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Senators Eye 'Virtual,' Not Real Border WallVirtual fencing?WASHINGTON -- Senators writing an immigration reform bill are debating whether an actual or "virtual" fence should be built along parts of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Republicans are split on a proposal for a "virtual" fence, using cameras and other technology to monitor illegal traffic. Some want more real fences or walls for long stretches of the line.
Last year, the House passed a measure calling for hundreds of miles of fencing at heavily trafficked areas on the southwestern border and study of a possible fence along the Canadian border.
While discussion about a wall or fence continues, a Senate committee Thursday voted to increase the number of Border Patrol agents, but how many they agreed to add was uncertain.
Senators left a Judiciary Committee hearing with different totals on new agents they want hired. Their figures ranged from 2,000 and 2,400 a year to 10,800 over five years and 12,000 in just two years.
Great....we'll be safe from 'virtual' illegals.
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So, does the virtual fence mean they're gonna hand out shock collars to all illegals, to keep them in their yard? Isn't that how it works with most virtual fences?
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Old Post Remembered
Here's something I wrote a year ago that had me howling at describing the results of a quiz in school:
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Outraged!
This is one of the many things that I really missed while I was in the hospital and stranded with no Internet:
Thanks again to xardoz for the Paypal link on 'Attack Cartoons'.....it really means a lot to see the support I'm getting from everyone.
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Hey Mikey, glad to see that you are home finally. Take care and will talk with you soon.
|| Posted by kilabe, March 9, 2006 07:22 AM ||woo hey,
good to know you're doing better.if you get up to l.a. i'll buy you a beer.
john
|| Posted by john, March 9, 2006 07:49 PM ||attackcartoons
A better line for that would be "He should have been flying a plane into a building."
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Someone Finally Acts
Then I read the story and saw that it was just beefing up the crossing points, etc.
Still think they should dig a trench and fill it with gasoline.....
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Claymores and machine gun nests.
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I'm Back (Part II)
During my time in the ICU while in a coma, the medicals staff had a plethora of machines wired to me......
.....so many, that even my little girl got in on the humor flowing around to keep everyone's spirits up. She was reported to have quoted some Monty Python:
"Oh look, it's the machine that goes PING!"
A smart-ass in training if I ever heard that before.....makes me swell with pride!
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*snort*
|| Posted by caltechgirl, March 8, 2006 12:12 PM ||Love it!
Glad you're back up and running, buddy. I've cribbed your PayPal contribution button onto AttackCartoons.com (lower left margin). Hope it helps!
|| Posted by xardoz, March 8, 2006 12:33 PM ||Its damn good to see you back my friend.
|| Posted by LindaSoG, March 8, 2006 04:06 PM ||xardoz - Thanks for the support!! I'm still LMAO at John's toons....I truly missed em!
Linda - Glad to be back and alive! Made me rethink a lot of things about my life and just how much work I've got to do in my remaining time....
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, March 8, 2006 07:16 PM ||Ah, Mikey...I am so glad to see you are feeling a bit better and have retained your humor. I have accepted that you didn't wake yp liberal..we did have a Vast left wing conspiracy to convert you, via tapes played for you to sublimanally absorb whilst you slept. Alas, it didn't work, however..I still love ya anyway. Been busy with school..made Dean's List last semester, and been doing fun things like writing papers on Marx and Durkheim.
|| Posted by ruthie, March 8, 2006 07:51 PM ||Friend..it is really wonderful to have you back among us. My best to Amy and M. ...Ruthie
Thanks Ruthie!
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, March 8, 2006 08:06 PM ||"Glad to be back and alive! Made me rethink a lot of things about my life and just how much work I've got to do in my remaining time" These words of wisdom need to be seen daily by all. Ever consider putting the quote on your sidebar? I've been coming over via Bou's site to check on you. Blessings to you and yours~
|| Posted by h~, March 10, 2006 10:57 AM ||So glad you are back and in fine form. I have squished some kitties in thanksgiving for your return.
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March 06, 2006
Work-In-Progress
Going to attempt to make an 'About Mad Mikey' page to explain some of the finer nuances of myself - mainly my monicker so as to make sure that everyone knows that I don't have some 'anger management issues'.
So if you get some screwed up page, it's probably cause I'm in my 'room full of chimps and a typewriter' mindset.
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So if the writing is insightful and coherent, it's the chimps.
|| Posted by Alan Kellogg, March 7, 2006 08:37 AM ||Congratulations on being alive and still having a mind. Both of us lucked out on that, Corey Plunket didn't.
My stroke was just 20 years ago. I still notice aftereffects. I used to be right handed, now I'm almost ambidexterous. I used to laugh at certain things, now when I think about them deep emotion wells up and I find myself crying.
Worse, I have memory brainfarts. Unless I write something down, speak it, and force myself to remember it, the data goes vague. And sometimes I go blank on a word and have to work my way around it.
I presume you already have the NERF balls. My right hand was partially frozen and I had to start off jerking my whole right side for hours a day in the hospital bed before I was able to get first, control of the hand, then the fingers. Eventually I got a computer typing tutor program and got control of my fingers (I used to type with four fingers before the stroke, now I can do all ten.)
My English handwriting was passable, now it is utterly wretched. My Russian handwriting, learned as an adult and therefore not so centrally localized in my brain (distributed, like the Internet!) survived and I find it easier to use semi-cyrillic characters when I handwrite.
On the day of the stroke and the day after my eyesight suffered. I had taken some Russian SF fanzines (then newly legal) with me to the hospital and I could not disginguish between certain letters. That lasted two or three days.
It only took me a day to re-master chop sticks, but unless I am actually thinking about holding something in my right hand I sometimes go slack and drop it. That doesn't happen with chopsticks and food.
I had a fairly quick recovery -- I was back at work in a month -- but I still have problems. One's spincter muscles are controlled by both sides of the brain and one side doesn't work all that well. If your doctor gives you a diuretic for blood pressure control, watch out!
I suspect you don't need this advice, but when people try to help you, stare at them and thank them and tell them to go away. The frustration and inconvenience work as superb motivations, and if you find doing something you used to do difficult now, you're going to have to exercise your body to be able to do it.
|| Posted by John H. Costello, March 7, 2006 07:45 PM ||And good luck and congratulations on beating the Grim Reaper again.
John
I'm very lucky as compared to most stroke victims - I missed the bullet(s) and so far (knock on wood) haven't suffered any sort of permenant damage except for being as weak as a two-day old kitten; the weakness is from being in the coma for several weeks and then being basically confined to my hospital bed by the mobility Nazis who were afraid that I would take a head-dive into floor.
I have noticed that my signature is a little 'wobbly'. I'm not fluent in it, but I'm remembering alot of my basic Spanish. My highschool German is a lost cause for the moment.
I was having short-term memory problems before the stroke - problem is still there and I'm learning to work around it myself.
While I haven't really 'challenged' myself mentally (I was able to do calculus in my head, much to the amazment of my friends), but what I'm kind of worried about is my ability to play my bass guitar. I'm working on getting it tweaked/tuned up soon and will see if I can still remember some of the riffs that came natually. More on that when it happens/doesn't happen.
Nerf ball? No such animals yet.
...stare at them and thank them and tell them to go away.
LMAO!!! Excellent advice!!!
Thanks for the advice and encouragement - it really helps!
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, March 8, 2006 08:37 AM ||
|| Posted by John Costello, March 8, 2006 08:17 PM ||A large nerf ball is very useful as hand exericse. I still use it every so often. Basically drum your fingers into the nerf ball one after the other and keep it up for a while. The nerf fights back; I used to alternate that and Typing Tutor. I suspect the guitar fingering exericses will do that for you.
The weakness is standard for a week or three in bed. Time yourself to see how long you can sit up at your computer, and try longer and longer each day. Keep out of bed if you can, but if you're exhausted just sleep.
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Law Schools Punked
You Harvard punks - now you have to either stop taking Federal funding for your 'special' projects or allow recruiters back on campus:
Read More of "Law Schools Punked"Now you sanctimonious hypocrites have to play nice or drum up funding from other sources....and you'll note that this wasn't a 'split' decision - it was unanimous.....even the liberal members of the court recognize just how stupid your argument was.
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Woo-Hoo! Score one for the good guys....
|| Posted by Tetzman, March 6, 2006 08:54 AM ||Now if they can just reverse that ridiculous Imminent Domain decision!
I'd have no problem with this. Put the fucker in the boiler room.
|| Posted by scroff, March 7, 2006 05:00 PM ||What are you really getting at Scroff? [/goofy, drooling smirk]
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March 05, 2006
Name That Movie!
Yogimus has a trivia question that I totally blew away in about 0.3 nanoseconds:
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Name That movie!
I don't understand what happened to you two!
-Well, we used to be pussweeds, but now we're metal! Now get over here and put out!
My response:
Since I now have (at least) two screws in my noggin, I know exactly which movie it is:
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
My wife & I have been joking that I'm totally metal dude!! with the addition of this hardware
Now I just have to avoid making stupid jokes at the airport.....
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LoL. Use that exact quote when the guy wands your head and asks you what's up.
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