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This is my first vanity post, so be nice! I just heard on FoxNews that the meat packing company "Tyson" will be closing Monday to allow their employees so march in the protest on May 1st, whihc is this coming Monday. Are they an American company? They seem to forget they it's "Americans that purchase their product and keep them in business.... I also left them an email on thier website stating my feelings on them supporting this protest march... Okay, I feel better now..... Thank you! Pleasse also go to the Tyson website and leave them an email as...

LOS ANGELES - Once again a pit bull attack made headlines when such a dog turned on a baby girl Monday. Los Angeles County 5th District Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich reacted quickly to the incident by submitting a motion Wednesday to enact a county ordinance that would limit the breeding of vicious dog types. The ordinance specifically targets pit bulls and Rottweilers. The proposed ordinance also mandates spaying or neutering of vicious animals, said Tony Bell, the supervisor's communications deputy. "We don't have all the language yet," Bell said, adding that the county Department of Animal Care and Control will...

Heading back to Mexico, while they still can Mexicans on the Texas Gulf Coast head for home ahead of Rita’s landfall The Associated Press Updated: 8:51 p.m. ET Sept. 22, 2005 MONTERREY, Mexico - Hundreds of Mexicans living on the Texas Gulf Coast were rushing home Thursday to avoid Hurricane Rita, while authorities in northern Mexico readied shelters and prepared for heavy rains. Nuevo Leon state tourism director Jorge Cantu said Monterrey hotels are lowering rates 20 to 30 percent for people fleeing the Texas Gulf Coast. In Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas, Mexican families coming from Houston, Galveston,...

Texas Becomes a Majority-Minority State By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press Writer Thu Aug 11, 7:50 AM ET Texas has become the fourth state to have a non-white majority population, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday, a trend driven by a surging number of Hispanics moving to the state. According to the population estimates based on the 2000 Census, about 50.2 percent of Texans are now minorities. In the 2000 Census, minorities made up about 47 percent of the population in the second-largest state. Texas joins California, New Mexico and Hawaii as states with majority-minority populations — with Hispanics the...

Okay, this is my first vanity post, so let's just have some fun with it.... Where are you going to move when you retire, and why, is what this post is all about, I'm retiring in less than a year, and my husband and I are moving to the Ozarks and build a house on a lake.

Police: 4-Year-Old Shoots 2-Year-Old Brother For Throwing Toy UPDATED: 8:35 am PST March 14, 2005 HOUSTON -- A 2-year-old remained in critical condition Sunday after being shot by his 4-year-old brother, who may not have known the difference between a real and toy gun, police said. A 4-year-old who may not have known the difference between a real and toy gun shot his 2-year-old brother over the weekend, police say. Police Sgt. Cameron Grysen said the boys had been arguing at their home in the 5600 block of Gatewood Ave. in southwest Houston at about 4:20 p.m. Saturday when the...

59 illegals arrested in Sydney raids By JIM DICKINS January 23, 2005 IMMIGRATION officials rounded up nearly 60 illegal immigrants after raids on building sites, restaurants and factories across Sydney last week. Thirty-nine were sent to the Villawood Detention Centre and another 20 ordered to leave Australia. Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone said all were found to be in Australia illegally during "compliance operations". Fifty were "unlawful non-citizens" and nine were found to be in breach of their visa conditions, she said. "The illegal workers were located across several industry types including construction, hospitality and manufacturing," Senator Vanstone said. "A total...

More than a dozen traumatized John Kerry supporters have sought and received therapy from a licensed Florida psychologist since their candidate lost to President Bush, the Boca Raton News learned Monday. Boca Raton trauma specialist Douglas Schooler said he has treated 15 clients and friends with “intense hypnotherapy” since the Democratic nominee conceded last Wednesday. “I had one friend tell me he’s never been so depressed and angry in his life,” Schooler said. “I observed patients threatening to leave the country or staring listlessly into space. They were emotionally paralyzed, shocked and devastated.”

This is a great slide show of the Spaceship one... Hope I did this right!

House OKs plan to allow military to patrol borders advertisement Sergio Bustos Gannett News Service May. 20, 2004 04:18 PM WASHINGTON - U.S. soldiers may be asked to keep undocumented immigrants and potential terrorists out of the country. The House approved a defense authorization bill Thursday that includes an amendment that would let American soldiers join U.S. Border Patrol agents in guarding the borders with Canada and Mexico. The amendment, championed by Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., passed the House late Wednesday 231-191. But the amendment stands little chance of surviving because it was not part of the Senate's defense authorization...

<p>The number of illegal aliens caught crossing into the United States increased dramatically just days after President Bush proposed a guest-worker program that would give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants now in this country, according to the union that represents the Border Patrol's 9,000 field agents. The National Border Patrol Council said apprehension totals increased threefold in the San Diego area alone, adding that the vast majority of aliens detained along the border told arresting agents that they had come to the United States seeking amnesty. Most of those arrested and, eventually, deported had no history of immigration violations, the council said. Law-enforcement authorities, immigration specialists and others — including the council — had predicted that the Bush proposal, outlined Jan. 7, would lead to increased illegal immigration by those seeking to take advantage of what many perceived to be an offer of limited amnesty. The White House painstakingly has denied that the president's guest-worker proposal offers amnesty, saying instead that illegal aliens who hold jobs in the United States would be given only temporary work permits, not placed on the path to citizenship, and that they eventually would have to go home. Outlined as a set of principles and not as specific legislation, the Bush proposal does not prescribe any penalties for those who entered the country illegally and would allow them to remain in the United States for renewable three-year periods. Meanwhile, the Border Patrol has canceled a survey of illegal aliens detained at the U.S.-Mexico border that had sought to establish whether "rumors of amnesty" after Mr. Bush proposed his guest-worker program influenced their decision to cross into the United States. Described as routine information gathering "critical to the better enforcement of immigration laws," the confidential survey — developed by Border Patrol officials in Washington — was scrubbed Jan. 27 after its public disclosure. Agency executives determined that the survey, which had begun two weeks earlier, had become compromised. "The questions are no longer being asked, but the Border Patrol will continue to gather and analyze operational intelligence as necessary," said Mario Villarreal, spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Border Patrol's parent agency. The Border Patrol survey has not been made public nor have any preliminary results, but agents said it contained 13 questions, including one specifically concerning the guest-worker proposal. The agents referred to the survey as the "amnesty questionnaire," although the Border Patrol denied that it was politically motivated or that it was intended to imply that Mr. Bush was calling for a general amnesty. The government has estimated that 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens, mostly Mexican nationals, are in the United States. Since the Bush proposal was announced, the administration has rolled out its top immigration officials and several senior Republican senators to endorse it, saying it would fix a broken immigration system, allow U.S. businesses to hire needed workers, bring illegal aliens into the mainstream economy and assure greater homeland security. Several leading Republicans have questioned the proposal and others have suggested that Mr. Bush needs to do a better job of explaining the proposal to a public overwhelmingly opposed to the legalization of millions of illegal aliens. Sen. Jon Kyl — Arizona Republican and chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism, technology and homeland security, and a member of the subcommittee on immigration, border security and citizenship — said the Bush plan was "subject to misinterpretation" and, as a result, "needed further clarification." Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican and a member of the House Judiciary subcommittee on immigration, border security and claims, said that the proposal, by definition, is an amnesty program and that past amnesty programs "have not reduced illegal immigration; rather, they have increased illegal immigration." "Amnesty rewards those who broke our laws, and thus encourages others to do the same," Mr. Smith said. "Our immigration policies should do the opposite — discourage lawbreakers by sending the message that illegal entry into the United States will not be rewarded." Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican and a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has asked Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to explain whether "rumors of amnesty" concerning the Bush proposal had played any role in attempts by illegal aliens to cross the border. Mr. Grassley told Mr. Ridge in a letter this week he is concerned that illegal aliens are risking their lives and putting their futures in the hands of corrupt alien smugglers in an attempt to gain entry to the United States to cash in on pending immigration reform that could offer them limited amnesty. He said the "notion of legalization has been erroneously conveyed around the country and even abroad," adding that the Border Patrol questionnaire "raises some questions as to the consequence of the president's reform initiative." In his letter, Mr. Grassley asked Mr. Ridge to determine who authorized the questionnaire, who tallied the responses, what the preliminary report suggested, how aliens were hearing about "amnesty proposals" and whether those "rumors" were influencing their decision to enter the United States. The National Border Patrol Council has told its members to challenge the guest-worker proposal, calling it a "slap in the face to anyone who has ever tried to enforce the immigration laws of the United States."</p>

UPDATED: 2:41 p.m. PDT July 29, 2003 LOS ANGELES -- A judge declared a hung jury Tuesday in the case against a former Inglewood police officer accused of assaulting a handcuffed teenager during a videotaped arrest, but jurors found his partner innocent of falsifying a police report. Jeremy Morse, 25, the former officer accused of assault, could have received as much as three years in prison if convicted. His partner, Bijan Darvish, 26, would have faced the same penalty. The announcement came on the fourth day of deliberations. The verdict was read Tuesday afternoon in court before Superior Court Judge...

I've been watching the O'Reilly Factor, and we keep hearing the same thing... Where is all the money that has been collected? United Way, Red Cross etc. It's not getting to the victims...... Who's collecting all the interest?