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So the hearings start today.

Unless I see something more compelling after today….it seems like Texas may have made a fool of itself. I was watching CNN the other day and they were talking about how they now think that the phone call(s) weren’t even made from the state of Texas, or something about authorities being unable to confirm that they were. The girl that made them still hasn’t come forward and the man she accused hasn’t been arrested or charged.

Texas Rangers have questioned Dale Evans Barlow, 50, the man who was accused by the teen of abusing her, but he was released Saturday. His attorney, Bruce Griffen, said the meeting was voluntary

Meanwhile over 400 children are in state custody. While I don’t doubt this church is as backwards as anything, I would be really disappointed if a state in this nation took children into custody, over 400 children, only based on phone calls alleging abuse. It’ll be interesting if new information comes to light later today.

Rod Parker, an attorney acting as a spokesman for FDLS families, said authorities acted on information not supported by evidence.

“They have an unsubstantiated allegation of abuse,” Parker said in an interview on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday night. “And, in response to this unsubstantiated, uncorroborated allegation, they removed not just the children from one home, but every child in the community …”

This religion is truly…bizarre. I simply hope they are able to prove unlawfulness with more than a few mystery 911 calls. Perhaps at the hearing today the state will reveal testimony from dozens of children that have opened up and told enough to justify the raid…who knows?

Kicking recruiters out of public schools is one thing.

This is ridiculous.

I would tell these whining and ungrateful parents to please live somewhere else than the United States of America.

This is a great example of what should happen with those occupying positions of trust and power upon discovery of an extra-marital affair with an employee. (or intern!)

Red Cross President Resigns

Thank goodness this happens in the real world if not with the Democratic Party.

Featured on msNBC.com with an article here.

I don’t really know what to say. Draw your own conclusions.

So I’ve had this idea that is no doubt not new, but I have started of thinking of settling into.  (I sound sure don’t I?)

There is all this talk about how we can’t possibly ever send people that are residing here illegally back to their native countries.  Giuliani says it can’t be prosecuted simply due to the large number.  While I don’t think that we should ever run around with buses and chase millions of people down, I see no reason to allow people to stay indefinitely.

I heard Newt Gingrich give a speech about immigration about a year and a half ago in which he says that we essentially had established a social contract with immigrants by not hindering their entrance and residency in our country.  We were in essence saying, “Sure, come to the U.S.  We aren’t going to try very hard to stop you at the border, nor will be punish those that hire you.”  With this in mind, I think it is fair to treat all immigrants not as criminals, but similar to those that get work visas.

This way, we don’t have try to accomplish something short of a deportation crisis, but we don’t grant amnesty.  I think that it would be a very fitting level of legality to bestow on people that have entered our nation unlawfully.  We simply need to take a step back, reasonably fix what has happened and move on.  Get people ID cards, determine how much longer they can stay and then start cracking down on employers.  Over the course of several years, millions of illegals will slowly leave the system and the incentive to stay or return is eliminated.

I’ve lived in Bulgaria for a couple of years and know that scores apply to come to the U.S. but only some actually get to.  One guy I knew in particularly was extraordinarily bright, spoke fluent English and would do nothing but contribute here.  I agree with those that say it is literally not fair to allow people to flow across our borders while denying others simply because they want to lawfully enter this country.  It is unethical.

Finally, about the border.  I don’t care if it is a giant wall, tens of thousands of extra border guards or effective technologically equipment.  We simply need to seal the hole in our sovereignty.

If Al Gore was worthy of a Nobel Prize, he wouldn’t be selling his movie for the same over-priced nonsense as Disney Classics. $20 on Amazon.com? Get real. Al Gore is not out to save the world. “Climate warriors” are so wrapped up in their own euphoria over saving the earth they fail to recognize their own hypocrisy. Unless Gore is donating all his proceeds from this film to actual, proven environmental measures, he deserves no more lauding than your average Hollywood star.

So this is interesting. Apparently these guys were charged about 9 months ago, but this “lightning rod” of an issue has suddenly become national news. Thank goodness Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are able to step away from whatever service they perform in society to provide moral direction on this…very recent incident.

The thing I don’t get is what moral ground the “modern civil rights” movement has to stand on. Are they angry that a 17 year old is in jail for beating an unconscious student on the ground with several others? Apparently the District Attorney has prosecuted him as being the one that conspired and/or incited the beating.

Bell is the only one of the six teenagers to stand trial so far. District Attorney Reed Walters tried him as an adult and won convictions on two charges.

Details are sparse in the few articles I’ve read, but it seems to boil down to a claim that since some white students got away with hanging nooses on a tree, black students should get away with physical assault. I really don’t see it as any different than that. One action is something you can prosecute, the other wasn’t.

UPDATE:  A most informative article I just found at RealClearPolitics.

Read about it here.

 ”It is a win,” David Yepsen, political columnist with The Des Moines Register, said of Romney. “But it is somewhat shallow, because his big opponents didn’t show up.

“What does it mean to get in the ring and your opponents don’t even show up,” added Yepsen, who is considered the dean of the Iowa political press corps.

It means exactly what Romney’s camp said when Giuliani and McCain dropped out:

“It looks as if we just beat those campaigns in Iowa two months earlier than we had planned on beating them.”

This main article at ESPN.com is just bizarre.

I had no idea this had become an issue of race…

Yes…the man should be given due process, and he is…since when does media and public pressure on an athlete with co-denfendants pleading guilty represent a denial of due process?  The judicial system is not being circumvented.

Do they really think that Vick is being targeted because he is black?!  The thing that is bizarre, they do.

This is why racism(according to African Americans) will die slowly.

This article really hit me when I read:

Now, imagine the scenario flipped: What if a soldier had attempted to murder a peace activist over the holidays in order to “make a statement”?

Boom.  Just like those stories about Homosexuals being tortured and strung up on a fence to die…but then silence when the situation is flipped.

If there is such a thing as “hate crime” or “deranged military murder” (as evidenced by the blanket coverage of the Marines in Haditha and elsewhere in Iraq), there most certainly is “hate reporting” and yes, “deranged journalistic irresponsibility.”