Come on over.

[Master Blaster]

http://www.youtube.com/embed/WgOHOHKBEqE?feature=player_detailpage

[cookiedough]

sad but true indeed.

There is a reason they call the United States the Great Melting Pot, but this takes it to extreme. 

[Gryphon]

Puzzles for all you smart people

Puzzle One:

Imagine you are a 3 to 8 year old child.  You are on your own without adults.

You are asked to walk from Houston , Texas to Minneapolis , Minnesota on your own with no food or belongings to sustain you.

Then you are asked to walk an additional 100 miles past Minnesota .  

Could you do it?          

How long would it take you as a 6 year old?  That is the minimum distance these poor, helpless little ones have supposedly walked from Central America to the border of Texas , again, on their own.  They didn't get lost.          

And they survived the journey without help (unless you buy in to the notion that a destitute out-of-work family run out of their homes by gangs and living in squalor somehow came up with $8,000 to $10,000 for EACH child to pay a coyote to take them to the border).


Puzzle Two


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Now, on the map above, you must start somewhere in the green area.  Let's make it easy and start where green meets orange, so that you had the least mileage by not having to cover the whole green area.  Just start where the green meets the orange.  Blue, of course, is water.  


Your task is to figure a route from the green area to the purple area without going into the blue area and while avoiding towns and cities in the orange area.

The black line is the distance from the nearest town to Mexico 's southern border that touches the green area to Laredo , Texas , one of the CLOSEST purple towns —1,220 miles across desert and mountains with no equipment or food or help.          

If orange had stopped these innocents where orange touches green, problem would not have occurred.  However, what six year old do you know who could walk 1,220 miles (minimum), probably more like 1,500 miles on their own without dying?          

How many days would it take for a 6 year old to walk 1,220 miles without help, directions, food, sun protection, etc.?

I am beginning to think that the truth of all this isn't being given fully to us, folks. Someone created and assisted this, and the media and our government should be figuring out who it is, don't you think?  

[Serk]

...the feds putting out a request for bids for an escort service to move 65,000 illegal minors back in January sure seems... odd...

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=c6d7c0050b912fbc917a46d6709d38bd&tab=core&tabmode=list&=

Above is the actual request on the federal government's site.

For the right hand spin on it:

http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/24/feds-posted-bid-request-to-handle-child-immigrant-surge-back-in-january/

And for the left hand spin on it: (Which interestingly, the lefties don't deny it, they just try to spin it)

http://www.factcheck.org/2014/07/surge-of-unaccompanied-children/

[Valkorado]

Kinda missing the point Gryphon.  It's not so much how they are arriving, it's why.

The reason the numbers are increasing so dramatically in the first place.  The reason these little angels are making the hellish, grueling journey you refer to (coyote tour).  "Permisos" and no threat of consequence.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-deport-children-20140706-story.html#page=1

[Gryphon]

Actually, I thought that was the point.  The logistics don't make sense.  There is a purpose behind this.  I wonder what who is pulling the strings and what the agenda is.  I suspect, but I would like answers.

[..]

Has the liar in chief "read" about this in the papers yet??? 

[Valkorado]

There is a purpose behind this.  I wonder what who is pulling the strings and what the agenda is.  I suspect, but I would like answers.

I share your suspicion.   

[Serk]

There is a purpose behind this.  I wonder what who is pulling the strings and what the agenda is.  I suspect, but I would like answers.

I share your suspicion.   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy

[Willow]

... Someone created and assisted this, and the media and our government should be figuring out who it is, don't you think?  

I think anyone who believes the current government needs to figure out who did this is being just a bit naive (or gullible).   

[Gryphon]

I think anyone who believes the current government needs to figure out who did this is being just a bit naive (or gullible).   

Ok, I admit I should have used the "sarcasm font" for that line.

[Patrick]

Wanna stop the problem ?  I think John Stewart had the best answer. He said to dress the border patrol agents as Mounties and when the illegals saw the red uniforms they would think they had gone to far and turn around. Sounded good to me.