The Republicans are not going to make this go away. This has been a problem that simply not visited the USA before,

Refugees and internally displaced persons: (click here) ongoing drug cartel and gang violence) (2011)

Illicit drugs: major transit country for cocaine and heroin; in 2005, cultivated 100 hectares of opium poppy after reemerging as a potential source of opium in 2004; potential production of less than 1 metric ton of pure heroin; marijuana cultivation for mostly domestic consumption; proximity to Mexico makes Guatemala a major staging area for drugs (particularly for cocaine); money laundering is a serious problem; corruption is a major problem

Spanish (official) 60%, Amerindian languages 40%

note: there are 23 officially recognized Amerindian languages, including Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna, and Xinca

It is an impoverished country. What do we know about impoverishment and population?

There is a population of nearly 15 million of which a full 36 percent are ages 0-14.

This is a problem that will not go away. The reason it is so stark at this point is because the USA has never had such a dramatic example of the migration out of Guatemala before. These young children are leaving because they have no means of staying with any degree of safety in their lives. 

The USA knows a great deal about the drug trade in most parts of the world. Unfortunately, Guatemala is directly in the transportation route of the only land route connecting SA to NA.

The USA under President Obama has been doing it's level best to end the crisis.

These are Marines. They are deployed when the terrain and conditions are difficult and raw. There has not been an aspect to this crisis the USA hasn't tried to end for the people of Guatemala as well as the USA.

August 30, 2014

Staff Sgt. Travis A. Jakovcic, a UH-1N Huey crew member with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 467 (HMLA-467) looks back at another aircrew during takeoff at the Guatemalan Air Force Base at Retalhuleu, Guatemala, Aug. 22, 2012.  AP/U.S. MARINE CORPS

..."This is the first Marine (click here) deployment that directly supports countering transnational crime in this area, and it's certainly the largest footprint we've had in that area in quite some time," said Marine Staff Sgt. Earnest Barnes at the U.S. Southern Command in Miami....

The Marines aren't necessarily there alone. There are US agencies in multiple places throughout the area to bring intelligence to the fighting force. This is difficult. If the drug cartels loose these routes they lose their money. They are vicious, guerrilla and very difficult to deal with even politically. It has been quite a task. At least these 50 thousand children are safe.

Currently, the American government are trying to educate the people of these countries to the dangers they face in leaving. It hopefully will have an impact and they will find a way to be strong and find the will to stand against the dangers surrounding their lives. 

The Republicans need to stop complaining for political pandering and do the right thing and pass the bill for this humanitarian emergency. No Republican can state the President has done nothing to prevent this crisis. He has done everything humanly possible within his purview. Enough already.

The President is asking for $3.7 billion US to move the process of our southern border along.

In the dusty, (click here) hot land between Yuma, Arizona and Calexico, California, the U.S. Border Patrol faces regular attempts by Mexican drug smugglers trying to enter the land of the free quite illegally. To make matters worse, the ever-changing sandy landscape makes it difficult for even the most watchful guard to say where the border actually lies, especially when fences are constantly being buried by dunes. But there is hope now with the installation of a state-of-the-art, 15-ft-high, seven-mile-long fence that simply floats on top of the sand. Like a serpent lying in wait to pounce on an unsuspecting prey, this impressive barricade also yields dire consequences for anyone who dares to cross its path.

Some members of Congress are disgruntled there is not free and unfettered access to the CONTAINMENT facilities, the medical staff and children. 

This is a national security issue. The people are scared and to put US Congressmen in the middle of a containment facility as if they personally own the place is stupid.

These children are traumatized enough. They don't have to live with more and more questions from strangers. They have no idea what America is all about and yet they are suppose to be able to relate to US Congressmen.

The reason President Obama is asking for $3.5 billion is to increase the staff size and increase efficiency. The current staff, including the Border Patrol, is maxed out. They don't have time for a US Congressmen to answer questions when a simple e-mail can do the same thing.

Those children have to remain secure as well as the American public. There are many reasons for that, but, I would expect a US Congressman to know those reasons. If he can't get his constituency to understand he is doing everything he is doing to understand the circumstances, then he isn't doing his job.

I had thought it would be a good idea for President Obama to make a visit. I said that once. Just one time. It isn't going to happen for whatever reason it isn't going to happen. I don't need an explanation from the White House as to why President Obama isn't standing the southern border and looking at the horizon or why he isn't walking among the children at the detention facilities or braving the protesters in order to make a visit to a processing facility. I suppose the man is resolved to get the job done as he has asked for more money. I suppose he is satisfied from the reports and information provided him through his cabinet secretary.

That is all I need to know. He doesn't have to do anything I think is important if it is dangerous and simply a waste of taxpayer dollars. It is called trust. And right now that is something children refugees have little of. They need to be left alone.

"For one thing, (click here) there is a Border Patrol agent -- I should say 15 Border Patrol agents per mile from El Paso to California. In Texas, that number is seven Border Patrol agents totally per mile. So the idea that there's equity and there's enough Border Patrol agents is totally and absolutely incorrect."

The picture to the left is Texas. There are 5260 feet in a mile. That means along the California Border there are guards every 352 feet. In Texas that interprets into an agent at least every 754 feet. The terrain along those borders is very different. That is why the fence was believed to help. In some areas is does and in some areas it doesn't. 

Gee can’t imagine why our borders are so secure…..
Check it out: (click here)

Residents of McAllen, Texas, which is on the Mexican border, are the least likely in the United States to feel safe walking alone at night, according to new Gallup poll. Less than half, 48.5%, of McAllen residents told Gallup they would “feel safe.”

In addition, the survey shows that five of the 12 cities where people were least likely to feel safe walking alone at night are in California.

In its survey, Gallup asked, “Do you feel safe walking alone at night in the city or area where you live?” For the residents of McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas, only 48.5% said yes.

TV Marti funds cut (click here)

THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2009

TV Marti funds cut (click here)

TV Marti, the U.S. government station that by all lights has more employees in Miami-Dade than viewers in Cuba, may have its days numbered. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 17-13 today to terminate the station when it approved an amendment offered today by Senator Byron Dorgan. The amendment cut $15 million from the combined budget of Radio and TV Marti.

It was nearly a party-line vote, with spendthrift Democrats voting to cut the money, and fiscal conservative Republicans voting to keep on spending it.

I listened to the debate on the webcast, and one senator argued that while the TV Marti signal may not get through, at least we’re sending the Cuban people a message that we are trying to communicate with them.

Washington Post story

US Senator Byron Dorgan (click here) when in office argued every year against TV Marti. Here he is on the crash, carried interest, hedge funds, the buffet rule and TV Marti. He begins at 03:35:38. The retired Senator is no small hero.

That is incredible. Super Typhoon Neoguri is the size of a quarter of Earth.

The first super typhoon of 2014 (click here) is currently battering Okinawa and is on a collision course with southwest Japan.  Named Neoguri – meaning “raccoon” in Korean – the potentially destructive storm has peak winds of 150 mph.

In recent hours, the storm has weakened modestly due to both a structural re-organization known as an eyewall replacement cycle and some dry air wrapping into its center.  But the sprawling cyclone is forecast by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center to re-intensify, with maximum sustained winds reaching as high as 160 mph in about 24 hours.  Should it achieve this intensity, it would match the strongest storm on the planet so far in 2014....


The water vapor system currently supplying this storm is enormous.

The United Nations has defined this crisis as a movement of refugees into the USA.

Perhaps, Ms. Jolie needed to speak for the refugees and why they have that status.

President Barack Obama (click here) asked Congress for an emergency $3.7 billion to contain the surge of illegal Central American immigrants, many of them unaccompanied children, crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.

The money would increase detainment and court capacity to speed decisions, while expanding law enforcement and prosecution of the criminal networks that smuggle people over the border. The administration also would improve the temporary housing and care for immigrants while their cases are judged....

He's back and I can't wait.

Miranda Richardson (click here) (with Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson) played Rita Skeeter, the tabloid gossip columnist of the wizard world. Her latest “dispatch” from the Quidditch World Cup has the world again talking about Harry Potter.

Hamas needs to stop attacking Israel. The Palestinians have their land in Gaza. That is a fact. There is no more fighting.

With that said, Israel is wrong. How are the people in Gaza?

Israeli soldiers stand on their tanks near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza with more than 50 strikes overnight after Hamas militants fired scores of rockets over the border.

By Bill Chappell
July 8, 2014

..."Of the 60 rockets fired from Gaza overnight, several rockets reached Beersheva and Ashkelon, some 25 miles from Gaza, in what Israeli officials saw as an escalation.
"Israel called up some 1,500 reservists, which seemed to mean that Israeli officials believe the tensions with the Islamist Hamas in Gaza will continue.
"An Israeli army spokesman said that in the Israeli airstrikes overnight, Israel destroyed the homes of several senior Hamas military men. Palestinian medics reported that at least nine people were wounded, including seven children.

Can Palestine have an anti-missile system, too? That would be helpful. This attack was completely uncalled for.

"In Israel, the anti-missile system Iron Dome shot down some of the rockets headed for populated areas. There were no reports of casualties or damage."
The Israeli Defense Force has posted video online of two airstrikes from last night, attacks that it says targeted the "activity sites" of two Hamas members involved in conducting rocket fire from Gaza. Helicopters and warplanes took part in dozens of other attacks.
It seems that in at least one case, the activity site was a house — and that the occupants got a phone call telling them to get out before it was bombed....

Telephone calls do not mean it is okay to fire missiles at Gaza. One has to stop to realize how much of a strategy his aggression is and how much it is promulgated by USA right wing politics that leads to huge militarization of Israel. A USA politician has to 'buy in' to the genocide of a people before it can be a political dogma for elections to USA President. Let there be no doubt about it, if USA right wing politics didn't carry Israel on their sleeve, this would not have happened. The people most responsible for this tragedy of nations is Mr. Romney and the right wing media.

I cannot say Hamas is wrong in the way it views the world. I once thought that, but, the killing is unreasonable when considering the decades of time this spans. Israel is a secure nation and Palestine is not. 

Yes, genocide. That is exactly what will happen here as Israel continues to build settlements and carries out military attacks. Is there a different EQUATION I should be looking at stating it is not the problem of Israel we are looking at? 

Israel has been denied nothing by the USA so it feels secure. It is time to reconsider that directive. 60 airstrikes in Gaza and dearly few Hamas rockets made it to ANY target in Israel.

..."No time limit was put on the operation, but senior diplomatic officials said it could be 'for a long time,' " reports the Jerusalem Post. The newspaper adds that Netanyahu says the time has come to "take off the gloves" to fight Hamas....

It is such a joke. Israel defines rockets stopped by The Iron Dome an escalation. Israel defines an escalation. Are settlements an escalation? Who defines where Israeli settlements are built? Do the Palestinians define the escalation of settlements and call it an escalation of hostilities? It would seem not. Israel defines settlements, too.

The Palestinians have to fight for ever inch of land THEY KEEP. But, their defense of their land is an escalation. There is no morality in these circumstances and the USA plays a very defined role in the deaths of Palestinians.

IRS Forms.

There is a way to relieve the burden of finding women to be sure their birth control has been paid, even retroactively.

There are always clinics. Those clinics could take a credit off their tax reporting for the number of contraceptive units they dispensed. 

For women who do not go to clinics, it would be a matter of a simple one item line next to the penalty line for the ACA, which allows a woman to take the cost of their non-reimbursed health care and/or clinic visits directly off their income taxes.

When men are completely incompetent in understanding the needs of a woman's health, there is usually at least one woman around who competently can fix it.

Does anyone expect the killing to stop soon?

LIVE UPDATES: Israel launches aerial offensive in Gaza (click here)

More than 85 rockets fired on Israel on Monday; Hamas claims responsibility for some of launches; IDF to call up 1,500 reserve soldiers.

By Haaretz | Jul. 8, 2014 | 4:30 AM

Shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet decided Monday to escalate attacks against Hamas and the Gaza Strip, militants in the coastal territory fired a barrage of some 35 rockets at Israel.

Sirens rang across the south as well as in central Israel and the Jerusalem area, for the first time since the recent round of escalation began. More than 85 rockets have been launched over the course of Monday.

In preparing for the escalation, the Israel Defense Forces has decided to call up some 1,500 reservists....

The Crime Statistics are skewed in Chicago. Those with guns know that are killing people are in the hands of people who know now they can get away with murder.

Jessie Jackson needs to consider running for Mayor or bringing in someone who can stop the violence. No one else seems to understand the circumstances.

Jul 7, 2014, 1:38 PM ET

By MEGHAN KENEALLY

The spree of shootings in Chicago (click here) during the long holiday weekend reached 82 incidents and included 14 deaths, according to a tabulation of police reports.

That number marks a significant jump from the same period last year, despite an increase of "hundreds" of officers on the street to prevent violence.

"It’s groundhog day here in Chicago again," Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said this morning, in an apparent reference to repeated spasms of violence in the city.

Of the 14 fatalities, two were shot dead by police.

More Than 60 Shot, 9 Dead in Chicago's Bloody Holiday Weekend

The Chicago police department released different statistics claiming the weekend saw 50 shootings that included nine fatalities.

The difference in the statistics is the difference in the time frame. Chicago police figures spanned a period from 6 p.m. Thursday as the long holiday weekend began to midnight Sunday. Figures calculated by ABC News' affiliate WLS began at 4 p.m. Thursday to 3:30 a.m. Monday and totaled 82 shootings....

Freedom to kill never stops the killing. Contrary to popular belief.

Not all Beyonce voters are women or need contraception.

Chris Christy should sign the gun bill to save the lives of at least of four children.

He has already impressed the conservatives donors with other  issues.

Information on the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)

On July 1st, (click here) due to changes imposed by Governor Christie and the New Jersey State Legislature in 2011, most public employees participating in the New Jersey State Health Benefits Program (SHBP) will have to pay a higher rate towards the cost of their health insurance premium. The percentage rates are based on salary tiers and level of health insurance coverage and have been phased in over the past four years. Click here to view the plan rates for 2014.

Thank you. Anyone else?

I think the Foster status is important, but, until the circumstances in their homeland is decided impossible to return to (ie: no parents) the children have a right to go home and be with their family in a country of peace and not suffering. These children are important to their countries. They don't know it yet, but, they are the future. There has to be a reasonable future to return to.

...Local officials (click here) who would likely be involved in the housing and care of 2,000 immigrant children are scrambling to form a solid plan following County Judge Clay Jenkins’ Saturday announcement. 

County officials and service agencies who would be the ones dealing with the children only heard about the large logistical undertaking just before the announcement and are forming a plan now.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins (G.J. McCarthy/The Dallas Morning News)

Commissioner John Wiley Price said at an unrelated press conference today that a place to house the children has been found, but did not give details. The county also intends to get Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas County Health and Human Services and the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office involved.

...“There’s a lot of moving parts,” Price said. “We plan on inviting those as a collaborators but unlike Katrina, we used everything that was at our disposal, we have some planning time so as a result we’re vetting it a lot better.”

County Commissioner Dr. Elba Garcia said she talked to the county judge before he made the announcement but has no firm plans about what might come next. She said her office has been flooded with calls from local social service agencies and officials who are willing to help....

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, (click here) who took office in early 1933, would become the only president in American history to be elected to four consecutive terms. He would lead his nation through two of the greatest crises in its history—the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II (1939-45)—and would exponentially expand the role of the federal government through his New Deal reform program and its legacy. From March 1933 to June 1944, Roosevelt addressed the American people in some 30 speeches broadcast via radio, speaking on a variety of topics from banking to unemployment to fighting fascism in Europe. Millions of people found comfort and renewed confidence in these speeches, which became known as the “fireside chats.”

Welcome everyone to the year 2014, where the national press walks all over the USA President freely elected by the people of the USA. It isn't the president anymore that leads the plutocrats. It is the news media that leads the nation for the plutocrats. I am sure I am not the only one in the country that felt the violation and the proposed violence. I just had to set it straight there are Americans that sill love their President, look toward him for leadership and don't throw female justices under the bus.

Mike Huckabee has his presidential run set up. Did you see it? Country Western Band and Jessica Lynch. You know, the girls the American soldiers saved and brought home. Guess what she said," It is upsetting my fellow soldiers are going to have to back to war in Iraq."

First Appearance of ISIS Caliph Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi (English Subtitles)

Gregory this video. There were newspapers that enlarged photos to just make everyone loping made because the Prince in some Arab land who funded Mr. Baghdadi gave enough for a shining gold watch. I really could not care less. 

Everyone understand what a caliph is? Because Gregory never once stated what one was or what it took to be one. But, there was the devil incarnate. Right there on the American TV screen stealing Beck's ratings. Yep.

Caliph Is Supreme Leader. Holy man. Now, while the Middle East can be wild and wooly there is no caliph university. It isn't that sort of thing. Caliph is about history. Not one. In modern times they just manifest out of the woodwork.

Why would this man call himself a caliph  when he wasn't, but, that wasn't covered either. I imagine every young boy and especially those in madrases have aspirations to grow up to be a caliph. Any ruling leader, well established could take the name of caliph, including the King of Saudi Arabia and the King Of Jordon. Caliph is an ancient term dating back to the 600 AD. Do you know who the first caliph was? I betcha do. Mohammad. 

This man wants to take control of the entire world. He is a nut case. No different than Obama bin Laden was a nut case and Timothy McVeigh was a nut case. They are the men that have all the answers and nothing will stop them. That is who his man is. He has no special power. He has guns. Men with guns are dangerous. 

I was pleased to hear he and his followers praying, because they are going to need a lot of them from what I understand about other Arab nations in the Middle East.

This entry is not about the Middle East it is about the USA press and it's agenda. Now, pan to stage right and low and behold Judy Woodruff. And who is she interviewing? This is an easy one. Tony Blair and for another 10 to 15 minutes Blair reiterated his record and the current activities in the Middle East having nothing to do with them. See, he and Cheney have to stick together otherwise they would indict themselves. The Bush's don't have that problem, the Jrs just ride the coast tails of 41 and hide safely away from any trouble.

Guess what comes next? An American Muslim woman and her family and how she is a good citizen and patriot. But, that is not why she is on the show. For god sake these people just terrified or attempted to terrify an entire nation into war into Iraq. Do you actually believe an American Muslim and her family were going to the subject of compassion and patriotism. Heck, no. That women was put on the show so the those watching the show could say, "Oh my god, they are already here." 

I don't know about anyone else but this isn't what I would expect to find playing over the airwaves to the USA on Independence Holiday. The USA has a real shot at peace. I suggest we continue down that path because these people want your sons and daughters fun another illegal war.

Do you what happened this weekend? I just want to get his out of the way and give credit where credit deserves and it isn't about Glen Beck.

What happened this weekend was a national holidays. It legal it's legislated as a national holiday.

Did you feel the spirit move you, every time a flag passed, every time the bank played, every time little Jimmy lifted the boy scout flag. You just couldn't help wipe a tear form the corner of you eye.

There were plans made for everyone, but, they didn't know it. More extensive plans than Vladimir Putin could deliver. More nationalism lined with flag waving, fields of grain and god.

On Sunday, the Bush Playbook was opened and turned to chapter one.

There were shows on like Melisa Harris Perry that celebrated women and black when after the Supreme Court threw everyone under the bus. Even the three justices were thrown under the bus. The three female justices.

But, there were programs making plans, like Meet the Press.

You own't hear this anyplace else. Do you know how long Glen Beck has been mentoring Arabs about Calphate? Long time.

Everyone have a great 4th of July? Mom, Apple and Baseball. Great American celebration of the founding of our country. Simply make everyone swell with pride.

Evidently, that is not the case anymore at Pungo Vidant Hospital in Belhaven

Is it possible for a Republican party to disdain the poor so much the larger scheme is to get rid of emergency rooms altogether. It is the biggest expense any hospital has. It is where the uninsured seek medical care. Could it be possible to make hospitals for profit only and eliminate the emergency room? 

What if all there was were Emergy-Centers? The poor would have to pay for their care then.