So Congress passed legislation to build a huge fence, with an unrealistic budget, and unrealistic time-frame and almost everyone saying it's pointless and won't work and NOW it's meeting skepticism. tags fence border immigrants migrants congress wallDoesn't anyone have faith in the Army Corps of Engineers? After all, they're really good at building levees....oh wait. picked by dollyllama 3 years ago |
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Police in the Mexican border city of Tijuana say they have arrested six men for stealing pieces of the U.S. border fence to sell as scrap metal. picked by kakana 3 months ago 1 comments edit related share weird |
Now this is going to be one big fence. Good job for the illegal immigrants to do. picked by Djanvk 3 years ago 1 comments edit related share politics |
In Central Otago, New Zealand is a fence. On the fence are over 1500 bras. Which is probably all the information you need. picked by pocksucket 9 months ago 3 comments edit related share weird |
The Senate on Friday approved and sent to President Bush a bill calling for construction of a 700-mile wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, voting overwhelmingly for a project that became the centerpiece of efforts to improve border security and stem illegal immigration. picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago 2 comments edit related share politics |
He says we should be building bridges, not fences. He also said the way to stop illegal immigration is to build economic growth and opportunities in Mexico. picked by coldbladed 2 years ago 12 comments edit related share politics |
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British and Iranian archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a 200 kilometre-long wall, the second longest wall in Asia after the Great Wall of China, in northern Iran. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Seattle police say a man who thought he was ninja was impaled on a metal fence when he tried to leap over it. picked by DaftGretel 1 week ago 10 comments edit related share plime.com |
President Bush this morning signed into law a bill authorizing the federal government to install fencing, cameras, motion sensors and other types of barriers to stem illegal immigration along 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border. picked by tlovesd 3 years ago 3 comments edit related share politics |
A stupid goat continues to lick an electric fence. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago 11 comments edit related share plime.com |
Citing a need for heightened national security measures, President Bush had eight inches added to the 12-foot fence that surrounds his residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. picked by whi73rav3n 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
The author of the GAO report, Richard Stana, said most of those who were wrongly allowed to enter were economic migrants who did not present a security risk. 1 comments edit related share politics*Most??? "Oh, I know, let's waste taxpayer money building a wall so that we can just let them through the front gate instead" picked by dollyllama 2 years ago |
New wall is a relative miniature at 1 meter (3.3 feet) high -- to guard against hordes of pillaging mice. ``The wall is a symbolic gesture to quiet public concern,'' Wen said. ``It's not going to work in the long run.'' picked by misswinkle 2 years ago 5 comments edit related share world |
This Japanese climbing wall uses picture frames, conventional holds, mirrors, and a deer’s head as climbing holds. picked by gnikgnok 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share sports |
And lives to tell about it. Video of the actual event is at the link. Would be a horrible thing to watch, but she didn't fall off. A relative grabbed her inches away from the edge. 17 comments edit related share weirdChild is quoted as saying "It was scawy! My wegs were shaking!" *I hope that the fence has had a 3rd rail put it by now, but you never know picked by Moe 1 year ago |
THE boozy late night trip to the museum had seemed like a good idea at the time. picked by bornbad 6 months ago 0 comments edit related share weird |
The Army Corps of Engineers, which accidentally dumped sand filled with old military ordnance on Surf City's beach, now wants the town to help pay to remove it. picked by Proverb 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Magnus Larsson’s Dune Project, which is “Arenaceous Anti-Desertification Architecture.” What does that mean? Let me clarify: he’s proposed a 6,000km-long artificially solidified sandstone wall to line the Sahara Desert. The structure would provide refuge housing, as well as prevent desertification (the spreading of the desert). picked by suebe 4 months ago 1 comments edit related share arts |
It was the first time in a decade that Congress has passed a bill over a presidential veto. picked by T420 2 years ago 21 comments edit related share politics |
If Congress passes certain legislation, it could curb speculation and cause the price of gas to fall significantly. picked by carguy4life 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
Attention Mexican smugglers - it's real easy to cross the border in Souther California through the Imperial Dunes. picked by suebe 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |