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Some of you may or may not know that much about charter schools. Here's a definition for you. An independently run but tax-supported K-12 public school created with a different educational philosophy and curriculum than other schools.

Did you know that there is a FANTASTIC NON PROFIT charter school located right here in Painesville, OH? This is a FREE public school which operates as part of the Public School System of the State of Ohio. But what truly makes it fantastic is that the curriculum is based around kids with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Asperger's Disorder (high functioning autism). They work with kids who would other wise night be shunned against in your typical public schools. They use techniques such as Therapeutic Martial Arts and Cognitive Therapy along with Social Skills training.

What makes them truly great is their mission "Summit Academy Schools build hope, success and well-being through advocacy and education for children with special needs." Oh yes, for alot of kids with ADHD and Asberger's, it is a "special need".   

I encourage any and all of you to check out their website and see what they are all about. And if you know of anyone who's got a child with ADHD or Asberger's who may be struggling in school... let them know that there is help out there!  www.summitacademies.com

Famous people with ADHD... maybe you've heard of some of these

Winston Churchill, Jim Carrey, Tom Cruise, Bill Crosby, Leonardo da Vinci, Walt Disney, Michael Jordan, Ozzy Osborne, Pete Rose the list goes on and on!

Famous people with Asberger's Syndrome... Albert Einstein, George Washington, Bill Gates, ELVIS

  Thanks to minutemen and women all over the country who brought their grievance forward about lax immigration law enforcement and border security, Americans now can actually see their voices being heard by Congress.  In keeping with my commitment to bring continued national awareness to the illegal alien invasion dilemma, I visit the border in California from time to time throughout the year to see how the fence program is progressing and to guide US and foreign media and non-media researchers on tours of that area.

 Apparently, the Administration is keeping its word to construct an international border fence.  Although it appears to be a slow process, at least it is being built.

 The accompanying photos, taken Thursday, October 16, 2008, along the Campo, California border area is vivid proof that some of our political governors are keeping their word to aggressively deter the intrusion of illegal alien human cargo (slave traders) and drug cartels into the United States.

Campo Minutemen On The Job

Gadget of the Campo Minutemen posing before stacks of steel posts waiting to be impaled into concrete foundations into the ground, where they will stand about 16 feet high and six inches apart.  The six-inch opening between each post will allow for visibility across the border and provide easy transition for small animals to move about the area.

Portions of completed fence.

Civilian construction crews assembling the fence.  Note the height of the fence compared to a six-foot tall man.

Danielle Bologna, wife and mother of 3 victims who were murdered in cold blood at the hands of an illegal alien in San Francisco. The Minuteman Project has denounced sanctuary cities citing that they protect  law breakers while exposing citizens to violence.

Our citizens are paying the price because San Francisco gave aid and comfort to the enemy. The suspect is an illegal alien gang banger who should have been deported years ago. He was protected by San Francisco's sanctuary city policy and the false belief that "he came here just to work!"

San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom has his hands stained with the blood of our beloved citizens. Did the Mayor call and offer any condolences? NO, but protection offered to illegal aliens still stands.

Minuteman Project's Response to the Murders In San Francisco.

The Minuteman Project offers our deepest condolences to Danielle Bologna. The loss of her husband and two sons ages 20 and 16 at the hands of an illegal alien is reprehensible.

The Minuteman Project is sending a clear message to Mayor Newsom:

"You reap what you sow." However in this case, Danielle Bologna has reaped what you, Mayor Newsom, and the city supervisors have sown.

The failed sanctuary policy in San Francisco has endangered not only the lives of good citizens but has diverted San Francisco onto a dangerous path. A path that places families into harms way.

The death of three innocent victims is a sign of deeper trouble. Since 1989, when San Francisco embraced a sanctuary city policy, it has been constantly signaling the world, screaming forth the message that this is the place to reside if one is an international law breaker. Some 19 years later those that came here illegally have grown bold knowing they are above the law and can act with careless disregard toward citizens of our great nation.

Mayor Newsom and those that choose to endorse his policy of blatant disregard for immigration law have a new challenge. How is Mayor Newsom going to put the genie back into the bottle? How can 19 years of sanctuary city policies be reversed?

With over 19 years of illegal alien build up, the city will be hard pressed to regain control over a growing criminal element that lies in the shadows. According to a recent study by Congressman Steve King of Iowa, 25 citizens lose their lives to illegal aliens everyday who are driving while drunk to those who commit homicide. When there is a high concentration of illegal aliens the probability is that the area will exceed the national average, as demonstrated in San Francisco.

Is San Francisco going to wake up and demand justice and protection? Newsom and his left-wing city supervisor's cadre have endangered good citizens living in his jurisdiction, furthermore by his action; he has set the deadly pace for other cities to follow.

It is painfully obvious that Newsom is two faced. On one hand he welcomes federal funds for his streets and on the other hand refuses to protect the citizens that travel those streets.

How can any city knowingly throw out the welcome mat to individuals that enter into America illegally and stay here illegally?

Newsom has decided that he will supersede federal law and waive the necessary standard to enter into our beloved country. According to sanctuary city policies medical examinations of those individuals wishing to enter into America to detect deadly diseases are waived, criminal background checks are waived, sponsors for employment are waived and a Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America is also waived. Those qualifications are for good immigrants that come here legally and deserve to immigrate here legally. Newsom's menagerie is above the law; according to him there are no qualifications necessary to become a citizen of the United States.

Mayor Newsom with his open door sanctuary city policy has created a form of pseudo-citizenship "all the benefits without the responsibility". Mayor Newsom hides behind the charade of: "it is a federal issue" all the while receiving federal funding, the convenient excuse of "they only come here to work" wears thin in the face of a triple murder.

Victims like the family of Danielle Bologna are becoming an American recurring tragedy. Her life has been destroyed and her beloved family has been murdered. She will never see her sons grow up and she can not grow old with her husband because of an "open door sanctuary policy" that set the stage for the murder of her loved ones.

An open door policy is nothing less than a welcome sign saying; "Give me your illegal aliens, your murderers, pedophiles, your diseased and we will welcome them as family." Mayor Newsom, what were you thinking? All the back peddling and reversal will never wash the blood stains from your hands.

The Minuteman Project demands the immediate resignation of Mayor Newsom.

Will Mayor Newsom do the honorable thing or will he say; "it was just an isolated action of a single criminal" However the Minuteman Project is sure he and his supervisors will be saying; Oh by the way is our federal check ready yet?

Minuteman Steve

www.minutemanproject.com  Join the fight!

According to a police report, 25-year-old Manual Garcia-Trejo, Daniel Garcia-Saenz, 24, and Rodolfo Madrigal Lopez, 19 each face a charge of 1st degree murder in Williams' death. (ABC 15)

Police reports show that the 3 men are (were?)Mexican army members.
Here is one of the police documents via KFYI on the murder in Phoenix Monday:

The police memo reads:


"Information from one of the suspects on McDowell indicated all the suspects are Mexican military coming into the United States with full tactical gear and police raid shirts to conduct home invasions. According to the same suspect, they were planning on ambushing the officers following them but didn't only because they didn't have any ammunition left. Homicide responded and took dispo. BE CAREFUL!"
There were rumors about this incident earlier in the week.
Now, it is being reported that Mexican army members broke into a home in Phoenix, Arizona and shot a man dead.
KFYI and Drudge reported:


The suspects may have been hired by drug cartels to perform home invasions and assassinations in the U.S.

Police reports show that three men arrested in a Phoenix home invasion and homicide Monday may have been active members of the Mexican Army.

While on the J.D. Hayworth show, Phoenix Law Enforcement Association President Mark Spencer said that the men involved were hired by drug cartels to perform home invasions and assassinations.

The Monday morning incident at 8329 W. Cypress St. resulted in the death of the homeowner. Between 50 and 100 rounds were fired at the house.

Spencer said a police officer told him that one of the men captured said they were completely prepared to ambush Phoenix police, but ran out of ammunition.

He added that all were all dressed in military tactical gear and were armed with AR-15 assault rifles. Three other men involved in the invasion escaped.
Police say there was evidence that marijuana was being sold from the home.

Do you suppose the Left will raise holy hell over these army trained mercenaries?
...Me neither.

UPDATE: There was another incident in Phoenx on Thursday. Men wearing police uniforms broke into another home and pistol whipped two "coyotes."

posted by Gateway Pundit at 6/26/2008 05:59:00 AM

Feb. 22, 2008, 12:41PM
U.S. gives final OK to 'virtual fence' on Arizona border
By EILEEN SULLIVAN
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A 28-mile "virtual fence" that will use radars and surveillance cameras to try to catch people entering the country illegally has gotten final government approval.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced approval of the fence today. The fence, built by the Boeing Co., uses technology the government plans to extend to other areas of the Arizona border, as well as to sections of Texas. The projects could get under way as early as this summer, said department spokeswoman Laura Keehner.

The virtual fence is part of a national plan to secure the Southwest border with physical barriers and high-tech detection capabilities intended to stop illegal immigrants on foot and drug smugglers in vehicles. As of Thursday, 302 miles of fencing had been constructed.

Chertoff said the virtual fence already is working.
On Feb. 13, an officer in a Tucson command center — 70 miles from the border — noticed a group of about 100 people gathered at the border. The officer notified agents on the ground and in the air. Border Patrol caught 38 of the 100 people who tried to cross illegally, and the others went back into Mexico, said a Homeland Security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he isn't authorized to speak publicly.

The virtual fence system includes 98-foot unmanned surveillance towers that are equipped with an array of sophisticated technology including radar, sensors and cameras capable of distinguishing people from cattle at a distance of about 10 miles. The cameras are powerful enough to tell group sizes and whether people are carrying backpacks that may contain weapons or drugs.

"I have personally witnessed the value of this system, and I have spoken directly to the Border Patrol agents who are involved in operating that system over the last few months and who have seen it produce actual results in terms of identifying and allowing the apprehension of people who are illegally smuggling across the border," Chertoff said.

Last year the government withheld some of Boeing's payments for the system because technology the company used in the test project did not work properly. Boeing also was late in delivering the final product, known as Project 28. Because of this, the department received a $2 million credit from the company to go toward maintenance and logistical support of the system, the Homeland Security officials said.

The government paid Boeing $15 million of its initial $20 million contract before determining that there were glitches in the test project. The department gave a conditional acceptance in December.
Lawmakers have been skeptical of the product Boeing delivered.

"This is not the end of the Project 28 story," Rep. Christopher Carney, D-Pa., said in a statement Thursday. "We need to understand what went wrong with Project 28 to ensure that the mistakes of the past are not repeated and taxpayer dollars are not squandered." Carney is chairman of the House Homeland Security management subcommittee.

NOW WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE!

Last year, the Oklahoma Legislature passed a law that:

o Restricts illegal immigrants' access to driver's licenses and ID cards.

o Cuts off several forms of public assistance for illegal
immigrants. Emergency medical care, disaster aid and certain
immunizations are exempted.

o Makes it harder for illegal immigrants to pay in-state
college tuition.

o Encourages state and local law enforcement to enforce federal
immigration law.

o Makes it a felony to harbor, transport, conceal or shelter
illegal immigrants.

o Requires state and local governments to use a federal
database that allows them to check potential employees' work
eligibility.

o Starting this summer, private employers and government
contractors will have to verify employment eligibility of all
new hires. Employers who don't could be sued.

This year, Oklahoma lawmakers are considering bills that would:

o Designate English as the state's official language.

o Let law enforcement seize the property of those who
transport, hire or rent to illegal immigrants.

o Make public schools report how many illegal-immigrant
children are enrolled.

Source: Robert T. Garrett, "Oklahoma's crackdown on illegal immigration draws Texas lawmakers' interest; Crackdown on illegal
immigration draws criticism, Texas interest," Dallas Morning News, February 13, 2008.

For text:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestne
ws/stories/021408dnte
ximmigcrackdown.39b8412.html

This is awesome!!! Oklahoma has it figured out, now they need to lead by example!!!

I used some bold fonts for the one's I'm most proud of!

UPDATE: The Senate passed the Bush stimulus plan yesterday and the bill will move to a conference committee, but the loophole that would give rebate checks to illegal aliens may not be closed after all.

We have one last shot at really closing this loophole.

Congressman Tom Tancredo said:
"The fact that we know that Social Security numbers are compromised, the fact that thousands of people, maybe millions of people, we don't know for sure how many people, filed an income tax form with a fake Social Security number -- we also know that there's absolutely no communication between the IRS and Social Security Administration."

Tancredo made that statement when we found out that the House passed version of the Bush stimulus plan was going to pay of windfall of up to $28 billion to illegal aliens!
Then GOP Senator John Ensign said he could fix that glitch. He proposed that only people possessing Social Security numbers be eligible for rebates.

That solution looks good at first glance. But the so-called "Ensign Fix" is no fix at all. It's like plugging a leaky faucet with chewing gum.

As 100 senators surely know, it' almost as easy to buy a Social Security number in some places as it is to buy a Big Mac. According to some government estimates, the buying and selling of fake Social Security numbers is now a 50-billion-dollar-a-year business.

With as many as 20 million illegal aliens swarming all over America, we're talking about megabucks snatched out of taxpayer wallets.

What if only 2 million -- that's 10% of that potential number of illegal aliens in the United States -- held fraudulent Social Security numbers, taxpayers would be bilked out of at least $1.6 BILLION in rebates!
But that's simply assuming each of these folks were single. If they're married and have children (or if they simply claim to be married with children) that's BILLIONS MORE!

Oh, yes. And you can add that to the estimated $338.3 billion we already shell out each year on food stamps, Medicaid, free education, incarceration of alien criminals, and other government programs.

When Uncle Sugar hands out big money, two things inevitably happen:
(1) Illegal aliens send most of the dollars back home and enrich the economies of other countries;
(2) The welfaristas dig in for the long haul. They'll never go home -- not as long as American taxpayers are footing the bill.

Tell them that the Ensign Fix will still rewards illegal aliens, encourages them to remain in this country and encourage more to come into the United States and break our laws. Demand that they truly "fix" this flawed bill, either on the floor of the Senate or in conference committee. And no Democratic give-aways tacked on.

www.minutemanproject.com

FORT HUACHUCA SCARE MANDATES WE NOT IGNORE OUR POROUS BORDERS.

PHOENIX, AZ — The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps today encourages Washington lawmakers to act in expediting the construction of the physical border fence on all U.S. land borders they have already approved, in light of media reports which indicate that Middle Eastern terrorists planned to enter our country and attack Fort Huachuca, Arizona, assisted by international drug cartels. For several years, Minutemen volunteers have warned state and federal lawmakers of the need to secure our borders in order to prevent possible terrorist attacks similar to those described in these media reports, as well as to halt the infamous drug and sex trafficking which routinely occurs across our porous borders.

“Our government’s failure to secure our borders is pathetic,” states Chris Simcox, President of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. “Now that we have this most recent high-profile example of how our unprotected borders can lead to terrorist attacks within our country, every citizen should be pressuring our government to secure the borders before Christmas. Americans deserve to spend time with our families during the holiday season reasonably free of fear of violent incidents and catastrophic events.”

This was an email sent to me and I did take the time to click on each of the links to check it out... I thought some of you would be interested in reading it as I was VERY informed!

WHY THE CUT IN U .S . SENIOR BENEFITS 2 U? "snopes" is provided for doubters:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/bankofamer
ica.asp

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77  

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.h
tml

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01
.html 

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.
html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.
html  

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.

http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.
html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens . In particular, their children , are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.
html  

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period." http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation
.pdf

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14 . "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration : Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ".

http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

The total cost is a whooping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR !

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - Associated Press.

DALLAS (AP) - Federal agents who track down fugitive illegal immigrants arrested more than 30,000 people nationally in fiscal year 2007, nearly double the previous year, officials said Tuesday.

The number of arrests more than doubled to 1,635 in North Texas and Oklahoma. In South Texas, San Antonio-based agents arrested 1,326 fugitives, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.

There were more than 30,408 arrests nationally in fiscal 2007, which ended Sept. 30, compared to 15,462 last year, ICE said.

Agents on the fugitive operations teams focus on finding people who haven't appeared for immigration hearings, or who stayed in the country after being ordered to leave by an immigration judge. Teams also prioritize cases, looking for those who have criminal records or are considered a threat to national security, ICE officials said.

More at: www.minutemanproject.com

33 Senators Voted  Against English as America 's Official Language June 6,  2007

 On Wed, 6 June 2007  23:35:23 -0500, "Colonel Harry Riley USA ret" wrote:

Senators,
 
Your vote against  an amendment to the Immigration Bill 1348, to make English America 's official  language is astounding. On D-Day no less when we honor those that sacrificed in order to secure the bedrock character and principles of America. I can only surmise your vote reflects a loyalty to illegal aliens.  

I don't much care  where you come from, what your religion is, whether you're black, white or  some other color, male or female, democrat, republican or independent, but I  do care when you're a United States Senator, representing citizens of America  and vote against English as the official language of the United States  

Your vote reflects  betrayal, political surrender, violates your pledge of allegiance, dishonors  historical principle, rejects patriotism, borders on traitorous action and, in  my opinion, makes you unfit to serve as a United States Senator...  impeachment, recall, or other appropriate action is warranted.   "Congressmen who  willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale, and undermine the  military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or  hanged." 

President  Abraham Lincoln  "   Amen  "

Read more at www.minutemanproject.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A judge on Tuesday sentenced a Somali immigrant to 10 years in prison for plotting to blow up an Ohio shopping mall with a man later convicted of being an al-Qaida terrorist.
   Nuradin Abdi, a cell phone salesman before his arrest, will be deported to Somalia after serving the sentence. U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley imposed the sentence as part of a plea deal Abdi agreed to in July.

I'm sending a "hell yeah" for DEPORTATION!!!

Buenos Diaz from Northern Mexico. You will not see this heart-stopping photo on the front page of the NY Times or on the lead story of the major news networks. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upside down at Montebello High School in California .

I predict this stunt will be the nail in the coffin of any guest-worker/amnesty plan on the table in Washington . The image of the American flag subsumed to another andturned upside down on American soil is already spreading on Internet forums and via e-mail. 

Pass this along to every American citizen in your address books and to every representative in the state and federal government. If you choose to remain uninvolved, do not be amazed when you no longer have a nation to call your own nor anything you have worked for left since it will be "redistributed" to the activists while you are so peacefully staying out of the "fray". Check history, it is full ofnations/empires that disappeared when its citizens no longer held their core beliefs and values. One person CAN make a difference.

 One plus one plus one plus one plus one plus one....... 
The battle for our secure borders and immigration laws that actually mean

something, however, hasn't even begun.

Visit www.minutemanproject.com for more info.

Two-thirds of parents say their children will trick-or-treat this Halloween, but fewer minorities will let their kids go door to door, with some citing safety worries, a poll shows.

The survey found that 73 percent of whites versus 56 percent of minorities said their children will trick-or-treat on Wednesday.

That disparity in the survey is similar to the difference in how people view the safety of their neighborhoods, according to the poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos. Lower-income people and minorities are more likely to worry that it might not be safe to send their children out on Halloween night.

More on this story at Yahoo News

By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WriterSun Oct 28, 12:29 PM ET

Is this an issue to any of you (bloggers)? What I mean is, how many of you let or take your kids trick or treating?