Ukraine is not NATO and the USA is not interested in European involvement in war with Russia, while Russia might be though.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is looking to the USA for all it's answers. That is not likely to happen. The Ukrainian President needs to seek the support of the EU and expanding it's markets to the EU. The relationship with Ukraine is different simply because they are not NATO. 

July 22, 2014
By Josh Levs and Mick Kever

In an exclusive interview (click here) with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Poroshenko said, "Every country and every person, and every leader should find out their own place."

"We know exactly" where a missile was shot that hit the plane Thursday, killing all 298 people aboard, and where the flight crashed, he said. "And all this territory is firmly controlled by Russian-supported terrorists."

Ukraine has "a lot of evidence that these people are supported by Russia, trained by Russia, armed by Russia," he added. "And most of them and their leaders are Russian citizens. That is for sure."...

Some of the problems the Ukraine faces are similar to that of the EU. In working with the EU, Ukraine can become a cohesive partner in trade and energy efficiency. The relationship with the USA has to be more homogenous in it's interests in Europe simply because an abrupt change of direction would change the balance of powers in Europe and the USA would be then engaged with a confrontational war with Russia. That would place Europe in extreme danger.

The Ukraine government can certainly ask for purchases of military equipment from the USA and in that financial assistance would be provided through Congress. I sincerely believe the US Congress would invite the interest of the Ukraine with full disclosure to NATO of any changes that military assistance might bring. 

Ukraine is best to invite peace talks will all it's partners to bring about a better resolve for itself. The separatists are a problem and it would be difficult for the Ukrainian people to sustain a protracted civil war simply because it is demoralizing to the people of Ukraine whom relied on a treaty to maintain it's peace.

The Ukraine President needs to take heart in Ukraine's ability to carry out a successful assault against the separatists. Why is Russia firing across the border of Ukraine? It is because Ukraine has been successful in driving the separatists up to the Russian border. Russia does not want this civil war to find itself on Russian soil. 

I do not believe Putin is looking for a global war to fight which would occur should the USA become directly involved in a military assault within Ukraine. President Putin is attempting to push aside the harm the sanctions are doing and regain the moral ground it has lost in an international economy. In that is the reality President Poroshenko has been more than successful in pushing the separatists back on their heels while Russia seeks to 'make room' for separatists fighting within Ukraine. 

President Poroshenko has plenty of clout in his military prowess despite his military losses. The losses are having a heavy toll on the moral fiber of Ukraine simply because they want peace and they want relationships with both East and West. Ukraine never asked to be the linch pin to Putin's political clout and to that reality President Putin is failing both his country and his desired alliances with neighboring countries in creating an economic union.

The USA is not cold hearted regarding the Ukraine military losses, quite the contrary. The USA counts every casualty itself when engaged in war and to that reality there is currently legislation to correct the new needs of the returning soldiers for the Veteran's Administration system. We know what it is to mourn every military loss and it is right to do so. Citizens should never be depersonalized to the point in which previous American administrations used citizens for their own purposes. The current administration in Washington, DC is aware of the pain the citizens of the USA suffer with such losses as does the Ukrainians as well. No one in the USA wants Ukrainian losses. I wish Russia was the same way.

In looking to the USA to directly intervene in a Ukraine civil war would profoundly escalate the region into a war that Ukrainians would regret. The Ukraine President and military leaders need to develop a plan for the best outcomes to their civil war, realize their successes to date, seek to minimize losses, but, most importantly Ukraine has to develop a strong economy to survive the onslaught of a Russia incursion and the plans for economic pressure by Russia's trade plans.

I thought Ukraine was wise to refuse to be a part of NATO as it may hamper it's ability to trade with Russia. It has to weigh all the alternatives to it's present position.

Wall Street is not much of an option for quality of life for any country.

Not with Walmart and Koch creating a global empire.

Bad news for the USA. Walmart is it's biggest employer and it is putting other competitors out of business. Big Box stores such as Best Buy is shutting it's stores where Walmart thrives. The possibility of much larger corporate welfare programs is on the way as competition with Walmart is becoming impossible. 

What every happened to Anti-Trust law suits. See, if Walmart has it's way and the Koch's have their way, there will be ONLY two employers in the USA as they Gulp down all competition. Do I sense profound recessions on the way? Do I detect the greater and greater demand for a minimum wage increase?

If Walmart and Koch are not confronted by Anti-Trust lawsuits, it's treasury will be over burdened for a very long time if not permanently as it's revenues fall. 

This is the design of Republicans. As income tax becomes less and less viable as an option to support the country, there will be a national sales tax.

While the USA demands a higher minimum wage and unions are being organized, the Walmart and Koch companies are pushing hard against it's adoption to END any potential to paying higher wages and accepting unions to mitigate the best interests of the Middle Class. In that reality is the huge and permanent recessions and impoverishment of Americans. 

Local economies folks.

Oh, yeah, a national sales tax places the burden for the economy OFF THE WEALTHY and back on the Middle Class and Poor. 

USA Right Wings lies does not elevate Israel with it's propaganda. The USA right wing is self-serving and implicated in aggression by Israel.

Hamas was not on the edge of political oblivion before Israel started their war. Hamas was intricately being accepted by the leadership of Palestine. That was Israel's complaint. Israel stated they would not talk to the Palestinians, even Abbas because Hamas was being accepted within the power structure.

Hamas never came to the media, the media went to them for the first time in a long time.

Demonizing isn't going to create a saintly Israel. The insults by Israel into Palestine is not simply significant, it is a strategy to end any aspirations of a Palestinian nation. Simply because Hamas doesn't recognize Israel doesn't provide a moral platform for annihilation of any of the Palestinians, including Hamas. It was decades before any nations of the Middle East recognized Israel. Anyone remember the Six Day War? Am I the only one?

The USA right wing has absolutely no moral ground to condemn Palestine and/or Hamas. The only moral ground that exists is that of the borders of Palestine. Jews have been provided a homeland and they are depriving Palestinians theirs in ambitions to control that land as well. THAT is completely obvious.

I am going to end it here for now. I'll pick this up sometime tomorrow. 

Thanks.

St. Andrew Is best known with his cross. The cross is a very big deal as an artifact.

Andrew is Simon Peter's brother. He is a fisherman from Bethsaida. He witnessed the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist. Andrew was one of John the Baptist disciples. 

He is known for observing John the Baptist saying, "Behold the Lamb of God." That is a bit prophetic. What is commonly a sacrifice to the gods on an alter? Lamb, right? So, John was foretelling what was to come in those words. 

Andrew is the fellow who tells Jesus of the boy with five barley loaves and two fish of which Jesus feeds. It is Andrew who receives Phillip in conversation in handling Gentiles that want to meet Jesus simply because he is popular. It is here where Jesus isn't necessarily viewed as a Messiah, but, as a focus of populous thought.

Andrew is believed to have preached in Scythia, an area which is now Russian territory between the Black and Caspian Seas. 

He was believed to be taken to Greece where he was bound, not nailed, to a crucifix of which he preached for two days before dying. 

As recently as 2013, his X shaped cross was transported from St. Petersburg to Moscow for celebration. Here again there seems to be this revitalization of Christian faith within Russia, this time a Roman Catholic Saint.

July 16, 2013

An express train (click here) containing a special temple car has brought from Saint-Petersburg to Moscow an honored Christian relic - the cross, on which Apostle Andrew the First-called was crucified. It was met at the Kursk station by believers: passengers, railway workers, clergy and district administration of the Moscow region.

Sergey Stchebligin, President of the St. Andrew Foundation, organizer of bringing the relic from Greece to Russia, has noted that despite the fact that during five days in St. Petersburg no less than 200 thousand people had come to bow to the cross, there had been no hustle and conflicts in queues. "Both guards and pilgrims were attentive to each other, helped the elderly and children, shared drinking water," Stchebligin said....

This cross was believed to have been moved in 1200s by "The Crusades" from Constantinople to Amalfi, Italy. 

I began this with the statement by so many that somehow god sanctions guns.

I wrote about the real world of St. Paul the apostle in Corinth and how he, accepted as a Roman, taught the faith as he learned it from Jesus Christ.

While a saint for the following and teaching he conducted, he was not apostle. He is not in the picture of "The Last Supper." 

Paul's family were tent makers. They had money because in the manufacture of tents one has to have material and thread as well as framing to build tents. He lived in Tarsus and later would live in Jerusalem to study law under Gamaliel I. He actually prosecuted 'the new religion' and approved of martyrdom for the followers of Jesus. It would be on the road to Damascus he was converted.

He would then travel to convert the Gentiles to the new religion. He set churches during his travels to teach from and leave with new teachers of the faith. Eventually, he would be arrested and due to his Roman status was taken to Ceasar in Rome and was placed under house arrest for two years. He would then return to his journeys and again arrested and again. It is stated he was later martyred in a beheading outside the gates of Rome.

The language of Jesus was Aramaic.

Aramaic is a semitic language related to Hebrew. Jesus did not teach in Hebrew, he taught in Aramaic. 

Jesus was know to have four titles Aramaic words appear as titles for Jesus: Rabbi, or teacher; Amen, or prophet; Messias, or Christ; and Mar, or Lord.

Interestingly, the New Testament was written in Greek. So, the writers of the books of the New Testament write in Greek inter laced with Aramaic words. Jesus and his apostles taught/spoke in Aramaic. 

Just a few thoughts about Constantine.

Pope Sylvester Baptizes Constantine. He was born into a very different world than Jesus and the apostles. It was nearly 700 years later. But, the faith developing out of the teachings of Jesus Christ were widely spread. 

Constantine was born within the fourth caliphate. At the time of Constantine a caliphate was a measure of time. The church recorded A.D. for the time after the birth of Jesus. A caliphate was also a measure of time, but, determined according to the expanse of the acceptance of the teachings. Any caliph wasn't so much a manical madman at the top of some feeding chain while oppressing others. A caliph was more or less a pope, but, of different teachings. It is extremely noteworthy that while Constantine was born within the fourth caliphate, it was the last of the caliphates. The map below show the growth of the one through four caliphates.

Constantine was born in Syria. They baptized him in Syria.

It was Constantine that would begin 'the formal church' which engaged power as well as prayer. 


Constantine as Pope rejected the authority of Rome. He instead took an name different from the previous Popes. Constantine was considered an eastern name after Constantinople. Constantine never allowed Rome to be brought into the worship of the faith. Constantine held councils to decide the depth and direction of the church. 

Pope Constantine made the Roman Catholic faith autonomous and powerful. Any time faith enters the picture in a time line it carries with it power. Power because it decides the terms of life ever after or death or worse a life with Satan. This development of power by faith, in this case, was pursued to bring about an understanding of morality. It consolidated human activity into what one can say is social engineering. Constantine realized his power and grew far greater in power than Rome, hence, Eastern Rome. 

This social order based in faith would manifest later as well in the Middle Ages. 

What is occurring in the Middle East today is faith based social order. 

St. Peter, an apostle, was originally named the Hebrew name of Simon

In Hebrew the name Simon meant, "he has heard."

Interesting name, Simon. In the USA it appeared in birth certificates about 0.084 percent of the population in 1888, it fell off that all time high to 0.009 percent by 1958 as an all time low, but, oddly it didn't disappear. The name Simon returned over the decades to 0.080 percent of the USA population in 2013.

The name Peter was found in the USA nearly a complete half percent up to it's pinnacle of 1957 of 0.530 percent, but, from there it's popularity has dwindled to 0.092 percent of the USA population.

Depending on the readings St. Peter was referred to as Simon Peter. I think it was just the pleasure of the author rather than reality. Jesus gave him the name Peter. Peter means rock. It was suppose to indicate a superior name to that of Simon. He would become the "Head of the Church." Not the founder, that was Paul. I should write a little more about Paul. He wasn't exactly an apostle. He was a follower and a Rome originally named Saul. But, later.

Peter was no different than many fishermen that earned a living in the same method as 'share cropping' in the USA. He was also relatively young as most of the Apostles that lived much longer than Jesus did. 

An interesting thing about Jesus, referred to by Peter as 'the christ,' his life was mostly private without a great deal of fanfare until he began to recruit men to his teachings. He was a Rabbi, therefore, a teacher. No one actually has writings by Jesus so much as writings by others with their experience with him. Jesus did not write as a Rabbi, he spoke. The Torah has a spoken component called Torah Shebichtav. The only reason I point to this is because teaching without writing is a rabbinical tradition. Writing is more personal and a record, but, speaking is in the communal tradition of the Jewish faith. Why write when it was people in larger numbers he was trying to reach. Most commoners would not necessarily know how to read. I just find that a point of interest in understanding Jesus and his relationship with others. He never expected to be a star performer, so much as a reformer who's example could be made to be an example of the faith of a Jewish Rabbi prepared to die professing a single deity. I think he was very dedicated to teaching his faith and to that end was martyred on a cross.

Jesus wanted to bring everyone the faith of monotheism. Peter in being the dead of the church has successors. Those successors are Popes of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis is a successor to St. Peter. The Popes are also "Shepards of the Universal Church" and "Bishop of Rome. St. Peter's tomb lies under the basilica in Rome. The largest church in the world is Patriarchal Basilica of St. Peter located next to the Vatican. It is this basilica that all Catholic functions of world wide importance are conducted, such as canonizations.

So, St. Peter is a very big deal. He is pivotal. He is the one true follower that would be crucified for his beliefs. It would later be the Roman Emperor Constantine (A.D. 664 – 9 April 715) that built the first Roman Catholic basilica at the very place of Peter's crucifixion. He would be martyred in Rome under Nero's rule as emperor (A.D. 54-68). Here again we are seeing apostles of Jesus actively involved in their own ministries during the A.D. 50s to 60s. So, there is a great deal of consistency throughout the books of the Bible regarding 'the time' of 'the church.' 

In his teachings, Peter would consider Jesus the living god. From the beginning of his life the name Jesus meant savior. Forty days after his birth he would be anointed in the temple as 'the christ,' the Anointed one of God, the Messias. That is basically all the history of Jesus Christ as a child, except, his parents fled to Egypt to avoid Herod's demonic massacre of Jewish infants. It was after Herod's death that the family returned and there is one more reference of Jesus in the temple at the age of 12 discussing worldly issues with what were considered Doctors. But, then he sort of disappears until he is an adult and began his teachings. His teaching lasted all of three years. Then he is martyred in crucifixion.

But, as to Peter, he is also considered Prince of the Apostles. Peter is also married, yet he never writes about his marriage or his wife. As a matter of fact, the wives of any of the apostles are hardly ever mentioned, if at all. The Apostles don't really write about themselves. The only time an Apostle writes exclusively about himself is in Revelations when John has a dream. He writes about the dream of symbolism. Most if the apostles write through the eyes of an observer, rarely reflecting on their own understandings.

It's Monday Morning

Follow Me, and I Will Make You Fishers of Men

4:18-22 When Christ began to preach, he began to gather disciples, who should be hearers, and afterwards preachers of his doctrine, who should be witnesses of his miracles, and afterwards testify concerning them. He went not to Herod's court, not to Jerusalem, among the chief priests and the elders, but to the sea of Galilee, among the fishermen. 

Severe storms followed by a cold front.

I just don't run the equipment during these storms, at least not for this purpose.

Later, I want to get this done, so hopefully it will just be delayed.

Thank you.

Israel : "Hamas will never stop fighting even if all concessions are made."

That might be the case, but, currently Israel is reading minds and not living up to it's responsibility according to many international documents. Israel is in a very poor set of circumstances and it was all self created. Israel is the aggressor and if there is so much hate and rage the fighting will never stop, then Israel created a paradigm of genocide to the Palestinian people.

Are there not extremists in Saudi Arabia or any other country on Earth? Were there not massacres no one ever expected by those that hate?

Palestine, in it's current state cannot control their extremists. That is not an excuse, but, more a reason to resolve all concessions to the Palestinian Authority.

Currently, Israel is more an extremist than Hamas could ever be.

Hamas sees no profit in ending the violence and they are correct. If they agree to a complete ceasefire what have they gained? The right to allow those still alive to continuing living? That would put them right back where they started or worse. 

The  Palestinian leadership MUST demand the end to Israel's stalling of settling the borders and providing access to allow Palestine to develop their country and instill an economy. 

This is where it all gets lost and why the violence continues. Every time there is an incursion by Israel, the SAME TERMS are demanded; "Hamas ends the violence and Israel will end the violence." End of negotiations. Why would that change the future of those fighting Israel? It doesn't. It only allows Israel to continue it's aggression into the West Bank with settlements and puts the Palestinian people further behind in what they call 'their land.' 

Hamas isn't going to stop and they don't care if Israel states they are terrorists. Hamas knows what they are doing and they do see the Palestinian leadership as weak. They have lost ground, literally, for decades and it is becoming more and more difficult to see the future.

The Palestine leadership are good people, but, they must demand borders and rights to access to the world even through the fighting. This is over. Either Israel commits to what is Palestine's right to exist and stops occupying it's land or the fighting may never cease. Does Israel think simply because they own all the land and occupy all the land the fighting will stop? That is foolishness and greed.

Israel has to make concessions. Ending the killing isn't enough.

Israel must set borders and remove settlements.

By Isabel Kershner and Ben Hubbard

...On Sunday afternoon, (click here) Hamas backtracked on its earlier rejection of the temporary cease-fire and said the “resistance groups” would agree to a 24-hour truce starting at 2 p.m. local time. A Hamas official in Gaza released a statement saying that Hamas’s decision came “in response to the intervention of the United Nations” and out of understanding for the people of Gaza who are preparing for Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that ends Ramadan. There was no immediate response to Hamas’s statement from Israel....

A ceasefire is not defeat. Not even close to a defeat.

Hamas has made the world take notice of the dedication the Palestinian people have to their homeland, to their past; now it needs to demonstrate it's dedication to their children's future. Hamas and the Palestinians are no longer alone, regarded as important to the world and the world seeks to bring the future, a bright future to the children of Palestine.

A ceasefire is a time to breath the air, clear the mind and take account of what has been won. Dignity. Dignity is not a small commodity to discard on an international scale. It is time for the Palestinian people to end the 'conflict at all costs' and allow the world to help heal their land. It is time for Palestinian leaders to plan for the future and bring safety to the people they love.

Palestine has taken the moral high ground. The world now knows Israel is wrong in persecuting the Palestinian people. There is much to be settled including permanent borders for Palestine and help in developing a strong economy. Helping Palestine become a nation separate from Israel while building a future for the Palestinian children is the only way the world knows how to apologize for the decades of suffering.

July 26, 2014

By Alexandra Zavis, Batsheva Sobelman

A brief lull in fighting (click here) Saturday sent Palestinians in the battered Gaza Strip flocking to shops and banks and surging into devastated neighborhoods to search for missing relatives and recover belongings.

Wails arose and the stench of death hung in the air as scores of bodies were pulled from under rubble where they had lain for days. Palestinian officials said the death toll in the 19-day offensive had risen above 1,000, mostly civilians, with the recovery of corpses from areas previously cut off by fighting.

On the Israeli side of the frontier, the break from volleys of rocket fire provided a psychological lift, at least temporarily easing the necessity of rushing for shelter whenever air raid sirens sounded.

At the request of the United Nations, Israel's Cabinet approved an additional 24-hour cessation in fighting to begin at midnight, government officials announced. But they cautioned that Israel would "respond to any violations."...

Israel's propagandist. He needs to be fired.

Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States.CreditJoshua Roberts/Reuters

By Josh Horowitz
July 25, 2014


...Because (click here) of Mr. Dermer’s unabashed hawkishness and his role in organizing Mitt Romney’s 2012 visit to Israel, White House officials — including Denis McDonough, President Obama’s chief of staff — long resisted his appointment, according to people close to the administration. But in the renewed push last year for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, Secretary of State John Kerry, who attended Mr. Dermer’s Passover Seder this spring, thought having a Netanyahu confidant close at hand would present an opportunity to sway the prime minister.

That turned out to be a misreading. Nearly 10 months after Mr. Dermer became ambassador, it is clear in Washington that he is his boss’s ideological twin. “I can authoritatively speak for the prime minister here,” he said during a nearly two-hour interview on Thursday in the heavily fortified Israeli Embassy in Washington. “I think people understand that.”...

Who dumped Netanyahu's puppet at the doorstep of the USA State Department?

Evidently, the USA is suppose to follow his ? lead ? and abandon all conventions on the planet to satisfy an Israel government out of control and determined to destroy any hopes of a Palestinian homeland. His views are blind to any other outcome, except of that of Netanyahu. He is corrupt. He has to go. Can the USA State Department please get someone other than a puppet for the ambassadorship of Israel?  It would be refreshing. 

My god the money the Israel's PACTs are willing to spend to undermine peace is incredible. I tell you what, just let Israel pay Dermer's salary and the deal will be complete.

Secretary Kerry has been a champion for human rights for as long as he has been in office, regardless of what capacity. He should have smelled this one coming.

How many in North Carolina realize a large water source is polluted?

The quality of water (click here) for downstream communities like Fayetteville and Wilmington is at risk while Jordan Lake remains polluted. For example, researchers at UNC-Wilmington have found blue-green 
algae, or toxic cyanobacteria, more than 300 times the levels considered safe by the World Health Organization in the Cape Fear River, which flows downstream from Jordan Lake.

I mean McCrory just can't seem to stop toxic Duke Energy sludge and he can't seem to clean up Jordan Lake for consumers that rely on it for drinking water. I doubt the President of the NC Senate ever gave water quality a thought.

Then again with Jordan Lake connected to all these lands in NC, it really should be a worry for everyone. The federal agencies have done their job in assessing the poor water quality. It really is up to the state to 'get on board' with making things better. Somehow with the toxic sludge problem and the lack of stewardship of the state, it is understandable how Jordan Lake never gets attention.

                                                        Drainage areas 
Location                                                 (square miles)

      Haw River at US 64 near Pittsboro, NC --------------------  1,296 (click here)     

      Haw River at B. Everett Jordan Dam -----------------------  1,690      

      Deep River at Moncure, NC --------------------------------  1,434       

      Deep River at mouth near Haywood, NC ---------------------  1,441       

      Cape Fear River at Lillington, NC ------------------------  3,464       

      Cape Fear River at Fayetteville, NC ----------------------  4,395       

      Cape Fear River at William O. Huske Lock and Dam No. 3----  4,852       
       
      Cape Fear River at Lock and Dam No. 2 --------------------  5,017       

      Cape Fear River at Lock and Dam No. 1 --------------------  5,255       

      Cape Fear River at Brunswick River at Wilmington, NC -----  8,760       
          
      Cape Fear River at Mouth ---------------------------------  9,140 

Child refugees coming to the USA.

There are many, many reasons these children are FORCED to abandon their country and their families. None of which are even within the understanding of the average American, but, let me try to explain.

The obvious reasons they are leaving their homelands to travel a very dangerous and perilous route is due to drug wars. They are situated in a vitally important area of the 'drug universe' where transportation of drugs occurs. These 'gangs' are not necessarily at all tied to the major drug cartels some are freelancing their incomes. So, even if the large cartels are dismantled there is no guarantee the wars within these countries will end. There is no 'head of the snake' in many instances.

To better illustrate I think of Nigeria. The oil in Nigeria is pumped out of the ground by Big Oil and the government receives some of the monies for it, however, the monies OR jobs never make it to the citizens whom remain impoverished. In the past the citizens of Nigeria would rise up against Big Oil and seek to kill them as their food and water sources were polluted and they were dying, no differently than Ecuador. In Ecuador the people accepted their fate and allowed anti-oil and pro-citizen groups to fight the good fight in the courts. The citizens are winning although the struggle continues.

But, to return to Nigeria. The citizens surrendered. They found they were being massacred by their own government and even when the courts ordered payment to the country for the peril of the citizens, the government was corrupt and those monies never made it to the citizens. When they gave up they still needed an income to live. Men pride themselves in raising their family and providing clear water, air and food was still a priority. So, the men of Nigeria decided they would seek their own oil (As Boka Haram has coveted gold in the north of the country.) and develop their own primitive processing. They harvested the oil in crude and dangerous ways accepting the fact they could die doing it and if not then sometime in the future as their exposure would cause cancers. But, they do it anyway as a means of supporting their families with hopes of finding a better life for their children. This atrocity is happening now.

The same dynamic holds true in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and to a lesser extent in Belize. Belize at least is propagating a healthy tourist trade along it's coast so the impoverishment and violence is along the border with Guatemala as it spills over.

So, that is the plight of the globally impoverished. They accept adversity in their lives in order to find a way of life. That is their quality of life. It is a depraved method of quality of life, but, is reality.

So why don't countries such as Guatemala and Honduras or Nigeria simply round up these criminal networks and keep them forever in prison? The USA does it. Three strikes and your in for life. Why not everyone else? 

August 13, 2013 
By Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas

...The average inmate (click here) in minimum security federal prison costs $21,000 each year. The average inmate in maximum - security prisons costs $33,000 each year....

Why are prisons aboard used in rendition? Why are pirsons abroad considered torture? Why do other countries with such prisons accepting payment from the USA to house those the USA believes dangerous? Why, indeed. The 'way of life' of those in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is considered illegal in the USA, but, it is a way of life and the USA does consume the drugs these 'gangs' bring to the USA.

So, like it or not the USA is directly responsible for the children now refugees to our southern border. Make no mistake these children are coming to the USA southern border because they want to live while the rest of the USA accepts the drug sales as recreation. AND. Drug sales in the USA is also a 'way of life' for those that sell them.

As far as diseases these children refugees carry (OH, yeah. Changing the definitions of refugee in DC DOES NOT change the reality.); there is nothing they are afflicted with the USA can't handle. Eboli is spreading in western Africa, but, is still contained. And here is a thought. If Eboli ever did make it to The West, the disease might actually be defeated.

The Republicans thrive on fear and to that end they are always scaredy cats, refuse to face any reality of the situation and are convinced if DC 'words everything correctly' and turns the USA into a police state, they will have heaven at their doorstep. Republicans don't live with reality, they live everyday of their lives in a dreamscape. That is not a good place to be. It causes more problems than it solves. But, whoever accused Republicans of solving problems.

The bottom line is these small countries can't solve the problems of the refugees. Having children become refugees IS THE ANSWER. Solve that and the problems take care of themselves.

The man without the answer rather play games with congressional proceedings for distraction, political momentum to the polls by the base and amusement (including racism and bigotry). Elect them again and the USA will continue to have the same problems.

One other thing, when I thought it through I was happy about the National Guard was at the southern border; at least USA Wackos won't be shooting anyone as they cross the Rio Grande.