{"id":4629,"date":"2009-04-22T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2009-04-22T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T17:00:52","slug":"clueless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4629","title":{"rendered":"Clueless"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a fundamentally charitable person.<\/p>\n

I’m personally inclined to give people the benefit of a doubt. Especially someone who’s new at a job; good Lord, I have had teething pains on jobs.\u00a0 I am not one to cast the first stone, generally.<\/p>\n

But as Canada’s National Post notes, our DNS Secretary, Janet “There’s A Conservative Terrorist Under My Bed” Napolitano, is – words fail –\u00a0really, really stupid<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Can someone please tell us how U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job? She appears to be about as knowledgeable about border issues as a late-night radio call-in yahoo.<\/p>\n

In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. Napolitano attempted to justify her call for stricter border security on the premise that “suspected or known terrorists” have entered the U. S. across the Canadian border, including the perpetrators of the 9\/11 attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, by all means, let’s clamp down on that border…<\/p>\n

…presuming that she’s right:<\/p>\n

All the 9\/11 terrorists, of course, entered the United States directly from overseas. The notion that some arrived via Canada is a myth that briefly popped up in the wake of the 9\/11 attacks, and was then quickly debunked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good Lord.\u00a0 We have Grace Kelly running DHS.<\/p>\n

Informed of her error, Ms. Napolitano blustered: “I can’t talk to that. I can talk about the future. And here’s the future. The future is we have borders.”<\/p>\n

Just what does that mean, exactly?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It means “Don’t question me.\u00a0 I am associated with hope and change!\u00a0 You wanna end up on a watchlist, bub?”<\/p>\n

Just a few weeks ago, Ms. Napolitano equated Canada’s border to Mexico’s, suggesting they deserved the same treatment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That, of course, is PC – Par for the Course\u00a0– on the left; suggesting that maybe we should fence off the Mexican border brings a knowing pursing of the lips and a devastating riposte; “so what about the Canadian border?\u00a0 Or aren’t we worried <\/em>about white <\/em>illegal immigrants?”<\/p>\n

Right.\u00a0 Because we have gangs of Quebecois shooting Afro-Americans over drug turf in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Mexico is engulfed in a drug war that left more than 5,000 dead last year, and which is spawning a spillover kidnapping epidemic in Arizona. So many Mexicans enter the United States illegally that a multi-billion-dollar barrier has been built from Texas to California to keep them out.<\/p>\n

In Canada, on the other hand, the main problem is congestion resulting from cross-border trade. Not quite the same thing, is it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s called a “Nuance”, I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a fundamentally charitable person. I’m personally inclined to give people the benefit of a doubt. Especially someone who’s new at a job; good Lord, I have had teething pains on jobs.\u00a0 I am not one to cast the first stone, generally. But as Canada’s National Post notes, our DNS Secretary, Janet “There’s A Conservative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-pc","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}