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Post by swamprat on Mar 14, 2018 18:16:11 GMT -6
And now... Surprise, surprise, today, we have THIS:Families of children slain by illegal immigrants challenge California's sanctuary cities agendaThe parents of children killed by illegal immigrants are demanding that the WH to take a tough stance against a California mayor who thwarted a federal immigration raid -- urging that she face consequences and even jail time.
By Adam Shaw | Fox News March 14, 2018
Watch Video: blob:http://video.foxnews.com/340470c3-1851-4b9a-934e-d4112ee9e8a9
The parents of children killed by illegal immigrants are demanding that the Trump administration take a tough stance against a California mayor who thwarted a federal immigration raid this month -- urging that she face consequences and even jail time.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf sparked national outrage when she pre-empted the raid in Northern California by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials by announcing it on Twitter.
“How dare you!” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a speech last week in which he also announced a lawsuit against California for its "sanctuary" policies -- which limit local law enforcement officials from complying with federal immigration authorities' access to illegal immigrants.
“How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of our law enforcement officers to promote a radical, open borders agenda,” Sessions said.
Striking a similar tone of outrage, President Donald Trump said in California on Tuesday, "What happened in Oakland was a disgrace to our nation.”
While the raid picked up hundreds of illegal immigrants, ICE officials say hundreds more evaded capture -- including hardened criminals.
Since then, a number of California Democrats have backed Schaaf, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., slammed the raid as "unjust and cruel." The Department of Justice is reviewing Schaaf’s actions.
As for those who have lost children due to the actions of illegal immigrants -- so-called Angel Families' -- they say it’s vital that the administration do something.
Don Rosenberg, an "Angel Dad" whose 25-year-old son, Drew, was killed in San Francisco in 2010 when an illegal-immigrant driver from Honduras hit his motorbike, says that Sessions’ DOJ needs to have Schaaf prosecuted.
“Put her in jail, you’ll see this stuff stop,” Rosenberg told Fox News. “These people aren’t willing to sacrifice their lives and careers for people who are here illegally. They’ll be like cockroaches scattering when you turn the light on.”
Rosenberg said his son was killed after the driver attempted to flee the scene, driving over Drew again in the process. Although the driver entered the country illegally, he had been given Temporary Protective Status (TPS).
Schaaf and other liberal Democrats have claimed that they are working to make communities safer, partly by encouraging those here illegally to cooperate with authorities about more hardened criminals.
"It is Oakland’s legal right to be a sanctuary city and we have not broken any laws," Schaaf said in a statement last month. "We believe our community is safer when families stay together."
Rosenberg rejected that argument outright:
“It’s a great line, sounds good, but it’s total bull---t.”
Sabine Durden, whose son Dominic was killed in Moreno Valley, Calif., in 2012 when his motorbike was hit by an illegal immigrant with priors including two DUIs, echoed Rosenberg's sentiment, saying that something must be done about rogue Democratic lawmakers.
“When I first heard, I was beside myself, fuming, infuriated and completely outraged about the lawless, reckless and very dangerous behavior of that disrespectful mayor," she told Fox News. "Not only did she endanger ICE agents and law enforcement, but all the citizens not just in her community, but all over near and far."
“If the mayor of Oakland would have opened the back door to a prison or jail and let out dangerous felons, she would have been immediately arrested,” she added. “Why not in this case?”
While the loss of a child is the ultimate nightmare for any parent, in these families' cases the grief is compounded by anger at what they say are regular snubs by Democratic politicians. These politicians, the Angel Families say, ignore their stories and then push legislation that the families insist will only lead to more deaths of American citizens and residents at the hands of people who have no right to be in the country in the first place.
"I wonder if [Schaaf] would defend illegals if one of them had hurt or killed one of her loved ones," Durden said. "The self-serving, unlawful and very disturbing stance and actions of that mayor is a prime example why California is sliding down the edge of insanity."
Jamiel Shaw Sr., whose son Jamiel Jr. was murdered in 2008 in Los Angeles by a Mexican gang member living in the U.S. illegally, has repeatedly expressed his frustration with California. Last week he tweeted an image of a Democratic State Senate candidate's call to "Disobey Trump."
"This is what we have to put up with in California. The Dems' campaign platform is to disobey law and order," he tweeted.
Mary Ann Mendoza's 32-year-old son, Police Sgt. Brandon Mendoza, was killed in 2014 in Arizona by an illegal immigrant who was driving the wrong way while drunk. That driver, who was also killed in the crash, had been living illegally in the country for at least 20 years and had criminal convictions dating from 1994. She says that Democratic lawmakers have tried to ignore her advocacy.
“They don’t even want to look us in the face, they avoid us at all costs,” Mary Ann Mendoza told Fox News. “It would squash their agenda and what they are trying to achieve; they want to act like it doesn’t even exist and that’s why so many of us keep fighting.”
Rosenberg said he was a lifelong Democrat, but was abandoned by people in his party as he says they have become increasingly focused on prioritizing illegal immigrants.
“I was a Democrat my entire life, but they don’t follow Democratic principles, they’re just vote hoarders,” he said. “What message are you sending when you will shut down the entire government to protect DACA recipients?” he added, referring to the illegal immigrants brought to America as young children by their parents.
And by promoting so-called sanctuary policies, the families say they are not promoting safety, but rather allowing more threats onto the streets to put law-abiding families in danger.
“Where is the sanctuary for law-abiding citizens?” said Durden, herself an immigrant who arrived legally from Germany in the 1990s. “Where was the safe place for my only child?”
Laura Wilkerson has pushed for the U.S. to keep Americans safe from illegal immigrants after her 18-year-old son, Josh, was murdered by an illegal immigrant classmate in 2010 in Texas. Josh was tied up, tortured, strangled and beaten until he died, before his body was set on fire.
Wilkerson grilled Pelosi last year at a CNN town hall, where she asked Pelosi which one of her family members she would sacrifice for an illegal immigrant.
"If you need to go home tonight and line up your babies as you say, and your grandbabies, which one of them could you look in their eyes today, and tell them that they're expendable for another foreign person to have a nicer life?” a tearful Wilkerson asked. “Which one would you look to say, you, my child, are expendable for someone else to come over here and not follow the law and have a nicer life?"
Wilkerson told Fox News that Sessions and the DOJ need to act, noting that Schaaf’s actions also put law enforcement in danger, as well.
“Jeff Sessions has been very quiet and I am hoping that he does more than a war of words; it’s time to do something,” she said. “He’s a good man but we have to take action and show that we are going to stand up to lawbreakers.”
“It makes me angry and it’s time for us to fight now,” she said. “If we lose to this, what else is next?”
But while the families are angry at what they have seen, many of them said repeatedly that they are not motivated primarily by anger or vengeance, but instead to make sure that no mother or father has to endure the heartbreak and grief that they have had to go through.
“I don’t want anyone else to know what this 24/7 nightmare feels like,” Durden said.
www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/14/angel-families-want-to-see-oakland-mayor-prosecuted-for-thwarting-ice-raids.html
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Post by jcurio on Mar 16, 2018 14:38:26 GMT -6
He’s a good man but we have to take action and show that we are going to stand up to lawbreakers.” Read more: theedgeofreality.proboards.com/thread/6639/weep-country?page=2#ixzz59whuRVxm____________ Bottom line, “lawbreakers” will evade police and laws. How do you bring a lawbreaker to justice without identification. A known residence. A licensed car. Why would a person come here, and not apply for citizenship? How about citizens, who are committing crimes, and find ways to evade justice? Why is “lawlessness” so frequent??
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Post by swamprat on Mar 29, 2018 12:36:08 GMT -6
You nailed it, Doc!Physician: American Children ‘Immersed in a Culture of Disrespect’Annie Holmquist December 27, 2016
Let’s face it. Almost every child has likely had some type of meltdown in public, causing great embarrassment to both the child’s parent and to other witnesses in the vicinity. But while such disrespectful behavior is embarrassing at age two, it’s downright horrifying the older a child gets.
Dr. Leonard Sax recently experienced one of these horrifying displays of disrespect in his medical practice. He describes the scenario in a recent edition of The Wall Street Journal:
“Kyle was absorbed in a videogame on his cellphone, so I asked his mom, ‘How long has Kyle had a stomach ache?’ Mom said, ‘I’m thinking it’s been about two days.’ Then Kyle replied, ‘Shut up, mom. You don’t know what you’re talking about.’ And he gave a snorty laugh, without looking up from his videogame. Kyle is 10 years old.”
Unfortunately, such behavior is no longer an anomaly, as Dr. Sax goes on to explain:
"I have been a physician for 29 years. This sort of language and behavior from a 10-year-old was very rare in the 1980s and 1990s. It would have been unusual a decade ago. It is common today. America’s children are immersed in a culture of disrespect: for parents, teachers, and one another. They learn it from television, even on the Disney Channel, where parents are portrayed as clueless, out-of-touch or absent. They learn it from celebrities or the Internet. They learn it from social media. They teach it to one another. They wear T-shirts emblazoned with slogans like ‘I’m not shy. I just don’t like you.’”
But while disrespectful children have become the norm, Dr. Sax has found that respectful, obedient children still exist out there, largely because there are still a few parents who practice authoritative parenting. And according to Dr. Sax, it’s not too late for parents to change course and start instilling respect in their children. His recommendations for doing so are summarized in the following three points:
1. Put the family before the child. “Prioritize the family. The family meal at home is more important than piling on after-school extracurricular activities. Instead of boosting self-esteem, teach humility.”
2. Remove distractions. “No screens when you are with your child. Put your cellphone away. No electronic devices at the dinner table. Teach the art of face-to-face conversation.”
3. Draw a line in the sand, and don’t look back. “If you’re going to make a change, don’t be subtle. New Year’s Day is as good a time as any to sit down with your children and explain that there are going to be some changes in this household: changes in how we talk, in how we behave, in how we treat one another.”
Americans have tried the kinder, gentler, let-me-be-your-friend approach to parenting for the last several decades. If the behavior problems in schools and the heightened level of sensitivity on college campuses are any indication, this parenting approach hasn’t produced the positive outcomes we were hoping for. Is it time for today’s parents to reverse course and begin teaching their children to respect others first instead of their own little selves?
Not long ago, the American Family Survey identified a lack of parental discipline and training as one of the biggest problems American families face.
But according to Dr. Sax, that lack of discipline is simply the surface symptom of a greater problem: the decline of parental authority.
Speaking about his new book, The Collapse of Parenting, in an interview with CBS news, Sax declares,
“I think in a certain way you need to expect kids to behave like adults, but you should not give them the authority of an adult.”
Parents, Sax notes, have done just the opposite. They have turned their commands into questions and made their children the final determiners of what they can and cannot do. As a result, children are allowed to choose the school they want to attend, the food they want to eat, and any number of other decisions which children simply don’t have the wisdom or maturity to make on their own.
Dr. Sax diagnoses such a state as a sign of “cultural confusion” and suggests that we’re headed down the wrong path when we try to treat it by placing children on medication to control their behavior:
“Every era has its challenges, but I don’t think we’re recognizing ours. There’s been an explosion in the proportion of kids on medication in this country. Kids need authority, and when parents step back from authority, what’s happened in many cases is that the doctor steps in, and instead of parents setting clear rules of right and wrong, now you’ve got this kid running around, throwing things, and is put on medication. So, American kids are now 90 times more likely to be on medication for behavior compared to kids in Italy for example.”
Sax concludes by saying that instead of continually trying to make their children like them, parents need to be unafraid to lay down the rules and take responsibility “to teach right and wrong.”
Would you agree? Would we see a behavior change for the better if parents re-established their authority and firmly, but lovingly, taught their children right from wrong? www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/physician-american-children-immersed-culture-disrespect
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Post by jojustjo on Mar 29, 2018 23:02:15 GMT -6
I don't think the problem with children today is as simple as a lack of parenting or discipline. These are murderous little sociopath's out to impress their social media friends or to 'get even' for bullying or slights. You'd have to reverse some technology to fix a growing problem methinks. Get rid of the cell phones, any social media..get them into dance, sports or swimming...away from computers and video games and out into the air to exhaust them into complacency. My kids didn't have cell phones or computers...they got up..had breakfast (that I fixed) went to school..came home did school work and went out to play AFTER chores. Online dating, facebook and twitter 'likes' and 'followers' are everything today. And then add to that unhealthy mix..parents who both have to work to make a living..leaving it up to others to watch their kids. A 9 year old child...committed suicide by hanging herself because she was bullied online. Why in heavens name would a 9 year old child even know the word suicide let alone hang herself? She's only one of several who have done so. They're not emotionally prepared for the onslaught of a much more mature and hard world at the end of a computer or cell phone. Sad..and growing so much worse
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Post by swamprat on Apr 2, 2018 18:21:13 GMT -6
And just think... In 2 or 3 years, they'll vote!Teens snort condoms then pull them through mouths in disturbing new trendBy Carmen M. Llona, Fox News April 2, 2018
Tide Pods are so January.
Now teens are taking on an even grosser challenge in pursuit of Internet fame — and this one is making stomachs turn, as it is as disgusting as it is dangerous.
The latest challenge involves snorting a condom up one nostril, inhaling, and finally pulling it from the throat out the mouth.
Like other viral fads, this one has been around for years but is just now catching fire on social media, mostly via YouTube.
Health authorities warn that the new "game" poses a real risk and can kill.
Anything that goes up one’s nose “can damage the sensitive inner lining of your nose, cause an allergic reaction, or result in an infection,” wrote Bruce Y. Lee, associate professor of international health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in a column for Forbes.
“The condom could easily get stuck in your nose or your throat, blocking your breathing or causing you to choke,” he added.
Forbes cites two cases reviewed in medical journals in which women accidentally swallowed condoms, developing ailments ranging from pneumonia to appendicitis.
“Even if you manage to successfully pull the condom out through your mouth, inhaling a condom up your nose would be very uncomfortable and potentially quite painful,” Lee wrote. “Would it really be worth all that just to get more likes and views?”
The condom snorting fad follows a recent trend of people eating Tide Pods and encouraging or daring others to do the same. That stunt, dubbed "The Tide Pod Challenge," resulted in poison centers reporting 142 incidents just in January, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC).
www.foxnews.com/health/2018/04/02/teens-snort-condoms-then-pull-them-through-mouths-in-disturbing-new-trend.html
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Post by jojustjo on Apr 3, 2018 10:32:05 GMT -6
Oh man I couldn't have gone a day without knowing that...thanx Swampie (ewwwwwwwwwwww)
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Post by skywalker on Apr 4, 2018 21:00:27 GMT -6
Wtf is wrong with these people?
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Post by jojustjo on Apr 5, 2018 10:24:53 GMT -6
We've become a sick sick race of people and I don't think either alien or divine intervention will help
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Post by swamprat on Apr 6, 2018 19:03:42 GMT -6
Mom charged with decapitating her 7-year-old son in western New YorkFox News April 6, 2018
A mother stabbed and decapitated her 7-year-old son in rural western New York minutes before deputies arrived in a response to a call of a “suicidal female” armed with a knife, according to reports Friday.
First-grader Abraham Cardenas was killed Thursday evening after being stabbed in the back and neck with a "large-bladed kitchen knife," authorities said. Hanane Mouhib, 36, was charged with murder after deputies subdued her with a stun gun in the small town of Sweden, near Rochester.
“There’s absolutely no explanation for us,” Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter said at a Friday news conference, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. “The word ‘evil’ comes to mind….This is a mother who took her son’s life.”
Abraham’s father, grandmother and 10-year-old brother were in another room in the house when he was killed, Baxter said.
Brockport School District Superindentent Lesli Myers said Abraham was an incredibly vibrant and engaged learner who was loved by his teachers and the school community.
“He lit up a room every time he entered it,” she said, according to the station. Mouhib is being held in the county jail without bail.
www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/06/mom-charged-with-decapitating-her-7-year-old-son-in-western-new-york.html
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Post by jojustjo on Apr 6, 2018 23:04:51 GMT -6
Here in California, two women, the parents of 6 adopted children plunged off of a cliff overlooking the ocean. They found the two women and 3 of the children (none of whom were strapped in). Both of the women had been under investigation at separate times for abuse but no one is quite sure what prompted this. Authorities are now sure it was not an accident. Imagine for a moment the terror and pain of those kids...how adults can be so freakin selfish and stupid is beyond me.
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Post by swamprat on Apr 7, 2018 8:59:12 GMT -6
Jo, did they locate the other three children? I thought they were missing?
Swamp
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Post by jojustjo on Apr 7, 2018 10:25:08 GMT -6
They're still searching for them along the coast line. So far nothing has turned up.
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Post by paulette on Apr 7, 2018 12:09:40 GMT -6
"Speaking about his new book, The Collapse of Parenting, in an interview with CBS news, Sax declares,“I think in a certain way you need to expect kids to behave like adults, but you should not give them the authority of an adult.” Parents, Sax notes, have done just the opposite. They have turned their commands into questions and made their children the final determiners of what they can and cannot do. As a result, children are allowed to choose the school they want to attend, the food they want to eat, and any number of other decisions which children simply don’t have the wisdom or maturity to make on their own." Well, I am in the middle on this one. I think child should be given the right to make decisions if they do not impose hardship on the family. Clothes, hair style, music, where they go to school... That doesn't mean Mom should get up and drive them to a school a distance from where they live. They will bus, or walk, or bike. If they don't manage that, they will be transferred back to the closer school. That should be discussed as calmly as possible BEFORE they parents say OK. Here's some more from my parenting years. I knew I couldn't keep my teen aged children from smoking marijuana. However I was very clear that it was not allowed in my home and if they came home impaired I would search their rooms. And I did. Ditto with alcohol. And if their friends were disrespectful to my home or me they were not allowed back. Period. I'm not saying that this was an easy approach. Or that they liked it. But they knew where they stood with me. My daughter found a very old pipe (for smoking grass) in some of my old memorabilia. She confronted me. I told her that I didn't smoke until I was in university and stopped when I became a parent. But just to clear - I ground it underfoot and threw the pieces away. Both my kids are not interested in altering their consciousnesses except by the ocassional extra drink. They both have jobs and are valued in them. I guess I did my job well enough. Read more: theedgeofreality.proboards.com/thread/6639/weep-country#ixzz5C0ixZ2Xe
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Post by jojustjo on Apr 7, 2018 14:10:06 GMT -6
My boys drink beer...they all smoke some. They are adults...50-49-41 respectively. They all hold down and have all of their lives jobs that they've had for many many years. Not one has ever been fired from a job. They understand when to 'recreate' and when not to and I am so very proud of them. I'd be devastated not to have them in my life. I am so fortunate to have them...so very blessed
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Post by swamprat on Jun 10, 2018 9:47:40 GMT -6
Too accurate to be cute; too true to be funny.....
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Post by jojustjo on Jun 10, 2018 18:22:12 GMT -6
It is sickly true. Everywhere I look...someone's on a phone either texting or talking or reading the news. It's an odd world out there...and getting odder
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Post by skywalker on Jun 10, 2018 19:20:28 GMT -6
And here I am on my phone watching it.
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Post by jcurio on Jun 10, 2018 22:59:03 GMT -6
Wall -e was “accurate” enough for me.
(What are legs for if you’re not going any where?)
I hate seeing someone looking down in their lap while driving. Even a slow straight street through a neighborhood. Don’t they realize a kid could run out in the street in a fraction of a second?!! You could hit someone’s dog while just changing the radio station.
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Post by swamprat on Jun 11, 2018 9:17:24 GMT -6
Regardless of your opinion on trans-gender, I think this human being was indeed mistreated.....Transgender inmate suing FDC, saying she was stripped naked and harassed about her bodyEmma Kennedy, Pensacola News Journal Published June 11, 2018
A transgender Century Correctional Institution inmate is suing Florida Department of Corrections staff claiming she was stripped naked and ridiculed for having breasts.
Misha Sanders, 39, filed the federal lawsuit June 4, naming a sergeant, correctional officer and major at Wakulla Correctional Institution Annex as defendants.
Sanders is representing herself at this stage of the lawsuit, and does not provide any information in the documents about medications she’s taking, how long she’s been living as a female or any physical details about transitioning.
Sanders claims that on Sept. 19, 2017, while housed at Wakulla Annex she was strip-searched in front of inmates and harassed by guards.
Sanders said she told a guard she needed to be searched alone because she’s a transgender female, to which he replied “don’t waste my time,” according to the document. She said the officer told her to take off her jockstrap and bra, and when she did, the major came over and said “what the hell, he has tits.”
“There (sic) comments were cruel and degrading. Then while standing waiting to be shackled on the gate, Major Hamilton comes up to me and says 'women don’t have penises, your (sic) sick,’” the lawsuit reads.
Sanders says since then she’s been ridiculed by inmates and is going through emotional distress that led to her seeing a counselor.
FDC spokesman Patrick Manderfield said the agency hasn’t been served with paperwork about the lawsuit yet, but will review it upon receipt.
“The department has zero tolerance against the mistreatment or harassment of any individuals in our custody,” he said in an emailed statement. “Any allegations would be forwarded on to our Inspector General’s Office for review and investigation.”
In response to a question about FDC transgender inmate policies, Manderfield said FDC works with a mental health evaluation team to make determinations based on the clinical needs of individuals, but did not provide a specific policy document.
Sanders is seeking for the officers involved in the incident to be terminated from their duties, as well as for an investigation into the incident to be opened.
Sanders submitted multiple grievance documents in the months after the alleged incident, which were denied as the warden's office said the issue had been referred to the Office of the Inspector General, according to the lawsuit.
Sanders is now housed at Century Correctional Institution, and is serving a 30-year sentence for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in Hillsborough County.
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/crime/2018/06/11/transgender-inmate-suing-fdc-saying-she-stripped-naked-harassed/684377002/
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Post by jcurio on Jul 1, 2018 22:14:09 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jul 19, 2018 9:17:59 GMT -6
Sad but true.....
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Post by jojustjo on Jul 20, 2018 2:49:27 GMT -6
agreed
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Post by jcurio on Jul 20, 2018 6:45:50 GMT -6
Oh my.
But wait...... I am so holding myself back from the comment that came to my mind..... 🤪😒
Knowing, knowing that someone will SKIM what I’m writing here... and their opinion of me will be forever doomed.....
~sigh~
Aaaaaack! I MIGHT come back and say it in a couple of days....
🤪😳
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Post by jojustjo on Jul 23, 2018 0:13:04 GMT -6
hmmmm...not that our opinion of you would be forever doomed...forever is such a long time...but aside from that...we are people on a forum you most likely won't chance to meet in this lifetime...don't worry so about what people think...all of us have opinions...although I have noticed people trying to steer away from politics (smart)...opinions are an asset...a functioning wonderful brain thought them up...don't hold back
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Post by paulette on Jul 23, 2018 9:28:38 GMT -6
And now... Surprise, surprise, today, we have THIS:Families of children slain by illegal immigrants challenge California's sanctuary cities agendaThe parents of children killed by illegal immigrants are demanding that the WH to take a tough stance against a California mayor who thwarted a federal immigration raid -- urging that she face consequences and even jail time.
By Adam Shaw | Fox News March 14, 2018
Watch Video: blob:http://video.foxnews.com/340470c3-1851-4b9a-934e-d4112ee9e8a9
The parents of children killed by illegal immigrants are demanding that the Trump administration take a tough stance against a California mayor who thwarted a federal immigration raid this month -- urging that she face consequences and even jail time.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf sparked national outrage when she pre-empted the raid in Northern California by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials by announcing it on Twitter. .
As for those who have lost children due to the actions of illegal immigrants -- so-called Angel Families' -- they say it’s vital that the administration do something.
Don Rosenberg, an "Angel Dad" whose 25-year-old son, Drew, was killed in San Francisco in 2010 when an illegal-immigrant driver from Honduras hit his motorbike, says that Sessions’ DOJ needs to have Schaaf prosecuted.
“Put her in jail, you’ll see this stuff stop,” Rosenberg told Fox News. “These people aren’t willing to sacrifice their lives and careers for people who are here illegally. They’ll be like cockroaches scattering when you turn the light on.”
Rosenberg said his son was killed after the driver attempted to flee the scene, driving over Drew again in the process. Although the driver entered the country illegally, he had been given Temporary Protective Status (TPS).
Ok. I know there are people here who are stauch supporters of "get rid of illegal immigrants" and even "do not even consider whether people seeking sanctuary desire a review of their case." I won't try to change any minds here. But do know that Fox News works tirelessly to provide negative coverage of everything the Republicans want to elimate. Fake news source. The concept that immigrants, illegal immigrants, etc are murdering and killing people in mass is just wrong. Here's a breakdown by Snopes. Snopes is not seen as a "liberal" source of information:
"In March 2018 an Arizona woman, Mary Ann Mendoza, reportedly related to the president the claim that “63,000” United States citizens had been killed by undocumented immigrants. Mendoza’s son was killed in 2014 by an undocumented drunk driver.
Although the president has attempted to cast immigrants as criminals since he first announced his candidacy in June 2015, various analyses have already undermined the notion that people in the United States without documentation were more likely to commit crimes in general than those born in the country. One of those studies, published in February 2018 by the libertarian group Cato Institute, examined data on criminal convictions in Texas for 2015 and found:
There were 951 total homicide convictions in Texas in 2015. Of those, native-born Americans were convicted of 885 homicides, illegal immigrants were convicted of 51 homicides, and legal immigrants were convicted of 15 homicides. The homicide conviction rate for native-born Americans was 3.88 per 100,000, 2.9 per 100,000 for illegal immigrants, and 0.51 per 100,000 for legal immigrants (Figure 2). In 2015, homicide conviction rates for illegal and legal immigrants were 25 percent and 87 percent below those of natives, respectively.
"Illegal immigrants made up about 6.4 percent of the Texas population in 2015 but only accounted for 5.4 percent of all homicide convictions. Legal immigrants made up 10.4 percent of the Texas population but accounted for only 1.6 percent of homicide convictions. Native-born Americans made up 83 percent of the Texas population but accounted for 93 percent of all homicide convictions".
OK. That is statistical information. As for running over someone (a terrible thing), I don't think that illegal or legal immigrants do that as often as native-born people do. Most of them don't have cars! And they don't want to draw attention to themselves by driving with no license. I'm not saying it NEVER HAPPENS. But this is just more gasoline thrown on the fires of those who don't want anyone coming (whether in dire straits or not)to the USA. Meanwhile, the tomatoes, fruit, and other vegies rot in the fields. Born American youth and first job entry folks do not want to bend over in the hot sun picking stuff for minimum wage or piecemeal wages. Rather play computer games or be on their phones. So it goes.
Call me practical.
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Post by swamprat on Sept 3, 2018 9:19:50 GMT -6
Is your road bumpy? Sorry, we have other priorities.....
...and where do we stand today??
Labor Day a reminder of troubled bridges
A Letter to the Editor by Robert F. Sanchez
Do you remember where you were on Labor Day five years ago? Neither do I. Yet I still remember where I was on Labor Day 1954: I was on my way to see “the Eighth Wonder of the World.” That’s the term the locals along Florida’s Gulf coast were using to describe the Sunshine Skyway. Not only did the 22-mile-long project extend U.S. 19 across lower Tampa Bay from Pinellas County to Manatee County, but it also meant traveling to St. Petersburg from the south no longer entailed passing through traffic-choked Tampa or catching the Beeline Ferry across the bay.
The Skyway’s highly anticipated grand opening was to be on Labor Day 1954. I picked up my high school girlfriend and we set forth to see this marvel of engineering. So did thousands of other curious motorists. Just north of Palmetto, traffic slowed to a crawl and my 1949 Jeep began to overheat.
Undaunted, we continued. The $1.75 toll for the then-two-lane bridge was suspended that day, and we pushed on across the main span. Motorists who did so were rewarded with a blue and yellow sticker certifying that they’d crossed the Skyway on its opening day. I still have mine — sticker number 1113.
By Labor Day of 1955, however, I was a freshman at Florida State, and my adventure crossing the Sunshine Skyway on its opening day was the last thing on my mind.
Years later I was jolted into recalling my opening day adventure when the Skyway was the scene of a tragic accident. On May 9, 1980, a large ship, the Summit Venture, was navigating Tampa Bay during a thunderstorm. It struck the underpinnings of the main span of one of the two parallel bridges. Six vehicles and a Greyhound bus plunged into Tampa Bay, causing 35 deaths.
In 1987 a replacement bridge, designed by the Tallahassee engineering firm Figg & Muller, opened to traffic. Nowadays it’s part of I-275 and features a design that’s not only safer, but also eye-catching. Indeed, if it were part of a major city’s skyline, it would be probably be almost as iconic as San Francisco’s Golden Gate.
The fact that the work on the Sunshine Skyway, like the interstate highway system, began in the 1950s is no accident. The nation — still recovering from the Great Depression, World War II,and the Korean War — was poorer then than it is now, but it had a can-do attitude when it came to infrastructure.
President Eisenhower, who as a young Army officer decades earlier had been tasked with leading a truck convoy across the U.S. when much of the trek was on muddy dirt roads, was an avid advocate of a federal-state partnership to build highways on a par with those he’d seen during his World War II “visit” to Europe.
Today we’re told that the much richer United States cannot even afford to maintain the current Interstate system, much less improve its capacity or extend it.
Meanwhile, the August 1, 2007 collapse of the I-35W bridge across the Mississippi River in Minnesota’s Twin Cities served as a reminder of the system’s maintenance problem. Thirteen people died, 145 were injured and travel was seriously disrupted for months. It was but one of many bridges and roads in bad shape.
No ship hit that bridge. It fell after decades of neglect by governments in which leaders of both political parties had too many other priorities, burying the nation ever deeper in debt while attempting to tend to everyone’s personal needs and wants from the cradle to the grave.
Robert F. Sanchez is a retired journalist residing in Tallahassee.
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Post by jojustjo on Sept 18, 2018 23:39:54 GMT -6
Can't we all just...get along???
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Post by swamprat on Sept 19, 2018 8:22:59 GMT -6
No. No we cannot. After watching 8 years of the right attacking Obama, and watching 3 years of the left attacking Trump, there is absolutely no way we can all get along.....
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Post by paulette on Sept 19, 2018 13:53:58 GMT -6
I would concur. Not-getting-along is a planet wide problem.
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Post by jojustjo on Nov 14, 2018 0:18:31 GMT -6
Our Governor in Calif has the perfect solution. Sort of a catch and release. Police arrest someone...they process him then turn him lose. Now I have all faith that they will appear for a court date (no bond to worry about)...you know..the good guy system. Governor Brown has had a few misguided ideas in the past..but this one is a new low even for him. Granted the jails are horribly over crowded but quite a few of these patrons are serving time for marijuana possession and other relatively minor infractions...well compared to murder...and a lot of them were part of our 3 strikes law. Get caught doing a naughty of any kind on a 3'd strike..and you go to prison. As our judicial system and the political system...the criminal system is a true mess.
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