Some Sunday Ramblings – Feb. 19, 2012

Posted on February 19, 2012 by TexasFred

Some Sunday Ramblings – Feb. 19, 2012

Immigrants trickling back to Ala despite crackdown

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Ana Jimenez and her husband were so terrified of being sent back to their native Mexico when Alabama’s tough crackdown on illegal immigrants took effect that they fled more than 2,000 miles to Los Angeles, cramming into a two-bedroom apartment with more than 20 other relatives. SOURCE

Have you ever had roaches get into your house? It’s the same thing; these roaches will keep on coming back. What America needs is a POTUS that knows how to call in The Orkin Man!

20 people killed in Iraqi police academy blast

BAGHDAD (AP) – A suicide bomber detonated his car Sunday as a group of police recruits left their academy in Baghdad, killing 20 in the latest strike on security officials that angry residents blamed on political feuding that is roiling Iraq. SOURCE

Someone remind me once more how we did so much good in Iraq? How we won those *hearts and minds* and how the deaths of nearly 5,000 American troops and the expenditure of untold BILLIONS of OUR dollars was such a good thing.

This time, try to convince me.

Intensity question for Romney stirs doubt for fall

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – If Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination for president, he’ll face the urgent task of inspiring the party’s conservative core and rallying them to beat President Barack Obama. SOURCE

Romney will not inspire Conservatives. IF Romney is the nominee Conservatives will have no choice but to hold their noses and vote for Romney. Then we’ll have to look at ourselves in the mirror and HOPE we did the right thing for America.

GOP sees chance to attack Obama on rising gas prices

WASHINGTON — Rising gasoline prices, trumpeted in foot-tall numbers on street corners across the country, are causing concern among advisers to President Obama that a budding sense of economic optimism could be undermined just as he heads into the general election. SOURCE

If GAS prices are all the GOP can find to attack Obama with, the GOP needs to be totally revamped, or done away with and replaced with a REAL Conservative party. Actually, that’s not a bad idea regardless.

Justices Sit on Highest Court, but Still Live Without Top Security

When Justice Stephen G. Breyer was robbed in his Caribbean vacation home 10 days ago, the crime was unremarkable except for one fact: a machete-wielding intruder was able to walk right into the residence of one of the highest members of the United States government. SOURCE

If Breyer were not such a hard core, anti-gun libber, this might be a teaching moment. It might teach Breyer why so many Americans carry a gun for protection. Since no one was killed in this incident, a libber will look at it and see NO REASON to have a gun.

Have I ever mentioned that I believe libbers to be MORONS?

Continue reading →

Posted in News and Opinion | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Hill County town fears police influence is out of control

Posted on February 18, 2012 by TexasFred

Hill County town fears police influence is out of control

COVINGTON – Unless you turn at the blinking light at State Highway 171 and FM 67, you might not notice Covington, Texas, which is the way most in this tiny town want it.

Now, out of fear and frustration, they want the public to know.

“They are scared to death now,” said Covington City Council member Marty Smith. “They lock their doors, they lock the car doors because they are scared of the police.”

Smith said she also fears the man running the Hill County town, Police Chief Wade Laurence.

“Wade Laurence asked me what it was going to take to shut me up, and them to arrest me and handcuff me at a council meeting,” Smith said. “I’m 69 years old and I don’t need the hassle of it.”

Full Story Here:
Hill County town fears police influence is out of control

Covington is one of those quaint little places that Texas has many of. It’s a small town of, at last count, 283 citizens. That’s a small town.

Covington is, according to some of it’s citizens, and members of the City Council, a town in trouble, one that is chafing under the thumb of what appears to a dictatorial, power hungry megalomaniac. Where have I heard THAT before? :?

Continue reading →

Posted in America 1st | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 15 Comments

Teacher wants job back after telling student: ‘Go back to Mexico’

Posted on February 17, 2012 by TexasFred

Teacher wants job back after telling student: ‘Go back to Mexico’

A Texas teacher is fighting to keep her job after she admitted to losing her temper and telling a Hispanic student to “go back to Mexico.”

Shirley Bunn, a math teacher at a middle school in Arlington, has been on paid leave since the Sept. 30 incident at Barnett Junior High School, according to a report on myFOXdfw.com.

She was handing out forms to her eighth-grade students when one of them repeatedly asked her for a form in Spanish, by saying, “I’m Mexican. I’m Mexican.”

According to documents made public in the case, the Fox station reported that Bunn told the student he could get the form in the office but he continued to argue by repeating, “I’m Mexican.”

She then blurted out, “Go back to Mexico,” the website reported.

“It was almost instantaneous. I thought, ‘God, I don’t believe that came out of my mouth,’” she told The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “It was a very, very hard week, the end of six weeks. It was late in the day. It was a Friday. We were on the third day of the first curriculum assessment and I knew it wasn’t going well. It was just an extremely bad day.”

Larry Shaw, a representative from the United Educators Association, told the Fox affiliate that the district should reinstate Bunn.

“This is a wonderful excellent teacher who simply made a mistake, and the administration jumped to the worst-case scenario of termination when they didn’t have to,” he said.

Independent Hearing Examiner Jess Rickman III, in a 23-page opinion issued late Wednesday, said the district failed to provide sufficient grounds to terminate Bunn, according to the Star-Telegram’s report.

Whether she’s allowed to return will be up to the School Board, the newspaper reported.

District spokeswoman Amy Casas told the Star-Telegram that the case would be presented to the School Board “at an upcoming meeting.”

Bunn, 63, told the newspaper that she was “thrilled and relieved” by the examiner’s opinion.

Full Story Here:
Teacher wants job back after telling student: ‘Go back to Mexico’

OK, anyone that’s ever read here already knows, I don’t have a thing against a person that has come to America from another nation and seeks to become an American.

We ALL have ancestors that came here from somewhere else. America is a melting pot for people of all creeds and colors, that is what makes America great, the fact that so many have come here and become Americans!

I myself am the grandson of an immigrant. My paternal grandfather came to Texas from New Brunswick Canada back in the early 1920′s, but he came to be an AMERICAN!

If this kid wants to proclaim his Mexican birthright and heritage, I fully agree with the teacher, he needs to go back to Mexico, and STAY there.

Mexico makes no allowances for students not FROM Mexico, you speak THEIR language or you learn. Political correctness, and allowing some little troublemaker like this kid to be the reason a good teacher is NOT teaching, well, it’s just not right.

Posted in Political Correctness | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

Mexico President Felipe Calderon: ‘No more weapons!’

Posted on February 17, 2012 by TexasFred

Mexico President Felipe Calderon: ‘No more weapons!’

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — President Felipe Calderon on Thursday unveiled a “No More Weapons!” billboard made with crushed firearms and placed near the U.S. border. He urged the United States to stop the flow of weapons into Mexico.

The billboard, which is in English and weighs 3 tons, was placed near an international bridge in Ciudad Juarez and can be seen from the United States.

‘Mexico needs your help’
Calderon said the billboard’s letters were made with weapons seized by local, state and federal authorities.

“Dear friends of the United States, Mexico needs your help to stop this terrible violence that we’re suffering,” Calderon said in English during the unveiling ceremony.

“The best way to do this is to stop the flow of automatic weapons into Mexico,” he added.

Full Story Here:
Mexico leader’s message to US: ‘No more weapons!’

For the longest time I blasted Felipe Calderon over his claims that American guns were flooding his nation. I refused to believe that American guns, gun dealers and gun shows were, at least in part, responsible for many of the weapons that had fallen into the hands of cartels.

I called Calderon an ineffectual leader, I called him a LIAR. I thought he was simply a man looking to assign blame and not accept responsibility for the ills of his nation. I thought him to be an America hating Mexican.

I simply could not believe that Mexican cartel members would, or could, obtain automatic weapons, and other weapons, on the U.S. market. I believed that our BATF had a better grasp of the situation and would not allow such to happen.

I advocated that gun shows and gun dealers in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona wouldn’t jeopardize their freedom and their Class III Federal Firearms Licences to make those sales.

I adamantly insisted that drug dealers would obtain their weapons from former European bloc dealers and Black Market dealers, at a much lower price than that of U.S. dealers.

Then we heard of Operation Gun Walker and Operation Fast and Furious, and we heard of the murders of DEA Agent Jaime Zapata and Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry.

Continue reading →

Posted in America 1st | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 18 Comments