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You know it’s going to be a strange day when you wake up and find this in the news:
Former 49ers and Raiders tackle Kwame Harris faces charges that he assaulted his boyfriend at a Menlo Park restaurant after an argument involving soy sauce and underpants, San Mateo County prosecutors said Monday.
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If you want strange, go look at the lead photo at the top of Drudge… almost made me spew my coffee.
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This is a very informed dummy. Listen to the dummy! I did and learned something I had forgotten!!
Very interesting…. (even with the same monotonal voice my 11th grade physiology teacher had)
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#2 texmo
That’s not strange. Unfortunate, yes. Strange, no.
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Mike Lee sticks with them what brung him to the dance.
Lee, a conservative leader and Tea Party favorite, said he can’t support the deal because “these guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country. Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions of applicants who seek to come here lawfully.”
“Additionally, the framework carves out a special exception for agricultural workers that has little justification,” Lee said. “Maintaining the safety of America’s food supply is an important goal, but it is unclear why immigrants in this sector should achieve special status over skilled workers in industries equally important to the American economy.”
Lee’s opposition to the plan may prove to be an obstacle for Senate leaders trying to push it through, as many conservatives tend to follow his lead. It’s unclear as of yet where other conservatives in the Senate stand on the issue.
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2 TexMo says:
January 29, 2013 at 6:28 am
If you want strange, go look at the lead photo at the top of Drudge… almost made me spew my coffee.I understand Joe Biden is depicted kn the tattoo as well.
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One big reason why we should all be standing on top of the wall shouting NO! about this back stab.
“If we do succeed, and I think we will, it will be a testimonial to Ted Kennedy’s effort years ago that laid the groundwork for this agreement,” said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a member of the bipartisan group of senators that on Monday backed a set of principles for comprehensive immigration reform.
“You will find that this agreement has very little difference from that of the legislation that was led by Sen. Kennedy some years ago.” -
Ted Cruz demonstrates why it was a good idea to vote for him, and why the Establishment fought to keep him out of office. He pays attention to the voices of those who elected him.
He doesn’t have to ask “How can I be more Conservative?”I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.
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Also, the ACLU has made clear that it will wage a legal jihad against the provision mandating the screening of all new hires with the E-Verify system. E-Verify is the main enforcement bait the open-borders crowd holds out to attract naïve conservatives to back amnesty (though the Senate outline was careful not to mention E-Verify specifically, because Schumer wants to replace it with something “better,” a process which wouldn’t be completed until years after all the current illegals are legalized — if ever). Preventing its full implementation is key to crippling future enforcement and ensuring that illegal immigration continues.
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NO Amnesty dangit! (unless and until all current illegals immediately retreat back south and pony up every dime of taxes they have NOT yet paid from previous years as an entry fee)
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I’ve been using E-Verify for years for new hires. It takes 30 seconds at most to process a new hire. It doesn’t cost anything extra, just the tax dollars we already spend on it. The only reason an employer wouldn’t want to use it is if they want to hire illegals.
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And from the “you just cannot make this stuff up” department:
Just make sure the parents are FULLY informed of who is, and who is not, a gay scout leader. (or look for the Expert Macrame badge) -
unless and until all current illegals immediately retreat back south and pony up every dime of taxes they have NOT yet paid from previous years as an entry fee
That actually is a part of this plan:
While these security measures are being put into place, we will simultaneously require those who came or remained in the United States without our permission to register with the government. This will include passing a background check and settling their debt to society by paying a fine and back taxes, in order to earn probationary legal status, which will allow them to live and work legally in the United States. Individuals with a serious criminal background or others who pose a threat to our national security will be ineligible for legal status and subject to deportation. Illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes face immediate deportation.
As Cruz says, there are some good things:
Once the enforcement measures have been completed, individuals with probationary legal status will be required to go to the back of the line of prospective immigrants, pass an additional background check, pay taxes, learn English and civics, demonstrate a history of work in the United States, and current employment, among other requirements, in order to earn the opportunity to apply for lawful permanent residency. Those individuals who successfully complete these requirements can eventually earn a green card.
Individuals who are present without lawful status – not including people within the two categories identified below – will only receive a green card after every individual who is already waiting in line for a green card, at the time this legislation is enacted, has received their green card. Our purpose is to ensure that no one who has violated America’s immigration laws will receive preferential treatment as they relate to those individuals who have complied with the law.The problem is the deliberately deceptive language on securing the border supposedly before anyone gets a green card. Everyone knows it’s a ruse. Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more, say no more.
In the end it will pass, the border won’t be secured, the 11 million already here will get green cards, and millions more will join them.
Ted Cruz accepts something that Rubio doesn’t grasp: Liberal Mexicans (which is 75% of them) hate Cubans. They are envious of the “wet foot, dry foot” policy and the fact that a majority of Cubans have traditionally been conservative. -
In short…illegals will gain immediate legal status upon enactment of the law with no penalty until some unidentified time far off in the future. How is that not amnesty? Until we see the actual legislation, we don’t even know if illegals will have to apply for a green card or citizenship. It’s very possible whatever category of visa they get upon passage of the scheme will entitle them to stay for as long as they want.
Who is really punished by this system? People waiting to come here legally. The legal immigration system is already a mess but now we’ll be dumping upwards of 11 million new people into the system. They will all have to be processed and have background checks done to claim their new status.
How is an overworked system going to handle that new workload without A- skimping on real checks and B- adding more delays to people who are playing by the rules (pdf)? -
unless and until all current illegals immediately retreat back south and pony up every dime of taxes they have NOT yet paid from previous years as an entry fee
That actually is a part of this plan:
While these security measures are being put into place, we will simultaneously require those who came or remained in the United States without our permission to register with the government. This will include passing a background check and settling their debt to society by paying a fine and back taxes, in order to earn probationary legal status, which will allow them to live and work legally in the United States. Individuals with a serious criminal background or others who pose a threat to our national security will be ineligible for legal status and subject to deportation. Illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes face immediate deportation.
There is nothing in that paragraph the requires them to go back across the border and re-enter using any new system.
Its Amnesty. Any payment of taxes will be probated, reduced, or waived on “humanitarian” grounds. Do you really think they’re going to make Abuela Maria pay twenty years of back taxes with penalties and interest?
Please. We know who we’re dealing with here.
Any what do you do about the ones who have been illegally using someone else’s Social Security number? No mention of that at all, or penalties for any welfare fraud. -
Thnik about that for a minute.
What would YOU have to pay if you didn’t pay any taxes for even ONE year, let alone the number of years most of these folks have been here. They’ll put some number ike $5K on it that SOUNDS big, but will have so many reductions and interest free payment plans attached to it that it will make your head swim.
If they let ONE person become a citizen without having them pay the same penalty for enjoying the roads, schools, police, and all of the other things they enjoyed while living here that someone born here does then its a toal travesty of justice—-and it isn’t fair either.
I skipped paying taxes for two years while Elizabeth was sick. come august, she’ll be gone four years, and I’m still paying those back taxes and will be for another couple—at $1500 a month. I’ll be damned if I sit by and watch someone who hasn’t paid taxes for 10 or 15 years get off with a financial slap on the wrist. -
I little known fact in the Hamous family tree is that there is a Cuban connection way back, before the Revolution. We called them “Ricky Ricardo” Cubans.
I live in a predominantly Mexican ancestry part of town. My church is the same way. I have a lot of friends who are of Mexican ancestry. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been asked by strangers at parties or other social gatherings if I’m Mexican. I say no and sometimes tell them of the Cuban connection. Nine times out of ten they get a look of disdain and say, “Oh, so you’re a Republican! Water off a duck’s back.
But one thing I’ve learned as the “token Gringo” among my circle of friends in the 32 years I’ve lived in Texas – in general, Mexicans are one of the most xenophobic nationalities around. They dislike everyone who isn’t Mexican. Hondurans, Guatemalans, Salvadorians are all considered inferior, but the Gringo…ah, he’s the worst of all. I suppose it’s a natural reaction to centuries of dealing with America. God knows we haven’t been saints. The animosity does wane once you get to the 2nd and 3rd generations. I have a dream…. -
Any what do you do about the ones who have been illegally using someone else’s Social Security number?
Well, that’s a crime, and should qualify them for immediate deportation under their plan. But I have no illusions of enforcement.
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They’ll all leave on their own when the economy finally craters.
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They’ll all leave on their own when the economy finally craters.
Yup. That’s why I keep saying bring it on. I suspect the 11 million number is high too. With the economy sucking for the last five years I’d bet it’s more like 7-8 million.
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Yay! Kinder, gentler jihad is here!
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#12 Katfish
Yeah. Makes no sense, after the Boy Scouts went to the mat over excluding gay leaders a while back, to the point that BSA was dropped from United Way, as I recall. -
#3 Katfish: On the highlighted videos on the right side of your link, I found this jewel.
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I got very little time before tonight so here goes:
Sarge;
Mike Lee and Ted Cruz thus far have left little to no reason not to admire them from a conservative perspective. I have high confidence that they’l continue to impress. They are doing great. A simple question to Senator Lee is what does he plan to do with all the illegals already here? In other words, if it’s no amnesty no matter what than on the reported 11 million illegals, what does Senator Lee desire to hapen with them? There’s also the mess that judicial activists hae left us (which I’ve no doubt Senator Lee is fully aware) in that children born in the US from illegals are citizens. Legally, it’s tough to demand they get deported which would logically lead to leaving behind millions of parentless children were their parents to deport.
As for Senator Cruz, what would he propose doing if not providing a pathway to citizenship? And I personally plan to contact Cruz’s office and ask the question.
katfish;
Like I stated above, how would you propose accompishing sending all the illegals back south? That’s no small task, even if morally right.
Hamous;I’ve been using E-Verify for years for new hires. It takes 30 seconds at most to process a new hire. It doesn’t cost anything extra, just the tax dollars we already spend on it. The only reason an employer wouldn’t want to use it is if they want to hire illegals.
Correct.
Regarding the porposed bill:While these security measures are being put into place, we will simultaneously require those who came or remained in the United States without our permission to register with the government. This will include passing a background check and settling their debt to society by paying a fine and back taxes, in order to earn probationary legal status, which will allow them to live and work legally in the United States. Individuals with a serious criminal background or others who pose a threat to our national security will be ineligible for legal status and subject to deportation. Illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes face immediate deportation.
Also correct.
The problem is the deliberately deceptive language on securing the border supposedly before anyone gets a green card. Everyone knows it’s a ruse. Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more, say no more.
Also correct. This is where the rubber hits the road for Rubio. What will he do in order to remain true to his words that enforcement will happen? I think this is crucial for Rubio’s integrity and consistency.
Its Amnesty. Any payment of taxes will be probated, reduced, or waived on “humanitarian” grounds. Do you really think they’re going to make Abuela Maria pay twenty years of back taxes with penalties and interest?
Please. We know who we’re dealing with here.
Any what do you do about the ones who have been illegally using someone else’s Social Security number? No mention of that at all, or penalties for any welfare fraud.Also correct.
But one thing I’ve learned as the “token Gringo” among my circle of friends in the 32 years I’ve lived in Texas – in general, Mexicans are one of the most xenophobic nationalities around. They dislike everyone who isn’t Mexican. Hondurans, Guatemalans, Salvadorians are all considered inferior, but the Gringo…ah, he’s the worst of all. I suppose it’s a natural reaction to centuries of dealing with America. God knows we haven’t been saints. The animosity does wane once you get to the 2nd and 3rd generations. I have a dream….
Again, you’re correct.
We called them “Ricky Ricardo” Cubans.
That is too freakin’ funny!!! 😆
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#23 – Those guys have dozens of highly informative videos (not to mention many MANY that are highlighted in similar fashion on the right of theirs)……….one could easily review the various topics for hours / days……
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Señor republicano Hamous;
One more thing:I suspect the 11 million number is high too. With the economy sucking for the last five years I’d bet it’s more like 7-8 million.
Pretty much how I see it.
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#24 – Darren I never claimed or even dreamed of “practicality” – just noted what is RIGHT (IMHO)…………as Sarge mentioned good ole Unka Sam (aka the I.nfernal R.obbery S.quad) has no problem whatsoever hammering us good law abiding citizens for what they say WE OWE…………….as it should be for ALL or for NONE dangit
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As far as any immigration reform goes, why not first simply enforce fully the laws that are currently on the books? Secure the border. Secure the border.Secure the border.Secure the border. Once the border is secure (meaning that the smuggling of people and stuff has been stopped, ie no one gets through), then move to deport all the illegals with criminal backgrounds. Criminal includes anyone who uses a fake SS number, illegally obtains welfare or other payments, in addition to the obvious criminalities.
Part of any reform must include removing the restriction on skilled, educated immigrants from English speaking countries as is now the case. My understanding is that now, if you are unskilled, uneducated, non-English speaking and from Latin America, you get preferential treatment over educated, skilled English speaking people from Europe, this policy is of course, absurd and something that only a D could have put in place. -
#15 Sarge
In the link:Individuals with a serious criminal background or others who pose a threat to our national security will be ineligible for legal status and subject to deportation. Illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes face immediate deportation.
So no illegal criminal will step forward and self-identify for the program. Super. Will it still be verboten for the police to ask for proof of citizenship on probable cause?
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#20 Hammy
I suspect the 11 million number is high too. With the economy sucking for the last five years I’d bet it’s more like 7-8 million.
I’ll bet it’s still more than 11 million. If not working due to bad economy, hunkered down here, living on welfare.
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I just received another loving, religious, sentimental email from a family member, in which I was strongly urged to “send this to no less than 3 of my friends immediately!”.
Somehow, being emotionally guilted into sending an email to others kinda screws with the intent of the message.
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Four years? Wow.
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#31 TT: I think those are simply “bots” scanning for valid email addresses so they can be spammed. The deeply religious sentimentality of the whole thing simply is the vehicle by which the nefarious ends are achieved. I think there is a special place in #3!! for those types, ditto that for ID thieves and pederasts.
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Mike Lee and Ted Cruz thus far have left little to no reason not to admire them from a conservative perspective.
I stopped reading right there.
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Any blood donors out there on the couch? There is a little girl, age 4, going through the wringer (bladder cancer) and needs blood. Name is Ashlynn Dempsey, Texas Children’s Hospital. If you are able to donate, it would be greatly appreciated.
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Drudge banner is now showing the Coming: Amnesty headline with an upsidedown American flag.
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This is not good for America, yet seems to fit right in with “the plan” to have a domestic security force just as well equipped as the military. Tell me again why DHS has purchased over ONE BILLION ROUNDS of .40 cal hollow point ammo? The military is facing extreme budget cuts, real cuts not reductions in increases, and yet the prez sees fit to do this?
Obama to Fly Over 9 Hours Just for Speech on Immigration
The speech and photo-op will cost taxpayers over $1.6 million.Any semblance of sanity left a long time ago.
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The SE wind is howling across these hills. I bet it’s going to be stormy when that front gets here.
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#39 – looking like intellicast concurs (re: Brenham as an example)
Details for Tuesday, January 29
Windy with thunderstorms this afternoon. Storms could contain damaging winds. High 79F. Winds S at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
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#37: I’m shocked, shocked I tell ya, Matt Lauer actually asked a pertinent question to the manbearpigcrazedsexpoodlelyingsackofcraphyppocritalgoricle. Hopefully, the glaring hypocrisy of the goricle will eliminate him from any further political activities as everybody will know that he is a “walking eagle.”
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G’Morning All
Can we do it again, please?Texas votes to secede
January 29, 1861
On this day in 1861, the Secession Convention of the state of Texas voted overwhelmingly to secede from the United States. South Carolina had seceded in December 1860. The election of Republican Abraham Lincoln precipitated the fall of the Southern dominoes. Fearful of Northern encroachment on traditional freedoms, and acutely aware of the South’s economic dependence upon slavery, the Southern states voted one by one to withdraw from the Union. A Texas referendum to settle the legality of the move was held on February 23, 1861. The results for the state as a whole were 46,153 for secession and 14,747 against. The stage was set for Texans to fight and lose a bloody civil war. -
Ahh-Ha! Play it now Alton!
Future member of the Country Music Hall of Fame born in Texas
January 29, 1908
On this day in 1908, Alton Stricklin, County Music Hall of Fame musician, was born in Antioch, Texas. He joined Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys in 1935, after Bob heard him play piano at the Cinderella Roof in Fort Worth. Stricklin was a jazz pianist whose idioms were basic to dance music. For him, Wills’s dance music was like the jazz he was familiar with. He set the piano style for all the swing bands that followed and the style for all of Wills’s other piano players. Stricklin played with the Wills band in its the first recording for Columbia Records and in all the other recordings Wills made through 1941, a total of more than 200. Capitol Records encouraged the musicians to form a group called Bob Wills’ Original Texas Playboys, which had nearly ten years of remarkable success. Stricklin became the chronicler of his music when, in 1976, he published his memoirs, My years with Bob Wills. He died in Johnson County, Texas, in 1986. -
The regional radar loop on this site indicates that it is snowing in El Paso.
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I saw where American Idol was sued by nine contestants for discrimination Monday. They passed their audition then were told they’re disqualified due to their past criminal records.
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Th-th-that’s all folks. Trapped a possum in my back yard last night and now I gotta go set him free in the nether-lands.
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Th-th-that’s all folks. Trapped a possum in my back yard last night and now I gotta go set him free in the nether-lands.
Unless you are going to Europe, keep your possum. The people in the netherlands don’t want it eating our eggs and killing our baby chicks. We don’t want your unwanted cats and dogs either. They usually meet an untimely end.
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do I have one in the bucket?
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We called them “Ricky Ricardo” Cubans.
Llloooooooooocccyyyyyyy!!!!
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Take the possum to Ft. Bend, near the river.
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#50 Pyro
Mon frere, it was usually Lucy who had some ‘splainin’ to do.
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Take the possum to the Gallaria area, they’ll appreciate it.
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51 Shannon says:
January 29, 2013 at 12:04 pm
Take the possum to Ft. Bend, near the river.We got our own.
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On further reflection I see that the quote from Darren I used in my #34 above means the oppostie of what I thought it meant while drinking my coffee this morning. something about waking up with a knife in your back apparently affects comprehension.
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Already got possums (possi (?) ) in Katy – so NO thank ya!
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I figured Adee’s horses could use some possum friends.
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Unless you have your own acreage (at least 500) on which you can relocate him, or want to drop him off in the middle of the Sam Houston National Forest, the best thing for a nuisance possum in the city is a bullet to the head.
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Michelle seems to be abandoning her “Let’s Move” campaign.
Shame.
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Surfer on a 100′ wave. It’s toward the end.
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This is cool. Amazing how bright the suit is.
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The rub is that the process for putting undocumented immigrants — who will be granted probationary legal status — on a path to citizenship is contingent on a commission deciding that the border is secure. The framework describes that commission this way:
We recognize that Americans living along the Southwest border are key to recognizing and understanding when the border is truly secure. Our legislation will create a commission of governors, attorneys general and community leaders living along the southwest border to monitor the progress of securing our border and to make a recommendation regarding when the bill’s security measures outlined in the legislation are completed.
The fate of immigration reform, then, largely rests on what this commission looks like, who is on it, and what metric it uses to decide when the border is secure. At first glance, doesn’t this basically constitute giving people like Arizona Governor Jan Brewer veto power over when the citizenship process begins? Many immigration advocates argue the border is already secure, but Republicans continue to insist it isn’t, raising the question of whether this commission will ever acknowledge that border security has been achieved. And if this “commission” doesn’t ever decide the border is secure, couldn’t that result in 11 million people being stranded in second-class legal limbo?
That’s a legitimate worry, according to Frank Sharry, the executive director of America’s Voice, a group advocating for immigration reform. But he tells me that on a conference call yesterday, Democratic Senators reassured immigration advocates that this commission won’t be constructed in a way that will hold up the process for too long.
As Sharry put it, Democrats realize that they can’t “allow the commission to have a real veto” over setting in motion the path to citizenship. He noted that Dems see the commission as “something that gives the Republicans a talking point” to claim they are prioritizing tough enforcement, giving themselves cover to back a process that “won’t stop people from getting citizenship.” However, Sharry added: “The details of this are going to matter hugely, and we’ll have to fight like hell on the individual provisions.”This is collusion, plain and simple.
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This is collusion, plain and simple.
A political backscratch is all that it is. Put Marco Rubio out in front, a Potemkin Commission to verify the border is “secure”, then Potemkin tax penalties and Potemkin fines to make it look like its what we want.
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They are colluding with the Dems. “Throw us a bone so we can distract the Darrens into thinking we really, really do plan on verifying that the border is secure. Name a “commission” but don’t give them any power. If they get too uppity have your attack dogs in La Raza sue and get any verification ruled unconstitutional.”
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Ricky had to ‘splain things to Lucy at times.
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I say the Border Commission be comprised of border sheriffs and ranchers.
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64 Hamous says:
January 29, 2013 at 1:24 pm
They are colluding with the Dems. “Throw us a bone so we can distract the Darrens into thinking we really, really do plan on verifying that the border is secure. Name a “commission” but don’t give them any power. If they get too uppity have your attack dogs in La Raza sue and get any verification ruled unconstitutional.”Darren has already voiced his support for “amnesty until citizenship”
What it does is allows him and all the other Establishment Republicans to live under the delusion that they can convince us that this turd sammich isn’t that. -
But is it a grilled turd sammich?
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With possum on the side
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The only reason Darren likes Rubio is because Rubio flirted with Mormonism 😉
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#64 – IF this wasn’t blatant ‘collusion’ (which most any clear thinking person should know it absolutely IS) – then why are the feds hammering AZ for merely attempting to enforce law that already IS and has been ‘on the books’ for years?
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#70 Hammy
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To be fair, Republicans in congress are in a no-win situation. No conservative solution will ever see Bronco’s desk, much less get his signature. No compromise solution, which are always heavily weighted towards Dems, will pass muster with conservative voters.
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The choice then becomes one of being the roadblock and chapping the media and black jesus (thereby losing the next election) or standing back and letting everything asplode.
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Either way everything’s going to asplode. All we’re doing is working out the timing.
I still think the best course of action is to give Bronco Bomma and the Leech Peoplewhat they wantenough rope. Republicans should vote “present” on every piece of legislation then sit back and watch and say “We tole you so”. -
I still think the best course of action is to give Bronco Bomma and the Leech People what they want enough rope. Republicans should vote “present” on every piece of legislation then sit back and watch and say “We tole you so”.
That won’t give me much comfort as America is converted from a free nation to one of slavery to the Chinese masters. If we let them have thier way there won’t be anything left to save, it makes as much sense as giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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it makes as much sense as giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
The boys already have the whiskey and car keys, yo. All they gotta do is scrounge up enough coin to put a couple gallons of gas in to get ’em out to the rock quarry. They’re not sure how they’ll get back.
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And I ain’t worried about the Chinese. They own our debt. That’s about as worthless as our social security accounts.
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Maybe if we can get a few more guys like this one, we can keep things from asploding.
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Ah, what memories.
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Ted Cruz is proving to be one of the best senators from Texas in quite some time. He is the first I can recall that actually posssessed his own set of testicles of, and they still seem to function. Would that the #^&% Cornyn learn a thing or two.
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Ted Cruz is proving to be one of the best senators from Texas in quite some time.
Everyone said the same thing about Cornyn for a couple of years.
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Everyone said the same thing about Cornyn for a couple of years.
I don’t recall Cornyn showing anywhere near the fortitude Cruz has so far, time will tell.
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He’s been in office for 25 days. I’ll reserve judgement for at least a year.
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I think texpat is in that video.
It wouldn’t surprise me. Rumor has it he’s in the Zapruder film too. The dude’s like Forrest Gump.
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That won’t give me much comfort as America is converted from a free nation to one of slavery to the Chinese masters. If we let them have thier way there won’t be anything left to save
Then they should focus on only the absolute most important things that they can win e.g., Supreme Court Justices. Other stuff should be fought just enough to gum up the works and delay everything else.
The UK is threatening to go into recession for a third dip; the rest of Yerp save Germany, the Baltics, and Scandinavia is pretty shaky as well. The only thing keeping us out of recession is the newly-found energy resources that allow us to reduce spending money for energy elsewhere thereby reducing the deficits by that much.
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#88 hamous
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Then they should focus on only the absolute most important things that they can win e.g., Supreme Court Justices.
They can’t win that either. Since they came up with the “bipartisan” (which in codespeak means “BOHICA Republicans”) changes to the filibuster rules Bronco’s judicial appointments are going to fly through the confirmation process, after the obligatory dog-and-pony show to give the Repubs a facade of stones. Only the Dems have the balls to Bork a nomination.
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#80 Sarge
Have been forwarding that letter to many friends inside and outside Texas. 🙂
Take that, Rahm.
Maybe we should send some possums to Rahm as a token of our ???????
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Twice in my life did I think that political contributions I made had paid off. First was my donations to the Swift Boat Veterans exposing John Kerry in 2004. Second was my directed donation through DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund to Ted Cruz and later straight to Cruz.
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Been out of touch for a couple of days, so I apologize if this has already been posted. Open letter from Sen Cruz to gun manufacturers.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/122799297/Letter-from-Senator-Ted-Cruz-to-Chicago-Mayor-Rahm-Emanuel-Bank-of-America-TD-Bank-Group-Smith-Wesson-and-Sturm-Ruger-Co -
I just used a newly found website to arrange a time for the volunteers for my upcoming retreat to meet. It was so much easier than emailing scheduled back and forth. I just supplied the email list at the site, it sent a link to everyone with my message, and a few of them “painted” their availability on a calendar, and within just a few hours we have a time. Sweet. And it’s free.
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How’s your Little Amigo, Gordo? Hope everything went well.
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Why do I feel like today is Friday?
That means my whole week is going to be off.
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TT, could you check that URL? TimeToMeet.com took me to a domain name seller.
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The irresistable #100!
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#97 – Leaner but cleaner.
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“Roto Rooter, that’s the name, and away go troubles down the drain.”
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Sorry – it’s TimeToMeet.info.
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I am following the saga of a rescued kitten that was saved from BARC, where she was checked in as a stray. It was at first thought that she was blind, but in fact she has one shrivelled eye (that seems to have been destroyed by an infection) and luckily she has vision in the other eye (but it needed vet care too.) The rescue org has been trying for almost a month to get her in shape to undergo eye surgery to remove the useless eye and work on the salvageable one.
Every time she is scheduled for it, and she was again today, another problem is found that has to be treated first. This morning, some lung problems were found that interfered with anesthesia. Call me crazy, but I think I am one of the few people on earth who wants this little derelict, if and when Purr Paws deems her adoptable.
I’m not sure it is ethical to adopt a kitten at my age. I was 69 last Friday. The 3 brothers we adopted 5 years ago, we felt like would be our last kittens, that odds were they wouldn’t outlive us. -
My backhoe contractor has an employee whom the sheriff’s department semi-accused of stealing a three-legged horse. They finally left because he couldn’t stop laughing.
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Severe weather chances are rapidly eroding. The Low is pushing off to the North.
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Katfish #27;
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bonecrusher #28;
I’d love for a separate bill to secure the border be done first and all by itself and then decide on who stays and who goes. Will that be done? I don’t know. I guess we can try but I wonder to what avail.
And I agree that preference is given to the lower / under class fo immigrants while forlorning the upper class ones. To put it plainly, the latter are much more valuable than the former. I do believe I heard Rubio propose that reforming the immigration system ought to include placing preference to skilled immigrants. -
Well now they’re saying we might actually get some severe weather.
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#109 – Bubba you got a thin line (in fairness some red & yellow embedded) that is just now east of Austin…………if the “tail” don’t extend southward as it traverses eastward it might miss Yall or just barely hitcha
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Severe weather chances now shown as gone for my ZIP code. I did want some rain.
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Don’t look like we’re gonna get a drop.
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stealing a three-legged horse
Did he have one eye and was he missing a chunk of his ear?
The horse, not the guy.
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OK, I’m late, El Gordo, glad you’re doing better.
‘Bout the amnesty for the illegals, they’ll all be citizens in a few years, the border will NOT be fixed. This would have happened even if the guy with the magic underwear was elected….. sigh
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#101 EG: So if we are speaking of your “little Florida” would it be safe to say that your St. Johns River is now cleared of obstructions to navigation?
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Mharper # 72;
I didn’t know that either until Romney was getting serious about a VP pick. It ca,e as a bit of a surprise to me. I had thought Rubio was Always Catholic but he was baptized Mormon in his youth as well as his entire family except the dad I think. It a.so came as a surprise that during the campaign I learned he was frequenting a Baptist congregation.
God bless America.
http://abcnews.go.com/politics/t/blogEntry?id=16599208&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DMarco%2BRubio%2Bused%2Bto%2Bbe%2BMormon%26go%3D%26qs%3Dn%26form%3DQBLH%26pc%3DAPPT%26pq%3Dmarco%2Brubio%2Bused%2Bto%2Bbe%2Bmormon%26sc%3D0-14%26sp%3D-1%26sk%3D
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Hamous # 73;
That is a fair look at reality. My take goes further than that. For probably the last three years I have concluded that immigration reform must include enforcing the border first and foremost and allowing those here illegally to stay pending on how they have lived. This is completely unfair to those coming legally which is why previous to my allowance for granting permanent citizenship to illegals I was firmly opposed to it with some reservation. I simply. Do not see any other solution. How will alL the illegals leave the country? We as a nation have also invited illegals here for decades despite my personal opposition to doing so (the audacity). We have our own culpability in this facade of a game. I’d love to see things done right, I just don’t see how. -
Shannon #66;
That’s a superb idea. I plan to email Ted Cruz tonight and I think I’ll share that idea. He’s here to voice our ideas in the US Senate I plan a phone call follow up but I can’t decide on a date for that. I do need to take off work to see my doctor to renew my blood pressure meds so it’ll probably be then. Now’s the brainstorming time to formulate the Republican bill. -
Getting some light rain, to my surprise. The weather radar had changed drastically in the last couple of hours. Got real weather moving into Houston from the northwest.
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Squawk and ST are prolly getting some rain too.
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Just got a good wave here in R’berg—right after some durned impressive wind.
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18 Hamous says:
January 29, 2013 at 8:34 amAnd what do you do about the ones who have been illegally using someone else’s Social Security number?
Well, that’s a crime, and should qualify them for immediate deportation under their plan. But I have no illusions of enforcement.
Heather Mac Donald has some input:
The outline is silent on what would cause the revocation of probationary status. Perhaps the commission of “serious crimes,” but the statement of principles is impenetrably ambiguous on this point. If the commission of “serious crime” is indeed the trigger for potentially (emphasis on the “potential” part) losing probationary status, it means that a whole host of “unserious crimes” may still be committed with impunity by “probationary” illegals without jeopardizing their safe haven from the law. The distinction between “serious” and “unserious” crime should have in any case been long since retired; New York City’s triumph over all crime through the enforcement of low-level misdemeanor statutes shows that enforcement of misdemeanor laws is as critical to public safety as felony arrests (and even more important to a community’s sense of order and safety).
Given the current state of affairs, I think that Social Security fraud will be regarded as a crime of the “unserious” type.
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Brief spurts of heavy downpour here in the barrio.
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A spritz here. A non-event. We ducked it this time.
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11 million predominantly Mexican illegal aliens in the US. Meanwhile back in the Bayou City …
(JTA) — More than a dozen Israeli salesmen working at two shopping malls in Texas are facing deportation for overstaying their visas.
Federal agents in raids on the Galleria and Woodland malls in Houston near closing time on Jan. 23 arrested 13 Israelis and one Moldovan suspected of staying illegally in the country, the Houston Chronicle reported.
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The government liars say there’s 11 million undocumented, in the shadows, illegal aliens in the country but they know there’s 11 million? The Hell?
Anytime the government liars estimate a figure, say like the cost of something that requires taxpayer money, they always estimate way too low.
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The detainees, who sold Dead Sea products and scented soaps at kiosks, are being held until the investigation is completed.
I do believe I received some sample soap from one of them.
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The government liars say there’s 11 million undocumented, in the shadows, illegal aliens in the country but they know there’s 11 million? The Hell?
Just sit in a classroom for a year. You’ll have kids who outright say their parents are here illegally.
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A little steady rain around 9 pm and then diving temperature down to 56 already at 11:15.
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#104 mharper42
The kitty you have been monitoring is lucky to have you care about her. Kitties and horses with seemingly disastrous health problems found their way to our place over the years, and most of them survived to live a decent lifespan. In our case and yours, the Lord sends them to us because He knows we will take care of them. And we are richer in spirit for it. 🙂
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