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Cry me a river, what part of illegal do they not understand? Typical gutter journalism at it worst. Maybe they should start blaiming Mexico and not the USA.

TIJUANA, Mexico - The towering black gate opens silently to an alley with walls of corrugated metal. Scrawled in large white letters on one wall is: “The End.”

For those deported from the United States, the words are an unnecessary reminder. Nearly every hour of the day, guards unlock this gate that leads back into Mexico, clicking open the padlocks hung on each side, in each nation.

Every time the gate slams shut, it wipes out a dream, divides a family, ends a life lived in the shadows of the law.

On average, 700 Mexicans expelled from the United States walk through this gate daily, according to Mexican government figures. They include farmers, construction workers, prisoners, nannies, children, entire families.

A few steps from the gate, American tourists pose for photos in front of a stone relief. They are oblivious to the men, women and children sadly shuffling into a homeland many risked their lives to leave.

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U.S. deportations have jumped by more than 60 percent over the past five years. Mexicans accounted for nearly two-thirds of those deportees, helping to roll back one of the biggest migrations of recent history. All along the border, shelters once full of people trying to cross into the United States are now home to thousands of deportees who sleep on mattresses strewn inches apart on cement floors.

In a week spent at the Tijuana gate, The Associated Press watched busload after busload of deportees arrive, some in a daze, still stunned over their sudden expulsion. Many stumbled over the Mexican official’s question, “Where are you from?” after spending decades in the United States.

The faces of those who stream through reflect how tough and far-reaching the U.S. crackdown on illegal immigration has become.

Among them are young people. There were more than 18,000 repatriations of children under 18 to Mexico this year, and in more than 10,000 cases they were alone, according to the Mexican government.

There are also criminals. The U.S. does not break down figures by country, but it has deported about 55,000 prisoners so far this year. One man walked through the gate in slippers with 80 cents in his pocket, after being picked up by police during a violent fight with his wife in their backyard.

And there are women, with more than 40,000 repatriations since January — about 13 percent of all cases, according to the Mexican government. Sometimes the women are dropped off alone, at night. The U.S. Border Patrol in Washington says the safe repatriation of women is a major concern, but acknowledges there is no overall policy along the 2,000-mile border.

Mexico must now deal with a population that it has long ignored. And those returning must deal with Mexico, a land that for many now seems foreign. The challenge starts the day they walk through the gate the U.S. Border Patrol calls Whiskey II, military code for west of the port of entry.

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I found this article on Counter Punch a very left leaning web page and this is some classic stuff. It is very funny actually. Wow, not a glowing endorsement is it? It is going to be fun to watch the food fight that is the DNCC.

“Change,” “Hope” ... Why They Must be Talking About Joe Biden!
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

“Change” and “hope” are not words one associates with Senator Joe Biden, a man so ripely symbolic of everything that is unchanging and hopeless about our political system that a computer simulation of the corporate-political paradigm senator in Congress would turn out “Biden” in a nano-second.

The first duty of any senator from Delaware is to do the bidding of the banks and large corporations which use the tiny state as a drop box and legal sanctuary. Biden has never failed his masters in this primary task. Find any bill that sticks it to the ordinary folk on behalf of the Money Power and you’ll likely detect Biden’s hand at work. The bankruptcy act of 2005 was just one sample. In concert with his fellow corporate serf, Senator Tom Carper, Biden blocked all efforts to hinder bankrupt corporations from fleeing from their real locations to the legal sanctuary of Delaware. Since Obama is himself a corporate serf and from day one in the US senate has been attentive to the same masters that employ Biden, the ticket is well balanced, the seesaw with Obama at one end and Biden at the other dead-level on the fulcrum of corporate capital.

Another shining moment in Biden’s progress in the current presidential term was his conduct in the hearings on Judge Alito’s nomination to the US Supreme Court. From the opening moments of the Judiciary Committee’s sessions in January, 2006,  it became clear that Alito faced no serious opposition. On that first ludicrous morning Senator Pat Leahy sank his head into his hands, shaking it in unbelieving despair as Biden blathered out a self-serving and inane monologue lasting a full twenty minutes before he even asked Alito one question. In his allotted half hour Biden managed to pose only five questions, all of them ineptly phrased. He did pose two questions about Alito’s membership of a racist society at Princeton, but had already undercut them in his monologue by calling Alito “a man of integrity”, not once but twice, and further trivialized the interrogation by reaching under the dais to pull out a Princeton cap and put it on.

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This is a must read and he was on the Mark Levin show so I linked it so you can read it. The Barack Hussein Obama campaign is hiding records and we need to see them. I am not seeing a lot of change here all I am seeing is same dirty politicans.

Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?
A cover-up in the making?
By Stanley Kurtz
The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the turbulent 1960s, turning fugitive when a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally exploded in a New York townhouse. Prior to that, Ayers and his cohorts succeeded in bombing the Pentagon. Ayers and Dohrn remain unrepentant for their terrorist past. Ayers was pictured in a 2001 article for Chicago magazine, stomping on an American flag, and told the New York Times just before 9/11 that the notion of the United States as a just and fair and decent place “makes me want to puke.” Although Obama actually launched his political career at an event at Ayers’s and Dohrn’s home, Obama has dismissed Ayers as just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” For his part, Ayers refuses to discuss his relationship with Obama.

Although the press has been notably lax about pursuing the matter, the full story of the Obama-Ayers relationship calls the truth of Obama’s account seriously into question. When Obama made his first run for political office, articles in both the Chicago Defender and the Hyde Park Herald featured among his qualifications his position as chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation where Ayers was a founder and guiding force. Obama assumed the Annenberg board chairmanship only months before his first run for office, and almost certainly received the job at the behest of Bill Ayers. During Obama’s time as Annenberg board chairman, Ayers’s own education projects received substantial funding. Indeed, during its first year, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge struggled with significant concerns about possible conflicts of interest. With a writ to aid Chicago’s public schools, the Annenberg challenge played a deeply political role in Chicago’s education wars, and as Annenberg board chairman, Obama clearly aligned himself with Ayers’s radical views on education issues. With Obama heading up the board and Ayers heading up the other key operating body of the Annenberg Challenge, the two would necessarily have had a close working relationship for years (therefore “exchanging ideas on a regular basis”). So when Ayers and Dorhn hosted that kickoff for the first Obama campaign, it was not a random happenstance, but merely further evidence of a close and ongoing political partnership. Of course, all of this clearly contradicts Obama’s dismissal of the significance of his relationship with Ayers.

This much we know from the public record, but a large cache of documents housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), is likely to flesh out the story. That document cache contains the internal files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The records in question are extensive, consisting of 132 boxes, containing 947 file folders, a total of about 70 linear feet of material. Not only would these files illuminate the working relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers, they would also provide significant insight into a web of ties linking Obama to various radical organizations, including Obama-approved foundation gifts to political allies. Obama’s leadership style and abilities are also sure to be illuminated by the documents in question.

Cover-Up?
Unfortunately, I don’t yet have access to the documents. The Special Collections section of the Richard J. Daley Library agreed to let me read them, but just before I boarded my flight to Chicago, the top library officials mysteriously intervened to bar access. Circumstances strongly suggest the likelihood that Bill Ayers himself may have played a pivotal role in this denial. Ayers has long taught at UIC, where the Chicago Annenberg Challenge offices were housed, rent-free. Ayers likely arranged for the files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge to be housed in the UIC library, and may well have been consulted during my unsuccessful struggle to gain access to the documents. Let me, then, explain in greater detail what the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) records are, and how I have been blocked from seeing them.

Initially, as I said, library officials said that I could examine the CAC records. I received this permission both over the phone and in writing. The subsequent denial of access came with a series of evolving explanations. Is this a politically motivated cover-up? Although at this stage it is impossible to know, it is hard to avoid the suspicion. I also have some concerns for the security of the documents, although I have no specific evidence that their security is endangered. In any case, given the relative dearth of information about Barack Obama’s political past, there is a powerful public interest in the swift release of these documents.
(Read the rest of the story here)

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This is the type of people that Barry likes to hang out with. William Ayers is an unrepentant domestic terrorist, not long ago the USA executed a domestic terrorist. Bill Ayers is of the same ilk as Timothy McVeigh.
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It is about time they go after some of the democrats and their shady political moves. I remember when the Democrats said they were going to drain the swamp of the corruption. All that is is lip service.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California’s attorney general is reviewing a request by former employees of IndyMac Bancorp Inc to investigate whether a New York senator triggered the bank’s collapse by releasing confidential information.

At issue is a much-publicized letter that Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, sent in June to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) and Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) questioning the company’s ability to survive.

The FDIC took control of IndyMac on July 11 after depositors withdrew more than $1.3 billion over 11 days. It was the third-largest bank failure in U.S. history. At the time, OTS Director John Reich blamed Schumer’s letter for causing the run on the bank.

In a letter to Attorney General Jerry Brown last week, 51 former IndyMac workers wrote: “From the day (Schumer’s) letter was made public on June 26 until the closure of the bank, a run on the bank took place and the failure became inevitable.”

Brown’s spokeswoman Christine Gasparac said on Wednesday that his office was reviewing the letter and that a decision on whether to act on it could be made as early as next week.

IndyMac is based in Pasadena, California.

After IndyMac’s collapse, Schumer accused the OTS of allowing IndyMac’s lending practices to slip. IndyMac specialized in a type of mortgage that often required minimal documents from borrowers.

Copies of the employee letter were distributed to the press by CRC Public Relations whose clients include the National Republican Congressional Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Republican National Committee.

CRC, based in Alexandria, Virginia, was also linked to a company that published a book questioning 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s Vietnam service on a swift boat.

Schumer spokesman Brian Fallon questioned the motivation behind the letter.

“It certainly raises eyebrows that the firm promoting this letter is the same outfit that fueled the Swift Boat attacks and does work for the RNC,” Fallon said.

Schumer chairs the Joint Economic Committee, which has members from the Senate and House of Representatives.

Schumer and other senior Democrats, such as Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, have been highly critical of Republicans and the Bush White House for not doing enough to help distressed homeowners.

When Congress returns next month, the banking committee is expected to hold a hearing to examine IndyMac’s failure.

Check this out: it is sorry but true seems to be a reoccurring theme that seems to come of out leftist run cities.

Yep I am sure John McCain is shaking at the prospects of listening to Barry stammering and stuttering away during a debate. If I was McCain campaign I would keep hammering away at BHO because it is working and it is rattling him. I am sure BHO really impressed the veterans at the VFW rally with his Marxist views. I am sure they are really impressed with the surrender and appeasement part of his foreign policy…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - By BETH FOUHY A combative Barack Obama said Tuesday that Republican John McCain “doesn’t know what he’s up against” in this election and challenged his rival to stop questioning his character and patriotism.

Obama, campaigning in a state where he hopes to become the first Democratic presidential candidate to win in more than three decades, implored his supporters to fight for the presidency.

“Our job in this election is not just ‘win,’ although I’m a big believer in winning,” Obama said during the rally. “I don’t intend to lose this election. John McCain doesn’t know what he’s up against.”

“He can talk all he wants about Britney (Spears) and Paris (Hilton), but I don’t have time for that mess,” Obama said.

His remarks carried forward a theme of feisty campaigning he debuted earlier in the day.

Addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Orlando, Fla., Obama reaffirmed his early opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq and said the strategy of sending in 30,000 additional troops last year had not produced the political reconciliation necessary to achieve lasting peace in the country.

McCain supported the Iraq invasion and was an early champion of the surge.

“These are the judgments I’ve made and the policies that we have to debate, because we do have differences in this election,” Obama told the veterans. “One of the things that we have to change in this country is the idea that people can’t disagree without challenging each other’s character and patriotism. I have never suggested that Sen. McCain picks his positions on national security based on politics or personal ambition. I have not suggested it because I believe that he genuinely wants to serve America’s national interest. Now, it’s time for him to acknowledge that I want to do the same.

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This is hot off the DRUDGEREPORT.COM it would be interesting to see who BHO picks for his running mate. Michael Moron is basically a nobody that is known for his propaganda hit pieces and horrible movies that lack many tangible facts. Funny thing is what political credentials does Kennedy have other than being related to the Kennedy Criminals?

MORON PONTIFICATED: What Obama needs is a vice presidential candidate who is NOT a professional politician, but someone who is well-known and beloved by people across the political spectrum; someone who, like Obama, spoke out against the war; someone who has a good and generous heart, who will be cheered by the rest of the world; someone whom we’ve known and loved and admired all our lives and who has dedicated her life to public service and to the greater good for all.

That person, Caroline, is you.

I cannot think of a more winning ticket than one that reads: “OBAMA-KENNEDY.”

Caroline, I know that nominating yourself is the furthest idea from your mind and not consistent with who you are, but there would be some poetic justice to such an action. Just think, eight years after the last head of a vice presidential search team looked far and wide for a VP—and then picked himself (a move topped only by his hubris to then lead the country to near ruin while in office)—along comes Caroline Kennedy to return the favor with far different results, a vice president who helps restore America to its goodness and greatness.

Caroline, you are one of the most beloved and respected women in this country, and you have been so admired throughout your life. You chose a life outside of politics, to work for charities and schools, to write and lecture, to raise a wonderful family. But you did not choose to lead a private life. You have traveled the world and met with its leaders, giving you much experience on the world stage, a stage you have been on since you were a little girl.

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I found this article over on the Politico and Ben Smith is nothing more than a lap dog for Obama but check out some of the arrogant rhetoric that BHO is spewing.

I beginning to think that Obama believes some of the hype of about this being a coronation. Talk about being out of touch and clueless. What is the left going to do when they lose the presidential election? I predict there is going to be rioting in the streets when the messiah loses.

Obama: ‘I will win’

A confident Barack Obama raised an extraordinary $7.8 million Sunday at three California fundraisers, most if it in large checks to a Democratic Party committee.

“I will win. Don’t worry about that,” Barry said to the crowd of about 1,300 at his third event of the evening, according to the pool report.

He was warmly received by House Speaker Nancy “Stretch” Pelosi, who called him “a leader that God has blessed us with at this time.”

Obama echoed some of the themes he discussed when he described Pennsylvanians as “bitter” and stoked controversy three months ago, but did so much more adroitly.

“Now, you want to win. And saying it doesn’t make it so,” he told the crowd. “It would be nice to think that after eight years of economic disaster, after eight years of bungled foreign policy, of being engaged in a war that should never have been authorized and should never have been waged, that cost us a trillion dollars and thousands of lives, that people would say, let’s toss the bums out. Toss the bums out, we’re starting from scratch, we’re starting over. This is not working.”

“So I understand why a lot of folks are saying, this should just happen. Why are we having to run all these television commercials? Why do we have to raise all this money? Just read the papers. These are the knuckleheads who have been in charge. Throw ‘em out. But American politics aren’t that simple,” he said.

“The fact of the matter is, at a certain point, when government has not been serving the people for this long, people get cynical. They tune out. And they start saying to themselves, a plague on both your houses. They are willing to consume negative information more frequently than positive information, for good reason. They’ve seen how promises haven’t been kept,” he said.

Full pool report after the jump.

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This statement couldn’t be further from the truth. I thing conservatives need beg John McCain not to nominate that RINO, he was an utter failure as a congressman and would be a horrible pick as a Vice President.

This move would alienate conservative voters and hand the keys to the Oval office to BHO. It might be time to flood the McCain HQ with phone calls.

Ridge: GOP Would Accept Abortion-Rights VP Sunday, August 17, 2008 12:05 PM

WASHINGTON - Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge said Sunday he thinks Republicans would accept a vice presidential candidate who supports abortion rights.

But, he said, whomever John McCain picks as a running mate should defer to McCain on the issue.

McCain opposes abortion rights, but he riled some conservatives last week when he suggested his running mate could — like Ridge — support abortion rights.

“What he was saying to the rest of the world is that we need to accept both points of view,” Ridge said in a broadcast interview. “He’s not judgmental about me or my belief. He just disagrees with me.”

Ridge is believed to be on McCain’s short list of vice presidential candidates, though it would be a major break with Republican orthodoxy for McCain to pick a running mate who supports abortion rights.

“I think that would be up to, first of all, to John to decide whether he wants a pro-choice running mate; then we would have to see how the Republican Party would rally around it,” Ridge said. “At the end of the day, I think the Republican Party will be comfortable with whatever choice John makes.”

McCain’s statement last week was seen as an appeal to centrist voters. On Sunday, Ridge tried to soothe conservatives by stating that McCain’s view on the issue would prevail in a McCain administration.

“The last time I checked, the vice president is not an independent voice. He echoes the position of the president of the United States,” Ridge said. “I think it’s the responsibility of the vice president. If you’re unwilling or unable to do that, then I think you should defer to someone else.”

Ridge was interviewed on “Fox News Sunday.”

Here is what the empty suit BHO had to say when asked about which supreme court justice he would not have nominated. Just for for the record this is a very good indicator of the people BHO would nominate to the SCOTUS. Clarence Thomas is a great American and Barry is worthy of being mentioned in the same sentence as Thomas.

LAKE FOREST— Obama was asked which Supreme Court justice he would not have nominated.

“That’s a good one. I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas,” Obama said. “I don’t think that he was a strong enough jurist or or legal thinker at the time for that elevation, setting aside the fact I profoundly disagree with a lot of his interpretations to the Constitution.”

I found this article in the letters to the editor today and it couldn’t be more right. The City Government today announced that they are not going to give the citizens of Grand Forks, ND a tax break. That is a sad shame and the reason I voted for Mac for mayor this past election. It is time for the city of Grand Forks, ND to stop sqandering our money and give it back to us… Right on James, you are spot on...

IN THE MAIL: GF wastes money, then wants more
James Oliver, Grand Forks Herald

Published Tuesday, August 12, 2008

GRAND FORKS — The recent vote by the Grand Forks City Council to approve spending $205,000 for sunflake lights shows just how wasteful and out of touch with the community the council is.

If certain members of the community want the lights, let those members pay for them. There is such a thing as philanthropy and community involvement, you know.

And now, we hear that the street department — which had a budget of $160,000 — is about broke. Furthermore, taxpayers are facing an increase in rates for essential services. You can bet this is just the tip of the iceberg. But, doggone it, we gotta have those lights! Got to show off!

To those who voted against the lights, thank you. As for the council majority: I think they have a real problem with fiscal and civic responsibility.

James Oliver

Before the leftwing Al Goron loving tree hugging crowd jumps on this, it’s true.

There recently was a death of a 98 year old lady named Irena.

During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.

She had an ulterior motive.

She KNEW what the Nazi’s plans were for the Jews, (being German).

Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of her tool box she carried, and she carried in the back of her truck a Burlap sack, (for larger kids).

She also had a dog in the back, that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in, and out of the ghetto.

The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.

During her time and course of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.

She was caught, and the Nazi’s broke both her legs, and arms and beat her severely.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out, and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard.

After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived, to reunite the family.

Most of course had been gassed.

Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes, or adopted.

Last year Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

She LOST.

Al Gore won, for doing a slide show on Global Warming.

http://www.irenasendler.org

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Here is another person that gets it right. The tax revenue is ours, it beliongs to the people of North Dakota. If your state has a billion dollar surplus that means the state is confiscating too much of our money.

North Dakotans deserve a share of the revenue
Published Sunday, August 10, 2008
GRAND FORKS — Responding to Lynn Hellebust’s letter that criticized American’s for Prosperity and its initiated measure that will reduce North Dakota’s personal income tax by 50 percent and corporate income tax by 15 percent, I am having trouble understanding why anyone would oppose a measure that will put more money in the pockets of every taxpayer in North Dakota (“Group has billionaires’ interests at heart,” Page A4, July 29).

Obviously, Hellebust feels that the government knows how to spend our money better than the citizens do. Hellebust also must believe that the state is not taxing its citizens enough. If that is the case, I know for a fact that the state of North Dakota will accept a check that Hellebust would offer to further boost the record revenues that will be collected this biennium.

With gas at $4 a gallon, milk pushing $5 a gallon and everything else costing the citizens of North Dakota much more than in the past, I think the citizens also deserve to benefit from the projected billion- dollar surplus that we will have this biennium. During the last legislative session, state spending increased about 23 percent. The government benefited last session. This session, it is time for the people to benefit. Remember, the 23 percent increase in spending was made possible from tax dollars paid in by the citizens. Don’t you think they deserve some of it back?

Lynn, we will be looking forward to your check. Thank you for continuing to support our fine state.

Mike Motschenbacher

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Yeah; this person should be applauded for asking all of the right questions. This person got it right when she said that we want tax relief, and we don’t want to pay for some silly lights. When will the Grand Forks City Council get it that we don’t need this silly fluffy project? Give us some of our money back. I am sick and tired of the Grand Forks City Council spending our money like a bunch of druken sailors.

In the mail: Tax relief, not Christmas lights

GRAND FORK — When will the City Council realize that it is not a myth that many of Grand Forks’ citizens would prefer lower property taxes (thanks, Terry and Mike) to short-term, high cost, fluff-type projects?

Spending this huge amount of money on Christmas lights, which also requires labor (possibly overtime) and extra electricity (I thought the mayor was supposed to be promoting a Green City .?.?. even using LEDs, the lights will still look like energy hogs) this only reinforces the City Council’s current image of “spending like drunken sailors.” It just adds to the endless saga that includes the $30,000 buffalo sculpture gift to our ex-sister city in Japan, the amazingly creative ballooning of the mayor’s office, the $180,000-something 10-year flood party, etc.

It’s nice to think that the lights would bring in visitors, which in turn would increase sales taxes. But it is too much like a health club that neglects its longtime members while soliciting new memberships. All of a sudden, the long-timers are gone, and the manager can’t figure out why.

I have a win-win idea regarding the Christmas lights. Let private donations create the Christmas Lights Fund. Let’s challenge the City Council members and city administration who believe this is a necessary and brilliant idea to write out the first checks to get the funds going. Citizens who have money to spare can add to the fund. Then, the city will be prettier for these six weeks out of the year, maybe visitors will come to add to the sales tax revenue, and, hopefully, the rest of us can get property tax relief.

Bev Benda-Moe