I think Donald Trump is drunk tweeting again.

Because of the $700 & $716 Billion Dollars gotten to rebuild our Military, many jobs are created and our Military is again rich. Building a great Border Wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense. Build WALL through M!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 25, 2018

Okay I legitimately do not know what I just read.

Why do we want the military to be rich?

Why are so many words unnecessarily capitalized?

Who the fuck is M?

Well, Donald Trump has pissed off Mexico again.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

Tentative plans for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to make his first visit to the White House to meet with President Trump were scuttled this week after a testy call between the two leaders ended in an impasse over Trump’s promised border wall, according to U.S. and Mexican officials. 

Peña Nieto was eyeing an official trip to Washington this month or in March, but both countries agreed to call off the plan after Trump would not agree to publicly affirm Mexico’s position that it would not fund construction of a border wall that the Mexican people widely consider offensive, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a confidential conversation. 

Speaking by phone on Tuesday, Peña Nieto and Trump devoted a considerable portion of their roughly 50 minute conversation to the wall, and neither man would compromise his position. 

One Mexican official said Trump “lost his temper.” But U.S. officials described him instead as being frustrated and exasperated, saying Trump believed it was unreasonable for Peña Nieto to expect him to back off his crowd-pleasing campaign promise of forcing Mexico to pay for the wall. 

Both accounts confirm it was Peña Nieto’s desire to avoid public embarrassment — and Trump’s unwillingness to provide that assurance — that proved to be the dealbreaker.

So the President of Mexico does not want to come here, the British do not want Donald Trump to go there, and the Germans are actively mocking Trump in their parades.

But hey, at least Trump is best buddies with Vladimir Putin, right?

President of Mexico tells Donald Trump to build his own damn wall. Trumpo responds like the child that he is.

Courtesy of CNN:

"Mexico does not believe in walls. I've said time again; Mexico will not pay for any wall," he said in a video statement posted to Twitter and translated by CNN from Spanish.

 Trump's response was of course all too predictable.

The U.S. has a 60 billion dollar trade deficit with Mexico. It has been a one-sided deal from the beginning of NAFTA with massive numbers...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2017

of jobs and companies lost. If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2017

Holy shitballs!

So Donald Trump's vaunted negotiating technique boils down to "You do what I want or I will not invite you to my birthday party?"

President Nieto did in fact cancel his upcoming meeting with Trump, however earlier today Trump tried to spin it that the cancellation was mutually decided.

Anybody buy that?

I think our new question about Trump is to ask if there is any test of leadership that he WON'T fail?

Going undercover with "Mexican hunting" militia members. Update!

"Destroyer," "Sandstone," and "Iceman" are just some of the nicknames these guys give themselves.

A bunch of oversized kids playing war on American soil.

I don't know what bothers me more, that they are openly racist and longing for a confrontation with minorities, or that they seem to be embraced by the actual law enforcement in the area.

Here is the entire Mother Jones article.

It is a little long, but quite informative, and seriously unsettling.

Update: On the subject of militias it looks like the Bundy boys have been found not guilty. 

Well that certainly sends an unfortunate message to these groups.

Donald Trump traveled to Mexico to meet with President Nieto and this is the only important take away. Update!

"We did not discuss that; we did not discuss who pays for the wall." - Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/W2ntGa8xcJ

— Correct The Record (@CorrectRecord) August 31, 2016

That's right loud mouth Trump traveled all the way across that scary border and he was too chickenshit to bring up his signature campaign promise.

And oh, is he being excoriated over it.

BREAKING: TRUMP TOO SCARED OF THE LITTLE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO TO ASK MEXICO TO PAY FOR WALL

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) August 31, 2016

Trump asks the crowd at nearly every rally: "Who's going to pay for the wall??"

Crowd: "MEXICO!"

Trump: "Mexico."https://t.co/iztd0RnK3A

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) August 31, 2016

"Who pays for the wall? We didn't discuss."
How do you say "sell out" in Spanish?#Trump

— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) August 31, 2016

.@realDonaldTrump in Mexico: We didn’t discuss the wall payment https://t.co/KAj1Mv0NEg https://t.co/DmpCUTUIav

— POLITICO (@politico) August 31, 2016

Now we all just to have to sit back and wait to see how he misrepresents this in his speech about immigration tonight. Cause you know he will.

But even before he does that his visit is already causing serious political repercussions for his host: 

If President Enrique Peña Nieto invited Donald J. Trump to visit Mexico for a dialogue in the interest of democracy, the message has fallen on deaf ears. 

Instead, the predominant feeling here in the Mexican capital is one of betrayal. 

“It’s a historic error,” said Enrique Krauze, a well-known historian. “You confront tyrants, you don’t appease them.” 

On Mexico’s most popular morning television show on Wednesday, a livid Mr. Krauze likened the president’s meeting with Mr. Trump to the decision by Neville Chamberlain, then the British prime minister, to sit down with Hitler in Munich in 1938. 

“It isn’t brave to meet in private with somebody who has insulted and denigrated” Mexicans, Mr. Krauze said. “It isn’t dignified to simply have a dialogue.”

Damn it looks like Trump may have contracted the Palin curse, in that everything he touches will now turn to shit.

Gee I wonder how his opponents on the other side of the aisle are viewing Trump's visit to Mexico.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Update: Try not to be too surprised that Trump lied about his discussions concerning the wall.

Courtesy of CNN:  

Donald Trump flew into a nation he has constantly berated during his campaign to meet President Enrique Peña Nieto and said they discussed a wall he has vowed to build on the US's southern border, but not his demand that Mexico pay for it -- an assertion the Mexican president later disputed. 

"At the start of the conversation with Donald Trump, I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall," Peña Nieto tweeted, after their meeting Wednesday.

Proof positive that Trump only talks tough on Twitter and in front of sympathetic crowds.

Behind the scenes he is a milquetoast little panty waist.  

Hillary Clinton is going to eat his lunch for him.

Former leader of the Minutemen border vigilante group sentenced to 19.5 years in prison for sexually abusing two young girls.

Courtesy of AZ Central:

Chris Simcox, the former leader of the Minuteman border vigilante group, was sentenced to 19.5 years in prison Monday, bringing an end to a sex-abuse case involving two girls under 10.

A Maricopa County Superior Court jury found Simcox, 55, guilty last month of two counts of child molestation and one count of furnishing obscene material to a minor after a three-week trial. The jury composed of three women and nine men, found him not guilty on three other counts of sexual conduct with a minor — a charge that carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. 

Simcox was arrested in 2013 after two girls, ages 5 and 6, accused him of touching them inappropriately between 2012 and 2013. 

Simcox was sentenced to two concurrent sentences of 17 years for each of the molestation counts and an additional 2.5-year sentence for furnishing obscene materials to a minor.

Why am I not surprised this happened in Maricopa County?

Or that this Simcox guy was once a favorite guest on the Sean Hannity Show?

Or that he was once a Republican candidate for the Senate?

Look I'm not suggesting that one HAS to be a child molester to run for the Senate as a Republican in Arizona, or appear on Sean Hannity, or live in Maricopa County, I am just pointing out that this child molester did all three.

Kind of like you don't have to be a sexual deviant to run Fox News, and yet there's Roger Ailes now accused of multiple incidents of sexual harassment.

Just things that make you go, hmmm. 

Here is the old McCain campaign ad with subtitles in Spanish, that the new McCain campaign had pulled from YouTube.

Courtesy of The Hill:  

A campaign ad for Sen. John McCain's 2010 reelection bid was blocked on YouTube earlier this week, per a request from the Arizona Republican's 2016 reelection campaign. 

The ad was uploaded by the campaign of McCain challenger Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Ariz.), and it was unmodified except for the addition of Spanish subtitles. The spot shows McCain walking by the border fence and telling Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu to "complete the danged fence." 

"John McCain is trying to hide his comments and agenda from the Latino community and Arizonans now that he admits he's caught in the 'race of his life,' " said D.B. Mitchell, a Kirkpatrick campaign spokesman.

Now the McCain campaign claims that the reason they blocked the ad was due to a copyright violation.

But it that were true then why is the ad back up now?

You know if I were a suspicious feller I might just think that ole John McCain is a little embarrassed by the anti-immigrant fervor he embraced in 2010, and worried that it might do his campaign serious damage in a more enlightened 2016 campaign season.

You know, if I was a suspicious feller.

Donald Trump releases first TV ad. Update!

Damn, I don't think the grand wizard of the KKK could have created a more xenophobic advertisement.

So to be clear folks, If you ain't white, you ain't right. 

Update: Hey you know that footage that appears at the 23 second mark on the video of Mexicans streaming across out border?

Yeah well that's actually footage of the Moroccan border.

Doesn't really make any difference though. After all who DIDN'T expect Trump to use false information in his first TV ad?

Wonkette is very disappointed with Sarah Palin's grifter work ethic. Seriously, is she even TRYING to live off of other people's stupidity anymore?

"Immigration. According to a new Center for Immigration Studies (A conservative organization. And you know how THEY are with statistics.) report, 41 million immigrants, legal and illegal combined, now live in the United States, that’s a big chunk of the population.

We all agree America was built by immigrants and hard working LEGAL immigrants, they're some of our most valued and valuable citizens. We also know though that we've had years of stagnant wages and tens of millions of Americans face unemployment and under employment. (Is she advocating for a raise in the minimum wage?)

Millions are so discouraged that really they've just given up looking for work. Do you know what that does to a culture? Much less an economy? I also know that we have terrorist enemies for whom our open borders, they're a tempting target. (Oh yeah it is not only the loss of jobs that we can blame on border security, it is also potential terrorist attacks. Boo!)  If we have trouble maintaining high wages for blue collar workers why are we allowing cheaper foreign workers to come here ILLEGALLY, to compete with Americans for scarce jobs, Mr. President? When we're at war with radical Jihadists why are we barely monitoring our borders? (Has she even BEEN to the border?) We're allowing huge increases in immigrants from terror exporting countries right? Like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan? (Is this a question, or are these facts that she pulled out of her ass?)

When I say that we're experiencing a flood of immigration I mean it. (Oooh, she means it.) The population of immigrants has soared by ten million, since just the year 2000. I am thankful, I know you are too, that we live in a country that welcomes immigrants. But illegal immigration, it hurts Americans of every race, every background, and we can't continue to allow unrestricted, illegal immigration, through our open borders, and unenforced overstayed visas. (We are doing none of that, but it really might help if Congress was not always cutting the funding for border security.)

We're not enforcing immigration laws that are already on the books. (Wrong!) Our prosperity, and our security, they depend on a reasonable immigration policy, And open borders, they're simply insane. (Ah, finally a topic that she understands.) It's especially insane when it's coupled with a growing welfare state. An expanding welfare state, open border, that's a recipe for bankruptcy of a country. (This President saved us from bankruptcy you crazy bitch!)

Our President now promising that he is going to wait until after the midterm elections to ram down America's throat, his comprehensive immigration reform, that he's going to do to us whether Congress acts or not. We need to ask the President, and I wish some ballsy reporter would ask the President this instead of some softball questions that he's always given. (Okay my hypocrisy meter just burst into flames.) 'If it's so good Mr. President. If your immigration reform policies that are coming our way, if they're so good, so great for the economy, great for middle class workers, great for society as a whole, great for the idea of obeying laws in America, if it's so great why are you too chicken to do it before the midterm elections?' (She's know exactly wh yhe has to wait, and it is NOT because the policy is bad.)  Because you know, you are going to do this to America against the will of the people. And open borders make no sense in a world where deadly diseases now, and terrorists can breach borders and cause immense harm. It's time, now it's past time, for the President to secure our borders."

So to be clear we are now under attack by, not only terrorists crossing an "unsecured border" but also diseases that are floating across to kill Americans in their sleep.

Damn am I glad I never had this lunatic read me a bedtime story.

This video of course came to us from the great folks over at Wonkette, who find themselves a little disappointed in the Sarah Palin Channel's output:

In the last seven days, the Sarah Palin Channel has published exactly nine minutes and twenty-eight seconds of content. Three minutes of that total is “Behind the Scenes” reels, one of which centers on Sarah going to a barn in North Carolina last year (it was Billy Graham’s barn, and it was a very boring visit). That means Palin’s team produced about six minutes of content in the last week, so yes, this is probably the laziest political grift we’ve ever covered in our short time as Yr Wonket. But by the same token, it is also the most ruthlessly efficient. 

Here’s where we see Palin’s efficiency on display. There is no superfluous movement as she pivots from “OMG SO MANY IMMIGRANTS” to “years of stagnant wages,” to our decadent and declining culture. There’s no attempt to explain how these numbers connect with each other, and certainly no attempt to provide a plausible explanation for how low-wage immigrants have driven down the incomes and work ethics of middle-wage workers with whom they don’t compete. Yet somehow, all these economic dominoes have lined up to crush the American worker’s last iota of moral fortitude. How? It’s simple commonsense, and you’d know that if you weren’t a Dumbocrat liberal. 

This is Palin’s American dream — a place where anything is possible, including the weaponization of Ebola. In Sarah Palin’s American dream, the possibilities are limitless so long as you were born here and don’t have a funny last name. And as regards the tired, poor, huddled masses, Sarah’s not opposed to their yearning, necessarily – she just wants to make sure all that breathing won’t spread disease or convert anyone to Islam. 

And this, THIS is the woman who still gets invited to provide political commentary on Fox News, and whose endorsements are still welcomed by a desperate few.

Yes I'm looking at you Bill Walker. 

Wonkette risks an infection worse than ebola by creeping past the Sarah Palin Channel guardians of scylla and charybdis, to bring you the latest Fartknocker Report.

Click grimace to play video

So yes despite past attacks from the Sarah Palin Channel producers, Wonkette has once again dared to go where no sane man dare tread to bring you yet another report of exactly what old people watch to help them go to sleep at night. A heavily drugged Sarah Palin talking about national security, terrorists, and what a bad job the President is doing.

Here is the transcript because as we know the minute that Palin sees I have put this up that bunch of TAPP assholes will force Wonkette to take it down:

"Now here's what I don't get. (Simple math equations? How to program the DVR? How to keep you family from attacking the neighbors?) The world's largest and most powerful terrorist group has vowed to attack the United States. You're reading about that, hearing it on the news every night, right? (Assuming of course your TV only gets Fox News.)

It even has supporters in our nation, this horrible death cult. Supporters in our nation tweeting pictures of our national landmarks. including the White House. Taunting us.

Yet we don't protect our borders. (Wait, what? I thought we were talking about ISIS.) So we can't stop this. Hard working Americans have struggled to find good work, and when they do find work that wages are low and they just can't seem to get ahead. (Okay so NOW we are talking about the minimum wage? I am so confused.)

Why? Partly because the flood of illegal immigration makes labor cheap. So cheap that it's hard to make a living. (Yeah, that's not really true.) Come on President Obama, if you don't know that by now..whew..it's...it's..uh..well we don't protect our borders, the President isn't protecting our borders though that's one of his very first duties in office is to make sure that the homeland is secure. (Does anybody else hate the word "homeland?"  It makes me feel that we are just one stiff armed salute from becoming the Fourth Reich.)

Young people from across Central America are making a dangerous trek to America. Flooding the border, overwhelming our social services. Yet we still don't protect our borders. (Protect them from What? Young people from Central America crossing the desert?)


Nah, the President won't protect our borders because of POLITICS. As usual Barack Obama puts politics above good policy, above serving the people he swore to serve. Barack Obama wants to pander to special interests, He's even threatening to violate the Constitution, again. But only after the November elections. He says. That's when he'll grant amnesty to millions, upon millions of illegal immigrants.

This makes no sense for our national security. Makes no sense for our economy, Or for the health and welfare of the tens of thousands of foreign children who risk death to flood across our open border. He's inviting them over? He's putting them in danger, via his invitation to come on over. (So to be clear, Sarah Palin says that the President is putting the children who travel hundreds of miles to come to America at risk by not stopping them at the border and forcing them to walk the hundreds of miles back where they came from?)


In November though, mmm we have a choice. On one hand we have a party that wants to leave us vulnerable, and doesn't care if their immigration policies mean that hard working Americans, of every race and background (But mostly white.), struggle to get ahead.

On the other hand we have candidates who want to protect our nation. Protect our nation from the threat of terrorists, and drug and human traffickers, coming across our borders. Protect American jobs, protect American wages, and yes, protect the children too who are flooding our borders by discouraging them from taking such a dangerous trek.

So this is a call to action. You need to take action America. We can't just sit around complaining about this and throwing stones at the problem of these open borders. (Oh good, at least she is not advocating throwing stones at the children who travel hundreds of miles to cross our borders. That's something at least.) We have  to elect people in November who understand how important it is buck Obama's mission this time and not allow him to open the borders even more grandiose than he already has. ("More grandiose than he already has?" WTF?)

It makes no sense to open our borders, No sense that is unless you're just playing politics."

So yes if you are just joining us Sarah Palin has now completely blurred the lines between  undocumented immigrants from right here on this continent looking for work and freedom, and terrorists from across the ocean looking to launch an attack on our country.

Same thing, both usually have darker skin than REAL Americans.

Actually if you do get the chance to watch the video before TAPP stomps their feet and forces YouTube to take it down, you will notice that despite her rhetoric Palin looks very subdued, and barely worked up at all.

She is also wearing less makeup, and her hair is flat and mousy. In other words she just doesn't seem to have that old "fire in the belly" that she used to brag about.

And if you don't believe me, here is what Wonkette observed:

And that’s just about it for the Sarah Palin Channel this week! Palin’s channel released two pieces of content in the last seven days: this rambling, incoherent glob of sputum scraped off the splashguards at a World Net Daily comment buffet, and a five-minute “Ask Me Anything” video. Everything else is more than one week old, and nine of the next 15 posts are old clips from her TLC show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska.

Are you beginning to feel it? She’s losing steam. Wouldn’t you? We’re exhausted by Palin, and we only have to cover her once a week. She has to cover herself 24/7. 

Yeah it's kind of like something is eating at her, distracting her, possibly really worrying her. 

Gee I can't imagine what that might be.

What if a militia decided to shut down the border but nobody came? Okay, well five people came.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

A planned shutdown of border crossings between the United Sates and Mexico by patriotic militia members failed to materialize Saturday morning with only five protestors showing up at one crossing in Pharr, Texas, according to Breitbart News Texas. 

Organized by border militia movement leader Rob Chupp, the “Shut Down All Ports” protest was intended to disrupt commerce at the busy crossings to draw attention to the plight of Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, jailed by by Mexican authorities on weapons charges. 

Chupp, who was one of the five at Pharr, explained that their objective had changed and that they were only there to see how many law enforcement officials they could occupy for the day watching them. 

According to the originator of the event, turnout was poor because organizers had called off the event just hours before it was to begin due to threats of “mass blood shed(sic)’ from drug cartels. 

In a statement issued by the event’s organizer Stasyi Barth, she wrote, “Cartel threatening mass blood shed. One of the guys in Texas was followed into a Walmart, on the freeway, then approached at his hotel. At the same time, I got a bunch of requests to join the [Facebook] page from Sonora Mexico. I grabbed as many as I could, but realized it was getting out of control fast and I didn’t want them to see who the attendees were. This is after it was requested that we avoid certain areas, because of the recent border threats, unrelated to us. The cartel has people at every port listed..waiting for us, so I was told.”

Yes I am certain that the drug cartels, who are constantly outwitting and outgunning Mexican police, would threaten a bunch of overweight Rambo wannabes who are standing on the America side of the border dressed in camouflage and picking their noses.

Seems a more likely scenario that once these inbred morons realized that nobody was going to show, they fabricated some scary threat and used that to justify their low numbers.

Besides what kind of "militia" bails for fear of running into a potential terrorist threat?

Border agent fires shots at militia members while pursuing immigrants. Seriously, who did not see this coming?

Courtesy of TPM:  

A border patrol agent fired several shots at an armed militia member while chasing a group of immigrants Friday near Brownsville, Texas. 

Border Patrol Spokesman Omar Zamora told the Associated Press that agents were pursuing a group of immigrants when one agent spotted a man holding a gun near the Rio Grande. 

The agent fired four shots but did not hit the man, Zamora said. The man then dropped his weapon and identified himself as a militia member. 

The unidentified man was not arrested and appeared to have permission to be on private property where the incident occurred, Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio told the AP. 

Lucio, whose agency is involved in investigating the incident, said the man was wearing camouflage and was carrying either a rifle or shotgun.

The local sheriff also made this statement: 

"We really don't need the militia here." He recognized they have the right to carry weapons, but noted that with the Border Patrol, Texas Department of Public Safety and local law enforcement, there are enough agencies working to secure the border. Gov. Rick Perry also called as many as 1,000 National Guard members to the border. 

"It just creates a problem from my point of view, because we don't know who they are," Lucio said.

Bunch of Rambo wannabes running around playing soldier, only adds to the burden of the carefully trained Border Patrol. 

Personally I think if the border agents shoot a couple of the dipshits maybe the rest of them will get the hint and get the hell out of the way.

Unpaid National Guard troops stationed at Texas border have turned to a food bank because they are hungry.

New National Guard motto: "Always Ready. Always There. Fucking starving."

Courtesy of Valley Central:  

They came here to help protect the border but now the first wave of Texas National Guard troops deployed after Governor Rick Perry made the call, are needing assistance to pay for food and gas. 

"We were contacted that 50 troops that are in the Valley don't have any money for food and gas and they need our assistance,” said Food Bank RGV Executive Director Terri Drefke. 

They've turned to the Food Bank RGV for help since they won't get paid until September 5th and have been in the Valley since August 11th. 

Drefke told Action 4 News they are more than ready and willing to assist the military personnel. 

"We have fresh, boxed, and frozen food available” Drefke said. 

Local lawmakers got wind of the issue when Action 4 News contacted them with our questions. 

Texas State Rep, Rene Oliveira (D-Brownsville) said he is appalled. 

"It's embarrassing that our troops have to stand in a food pantry line,” Rep. Oliveira said. “This is the fault of the state." 

Oliveira is willing to use some of his own money to pay for meals for the National Guard deployed to Cameron County, but says all the blame falls on the lack of planning.

As you might imagine Rick Perry's office took offense to this story and claimed it was exaggerated:  

"First, the suggestion that Guardsmen aren’t getting paid is false. They are getting paid on a regular schedule with their first pay day on Sept. 5, then every two weeks after that. Second, based on information provided by the Texas National Guard, two soldiers sought and received assistance through the Family Assistance Coordinator. Family Assistance Coordinators routinely help Guardsmen all across the state with needs they may have, regardless of deployment or duty status. Also, based on information provided by the Guard, they currently have no indication that any Guardsmen received any assistance from the Rio Grande Valley Food Bank. 

Governor Perry is confident the Guard stands ready to assist to any Soldier who may need it, regardless of deployment or duty status so they can meet the needs of their family, or the mission they are performing."

Well here we go again. Do we believe the food bank, and the reporters, or do we believe the Texas politician with national aspirations who is trying to cover his ass?

Boy that's a real conundrum.

Okay let's go with Perry and accept that it was only two soldiers who asked for assistance.

Do we really think these men went to the food bank asking for a handout without EVER contacting their superior officers and letting them know that their situation was getting desperate?

I  mean NOBODY wants to ask for charity, and usually that is the last resort for somebody who has run out of options.

So whether it was two soldier or fifty, even one soldier made to stand in the blistering heat without adequate nourishment is one too many.

Protesters demand that Honduran children illegally crossing the border be sent back. But sent back to what?

We have all seen those protesters stopping buses filled with undocumented immigrant children, and forcing them to turn around.

We have all seen the signs, like those above, that insist that the children, who have traveled many hundreds of miles, simply be forced to go back to the dangerous world that they just barely managed to escape.

But what happens to them then?

Well in Honduras we have an answer.

Courtesy of the LA Times: 

"There are many youngsters who only three days after they've been deported are killed, shot by a firearm," said Hector Hernandez, who runs the morgue in San Pedro Sula. "They return just to die." 

At least five, perhaps as many as 10, of the 42 children slain here since February had been recently deported from the U.S., Hernandez said. 

Immigrant aid groups and human rights organizers say the Honduran government is ill-equipped to assist children at high risk after they have been returned. 

Unaccompanied children from Honduras "come from extremely violent regions where they probably perceive the risk of traveling alone to the U.S. preferable to staying at home," the report said. 

In one case, a teenage boy was shot to death hours after arriving in San Pedro Sula on a deportation flight, according to the boy's cousin, who refused to identify himself or the boy to The Times for fear of reprisal from neighborhood gangs. 

To do so, he said, "I would be killing my entire family." 

This is where those demanding deportation are sending these children. To their deaths.

And here's the thing that I am struggling with.

The people who are shouting "Send then back" the loudest, are the same people who are demanding that we protect Christians in Iraq and Afghanistan from attacks by Islamic terrorists.

Well Honduras is a deeply Christian country with 97% being Roman Catholic and the rest Protestant.

So why in the hell does the Right Wing care so much about Christians being murdered thousands of miles away who are very difficult for us to protect, and so little for the Christian children arriving on our very border pleading for our protection?

(H/T to AATTP.)

Local leaders in Texas are unimpressed with Governor Perry's showboating.

Courtesy of Texas Democrats:  

Pharr Mayor Leo “Polo” Palacios: “We don’t need 1,000 National Guard troops. I think we need to send 1,000 teachers.” [Houston Chronicle, 7/24/2014] 

Sheriff Clint McDonald, Sheriffs Association of Texas: National guard can’t do anything. They’re not Texas peace officers. They can’t arrest anybody. They can be the support help, last time i had the national guard in my county, they helped the border patrol change oil in their trucks.[KENS, 7/28/2014] 

Sheriff Joe Martinez, Val Verde County: We’ve kind of been left out of the picture as sheriff's we are the chief law enforcement officer in the county and we learn about problems in the state from the media. [KENS, 7/28/2014] 

Sigifredo Gonzales Jr., Sheriffs Association of Texas: “That money should go to local sheriff's departments, local police departments, local people along the border, local law enforcement along the border that know what they’re doing. that’s where it needs to go.” [KENS, 7/28/2014] 

El Paso Sheriff Richard Wiles: I was shocked cause the information he is providing is not the information I am getting from sheriff’s across Texas, along the border. [TXCN, 7/29/2014] 

Jayson P. Ahern, former Customs and Border Protection acting commissioner: “This does not come from the federal government. That’s the biggest distinction here. This is the governor taking unilateral action. Not having that oversight and supervision and direction as part of a plan from the federal authorities, i think it is reckless and could lead to significant safety issues.” [New York Times, 7/25/2014]

Rick Perry may have conservatives in other parts of the country fooled, but it is pretty clear that Texans are not buying his bullshit. 

KKK calls for killing undocumented immigrants the minute they cross the border. (Children included.)

Courtesy of Addicting Info:  

One of the KKK’s Imperial Wizards told reporter Robert Ray that the people coming to the border are “criminals” and will “continue breaking the law” when they come into the country, not to mention bringing third world diseases. His conclusion: 

“If we can’t turn ‘em back, I think if we pop a couple of ‘em off and leave the corpses laying on the border, maybe they’ll see that we’re serious about stopping immigration.” 

There you have it. The KKK endorsing the extra-judicial killing of children.

In the video that accompanies this article after making this horrendous statement the Klan went on to condemn blacks, gays, and Jews, and then claimed they were Christians and not a hate group.

The truly troubling thing is that this mindset is not too far off the way that the militia members currently "helping" the border control are seeing things as well.

In their opinion these people are guilty the minute they set foot in America, and that the death penalty, delivered right on the spot, is the appropriate punishment.

Texas Democrat blasts militia members patrolling the border for "pointing guns at children."

Militia members patrolling the Texas-Mexico border.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

At least 10 armed private militias have now been spotted patrolling the Texas border in response to a crisis of refugee children fleeing violence in Central America. 

Anonymous militia members provided the San Antonio Express-News more than 30 photos showing “dozens of members carrying semi-automatic rifles and wearing masks, camouflage and tactical gear.” 

The source provided the photos on the condition that the faces would be blurred so that members could not be identified by “cartel and gang members.” 

Oathkeepers, Three Percenters and Patriots have reportedly been recruiting members to patrol the Texas border for the last month. 

Democratic state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte told the San Antonio Express-News that uncoordinated armed militias were not helping the situation on the Texas border because “pointing guns at children solves nothing.” 

“Local law enforcement and federal border patrol agents have been clear,” Van de Putte explained. “The presence of these outside independent militia groups does nothing to secure the border; it only creates an unsafe situation for law enforcement officials that are protecting our communities. Unfortunately, the vile rhetoric of my opponent inspires misguided efforts.”

It is only a matter of time before somebody gets shot. And most likely it will be some young unarmed South American child who just finished and arduous journey toward freedom only to meet American bullets at the border fired by an overzealous xenophobe.

Kids today have some crappy choices in toys.

You know the truly hysterical part about this is that it actually exists.

Alaskan Senate hopeful Joe Miller issues statement agreeing with Sarah Palin. Well this ought to be interesting.

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

Joe Miller, who is running in the Republican primary for the opportunity to challenge Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), has called for President Barack Obama's impeachment, his campaign said this week. 

"Sarah Palin is right; it’s time to impeach this President for dereliction of duty, selectively enforcing the law, and usurping powers that the Constitution does not authorize," he said in a press release. "He is willfully undermining the rule of law and creating chaos."

Some have suggested that the reason that Sarah Palin has NOT endorsed anybody in Alaska since 2010, nor donated any money to an Alaskan campaign, is because she has not yet made up her mind.

But that's not the reason.

The reason is because even somebody as incredible thick headed as she clearly is recognizes that in Alaska her support would be the kiss of death for a candidate.

If she even hints that she is on Miller's side, or Sullivan's, or Treadwell's, she will doom any chances that they will emerge victorious.

However if I did not know any better it almost seems like Miller is angling for her support, which indicates to me that he may be even MORE stupid than the Queen of Stupidity herself.

Here's more from Miller:

"Mark Begich has not even deemed the crisis on our southern border worthy of a press release," he said. "There is no doubt that he is complicit with the President in encouraging and empowering this illegal invasion, both from a policy perspective by voting for amnesty, and by virtue of his refusal to hold Barack Obama accountable for dereliction of duty and usurpation of Congressional authority."

First off that was NOT a vote for amnesty, and second Begich has not issued a press release because Alaskans typically do not give a shit about what happens on the southern border of America.

Those undocumented immigrants rarely make it up here, and if they do it is in such small numbers we don't even notice.

So Miller is arguing a partisan position that might make a big difference to out of state supporters, but mean virtually nothing to the people who will be doing he actual voting.

Hey I hope that Palin actually DOES endorse Miller again, though considering what happened in 2010 that would seem incredibly doubtful, because I would really LOVE to watch him crash and burn again and watch her reputation sink even lower into the abyss right along with his hopes of ever making it to the Senate.

Does that seem wrong?

Texas Governor Rick Perry has decided to send the National Guard to the border. Sheriffs along the border towns are not thrilled.

So yeah Rick Perry has decided that just showing up on the border and trying to look tough with your bullet proof vest and hat on backwards is just not macho enough.

So he has decided to send the Texas National Guard down to the border to look tough for him.

And the sheriff's working in those border town could not be more underwhelmed:  

Sheriffs and others along the border said they had not been consulted. They questioned the wisdom of sending military personnel who are not authorized to stop anyone. 

“At this time, a lot of people do things for political reasons. I don’t know that it helps,” said Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio. 

He and other sheriffs said spending money to hire more deputies and police makes more sense. Lucio said deputies, police and the U.S. Border Patrol work well together and that they have been able to handle the small uptick in crime along the border. 

“I don’t know what good they can do,” Lucio said of military personnel. “You just can’t come out here and be a police officer.”

Wait, do you mean simply showing up at the border with guns and military equipment will do little good?

Perhaps somebody should tell Governor Political Opportunist that.

And is THIS the kind of unhelpful and unnecessary action that the Republicans have been urging President Obama to take?