More Criminals Caught At The Border

As Mexico's leaders continue to disparage us for wanting to protect the integrity of our borders, here's another example of what's trying to slip through. From murderers to drug runners, they seize the opportunity to prey upon our nation. It's time to bar the door and tell Mexico where to go.


DOUGLAS — A man wanted on an attempted first-degree murder charge in Cochise County was detained at the federal port of entry in this border community and turned over to the Douglas Police Department late Monday night.
Esgardo Ysea, 41, a U.S. citizen, who was released from state prison in 2004, after serving nearly 19 years for a conviction of second-degree murder, is wanted for the multiple stabbing of a 44-year-old man in Douglas, according to police Lt. Carlos Guido.On July 3, Ysea, allegedly “viciously attacked the man stabbing him numerous times and leaving him for dead,” Guido said.
After the incident, Ysea fled the area and has been the subject of a search since then, said the police lieutenant, who commands the Douglas investigation section.Guido first came to know Ysea in September 1985, when as a patrol officer he was involved in an incident in which the man “stabbed his estranged common-law wife in the back with a butcher knife.”
The woman died a day later, and the result was Ysea’s conviction of second-degree murder at a Cochise County Superior Court trial and his prison sentence, the officer said.According to a spokeswoman for the Cochise County Jail booking section, Ysea is being held on a $250,000 bond on the current attempted murder charge and an additional $1,000 bond for a reported domestic violence charged allegedly committed earlier this year.
Guido said Ysea is accused of destroying furniture of his girlfriend and dolls belonging to her children during a March 28 incident.Ysea’s detention and turning over to the Douglas Police Department involved was one of two cases Monday involving people with outstanding warrants in Arizona.According to Brian Levin, spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection office in the state, agents at the Douglas Port of Entry recognized Ysea as being wanted by law enforcement.They also detained Romaine Heath, 52, on a warrant from Maricopa County, who was escorted to them by Mexican authorities.Heath, an American citizen, is wanted on a no-bond probation violation, according to a county jail spokeswoman. No information about the violation was available. He was turned over to the Douglas Police Department.Also, on Christmas Day, a husband and wife from Chihuahua, Mexico, were stopped at the Douglas Port of Entry and arrested for attempting to smuggle 127 pounds of marijuana, hidden in 86 packages inside special compartments built into a 1994 GMC Sierra pickup, Levin said.

From the Sierra Vista Herald.

Another Fine Mess

Stanley Kerry and Ollie Kennedy prepare their latest comedy of errors. Entitled "Hiding From The Law", a short description follows. On the run from the 180 police, the comic duo hide in, what they believe to be, a deserted boat house. But, Stan and Ollie soon find themselves waterlogged to the point of capsizing.


Well, Stanley, release your military records like you promised. What type of discharge did you originally receive? Free your 180, the whole thing. Tell the whole truth!

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Holiday Visitors

As long as Congress may be in the mood to finally start securing our borders it is well to remind everyone of incidents such as this. There is no reason the American public should be subject to the dangers of entry at will by the criminals of Mexico.

Dec. 4, 2005, CBP Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of 19 illegal aliens east of the Douglas Port of Entry. At the Douglas processing station, all of the subjects’ fingerprints were submitted into the IAFIS, checking for criminal histories and searching over 49 million records in the Federal Bureau of Investigation fingerprint database.

One of the individuals, Jose Medina-Castañeda, a 43-year-old Mexican national who was illegally in the United States, was identified as having an outstanding felony warrant for murder/homicide in Los Angeles. Upon the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office verifying the warrant and confirming extradition to Los Angeles, Medina-Castañeda was booked in the Cochise County Jail where he awaits extradition to California.

Thanks to the New York Jewish Times.


Important Note: Utilized throughout all sectors of the U.S. Border Patrol, the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) has identified 606 homicide suspects and 154,530 suspected criminals between the ports of entry since its inception Sept. 1, 2004.

Good News, Bad News

There's an old joke about a doctor who offers good news and bad news to a patient in the hospital. "Which would you like to hear first," he asks the man he's treating.

"Give me the bad news," says the patient.

"I'm afraid I have to amputate both your legs at the knees,"states the doctor.

The patient, visibly shaken, stammers, "What could the good news be?"

The doctor quickly responds, "the guy in the next room wants to buy your shoes."

That is how the Zogby America Poll left me feeling. Read on.

If the shadows of future presidential elections remain unchanged, Republicans again will take the White House in 2008, according to polling conducted this month. The results also conclude that U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., would be the winner.

A Zogby America poll was conducted Dec.6-8 of 1,013 registered voters across the nation, and those responding were asked who they would vote for if the election were held today.

In order to keep the Democrats out do I have to let McCain in?

More about the poll at The Intelligencer.

Merry Christmas To All

I have been out of commission since Tuesday afternoon due to some hideous bug. While I am starting to feel better, I am going to vacation from posting and continue to get rest and enjoy the holiday with family. Merry Christmas to all and may God bless!

John Kerry, He's A Dilly

In what he is now trying to be pass off as a joke, John Kerry commented to a veterans group in Boston, "If we take back the House, there a solid case to bring articles of impeachment against this president.”

The Boston Globe reports that a spokeswoman for Kerry, April Boyd, tried to downplay the senator’s comment with a zinger of her own, saying "Impeachment jokes in Washington are as old as Donald Rumsfeld." Not only does Kerry lack a true sense of humor but, he is constantly having to clarify, restate or extricate himself from his own words. So, John, is it not reasonable for many of us to have doubts about your 180 form?

Release your military records like you promised. What type of discharge did you originally receive? Free your 180, the whole thing. Tell the whole truth!

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More on the John Kerry "impeachment joke" at NewsMax.

House Approves Norwood CLEAR Act

“This is a tremendous win for public safety and the ability of state and local law enforcement across the country to effectively fight violent criminal illegal aliens,” Norwood says.

Thank you, Congressman Norwood, for your persistence and determination to protect our nation. After almost three years of effort the payoff is at hand. Local law enforcement agencies will be approved to enforce federal immigration law during the course of routine duties.

The House of Representatives has passed the major provisions of the CLEAR Act, HR 3137, by U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA) as Amendment 65 to the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, HR 4437. The Amendment passed by a 237-180 bipartisan margin. The overall bill, HR 4437, is expected to be sent to conference with Senate immigration reform legislation, and if the two Houses agree to a final bill, the CLEAR Act provisions could become law sometime next year.

The CLEAR Act was considered by friend and foe to be one of the most powerful potential reforms in fighting illegal immigration. Currently, illegal aliens who make it past the border are largely able to disappear in immigrant communities, as only 2,000 federal officers are able to track down 460,000 criminal aliens each year, rendering effective enforcement virtually impossible. The CLEAR Act amendments allow an additional 700,000 state and local officers to join the fight.

Read more at this news release.

You'll Be Told What To Do

Obviously not open to diverse opinions regarding their organization's agenda, the ACLU can't bring itself to be cordial to the Christian clergy. What evil spell was the gay grinch Romero conjuring up in his den of iniquity that he couldn't drag himself away from for a few moments? I'll bet Satan is a jealous taskmaster.

I wonder where the letters are now...perhaps gone to the shredder that the ACLU has grown so fond of recently.

The following is from Agapepress:

...A Christian leader says the American Civil Liberties Union was anything but civil recently when he presented the organization with thousands of letters. Rob Schenck of the National Clergy Council recently presented to the ACLU 20,000 letters protesting that group's attacks on Christmas and other forms of religious expression. Schenck says ACLU executive director Anthony Romero was not interested in talking. "When I asked if I could see Mr. Romero, I was told no," Schenck relates. "When I asked if I could speak with his assistant, Scott, who was on the phone with me, he said no." Further, says the ministry leader, when he asked if he could simply deliver the letters and than discuss them later with ACLU officials, he was told: "When you get here, you'll be told what to do." When Schenck arrived at ACLU headquarters in Washington, DC, he was told to go to the back door, near the dumpster. The delivery service assured Schenck that the letters would be given to Mr. Romero. Schenck observes that "while the ACLU [claims to] be champions of free speech, they had no interest in hearing what we had to say." [Bill Fancher]

Sunday Funny

Feliz Navidad

Just Friday, in Fox Wants To Run Our Henhouse, I was writing how Vicente Fox should take care of his own country and not be so busy minding America's business. If Fox was really worried about the "rights" of his people he would do something about the harassment, extortion and robbery inflicted on them by Mexican government personnel.

Someone should translate that maxim about people living in glass houses for Mr. Fox. He certainly needs someone to remind him which country he's responsible for running and how it is not acceptable to meddle in your neighbor's internal affairs. Stuff that in your tortilla and eat it, Vicente!

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican migrants returning home from the United States laden with money and Christmas presents have complained of being harassed, extorted or robbed by Mexican police and customs officials, the government announced Friday.Since Nov. 1, the government has received 28 complaints from migrants, about 20 percent higher than during the same period last year, said Florencia Martinez, head of the Paisano Program, a government effort to clamp down on corrupt public officials and to welcome migrants home for the holidays.
Martinez attributed the increase to migrants becoming more aware of their rights and initiatives that have made it easier to file a complaint — and not to more corruption.

Thanks to the Sierra Vista Herald.

Sunday Reading

For your Sunday reading, I encourage you to go to this article at PittsburghLIVE.com. It is called Taking license with liberty and is well written by Gery Steighner.

Here is a brief excerpt:

The ACLU's worldview is not one of liberty but of license, animated by a reckless abandonment of a belief central to the survival of the American dream.

If we wish to have rights, we must undergo the pain of defending them.

Most important, we must understand where those rights come from and the obligations they impose. The ACLU does not.

No Patriots These

In a vote early Friday, Senate supporters of the Patriot Act were not able to get the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster by Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, and Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and their allies. The final vote was 52-47. Below, I have listed the names of those voting nay. Frist, R-Tennessee, changed his vote at the last moment after seeing the critics would win. He decided to vote with the prevailing side so he could call for a new vote at any time.

If an act of terrorism occurs that could have been prevented by reauthorizing this legislation, these senators should be held accountable for every death, injury and property loss. A special court of the people should be convened, gallows built and justice meted out swiftly. We may need a specially reinforced facility for Teddy. The fact that all our senators feel it is ok to recess for the holidays while our security hangs in the balance shows how serious these egomaniacs are about serving their nation.

Akaka (D-HI) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Biden (D-DE) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Byrd (D-WV) Cantwell (D-WA) Carper (D-DE) Clinton (D-NY) Conrad (D-ND) Corzine (D-NJ) Craig (R-ID) Dayton (D-MN) Dorgan (D-ND) Durbin (D-IL)

Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA) Frist (R-TN) Hagel (R-NE) Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Jeffords (I-VT) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Kohl (D-WI) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (D-CT) Lincoln (D-AR)

Mikulski (D-MD) Murkowski (R-AK) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Obama (D-IL) Pryor (D-AR) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Salazar (D-CO) Sarbanes (D-MD) Schumer (D-NY) Stabenow (D-MI) Sununu (R-NH) Wyden (D-OR)

Fox Wants To Run Our Henhouse

President Vicente Fox always has more to say about the United States than he does Mexico. On Wednesday, he criticized the United States' decision to strengthen its border security and complete a wall along the border.

"This situation we're seeing, a disgraceful and shameful moment where walls are being built, security systems are being reinforced, and human and labor rights are being violated more and more, won't protect the economy of the United States," Fox said.

"It would be hard to know what would happen to the economy of the United States if it wasn't for the enormous contribution, the productivity, the quality of work of our countrymen in that country," Fox added.

The only concern Fox has about our economy is how much money he can pump into his own by encouraging his countrymen to break our laws. What is disgraceful and shameful is the continued culture of corruption that pervades his country and the fact that it will not take care of its own. The disgrace and shame all belongs to Vicente and those who have gone before him.

Fox has the unmitigated gall to tell Americans what they need when he can't even fix his own miserable economy that drives its citizens to acts of desperation.

"What the United States needs is a young (work) force, energy, quality, productivity, which is what keeps that economy competitive and the only way it can stop losing jobs to Asia, to China,"preached Fox.

What the United States needs is for Mexico to fix itself and for its leaders to stop advocating the breaking of our laws. Since taking office, Fox has traveled each year to Mexico's northern border to greet the wave of returning illegals. It is undesirable traits like that in a neighbor that cause walls to be built.

Freedom Of, Not Freedom From

Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett, R-S.C. filed legislation that he says will protect elected and appointed officials who want to pray in public.

"All we're doing is trying to clarify what the Constitution of the United States says," Barrett said. "What the Constitution says is 'freedom of religion,' not 'freedom from religion.'"

"Just because I'm a public official doesn't mean I'm not a citizen of the United States and protected under the Constitution of the United States," stated Barrett.

“What the Constitution says is you don’t have to believe as I believe. Any public official can stand up and pray. If he wants to be inclusive, fine. If he wants to be specific, fine,” Barrett said.

This certainly sounds reasonable, why should I have to abdicate my beliefs as a human being, my rights endowed by my creator in order to serve as a public official. Telling me how and where I can pray violates my freedoms of religion and free speech.

But, this is not good enough for the ACLU. One of their minions in South Carolina, Mike Cubello, says,"it's clearly unconstitutional. It disrespects people of other religions."

I'm sure Mike and the rest of the ACLU are deeply concerned about the sensitivities of religious folks. But,I missed the disrespecting of other religions clause in the constitution. When someone put the crucifix in urine and called it art, I assumed we were blessing disrespect of religion as part of our free speech. At that time the ACLU went to court to protect the right to disrespect Christianity. Is this one of those hypocritical stances by the ACLU...again!

According to a biography of Cubelo, he does not attend church and spends Sunday morning with the New York Times. It sounds very much like those who have disdain for organized religion and adore the pseudo-intellectual ramblings of the liberal elite, pushing tyranny by the minority once again.

Where is the disrepect in allowing each person to pray as they deem appropriate? What happened to the concept of displaying polite reverence for someone elses faith? As Barrett said, about those who hold beliefs different than his, "I would hope that they would be tolerant of me because I would certainly be tolerant of them."

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Iranian Clergyman Holds Ballistic Prayer Service

UPDATE: The head of Iraq's border guards denied police reports on Wednesday that a tanker truck stuffed with thousands of forged ballot papers had been seized crossing into Iraq from Iran before Thursday's elections.

Interior Minister Bayan Jabor also denied the reports, which the New York Times ran prominently, quoting a single unnamed Interior Ministry source, and said it was an attempt to discredit the election process.(Reuters)

In a choice between Reuters and the NY Times, which one do you believe if you believe at all. Still, it doesn't absolve Iran from interference in another soveriegn state's affairs.

As predicted, Iran has been caught red-handed interfering in the Iraqi election. Madman Mahmoud continues to deny the Holocaust. "They have fabricated a legend under the name 'Massacre of the Jews', and they hold it higher than God himself, religion itself and the prophets themselves," he said. And now, the ruling Ayatollah has placed his blessing on the nuclear obliteration of a nation. He did this, by the way, at a prayer service. See more details at the end of this post.

Who can still be in denial about the diabolical intentions of this rogue nation? It has been contended by both the US and Britain that sophisticated bombs have been smuggled across the border from Iran. They are more powerful and deadly than the rudimentary ones assembled in Iraq. As I have said before, the lunatic leadership of Syria and Iran live in fear of a democratic Iraq and they will do all they can to prevent it. Like it or not, confrontation with these fanatics is inevitable.

Here is the info on the latest statement of peace and tolerance from the Iranian cretinous clergyman.

Ruling Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani declared Friday that the Muslim world could survive a nuclear exchange with Israel - while accomplishing the goal of obliterating the Jewish state.

"[The] application of an atomic bomb would not leave anything in Israel - but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world," Hashemi-Rafsanjani said, in quotes picked up by the Iran Press Service.

"If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate," he posited.

More at NewsMax.

Survey Says...

Attitude is 90% of everything. How we interpret circumstances and events and channel our reactions will usually determine if what happens to us is positive or negative. The left seems to always expect and embrace the negative. They flock to failure and eschew success as it suits their agenda. Of course, as usual they give themselves a free pass by referring to their own failures as "deferred success".

I have faith in the ability of America to accomplish great deeds. Guess which poll I believe?

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) at a December 7th news conference.

"Eighty percent of the people, according to a British poll reported by the Washington Times, says we want the United States out; 77 percent of the people in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt say there's a better chance of democracy if the United States is not there because we're considered occupiers; 45 percent of the people in Iraq think that it's justified to kill Americans."

But then there is this from an ABC News poll:

Most Iraqis want U.S. forces to stay until security is better. 52 percent of Iraqis want the U.S. troops to stay. That includes 31 percent who say stay until security is restored, 15 percent who say until Iraqi security forces can operate on their own and 5 percent who say stay even longer. 59 percent of those living in Shiite areas say the United States was right to invade their country and topple Saddam. 64 percent say democracy will be the right government for Iraq in five years' time.

Thanks to the Washington Post and the New York Post.

All We Want For Christmas

Democrat John Kerry blasted the Republican Party for creating a Web video that features a white flag of surrender waving across his face for suggesting U.S. troops are "terrorizing" Iraqis.

Kerry is seen telling CBS newsman Bob Schieffer: "There is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night terrorizing kids and children, you know, women."

Sounds like John has updated his "American atrocities" speech for a new generation.

Yet, one of Kerry's minions, David Wade, administered the ad nauseam reference to Kerry's 1 year tour in Viet Nam that was shortened into a 4 month stint by questionable wounds. Now that the Kerry jackal pack is yipping it up, perhaps they'd like to clarify the lingering questions about the details of his 180. Come on boys, if you're so sure of Kerry's heroics let's lay the whole record out in the light of day. Make the "Cambodian Christmas Kid" deliver this year. Make him report for truth!

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Persons of the Year, ACLU Style

To help select the Person of the Year for 2005, TIME has asked some well known people whom they would choose.

For reasons that I won't argue here, one of the people solicited was Anthony Romero, the executive director of the ACLU. Now, do you think anyone from the ACLU is seriously going to weigh the merits of who should truly be the Person of the Year or will they nominate some self-serving entity that will promote the personal agenda and subjective opinions of their organization?

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the nomination of Anthony Romero and the ACLU, the envelope please:

I nominate "Ghost Detainee X," representing almost 30 prisoners held incommunicado, without legal rights or access to counsel, in a network of secret prisons in Europe and Asia. Their existence raises serious doubts about whether or not we are betraying the best of American values.

I didn't expect him to nominate the American soldier although that would have been an excellent choice. I got what I expected and what TIME knew they would get, a left wing talking point. We have all come to anticipate this kind of America bashing from both the ACLU and TIME but, now they are so bold as to not even attempt to hide that they are working in concert. I cannot decide which organization is more disgusting.

To give you some idea of how ridiculous this nomination is, you need to see the TIME poll where you can vote for your favorite. Although the "Ghost Detainee" is not currently an option, Mother Nature is, right up there with Pope Benedict XVI. Of course, two other options are Bono and Valerie Plame. Andrew Weil who nominated Mother Nature also offered"the unknown Iraqi victim" as an option. I wonder if they checked to see what he was currently medicating himself with while he considered the question. Need I say more?

Sunday Funny Time

A director of the ACLU was in an exclusive hospital for a complicated operation. To assist in his recovery, he made arrangements for a large private room and paid extra for a window looking out on a virgin forest.

The surgery took place early in the morning and several hours later the director awoke in his hospital bed. Standing over him were the doctor, a nurse and a priest. The blinds and curtains were closed hiding the beautiful pastoral view.

"What the hell are you doing here," he said to the priest, "and why are the curtains closed? I'm paying a bundle for that view."

The priest replied, "I am the hospital chaplain. While you were under the knife, a huge forest fire broke out. All you could see from this window were giant flames and clouds of smoke. We were afraid if you awoke to that, you'd think you had died.

Iran Plots Rigging Of Iraqi Election

The emergence of democracy in Iraq is so threatening to Iran and Syria that they will do anything to prevent it. To complicate things even more, both nations are run by leaders out of the mold of Hitler and Stalin. This is one more reason that our success along with the freedom loving people of Iraq and the Middle East is so important.

The following is from Iran-Focus News.

Iran has ordered its “agents” in Iraq to rig the parliamentary elections on Thursday, according to an Iraqi website.

The plan is to be carried out in three stages, the website Iraq al-Qad wrote on Wednesday.

The first stage involves voting multiple times with forged ballots. There will also be widespread propaganda to mislead ordinary Iraqis to vote for the pro-Iran Shiite slate led by the cleric Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim.

During the second stage, Tehran’s agents will attempt to tamper with the records of all the ballot boxes at the end of the polls, the report said.

The third stage is when the final voting slips are delivered to the provincial capitals to be transferred to the United Nations’ tally centre. Tehran has ordered its agents, some of whom have senior official positions, to tamper with the votes in certain provinces.