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ObuttHead And The Border Kids

(Using children as pawns for immigration reform is backfiring)

Via The Tennessean
As is his wont, President Obama is treating the border crisis — more than 50,000 unaccompanied children crossing illegally — as a public relations problem. Where to photo op and where not. He still hasn't enunciated a policy. He may not even have one.

Will these immigrants be allowed to stay? Seven times was Obama's homeland security secretary asked this on "Meet the Press." Seven times he danced around the question.

Presidential press secretary Josh Earnest was more forthcoming: "It's unlikely that most of those kids will qualify for humanitarian relief. ... They will be sent back." This was characterized in the media as a harder line. Not at all. Yes, those kids who go through the process probably will have no grounds to stay. But most will never go through the process.

These kids are being flown or bused to family members around the country and told to then show up for deportation hearings. Why show up? Why not just stay where they'll get superior schooling, superior health care, superior everything? As a result, only 3 percent are being repatriated, to cite an internal Border Patrol memo.

Repatriate them? How stone-hearted, you say. After what they've been through? To those dismal conditions back home?

By that standard, with a sea of endemic suffering on every continent, we should have no immigration laws. Deny entry to no needy person.

But we do. We must. We choose. And immediate deportation is exactly what happens to illegal immigrants, children or otherwise, from Mexico and Canada. By what moral logic should there be a Central American exception?

There is no logic. Just a quirk of the law — a 2008 law intended to deter sex trafficking. It mandates that Central American kids receive temporary relocation, extensive assistance and elaborate immigration/deportation proceedings, which many simply evade.

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Hamas Spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri's Freudian Slip:
"We're Leading Our People To Death"

(One hell'va freudian slip)

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Neb. Governor Blasts Feds For Keeping Mum On Illegal Aliens Placed In Nebraska

(Once the illegals are scattered it is easier for HHS to lose track of their whereabouts)

Via Watchdog
Gov. Dave Heineman blasted federal officials Friday for refusing to give him details about 200 undocumented children who have been placed in Nebraska as the feds grapple with a crush of Central American kids sneaking across the nation's southern border.

Nebraska Watchdog first reported on the children after U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns confirmed their placement on Thursday. U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials told Johanns on June 27 that the children were placed with families or sponsors in Nebraska after being caught or turning themselves into the U.S. Border Patrol.

The children are part of a wave of Central American children who have crossed the Mexico-America border and overwhelmed Texas facilities. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by law must find a place for the children while they await deportation hearings, and if they have family in the U.S., that's where they go.

About 52,000 unaccompanied children have been caught at the border since October, double the number from the prior year.

The governor said he had "no idea what was going on" until the past 24 to 48 hours, although he said, "We had some suspicion." He said it was outrageous that federal officials are declining to give him information about the kids' whereabouts.

"I'm just very, very concerned and I can't believe in America we have a government who is essentially secretly transporting (them) to Nebraska and we can't know who they are," he said. "The federal government should be very transparent about what's occurring."

Heineman — who got elected a decade ago in part based on his tough stance on illegal immigration — said he called federal Homeland Security and talked to a key Health and Human Services policy advisor in person about the issue Friday. He confirmed that about 200 kids have been placed in Nebraska and he expects more will come, but federal officials declined to tell him how the kids were transported, who they are or who they're staying with. He said the children will be treated humanely while they're here, but he's entitled to some information about them.

"They're not wiling to tell the governor of Nebraska or any mayor of our state where they've transported these individuals and that is not right, that is not fair," Heineman said on the Chris Baker Show on KFAB radio. The governor's office alerted the media that he would address the issue on the show in one interview, since he is in Nashville attending a National Governors Association meeting and unable to do multiple interviews.

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Dave Letterman walks out on Joan Rivers

Rivers walked out of a CNN interview but now it's Dave's turn to walk out on Joan Rivers.  Watch more here:

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Rockets Also Fired At Israel From Lebanon, Syria

(So rockets are coming from the Southwest in Gaza, as well as some from the North from Lebanon and some from the Northeast from Syria)

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"I," "Me," "My"— Obama Refers To Himself 199 Times In Speech
Vowing To Rule Unilaterally With Executive Actions

(Hmmm... it's like he's a raging narcissist)

Via CNS News:
Not counting instances when he quoted a letter from a citizen or cited dialogue from a movie, President Barack Obama used the first person singular–including the pronouns "I" and "me" and the adjective "my"–199 times in a speech he delivered Thursday vowing to use unilateral executive action to achieve his policy goals that Congress would not enact through the normal, constitutional legislative process.

"It is lonely, me just doing stuff," Obama said at the speech in Austin, Texas, according to the official transcript and video posted on the White House website.

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The White House presented Obama's speech, which the president delivered at Austin's Paramount Theatre, as "Remarks by the President on the Economy." The remarks, the White House reports, ran 40 minutes, and the full transcript (including annotations for "laughter" and "applause") is more than 5,500 words.

By contrast, President Abraham Lincoln's Gettyburg Address was only 272 words–and did not include any form of the first person singular.

In President Obama's speech, he used a first person singular, on average, every 12 seconds. At that rate, had Obama spoken for just 15 more minutes, he would have used the first person singular more than 272 times in one speech—exceeding all the words in the Gettysburg Address.

In one 68-word passage–in which he vowed to act unilaterally if Congress did not enact legislation he liked–Obama used the first person singular five more times than the zero times Lincoln used it in his 272 words at Gettysburg.

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Obama's Ongoing Shameful Behavior Against Israel

(Obuma has his own crisis to deal with.  Which fundraiser to attend after vacation)

Via JPost
We are now reconciled to the fact that in any conflict – even when we are exercising our right of self-defense – we will either be condemned or, at best, accused of acting disproportionately. However, the latest round of hypocrisy by Western leaders, including US President Barack Obama, beats all records.

Despite anger and condemnation from many of his constituents, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has, until last week, effectively been acting as a supplicant by virtually pleading for a cease-fire, assuring Hamas that Israel would abide by a new truce.

Responding to their missiles with "restraint" and reacting on a tit-for-tat basis, bombing empty sites, Israel dispensed with any pretense of implementing genuine deterrence.

As critics predicted, Hamas interpreted this as a signal of Israeli weakness, which emboldened the organization to intensify and extend missile attacks to all major cities, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, sending the majority of the population to the shelters.

Hundreds of missiles rained down throughout the country, but Iron Dome has successfully intercepted most of the rockets, thus avoiding massive civilian casualties and major dislocation on the home front.

Iron Dome has proven to be another example of Israeli ingenuity in the face of crisis, but no system is foolproof, and we must gird ourselves for possible casualties in the future.

The efforts undertaken by the Israel Defense Forces to minimize civilian casualties are unparalleled in the annals of warfare.

Telephone calls are made in advance of targeting buildings to minimize civilian casualties, despite the fact that this also allows Hamas to vacate the premises.

It should be noted that the US has never felt obliged to provide advance notice to the families of terrorists to vacate buildings when its drones were employed to carry out targeted assassinations.

Nevertheless, in a conflict of this nature, irrespective of all precautions, loss of innocent civilian lives is inevitable – especially in a terrain in which rocket launchers and command centers are deliberately located in heavily populated civilian enclaves, including hospitals and kindergartens. Furthermore, Hamas cynically employs civilians, including women and children, as human shields, and it is Hamas who must be held accountable for the inevitably increasing number of civilian casualties.

We are grateful to the American people and the successive administrations, including the current administration, for the generous aid toward our defense requirements. Although we appreciate that the US administration expressed support for our right to exercise self-defense, we consider it intolerable and hypocritical for Obama and his spokesmen to blur the distinction between the terrorist aggressors and us, their purported allies who are acting in self-defense.

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      Or deciding where his next round of golf will be played. If I remember correctly, Warph, you posted about how many rounds of golf he has played compared to the last several presidents combined.  He is truly worthless as a leader, but will do well selling cars after his term is over. I can't wait to see what he does actually sell, after all the BULL he has sold the clueless for so long.

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