Dan bowens, thank you so much. Here to talk about this is robert strang, ceo of investigative management group. Youre formerly of the fbi, an expert in security. Cochair of the nork ew york Terrorism Task force. Christina you have an extensive background in security forces. Department of Homeland Security is going to bolster security at foreign airports. Were looking at the tsa and our assets domestically. What do you make of this . Look, the tsa has gone through a tremendous amount of change in the last six months. They had a study done this summer in august where they failed most of the tests. The general accounting was found that a lot of explosives, knives and weapons got through. They did it recently and things got through. Theyre constantly working with tsa. Theyre trying to do more training and pay more money and trying to recruit more people. At the same time, the tsa is trying to get people through in 13 to 15 seconds. You cant have it all. Christina not a lot of time. You can
He had goblets made of silver to award the winning competitors. Agriculture in Corpus Christi brought many wealthy families to the area that helped bring success through the ages. Corpus christi has subsisted mostly on agriculture based in sheep, cotton, and cattle. King ranch subsists mostly of cattle. They have the running w brand. He sent he fenced his land in barbed wire. That stopped transporting of any goods through his land without his control. Since he controlled who was on his land, he also controlled the cotton that could be smelled around the Union Blockade and eventually sold to mexico since they could not get it out of the ports in Corpus Christi to sell for profit. King ranch has been one of the prominent wrenches in the area. They own most of the land between here and mexico which control the lot of the commerce happening during the mid to late 1800s, before the railroads came into town. After the civil war, with all the ranch money being made by king, entity and others,
Rookies benefit, can you be very specific . The problem for me here is like the referendum on the ballot where you vote no you are actually voting yes and vice versa. If the appeal is granted, whats going to happen . And if the appeal is not granted or overruled what is going to happen, specifically. Excellent questions, a great way to start the conversation. So if the appeal is granted as we are requesting and the board maintains the suspension, the suspension would remain in effect and would not be or could not be released until such time that they have obtained the conditional use authorization. We would discuss this with the department of building inspection. I think the most straightforward matter would be subsequent to this to actually revoke the permit and to take affirmative action to revoke the permit, but then we would want to discuss that further. If the appeal is not granted and the suspension is therefore lifted, we believe that that would be an error and we would want to
That you could write entire books about. This is one of the few. And this was not a tough sell to a publisher because they saw your piece in vanity fair. They saw the piece in vanity fair, and they thought that it could be expanded upon into a book. And it certainly works very well. For a generation of americans who are not familiar with the song and its been conspicuously absent how would you describe the song and its impact . Well, the song was a song about lynching. You know, it was a song about black bodies hanging on southern trees, and it was a song that came out in 1939 at a time when people simply werent talking about this kind of thing. You know, it was before jackie robinson. It was before Martin Luther king. It was before the armed forces were integrated. It was before rosa parks. It was really the dark ages in the history of civil rights in this country, and all of a sudden, a 23yearold woman, Billie Holiday, is singing about lynching. And i think that the song had enormous
Are there other books out there about a single song . Im familiar with dave marshs take on louie louie, but this has to be an unusual premise for a new book. I dont think there are very many. I think theres a book about amazing grace, and im told theres a book in the works about we shall overcome. But i think there really arent many songs that you could write entire books about. This is one of the few. And this was not a tough sell to a publisher because they saw your piece in vanity fair. They saw the piece in vanity fair, and they thought that it could be expanded upon into a book. And it certainly works very well. For a generation of americans who are not familiar with the song and its been conspicuously absent how would you describe the song and its impact . Well, the song was a song about lynching. You know, it was a song about black bodies hanging on southern trees, and it was a song that came out in 1939 at a time when people simply werent talking about this kind of thing. You k