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15 yards for taunting

jollyroger — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 20:09:02 +0000

In reply to Prez: "Impeachment? Bring it, suckahs!"

15 yards for taunting

Love this satellite picture.

Ramona — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 03:22:18 +0000

In reply to I'm so glad I don't live near

Love this satellite picture. Since I live above the bridge, I do have to worry about an escape. I'm closest to Canada and I still have relatives there so I'm hoping they'll let bygones be bygones and accept me as one of their own.

Honduras, El Salvador,

trkingmomoe — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:26:59 +0000

In reply to Let me see if I can guess

Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Belize are the counties that all this violence is going on.

Yes I know how many troops are there. The numbers are very high. They have been there for decades guarding oil pipelines and US business interest for the most part. Special ops are not all black helicopters they also nation build. Experts that will help plan to put an end to the violence and train. We were putting pressure on Mexico to seal up their southern border but that isn't working. Reality has hit us over the head and we are now willing to help solve the problem with the violence. The state department and other agencies are working on this also.

Coyotes are Mexican smugglers. They smuggle everything and anything into the US and Canada. Their biggest market is people trying to come to this country. They are probably the source of the miss information that their kids can stay in this country after they cross the border. We have an information campaign going on now telling them they should not send their kids here. Will the media campaign stop them? I doubt it. These are desperate people. We have to help stop the violence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMG_Academy

I should of typed IMG, not ING.

Our policies toward Central America has not been as good as they should be. That stems from the war on drugs and GOP politics here in this country. That is where I put my anger at our failed policies not at the parents and kids. We can do better.

Let me see if I can guess

EmmaZahn — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:00:13 +0000

In reply to They are not being sent here

Let me see if I can guess which four small countries: Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, the historic banana republics? Do you have any idea what our military presence is there already?

View US military construction sites in Latin America, 2010-2011 in a larger map

What would a special ops mission be tasked with doing that forces already there can not do? Act as bodyguards for rich kids? Not that they may not need bodyguards but there are plenty of private contractors their parents could hire.

Anyway, that is separate issue from the not-rich kids that are flooding in along the US-Mexican border. You said earlier that gangs called Coyotes were escorting those kids. Who pays the Coyotes?

And what is an ING school?

As I understand things, 40%

rmrd0000 — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 03:12:36 +0000

In reply to In Mississippi the voters

As I understand things, 40% of Mississippi's budget is from Federal funds. Some of the funds procured by Cochran did go to aide Black institutions. What Blacks did was a wise move.

It has been a toss up since

trkingmomoe — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 02:26:27 +0000

In reply to Oh, I so HOPE you are right

It has been a toss up since she announced until the past couple of months. She has pulled a head by a couple points in different polling. That means right now the movement is toward her. He hasn't got much traction for all the millions he has spent so far. His approval rating isn't good for this close to an election. He hasn't been bringing home the bacon to Kentucky in the recent years and there is not much to like about him even for Kentucky. He released a internal pole that shows him way ahead a couple of weeks ago but...poll watchers point to the pollster as an unreliable outfit.

They are not being sent here

trkingmomoe — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 01:49:40 +0000

In reply to Try telling that to a new

They are not being sent here to take advantage of us. They are fleeing. There are 4 small countries that 2 large warring drug cartels are terrorizing. In December they started killing kids and cutting them up for display as a warning to parents who don't let them recruit their kids into their gangs. They are also kidnapping children for ransom and then killing them. They are war refugees. Not in the sense of conventional war but bloody street wars. It has continued to escalate the last 6 months.

Last week the Vice President was down there to talk with these tiny countries to assess what we can do to end this. I am sure special ops are now on their way with missions. We will be helping our tiny neighbors to end this terror. The First Lady of Honduras was invited to our border with Mexico to visit with these kids.

I live a couple of miles from ING School. A couple of my retired teacher friends work as tutors there. This school trains wealthy international children in tennis and other Olympic sports. Most of these children are from our neighbors to the south. I first heard about this terrorism through that grape vine this spring and that it might get worse if these small countries can't police up the warring gangs of these 2 cartels. The school is full of kids from there because their parents are trying to protect them from kidnapping and murder. Children have been flying in on visas that have relatives here in South Florida.

Our media sucks. They have been caught a sleep at the wheel again.

In the mean time we have little kids to care for that don't have money or families here to take them. How we care for them and help their country will be a good investment in our relationship with Central America.

I'm so glad I don't live near

wabby — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 01:35:09 +0000

In reply to Prez: "Impeachment? Bring it, suckahs!"

I'm so glad I don't live near a bridge here in Michissippi.

Actually, I don't live near anything.

See that big empty spot in the upper right? That's where I reside.

The downside of having our bridges and roadways crumble away is that it makes it more difficult for us to escape.

Oh, I so HOPE you are right

CVille Dem — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 23:57:58 +0000

In reply to If they go through with this

Oh, I so HOPE you are right about Grimes vs McTurtle. In normal times he would be the most despicable person ever...but he now has so much competition....

Try telling that to a new

EmmaZahn — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 20:13:35 +0000

In reply to You missed the memo?

Try telling that to a new lion king. On the other hand, the 'brother's keeper' argument would have been more convincing.

This is such a difficult situation. Our natural tendency is to care for the young, even those of strangers but what to do when those strangers who, after all, have primary responsibility use that tendency against you.

momoe says parents are paying people to bring their children to the border and leaving them there. Why? Other sources point out that we have a policy of of trying to reunite the children with their families, regardless of legal status, or of placing them here in foster care. In the past, the number of children dumped at the border was a couple of thousand but it has recently grown to ~50,000. No one knows why the sudden jump or how many more are on the way.

Using these children (and perhaps their parents) to play us for personal or political gain should make us really, really angry. We should take the sad stories and pictures with a whopping big grain of salt. The children are being cared for as well as could be expected after being dumped.

There are few better illustrations of how it can be cruel to be kind than this mess that resulted from a compassionate policy.