When is a TX Corridor a China Connection?

Answer: When uninspected vehicles with unknown contents are transported by truck, rail or superhighway through the US from Mexico and Canada without official government sanction or scrutiny.

The oft denied "superhighway" that will connect China's "super-ports" (being constructed in Mexican waters) to run literally un-monitored from Mexico through the US to Canada is a reality.

Texas may be the first "leg" of the highway, but other portions of the Mexico to Canada freeway (literally) are not far behind .... Including the presence of un-regulated Mexican trucks and drivers -- with access to any and all US highways including direct rail connections across Mexican and Canadian borders.

Meanwhile, international companies continue to purchase US highways and accesses.

Here's a prime source of information: eagleforum and here's a map of the proposed North American Union superhighway connections

I don't endorse all policies and beliefs espoused by the EagleForum staff, but they are on-target with their concerns about the push toward a North American Union and the loss of American identity -- not to mention our security and welfare.

Visit the links at EagleForum, especially these: The SuperHighway and The China Connection -- follow those with the KC-China connection and be very afraid. Very afraid.

While this clandestine push toward integrating the US with Mexico and Canada is being funded primarily by corporate and international dollars -- our government (at the state and federal levels) are feigning ignorance while allowing agencies to approve construction projects and the buying and selling of America's infrastructure .... state by state and mile by mile -- by land and sea.

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Why Would Thompson Lie?

Beats me.

Why would a popular non-declared contender for the Presidency lie about his affiliation with an abortion-support group?

Beats me.

Flip-flopping (as it's called when done by others) is a constant source of contention among opponents.

But lying?

Not a good sign, Mr. Thompson.

Unless of course, you want to offer your own version of what "is" as opposed to what "was" and how it's not really a lie when you categorically deny what you did 16 years ago, qualifying it as totally unrelated to what now "is" -- especially when you subtract 16 from the number of times you haven't lied and then multiply that product by the number of times you have supposedly supported anti-abortion legislation, while factoring to the 3rd power the number of things you were paid to do as a lobbyist-lawyer as opposed to things you actually believe. Unlike what you might do as President, of course.

Makes sense to me. Uh huh.

Read the article: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-thompson7jul07,0,54260.story?coll=la-home-center

Nero was a Lyre. And so was history.

Today, the 18th of July, is believed to be the anniversary of the fire that burned Rome in 64 AD, while the emperor Nero supposedly played his fiddle. In fact, he wasn't in Rome. He was away at his holiday villa on the coast, and when he heard about the fire, he rushed back to the capital and took charge of the operations.

The rumors about his playing his fiddle probably came from people in the Roman military who did not approve of Nero's artistic leanings. He'd come to power at the age of 16. He was the youngest ruler in the history of Rome. He was more interested in music and poetry than in battling the barbarians. And he didn't play the fiddle; he did play the lyre. But his real passion was singing. He was also known to be a transvestite, which did not endear him to the soldiers.

One of the rumors being spread at the time was that Nero had himself started the fire because he was disgusted by the architecture in Rome and wanted to rebuild the city. And to bolster his own image against these rumors, Nero decided that the fire needed to be blamed on someone else, and he picked out the Christians who were generally loathed by Romans.

The religion of Christianity was only a few decades old when Nero singled it out. Nero rounded up Christians; they were covered in the skins of wild animals, torn to death by dogs, crucified, or they were burned at the stake.

Most Romans at the time despised Christians, but Nero's program of persecution went further than the people wanted. It had the unintended effect of making people sympathize with Christians. And a little more than 200 years later, the emperor of the Roman Empire himself converted to Christianity, and it became the dominant religion of Europe.

-- from G. Keillor
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Celebrating July 4

Happy birthday, our beloved America.

An "Over-the-Hill" Coalition Tribute -- July 4, 2007

Immigration Bill is a Fraud

Of course, with the current democrat leadership in charge of the re-writes, you already knew this.

I wouldn't presume to speak for the millions of Americans who oppose this bill, but it's because I'm an immigrant myself that I object to the most patent absurdity peddled by the pro-amnesty crowd. The bill is fundamentally a fraud. Its ''comprehensive solution'' to illegal immigration is simply to flip all the illegals overnight into the legal category. Voila! Problem solved! There can be no more illegal immigrants because the Senate has simply abolished the category. Ingenious! For their next bipartisan trick, Congress will reduce the murder rate by recategorizing murderers as jaywalkers.

Read the rest of Mark Steyn at this link.

Hat tip to Gull.

Paying for Grades Can Be Costly

Paying students for good grades can be costly in terms of funding and learning. Will motivating students to achieve a grade ensure learning? Better study the research, Mayor.

Mayor Bloomberg defended a controversial proposal to pay kids for high test
scores yesterday, but said there are no specific plans to make it happen."As one
of the new approaches to try to tackle the intractable problem of poverty, we
have said that we would raise ... $50 million privately to encourage people,
using economic incentives," Bloomberg said. Money for test scores is "one of the
possibilities."The Daily News reported exclusively yesterday on a plan to pay
fourth-graders as much as $25 and seventh-graders as much as $50 for high scores
on so-called interim assessments, which, beginning in September, will be
administered in all city schools. The tests will help teachers determine what
kids know and what they still need to learn.The mayor's Opportunity NYC plan
also would give poor families cash rewards for actions like taking their kids to
doctors' appointments and attending job training.

I'm not convinced that paying students to achieve higher scores will work in the long run ....

Not every child is capable of earning an "A." Someone has to fall below the norm to establish a standardized scale .... How the heck do you think scores are averaged???? Will the Mayor offer a sliding monetary reward scale based on actual scores? And at which percentile rank will scores be rewarded?

Talk about depression and loss of esteem. Try to convince the child who scores below the mean or below the average that he's "worth" something. Go ahead. Try. You'll pay much more in rehabilitating him.

Murtha: Clean Up on 5th Floor!

Oh, my. Jack's got himself boxed in on a 5th floor boondoggle -- for sure!



Jack Murtha: the Dems' poster boy for ethics!