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Homeland Security Won’t Explain Why the Mexican Border Wall Bypasses the Rich and Connected

As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security marches down the Texas border serving condemnation lawsuits to frightened landowners, Brownsville resident Eloisa Tamez, 72, has one simple question. She would like to know why her land is being targeted for destruction by a border wall, while a nearby golf course and resort remain untouched.

[  ]….Just 69 miles north, Daniel Garza, 76, faces a similar situation with a neighbor who has political connections that reach the White House. In the small town of Granjeno, population 313, Garza points to a field across the street where a segment of the proposed 18-foot high border wall would abruptly end after passing through his brick home and a small, yellow house he gave his son. “All that land over there is owned by the Hunts,” he says, waving a hand toward the horizon. “The wall doesn’t go there.”

In this area everyone knows the Hunts. Dallas billionaire Ray L. Hunt and his relatives are one of the wealthiest oil and gas dynasties in the world. Hunt, a close friend of President George W. Bush, recently donated $35 million to Southern Methodist University to help build Bush’s presidential library. In 2001, Bush made him a member of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, where Hunt received a security clearance and access to classified intelligence.

Don’t we all have days when we think maybe it would be better if half the population lived in their own little world behind four meter walls topped with razor wire. Maybe that’s all this border fence business is, someone’s idle daydream made all too real. If we’re going to build fences, supposedly the answer whispered in the ear of the powers that be to illegal immigrants from Mexico though there is little consensus that it will actually accomplish much other then being a sink hole for tax dollars and an yet another ecological catastrophe shouldn’t everyone in its path bear equal intrusion on lives and property. It seems to be the usual case where some citizens are more equal then others and those more equal folks have more money and connections.

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Oh the horror, Inside the Mind of the Boy Dating Your Daughter 

The stereotype of the 16-year-old boy is that he has sex on the brain. But a fascinating new report suggests that boys are motivated more by love and a desire to form real relationships with the girls they date.

The report, published in this month’s Journal of Adolescence…

On a survey with the opportunity to give multiple answers people will have a slight tendency to give answers that they think are the more socially acceptable. Still with a sizable minority did admit to being primarily interested in the physical aspects of a relationship.

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