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Chris Burgard

Cyber Attacks and Our Southern Border

by Chris Burgard

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that computer spies have broken into the Pentagon’s $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter program – the Defense Department’s costliest weapons program ever – according to current and former government officials, familiar with the attacks.  Former US officials say the attacks originated in China, although they are difficult to track. 

Perhaps this doesn’t qualify as an open act of war, but it would be hard to term it “friendly espionage.”  

At the same time the Pentagon is fending off cyber attacks from China, Texas ranchers are experiencing the continuing flow of human trafficking from mainland China.  (more…)

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Posted Apr 24th 2009 at 8:14 am in News, Politics | One Comment

Chris Burgard

Call Me Chris

by Chris Burgard

They call me Chris.

When I first came to Hollywood as a ballet dancer in 1985, it felt good. This town was a breath of fresh air. This was a town where all things were possible and no one was too weird. You could sit down in any bar or any coffee house and have the coolest conversations with the most interesting people till closing time. Creativity was king and differing views were encouraged. So I thought. So I still hope.

See, even when I wore tights for a living I still believed in God and I still owned guns. Back then I thought that just made me an American. Twenty-three years later, and after I made the film: “Border,” I discovered that it makes me one of “them”: one of the few minorities in Hollywood that still face discrimination….the ideologues that dare not speak their name……a conservative!! Trust me when I tell you that I get more dirty looks walking into a Hollywood party in Wranglers and a cowboy hat than I did when I was jete’ing my way across the deep South. (more…)

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Posted Jan 20th 2009 at 1:20 pm in Entertainment, Media Criticism | 42 Comments