moms333 stated >>>
nah nothing is happening at the school I've checked and he has actually made friends and is learning social etiquette. He doesn't want to get into the taxi because he wants to go back to bed. Lol.

Tmommy stated >>>
Give him an incentive
instead of battle of wills?
For each day he gets up and into taxi without you hollering and being late he earns time on his phone or playing videogames

moms333 replied >>>
I am going to do this on Monday morning, but if he doesn't get in the taxi and refuses then he will loose his place in the school and we will be back at square one. This time though i don't have the energy to get him into another school like this and the council will put him in a mainstream school. :(

Jesusprincessmt Sun 07/05/15 10:51 AM

Good morning! My morning started out with my 13 year old boy singing happy birthday to me! He was at his dad's house and had a slumber party. I felt so loved that he remembered! flowerforyou smile happy

Trump is to the GOP, what Perot was in '92 and '96. Nothing but a vote siphoner.

Trump's goal, just like Perot's, is to put another lib in the Whitehouse.

If one were to take the advice of deadbeat dirty dead hippy,
John Lennon...
and FOLLOW THE MONEY.

The lion's share of political contributions that Trump has made, have gone to the democrats.

mightym posted >>>
i agree with this, since the rich people get richer sucking money from the scams the libs are into... global warming, green energy, the housing bailout scam... rich people love the libs...

SassyEuro posted >>>
Good Mingle2 Morning, Pass the coffee & asprin, very little sleep

2old2 posted >>>
Hopefully this will insight more finite input beside the couple of members that can't do anything but plaster LAME comments about 'LIBERALS'

Here is a image that seems to be the consistent facial projected from Ted Cruz >>> lost puppy dog look or pathetically pleading for help?



BTW --- POLLS DON'T EQUAL VOTES...never have never will.

Ras asked >>>
Do you think Trump is deliberately hamstringing the republican party?

GOP is not slamming Donald Trump's views fast enough:
Latino advocates

BY Celeste Katz / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Friday, July 3, 2015

Motormouth Donald Trump isn'��t doing the Republican Party any favors - and his fellow GOP candidates are adding to the damage by being slow to condemn him, Latino advocates said Friday.

'Trump'��s comments are causing irreparable harm to the brand. It-��s going to be very hard to come back from it,'�� said Felix Sanchez, chairman of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts.

The billionaire candidate sent the debate over border control into overdrive -�� and cost himself business deals -�� by saying Mexico exports '��rapists'�� and drug dealers to the U.S.

'This senseless and totally preventable act of violence committed by an illegal immigrant is yet another example of why we must secure our border immediately,'�� said Trump. 'This is an absolutely disgraceful situation and I am the only one that can fix it.'��

Hispanics Across America Chairman Fernando Mateo said a failure to slam Trump may end up backfiring on the GOP.

'Anyone that has not denounced Trump’s position is weak and does not deserve Hispanic support come election time,'�� Mateo said, calling Trump a '��frustrated' attention-seeker.

Trump, for his part, basked in his success in early surveys.

Trump has still not backed down from his racially charged comments about Mexican immigrants, and now other candidates are speaking out against him. Trump came in with an average of 13.6% support in opinion polls, which leads all GOP candidates..
Trump has still not backed down from his racially charged comments about Mexican immigrants, and now other candidates are speaking out against him..

'Wow, Huffington Post just stated that I am number 1 in the polls of Republican candidates,' the real estate mogul tweeted earlier Friday. 'Thank you, but the work has just begun!'��

Trump was touting his first-place finish in an average of 105 opinion polls tracked by the news outlet: He came in with an average of 13.6% support to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush'��s 13.3%.

While Trump has gained traction, Latino groups and some of his fellow candidates who are mindful of GOP efforts to appeal to Latino voters have told him to back off.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio — the son of Cuban immigrants -�� on Thursday called Trump'��s comments '��not just offensive and inaccurate, but also divisive.'�� Ted Cruz however stuck up for Trump, and instead went after NBC Universal for folding to political pressure.

Marco Rubio came out against Trump'��s comments, saying the next President needs to bring Americans together, '��not someone who continues to divide.'

But another senator of Latino heritage, Ted Cruz of Texas, stuck up for Trump. He'��s accused NBC Universal - which has broken ties with Trump - of folding to political correctness.

Others have yet to comment on Trump's remarks, although Bush, whose wife was born in Mexico, has called them '��wrong,'�� and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry has said Trump’s comments don'��t reflect the GOP.

Former Gov. George Pataki on Friday launched an online 'Stand Up to Trump'�� petition.

joethebricky stated >>>
NTS

You're banned from the political forums

PBS - Frontline - 'It's Not JUST About Illegals - It's About A UNSECURED BORDER'

In a cemetery in the border town of Tijuana, there is a shrine to a young soldier, Juan Soldado, who is the patron saint for migrants trying to cross illegally into the United States. It'��s the place where FRONTLINE/World reporter Lowell Bergman arranges to meet a smuggler, or pollero, who has agreed to talk about the business of human smuggling on condition that we not reveal his identity. We call him '��Rafael.'�� He'��s been a smuggler for ten years and he tells Bergman how he got started in the business.

'I had this friend who had a lot of money and he was like 16 and I was like 18 at the time and I was like, dude, how did you make all that money?'�� recalls Rafael. '��He didn'��t want to tell me at first, and then when he told me, I didn'��t believe him. So he took me to the people and they offered me a job too.'

To show how the smuggling business works, Rafael drives Bergman around Tijuana, which, though peaceful during the day, has turned into one of the most dangerous cities in Mexico due to the drug trade and human trafficking. Rafael says danger is part of the allure of the business - '��an adrenaline rush' when he sneaks people across the border.

Since 9/11, Rafael says that the U.S. has tightened security along the border, but he says the smugglers have learned to adjust, finding more sophisticated hiding places in their vehicles for the migrants they are transporting, creating false documents to show border guards, and charging their clients more for their services.

'��Now more than ever,' says Bergman, '��most migrants need the help of a smuggler to get across the border - making them indispensable. As a result the smugglers say they’re making more money than ever.'

In the past, illegal migrants crossed the border at spots where they were less likely to be spotted -�� sometimes risking long treks through the desert. But the U.S. government is spending billions to build up a border fence, fortified by surveillance cameras, bright lights and many more border guards. So an increasing number of people who enter the U.S. illegally do so through the regular Ports of Entry with the help of professional smugglers.

At the San Ysidro Port of Entry – between Tijuana and San Diego – over 100,000 people cross every day. It’s the busiest land border crossing in the world. The sheer volume of traffic makes it impossible for U.S. border guards to check every vehicle and every document. If they did, the border would shut down.

And if the inspectors do spot a fake ID or uncover migrants hidden in car trunks, the repercussions are minimal, even for the smugglers, because the courts cannot possibly handle the number of cases. Buses carry the illegal migrants who are caught back across the border, where they usually turn around and try again. That goes for the smugglers, too. Rafael says he was caught smuggling once, but was quickly released.

There is one guaranteed way for migrants to get across on their first try, says Rafael - if a smuggling operation is able to bribe a U.S. border official.

'I have known inspectors that are crooked,'�� asserts Rafael. '��But you would never talk about them and you will never say you have one, because it'��s your golden meal ticket because those are like very, very hard to catch. They would make a lot of money because it’s failsafe, it'��s secure.'

Terry Reed, an FBI agent in San Diego, is part of a Border Corruption Task Force and he acknowledges that the problem of corrupt border guards is growing. He recounts one of the most important cases, which started with a tip from an informant who alleged that a guard at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry known as El Guero -�� '��the white guy'�� or 'the blond'�� -�� was working with a smuggling operation. It wasn'��t much to go on. Then, a year later, another tip led to a woman named Aurora Torres, who was a suspected smuggler. Reed set-up a sting operation. At a meeting in a McDonald'��s in San Diego, which was secretly videotaped, Torres agreed to transport a client across the border, saying it was a sure thing because she was working with an officer at the Otay Mesa port. What she didn’t know was that the client was an undercover FBI operative. When he was driven to the border, the operative says a blond Customs Inspector quickly waved their car through.

Reed'��s undercover operation tracked Torres as she took her group of illegal immigrants, and the FBI plant, to a San Diego suburb, to what is known in the trade as a '��load house,'�� a place where smugglers hold the migrants until a relative or friend arrives to pay the required smuggling fee. A member of Reed’s team, posing as a relative, showed up to pay $3,500 to pick up their operative. Later, the operative told his FBI handlers that he'��d read the name on the badge of the guard who waved them through: It was '��Gilliland.'��

At the time, Michael Gilliland, a former Marine, was a decorated Customs and Border Protection inspector with 16 years experience. Investigators began to follow him and wiretap his phone calls, including calls from Aurora Torres, the leader of the smuggling group. 'From these wiretaps, obtained by FRONTLINE/World, it appears the two [Torres and Gilliland] were having an intimate relationship,' says Bergman. “The FBI told me that it'��s a well-known tactic that smugglers use sex to entice border agents into compromising relationships.'��

Still, the FBI needed proof that Gilliland was taking bribes. They managed to record surveillance video of Gilliland entering Torres’ residence, then leaving carrying a plastic bag. 'He was coming to pick up his money,'�� says Reed.

A month later the FBI videotaped Gilliland waving cars through his lane at the Port of Entry, not looking at identification, not asking questions, not searching cars. One of the vehicles caught on the tape -- a black GMC Yukon -- was driven by Torres with 11 illegal immigrants inside. The FBI finally had all the evidence they needed. They arrested Gilliland and Torres.

'Rafael,'�� the smuggler, tells Bergman that a lot of different families are involved in the smuggling trade these days, like Torres. He says the small operations pay off organized crime in Tijuana to allow them to operate.

'��These smuggling groups can afford it,'�� reports Bergman. '��When Torres was arrested, the FBI found nearly half a million dollars in a safe in her bedroom. She pled guilty to smuggling and was sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison.'��

Gilliland also pled guilty to accepting approximately $100,000 in bribe money. He was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a $200,000 fine. But no one knows how many illegal migrants he let into the country or how much money he made.

And Gilliland is only one of many such cases. Federal officials say there have been over a hundred similar busts in the last five years. Just this month a guard was arrested at the same Otay Mesa Port of Entry where Gilliland worked. There are now nearly 200 open investigations of corruption along the U.S. border with Mexico.

'��There'��s more pressure on the other side of the border from the smuggling organizations to elicit the help of a corrupt border official,” says FBI agent Andy Black. '��The pool of individuals who are susceptible to corruption has grown.'

FRONTLINE/World made numerous requests to interview the man in charge of all border issues, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, but he declined. At a press conference, where Bergman finally catches up with him, Chertoff says the bigger the police force on the border, the more corruption cases there will be.

San Diego Congressman Duncan Hunter, an advocate of building an 800-mile fence along the Mexican border, says it'��s '��tragic'�� that some border guards succumb to corruption, but that the government should continue to fortify the border. But University of California at San Diego immigration expert Wayne Cornelius suggests this is futile. His study indicates that 97% of the people who try to cross the border eventually succeed, despite all the obstacles. 'If they don'��t succeed on the first try, they almost certainly will succeed on the second or the third try,'�� says Cornelius.

Back In Tijuana, 'Rafael,'�� the smuggler, tells Bergman he'��s not worried about going out of business any time soon, due to a U.S. clampdown on the border. '��The smuggling people business, the pollero business, will stop only when there are no borders,' he argues. '��Unless you can stop poverty or hunger, it will never stop, because people will always want to help their families. Doesn’t matter how tall the wall is, they will just dig a hole then. So you will never stop people getting across [into] the United States.'��

pinkbunny posted >>>
Thank you....I try

PinkBunny stated >>>


Here's your gift!!


Happy Birthday Dave!!