There's a guy in Fort Worth named Ed Wallace. He has a column every Sunday in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a call-in radio show every Saturday morning. His "thing" is all things automotive, or car-related, but he can go off on tangents fairly often, and when he does he deserves attention. It shows him to be what has become an oddity ..... He's a thinker!

Now, I have to say that the Star-Telegram is a McClatchey publication, and as such it never misses an opportunity to give its content an obvious liberal slant, and since it is what we have in this area, I read the damn rag.

And frankly, I hate it.

But ..... Back to Ed Wallace. He wrote a two part article, the first of which ran on May 19 and the second on May 22, dealing with the subject of this thread.

It is lengthy but seems to me to be as straightforward an assessment of the situation as exists. Here, I hope, is a link for it:

ICE, ICE, Baby | Ed Wallace | Star-Telegram.com

And for some reason I can't get a link for the conclusion. darn it. I'll work on it. If I don't get it I'll cut and paste in the whole article.

I caught the suggestion that government should intervene, too, Uncle Bob, and was fast to recall the profound comments by the House's greatest intellect (Maxine Waters, of course) as to what "this Liberal" would do.

Good Lord!

Thanks for the thread, Hotroddaddy,

Jim