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- I think we're having the 5,000th slumber party to night at the house. That is, after they all get back from the Justin Bieber movie. Think they'll be ratcheted up?
- The Texas Senate has passed the Sonogram Bill. It's comical that Rick Perry has designated it as "emergency" legislation.
- If all the school districts have to layoff people for the next school year, they'll have to make that decision pretty quickly, won't they?
- Azle motorcycle death.
- DPS had a press conference yesterday and released surveillance footage of a potential suspect in the fire at the Governor's Mansion. Hey, that fire took place in 2008! What took you so long?
- I updated the post yesterday but you may have missed it: The guy who was arrested for poisoning the trees at Auburn says on his Facebook page that he is a former Texas DPS Trooper.
- Preseason Rangers prediction: They won't make the playoffs.
- I jogged with an OU T-shirt yesterday and met a guy wearing a Longhorn T-shirt. He looked genuinely angry with me. Funny. (I bet I've got 20 different T-shirts with random college names on them. I even got one for Vanderbilt.)
- The Star-Telegram has a headline/story today that says a jury has "recommended" a 25 year sentence in case involving the death of a baby. A jury never "recommends" a sentence. What they say is the sentence.
- Weather talk is boring, but is this not the craziest February ever? One week in the deep freeze and then two weeks of the warmest February weather I've ever seen.
- I've preached for years that conservative Republicans will lose power in the future for one simple reason: Demographics. Yesterday's Census data proves the point. And is there any doubt that the percentage of Hispanics will be significantly greater in the 2020 Census?
- Other Census nuggets: Bridgeport is 42% Hispanic. And Bridgeport has only 66 less people than Decatur.
- Did you realize that Jerry Jones hasn't been seen or heard since the Super Bowl?
99 comments:
"Did you realize that Jerry Jones hasn't been seen or heard since the Super Bowl?"
Been nice, hasn't it?
Barry, why do you ASSUME Hispanics will vote straight Democrat? Many Hispanics who come here legally and work hard often to agree with the conservative philosophy after they've been here long enough.
Have you not heard of Marco Rubio of Florida (the new Republican senator)?
Wasn't there a big DISD board meeting last night to discuss cuts? Wow! NO MENTION of it in the update nor this blog. Anyone go and know what was said? I wasn't able to attend.
Of course, Bridgeport counts all of the state jail prisoners in its population total.
You do realize the racism inherent in your "Demographics" comment, don't you? Believing an entire group of people will act in unison, based on their ethnicity?
This poll reveals that more than half of Texas Hispanics consider themselves "conservative." Get the immigration issue off the front page every election cycle -- or focus that conversation on the word illegal rather than immigrant -- and things look pretty good for Conservatives.
I don't have my own Random Thoughts blog, but if I did, I would include this crazy story about another facet of our legal system gone mad--
http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=14014451
Hispanics will vote democrat because the republicans have done a good job of alienating them. (no pun intended) All this talk about stopping illegal immigration is just thinly veneered racism. If the republicans genuinely wanted to reach out to hispanic voters, they would have supported President Bush's short-lived immigration reform proposal.
It is funny to hear republicans bring up "good hispanics" like Marco Rubio to illustrate that hispanics can vote republican. Yeah, and that Jeb Bush even married a hispanic, he loves them so much!
It is the same as holding up token black republicans like Clarence Thomas and J.C. Watts.
I'm a little disappointed in the pick me up today. I guess a 3 day weekend for most of us doesn't require a lot of effort today.
I guess "Hispanic" is the PC way to describe MESSICANS. Those greasy f@ckers are getting worse than the Neegra...
I have to agree with the host about that murder trial with no body.
It sounded weird when I heard WBAP comment on the verdict this morning...."guilty verdict on missing wife...." just doesn't sound like a crime.
Sonogram issue totally and completely NOT an emergency. Unless we really, really need to find a way to spend more public money on medical expenses that the poor cannot afford to pay for themselves. In that limited context, O.K., sure, it is a huge emergency.
Funny how these headlines never make it to main stream media outlets, but a DPD facebook story does:
Said Musa, 45, was told by a judge that he would be hanged within days unless he reconverts to Islam from Christianity.
Man! You have to love that Islam religion. It is so peaceful, yet misunderstood.
Marco Rubio is Cuban American and the Cubans in FL have a powerful lobby. They are the reason we don't have offical relations with Cuba. The FL republicans treat them a TAD differently than the TX republicans treat the Mexican Americans here.
Uncle Wally
(I'm sure wk will have something to disagree with about this)
"Jerry Jones has not been heard from"
Sadly, this will not last.
Uncle Wally
"official"
uw
Todays pic------F A I L
Who's the fat chick on the beach?
900 - It's sad when your entire argument is "opposing illegal immigration" = "racism." You blithely ignore the problems caused by illegal immigration -- the overtaxing of hospital emergency rooms and near-bankrupting of hospitals by uninsured illegals, for example -- and reduce the argument to the standard Liberal fallback position used on all topics.
you may call it being an aglo-american mintority, but i call it exclusivity.
also, access to cheap labor is good for the economy.
more mexican % means lower white trash %.
love mexican food.
sounds like this increase in hispanic population aint all that bad. that is, unless you own a hospital.
uw - Please provide specifics on what you're saying. What are the differences in how Florida Republicans treat Cubans and how Texas Republicans treat Mexican-Americans?
9:04 not sure 'most' of us are getting a 3-day weekend. Prez. Day is really a non-holiday which only gov. employees recognize isn't it?
I feel your angst re: slumber party. My daughter had many of those and I can't say I ever looked forward to them. It's a necessary evil, though, if you have a daughter and want her to have friends. You need to develop a 'man-cave' and retreat to it when necessary.
The Messenger doesn't cover REAL news such as DISD school board meetings. They just like to print stories about illegitimate babies born to unwed teens attending their parents' wedding like that's an admirable thing!
9:55 you are right about the cheap labor. It was the politicians from states with no access to that labor market who first started crying about "immigration" and changed the discourse of security from towelheads to mexicans. Well screw em. I say build a border fence along oklahoma and lousy-ana to keep those carpet baggers from from taking away our natural advantage!
10:17 no kidding. i can handle mexicans occupying the entire north side of decatur more than i can handle a flat-headed yankee moving in next door.
9:55
You don't have to wait on the census to show you the migration patterns. The Texas Education Agency "Snapshot" will tell you year by year what is happening.
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/snapshot/
Since 1995 Bridgeport has gone from 80% White to 58% White. Mexican students have gone from 19% to 39%. Decatur has gone from 76% White to 68% White and Mexicans from 21% to 30%. Dallas has gone from 13% White to 5% White. Dallas has also lost Black population with the number of Black students going from 44% to 28%. The Dallas ISD Mexican students have gone from 42% to 67%. To think the Dallas ISD is having budget problems! These ethnic changes put tremendous downward pressure on real estate values. Schools drive real estate values.
If you own real estate in Bridgeport ISD you might think about getting out of Dodge while you still have some equity left.
Now the million dollar question: Why is Frisco, Texas the fastest growing city in the United States?
Did Decatur decide to cut teacher jobs last night.
Sucks about the sleepover, but you don't have to take it out on us with such a crappy picture.
Also, Hispanics are generally not conservative. They are, however, overwhelmingly Catholic, which means they're overwhelmingly anti-abortion. It's the only thing the vast majority of them have in common with the Republican Party, as most Republican voters want to kick them out of the country.
Rage
Counseler, you can stick your Rangers prediction and I'll give you this one last chance to redact your Mavs prediction. You suck...
This is not warm. In 2006 we got into the mid 80s in February. And in the early 1970's I went boating in January on Lake Lewisville wearing a short sleeve shirt. Our weather is a normal variation in weather patterns when compared to the last 100 years. Don't warn me of global warming or an ice age.
I tell you what 10:31, I'd rather bang a hot latin hottie than some pimply assed cheese chuggin yankee.
GO Decatur Lady Eagles!!!!!!
* Slumber party at your house is better than at someone else's where you REALLY do not know the girls are REALLY being supervised.
* Texas legislature passing "Emergency" Sonogram Bill is nothing more than conclusive evidence that Texas is spiraling into IDIOCRACY. How does the state have the RIGHT to dictate that ANY woman must be required to undergo ANY medical procedure? Not really any different than China requiring women who have more than 1 child to undergo an abortion.
* I am fairly certain, Decatur ISD is going to have an incredibly difficult time successfully cutting their payroll. I applauded the Decatur Superintendent for the first portion of his budget cutting agenda but was stopped in mid clap by the last part of his statement.
"“My goal is to minimize the impact as much as possible on our students and our staff. Our second goal is to maintain as many jobs as possible,”
Since it is fiscal suicide, even during a time of abundant wealth, "to maintain as many jobs as possible," why, during STAGGERING income deficiencies would the guy in charge of managing the budget believe he has a responsibility to "maintain as many jobs as possible"? People who run successful businesses KNOW it is imperative, to continued success, to keep their payroll liability to a MINIMUM. Sounds like the Superintendent has forgotten for whom he REALLY works. Take away the Superintendent's raise and give it to someone who understands the purpose of their job.
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* Barry's obsession with motorcycle deaths is just slightly creepier than his obsession with bikini clad, ugly/skanky women.
* How is it that Wise County has such a HUGE Hispanic population but Republicans dominate elections? Oh, right, ILLEGAL ALIENS are not permitted to vote.
BTW...Regardless of what the media/PC Police want the public to believe, there is no such thing as an "illegal immigrant." An immigrant is a foreign national/ALIEN who has gone through the LEGAL PROCESS to enter/reside in a country other than the ALIEN'S country or origin. Anyone who is illegally (not having gone through the legal procedure to enter/reside) in a country is an ILLEGAL ALIEN.
Best/oddest t-shirt:
My neighbor kid was walking down the street last summer sporting a brightly colored tee with the picture of mass murderer/major crazy Charles Manson on the front. Thinking I may need to move our homestead to escape the Texas branch of the Manson family, I just nodded a quick greeting & hurried past. As I quietly turned to observe if he had weapons in his back pocket, I saw the writing on the back of the tee - "charly doesn't surf". I broke out laughing & he turned and chuckled. I hired that kid to mow my yard the rest of the summer.
My Other Brother Darryl
MZ: Your comment about Barry's obsessions with skanks reminds me one of his other obsessions which I don't 'get', that of female news anchors. Just don't get it.
mzchief please!! That is NOT the Decatur way. The DISD gave him the $10,000 raise to help get the turf in here! Next year we hope to get rid of all the teachers and hire only coaches to replace them or at the least require them to have coaching certifications.
It is imparitive for the future of our kids to have a good football team.
1:19 It is "imperative" that you learn how to spell!
That Turf will actually SAVE money!! You won't have to mow it, water it, or paint it. The maintenance savings alone means the turf will pay for itself in 30 or 40 years.
For the same reason, I think it is time for the district to buy the superintendent a new car. The old one might start having repair issues.
"All this talk about stopping illegal immigration is just thinly veneered racism."
Good God, you liberals have such a WARPED view of logic!!!
I suppose the fact that more African Americans are in prison than whites and Hispanics is racism too, so, to hell with the law, just release all of them from their cells!
Decatur will announce teacher cuts next month.
But the new bleachers will open by then.... Paid for on the backs of soon to be unemployed teachers.
I bet the Decatur Super's wife's job will avoid any cut.
Awww....teen girl slumber parties. Let the bra freezing begin. LOL
Turf typically has to be replaced in 10 years.
Screw PC crap that wingnuts are always proclaiming is there... I never here anyone talk about PC unless they vote repubican (intentional spelling). While we are at it... why not cut the crap and start publicly calling "illegals" by what you really mean - mexicans or your favorite derogatory name (looking at you mzcheez wiz).
I don't see anyone pointing to illegal canadian immigrants or illegal irish immigrants (and there were alot in 80's).
signed,
Rick Perry's illegitimate wetback son
I those laid off in Decatur will enjoy sitting on those new bleachers.
I would rather have bleachers over a teacher or library lady ant day.
The Messenger doesn't seem interested in investigative journalism, Boring!
3:50. No, the Messenger is most assuredly NOT interested in investigative journalism, nor are most small newspapers these days...whether they are large of small.
You want to know why?
Because of drastically reduced news staffs and because such stories SCARE advertisers!
Newspaper publishers are more about business than they are about news!
I was always fond of calling them pepper bellies.
Chico ISD looking at cutting 14 teacher positions plus other non-teaching jobs! Ouch!!!!
To Ricardo Perry @3:34...
There you go, assuming MUCH with NO facts.
Your unwarranted assertion that I am biased against Mexicans proves YOU ARE AN IDIOT and lack the integrity to even bother to know ANYTHING about the person you are ATTEMPTING to defame.
Based on my 3:32 & 2:58 comments on 01.01.2008 on Barry's Blog not only do I NOT harbour any ill will towards illegal aliens, including but not limited to "mexican," I am a STAUNCH proponent to legitimizing illegal aliens who are currently working in the US. I even go so far as to castigate the US for failing to provide a VIABLE guest worker's program thus legitimizing currently, employed illegal aliens residing illegally within the US.
"What is most galling and disgusting is the gross injustice that the U.S. government continues to perpetrate against the illegal aliens who are vital to the continued health of the U.S. economy. By not adopting a VIABLE guest worker's program the U.S. continues to maintain a sub-culture of people within the U.S. who are used and put in a position, for the BENEFIT of the U.S., to be considered and treated as second class citizens. The U.S. continued failure to adopt a VIABLE guest worker's program is shameful and has proved dangerous for the citizens of the U.S. as well as the illegal aliens working and living within the U.S."
If you are incapable of understanding what has just happened to you let me spell it out for you. You have just had your self-righteous, uninformed arse handed to you by ME.
Clearly, IT SUCKS TO BE YOU!
Didn't Decatur have too much money back in January?
3:58 Newspapers only report yesterday's news now. They will soon be bye bye.
Did you realize that Jerry Jones hasn't been seen or heard since the Super Bowl?
After the last time he went missing for a while, didn't he reappear having had obvious plastic surgery?
And that chick is fat. You can do better.
To Ricardo Perry...
If you did not like my comments on 01.01.2008 here is another one at 2:48 on 09.27.2007 wherein I defend illegal aliens and campaign for legitimizing employed illegal aliens.
"Deporting EVERY illegal alien in the United States would DESTROY the U.S. agriculture, construction and manufacturing industries. The United States does NOT need to deport a single EMPLOYED illegal alien to establish order. What the U.S. desperately needs is a VIABLE guest worker's program. A simple method would be to permit EVERY illegal alien who has been employed for 24 months have their CURRENT employer register them and obtain a "guest worker's permit number." Should the "guest worker" change employers it is up to the ex-employer to notify the Guest Worker's Dept. of the change. The guest worker then has 60 days to have a NEW employer inform the GWD of their new employment."
"First and foremost the United States needs to take the fear, bigotry and politics out of the illegal alien issue and think about what is best for the United States."
You are like all the other ARROGANT/Self Righteous people who believe, just because they have concocted some half-baked opinion, based on nothing more then YOUR BIAS about someone, you believe you know the person you have defamed. Prior to judging someone and spewing your ignorant BULLSnoT about someone, get a few FACTS.
If I sound a bit disgusted, you are correct. I do not suffer fools and YOU ARE AN IDIOT!
You can accurately call me a LOT of derogatory names but a bigot and/or racist are NOT on the list.
See, it really SUCKS TO BE YOU!
3:49 I hope you meant your post to be funny because your wanting bleachers over teachers is ironic (big word there) when considering your atrocious (look it up) spelling!
Beaners works for me too.
The Decatur board would never have approved the million dollar spending spree if there was any chance of an budget shortage.
They are not fools
Mzchief some of us remember that mexican that broke your heart. You shouldn't hate all mexicans just because of one bad apple.
Mzchief invented the "Dirty Sanchez" back in high school.
OMG, here we go with the "sucks to be you" drivel again. sooo old..
The tree poisoning thing happened at our state capitol about 15 or 20 years ago, I think what was named "Treaty Oak". Seems it was some environmental nut job. I can't remember the outcome.
OMG, here we go again with 9:10 sucking.
Shut up Mzchief !!!!!
Barry, You are delusional. My hubby graduated from OU. I graduated from UT. Who cares???
You are envious of UT. Was that your first choice for law school & they turned you down?
re: " I jogged with an OU T-shirt yesterday and met a guy wearing a Longhorn T-shirt. He looked genuinely angry with me. Funny. . . "
9:43, I'm so sorry you're stuck completely up the brown end of Mzchief.... Maybe you haven't realized it yet, but the "sucks to be you" is quite old and tiresome. But of course you didn't realize that because you have no mind of your own to think with. Here's a different lingo - - "poor pitiful predictable you!"
Everyone knows your lackluster kind.
The Decatur board is as wise as theBridgeportHospital board
10:08, MZ could have been talking about you when she said this.
"You are like all the other ARROGANT/Self Righteous people who believe, just because they have concocted some half-baked opinion, based on nothing more then YOUR BIAS about someone, you believe you know the person you have defamed. Prior to judging someone and spewing your ignorant BULLSnoT about someone, get a few FACTS."
Holy smokes, the sketch of the person of interest in the governors mansion fire is ME. Literally- I would hate to have no alibi when that happened and/or been there when it did. ESPECIALLY with the retarded juries we have today.
Did Decatur really give a huge raise to their super in this environment?
He has only been therefor 3 months!
What he do?
Build a stadium
Did Decatur really give a huge raise to their super in this environment?
He has only been therefor 3 months!
What he do?
Build a stadium
Coffee...check..
Waffles...check..
Shut up MzCreep..check..
You're assuming all Hispanics are here legally and allowed to vote.
7:36 Good one! Both boards obviously have their collective heads up someone's a**!
Runnin that place like GM
Waitin for a bail out
To anonymous 8:36 & 8:38...
It seems as though you, again, have my life confused with yours.
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To anonymous 9:10 & 10:08...
Jealousy is a disease. I certainly hope you get well, soon.
Yep! It SUCKS TO BE YOU because you STILL cannot
get over ME BEING ME.
*LOL@U*
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To Obi Wannabe...
You REALLY should take your own advice.
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To anonymous 8:07...
Excellent observation and well stated.
*:)
7:44 My bet is you were one of the people holding up the signs that said it's for the kids at the last school board election time. how about next time we vote them out before they have to lay off more teachers so we can buid more sports field and add a few more joumbotrons. Teachers yall might get a job if your husban is on the next school board.
Turf will never pay for itself. You will never hear anyone with a degree in finance, who is aware of the time value of money, say such a thing. The folks who say that turf pays for itself are 1) turf manufacturers, 2) coaches, 3) overzealous parents.
Try and sell your Turf and Jumbotrons to the teachers that don't have a paycheck. Wise move on your school boards part to ram the raise and sports spending before they cut out the money. Decatur ya'll must be a bunch of fools or you thought they said it's for the kid and ment (education) but it was SPORTS.
Why do we have a bucket of GO-JO in this pick me up pic.Humm I never tried that before.
They did give the guy a big raise and his wife a. Job.
Sounds corrupt
Is that ethical
Must be they gave him the money
No 2:35 it's the school board they are all kin folk that put sports before education that's why they STACKED the board with pro sports and turf people last election.
Its great to be me.....
What sucks is that wing-nuts are delusional... maybe that doesn't suck so much... What sucks is that my Pringles Can is intimidating... ok that doesn't really suck... What sucks is that repubicans always suck...
I think I hit a nerve... but the fact remains that I never hear non wing nuts talk about being PC and disguising talk of mexicans by saying "illegal." Don't care about thoughts of "guest worker" programs amnesty, or whatever... What one believes in is their natural right... what we all should not abide by is coded language (ie "illegals") that seems to be popular with wing nuts. Once they are honest, then an honest discourse may be possible.
What, then, is the correct and accurate term to use to describe someone who breaks a law? Your meandering post was half a bubble off plumb --
"...their natural right..."
Who "...don't care about...?"
"...never hear non wing nuts talk about being PC..."
The only coherent point you made was the obligatory accusation of racism. If you can't abide coded language, maybe try another term. To Liberals, racist is code for "fourth and ten and I'm out of ideas, time to punt." (If Christianity wasn't non-PC, I'd have said it means throwing a Hail Mary, but we all know that would cause massive Liberal outrage, and possible litigation.)
Luttrell still on the board?
Splain a lot
I'm 10:08 and I do have a mind of my own, thank you. I also recognize an a**hole when I see one. You idiots can call me anything you want to, but that doesn't change the fact that I have enough clear vision to see Mzchief is an a**hole! Got it? Good!
Signed:
PUMPED to be me!!!
8:29AM, I can IMAGINE you burning down the governor's mansion...
(If Christianity wasn't non-PC
That's funny, because Democrats are far closer to living like Christ would have people live than Republicans. We want to help educate and clothe people, and make sure they stay healthy and well-fed.
Jesus would be a Democrat today.
Rage
LOL Yeah, Democrats have really embraced Jesus's instructions to "go into all the world and preach the Gospel," haven't they?
What a bunch of f***ed up comments.
Rage, Jesus never said steal from the rich and give to the poor. That was Robin Hood. Jesus teaches of INDIVIDUAL responsibility. That's the problem with libs, you hate Christianity until you want to claim that what you are doing represents Christ.
Wordkyle meet Kettle.... Talk about rambling... sheesh.
All those points I made were in response to an earlier poster...
Sure breaking a law is illegal, but let's be clear... When wing-nutless wonders speak of "illegal aliens," why not just say what you really mean (ie. mexicans). And I can play the same game... not once did i say any one was racist... but if the shoe fits, genius, well, you know the rest...
sign off,
Rick Perry's illegitimate wetback son
So "let's be clear" means that you get to accuse an entire group of people of racism (despite your oh-so-cute disclaimer) and they have to accept it? Quite a debate technique you have there. Cliché and ignorant, but no more than can be expected when you don't have a valid point. If a simplistic caricature of people with whom you don't agree works as reality for you, fine. (By the way, that "breaking a law is illegal" observation of yours was the Profundity of the Day.)
Again wordkyle, meet kettle, who's being cute now... You began with "breaking law" and "illegal"... and again genius, I didn't call anyone racist you are doing that by implication. It's really simple... wing-nuts should be honest and and say mexican (or favorite derogatory term) instead of saying "illegal alien" when in fact they mexican... it ain't complicated... and last time I checked, mexican is not a racist term... talk about observations, I'm sure you observed that.
And who's debating...
I'm not in favor of illegal immigrants who are Chinese, Iranian, Canadian, Egyptian, or Somali. I at least speak enough Spanish to communicate with the Mexicans, and, for the most part, the Mexicans are good, hard-working people.
When I speak of "illegal aliens," I'm talking about any nationality. Those of Middle Eastern heritage who wish to do us harm are of particular concern...
My apologies. I thought you might be trying to put forth credible and logical statements to support your point of view. I stand corrected.
I believe I bypassed making the statement "breaking a law is illegal." What I asked was for a better term than illegal to describe someone breaking the law.
As for your accusations of racism, that tactic has been used in various forms for decades by the Left whenever they get caught short of ideas. Your attempt to avoid responsibility for your words by denying your attack by innuendo is not clever, not original and not effective. It merely indicates a backbone deficiency.
(For the record, I know of no one who considers the terms "illegal aliens" and "Mexicans" interchangeable.)
"Your attempt to avoid responsibility for your words by denying your attack by innuendo..."
Yet again said the pot... Another poster implied kicking out illegals would harm the "agriculture, construction, and manufacturing industries." Sure sounds like alot like we're talking about mexicans. But again, keep avoiding the main point... cut the crap and say mexican instead of illegal when you clearly mexican. It's not that hard to or complicated.
(And for the record: I've had tea baggers refer to brown texans who don't speak spanish as illegals, so it goes beyond mexicans.)
Tea baggers? Do you know a lot of such people? Nobody I know uses that term, either. I don't think I'll be held responsible for the stupid people you're acquainted with -- nor the ones who they are acquainted with.
I'm amused by your repeated very public attempts to get a group of people to accept your depiction of them as racists, while at the same time refusing to admit that you're doing it.
There you go again, wordie... trying to find something that's not there... if you think they are racists fine...
Tea baggers... there are all over my part of Texas... It's hard not to run into them... Do I choose to associate with them... not really... but they are there... and who is holding you responsible for anything... Again with your repeated attack you try to distract from my only point (saying "illegals" when one really means mexicans)... again, not that complicated...
Nope, it's not complicated at all. The last paragraph of my last post still stands.
Wordie, Why stop with one statement when you have said so many other things to try to distract from my one point...saying "illegals" when one really means mexicans.
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