The state of Texas' $2 million border camera surveillance program was so unsuccessful that the government thought it might be worth replicating a similar experiment in another venue.  So rather than invest $2 million additional dollars to upgrade the system in an ongoing attempt to secure the border between El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico, the feds decided it was a better idea to redirect cameras toward half-eaten pears in elementary school cafeterias 500 miles away. Instead of investing monies to ensure the protection of American citizens from stray bullets and escalating violence, a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant will finance  "high-tech cameras installed in [five] cafeterias ...[that will] begin photographing what foods children pile onto their trays - and later capture what they don't finish eating."  After which, "digital imaging analysis of the snapshots will ... calculate how many calories each student scarfed down." Off the...(Read Full Post)