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Thursday, February 5
At least 30 Texas prison guards manning posts in the employee-short state prison system are on work visas — immigrant workers from Nigeria and Mexico
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 05 Feb 2009 03:37 AM EST
One key lawmaker said he finds the practice "highly unacceptable" and said he plans to launch an investigation. Most police departments and law enforcement jobs in Texas require that officers be U.S. citizens, according to recruiting Web sites for police departments in Austin, Dallas and Houston and the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The prison system has no such rule for correctional officers. "What this shows me is that TDCJ is so desperate in their hiring that they're taking these folks," said Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire, D-Houston. "It raises all kinds of questions. I believe I can speak for most Texans in saying this is not what we had in mind when we discuss a proper public-safety policy." More>>>
Secondhand Children
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 05 Feb 2009 02:48 AM EST
Why isn't the number of smokers treated as a fait accompli that the rest of us just have to accept? Smoking causes a lot less damage and the harm befalls the person who chooses to smoke, not innocent children. The Times' single motherhood endorsements always describe single mothers as the very picture of middle-class normality: "She grew up in blue-collar Chester County, Pa., outside Philadelphia, and talks like a local girl (long O's). Her father was a World War II vet who worked for a union and took his kids to Mass most Sundays." Even as a girl she dreamed of raising a baby with a 50 percent greater chance of growing up in poverty. More>>>
Glenn Beck: Gore to 12 year olds - 'you know things older people don't know'
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 05 Feb 2009 01:57 AM EST
 Free Audio: Listen Al Gore's speech here...
Glenn Beck: God bless you homeschoolers. No one is being taught the words of our founding fathers. They are being taught that, you know this capitalism thing, that doesn't really work. I mean, it gets all greedy. I mean, Marxism isn't that bad. Marxism isn't that bad? Socialism isn't that bad? How did we lose our way? We lost it when we lost the schools. You lose the minds of the kids, and this is what has been happening for a very long time. He is pitting the youth of this nation against their parents. We have a former vice president of the United States, a man who claims to have been President of the United States saying to the best and the brightest 12-year-olds that "You know better than your parents," that "You don't have to listen to your parents on things because they just don't know." I'm trying to think where else this has been done. Soviet Russia, Nazi, Germany, Mussolini's Italy. In fact, the Nazis took an extra step. Not only did they indoctrinate the kids and tell them you're probably right, you know but your parents don't; in fact, here's the next step: Why don't you tell us what your parents are telling you. Are we having the new Hitler youth? (H/T to our man Steve) More>>> |
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