"New Fence & The Live Oak Tree-Gate"

"New Fence & The Live Oak Tree-Gate, Coronado National Monument, Arizona/Mexico" (c) 2009 Stu Jenks

With the incoming Obama administration looking toward more important issues, and with ex-Governor Janet Napolitano at the helm of Homeland Security, perhaps they will let the New Fence go unfinished. It's a colossal waste of money. Guess how most bad guys get in the USA? Do you think they hike across hundred of miles of hot desert, sharing water and food with the poor, who are making the trek to wash our dishes and process our pork? Nope. The criminals/terrorists/creepoids have papers. Real or fake papers. And they cross at Juarez, Nogales, Douglas, and Tijuana 'legally'. This fence just hinders those unfortunates who are trying to come to America to make a little money, at jobs most Americans don't want to do anymore.

So stupid. So wasteful. And if you ask me, so racist. To paraphrase my friend Rocco, "If the illegals walking across the border were Swedish, the first thing we'd do is ask them out for a date."

So here's a pic of the fence from a few miles away, from a hill high in the Monument. And another photo of a natural gateway made by two Live Oak trees. Has a bit of 'Alice in Wonderland' feel to it.

Anyway. May we all enjoy the new year 2009, in spite of the lagging ecomony. Kiss your loved ones. Forgive those who have hurt you. Forgive yourself most of all. Make a little Art and Music. See a good movie. And hugs and kisses all around.