Sunday, September 29, 2024
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Kamala Harris: Woman on the run
Kamala Harris: Woman on the run - American Thinker https://t.co/WESyBmbaVk
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) September 29, 2024
On the old movie channel, you can catch Woman on the Run, or the confusing story of a woman running for information. It’s hard to follow, but I love those black and white movies, where women were always so elegant. They even wore dresses and high heels to catch a baseball game.
On Friday, V.P. Harris was another woman on the run. The difference is that V.P. Harris knew exactly what she was running from, or the truth about a border that I’ve got to admit isn’t getting better all the time to paraphrase the old Beatles tune.
Friday’s visit coincided with the release of some numbers about people who crossed and were released among us. It’s a horror story, to say the least. Let’s go farther with Emily Jashinky:
As if to illustrate the point, the VP got doused with a metaphorical bucket of cold water on Friday afternoon just hours before she planned to deliver remarks from the border town of Douglas, Arizona. Republican Rep. Tony Gonzalez posted a letter he received this week from Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealing nearly half a million noncitizen convicted criminals are in the country, some of them outside of detention.
“As of July 21, 2024, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket, which includes those detained by ICE, and on the agency’s non-detained docket,” an agency official wrote. “Of those, 435,719 are convicted criminals, and 226,847 have pending criminal charges.”
Fox News broke down the data by category, noting: “Those include 62,231 convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,533 with drug convictions and 13,099 convicted of homicide. An additional 2,521 have kidnapping convictions and 15,811 have sexual assault convictions. There are an additional 1,845 with pending homicide charges, 42,915 with assault charges, 3,266 with burglary charges and 4,250 with assault charges.”
That’s a lot of people with criminal records, to state the obvious. Of course, there are two problems here.
First, we are seeing Exhibit A of what happens when immigration laws are not enforced. Once upon a time, we vetted people who wanted to come to the U.S. My family was vetted before we came here. It seemed totally normal until someone in the Biden administration decided that coming to the U.S. was an international “right.” Yes, a right, if you know what I mean!
Second, V.P. Harris does not take questions from a friendly press. I’m sure she would have gotten some questions about the aforementioned numbers. Unfortunately, she waved goodbye to the reporters and moved on. So we will never know how the V.P. feels about letting all of these criminals into the U.S.
So the woman is once again on the run, and the voters are left without information.
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Happy # 75 to Steve Busby
Happy birthday Steve Busby who was born in Burbank, CA, on this day in 1949.
Some of us are old enough to remember Steve Busby the pitcher not just the man who called Rangers' games on TV and radio.
Steve played at USC. He broke with the Royals in 1972 pitching a complete game against Minnesota.
In the early 1970's, or before injuries cut short his career, Busby seemed like a man headed for the Hall of Fame: 54 wins over first three full seasons along with 45 complete games and 2 no-hitters before he was 24!
In fact, Sporting News had him on the cover: "Unlimited future"!
After baseball, Steve became an excellent radio and TV play by play analyst.
"My Three Sons" made its debut in 1960
What can I say? I used to love this show not realizing that I would have 3 sons someday.
The original series was about widower Steve Douglas raising three sons with the help of the one and only Uncle Charlie.
The show ran until 1972. The family expanded when Douglas remarried and new characters came into the story.
By the way, McMurray died in 1991. He had a long film career before this show. Don Grady, who played Robbie, died in 2012. William Demarest, who played Uncle Charlie and served in World War I, died in 1983. The other two sons are still living.
A great show now available for sale..........
We remember Jerry Lee Lewis. (1935-2022)
We remember Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the first rockers in rock history. He was born on this day in 1935 in Louisiana and died in 2022.
1954: Willie Mays and "the catch"
Willie Mays took playing center field to a new level in game 1 of the 1954 World Series. He made an amazing over-the-shoulder catch of a shot hit by Cleveland Indians first baseman Vic Wertz. It would have likely been a triple or even an inside of the park depending on how the ball bounced around in deep centerfield. Instead, it was a long out!
"The catch" started the legend of Willie Mays, from playing defense to being perhaps the most complete player ever.
We remember Gene Autry (1907-1998)
Gene Autry was born in Tioga, Texas and grew up here and Oklahoma. Where else?
We remember him for songs and movies. "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer" is the second all-time best selling Christmas single, i.e. 30 million copies. He is the only entertainer to have all five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one each for Radio, Recording, Motion Pictures, Television, and Live Theater performances.
And he owned the Angels, the AL baseball team in Los Angeles. Sadly, he never saw his Angels win the 2002 World Series.
Autry was one of the most famous people of the 20th century.