Originally Posted By: pondfishr
I am not making this up... My son just got hired by the US Department of Homeland Security as a Border Patrol Agent. He will eventually be assigned to Deluth Minnesota after he finishes his training. I am relieved he will be at the Northern Border and not the Southern. Funny Deluth doesn't have an international border but it does have a sea port on the Great Lakes.
Best border patrol job ever! BTW it's spelled Duluth, not Deluth. Not much to worry about in Duluth, pretty quiet place. No worries, even if a terrorist cell managed to slip past the Twin Harbors of Duluth/Superior, we here in the Upper Midwest are heavily armed (lots of hunters with high powered rifles plus MN is a right to carry state) and we are all highly patriotic.
We may drink a lot of beer and eat a lot of cheese up here, but we know the local woods like the back of our hands and have rifles put in our hands as soon as we're strong enough to hold them steady.
Beyond the joking though, the amount we spend on foreign oil is a travesty. That's just more money funneled to jokers that really don't like us or the lifestyle that we live. But I do believe we will have the last laugh. Like the character Matt Damon played in Syriana said to the Arab oil sheik:
"But what do you need a financial advisor for? Twenty years ago you had the highest Gross National Product in the world, now you're tied with Albania. Your second largest export is secondhand goods, closely followed by dates which you're losing five cents a pound on... You know what the business community thinks of you? They think that a hundred years ago you were living in tents out here in the desert chopping each other's heads off and that's where you'll be in another hundred years, so on behalf of my firm I accept your offer."
I am not making this up... My son just got hired by the US Department of Homeland Security as a Border Patrol Agent. He will eventually be assigned to Deluth Minnesota after he finishes his training. I am relieved he will be at the Northern Border and not the Southern. Funny Deluth doesn't have an international border but it does have a sea port on the Great Lakes.
Best border patrol job ever! BTW it's spelled Duluth, not Deluth. Not much to worry about in Duluth, pretty quiet place. No worries, even if a terrorist cell managed to slip past the Twin Harbors of Duluth/Superior, we here in the Upper Midwest are heavily armed (lots of hunters with high powered rifles plus MN is a right to carry state) and we are all highly patriotic.
We may drink a lot of beer and eat a lot of cheese up here, but we know the local woods like the back of our hands and have rifles put in our hands as soon as we're strong enough to hold them steady.
Beyond the joking though, the amount we spend on foreign oil is a travesty. That's just more money funneled to jokers that really don't like us or the lifestyle that we live. But I do believe we will have the last laugh. Like the character Matt Damon played in Syriana said to the Arab oil sheik:
"But what do you need a financial advisor for? Twenty years ago you had the highest Gross National Product in the world, now you're tied with Albania. Your second largest export is secondhand goods, closely followed by dates which you're losing five cents a pound on... You know what the business community thinks of you? They think that a hundred years ago you were living in tents out here in the desert chopping each other's heads off and that's where you'll be in another hundred years, so on behalf of my firm I accept your offer."
