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Sturrock: Top three fight is lost (From Echo)
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Southend United's Paul Sturrock: Top three fight is lost
3:23pm Monday 16th April 2012 in Sport By Chris Phillips
SOUTHEND United manager Paul Sturrock was left suffering mixed emotions following his side's hard fought 0-0 draw at Torquay United on Saturday.
The Scotsman was full of praise for the way Blues battled against their high flying hosts.
But Sturrock felt a share of the spoils was not enough to keep alive Southend's slight hopes of a top-three finish.
"I thought we played very well, especially in the second half and that was very pleasing to see against such a well-organised side, but at the same time this result has probably cost us any chance of automatic promotion," said Sturrock.
"We will of course keep trying because it's not mathematically impossible yet and we obviously want to do well in the three league games we have left."
Blues remained fifth in the League Two table after the stalemate but are still six points behind third-placed Torquay with just three games to go.
A place in the play-offs therefore looms large but Sturrock was encouraged by Southend's display against the promotion-pushing Gulls.
"Torquay are a very good side and they've done brilliantly to get in to such a good position, but I thought we actually had the better chances," said Sturrock.
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5:26pm Mon 16 Apr 12
Dumain says...
9:46pm Mon 16 Apr 12
benfleetblue says...
Dumain wrote:Here here,couldn't have put it better myself- we need a change and soon.
And Sturrock must take the blame for failing to gain automatic promotion by his negative tactics and bad team selection. I wasn't at Torquay but their manager said Southend got the draw we played for. We have played for a draw too many times this season. Sturrock has to carry the can. On your bike Paul.
11:08pm Mon 16 Apr 12
Barnet Shrimper says...
12:07am Tue 17 Apr 12
bob2222 says...
30+ players is a joke and the club does not that many at all.
The blame is at Sturrocks door and the person who let him buy as many players.
If the club is not promoted Sturrock will be gone and rightly so, even if we fluke our way via the play offs is Sturrock really the right man to make this club a solid league 1 club?
In my view, no he is not.
1:33pm Tue 17 Apr 12
bong74 says...
4:09pm Tue 17 Apr 12
Ray Badger says...
4:49pm Tue 17 Apr 12
bob2222 says...
Theres many factors that have changed peoples minds, the first and main thing is the style of play, the pointless hoofball does not suit this team and Sturrock is far to stubborn to change it.
He will be seen as the person at fault this season if we dont go up and I cant see the board keeping him if we dont get promoted.
Just because people dont like the manager does not mean we dont support the team...
8:13pm Tue 17 Apr 12
thundersleycobbler says...
10:38am Wed 18 Apr 12
Shrimpers Not Blues says...
Ray Badger wrote:Totally agree with this comment. Martin Ling comes out with "Southend came for a draw and got it" comment in defence of his side being incapable of scoring.
What planet are you lot living on ? Last season we kicked off with just 4 pro's on the books and since then Paul Sturrock has built a promotion challenging team. Sorry we aren't Chelsea or Man City and so can't buy instant success but if that's all you want, why don't go and watch them !
If you watch the highlights on the BBC and Sky playback services, they both suggest that it was Southend that was going for the win in the second half, doesn't sound like playing for a draw to me. So who do you believe, the oppostion manager or the TV companies who are neutral reporters.
On a totally different note I am very dissapointed that The Echo has not made mention of former Shrimper Eddie May who sadly passed away at the weekend. Eddie was in the team when I made my first venture into Roots Hall in 1968, sadly he left at the end of that season.
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You may feel like you're on a roller coaster during the first couple of weeks of smoking cessation. Whether you use a quit aid of some sort or go cold turkey, you're going to feel some discomforts due to nicotine withdrawal.
Some people have more trouble with the first week, and others with the second, but the good news is that for most ex-smokers, the worst of physical withdrawal from nicotine is over within the first two weeks of smoking cessation.
Physically, your body is reacting to the absence of not only nicotine, but all of the other chemicals in cigarettes that you've been inhaling 20 or more times a day for years. When the supply gets cut off, you can expect to feel the effects of that.
Flu-like symptoms are common during the first couple of weeks of smoking cessation. The amount of discomfort you'll experience depends in part on how well you take care of yourself during this phase. Follow the tips below to help you minimize the effects of physical and mental withdrawal from nicotine.
1) Eat a well-balanced diet.
Treats are fine, but be careful not to go overboard with the wrong kinds of food right now. Your body is working hard to expel toxins during the withdrawal process, and that takes energy. Choose foods that will provide you with the high quality fuel you need. Avoid the empty calories of junk food.
2) Take a multivitamin.
Smoking depletes our bodies of nutrients. Give yourself a boost with the help of a multivitamin. This, combined with a good diet will help you keep the fatigue that often occurs during nicotine withdrawal to a minimum.
3) Stock the fridge with healthy snacks.
Have small bags of bite size fresh veggies within easy reach. Celery and carrot sticks with low fat ranch dressing for dipping makes a good snack. Fresh fruit, such as pineapple chunks, berries, melon or other fruits in season will satisfy your sweet tooth if they're clean and ready to eat when you're looking for a snack. Good freezer treats include low fat fudgesicles and frozen grapes.
4) Get out for a walk.
A short walk every day – as little as 15 minutes even, can work wonders for beating back smoking urges and improving mood. Exercise also releases endorphins, the "feel good" hormone. So, head out for a walk around the block once or twice a day. You'll come back refreshed and relaxed.
5) Drink water!
Water helps you flush residual toxins from smoking out of your body more quickly. It also works well as a craving buster. Drink water before you snack and you'll eat less. Water is an important part of your diet. Keep yourself well-hydrated, and you'll feel better in general. That will in turn help you manage withdrawal symptoms more easily.
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If you spend a lot of time driving, have some items handy to help you pass the time more comfortably. Drink some of that water we just talked about while you're driving. Keep a bottle or two in the car at all times. Also store a bag of hard candies and lollipops in the glove compartment and have some straws or cinnamon sticks available to chew on.
7) Do some deep breathing.
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Light some candles, and take a long hot bubble bath. Treat yourself to a manicure and pedicure and follow with a facial. Pamper yourself!
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Gotta go through it to get through it.
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UK Home Office system fault 'resolved' at Gatwick
According to the Gatwick airport Twitter account, an IT glitch at their airport immigration desks which caused widespread chaos for passengers, has now been "resolved".
Yesterday's difficulties with @ukhomeoffice IT systems have now been resolved. Please let us know if we can help you on your journey today
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Singled Out: "The Holes In The Ozone Is Pretty Much The State Of Hip-Hop"
Tuesday, Dec 6, 2011 10:00PM
[SOHH highlights a hot single each week and offers a unique look at the record. After Slim Thug put on for his city with the new "Houston" anthem, West Coast rap veteran Ras Kass diffuses his "Holes In The Ozone" banger.]
First off, let me just give a big shout-out to A Tribe Called Quest. Ever since I was little, whenever that "Bonita Applebum" would come on, I just loved that record. I wasn't a rapper at that time, I was just a fan of rap music.
I really love that beat and I'm not really a big, digging-in-the-crates guy but I would always try to sample it with a mixer. There's mixers with little eight-second samplers on them and so I would try to sample it but I usually didn't have enough time or I would speed it up. So I've been trying to flip that sample since it came out [in 1990].
Finally and recently, it hit me again. I was like, "Yo, I've always wanted to rock that sample" and I had actually written a different song and I wanted to change the beat. So I gave it to Doc Hollywood which is a production team of two people and I told them, "With this particular song, can you flip 'Bonita Applebum.' Can you find the original sample and then produce it?" So the way they did the beat, the song didn't fit to it. The original song I did didn't fit to it, so I had to start over.
I felt like it wouldn't do it any justice to throw any regular verse on it. I kind of let the track tell me what to do. They sent me the beat and I pretty much wrote it that night. I think it was just hot and this whole weather sh*t is f*cked up and everyone's mad because there's record-breaking temperatures and it's finally going to be a longer freezing cold winter. They're saying the seasons are going to be longer.
For me, the creative thing is typically taking that's pretty basic and flipping it on its head. It is hot as f*ck and people tried to say it wasn't global warming but it is and then I thought about how could I apply that to my personal and creative life in the realm of hip-hop. That's what "Holes In The Ozone" really is. The holes in the ozone is pretty much the state of hip-hop.
The reception has been great. I really was happy with the record. I can never guess what people gravitate to but it's been great. The deejay response has been great and it's getting a good response on the grassroots record.
Ironically girls are saying they like the song but nine times out of ten, I don't make songs that girls like. So I find that interesting but subconsciously it's the "Bonita Applebum" [sample].
Ras, a member of the Soleside Crew, is one of the dopest MC's to grace a microphone in a long time. His ability to freestyle combined with his offbeat flow make him almost untouchable on any stage anywhere (East Coast, West Coast, the South, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Kyoto, Frankfurt, Paris, etc....). Freeflowing MC's come and go, but the thing that sets them apart as great, lyrical content.
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Promo images and preview clips for DEXTER, episode 7.04, "Run".
After capturing a deadly killer, things go awry for Miami Metro, sending Debra into a tailspin. In an effort to help his sister, Dexter enters into a dangerous game of cat and mouse, while the Ukrainian mob continues to seek revenge.
Featuring Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Yvonne Strahovski, Matt Gerald, Francisco Viana, Ray Stevenson, Andrew Kirsanov, Lauren Vélez, David Zayas, Desmond Harrington.


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"I call it a Gardy Day."
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire benched third baseman Danny Valencia on Sunday. Asked if it was a "Danny Day," meaning a chance for Valencia to get a breather, the manager said, "I call it a Gardy Day." Gardenhire said this tongue-in-cheek, during his pregame media session, but insiders say the team's dissatisfaction with Valencia is growing. From Joe C at The Strib


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I was half upside-down (the most disorienting position to be in, I find) when it occurred to me that I can't remember when I last gave a shit about whatever belly may or may not be flabbing over my waistband. Fully upside-down (say, hanging from the monkey bars or doing a handstand), everybody's belly looks nice. Fully upright and engaged in a strong posture, ditto. But this half business, when you're breathing like a bellows–a mindful one, but a bellows nonetheless–even unflabby bellies do things that make photo editors reach for their magic wands.
In my last yoga class, we were preparing for pincha mayurasana, which looks like this–>
(I know!)
It's a pose that demands a lot of the upper back, which is precisely the part of my body that most frequently doubles as a stress repository, so the work needed to flex and support and engage in all the right places was, shall we say, bracing.
If you're not a yoga practitioner, let me attempt to describe the scene: Imagine kneeling, facing very close to a wall. You place your elbows right in the angle where wall and floor meet, and your forearms rest on the wall, your fingers pointing at the ceiling. Between your hands you hold a rectangular block. You straighten your legs, bringing your body into an inverted V shape. The block becomes a touchstone, resting in the place between your shoulder blades where all those weak-but-getting-stronger muscles lie, focusing your attention on activating their power. It's no joke, and you're not even in the "real" pose yet!
The pose ultimately calls for your gaze to be toward the floor, but at the moment you are looking between your feet at the students across the room, who are looking right back. The distorted, red, upside-down faces are all–despite the hard work, despite the good kind of discomfort that comes when your body is testing its limits, despite being an hour into a pretty grueling class–smiling like crazy.
Belly flab? What belly flab? I'm busy remembering to breathe through this exquisite torture.
Here's why yoga is important to me: it refocuses and refines my attention in a way that creates nothing but good. I've long been the sort of person who becomes first frustrated and then (pretty quickly, I'm afraid) angry when I can't do something perfectly. The yoga mat is the first place where that mindset started to crumble and fall away. It's the first place I began to uncouple the difficulty of a thing from my own sense of self-worth. Exploring the far boundaries of what is hard to do can be an astonishingly joyful undertaking, but you have to be willing to play with those boundaries without reaching for your instruments of self-flagellation (and don't we all have a veritable arsenal of those by this point in our lives?).
I have no idea when that idea finally took hold inside me. But, one day, I fell over instead of balancing, and I smiled, just like all those upside-down faces were smiling last night.
We all made it up into pincha mayurasana, with varying levels of assistance. I held it with only my partner's fist between my knees, a helpful reminder to hug the midline. Because here's a fun thing: to get up, you don't think up. You don't send the energy up; you don't focus on up. To get up, you send your energy, your effort, your breath, your smile, your all to the middle, which engages deeper musculature. The pose originates from your core, physiologically and energetically speaking, and is far more stable and powerful and dynamic than it would be if you used brute force to fling your legs skyward.
Sounds like a metaphor, no?
That's another valuable lesson that yoga has taught me: what you think needs to happen isn't always so. Frequently, the key that opens up a pose for me is an adjustment in the way I'm engaging (or not engaging) my pelvis or my feet or the deep muscles of my abdomen. These changes usually make the whole shebang even harder, yes, but they bring a richness and a correctness and an energy to the exercise that I find incredibly nourishing.
It's this subtle work that made me fall in love with yoga, Anusara in particular. I may one day get into the crazy pretzel poses; I may not. The point isn't so much what I can do, but how I do it.
The point is this: in a preparatory half-pose that doesn't even have a name, with protesting hamstrings and shoulder girdle, with wild hair and a flushed face and, yes, a little bit of belly flapping, I couldn't stop grinning.


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October 23: Hockey Fights Cancer Night at the Rock
The New Jersey Devils wanted me to pass along the news that this Saturday's game against Buffalo will be Hockey Fights Cancer Night at the Rock. The link has the details, but here are the highlights: The Devils along with the NHL will provide $10,000 to the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Foundation They are running the Mystery Puck promotion again. It starts at 5:30, with the proceeds going to charity. Pucks are limited to one a person, they are with $20, and each puck will be autographed by a random Devil. If you miss out on the pucks but want to contribute, you can make a cash donation at the door. You'll not just be enjoying Devils hockey on Saturday, but you can do some good too.


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If you had asked me three years ago if I enjoyed being a single mom my answer would've been no. Visions of loneliness, disappointment and heartbreak danced in my head every time I heard the words single and mom in the same sentence. Accepting my fate as a newly single mother was one of the …
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Making Waves
The Forum on Workplace Inclusion
formerly The Multicultural Forum on Workplace Diversity
27th Annual Conference
March 17-19, 2015
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Jerry Tubbs Dies at 77
Jerry Tubbs, College Football Hall of Fame Member from the University of Oklahoma died today at age 77. He was the first Pro Bowl Middle Linebacker for the Cowboys taking over in the 4th game of the 1960 season. He first retired in 1966 and returned in 1967 as insurance for Lee Roy Jordan, Was linebackers coach for Landry for over 25 years coaching in 5 Super Bowls, winning two. Was considered one of the best if not the best Middle Linebacker during his playing days.


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Patience wearing thin with Molina
"Just before Aaron Rowand's playing time was curtailed, I got the strong sense that patience from the manager's office was coming to an end. I am getting that same sense with Molina now. Whether it's because of his ailing left elbow or not, he simply is not driving the ball. And because his running is such an extreme liability, he presents no shortage of lineup problems. You can't sacrifice him as the No.8 hitter. But you also can't afford to bat him any higher in the lineup. Molina grounded into a double play tonight. He also had a single, but that would've been a double play, too, if Edgar Renteria hadn't taken off with the pitch, causing Geoff Blum to vacate his shortstop position."


text: Just saw Dana tweeted that Pettis hurt is knee and is out of UFC 163 in Rio. He will be replaced by Chan Sung Jung AKA the Korean Zombie. I'm bummed that we miss out on one of the more exciting fights this summer, but that's the breaks. Now there is an argument to be made on who really deserves to be the replacement here. I kind of feel that perhaps Lamas deserved it a little more but the Korean Zombie will sell more PPV and is definatley a worthy replacement.


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Friday, 13 June 2008
Tony says...
Just found your site. At last a brit mag covering the best sport in the world
I live in Louth on the East Coast and run a T140 street tracker.
I just got back from the Isle of Man TT. Pleased I stuck the Bonnie up a couple of sportsbikes
over the Mountain on Mad Sunday.
All the best
Tony Goldsmith
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Hey Tony good to see your bike on the sideblog. I saw you and the triumph at the TT keep stickin it to the power rangers Bro
- 16 June 2008 12:57
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hi Tony
I also saw your bike in the isle of man.You were at the triumph owners meeting counting rivets.The way you drove the bike away was awsome,man and machine.You looked cool on it and certainly turned a few ladies heads on departing the carpark
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MOREAU, N.Y. - Lawyers for a Saratoga County mother who allegedly hired strippers for her son's 16th birthday party entered a motion for dismissal Thursday morning in Moreau Town Court.
33-year-old Judy Viger, of Gansevoort, pleaded not guilty to five counts of
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The judge will give his decision on whether or not to dismiss the case in writing.
Police were notified about the party by other teens' parents when
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For the 2012 edition of the WEA Special Education Boot Camp. Three, five-day training sessions will be held this summer across the state.
The trainings, presented by the WEA Special Education Cadre, are open to all school employees, parents, administrators and representatives from community agencies.
Training dates and locations:
- July 9-13 in Federal Way (WEA Office) – Registration Deadline: June 22
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Complete registration information will be available soon on the WEA website and from your UniServ and local association offices.
Training sessions include:
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Updates from Mexico Mission TeamMarch 26 2011 at 11:07 am 3 Comments
Above: a departure photo of the team that has served at Rancho 3M Christian Orphanage in Guadalupe, Mexico, over the past week. Pictured left to right: Luke Chamberlain, Devon Chamberlain, Eric Conroy, Dave Leo, Nate Somerville, Andy McPhillips, Grant Layman, Milt Hendrickson, Lou Stavely, John Luhman, Robert Johnson, Bob Merryman, Art Shenk, and Nick DeCarlo. Not pictured are team members Sherry and Van Van Orsdel, Sam Hoffman, Jack Anderson and Andy Tvardzik. Below: a digest of several updates from Art Shenk on behalf of the team.
Day 3 Update
Another gorgeous work day, sunny, mid 80s, warm dry breeze. We started the day with Sherry and Devon's tasty egg breakfast burritos, made using four dozen eggs from Taylor Adamek's (Dean's and Denise 13 year old son) chicken farm at the Ranch. Taylor charges 10 cents per egg, and the budding entrepreneur is now considering moving into the market for chicken meat, too.
Luke's worship song selections of "Let your Kingdom Come" and "High Above All Things" led into Lou Stavely's excellent devotional on propitiation (God's wrath-removing sacrifice of sending his son Jesus to die for our sins), reminding us of the incredible blessing it is to live each day with the knowledge that our sins have been forgiven and that we no longer live in fear of God's wrath.
All the teams were in full production today starting at 8:30 a.m. and worked thru until 6:30 p.m. when we enjoyed a meatball sub dinner and reflected on the day's activities and the excellent progress made on all fronts.
Painting crew team leader John Emelio reported that the upstairs wall and ceiling painting was totally done, thanks to the steady endurance of John, Bob Merryman, Luke Chamberlain and Jack Anderson, all very quiet but extremely focused on the task at hand. Meanwhile in one of the back rooms Jon Luhman and partner Sam Hoffman were knocking out door after door with prime and finish coats. Grant's color selections are superb ... they're beginning to create a warm and inviting haven for the newborn and toddlers that will soon be arriving.
The framing and trim team is rolling along with the daunting task of trimming over 60 windows and 19 doors. But Van Van Orsdel came up with a "jig" that has really reduced the time it takes to assemble the window trim. The "shop" set up is quite impressive with some serious power tools ... There is no question in our minds that this team of Van, Lou, Milt Hendrickson and Eric Conroy will meet the challenge of completing the trim.
Grant Layman remarked that the tile team (led by Nick DeCarlo…with help from Grant, Robert Johnson, Nate Somerville and myself "made a comeback" from yesterday's slow start in some of the small rooms in the front of the building by breaking out into the large room in the center of the first floor and making some serious progress.
The most fun to watch is our electrical team of Dave Leo and Andy McPhillips ... both seasoned tradesman who fly around the building (and all the other teams as a matter of fact), kneeling down, going up and down ladders—you name it they do it—to get in positions to install power outlets, lighting fixtures, ceiling fans, smoke detectors, etc. If all goes well we could have power to the building as early as this Wednesday.
Last but not least we are grateful for, as Nick DeCarlo put it, Grant's spiritual leadership and Andy Tvardzik's construction leadership. The entire team recognizes that Andy has planned and prepared for months for this trip—arriving the middle of last week to buy supplies, figure out team assignments, etc. He find's his name being called all the time for counsel on "what to do"—that is, unless he is off on another two or three hour trip across the border to get more supplies for his appreciative band of workers. Andy is a gift from God … as nothing ever seems to upset him; you couldn't pick a better project manager and exemplary leader to follow.
Finally, we are sooooooooooooooo grateful that after three days we have no sickness or accidents/injuries … and we are having a blast!
Day 2 Update
The day began with breakfast at 7a.m. Grant has each team member share why we signed up for the mission trip, followed by Luke Chamberlain leading us in worship using the smallest guitar ever made, and Nick DeCarlo sharing an inspiring reminder from Philippians 2 about our call as men to humble servanthood, being ready to do whatever it takes to see the baby home built … as this week we would not be "writing a check to a worthy cause" but putting our "boots to the ground," working side by side to see this work of the Lord established as an act of "pure religion"—the kind spoken of in James 1:27, which includes visiting orphans in their affliction.
We put in a full day:
• painting of doors (Jon Luhman, Jack Anderson, and Sam Hoffman)
• painting of the upstairs level (John Emelio, Luke Chamberlin, and Bob Merryman),
• tile work in the front entrance (Nick DeCarlo, Grant Layman, Robert Johnson, Nate Somerville and Art Shenk)
• window framing (Andy Tvardzik, Lou Stavely, Eric Conroy and Van Vanorsdel) of the over 56 windows
• wiring electrical power outlets, installing lighting fixures and smoke detectors (Dave Leo and Andy McPhillips)
• Over dinner we recounted with gratefulness the joys of the first day of work.
Day 1 Update
Our team of 19 arrived at Rancho 3M to a grand welcome by the children … smiles and hugs for all as we got out of the vans … including special greetings by name to Señor Layman and others who have been to the ranch for many years. The children went on to immediately lug our big suit cases to our bunk room, the cutest group of little porters you will ever see.
The baby house looks great! Dean Adamek (Rancho 3M Director) shared his vision for the ministry and all that will be taking place soon in the new building (projected for occupancy as early as this fall). The house is spacious, inviting, and brightly/naturally lit …attractively designed and so functional. Dean expressed his deep appreciation for the folks at Covenant Life and our continued partnership with him and his staff.
Andy Tvardzik shared an overview of the ambitious but doable goals for the week: completing the lion's share of the interior finishes, including window and door trim, painting, tile/wood flooring installation and electrical work. We enjoyed our first meal prepared by Sherry Van Orsdel and Devon Chamberlain serving in their all important role of keeping our little band fed—a band now known as "Grant's Mighty Men" (a phrased coined by Nick DeCarlo as he recapped the privilege of being able to serve using our God-given skills and abilities for His glory).
By their displays of spontaneous joy, happiness and gratefulness, the kids of Rancho 3M continue to motivate us all the more to do our part to get the "walls built" of the baby home as soon as possible, so that Dean and his staff will be able to serve even more children—"rebuilding of the walls" in the hearts and minds of the children thru Gospel-centered care that points them to their need for a Savior, Jesus Christ, and to know and love their Heavenly Father who loves them with an everlasting love and who will never fail or forsake them for all of eternity.
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Way to go guys. Andy and Grant, thanks for your leadership in this awesome project.By Peter Giglio on 03/26/2011
you all touch my heart VERY DEEPLY WITH YOUR SELFLESS, CHRISTLIKE
Thanks for the excellent write up! The team was in our prayers and it sure sounds like a lot of progress - Thanks for a job well done!By Jeff Truesdale on 03/29/2011
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Another year, another deadline! I look forward to the trade deadline each year, because roster management has always been one of my favourite parts of following sports. I used to simulate entire seasons of NHL video games just in order get to the trades, free agency, and drafting portions of the season (let's be honest, I still do that to this day).
This year, the Senators are sitting on the cusp of the playoff picture, with some valuable assets, veteran expiring contracts, and some holes in the lineup. The question remains, are we a seller? buyer? or do we stand pat?
Things I don't want to see
- Turris, Karlsson, MacArthur, Lehner, Ceci or Lazar traded
- Trading for a UFA
- Trading away a first or second round pick for someone with less than 3 years term on their contract
- Trading for someone with less than 3 years of term on their contract.
Things I do want to see
-Getting a solid veteran d-man with some term on his contract ( even if it's unsightly long) Targets: Alex Edler, Christian Ehrhoff
-Trading at least one of our top 9 forward in order to let Hoffman or Stone play full time on the team Candidates for trade: Michalek, Greening, Conacher
Make it happen BMGM, I hope you can satisfy these simple requests.
What do you want to see before this year's trade deadline?


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Grand jury probes 1983 death of Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka's girlfriend in Lehigh County
Nancy Argentino in town for wrestler's apparance at Allentown Fairgrounds
Published: Jan 28 2014 01:15:45 PM EST Updated On: Jan 28 2014 06:01:05 PM EST
A Lehigh County grand jury is now investigating the suspicious death of a pro-wrestler's girlfriend.
Nancy Argentino died under "unusual circumstances" in Lehigh County in the spring of 1983.
Family members said Argentino, 23, was in town with her boyfriend, professional wrestler Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, who was performing at the Allentown Fairgrounds.
A few months ago, Argentino's sisters contacted the district attorney, asking him to take another look at the case.
The grand jury investigation is expected to take several months.
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The City of Kansas City, Mo., Public Works Department is opening the leaf and brush drop-off site at 1815 N. Chouteau Trafficway (just south of the Missouri River) on Sunday, May 11 to assist residents affected by last week's severe weather. The site will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The North Chouteau Trafficway location and the site at 10301 Raytown Road (south of Interstate 470) will have regular Saturday hours from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Drop-off site rules are:
- If you use plastic bags, you must empty them and take them with you
- No duct tape or wire
- No grass clippings or trash
- Proof of residency, such as a driver's license or water bill, is required.
Public Works crews have completed targeted debris collection operations in the areas of the northland that were most affected by last weeks storm. Crews are now conducting a targeted collection in an affected area near Blue Ridge and 47th Street.
For more information about these programs, as well as trash, recycling and solid other waste collections, visit http://www.kcmo.org/trash or call the 3-1-1 Action Center, a division of the City Manager's Office, (816) 513-1313 or 311.
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Lee Gardner, ten years ago swallowed a disposable fork and has been living in his stomach for that long, until he was operated upon.
A doctor told him not to worry and to let the fork pass saying he would be okay and he was actually fine, he had forgotten about the incident.
However, he started having stomach pains and vomited blood. At 40, Gardner was taken to a South Yorkshire hospital and doctors operated upon him only to find the 9-inch fork lodged inside him, scratching against his stomach lining.
"I can't believe it. I have never had any problems with my stomach except once a couple of years ago I remember thinking I felt like something had lodged when I bent over awkwardly," he told the BBC. "But the advice at the time was that it would just pass through my system, and as that was so many years before I really didn't think it could be the fork."
The fork's tines had left a bad ulcer on his stomach that led to the bleeding, the Daily Mail reported. It took the doctors 45 minutes to remove the fork.
"If something does get lodged, then normally a patient would become ill almost immediately. This is why Lee's case is so uncharacteristic," a consultant at Barnsley Hospital said. "The plastic had been exposed to stomach acid for ten years but apart from it being black, there was no damage. It didn't melt it down or anything which is remarkable."


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"The TSA serves under and is accountable to the Commander in Chief, and this egregious, destructive conduct by the Homeland Security Department and TSA puts Americans at grave risk," Gohmert said. "Why do we have to undergo groping, thorough review of our photo ID's, and long infernal lines while the TSA is figuratively closing it's eyes and waving people with no regard for U.S. law right onto airplanes?"
The congressman continued, "Maybe the President didn't hear SOUTHCOM Commander, Gen. John Kelly, both times he made clear in Congressional testimony that the criminal networks and terrorist organizations penetrating our southern border are a threat to the very existence of the United States. That includes being a threat to whatever golf course the President happens to be on at the time."
As Breitbart Texas previously reported, Notice to Appear forms do not adequately confirm an individual's identity. Hector Garza, a spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) told Breitbart Texas that the forms can be "easily be reproduced or manipulated on any home computer. The Notice to Appear form has no photo, anyone can make one and manipulate one. They do not have any security features, no watermark, nothing. They are simply printed on standard copy paper based on the information the illegal alien says is the truth."
Prior to writing its letter of admission, the TSA insisted that Darby's allegations were untrue. TSA Press Secretary Ross Feinstein attacked Darby and the NBPC on Twitter. After claiming that Darby's report was "completely wrong," Feinstein falsely complained that no one had "contacted us for a statement and/or info. before publishing story." Darby responded to Feinstein with a screen shot, proving that he had, indeed, attempted to reach out to the TSA for comments before publishing his story.
Garza said, ""Ross Feinstein and the TSA higher ups should apologize to the NBPC and to Brandon Darby for reporting the truth. ... Shame on Ross Feisnten and the TSA for lying to the American Public and for saying that border patrol agents, the NBPC and Brandon Darby were liars."Read More
"These evil people and their despicable, inhuman atrocities cry out for countries desiring peace to eliminate them from the living," Gohmert said in a statement provided to Breitbart Texas. "My thoughts and prayers have gone out to Mr. Foley's family and friends. Their pain, suffering, and anger are unimaginable."
In the video, a terrorist said into the camera, "Any attempt by you, Obama, to deny Muslims liberty & safety under the Islamic caliphate will result in the bloodshed of your people." Foley next blamed actions by the U.S. government for his own death.
The congressman also acknowledged the other U.S. journalist who is currently in captivity by ISIS. After Foley was beheaded alive in the video, ISIS brought out another man, who is allegedly journalist Steven Sotloff. The ISIS members vowed to murder Sotloff next if President Obama does not do what they demand.
Gohmert said, "We also pray for the additional journalist in captivity and hope for a safe return. But, as we pray for his safety and the American people, our government should be responding with such dramatic power that tempted terrorists are tempted no more."
He then criticized Obama's apparent attitude towards ISIS.
"Terrorism is very real and is growing despite this President's best efforts to weaken U.S. power and apologize," Gohmert continued. "Before ISIS commits more heinous crimes against humanity in the name of radical Islam, it must be annihilated for the good of all peace-loving Christians, Jews, moderate Muslims, other religious people, and secularists who simply want to live in peace. Peace will come no other way."Read More
Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement regarding the sickening news that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) beheaded an American journalist, James Foley:
"The American people have witnessed again another glimpse of the brutality of radical Islam, in this case the ISIS terror group. These evil people and their despicable, inhuman atrocities cry out for countries desiring peace to eliminate them from the living. My thoughts and prayers have gone out to Mr. Foley's family and friends. Their pain, suffering, and anger are unimaginable. We also pray for the additional journalist in captivity and hope for a safe return. But, as we pray for his safety and the American people, our government should be responding with such dramatic power that tempted terrorists are tempted no more.
Terrorism is very real and is growing despite this President's best efforts to weaken U.S. power and apologize. Before ISIS commits more heinous crimes against humanity in the name of radical Islam, it must be annihilated for the good of all peace-loving Christians, Jews, moderate Muslims, other religious people, and secularists who simply want to live in peace. Peace will come no other way."
Congressman Louie Gohmert is the Vice Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. Prior to being elected to serve in Congress, Louie was elected to three terms as District Judge in Smith County, Texas. He also served as Chief Justice of Texas'12th Court of Appeals.
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Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a conservative champion, took a well-deserved victory lap in an interview with the WND news website.
The "legislative miracle" approved by the House represents a "stunning turnaround" and "a huge victory for the conservatives in Congress." Its approval is also a big win for the American people who, Bachmann said, "saved Congress from itself" by jamming the congressional switchboard to state their opposition to President Obama's planned immigration amnesty.
Bachmann noted the legislation pays states to place National Guard troops on the border, doubling funding for that program. It also responds to the president's threat that "he would act alone, lawlessly, to grant work permits to 5- to 6 million illegal foreign nationals."
"We have taken the strongest possible action, legislatively, to stop him," Bachmann said. "We've put the president on notice by saying, 'You better not issue these work permits because we've said no. You better not try it, Mr. President.'"
The bill also provides funding to immigration agencies to house illegal alien children and also amends a 2008 law that was created to block the sex trafficking of young people but which has been used to provide asylum to illegals coming from Central American countries.
Bachmann also marveled at the fact that the bill was even tougher in her view than what anti-amnesty stalwarts Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had thought was politically possible to achieve.
She also rejected President Obama's mischievous comment Friday afternoon in which he attacked conservatives for supposedly preventing the House from approving a border-fix measure.
That comment was "infantile," Bachmann said, noting that the Democrat-controlled Senate is the chamber that has yet to approve a border bill. Republicans hope Senate Democrats take a public relations drubbing in coming weeks for failing to act.
Victory came a day after a conservative-led uprising among House Republicans scuttled Speaker John Boehner's worse-than-useless border crisis and immigration legislation. "The bill as it was had more loopholes than a knitted afghan," Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told FrontPage on Thursday.
The showdown between rank-and-file Republicans and their leaders in the House came as Americans grow increasingly angry over the border crisis that has been staged and carefully choreographed by the far-left levelers of the Obama administration.
Conservatives worried that the GOP establishment bill did not even try to block Obama's upcoming mass amnesty and did not do enough to crack down on the recent surge of illegals streaming across the country's southern border.
But on Friday conservative and moderate Republicans united during a House GOP conference meeting and approved stronger legislation to replace the GOP establishment's weak border bill that Boehner put on the back burner the day before. A $694 million emergency measured aimed at fixing the border crisis was approved by the House later that day on a vote of 223 to 189, freeing House members to begin their delayed three-week summer recess that was supposed to begin Thursday.
The legislation attempts to defang President Obama's wildly unpopular Deferred Action for Children Arrivals, or DACA, policy that he used to provide asylum to more than 500,000 illegals who came to the U.S. as minors. Separately, the House approved a bill to reverse DACA, which encourages youngsters to make the dangerous trek north from Central America to sneak across the border, on a vote of 216 to 192. Four Democratic lawmakers voted for the measure.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration is pressing ahead with plans to illegally grant amnesty to millions of immigration law-breaking foreign nationals present in the country.
It is just one in a long series of Reichstag fires calculated to enhance the power of the neo-Marxist despot who now occupies the Oval Office.
On ABC's "This Week" yesterday Obama palace heel-clicker Dan Pfeiffer reaffirmed that a huge amnesty is coming. Obama "has no choice but to act" to grant amnesty to as many as five million illegal aliens "at the end of summer," he said.
After pointing out that Obama said last year that he did not believe he had authority to act unilaterally, an incredulous George Stephanopoulos asked Pfeiffer, "Doesn't a reversal like that fuel the arguments of those who say that the president is overstepping his authority?"
Pfeiffer said that "whatever [Obama] does in this space will not be a substitute for comprehensive immigration reform. Congress will still need to act."
"But because of Congress's failure to fix the immigration system and to pass the supplemental appropriations bill needed to deal with the specific crisis on the border, the president has no choice but to act … at the end of the summer."
Even the cripplingly affective leftist dead-ender Ed Schultz thinks amnesty-bound Obama is politically suicidal.
"Hold the phone — this would be a mistake if the president were to do this," Schultz told the phone booth that consists of his MSNBC audience last week.
"Politically, there is no way Democrats can go home and campaign on across-the-board amnesty for millions of undocumented workers … it could be an electoral death knell for the Democrats," he said.
Recent surveys show Obama's pro-illegal immigrant policies have the strong support of just 18 percent of the public, compared to the nearly 60 percent who strongly oppose those policies.
"I don't like government by executive order," said Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.). "I just don't, generally, so I'd have to look and see specifically what [Obama is] proposing and what he's talking about," said the left-winger.
Polls now suggest Pryor stands a very good chance of losing to Republican challenger Tom Cotton in November.
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Dead bodies of illegal immigrants are turning up in south Texas as Central Americans pour across the U.S.-Mexico border, and a veterinarian who ranches cattle 70 miles from ground zero has the photos to prove it.
Dr. Mike 'Doc' Vickers of Brooks County, Texas showed some of the grisly images to MailOnline, all of them far too grotesque to publish unedited.
One picture shows a corpse propped up against a tree near his ranch in Brooks County, his eyes missing and dried blood cascading down his shirtless body.
'This guy, obviously, had to lay down up against that tree, and that's where he died,' Vickers says in interview footage provided exclusively to MailOnline by documentary filmmaker Chris Dugard.
Falcons native to the Rio Grande river valley 'plucked his eyes out before he was dead,' the animal doctor concludes. 'He bled out through his eyes, which tells me that he was probably in a coma but they were eatin' on him before his heart stopped beating.'
Dugard is working on a sequel to his 2007 documentary, 'Border,' which made a splash on the film-festival circuit years before illegal immigration swelled to what President Barack Obama now concedes is a 'humanitarian crisis.'
When he filmed 'Border' in 2005, he said, 'we had to go out and find illegal traffic.'
'This time it found us.'
He screened his film on Capitol Hill back then, telling members of Congress that children were becoming pawns in Mexican drug cartels' smuggling operations into the U.S. homeland.
'I am not surprised to find immigrants dying 70 miles north of the border,' Dugard told MailOnline, but 'I am surprised that nine years later it is still a secret to most of the American people.'
'The Federal Government has long known about this,' he said, ticking off Texas and Arizona counties where human remains are continually turning up.
'Local officials who deal with collecting the bodies are so overwhelmed financially that the cost of coroner inquests on each case is dramatically affecting their budgets.'
Vickers, 64, told MailOnline on Wednesday that since 2012 his organization, the Texas Border Volunteers, has counted 259 dead bodies in his native Brooks County alone, including those of children.
'And we're probably only finding 20 per cent of them. A lot of people die out here.'
'We find a hell of a lot of women,' he said. 'Three of the last ones who have died on my ranch have been women. We found a dead 12-year-old boy on my neighbor's property.'
Some have the good fortune to find Vickers and his crew.
'We've rescued some small children, quite a few,' Vickers recalled. 'One boy, 11 years old, was left behind 8 or 9 miles off the highway. He had no idea where he was.' The border volunteers gave him water and arranged for U.S. Border Patrol agents to pick him up.
'I've seen families out in my front yard under a tree,' he said, 'with little bitty toddlers with them.'
The group of about 300 amateur patrolmen go out in teams of up to 40 armed men at a time for 4- to 5-day patrols, reporting to Border Patrol agents and Texas Rangers on where the immigrant traffic is heaviest.
In nine years of scouring south Texas, no shots have been fired.
The closest U.S. Border Patrol station, at Falfurrias, Texas, is about 4-1/2 miles from Vickers' 1,000-acre ranch.
An official in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency confirmed that in the month of June more than 4,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended at or near that checkpoint.
About 82 per cent of them were so-called 'OTM' border crossers – 'Other Than Mexican.'
More than 400 were children.
The federal government doesn't keep statistics on how many dead immigrants' bodies are recovered, the DHS official told MailOnline.
He conceded to MailOnline that 'we don't know how many people are dying without reaching us, just like we don't know how many people are making it past the checkpoint without being detected.'
Most come from Central America and pay human traffickers known as 'coyotes' between $5,000 and $8,000 each to be smuggled into the United States.
Many don't make it alive.
'The fact is, they're all homicides,' Vickers said. 'These people pay coyotes who are affiliated with drug cartels big money to be brought here and dropped off at the checkpoint. And they go through our private property to avoid detection.'
'And the coyotes, a lot of times, by the time they get to the checkpoint, or even north of the checkpoint, run off and leave them. And you know, they'll point at a light up north, one of those radio towers, and say, "Just keep walking toward that tower. Houston's 20 minutes away".'
Houston is a 280-mile drive from Falfurrias.
'They've already duped them of their money,' he explained. 'And then some days later they're still walking around in circles up here with no water. And you know, a lot of them die.'
'A lot of coyotes don't leave them, but they put them on a fast pace. We're talking 3 to 4 miles per hour, through all this deep sand and all this brush, and real, real treacherous terrain. And if they can't keep up, they'll beat on them a little bit and tell them, "We're just going to leave you here to die." And they do.'
Vickers, a small-time cattle rancher who spends most of his days as a veterinarian caring for his neighbors' livestock, will play a significant role in Dugard's next movie.
In the filmmaker's footage, Vickers shows a photo he took of a gang-tattooed drug runner who was armed but dehydrated when the Texas Border Volunteers stumbled onto him, near the point of death from heat exhaustion.
'We actually saved this guy's life,' he said.
'After we got the "pistolero" treated, we went another 300 yards and found this guy,' he says, pointing to a picture of a badly decomposed corpse. 'He wasn't so lucky.'
Dugard also saw an Urdu-to-English dictionary that Vickers picked up near his ranch, dropped by 'a coyote leading a group of Middle Easterners into our country.'
And Chinese immigrants, paying up to $50,000 each to be smuggled into Ecuador and then into the United States, are now numerous enough that the federal government has added Mandarin translations to signs at emergency stations dotting the Texas border region.
But it's those 'OTM' aliens, especially the hundreds of unaccompanied minors crossing every day along the length of the U.S.-Mexico border, who have turned illegal immigration into relentless front-page news.
The flow is 'four times what it was in 2011. A four-fold increase,' says Vickers.
He agrees with Republicans in Congress who point fingers of blame at President Obama, who declared in 2012 that the federal government would no longer pursue illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children before 2007.
He also championed a bill called the DREAM Act – failed legislation that aimed to offer those immigrants permanent residency if they graduated from high school.
'When Obama started talking about the DREAM Act, and this and that about the DREAMers, I mean it was like, overnight we started seeing hordes of these teenagers coming in from Central America,' Vickers told MailOnline. 'I've got pictures of them.'
'I mean, big groups – 20, 30, 40 at a time. We were encountering them and getting Border Patrol to pick them up. And right off the bat they'd tell us, "Hey, we're going to be able to go free. Mr. Obama is going to let us stay. He said we could come.'
'He started talking about the DREAM Act and all of that stuff in 2012,' the veterinarian said, 'and here they come.'
Dugard showed MailOnline a brief interview with an illegal immigrant, an 18-ish young man from Tequila, Mexico who said he had paid a coyote $5,700 for safe passage to the U.S.
Asked if Obama is communicating to people south of the border 'that it is possible to find work in the United States,' he chewed his gum and replied, 'Uh-huh.'
Dugard also claimed transnational drug traffickers 'are taking big time advantage' of Obama's 2012 mini-amnesty. 'They have been planning for this for the last two years.'
The deluge of unaccompanied minors, he said, have occupied so much of the federal government's resources near the U.S.-Mexico border – allowing for only sparse apprehension of gun and narcotics smugglers.
'Before the tidal wave of women and children hit the border,' he told MailOnline, 'cartels say they were getting about 50 per cent of their personnel across. Since Border Patrol has been hit with this wave of human shields, cartels are now claiming to get up to 90 per cent of their people across.'
Dugard also showed MailOnline exclusive interview footage with a 27-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol who left his job because of the changing conditions on the ground.
'I retired early because I was told I had to release a group of criminals because they may be DREAM Act people,' the agent says, his face shielded because he feared reprisals.
'I just could not see releasing these people who were convicted of crimes back into American society. I voiced my opinion. I was told basically to just shut up and do what I was told.'
Two members of the Texas congressional delegation, both Republicans, reacted with anger when MailOnline showed them a set of five photos of dead border-crossers.
'How many precious lives must be needlessly lost, women raped, girls forced into sex trafficking or people trapped into the drug trade before the Obama administration stops luring them here with continued grants of amnesty, legal status, work permits, and benefits?' asked Rep. Louie Gohmert.
'Democrats don't care that Obama's rhetoric is getting people killed,' Rep. Steve Stockman added.
'They come here specifically because they believe Obama will give them amnesty. Democrats are willing to let illegals risk their lives just so Democrats can have a wedge issue to agitate their liberal base before an election.'
Rep. Rubén Hinojosa, the Democrat who represents Brooks County, told MailOnline that illegal immigrant deaths in Brooks County are 'a stain on the American way.'
'I say this because so many lives could have been saved if we had a Comprehensive Immigration Bill in place,' he added.
Hinojosa didn't say how passing legislation favored by the White House would save lives, but insisted that 'better immigration laws for our country' would 'hopefully prevent migrant deaths.'
He said relatives of the dead have visited his office. 'I have heard their painful stories of not knowing what happened to their loved ones, and my heart aches for them.'
'My office has worked with Brooks County officials on trying to find federal funding to help them identify and bury the dead.'
Vickers said no local or county government in his part of Texas has received any federal reimbursement for those costs. And he's not impressed with how his congressman is responding.
Hinojosa 'wants open borders,' he said. 'He tells his constituents that "I'm going to do whatever my president tells me to do." Not what his constituents want him to do.'
For the mild-mannered vet, the buck stops in the Oval Office.
'All this blood we see out here is on Obama's hands.'
See the photos online here.
This month I have been down to the Texas-Mexico border three different weekends. My nights patrolling the border, talking in depth with Border Patrol, DPS, Texas Rangers, ICE agents, and people in the area have helped bring a few things into focus for me. Namely – we must secure the border and enforce the law of the land.
Unlike the editorial board at The Longview News Journal, the majority of Americans understand compassion is not encouraging a President to continue luring children to this country through horrific dangers transported by drug cartel employees from countries where crime has not spiked. It actually takes courage to stand up to demeaning name-calling simply because of beliefs in treating everyone impartially.
Make no mistake; most of the children crossing the border are male and teenagers or adults, while the smaller percentage of "unaccompanied" younger children are brought by someone, though they may step aside once here. Let's reunite them as families and return them home to show the benefit of following the law.
There is a common mistake made by caring Christians in thinking that the duty of a government and the duty of a Christian individual are the same. They are quite different, and the differences are critical.
If a government turns the other cheek, is meek in the face of attack or threat to its citizens' way of life, then the people in that nation suffer. The government must follow its own laws fairly and impartially so that it does not encourage lawlessness. If all of the children of the world who are not fairly treated were encouraged to flee to the United States, there would be no United States worth fleeing to. The government must protect its borders, just like the walls of Jerusalem were to protect those within.
A Christian should love his neighbor. A government must force his neighbor to comply with its laws. Christians should not put others in fear, but government is different: "If you do evil, be afraid because God does not give the sword to the government in vain." (Romans 13:4) A good neighbor government would help force an end to the reign of the drug cartels in neighboring countries so people do not feel a desire to flee.
The drug cartels are largely responsible for the transport of people to and across our border illegally. A Border Patrolman told me that most people say, "We are fleeing violent gangs." However, when he challenges then as a Hispanic in forceful Spanish, "You and I both know the gangs were paid to bring you here; you're not escaping gangs," they say, 'You're right, but we were told to say that." Additionally, Border Patrol officers tell me the number of SIA's (Special Interest Aliens from countries with significant terrorism) has skyrocketed. That is borne out by official numbers.
Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly's (commander of the United States Southern Command) testified before Congressional committees this year of the dramatic security threats to the United States from criminal networks and terrorist organizations penetrating our southern border, stating that they pose 'an existential threat to the United States.' A primary duty of your federal government is to provide for the common defense against such.
For someone who has never been a judge or held a position of authority in government, compassion is often thought to be the difficult but admirable thing to do. I have been a judge and can tell you that the easiest thing to do is go easy and appear compassionate. Those judges are usually lavished with affection in the courtroom. But that is destructive to a peaceable country.
It is easy to give away what has been entrusted to government, then bask in affection from those to whom you've given other people's earnings. It is far more difficult to say, "No, you violated the law, and the rule of law requires that you be treated as other lawbreakers. You must go to the back of the line behind those even more desperate who are following the rules."
As a judge, I experienced occasions of a courtroom full of friends clamoring for leniency that I would not have given to someone else, so I applied the law impartially. Being impartial and living with the threats takes more courage than always acting "compassionately." It is easiest to succumb and give special treatment when the masses are begging, "Come on, have a heart, give him another chance." It takes more courage to do what your mind tells you is right when your heart is breaking for those affected, and the death threats come because you followed the law and did not favor some over others.
My heart goes out to all children who have been caught in tragic circumstances. That is why I went and wept with the Nigerians who have it far worse than Central Americans.
I have a rough draft of legislation that would allow us to process them quickly, reunite them with one or both parents, and return them home together expediently. But until we stop the flood, we will never overcome this crisis that was created by the lawlessness of our President, which leaves children as pawns of political zealots and drug cartels.
Congressman Louie Gohmert is the Vice Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. Prior to being elected to serve in Congress, Louie was elected to three terms as District Judge in Smith County, Texas. He also served as Chief Justice of Texas'12th Court of Appeals.
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More Texas congressmen are expressing outrage over Planned Parenthood's alleged abortion quotas, calling on Planned Parenthood to address the allegations and reiterating support for nationwide defunding.
Earlier this week, a former Planned Parenthood manager came to the Daily Caller with a budget statement she said proves that her clinic had annual abortion quotas it needed to meet in order to make its budget. The budget, from fiscal year 2010, said that the now-closed clinic in Bryan, Texas needed to perform at least 1,135 abortions in order to generate the necessary $355,581 in revenue.
"It is utterly appalling that Planned Parenthood would have annual abortion quotas just to meet their financial goals," said Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert. "With the vast amount of money Planned Parenthood receives from U.S. taxpayers, it is critical that we determine whether or not any staff members were told that their salaries were contingent on their pushing a certain number of young women to abort their babies. The idea of salaries being contingent on the number of babies destroyed is unmitigatingly evil."
Planned Parenthood has repeatedly refused to return calls for comment.
"There's one thing more repugnant than the latest revelations about Planned Parenthood's insatiable appetite for killing as many babies as possible to maximize profits," Rep. Steve Stockman said. "And that's the refusal of too many to exercise Congress' purse power to defund Planned Parenthood. The Republican Party has maintained majority control of the House of Representatives for 16 of the last 20 years and have failed to do so."
Gohmert and Stockman join Rep. Bill Flores, who earlier this week said that "While the murder of any unborn child is appalling, even more criminal is the establishment of a target to kill over 1,100 innocent Texas children in order to meet financial targets."
Planned Parenthood has also refused requests for comment from Texas news outlet KBTX.Read More
Rep. Louie Gohmert says news of gunfire coming from the Mexican side of the border toward U.S. agents might have been covered up if he hadn't been at the site of the incident Friday night.
A congressman who spent this past weekend at the border with Mexico came back with a chilling story about a barrage of high-caliber gunfire that scattered U.S. Border Patrol agents while at least 40 illegal immigrants emerged from the weeds of the Rio Grande River.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, says he's worried about what else may have come into the country as those border agents were occupied taking in and processing the illegal aliens from Central America. And he believes the gunshots were fired by smugglers more than likely as a diversion tactic and not meant to actually kill any U.S. border agents.
Yet, Gohmert says, he was not surprised that the gunfire, confirmed by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, drew no response from the White House. Same for leaders of both parties in Congress.
Other than a report by Fox News Monday, the story got no coverage from mainstream media outlets. Out of that silence, Gohmert hears a message.
"The Department of Homeland Security didn't want an issue made of this, and if I were not out there on the ground in the area where this happened Friday night, you probably would have never heard of it because Homeland Security doesn't want a big deal made out of it," Gohmert told WND in a phone interview Tuesday. "Our president doesn't want a big deal made out of it, our leaders in Congress don't want to make a big deal out of it, because that would mean they would have to do more to secure our border."
Gohmert said he arrived at the Texas border about 30 minutes after the shots rang out, and was able to get a first-hand account of what happened. He spent two days and two nights there, returning to Capitol Hill on Monday. It was at least his third trip to the border in the past few months, he said. But he did not expect to hear that Border Patrol agents were taking heavy machine-gun fire.
"In the case of a .50-caliber gun, the noise is so earth shattering that, unlike a .223-caliber round that can sometimes go unnoticed, it's very clear – you know immediately it's indeed gunfire," he said.
He said he's not surprised the high-caliber rifle fire met with a low-key response from official Washington.
"I understand there may be a more official position, that it was gunfire but that it may not have been directed at our guys," Gohmert said. "In our case we were in a position where you could talk to people right there as it happened and get their stories before their superiors could help them with their stories."
The gunfire broke out between 8 and 9 p.m. Friday, just before darkness descended on the area.
Gohmert said the border agents were positioned near two large oil or gas tanks. There will often be two or three vehicles parked there because it's a good place to interview people coming across the border. It's less than 50 yards from the banks of the river.
"They said they were hearing .50-caliber rounds and ricochets came up in their direction and they immediately sought cover, and they remained behind something protecting them until it stopped," Gohmert said, relating the story as it was told to him by the agents. "Our Border Patrol has nothing to stop a .50-caliber round, and when it stopped they immediately came from behind their cover and 40 to 50 people came up from the water."
Gohmert said he believes the purpose of the shots "was to cause our Border Patrol to have to seek cover and clearly they did not want anyone seeing or stopping what was coming across. And then they will be tied up processing the illegals and so they didn't have the manpower to go through the brush and the trees, the heavy brush along the river banks there, to see what else may have accompanied the 40 or so illegal immigrants that gave rise to the .50-caliber fire.
"We're told they were not firing directly at our agents, but they were firing toward them, in their general direction, and caused them to seek cover," Gohmert continued. "They weren't firing at but toward, in the general area and they accomplished apparently what they wanted, which was to keep them (border agents) from seeing what had crossed over the border after the illegals."
The Obama administration has said the numbers of illegal crossings have begun to slow down, and Democrats in Congress such as Rep. Joachin Castro, D-Texas, have lashed out at Texas Gov. Rick Perry for sending 1,000 state National Guard troops to help patrol the border. Castro, the brother of Obama's secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julian Castro, and son of a woman who helped found the radical Chicano socialist group Council for La Raza, called Perry's move a "militarization" of the border that is unwarranted by crime statistics in the border areas, which he says show no increase or cause for concern.
"Militarizing our border is the wrong response to the arrival of children," Castro said in a July 21 email to Politico. "I remain hopeful that our state can provide a more helpful response than to send armed soldiers to greet children seeking refuge from violence."
But Gohmert doesn't buy that argument. He doesn't believe all those crossing over are innocent young children seeking refuge from violence. The majority are teenage boys with unknown backgrounds, and he praises the actions that Texas has taken to help protect the state from potential criminal elements.
"The administration will say the numbers are down now. Well, I would submit that the reason the numbers are down is because Texas has been doing something about it," Gohmert told WND.
"They've spent millions on boats going up and down the river, they've brought in the Texas Rangers, we've have already been supplementing the federal government with significant state assets and if the coyotes [smugglers] know they can't get the people they're smuggling to the border then they won't bring them. So the president can say the numbers are down but he's taking the credit for what the state has accomplished. Make no mistake about our Border Patrol agents, they are doing a great job with what they've been given, but they need help and they're not getting it from this administration in the White House."
Gohmert also addressed the role that the Texas National Guard will be playing at the border when those troops arrive over the next 30 days. Some conservatives have criticized Perry's deployment of the National Guard because they haven't been given authority to arrest or detain illegals.
"The lack of authority to detain people will not be a problem so long as they can meet them on the border and refuse them entry into the United States if they are attempting to come in illegally," Gohmert said.Read More
Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement showing unwavering support for Israel after a ceasefire was rejected by Hamas:
"The existence and safety of the nation of Israel is critical to the safety and existence of the United States and those who love true freedom. Israel's support for human rights is more consistent with the position of the United States than any other nation in the middle east. Most Americans believe that if we as a nation bless Israel, we will be blessed. Therefore, any enemy of Israel is an enemy of the United States. As the first nation to recognize Israel as an independent state when it was re-established in 1948, the United States has known Israel as one of its closest allies.
Now, Israel is being rocked again by age-old violence from people who have received United States aid and money and yet have vowed destruction of Israel. Now is the time to stand stronger than ever with our dear friend, Israel, not only in prayer and spirit, but in deed and defense. If anyone doubted who truly wanted peace in the middle east, any doubts should have been erased when Israel agreed to a cease-fire, yet Hamas remained a consistent terrorist group and refused anything that resembled peace. All aid of any kind from which Hamas benefits should be eliminated and all aid we can provide to Israel should be provided. In the meantime, our thoughts and prayers have been and remain with the blessed nation of Israel."
Congressman Louie Gohmert is the Vice Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. Prior to being elected to serve in Congress, Louie was elected to three terms as District Judge in Smith County, Texas. He also served as Chief Justice of Texas'12th Court of Appeals.
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EXCLUSIVE: McALLEN, Texas — Life jackets of all sizes and the occasional punctured raft are strewn along the banks of the Rio Grande, just south of Mission, Texas, where a relentless onslaught of illegal immigrants eagerly surrender to beleaguered Border Patrol agents around the clock.
It's a cycle for which there is no end in sight.
"You're going to be out here a long time," Fernando, an El Salvadoran child, told FoxNews.com shortly after surrendering to Border Patrol authorities after midnight Saturday. "There are thousands of us."
With most of the men and women charged with securing the Mexican border busy processing some of the 60,000 illegal immigrants who have made the harrowing journey to the American border in the past nine months, only a handful of Border Patrol agents drive the riverside loop in a small town called Granjeno just south of Mission, in the Rincon peninsula.
Illegal immigrants of all ages, including many unaccompanied children, run to them to surrender. They are piled into the back of Border Patrol vehicles and taken to a makeshift staging area in Rincon Village, where a large Border Patrol bus waits to transport them to McAllen's Border Patrol facility.
FoxNews.com accompanied Texas lawmaker Louie Gohmert, a former judge and current Republican Congressman, to the site in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday. Gohmert, whose district lies some 550 miles northeast of what has become the most heavily-trafficked people-smuggling route in the world, has been to the location many times, but has never seen it so understaffed and overwhelmed.
"I'm more concerned than ever [that the border is] so seriously undermanned and I'll be raising hell in Washington," Gohmert, who invited FoxNews.com to see the situation first-hand, would later tell Border Patrol officials.
The Border Patrol agents loaded and unloaded their vehicles packed with the newly-arrived illegal immigrants — including women pregnant or nursing infants, and small, unaccompanied children — throughout the evening and early morning hours. At first, they were mostly teenagers, ages 14 to 17, arriving with their mother or brothers or no one at all. Then came the pregnant women. A mother nursing her infant. A small girl with wide eyes clutching a doll.
A total of 72 came in during the first dark hours of Saturday morning. A third were unaccompanied children.
The life jackets helped many make it across the Rio Grande from Reynosa, the Mexican city across the water from Mission, just west of McAllen. Sources say they come over on rafts ferried by the so-called "coyotes," the human smugglers whose means of transport are rendered useless whenever discovered by the Border Patrol. Many don't make it across the river; multiple sources became emotional when recounting their discoveries of small, lifeless bodies washed up along the riverbank.
Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants have flocked to the U.S. in recent months, believing the Dream Act, as well as a 2008 law that grants an asylum hearing to any child not from a border nation, and the White House policy known as "prosecutorial discretion" means once they arrive, they'll never have to go back.
The Obama administration has said many will be returned to their homelands, but thousands have been dispersed around the country, sent to military bases or one of the nearly 100 Health and Human Services shelters run by private contractors or faith-based organizations. From there, they are typically turned over to a parent or relative already in the U.S. or released to a sponsor organization and given a court date for their hearing.
Many of the illegal immigrants tell Border Patrol and Texas state authorities they learned from the media in their home countries that if they crossed the border to the U.S. right now, they'd be given papers and allowed to stay, border sources who interview the immigrants told FoxNews.com.
The number of illegal immigrants apprehended at the border in the past nine months is more than double last year's total. Most come from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, traveling up through Mexico to the border aboard an infamous train known as "The Beast." From there, coyotes help them traverse the hardscrabble Rio Grande valley, and the serpentine river that winds through it. In May 5,366 illegal immigrants were detained in the Rio Grande Valley Sector. Last month, that number skyrocketed to 30,380, according to a law enforcement document obtained by FoxNews.com.
FoxNews.com witnessed the seemingly endless parade of illegal immigrants as they turned themselves in to agents and climbed into the vans. One mother teared up when telling FoxNews.com of her family's perilous journey from Honduras. Some said the trip took as little as two days, others said they'd been traveling for months. In groups of 12 or more, they were then taken to the bus set up in a desolate area at the intersection of unlit dirt roads in Rincon Village along the river for initial processing under the full Texas summer moon.
"They just keep on coming," one Border Patrol source said.
The same source noted that last week's derailment of "The Beast" had temporarily stemmed the tide. Now that it's up and running again, U.S. authorities here at the border are racing for even higher numbers.
Agents normally accustomed to working in the field waited at the bus, donning blue latex gloves as they examined the incoming illegal immigrants. They asked questions, searched belongings for contraband and tried to determine if the immigrants need medical help.
Most of the illegal immigrants appeared to be in clean clothes and good health — the biggest complaint FoxNews.com heard was from a child who had lost a shoe in transit. All looked very happy to have finally arrived on U.S. soil.
But appearances are deceiving, one border source said.
"Many of them have scabies, lice and sometimes serious infectious diseases that have not manifested themselves yet," the source said.
From the staging area, the illegal immigrants were taken to the McAllen Border Patrol headquarters a short ride away. Though it is technically a processing center, the sheer size of the current influx has rendered it something more akin to a detention facility. By Saturday morning, it held 480 immigrants, about 100 more than their capacity. A few weeks ago, it held 1,200, Gohmert and Border Patrol sources told FoxNews.com.
A warehouse nearby with a 1,100 planned capacity was supposed to open its doors July 11, but a botched contract for air conditioners postponed the opening, according to a request for bids posted on the federal contracting website.
With the facility crammed beyond its capacity, the undocumented immigrants are being bused and flown to several other processing facilities along the 2,000-mile border, in El Paso and in California, where angry residents of Murrieta, a small city just north of San Diego, have turned away hundreds of illegal immigrants brought by the federal government for processing.
The veteran Border Patrol agents know that with their attention diverted to women and children, the border at times in locations such as along the Rincon Peninsula appeared virtually unprotected from dangerous drug and weapons traffickers with motives far less innocent than finding a better life. During the first 90 minutes FoxNews.com spent with Gohmert, no Border Patrol agent, Texas Department of Public Safety officer or any other member of law enforcement was visible.
We weren't the only ones watching for them: a lookout perched atop a tall structure resembling a water tower located near the road quickly jumped off and ran toward the river after spotting our car coming down the dirt path. Border sources noted illegal immigrants typically run to cars to surrender; only those involved with cartels or gangs are likely to flee.
The cartels or coyotes or other criminal organizations have networks of people — often juveniles — paid to stand watch from points of high elevation on both sides of the border.
Early Saturday, whistles and signal calls echoed in the night air from across the river and in our midst, the clandestine communication of coyotes and cartel members using the border crisis to profit. As we moved, on foot or by car, through the thick brush toward the river or down the rocky path, we heard them all around us, moving with us, at some points frighteningly nearby.
When a Border Patrol official finally approached our group, he told Gohmert there were only three Border Patrol agents assigned to this large swath of border. They know it is a busy route, but they were so busy with processing the steady flow of children and families that the area appeared largely unpatrolled.
A recent law enforcement bulletin put the crisis in the Rio Grande Valley sector in the flat language of bureaucrats.
"Total apprehensions in the RGV Sector are at historically elevated levels, and include greater numbers of other-than-Mexicans and unaccompanied alien children than any other sector along the U.S. –Mexico border," read the bulletin obtained by FoxNews.com. "Total apprehensions are now highest in the RGV Sector, which represents a noteworthy change from previous years."
On the ground, border agents explain the situation in more conversational terms.
"There's been a dramatic, serious uptick beginning in January," one border source told FoxNews.com. "We've never seen this before — unaccompanied alien children and big groups of families."
And in a twist, the cat-and-mouse game Border Patrol agents have played with illegal immigrants for decades has changed as their quarry no longer hides.
"We used to chase after them; now they are chasing us," one official said.Read More
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Serving his fifth term in the United States House of Representatives, Congressman Louie Gohmert was first sworn in January 4, 2005. He proudly represents the First District of Texas which encompasses over 12 counties stretching nearly 120 miles down the state's eastern border.
During these trying economic times, Rep. Gohmert is developing innovative solutions to jumpstart our economy and offering practical alternatives to the government's bailout frenzy. His "Federal Income Tax Holiday" gained widespread national support from the grassroots level to national leaders, allowing taxpayers to decide how best to spend their hard-earned money. Louie has repeatedly called for an end to the socialization of our economy and decried the notion that Washington Bureaucrats know better than American taxpayers.
Louie serves on numerous House committees and subcommittees. He was recently named Vice Chair of the Judiciary subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security due to his extensive knowledge stemming from years in the court room.
Prior to being elected to serve in Congress, Louie was elected to three terms as District Judge in Smith County, Texas. During his tenure on the bench, he gained national and international attention for some of his innovative rulings. He was later appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry to complete a term as Chief Justice of the 12th Court of Appeals.
Louie received his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University and later graduated from Baylor School of Law. He is also a veteran having served his country as Captain in the U.S. Army.
Today, he and his wife Kathy are the proud parents of three daughters. Their family attends Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler, where Louie has served as a deacon and still teaches Sunday school.
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Finally, with the help of a fellow reader of Keith Law's The Dish website, independent of ESPN, I found what I was looking for. The probablity that a run will score in two different situations. The first situation: Runner on third with no one out. The second situation: Bases loaded with no one out. THESE odds refer to a run being scored, as it says, and not the average amount of runs being scored in these particular situations. Because with a tie game in the bottom of the ninth, the one that Joe Maddon was facing in Game 3, only the first run that crosses the plate, matters.
The odds of scoring when the bases are loaded, and nobody out, is 85.6%. The odds of scoring with a runner on third, and nobody out, is 82.7%. So in walking the bases loaded, the odds increased that Maddon would lose the game if one took out the variables (pitcher, hitter, etc), but the margin is very slim and probably did not matter all that much. But again, it was still a 4% increase in the chance of a loss when the bases on balls were issued. Now, my argument was that a guy like Balfour was less likely to handle this situation because his mentality is somewhat Farnsworth-esque. Of course, that cannot be measured, like the probablity of scoring runs in these situations can. I would probably have played the odds and left the man at third as the only intentional baserunner at that point. But it is very close, so it probably didn't matter too much either way. But I thank this commentor, because I had been looking for this information before I posted my first blog on the scenario. Little did I know, I had the book anyway!
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well lets be accurate–it's a 3.1 % difference not 4 %. i'm going to go ahead and say that maddon probably knows his guys better than we do and if he thinks that balfour is the guy, then i'm going to agree.
what will be interesting to me is how the next game will resume. balfour is on the mound for now with hamels coming up- i'd think that madon will wait for the pinch hitter to be announced before deciding who he's going to go with. he's got a bunch of fresh arms including price–nice to have the choice of 2 great lefties…i have a feeling that the phils may have lost their chance to win this series.
I think starting with Price may be a good thing, but who knows. Obviously as soon as Price gets in there, then that may be the best thing for the Rays, in my opinion. I am sick of hearing all this stuff about the weather though, the media pounds this stuff into all of us once it takes place. Maybe they should have called the game sooner, whatever, but it isn't as though the Phillies have lost. They still get an extra half inning to win this thing.
Haha, it is actually 2.9%. I wasn't purposely trying to prove my point by rounding up. I was thinking it was 86.5%.
yeah–there you go–i'm bad at math…
nate silver just got his site mentioned in the times!
There is a video of him talking to someone on CBS about it too from a few weeks ago. He was interviewed. I watched a little of it, but don't have a link.
yeah i have seen him on several news shows- a friend of mine who works for MSNBC keeps me posted about his TV appearances. dan rather did a great piece with him at shea stadium in the last week of september–about half baseball, half politics.
hope you will be voting –florida is an important state!