Guard the Border

Still in short shrift mode here @twc central, so this very important post from GTB is up a day late. Read, then call your congresscritters, the White House and just about anyone else you think might be able to positively affect the situation. Send a link to this post to everyone on your email distro lists as well. I almost never (can’t remember a time I have done so) submit guest posts to Linkfests, but this needs to be read, so it’s getting “the treatment”.


Dirty Texas Politics Taint Border Patrol Agents’ Trial

I have to give huge kudos to Shawn Christopher Phillips, of the Wry & Coy Report, for compiling some of the least known and most misreported facts surrounding the case of the two Border Patrol Agents prosecuted for shooting a drug smuggler. Shawn has raised some very troubling questions surrounding the case – questions worth asking and investigating. He has also connected the dots in a way that the media has been unable (or unwilling) to do.

Shawn’s original research material can be found at www.patgray.com here and here. I have supplemented the accounts with further information from my own research and from Pat Gray’s radio show on KSEV, since he and his co-host, Edd Hendee have been investigating the anomalies surrounding this very muddled case.

I have taken the liberty of condensing Shawn’s material from several posts to place it into a rough timeline of events as they occurred. As well, I wanted to include information about some of the major players in this case, from the drug smuggler himself all the way up to U.S. Congressmen and Senators.

The central perpetrator in this travesty of justice is the U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, who has old boy Texas connections from the judge overseeing the case all the way up to President George W. Bush. These connections, though not openly disclosed, have greatly impacted the case, as highly placed government officials look the other way while testimonies, evidence, and statements are manipulated behind the scenes.

Continue reading “Guard the Border”

Robbing the Cradle/Open Trackbcks

As things slowly get back to normal here at third world county (not yet; be patient :-)), regular features and curmudgeonry will resume. Meanwhile, this is an open trackback post. Link to this post and track back.

If you have a linkfest/open trackback post to promote OR if you simply want to promote a post via the linkfests/open trackback posts others are offering, GO TO LINKFEST HAVEN DELUXE! Just CLICK the link above or the graphic immediately below.

Linkfest Haven, the Blogger's Oasis

If you want to host your own linkfests but have not yet done so, check out the Open Trackbacks Alliance. The FAQ there is very helpful in understanding linkfests/open trackbacks.


Here’s a rough sketch from my huge pile of draft posts…

Rebellious teenagers. It’s a meme we all live with, grew up with, know well. We simply expect teenagers to be rebellious. We’re told it’s always this way and always has been this way.

It’s a lie.

I know more than a few teenagers who have grown up and passed through their adolescence who have defied the meme. Our own, now grown, children are examples of children who seemed virtually immune to the meme.

Others… never grow out of adolescence, never seem to embrace the values their parents say they hold dear, are rebellious, angry, deceptive and even dangerous to themselves and others.

Why?

Well, for one thing, many parents today are ceding the parenting of their children to others from an early age.

From birth to age five, nearly 60% of American children are cared for by persons other than their parents or family members for time periods ranging from four to nine hours a day. Only 22% of American children from birth through age 5 are cared for full time by their parents. 1

Let that sink in.

Now think further: how many of those parents who are fulltime caregivers for young children largely use the television as an in-home “babysitter” as opposed to those who “teach and care” as they go about their day being an adult?

Rabbit trail: my own mom had five children born within a space of five years. No daycare, no regular in-home babysitters. She managed the household and raised the five of us. “Play” with Mother when I was a young child consisted of “helping” her do housework. (Yeh, I was a fine help banging on pots n pans with my brother and sisters while she cooked or did dishes. *heh*) TV? She read us stories. We played in the yard or with board games (as we grew) or built things with what toys we had–no closet or roomful, just a few things we could make more of with our imaginations.

Is it any wonder more and more “adults” are simply living a life of delayed adolescence? “Grups”–people who have no idea how to be adults, because they were NOT raised but simply farmed out by parents who were just children in adult bodies.

Or the flip side: children whose every whim has been catered to from birth… remaining children for life, thinking the world owes them whatever they want. Children whose parents shuffle them from one “enriching experience”after another, scheduling their days to the nth degree, stifling any genuine creativity and creating children-for-life who are bored to tears without constant stimulation.

Robbing the cradle? Robbing society of generations of adults needed to make a representative republican democracy work. It’s no wonder Congress is filled with idiots, scoundrels and worse, considering gthe electorate that sent them there. And it’s no wonder that Mass Media Podpeople and Academia Nut Fruitcakes can lie out of both ends of their alimentary canals and have both ends’products gobbled up by a gullible public of eternal children.

Maybe there’s hope. Well, I have to hope so,because despair is perhaps the deadliest of sins…

There. Now wasn’t that a cheery thought?