THE OTHER SHOE DROPS: Updates To Previous Posts
† Sarah Palin: The Modern Feminist Ideal: The Washington Post’s Marc Fisher attended a McCain-Palin rally at Van Dyck Park in Fairfax City and talked to some of the 2,300 attendees:
“She justifies what we do every day,” said Beth Tweddle, who works in sales and carried a sign she drew herself, saying “We [heart] Pit Bull Palin.” Tweddle was already a McCain supporter, she said, “but Sarah just energizes us and got us out here because she does what we do, she lives like we do.” …
Karla Rupp, a real estate agent, went to see Palin on behalf of her three children, especially the one who has multiple disabilities and is in a nursing home. Val Lewis couldn't stay away – “that's how empowering it is to have Sarah up there. I have four children; she has five. And we get it done.” …
“She's just as flawed as we are,” Tweddle said. “It's not the fact that she's a woman but the way she does it all. And let me tell you: There're more American parents with unwed pregnant teenaged children than American parents with Harvard grads. She's real.”
For hours, I walked through the crowd talking to people, mostly women. Again and again, I heard variations on this idea: “She's more like us than Obama, McCain or any of the others,” as Rupp put it. “She knows what we go through.”
† Updates To Previous Posts (Employers Hiring Forged Documented Aliens Are Lawbreakers In Other Ways, Too): Rabbi Menachem Genack, who runs the kosher certification program at Orthodox Union, has put IA meatpacker Agriprocessors Inc. on notice that its kosher certification will be withdrawn in “several weeks” unless the company gets a new CEO, reports The New York Times:
Losing the kosher certification of the Orthodox Union would be a potentially crippling blow to Agriprocessors, whose meat and poultry — sold as Aaron’s Best and Rubashkin’s, among other brands — are staples in Jewish households nationwide that observe kosher practices.
The company is by far the largest producer of kosher meat, with annual kosher sales estimated at $80 million. Although other groups provide certification, they are less widely known, and the loss of the familiar circled-U seal on the company’s products could drive away many customers. …
The pressure from the Orthodox Union added to criticism of Agriprocessors from a movement led by Conservative Jews that is seeking to create an additional seal for kosher food to show it was produced according to ethical standards for wages and worker safety. The movement, Hekhsher Tzedek, praised the Orthodox Union’s “no-nonsense action,” saying it showed that the concept of ethical standards in kosher food “transcends denominational boundaries.”
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors have arrested two human resources managers at the Pottsville plant on charges of immigration harboring.
† Updates To Previous Posts (last item, The Keystone Kops Are Enforcing U.S. Immigration Laws): Since the Department of Homeland Security has received $2.7 billion from Congress for the Secure Border Initiative to build a physical barrier and virtual fence of cameras and sensors along the 2,000-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico - but now the agency says it needs more money, because of increased construction materials costs, legal challenges by landowners and technical difficulties, reports The New York Times:
The department has 341 miles of new fencing in place along the. But completing the project, they said, hinges on redirecting $400 million in department funds, much of which requires Congressional approval, from other purposes. Even then, the department may have only agreed on contracts or partly built the rest of the fence [spanning 670 miles] by the end of the year. …
The report said the average cost had risen this year to $7.5 million per mile for pedestrian barriers, typically large steel and mesh plates, and $2.8 million per mile for vehicle fencing, usually an array of short thick poles. February’s estimates were $4 million for pedestrian fencing and $2 million for vehicles. …
At a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee, officials also noted delays that have plagued the virtual fence, being developed with the Boeing Corporation. That project had already been bogged down by technical problems, but the accountability office report said that environmental reviews the department had not anticipated will now postpone the project.
As this disturbing video shows (second item) every mile of open border is an invitation for a dirty bomber to enter the U.S. from Canada and Mexico to commit murder and mayhem.
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