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The Nancy Pelosi proposed auto industry bailout must be stopped. It's time for tough love. Sometimes you have say no. I think the financial bailout package was wrong and should not have been passed. I think it would be better to take a hard hit and get it over with rather than drawing it out and unfairly bailing out this or that business and not others. I think the people who had their hands all over the roots of the financial crisis such as Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and Nancy Pelosi and a host of others should be held accountable. Read more about how and why they contributed to this crisis here: What Caused the Current Financial Crisis (Part...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on November 13, 2008
The above video clip is dated October 21, 2008 from CNBC... listen closely to what he says... here's the direct link if the video does not correctly show above: Barney Frank Video. Warning Shot... Barney Frank Says Ignore Deficit and Tax, Tax, Tax. He'll be one of Obama's right-hand men too. This is scary and foreboding of things to come. Taken together with Obama's "share the wealth" comment, it should be taken as a warning shot over the bow of free enterprise. How stupid is Barney Frank? Off the scale. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the stupidest, he's a 49 or 50 on a good day, on a bad day he approaches infinity. History...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on October 21, 2008
Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd Here's an excerpt from a really through article by Clayton Makepeace that goes much more in depth than my previous article on What Caused the Current Financial Crisis. Clayton explains why this crisis so terrifying, and why we need to do everything we possibly can to stop Barack Obama from being the next President of the United States of America. Barack Obama Joe Biden Please read Clayton's article. It's long, but a very eye-opening piece of information. By the way, Clayton is NOT a Republican or a Democrat. Link to Clayton's post: A Conspiracy of Imbeciles. Excerpt from Clayton's article: The simple truth is, this crisis was engineered and implemented almost...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on September 29, 2008
This whole financial crisis really chafes my biscuit. So what caused the problem? What exactly IS the problem anyway? What roles did Obama, McCain, and Hillary play in creating the mess find ourselves in today? Keep reading to find out... The very, very short answer to what caused this problem is GREED. There are a lot of highly educated, supposedly intelligent people who have done nothing but line their own pockets while putting the economy of the United States in the toilet. Several come to mind, like Bill Clinton's friend, the disgraced chief of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines, who I read lined his pockets with more than $100 million while heading Fannie Mae. The Clinton administration wanted to make...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on September 24, 2008
Ok, so the title of this article is not a direct quote from Joe Biden. However, Slow Joe spoke in Charlotte, NC on Sunday, 9-14-2008. He did say that electing a black person to the White House would be a transformative event in American politics and internationally. Biden put particular emphases on what it would mean to elect someone who is black. Black or White should not matter and should not be a reason for voting for someone, much less a platform to run on. What does it say about a candidate when the campaign message is "Vote for Me Because I'm Black"? Is that all they have left? There's also a big hole in that plea. Obama is...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on September 17, 2008
I see a lot of black people driving cars with Obama bumper stickers. Don't get me wrong, I see non-black people with them too. However, I see a lot of black people with Obama bumper stickers; more than I think had presidential candidate bumper stickers in the last few elections. I realize that is a very unscientific calculation, but it's my gut feeling. It makes me wonder how many people plan on voting for Obama and are supporting Obama for the sole reason that he's black. Wait a minute... there's a problem with that... he's only half-black. Ok. I guess that's close enough, especially since he does not seem to like his white half very much. I'm very concerned...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on September 3, 2008
Is this the man you want leading our nation? I don't think so... Spread the word... we need everyone ready to vote against Barack Hussein Obama in November. Recoil...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on August 25, 2008
As I promised in my last post regarding the Biased Reporting of the Burlington, NC Times-News newspaper, I'm posting the letter written by Keith Whited. Keith is running for District Court Judge here in Alamance County, NC. Times-News reporter Keren Rivas, who is evidently on a pro Hispanic, pro Illegal Immigrant rampage supported by the newspaper, pulled part of one sentence from Keith's letter and used it to write a front-page article against him. Not surprisingly, a lot of Rivas' rants end up on the front page. A little background: Keith Whited is also the Chairman of the Alamance County Board of Health. The Alamance County Board of Health recently requested the SBI investigate Medical Director Dr. Kathleen Shapley-Quinn and...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on August 21, 2008
My local paper, The Burlington, NC Times-News has become a pro-Hispanic, pro-illegal-immigrant paper. It seems that every day now they have an article or two, sometimes more on the subject. Usually either written by or contributed to by Keren Rivas. I assume that she's a new reporter with the paper but I really don't know. However, there are a few other reporters that take the same pro-illegal-immigrant view point as she does. Most of these articles are front page articles as well. Last week, the N.C. State Highway Patrol stopped a Mexican bus that was leaning to one side as it traveled Interstate 85. There were several people on the bus who were in the country illegally. The bus driver...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on August 18, 2008
Barack Hussein Obama is like a one-size-fits-all garment: he changes and stretches to get the vote. Or better yet, he's like a chameleon, constantly changing colors, view points, opinions, and history, to try and get votes. Take his stance on federal funding for his campaign. He originally promised to use federal funding, but later backtracked. Federal funding is part of the reform of campaign spending that, if I recall correctly, Obama wanted. In case you don't realize it, by agreeing to use federal funds, you are limited to how much you can spend on your campaign. Once Obama saw that his money raising potential far, far exceeded the federal funding limits, he quickly made up some excuses as to...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on August 14, 2008
OIL? AH, LET RUSSIA HAVE IT Tell Congress Drill For Oil Now! Alert: State Department gives away 125,000 square miles of Alaskan ocean floor Even if Congress follows President Bush's lead in opening off-shore oil exploration, there exist over 125,000 square miles of sea bottom that won't be explored, because the State Department amid controversy and against the will of Alaskans has surrendered the land to Russia. Eight islands and their surrounding sea floors were ceded to the former Soviet Union as part of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Maritime Boundary Treaty in 1991, a treaty signed by the U.S. Senate and President George Bush but never ratified by the Soviets. Nonetheless, an executive agreement enforcing the terms of the treaty until ratification...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on July 31, 2008
I don't see eye to eye with John McCain on everything: I disagree with his stance on illegal immigration: I think he should be tougher. I agree with his commitment to securing our borders: if he can get it done. However, I give him a big, Double Barreled Salute for having the guts to put this statement on his web site: "The family represents the foundation of Western Civilization and civil society and John McCain believes the institution of marriage is a union between one man and one woman. It is only this definition that sufficiently recognizes the vital and unique role played by mothers and fathers in the raising of children, and the role of the family in...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on July 14, 2008
It's taken me a little while to get around to writing about this. Barack Hussein Obama and his wife Michelle allowed the press to interview their daughters on his daughter Malia's 10th birthday. Barack's True Colors... Now that it's over, Obama says they'll probably not let it happen again. They said it was an exception, that they got carried away. Well DUH! But wake up Barack Hussein Obama - it's too late - your true colors are showing. Clueless... What kind of a presidential candidate would let the press interview his 10 and 7 year old daughters? Someone who is clueless. Someone who is more interested in HIS objectives than shielding and protecting his daughters. It reeks of nothing...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on July 12, 2008
Here's a big Double Barreled Salute to Senator Jesse Helms, who passed away this July 4th. What a fitting exit date for Jesse Helms: Independence Day! Thomas Jefferson and John Adams also died on Independence Day. Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. was a 5 term United States Senator from North Carolina. A Republican. He served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I particularly like this quote from Jesse from a 1959 editorial: "Comprise, hell! If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?" Jesse stood fast and true to his beliefs and allowed you...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on July 5, 2008
Tell Congress to Drill For American Oil NOW! Alert: Do record $139-per-barrel prices make you want to scream? Oil prices jumped nearly 9 percent to a record $139 a barrel yesterday. Are you ready to scream yet? Look at the energy chaos that our government has allowed. While we remain at the mercy of oil companies, cartels and OPEC, our government has tied the hands of states and citizens to tap even temporary energy relief from our own land. Here are a few key vistas on the oil and energy landscape at the moment: Though we have more oil in the shale of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming than combined in the Middle East (800 billion barrels), liberals and environmentalists have...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on June 16, 2008
Barack Hussein Obama is on the campaign trail now that he's the Democratic Party presidential nominee. He's preaching among other things: raising taxes on upper income Americans. Read My Lips Barack Hussein Obama: No More Taxes. He's supposed to be a smart person, but it doesn't take a genius to understand that raising taxes is like putting water on a fire... it puts it out the economy. I compare it to a redneck in the grocery store with a crying toddler threatening the toddler with a spanking if they don't stop crying. "I'm gonna beat you if you don't stop crying"... WAAAAAAA. It just does not get the desired effect. When will they wise up? Want to get the...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on June 9, 2008
Tell Congress No More "Sanctuary City" Protection For Illegal Gangs. Alert: They are called by one source "the most dangerous gang in America." And it's one U.S. import Toronto definitely wants to stop at the border. They're known officially as "Mara Salvatrucha 13," but most people refer to them by a much simpler name: MS-13. But no matter what you call them, law enforcement officials - including the FBI - pronounce them a real danger to any community where they set up shop. On Wednesday, Toronto Police conducted a series of early morning raids aimed primarily at stopping the group before they get any traction in the GTA. We may not know for a while how successful those efforts were,...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on June 8, 2008
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on June 8, 2008
Tell Congress to pass legislation that will secure our borders. Alert: McALLEN, Texas - A federal bid request to build three hotly contested pieces of the border fence in Cameron County has turned up the pressure on local officials and landowners still holding out. Brownsville and its county have been the nerve center for some of the most outspoken opposition along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. The local university has railed against the fence, which would divide its campus, and landowners have fought it for months in federal court. U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado caused a kerfuffle at a congressional field hearing in late April when he suggested the fence be built north of Brownsville. Yet the government has not...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on June 6, 2008
Clinton Supporter Thrown Out of Democratic Rules Committee Meeting... I'm giving a big Double Barreled Salute to Harriet Christian... Recoil...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on June 2, 2008
Tell Congress that America needs secured borders. Alert: The man honored by the shrine to Jesus Malverde in Culiacan, so often packed with locals, is no ordinary Mexican saint — Malverde was a Sinaloan bandit who has been adopted as a kind of a patron saint by the northern province's drug traffickers. Sinaloa is the cradle of Mexico's narco-trafficking industry, producing the majority of the nation's drug kingpins in recent decades. Their number includes such storied figures as Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who ran the Guadalajara Cartel and ordered the savage killing of a DEA agent; Amado Carrillo Fuentes, alias "The Lord of the Skies," who died in plastic surgery while attempting to change his appearance; and the Arellano Felix...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on June 2, 2008
Tell Congress to Vote No Against New Amnesty Measures. Alert: Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate have stripped 100 pages of controversial immigration provisions added as amendments to the supplemental Iraq war funding bill after a flood of e-mails and phone calls organized by amnesty opponents. "The American people have been clear that they want us to restore the rule of law to our immigration system before legalization programs are considered, but I guess this Congress didn't get the message," Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said yesterday. "I am pleased Democratic leaders realized there would be significant opposition to these controversial provisions," Sessions continued. "Stripping it was the right thing to do." Among the provisions removed from the war funding bill...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on May 29, 2008
I received the following information in an email today... Some of you will recognize the name of Bill Brown. He is a highly respected retired member of the Billy Graham team. I take his accessment of Obama very seriously and for that reason accept his challenge to pass this on. I share his concern about the "rock star" image Obama has and watch with growing concern at the celebrity status the media has foisted upon him. I hope this email informs you in a wise way. We are witnessing a political phenomenon of rare magnitude with Barack Obama. His speeches have inspired millions, and yet most of his followers have no idea of what he stands for except platitudes of...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on May 29, 2008
Tell Congress to Stop Amnesty Before it is to late...Support the AVE Act (H.R. 4088). Alert: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is using strong-arm tactics against anti-illegal-immigration Democrats in an effort to kill the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088) for the year. North Carolina Democrat Heath Shuler's SAVE Act is an incredible threat to the unscrupulous businesses of America who insist on illegal labor to hold down their labor costs. Most business owners are not like that, but the outlaw businesses have the ear of Speaker Pelosi. Among many detailed border security provisions stressing more agents and better technology at minimal operating costs, the SAVE Act would: 1. increase border patrol agents by 8,000, utilize new technology and fencing to secure...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on May 22, 2008
Tell Congress to Stop the Amnesty Bill Before it is to late! Alert: At yesterday's markup of the Iraq supplemental appropriations bill, the Senate Appropriations Committee committed an outrageous act of disrespect for our men and women in uniform and to the citizens of this country by adopting an amendment by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that gives amnesty to illegal-alien agricultural workers. The amendment indicates a maximum of 1.35 million illegal alien ag workers could obtain "emergency agricultural worker status" for a five-year period. Since their families also can obtain this status, it is estimated that the total number receiving an amnesty would reach 3 million. The committee also adopted other immigration-related amendments, including one that drastically expands the H-2B...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on May 19, 2008
Tell Congress We Need a Fence! Alert: Three Mexican police chiefs have requested political asylum in the U.S. as violence escalates in the Mexican drug wars and spills across the U.S. border, a top Homeland Security official told The Associated Press. In the past few months, the police officials have shown up at the U.S. border, fearing for their lives, according to Jayson Ahern, the deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. Ahern said the Mexican officials – whom he didn't name – are being interviewed and their cases are under review for possible asylum. In the most recent high-level assassination, a top-ranking official on a local Mexican police force was shot more than 50 times and killed. Drug-related violence...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on May 19, 2008
Tell Congress to Urge President Bush to pardon agents Ramos-Compean. Alert: A Christian pastor says he has filed an ethics complaint with the Texas Bar Association seeking an investigation into U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton's "willfully misleading" statements in the case against former U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. Don Swarthout, president of Christians Reviving America's Values, today confirmed his ethics complaint cites Sutton's actions in the case in which Ramos and Compean were convicted of shooting at a drug smuggler who had dropped a load of marijuana near the Texas border and was fleeing back into Mexico. An announcement from his organization confirmed, "Swarthout charges Sutton's office willfully misled the jury in order to convicted Border Patrol...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on May 19, 2008
Tell Congress to Pass the National Language Act! ALERT: Our friends at Right March report last month, Sen. James Ihofe (R-OK) introduced legislation that declares English to be the official language of the United States government. This legislation, the "National Language Act of 2008," codifies the principle that no one is entitled to receive federal documents or federal services in languages other than English. The bill specifically states that no person has a right, entitlement or claim to have the Government of the United States or any of its officials or representatives act, communicate, perform or provide services or materials in any language other than English. Now, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) has introduced companion legislation in the U.S. House. We...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on May 8, 2008
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on May 7, 2008
Tell Congress to Oppose the Expansion of NAFTA that would include the North American Union and the NAFTA Superhighway. Alert: Mexican President Felipe Calderon says changes in the North American Free Trade Agreement would "provoke considerable damage on the economy" and would condemn North America "as a region to compete from a position of backwardness in today's world." His concern was raised at the two-day North American Leaders Summit meeting here at least partly because of the pressure President George Bush has been receiving on his economic policies, which have included pursuit of a number of additional free trade agreements such as a proposal to establish such trade routes with Colombia. Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harder responded in...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on May 2, 2008
Tell Congress 97 percent oppose North American Community without congressional approval. Alert: A new poll by the American Policy Center has revealed that the lack of widespread opposition to the agenda of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, announced in 2005 by President Bush and his counterparts from Mexico and Canada, is because more than half of the American residents polled hadn't heard of it. But when they did, their voices were clear, with overwhelming majorities opposing the concept, plans and ideas. The poll was done by the APC, a grassroots activist group in Washington that asked a series of questions about the SPP, the Trans Texas Corridor transportation project and other issues. "While President Bush and his counterparts in Mexico...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on April 29, 2008
Tell Congress to Stop the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership. Alert: As the fourth annual summit of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America begins in New Orleans, the White House is engaged in a public relations campaign to reposition the meeting away from the controversial issue of continental integration. The "North American Leaders Summit,:" as it is called, appears designed to create photo opportunities showing President Bush with Mexico's President Felipe Caldron and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper rather than emphasize the trilateral cooperation that was the centerpiece of previous SPP summit meetings. As reported, the SPP has engendered an increasing number of critics who see the intercontinental group as a North American Free Trade Agreement-plus arrangement...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on April 23, 2008
Tell Congress NO drivers licenses for illegals. Alert: Darryl Hopkins was asleep in a recliner in the living room of his Fisher Road home early this week when he was startled awake by a crash. At first he thought the handgun he sleeps with had fallen to the floor. Then he realized the gun was still in his lap, and he was covered with glass shards from a broken windowpane in the nearby front door. A framed picture of Jesus had been knocked from the wall next to the doorjamb and now laid behind a bookcase. "It woke me up big time. I couldn't get myself together. I didn't know what happened," said the 65 year-old Air Force veteran and...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on April 23, 2008
Tell Congress to Stop the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership. Alert: Poster urging protest of North American Security and Prosperity Partnership On the verge of next week's North American summit in New Orleans, a Canadian think tank has suggested renaming the "North American Union" to renew progress toward continental integration in the face of mounting criticism. A paper entitled "Saving the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership", published last month by the Fraser Institute in Canada, contends President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have decided to expend no more political capital in pursuing "the bust" that has occurred because of the "brand" of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America or SPP. The solution, the authors...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on April 23, 2008
Tell Congress to Support the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088). Alert: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House Democratic leadership have apparently come up with a new strategy to prevent the House from approving the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088), an enforcement-only approach to the illegal immigration issue. The bill, introduced by Reps. Brian Bilbray, California Republican, and Heath Shuler, North Carolina Democrat, has garnered more than 160 cosponsors. The SAVE Act aims to reduce illegal immigration through such methods as employer sanctions and strengthened border security. Mrs. Pelosi wants to bury the bill, but many members of the House Democratic Caucus are under pressure from their constituents to take a tough stand against illegal immigration, so the speaker has sought to...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on April 23, 2008
Tell Congress to End Birthright Citizenship for illegals. Alert: It was 5 a.m. and CBS News national correspondent Byron Pitts is with a woman who is nine months pregnant. She's rushed to a south Texas hospital to undergo a C-section - a $4,700 medical procedure that won't cost her a dime. She qualifies for emergency Medicaid. She gave birth to a healthy, 8 1/2 pound baby boy - born in America. His Mexican mother gave him an American name: Eliot. Eliot is one of an estimated 300,000 children of illegal immigrants born in the United States every year, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. They're given instant citizenship because they are born on U.S. soil, which makes it easier for...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on April 15, 2008
Tell Congress to Sign the SAVE Act Petition. Alert: Supporters of the enforcement-only SAVE Act (Secure America with Verification Enforcement; H.R. 4088) have already gained more than two-thirds of the signers needed to force a vote in the U.S. House. Click to view the 185 bi-partisan signers of the Discharge Petition filed by Rep. Thelma Drake (R-Va.) March 11. If the petition collects 218 House signatures, a simple majority, the bill can bypass the committee process and be placed on the House floor for a vote, regardless of any objections by Democratic leaders. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) introduced the SAVE Act emphasizing the principles of Attrition Through Enforcement. The SAVE Act would: 1. increase border patrol agents by 8,000, utilize...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on April 10, 2008
Tell Congress to Stop the North American Union Integration. Alert: A largely unreported meeting held at the State Department discussed integration of the U.S., Mexico and Canada in concert with a move toward a transatlantic union, linking a North American community with the European Union. The meeting was held Monday under the auspices of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy, or ACIEP. The meeting was held under "Chatham House" rules that prohibit reporters from attributing specific comments to individual participants. The State Department website noted the meeting was opened by Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Daniel S. Sullivan and ACIEP Chairman Michael Gadbaw, vice president and senior counsel for General Electric's International Law &...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on April 6, 2008
Tell Congress to Hold the Feds Accountable and Build the Border Fence. Alert: The Bush administration will use its authority to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations in an effort to finish building 670 miles of fence along the southwest U.S. border by the end of this year, federal officials said Tuesday. Invoking the two legal waivers — which Congress authorized — will cut through bureaucratic red tape and sidestep environmental laws that currently stand in the way of the Homeland Security Department building 267 miles of fencing in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, according to officials familiar with the plan. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly about it....
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on April 3, 2008
Tell Congress to Support the SAVE Act to counter the Amnesty Push by Pelosi. Alert: The SAVE Act (Secure America with Verification Enforcement; H.R. 4088) is the hardest-hitting package of immigration enforcement measures seen yet -- one that would require jail time for illegal immigrants caught crossing the border, make it harder for them to open bank accounts and compel them to communicate in English when dealing with federal agencies. Supporters of the enforcement-only SAVE Act have already gained more than two-thirds of the signers needed to force a vote in the U.S. House. If the petition collects 218 House signatures, a simple majority, the bill can bypass the committee process and be placed on the House floor for a...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on April 1, 2008
Tell Congress to Stop the Expansion of NAFTA to include Superhighway Link. Alert: While President Bush and other U.S. officials have derided fears of a NAFTA superhighway as merely conspiracy theory, a Mexican transportation expert contends the trade agreement includes plans for a network of international ship, rail and truck connections to deliver consumer goods from China and the Far East to Mexico, the U.S. and Canada. "Transportation linking the United States, Mexico and Canada is key to the future of NAFTA," Eduardo Aspero, president of the Mexican Intermodal Association, told a recent luncheon sponsored by the Free Trade Alliance San Antonio. In transportation economics, the term "intermodal" refers to the ability to move a container by crane to different...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on March 30, 2008
Tell Congress to Stop the Bush Administration's Push for Mexican Trucks. Alert: Mexican truck drivers allowed to travel throughout the U.S. under a Bush administration demonstration project may not be proficient in English, despite Department of Transportation assurances to the contrary. A brochure on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's website instructs Mexican truck drivers, "Did you know ... You MUST be able to read and speak English to drive trucks in the United States." Still, at the Senate Commerce Committee oversight hearing Tuesday, Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters and DOT Inspector General Calvin L. Scovel III reluctantly admitted under intense questioning from Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., that Mexican drivers were being designated at the border as "proficient in English"...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on March 25, 2008
Tell Congress to Halt the Mexican Trucks. Alert: A combative Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters was accused in a Senate hearing yesterday of defying a congressional vote to halt the Bush administration's controversial project allowing Mexican trucks to operate freely on U.S. roads. "I regret supporting your nomination to be secretary of transportation," Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., told Peters. "Your legal counsel is giving you bad advice that unfortunately you have willingly accepted." Dorgan charged the Department of Transportation was "hell-bent on proceeding with this pilot program" regardless of safety concerns the agency's inspector general continues to document. "You believe you have found a loophole, but you are making a very big mistake," Dorgan warned Peters. "This is a slap...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on March 14, 2008
Tell Congress to Oppose Amnesty and Support the SAVE (Secure America through Verification and Enforcement) Act. Alert: The solution to security issues on the U.S. border with Mexico will need to include some sort of swinging door so that workers can come and go as they want, according to the White House press secretary. Correspondents at the White House, Les Kinsolving, asked spokeswoman Dana Perino: "Reuters reports that our Customs and Border Protection Commissioner admits that the U.S. may not meet the goal of essentially stopping illegal immigration from Mexico by 2011. And my question: What does the president believe would help most in this effort, more border security personnel, more miles of border fence, or more enforcement of immigration...
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Posted by Fred (aka Recoil) on March 13, 2008
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