We’ve all heard by now Pixar gave Disney the boot. Michele weighs in on the death of Disney at the hands of Pixar.

DeDoc regales us with some little known facts that may make this oh so sweet.

And Lair’s acid tongue gives Michael Eisner a deserved lashing.

There’s even a site, Save Disney.com, an interesting read. Of course, my favorite quote is the one from Steve Jobs of course.

“After 10 months of trying to strike a deal with Disney, we’re moving on. We’ve had a great run together — one of the most successful in Hollywood history — and it’s a shame that Disney won’t be participating in Pixar’s future successes.”

Heh, gotta love it. Hey, I hold no animosity against Disney after that disastrous Anime Expo at Disneyland Hotel a few years back, none at all. And I’d just as soon spend a vacation at Disney World as I’d want to rot in some Mexican jail. Oh the tales they told when we were there. Disney can just die for all I care, the company not Roy. Better if they boot Eisner thou.

N.Z. Bear has fixed the ecosystem. InstaPundit has been restored to it’s position of glory at #1 top of the ecosystem, highest of the higher beings. Can even see the blogs in each category.

And I’m still a Large Mammal, thanks to Blogs for Bush.

I hate spiders, especially black widows. They’re the most dangerous kind. Best not to have them around the house.

Snooze Button Dreams has redecorated, and I must admit he picked my favorite choice. However, when I go to highlight the pertinent post, the decor disappears in Camino and Safari. Still needs a little tweak there.

Boi fromTroy has also redecorated with much help from One Fine Jay. Note, he doesn’t have that problem. Hint, ask Jay for help.

All Encompassingly has a lovely picture of Dennis Kucinich although I wouldn’t consider decorating with it.

Irregardless of how you decorate, there are some things that may be beyond your reach. He is still no 1, top dog, king of the blogosphere, the Insta Star. Link thanks to Glenn himself.

Dean has a quiz and it’s a good one. Funny, I knew all the answers too. After my post regarding Islam and gays, it’s nice to know there is hope in the Middle East, one lone country that treats all it’s citizens with respect. We need to fully support that country, holding it up as a model for the world to follow.

Not Iran, they follow higher laws, the strict Muslim law of Sharia. That’s why they have a thriving sex slave business. Some background from FrontPage Magazine:

A measure of Islamic fundamentalists’ success in controlling society is the depth and totality with which they suppress the freedom and rights of women. In Iran for 25 years, the ruling mullahs have enforced humiliating and sadistic rules and punishments on women and girls, enslaving them in a gender apartheid system of segregation, forced veiling, second-class status, lashing, and stoning to death.

We knew that. Bet you didn’t know this.

Joining a global trend, the fundamentalists have added another way to dehumanize women and girls: buying and selling them for prostitution. Exact numbers of victims are impossible to obtain, but according to an official source in Tehran, there has been a 635 percent increase in the number of teenage girls in prostitution. The magnitude of this statistic conveys how rapidly this form of abuse has grown. In Tehran, there are an estimated 84,000 women and girls in prostitution, many of them are on the streets, others are in the 250 brothels that reportedly operate in the city. The trade is also international: thousands of Iranian women and girls have been sold into sexual slavery abroad.

The head of Iran’s Interpol bureau believes that the sex slave trade is one of the most profitable activities in Iran today. This criminal trade is not conducted outside the knowledge and participation of the ruling fundamentalists. Government officials themselves are involved in buying, selling, and sexually abusing women and girls.

Any reason not to overthrow the mullahs? I think not. Time to get rid of them.

Police have uncovered a number of prostitution and slavery rings operating from Tehran that have sold girls to France, Britain, Turkey as well. One network based in Turkey bought smuggled Iranian women and girls, gave them fake passports, and transported them to European and Persian Gulf countries. In one case, a 16-year-old girl was smuggled to Turkey, and then sold to a 58-year-old European national for $20,000.

How they handle this problem they deny having, simple Sharia.

They proposed setting-up brothels, called “morality houses,” and using the traditional religious custom of temporary marriage, in which a couple can marry for a short period of time, even an hour, to facilitate prostitution. Islamic fundamentalists’ ideology and practices are adaptable when it comes to controlling and using women.

How utterly convenient. How utterly decadent. Inspiring, isn’t it. Why it inspires me to want to cut all their balls off as payback. Bastards!

PhotoMatt has a post about Orkut a social networking site. It’s by invite only which should keep out a few folks unless everyone asking to be invited gets invited which kindof defeats the purpose. Personally, I’d like to see people sticking to inviting the people they know and trust. Keeps out the trolls. I know I don’t know any of the people posting on Matt’s blog, don’t really know Matt either. I just use and love his software. Even brag about it.

Sooooooo, I can’t review the site. Sides, not having used any others, have no basis for comparison. If you are interested, might take a go looksee. I do my networking from meeting fellow bloggers, Yahoo Groups and Incredimail. And no, I haven’t gotten any dates that way, just made some good friends. Thou dating is somewhat desirable, might just consider something like that sometime.

Saw her’s and decided to create my own.

create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide

And there’s nothing in it. Something, must have something. I know.

Slept lousy last night til I got up and put one of those ThermaCare(tm) heat packs on my butt. Those things are absolutely wonderful. I’ve gotten upwards of 12 hours of use out of an 8 hour heat wrap.

Works better than Tylenol.

Works better than Naprosyn and no upset stomach.

Even works better than Percocet without the side effects too.

I’d still go for a one hour total body massage. They work better than Percocet too.

And as I may still have low back pain despite the surgery cause I have a whole bunch of crapped out discs, I may be using these a lot. They did help me make it thru work prior to surgery and they may yet help me work til I reach retirement age.

Note: Site has exercises, some of which I recognize from my prior physical therapy. Not doing any til therapist says I can. If someone has a serious back problem like I do, consult with your doctor before starting any exercise program.

Made my little change and it passes my test. If it works for me, blog owner logged in, should work for you too. So now instead of throttling comments so one can only post once every 10 seconds, you can only post once every 60 seconds. That ought to kill the most dedicated crapflooders.

The how to - in wp-comments-post.php I changed ($time_newcomment - $time_lastcomment) < 10) to ($time_newcomment - $time_lastcomment) < 60) then I changed ‘Sorry, you can only post a new comment once every 10 seconds. Slow down cowboy.’ to ‘Sorry, you can only post a new comment once every 60 seconds. Slow down cowboy.’

I like being cautious even if I only get one comment every day. Someday, somehow, a crapflooder may yet discover my blog and then they will be SOL.

How to tell if a computer is not infected with Mydoom.B, if there is a little apple on it that looks like someone took a bite out of it, it is not infected.

Generally there is more than one little apple. If a laptop, there may be one on the cover which glows when open. If a G5, the apple is on the side and a darker gray color. When you look at the screen, if in the upper left corner there is a little apple, that is a very good sign.

No giant e in the dock is another good sign although it signifies nothing except you have good taste in browsers.

An Apple for play keeps the MyDoom away.

All bets are off, however, if you run Virtual PC…

To read mail, and…

use KaZaA although the biggest danger from using KaZaA is still the RIAA.

That said, the only use I would have for Virtual PC would be for my Incredimail.

That under Islam being gay is punishable by death. Quoting:

Pakistan isn’t the only Muslim state where homosexual acts are punishable by death. It’s also Islamic law in Sudan, Afghanistan, the Chechen Republic, Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen, says Amnesty International.

Islam’s apologists on the left must have skipped over that chapter in their human-rights guides.

Gay-rights lobbyists in San Francisco, New York and Miami who think America is backward because it doesn’t see the need for extra-constitutional favors for homosexuals, and even barbaric because it allows some states to still keep anti-sodomy laws on their books, will take little comfort in knowing that stoning and beheading sodomites might be the first order of business if Muslims succeed in their secret agenda of replacing the U.S. Constitution with the Koran.

One need only remember Salam Pax. He keeps his real identity a secret. See, he’s gay so not too good an idea for people to put a real name and face together or he’d be one very dead Salam Pax.

Not that anyone should be surprised that under Sharia, gays are put to death. It’s death to infidels too. I be that. And anyone wanting to kill either me or my gay friends will be met with much resistance of the leaden kind. Check out his link cool gun pOrn(tm).

What I find strange is that while being gay is a terrible sin in Islam, once they get to paradise, they can have all the young boys they want along with all those virgins. Paradise to Muslims isn’t angels with their harps singing, it’s the most licentious debauchary imaginable, more sex than anyone could dream of with whoever they choose. Pity their poor wives. Their paradise is our red light district.

Hello, clueless here? How can one not know a group one is seeking support from is connected with terrorists. Also here.

How could Clark have been oblivious to this? The groups mentioned above have held “conferences featuring speakers accused of terror ties” and have also published materials supporting suicide bombings against Israel.

Muslim - war on terror - get a clue. He was a General and he’s running for the highest office in the land, how could he not know? How hard is it to look it up in Google? That took all of less than five seconds, copy and paste name of group into Google it and click “enter.” Man, if he can’t Google it, he’s one sorry ass General.

Of note, this from Jihad Watch.

“‘In a similar vein, CAIR board member Imam Siraj Wahaj calls for replacing the American government with a caliphate, and warns that America will crumble unless it “accepts the Islamic agenda.” Wahaj, it should be noted, served as a character witness for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the Muslim cleric convicted for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.’ Front Page Magazine March 5, 2003 - Wahaj was also a scheduled speaker at the Conference who now appears to be AWOL from the event.

“Possibly the most controversial ’special guest’ speaker scheduled - Saudi Sheik Abul Rahman Al-Sudais - has been apparently pulled also. Al-Sudais is the head Islamic cleric of Saudi Arabia. He has called upon Muslims to ‘kill Jews and American worshippers of the cross.’ . . .

“Critics, including terrorism expert Steven Emerson, accuse the American based Islamic group [Islamic Circle of North America] as having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is the ideological godfather of all radical Islamic movements - including Hamas and Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda.

“Documents show Hamas officials have participated in previous ICNA events. UHF director Zulfiqar Ali Shah is past president of the ICNA. Ali Shah was also the principal at the Sunrise School of Islamic Studies whose co-founder, Mohammed Javed Qureshi, was ‘dirty bomber’ suspect Jose Padilla’s direct supervisor at a local Taco Bell. . . .

Pretty heady stuff Wes. These may be your friends but they sure aren’t America’s.

Delivery people arrived same time pizza did so kids ate pizza while I supervised and hooked up the old hose. Person was unable to disconnect it, said it was frozen but couldn’t connect old hose, some crap about liability. So I did it. Thankfully that hose was replaced a few years ago and is still in good shape, don’t expect any garage flooding here any time soon. And now I am washing laundry. I got to use it first. Finally, after a week of stiff clothes, I’ll have something soft to wear.

Oh, I did get some pizza too.

Was chatting with Jay as usual about the crap flooding problem people have been dealing with, Kate being the latest victim when I lost my connection. Did notice comment throttling is built into WordPress. Now, question is, do I want to change the timing to make it even harder to crap flood me? Yes indeed I do.

And have I mentioned WordPress has comment moderation, can turn that on in a flash too.

Between Cricket messing up my porting, Qwest’s computers being down, my bank screwing me over three ways til Sunday, It has been a sucky day. Only bright spots were kids getting the garage ready for the deliveryman in record time and this one little piece of mail inviting me to become a team leader. Still mulling that over, might just do it too.

At any rate, I will be shopping for a better bank. Oh, and pestering three different phone companies til they fix everything.

For my washer and dryer, I still had a few little things to do. Like unlock the garage door, trouble was it wouldn’t budge. So, went inside, tried to unlock it from the inside no luck. So, did the only sensible thing, drenched the insides with WD40. Tried it again, no luck. Got a wrench and tried from the inside. A quick check, it was unlocked but the bolt wasn’t moving. Hammering it didn’t move it either. Then I got one of those rare flashes of brilliance and played with the garage door opener, up an inch, down an inch. Checked again and I was able to slide the bolt open. Finally.

Now my kid and her friends get to do the heavy work. I am so not doing that. Sore from what little I’ve done, mostly trashing an sorting magazines. I have decided one thing, going for less. I’ll be keeping the town sanitation department busy in the next few weeks. My packrat days are over.

After getting asked to exchange link with two blogs, and did with one as content was topical, got another request for a link exchange for another blog. Upon closer inspection, all three were run by the same person, all on Blogspot, all just copied articles from elsewhere without so much as a linkback or credit to the source. All appeared to be link farming. So, not mentioning names, delinked the one I had linked. Wrote them a nice reply too.

Got me thinking, when I get a little more time, I’ll go checking my links a lot more carefully. Thinking seriously about not linking any more Blogspot blogs just cause of the ads. If it annoys me, it will go bye bye.

I am so not in a good mood today.

I’ve had new phone service for almost two months during which time, Cricket still hasn’t ported the number over as requested. It should have taken a week or two at the most.

Not only that, they have billed me for another two month service (Jan and Feb). They bill in advance. So this morning, I spent a fair amount of time letting them know in no uncertain terms that I am extremely dissatisfied with their service, feeling that their slowness is strictly so they can keep collecting my money. Unfortunately I have automatic payment so I found out after they took my money. Btw, they take it out several days before the due date and don’t even send me a statement as a courtesy.

If you do business with them, beware, and don’t try to port your number elsewhere. The convenience of keeping the same number isn’t worth several months service they charge you while dragging their feet porting it.

I am waiting to see if they resolve it to my satisfaction. So far, my experience has been the complete opposite of my experience with AOL who compensated me for first, a friend of my kid’s stealing my service, and second, the thief stealing my iBook where he had access to my AOL. AOL actually went up a few notches in my esteem for their good customer service.

Both George W. Bush and John F. Kerry were members of Yale’s Skull and Bones Society. I had read that about Kerry in the Boston Globe article linked from Blogs for Bush. Forget where I read Bush was a member and it would take me all day to go thru all the comments at B4B.

Lots of stuff at Google for those curious about said Skull and Bones Society, most of it conspiracy theory, ie ties in with the Illuminati (itself a University secret society - see a trend here), Council on Foreign Relations, New World Order crap. Note, a lot of Universities have such societies, see list. Btw, Wesley Clark and Joseph Lieberman went to Yale too, whether they were members of Skull and Bones, don’t know.

Irregardless, I don’t buy conspiracy theories, proof is George W. Bush, he didn’t buckle under to the U.N. over Iraq. If he were a part of some vast conspiracy, he wouldn’t have done that. This either since he became President. He’s done a lot of good, exactly as promised and just what we want. Link thanks to Blogs for Bush. They may have that one thing in common in their past but they couldn’t be further apart on their voting record (Kerry’s here).

This is not where I’m supposed to be at this hour of the morning, I should be asleep instead of wondering what is wrong.

Oh well, maybe after the new washer and dryer are delivered, I’ll upgrade to the latest nightly.

I was about to turn in for the night but was gripped with a ravenous hunger in my belly. Knew I couldn’t sleep til my desires were satisfied so I headed off to the kitchen…

a few seconds before the timer went off and my kid took the pizza out of the oven.

Perfect timing.

Now I have a tummy full of pizza so I can sleep knowing I won’t dream of food.

I love my kid.

Not that Dean, this Dean - Esmay. Big difference, anyway, the quote and this is rich.

That most people will be utterly clueless about this will be amusing to watch. Indeed, I don’t know which will be more amusing: watching the left continually try to portray Bush as a “hard right winger” while anyone with a working brain will be able to see that he isn’t one, or watching the right bloviate about how “betrayed” they feel by a President who has governed according to every one of the principles and policy proposals he laid out in his 2000 election campaign–indeed, a President who has quite obviously worked hard to keep all his major campaign promises, promises he made when conservatives showed up by the millions to vote for him.

Emphasis mine, yes he did do that and for that we should appreciate him. Not often we get a man, let alone a president who keeps his promises.

Link from trackback in One Fine Jay’s post I linked below.

One Fine Jay has a two parter on government spending that is a must read, food for thought. Part 1 Part 2. He brings up some good points. Do we want our money in the hands of corporations who just may employ us and give us decent benefits like health insurance or in the hands of government so we can have socialized medicine like the bankrupt system Canada has? Just how much do we want to be self sufficient of dependent on an increasingly regulated nanny state?

Democrats aren’t a reasonable alternative for people concerned about government spending. They spend more and on more socialized programs. To them, Bush didn’t spend enough on said stuff. And that doesn’t even touch what they would muck up with Iraq and the War on Terror.

Well, it’s all over FoxNews, this is the version that hit the website. However, it’s also here oh and here. Some highlights:

* The bizarro former boy wonder has been in and out of rehab because of an addiction to Demerol and morphine, writer Maureen Orth charges in the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

* Jackson routinely swigs wine from soda cans so only insiders know he’s drinking alcohol, Orth says. And he calls white wine “Jesus juice” and red wine “Jesus blood.”

* He said Jackson’s plans to open a series of theme parks and toy stores in Japan were deep-sixed in 1998 after he took the 13-year-old son of one of his new Japanese partners to an amusement park and got him drunk on cans of “Jesus juice.”

* Jackson’s young accuser has provided police with drawings of the superstar’s private parts - as did the teen whose family dropped charges against the singer in 1993 after a megabucks payoff.

* The teen claims underwear he wore during his visits to Neverland went missing - which is consistent with a report that Jackson kept the underwear of his young overnight guests.

So was the Enquirer the source of all these revelations and if so will the Enquirer be treated with respect or will all the other news outlets reporting the story go the way of the BBC for actually believing something reported in the Enquirer?

The lean, mean Dean machine
Loses steam
Runs out of green
We’re all keen
To watch him scream
The imploding Dean
“Yeaaaaeeeeeooooooooooooowwwwwwwww!”

And that’s it folks for Howard Dean.

Now this I like, telemarketers phone numbers will now show up on caller ID.

Such calls had shown up on Caller ID as “out of area.” Now the name displayed by Caller ID must either be the company trying to make a sale or the firm making the call. The display must also include a phone number that consumers can call during regular business hours and ask that the company no longer call them.

…The government says people on the list can expect about 80 percent of telemarketing to be blocked. Exempted are charities, pollsters and political campaigns, as well as companies that have recently done business with someone on the do-not-call list.

Damn , I’ll still get calls from Citibank but at least I’ll know it’s them so I don’t have to answer. Hat tip to Discount Blogger where I first read it.

Think we just might have a problem here. According to WND:

In this presidential election year, every single candidate running for the highest office in the federal government supports this blatantly pro-criminal alien invasion policy - every one, Democrat or Republican. The choice is not between a failed policy that is undermining the morale, economic health and rule of law or meaningful reform. The choice is between more of the same criminal behavior by government or worse criminal behavior by government.

A few figures, not all just a few, to mull over here.

The report says the number of Mexicans living in the United States went from 4.3 million in 1994 to 9.5 million in 2002, according to U.S. estimates. It is estimated Mexicans in the U.S. sent approximately $12 billion back to Mexico last year.

…Now, in Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide - totaling some 1,200 to 1,500 - are for illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants, about 17,000, are for illegal aliens.

Doubt Arizona is much better being a border state. Now it used to upset me that I was denied health insurance (cause of having a sick kid) while illegals got free care, that was before I got the job I have now. Now it upsets me we have to tiptoe carefully when dealing with Mexican coworkers lest one cry discrimination. Oh, they do that faster than you can say Mexican. Not that it doesn’t irk me a coworker is married to one, it does cause we all know she is only after the Green Card and will dump him like a hot rock once she has it.

This may not be the hot button issue of the election but it doesn’t sit will with a majority of Americans who already have to deal with outsourcing, shifting jobs south and overseas, and the importation of foreign labor. We’re beginning to wonder if there will be any jobs left for us by the time our government is done with us. Ok, there’s still the military for the young and healthy. Let’s not let Vicente Fox run our immigration policy, why should he export all his problems here. Summing it up:

It starts with our borders. It starts with the sovereignty of our nation. It starts with respect for the rule of law. And it starts with accountability to the will of the people - American citizens, not special-interest groups, not foreign rulers, not politicians, not multinational corporations, not the rich, not the cultural elite.

The U.S. government is flirting with disaster if it doesn’t recognize the volatility of this issue now.

Doubt the Mexican vote is worth selling us down the drain. Might lose more votes than Bush gains if he continues on this course.

Next week, providing insurance approves, I will start my physical therapy. Hmm, that means I can get more massages too, well enough for therapy, well enough for a massage. Kid also recommended yoga, specifically restorative yoga. I can see it now, sitting in the lotus position, eyes closed, breathing slowly and chanting, “Sephy, Sephy, Sephy.”

Yep, that’d really be relaxing.

Let’s see, yoga requires equipment like a mat, books, etc. Hmmm, some people even go so far as to set up an alter.

Mat, check.

Playstation, check.

Final Fantasy game, check.

Final Fantasy players guide, check.

Sephy wall scroll, check.

Sephy action figure, check.

Sephy doujinshi, check.

All set for a nice relaxing yoga session contemplating the return of Sephiroth. Watch the trailer, it’s awesome and, yes, it’s in Japanese.

After hearing much screaming invectives coming from my child, I am off for more cleaning in the Garage of Doom, this time to heed her request for using smaller trashbags. Hey, I did that already. Ok, with maybe less stuff in said smaller trashbags.

Don’t know how heavy old magazines are til you lift a trashbag full of them.

I only lift small stacks of the stuff, heh.

Reprinted here, from WND, for your perusal, that hateful prayer of Rep. Doug Quelland.

“Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know your word says, ‘Woe to those who call evil good,’ but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values.”

“We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of your Word and called it moral pluralism. We have worshipped other gods and called it multi-culturalism. We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building esteem. We have abused power and called it political savvy. We have coveted our neighbors’ possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. And we have ridiculed the time-honored values of our fore-fathers and called it enlightenment.”

“Search us, O God, and know our hearts today; try us and see if there be some wicked way in us; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. In the name of your son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.”

This is Arizona folks not Massachusetts. People think different here, not that different, most still use Windows. Not an original prayer either, originated with Pastor Joe Wright of the Central Christian Church. Democrats here considered it disrespectful and…

“… divisive. It was a pandering, mudslinging, name-calling political statement. It was hateful and mean-spirited. It was undignified.”

Hey, it gets Arizona noticed.

I have a Moonbat(tm) to sell you. I was reading this post at Democrats Give Conservatives Indigestion having previously read WND’s article about the FBI not believing the unarmed security guard who was shot. FBI insists it was self inflicted, neat trick without a gun.

This, from WND, may shed some light on things.

While FBI, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs, the U.S. Coast Guard, state police and local law enforcement sources are publicly downplaying terrorism fears in the shooting of a guard at a BASF Corp. ammonia terminal in Freeport, Texas, some of those same sources are telling Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, off the record, they strongly suspect the guard stumbled into a terrorism reconnaissance operation.

Don’t always believe the official word on things cause aside from the stupidity of believing an unarmed security guard shot himself, they don’t want to instill fear. That’s the last thing they would want to do with a Superbowl coming up.

Had a few thoughts since I used to live in an area close to an Industrial Park which had a lot of “clean” industry. Some of the chemicals in said “clean” industry were potent neurotoxins and other nasty stuff. Found that out while working at the cannery (yes, I know how to can corn, skilled worker here) from people that worked in said places. We tended to chat about such stuff. A blowup at one of them would devastate the area. One little chemical spill caused a traffic nightmare while it was being cleaned up (I was stuck in it), just a spill not a “go boom”. Terrorists don’t need chemical or biological weapons, just know who to hit. And no, I am not going to say where, don’t want to give anyone ideas.

Thankfully, I currently live in the area where the most dangerous chemicals are at Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell. That be the food. Most one would suffer is a grease attack, major indigestion from eating the stuff.

Don’t know about the security at the plant but if one knew just how lax security was at some places, it would unnerve you. Some places have one guard at the gate, one patrolling the perimeter and one manning the monitors with a few more sprinkled around at critical checkpoints. Take one incident requiring a security response, and those numbers drop. If there are a total of, say, six guards, and all six are needed, guess what isn’t getting guarded. Oh and they don’t always carry guns. Not going to say where, don’t want to give anyone ideas.

Now one place I know is well guarded is the Palo Verde Nuclear Plant. Armed, well trained, former Special Forces peeps, don’t mess with them. And if there’s a threat, the National Guard is called out too. I rest easy knowing that.