Just missed  you Jerry; I'll be in Dallas all next week. Was there a month or two ago also. I'm like you,  I like Dallas, but like you said, it's hot sometimes. i was there either last year or the year before when they were going for their record 100 days over 100 or something like that. They missed it by a day. Hotel blew a transformer and it was 110 in the rooms and no elevators. Beer was cold however, they brought in ice. Give the Texans this; they got their priorities straight!...

Jerry warned me weeks ago. I thot if I just gave it more effort & posed some ideas,,,, but, no.,. brick wall,,

bill67 wrote on 03/29/13 at 16:14:41:


Hi Bill, in looking back I probably should have specified I was talking economic growth, if you are responding to something I said. If not, nevermind. Yes, it illegal population is growing there too but I don't believe the State is embracing it like California is.

This place is sure gonna get quieter with "that guy" not being the center of attention..But,, theres always Bill. Of course, once he gets enough heat, he will make tracks back to the cafe.

here's another interesting number:

Over half the babies born to mothers under 30 are now "illegitimate" (to use a quaintly judgmental formulation). For the first three-and-a-half centuries of American settlement the bastardy rate (to be even quainter) was a flat line in the basement of the graph, stuck at 2 or 3 percent all the way to the eve of the Sixties. Today over 40 percent of American births are "nonmarital," which is significantly higher than in Canada or Germany.

I'm afraid you're right webster. But I'd like to separate the anchor baby numbers from the american numbers and yes even the american numbers are higher. However a social trend tends to spread. If you see unwed people (illegal or not) having babies, you lose the "stigma". Worse yet if its someone prominent ...

That is one reason I am against giving illegals anything. I'd toss em all out. There is a few million people wanting to take their place who are waiting, and atleast that many in countries we are "fighting the insurgency" - based on lies or not, those soldiers have put themselves on the line, and so have the locals people who have embeded with them.

Its easy to "insinuate" yourself into someone's life when you have proximity. My son plays with several of our neighbors ... white, black, catholic, protestant etc etc ... I can easily see a day when it gets to be a lot more than a play date. That will easily lead to someone's "values" getting altered. If your "values" include sneaking across the border and hiding from the authorities, or having babies out of wedlock without a job or any way to earn yourself a living - there it will be your new family value.

I wanted to open a baby food company, and my logo will be an anchor. I'll sell Anchor Baby food. Mostly tortillas and beans.

Cool.
Srinath.

Dane Allen wrote on 03/30/13 at 08:49:00:


Yes and coming right on the heels of the cancer of Runaway crony capitalism/oligarchism/robber baronism its like getting 2 cancers on top of each other.

And it still beats europe's austerity (AKA - Your smaller govt agenda) and the imminent collapse of that system.

Cool.
Srinath.