tucson command center 65 miles to the north to lock cameras on targets. Radar systems were also triggered inadvertently by rain and other environmental factors. Cameras had trouble resolving images at five kilometers when they were expected to work at twice that distance, Stana said.

He added that the system was developed with "minimal input" from Border Patrol agents, resulting in an unworkable "demonstration project" instead of a operating pilot system. He blamed the DHS for acting too hastily in trying to deliver a working pilot by last June...’ (Post)

When you cut through all the crap, the existing virtual fence design sucks. The primary contractor, Boeing, can’t deliver a finished product by the end of its contract and will probably need an extension. If, somehow, they get the damn thing working, it will be too little, too late, and way too damn expensive.

Isn’t it time for Uncle Sam to cut the crap and get back to basics? Isn’t it time for our Elected Tormentors to impose MEANINGFUL penalties on employers who hire border jumpers? Isn’t it time to build some formidable physical barriers along our borders? Isn’t it time to give to take the shackles off our Border Patrol by giving them the manpower, money and weaponry that they require to do their job effectively? It’s time for Uncle Sam to stop playing at border enforcement. It's time to get the damn job done the old fashioned way with barriers, manpower, weapons, and meaningful punishment for those to barge into our great nation, uninvited.

Parting shot: If Vicente Bush is so thrilled with virtual fences, let him road test the damn thing at the White House and his ranch in Crawford.

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Steaming Load #2: Demoncrat Energy Policy Fiddling

With oil prices setting new records, hourly and gasoline prices headed into the stratosphere, the Clown Posse on Capitol Hill pooped out a steaming butt bullet that turns a desperate situation into a disaster. Instead of taking the shackles off our energy industry by opening up our proven oil reserves for development, these Demoncrat asshats passed a bill that will kick up prices much, much higher.

Determined to punish the oil companies, these Demoncrat jackasses are looting oil company bank accounts with new taxes (the removal of a pair of tax breaks) that will steal an additional $17.65 billion dollars (minimum) from them during the next 10 years. And what, you ask, will these Congressional turds do with the money? They’re going to fund the usual, pie in the sky bull crap that’s notoriously inefficient, at best (wind power) and a disaster on the US economy, at worst (biofuels like methanol).

If enacted, this bill will put American oil firms at a competitive disadvantage with their foreign competitors. Furthermore, it will increase their costs by removing the tax credit for costs incurred while extracting gas and oil outside the USA. Add that to the ban on exploiting domestic sources and the Demoncrat scumbags are condemning American energy consumers to the tender mercies of our steadfast friends, like Hugo ‘Skipper’ Chavez, Mahmoud al-Gilligan, and the Jihadikaze spewing Sand Box punks.

We need nuclear power plants NOW. We need new oil refineries NOW. We need to open up all our domestic oil reserves for production NOW. We need to use our massive coal reserves much more efficiently NOW. We need to stop pretending that biofuels, wind energy, and assorted other pipe dreams can have a meaningful impact on our energy needs in the foreseeable future.

We can’t do any of this while these Steaming Elected Tormentor Loads are stinking up Washington D.C. It’s time to flush them down the crapper, clean the stains out of the bowl, than put some rational adults in their place.

Perpetrated by: Hambo