America's Third War

Texas Farmers Under Attack at the Border
By Kris Gutiérrez

'Published March 03, 2011 FoxNews.com In Texas, nearly 8,200 farms and ranches back up to the Mexican border. The men and women who live and work on those properties say they’re under attack from the same drug cartels blamed for thousands of murders in Mexico. “It’s a war, make no mistake about it,” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples said. “And it’s happening on American soil.” Texas farmers and ranchers produce more cotton and more cattle than any other state, so Staples is concerned this war could eventually impact our food supply, and calls it a threat to our national security. “Farmers and ranchers are being run off their own property by armed terrorists showing up and telling them they have to leave their land,” Staples said. To raise awareness, Commissioner Staples launched the website ProtectYourTexasBorder.com. It’s a place where frustrated and scared farmers can share their stories. One Texas farmer, who asked not to be identified, said it’s common for him to see undocumented immigrants walking through his property. “I see something, I just drive away,” he said. “It is a problem, I’ve learned to live with it and pretty much, I’ve become numb to it.” Another farmer, Joe Aguilar, said enough is enough. After walking up on armed gunmen sneaking undocumented immigrants into the United States through his land, Aguilar decided to sell his farm.“It’s really sad to say, you either have to beat ‘em or join ‘em and I decided not to do either,” Aguilar said. Aguilar's family farmed 6,000 acres of land along the Texas-Mexico border for nearly 100 years. “Our farmers and ranchers can’t afford their own security detail,” Staples said. “We’re going to become more dependent on food from foreign sources. Americans don’t like being dependent on foreign oil, they won’t stand for being dependent on foreign food.” For more on the battle at our border, visit http://www.ProtectYourTexasBorder.com.'

We need to bring our troops back and face this INVASION. That's right, I called it an invasion. Somewhere along the way, the U.S. became the worlds peace keeping force. This is wrong. There are war fighting forces and Justice forces. They are not the same. Justice is about punishing those who break the rules.

War is about removing their ability to break the rules. It doesn't matter if the steps you have to take to render them impotent are unjust, because War is not Justice.

If we really wanted to make "War" on the drug problem, we'd do it by taking crop dusters and glyphosphating huge swaths of the jungle that showed up as a certain albedo in satellite photography (This tech can tell you what 'kind of crops' are being grown), and then killing the drug loads, shooting down the smuggling planes, shoving a Maverick up the ass of the smuggling boats, gunning down pushers in the streets, etc.

But we are making "war" instead, and we are doing it with our "Justice" people. And so we pervert both the idea of War and the idea of Justice.

So bring our troops back, suspend Posse comitatus (I think this CAN be done in time of invasion), have our warriors make war and wipe out the problem.

For those who do not know a Federal statute known as the Posse Comitatus Act forbids the use of the United States Army, and through it, its offspring, the United States Air Force for law enforcement purposes.

The current 'solution' is like trying to make a cookie out of cat-sh!t. It might look like a cookie, but it still tastes like cat sh!t. If something is not done, and SOON, one of two things will happen. We will lose the border farms (that's why it is an INVASION) or people will start defending what is theirs. Remember my post about Don Alejo?
John F. Kennedy said, "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
This is the type of thinking we need if our beliefs and (with drug gangs) lives are to continue.


Happy Birthday to "The Star-Spangled Banner", it was officially adopted as our national anthem 80 years ago today.

Dan Emplit WBFD

Where's the online budget?

OK it's now March 1 and still no online budget for Wilkes-Barre. Fiction Day was back on December 9, you remember the day that city council passes whatever fiction dictator Leighton puts in front of them.
But now, after almost 3 months, The budget isn't online. Going to city hall and getting it is a joke. Last year a Firefighter went and asked for a copy, was told it would be ready in a week, and what he got was the total expenditures for the budget. One numerical sum........ on a post it note........ and he had to pay for it.
So here we are starting the third month of the year and it is still not posted. Makes you wonder 'WHY'? My take? Leighton doesn't want anyone seeing his fiction before the primary.
To quote an older post of mine, "Well look at what he has done in the past, in 2009 the city payed $322,000 in overtime because we didn't have enough fire fighters. He didn't hire any. So for 2010 you can expect to pay around $322,000 in overtime. That's common sense. Obviously he lacks that trait, because he budgeted only $125,000. Then complained the FD had gone through that amount in 3 months. We have no reason to believe that the common sense fairy has visited him in the last few months."
And would I point that out? Are you kidding me, of course I would. With this administration pulling games like selling the Old River Road bakery to his campaign contributors for 8 cents on the dollar? Violating contracts so he can give them to a campaign contributor? Remember that cost the city $225,000 (Which if you add the $50,000/ year the city gets from LAG, after 5 years we just broke even!!) And don't forget Leighton believes Constitutional Rights are an inconvenience, costing us $220,000+.
Oh and lets not forget Leighton patting himself on the back for getting $50 million to replace 4 bridges AND FIX SOLOMAN CREEK. The bridges were fixed (costing about $11.2 million) and NOTHING WAS DONE TO THE CREEK. So where's the rest of the $50 million? $38.8 million MIA or never recieved.
There is just TOO much for one post.


Dan Emplit WBFD
AKA Don Quixote

Is this true?

"This picture is worth a trillion $$



House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)

The guy sitting in the row in front of these two....he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.

These are the folks that couldn't get the budget out by Oct. 1 (last year) , and are about to control your health care, cap and trade, and the list goes on and on….
Should we buy them larger screen computers - or - a ticket home, permanently?

This is one of their 3-DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for (salary is about $179,000 per year).

KEEP THIS GOING! DON'T LET IT STOP WITH YOU! "

I was sent this by email. If it's true, we need to clean out DC.

THIS WILL HAPPEN, It's only a matter of time

Monday, February 28, 2011

"The other day I added to our "Here's Why We Search" page with some information I got about a rescue that was made in Charlotte, North Carolina. An 11 year-old boy was rescued from the second floor of his burning home by Charlotte Firefighters; his parents and older brother had escaped. Kevin Boardman did what many other 11 year-olds would have done: when he realized that the house was on fire he went back in to try and save his animals.

Companies from the CFD arrived on scene and heard that Kevin was inside. It was just before 5:30 in the morning; a family gathered on the front lawn telling the crews that their younger son was inside; the building was deteriorating rapidly. The fire was burning up the basement stairs and spreading up the stairwell. The crew of a Rescue Company committed the search the second floor while an Engine Crew dug in the protect the stairwell. Conditions were bad: visibility was close to zero; heat was banking down to the floor; the signs of rollover were present in the smoke pushing up the stairwell. The firefighters searching knew that flashover was a real possibility. The Engine crew knew that if they did not hold the fire in check for the searching members from the Rescue that things would go very badly. The efforts of these warriors resulted in Kevin being pulled from the building. He was injured, but alive. He was rushed to the hospital and then flown to a burn center.

Kevin died from his injuries. He fought for awhile: from early Thursday morning February 3rd, until the evening of Saturday the 5th Kevin (and a team of Doctors and Nurses) fought for life. He ultimately succumbed to his injuries. My thoughts are with Kevin's family.

I bring this story up to continue the debate we started back with my post "%$#@ Victim Survivability Profiling... Do Your Primary Search." Based on the criteria that Captain Marsar published in his Fire Engineering articles those crews should not have committed to the search. The smoke conditions were such that CO and HCN were present in abundance. The likelihood of a viable victim being rescued was slight based on the studies he has referenced. However, the fact remains that the brave men and women of the Charlotte Fire Department committed to a very marginal set of conditions and managed to rescue a victim. There are those who might say, "But he died," as if that were evidence that the choice to search bordered on reckless.

I will pose this question. Would you have wanted another thirty hours with your 11 year-old before he died? That's what those warriors did; they crawled into a hell that easily could have killed or maimed any of them and in doing so they gave those parents, and Kevin's older brother, the chance to see him, to say good bye. To have a memory of holding his hand one last time, not one of a sudden and surreal loss. When Kurt Vonnegut spoke of the Fire Engine and a symbol of man's humanity to man it was that kind of Courage and sense of Duty he was speaking of.

Posted by Christopher Brennan"

Unfortunately, due directly to dictator Leighton, we may not have the manpower to even try a search like this with any chance at safety. Knowing my brothers on the WBFD we will try anyway, but this is an instance where the NFPA National Standard of 16 men on scene (and the city authorized Lloyds study of 17) comes into play.
The mayors decision to cut the Fire department to 12 men per shift and then rely on calling out firemen or hoping for assistance from surrounding cities puts both the citizens and the firefighters at risk. It isn't just the number of firefighters on scene, it is the number of firefighters on scene in the critical amount of time (measured in minutes).Leighton knows this (I've pointed it out... A LOT), but HE DOESN'T CARE. Unless it benefits him or his campaign contributors.
I ask that you think of your children, your spouse, your parents all your loved ones. They do not deserve to have their lives risked because of Leighton and his political agenda.

1 Screwed up selling the Sterling hotel (costing us $325,000)
2 Bad faith moves
3 Back room deals
4 Tried to sell city property for 8 cents on the dollar to a campaign contributor
5 Lied to county officials to get tax forgiveness to a campaign contributor
6 Cut our safety to fund HIS pet projects
7 The whole Ice Rink, which was supposed to revitalize W-B, HOW?
8 The largely worthless camera system
9 Raised taxes and fees to an all time high.
10 Racked up MASSIVE lawsuit debts
11 Violated a contract (Citywide Towing's contract) so he could give it to a campaign contributor (that cost us $225,000)
12 Trying to sell W-B property (Tax Free) to a campaign contributor (Known for not paying his own taxes)
13 Outright lies to us (The citizens of Wilkes-Barre)
14 Blaming anyone and everyone for his failures (remember the 'I believe' campaign, "I wouldn't say I oversold it. I think maybe the media did," Mayor Leighton said. (WNEP June 10, 2005) AKA It's not my fault, it's the medias)
15 Ignoring the Lloyds Study (which states the minimum FD manning per shift is 17) and cutting manning to 12 per shift
16 VIOLATED CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, TWICE !!! (Denise Carey & the Hammonds). That's cost us over $275,000.


Dan Emplit WBFD
AKA Don Quixote

Last living U.S. WWI vet dies in W. Va. at age 110

"MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - He was repeatedly rejected by military recruiters and got into uniform at 16 after lying about his age. But Frank Buckles would later become the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I.

Buckles, who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines in World War II, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in Charles Town, biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said in a statement. He was 110.

Buckles had been advocating for a national memorial honoring veterans of the Great War in the nation's capital.

When asked in February 2008 how it felt to be the last of his kind, he said simply, "I realized that somebody had to be, and it was me." And he told The Associated Press he would have done it all over again, "without a doubt."

On Nov. 11, 2008, the 90th anniversary of the end of the war, Buckles attended a ceremony at the grave of World War I Gen. John Pershing in Arlington National Cemetery.

He was back in Washington a year later to endorse a proposal to rededicate the existing World War I memorial on the National Mall as the official National World War I Memorial. He told a Senate panel it was "an excellent idea." The memorial was originally built to honor District of Columbia's war dead.

Born in Missouri in 1901 and raised in Oklahoma, Buckles visited a string of military recruiters after the United States entered the "war to end all wars" in April 1917. He was repeatedly rejected before convincing an Army captain he was 18. He was actually 16 1/2.

"A boy of (that age), he's not afraid of anything. He wants to get in there," Buckles said.

Details for services and arrangements will be announced later this week. The family asks that donations be made to the National World War One Legacy Project. The project is managed by the nonprofit Survivor Quest and will educate students about Buckles and WWI through a documentary and traveling educational exhibition.

More than 4.7 million people joined the U.S. military from 1917-18. As of spring 2007, only three were still alive, according to a tally by the Department of Veterans Affairs: Buckles, J. Russell Coffey of Ohio and Harry Richard Landis of Florida.

The dwindling roster prompted a flurry of public interest, and Buckles went to Washington in May 2007 to serve as grand marshal of the national Memorial Day parade.

Coffey died Dec. 20, 2007, at age 109, while Landis died Feb. 4, 2008, at 108. Unlike Buckles, those two men were still in basic training in the United States when the war ended and did not make it overseas.

The last known Canadian veteran of the war, John Babcock of Spokane, Wash., died in February 2010.

There are no French or German veterans of the war left alive.

Buckles served in England and France, working mainly as a driver and a warehouse clerk. The fact he did not see combat didn't diminish his service, he said: "Didn't I make every effort?"

An eager student of culture and language, he used his off-duty hours to learn German, visit cathedrals, museums and tombs, and bicycle in the French countryside.

After Armistice Day, Buckles helped return prisoners of war to Germany. He returned to the United States in January 1920.

Buckles returned to Oklahoma for a while, then moved to Canada, where he worked a series of jobs before heading for New York City. There, he again took advantage of free museums, worked out at the YMCA, and landed jobs in banking and advertising.

But it was the shipping industry that suited him best, and he worked around the world for the White Star Line Steamship Co. and W.R. Grace & Co.

In 1941, while on business in the Philippines, Buckles was captured by the Japanese. He spent more than three years in prison camps.

"I was never actually looking for adventure," Buckles once said. "It just came to me."

He married in 1946 and moved to his farm in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle in 1954, where he and wife Audrey raised their daughter, Susannah Flanagan. Audrey Buckles died in 1999.

In spring 2007, Buckles told the AP of the trouble he went through to get into the military.

"I went to the state fair up in Wichita, Kansas, and while there, went to the recruiting station for the Marine Corps," he said. "The nice Marine sergeant said I was too young when I gave my age as 18, said I had to be 21."

Buckles returned a week later.

"I went back to the recruiting sergeant, and this time I was 21," he said with a grin. "I passed the inspection ... but he told me I just wasn't heavy enough."

Then he tried the Navy, whose recruiter told Buckles he was flat-footed.

Buckles wouldn't quit. In Oklahoma City, an Army captain demanded a birth certificate.

"I told him birth certificates were not made in Missouri when I was born, that the record was in a family Bible. I said, 'You don't want me to bring the family Bible down, do you?"' Buckles said with a laugh. "He said, 'OK, we'll take you."'

He enlisted Aug. 14, 1917, serial number 15577."

RIP Mr. Frank Buckles
General Pershing's Last Patriot
He was the last man standing among U.S. troops who were called "The Doughboys."



Dan Emplit WBFD

Bath Salts make the news

Bath salts used as drug worry cops

"Inmate says high is similar to that of cocaine. Police say there is nothing they can do. By Edward Lewis elewis@timesleader.com Staff Writer

KINGSTON – A police officer was patrolling the streets when he encountered a man yelling into his hand a few weeks ago.
When the officer stopped his cruiser and asked what was going on, the man started screaming profanities at a tree.

“We found out he was high on bath salts and hadn’t slept in three days,” said an undercover drug detective. “He thought he was arguing with someone on a cell phone.”

Bath salts are the most recent concern among law enforcement officers in the area. Their greatest worry is that buying bath salts is legal, even for a juvenile.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, bath salts are synthetic stimulants that contain various amphetamine-like chemicals. Being under the influence of bath salts is similar to cocaine, said a Luzerne County inmate who requested anonymity.

The 32-year-old inmate from Wilkes-Barre, interviewed in front of several Kingston police officers and before a preliminary hearing in front of District Judge Paul Roberts last week, said the effects of bath salts is “10 times” greater than cocaine.

“It’s your speed and cocaine and it’s 10 times better,” the inmate said. “That stuff is really addictive.”

Long addicted to opiates, the inmate said he started using bath salts about six months ago when he spotted packages of the items at the checkout counter in a Kingston store.

“I asked the lady, ‘What is this?’ and she just smiled saying it is good (expletive),” the inmate said. “I liked it a lot and I wanted it every day after that.”

The undercover detective said bath salts sell for $30 to $40 for a half-gram, and is marketed by special names such as Ivory Wave, Vanilla Sky or Purple Wave. Though packages may have a warning sign that says “Not for Human Consumption,” the detective said the synthetic stimulant is either smoked, snorted or injected.

“We can’t detain anybody if they’re under the influence of this stuff, because it’s legal,” the detective said.

Adverse effects of bath salts, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, include extreme paranoia, hallucinations, rapid heart rate, suicidal thoughts, disorientation, insomnia and kidney failure to name just several.

The detective said juveniles on probation can legally take bath salts and pass a drug urine test.

“It’s not illegal, but they get the same high from taking this stuff,” the detective said.

The state House Judiciary Committee recently passed House Bill 567 that would make synthetic bath salts illegal to possess and sell. The bill is now in the full House for consideration."

Crime Free Wilkes-Barre and I posted about these a few weeks ago.

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WilkesBarreTV video taped last nights council meeting. Here it is




He said he will begin taping them all.