I am the first contact people have when they arrive in the U.S. I am also,
\nas a result, the first contact they’ve had with the outside world in up to
\n16 hours. Imagine what can change on a busy news day in 16 hours: you
\nleave the ground and when you land the U.S. has tanks rolling through
\nPanama City. “WTF?” right?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nThat means I get all kinds of questions about the latest sports scores
\nduring the Superbowl or World Series (“who’s up in what inning?). Recently
\nthe question shifted to “are we at war yet?” <\/p>\n
Dude. Ask me about the World Series. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A follow up from last Moving on, I got a new list of countries today, the travelers from which \nThis list and it’s contents is probably classified in some way, but it’s \nIt’s kinda like there’s a poster up saying “If we do THIS, you’re from a \nIt’s not a short list. In fact, by my count, it includes nearly a third of —WARBLOGGING<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \nI can tell already that the war coverage is going to suck this time \nWe’re going to get a constant cycle through the same green-screened All of a sudden Iraq’s is being placed between the national and local I noticed that the story moved from “we don’t know what the targets were, \nHussein’s speech turned from a possible pre-recording into evidence that \n—WARBLOGGING<\/strong><\/p>\n I obviously have no tolerance for this war nonsense after all. I though I I am the first contact people have when they arrive in the U.S. I am also, as a result, the first contact they’ve had with the outside world in up to 16 hours. Imagine what can change on a busy news day in 16 hours: you leave the ground and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[20,23],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-line","tag-immigration","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ntime<\/a>: I’m no longer curious what Red
\nAlert<\/a> looks like. Nope, not in the slightest. See, even if you’re
\nsnowed in, I still go to work. Don’t think about it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nwill recieve more unspecified attention than usual. These aren’t the well
\nknown (and all ready heavily scruitinized) “countries of interest”, though
\nIraq, Iran, Libya and Syria are on the list. These are the Axis of
\nSomewhat Naughty “countries of mild curiosity”. Included on this list are
\ncountries most folks would never imagine. Meanies like Paraguay, Panama
\nand Argentina now somehow pose a threat of some kind because of the
\nconflict with Iraq.
\nConspiciously absent from this list is terrorist-supporting Cuba, which
\nshares an ideological tie if Iraq is indeed a socialist dictatorship (as
\nI’ve seen alleged in various circles). I trust this over-sight will be
\ncorrected as soon as someone from Upstairs reads this.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nprominently posted in the inspection booths. Anyone with eyesight
\nsufficient to drive knows the list is there, even if they can’t read the
\nnames. They will know immediately if their country is on it because the
\ninstructions are printed in 48-point font. <\/p>\n
\nhostile country” and when we do THAT you discover you’re from a hostile
\ncountry. “Surprise! You’re against us!”<\/p>\n
\nthe nations on earth. You didn’t read it here.<\/p>\n
\naround. I think I’ll stick to reading Salam Pax<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\ntalking heads discussing a slow procession of press releases. Why hasn’t
\nanyone given those field correspondents digital cameras with satellite
\npulse-modems? I don’t think I’m alone in perfering slightly aged footage
\nwith better quality than the crappy sat-video phones they’ve been using
\nsince 1990. What’s the point of having “embedded” journalists otherwise?
\noh<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nweather forcasts. Is this what happens when the weatherman has to include
\na war-angle into his segment? I don’t even want to talk about the sports
\nguy…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nwe don’t know where the targets were, we don’t know if the attacks were
\nsuccessful, etc” seamlessly to “we targeted Saddam Hussein and we won’t
\nknow for days if we got him” to “we targeted Saddam Hussein and missed”
\nwithout any admission of having recieved new information.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nhe was alive but shaken and scared by the attacks. The only reasons given
\nwere the observations about his posture and that he was reading from note
\npads. On-air speculation became fact right in front of me! <\/p>\n
\ncould sit down and shut up, I really did. But I’m irritated already and
\nwe’re not even 8 hours into it. This is going to be a long summer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"