Here?s another great GTB Blogburst. Written by Heidi over at Euphoric Reality. Shocking information!

As a parent with two kids in Texas schools, I have a pet peeve. I really, really resent that their education is hampered by kids who can?t speak English. I?ve seen classes that move mind-bogglingly slow as teachers have to work one-on-one with children who shouldn?t be there in the first place. It?s enough to make me grind my teeth in frustration!

I am a big proponent of the immersion method of learning a language. It is my firm belief that once in America, immigrants should learn our language, and the best way is by complete and total immersion. When we lived in Mexico, we placed my son into a public school in the local village so that he could learn the language more rapidly. I continued to teach him at home what he needed to know to keep his education above American standards, and his classroom experience was for language purposes only. We asked for no special considerations, we just did what was necessary. It was not easy, but it worked.

That is only one of the reasons it is so offensive to see our tax dollars paying for immigrants, many of them here illegally, to receive special dispensations because they can?t (or won?t) learn our language! But why should they learn, when almost everything is bi-lingual anyways?

Recently in Arizona, an activist judge has ruled that it?s not enough that American citizens pay for a free education for the children of illegal aliens, and it?s not enough that the classes are dumbed-down for non-English speakers, but now the taxpayers must pay exorbitant funds to provide special classes for children who don?t speak English!

The background for attempting to accord special ?rights? to non-American, non-English speaking residents was predicated on a case in Alabama where liberals tried to add the word ?language? to the Civil Rights Act, thereby making it illegal to discriminate on the basis of language. While the case was originally successful in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, it was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Based upon that, Arizona Judge Alfredo C. Marquez, appointed by Jimmy Carter, ruled against the Arizona taxpayers, but had enough restraint to recognize that he could not substitute the court’s “educational values and theories for the educational and political decisions reserved to state or local school authorities.” Nevertheless, he tasked the legislature with performing a cost study.

Over the next few years, the Arizona legislature passed three bills for this special funding. However, none of them were as large as Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, wanted and so she vetoed all three. Governor Napolitano wanted the Arizona Legislature to appropriate nearly $1,200 per immigrant child, totaling $192 million, without accountability for how it was to be spent. Obviously, the governor, with the judge?s ruling on her side, could sit and wait until the legislature saw things her way.

Unfortunately, the next judge in succession of Marquez, upped the ante. Appointed by Bill Clinton, Judge Ramer C. Collins, decided to punitively fine the Arizona State Legislature for not funding special accommodations for non-English speaking students.

Who knew that an activist judge could legislate taxes and state funding?

While many Americans in other states think that these problems are confined to the four states with Hispanic majorities (TX, CA, AZ, and NM) – think again. Small towns across America are finding their educational systems utterly compromised by an influx of illegal workers and their families: Melrose, MN; Delavan, WI; Herndon, VA; Wassau, WI; Des Moines, IA; Raleigh, NC; Fort Myers, FL; Sioux Falls, SD; Grand Rapids, MI and North Platte, NE. Still think it?s not your problem?!

As one small town resident has said, ?I, along with millions of other American citizens, am sick and tried of the politicians and others treating illegal aliens like honored guests! They are not honored, and they are not guests.?

H/T: American Daughter

This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It is syndicated by Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as we’re going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration in our country, join the Blogburst! Send an email with your blog name and url to euphoricrealitynet at gmail dot com.

So this past weekend we took the kids to the UniverSoul Circus. It’s a great show and much cheaper than that other better known circus. There was no way I was paying over $100 for a circus. No circus is THAT GOOD. So the UniverSoul Circus offers a good show at a more reasonable price.

We were a little late, but here are the acts we saw and my thoughts on them:

• CARIBBEAN HEAT FESTIVAL – Stilt Walkers and Limbo Mamas: If you’ve ever been to the Caribbean, you’ll think you were back there enjoying a festival. If you’ve never been, this act gives you a good taste. They did a great job.
• THE ETHIOPIAN DREAM TEAM – Body and Foot Juggling: Just some great tumbling and exciting action.
• EMPERORS OF SOUL – Glass Vase and Pottery Juggling: If people spinning and catching pots is your thing, then this act is for you. I respect their skill, but this act was not doing much for me.
• Motorbikes In The Metal Globe: This was a great act. Guys on motorbikes spinning in a metal globe in all directions!
• DIVA AND THE LION’S DEN – Lion Trainer: OK, here’s my opinion of people that get into closed areas with animals known for killing things bigger than themselves, psycho! But hey, if you can get some lions to do anything other than eat you, than you deserve some respect. I think the only person who should have ever knowingly entered a closed area with lions is Daniel from the Bible .
• FLYING CHINESE DAREDEVILS – Trapeze: Bananas! I mean these folks were flying all over the place and twisting like crazy. Very entertaining.
• TYRONE TAYLOR – Elephant Trainer: Hey, if you can get a bunch of huge elephants to do your bidding you have my respect. Plus the elephants did not go wild and trample us, which is a good thing .
• GABONESE ACROBATIC TROUPE – Acrobatic Teeter Board: Great tumbling and tricks. They also teamed up with the elephant trainer and did some tumbling with the elephants. That was cool.
• Guys on the steel spinning thing: I’m not sure what they call themselves, but they were a great act! Two guys on a large spinning metal apparatus. It was amazing what they were doing. Even the pics in the link don’t do their act justice.

Also the Ringmaster and his Sidekick were able to keep things moving well. One of the great things was the culture of faith and success expressed by the Ringmaster. The motto he used was something like “By believing in yourself and putting God first, you can be anything you want to be”. This is a great message for children. Also there was a portion of the show where they actually had church during the circus. First people were allowed to let everyone know what church they attend and then a couple gospel songs were played for people to sing along with and enjoy. You’re not going to have “church” at that other more expensive circus . A circus can buy a lot of things with a high ticket price, but they can’t buy Jesus .

(For the sake of full disclosure, I do have a relative that is behind the UniverSoul Circus. He’s either the owner or some other person involved in running it. I’ve never met him and we are related via marriage. I have to pay for my tickets to the circus and get no special discount. I was not paid or given any incentives to blog about the UniverSoul Circus. I just made this post because I like it.)

It is good that Americans now desire that their ports are working with management companies that do not have questionable ties to terrorism. Dubai Ports World would be in familiar company when you look at other government run companies that are managing port terminals in the USA.

For example in Hampton Roads, Virginia there is a who’s-who of suspect nations managing terminals at the port in that town.

This is just one port in one US city. It’s similar in ports across our nation. I can’t say I feel a level of comfort in this fact and I have no desire to see the number increase.

Of course if it was not for UNIONS more US companies would be better able to manage our sea ports. In the interest of one of America’s most risky points of entry being managed within this nation, it would make sense to disband all port Unions and initiate an effort to have US ports fully managed from within this nation. It has been mentioned that Liberal Democrats suggested that US ports should be managed by groups local to the area the port is in. Similar to how US airports are managed. Honestly I totally agree with the suggestion. All points of entry into a given area should be managed by entities within that town. It would be nice if a private business in each area could do this work, but if no private company can and it must be handled via that area’s local government (using taxpayer dollars) that would be fine with me too. Even if multiple ports were run by a private company within the USA that is based outside of the ports’ town, that would be fine as well. Yes Homeland Security does a good bit of the security at ports and terminal operators do some as well, but American points of entry should be fully managed by America.

Hopefully the current uproar will start a drive towards the goal of port management being run within the USA. This will require getting rid of Unions and hopefully Americans will realize that as well. People are asking “why can’t an American company run our ports?”… Because of the Unions, that’s why. In the interest of America being able to fully manage our sea ports the Unions should be disbanded. Some effort towards the USA managing all entry into the USA needs to be made, or America will continue to be more compromised as a nation.

Although neither is totally against the deal like me, it’s good to see they are at least offering an opinion.

Georgia US Senator Johnny Isakson still has not said a word about this.

Shay over at Booker Rising has found a very interesting one today.

She cites and disagrees with Devone Tucker’s view of a statement made by Jamie Foxx at the NAACP Image Awards.

Here’s what Mr. Foxx said:

Mr. Tucker feels this statement was wrong and a White person could never get away with saying something similar about people with their own skin tone. Mr. Tucker is 100% correct and I agree with him 100%.

Many Black people want everybody in the world to be “P.C.” except us.

Black being a culture, it is justifiable to have entertainment or even a network titled “Black”, if it offers Black cultural programming. Sadly BET often shows the worst of Black culture, but that’s another issue. One can even justify having a “Black” awards show, if the focus is Black cultural entertainment and Whites are not excluded. The NAACP has always given Image Awards to both Blacks and Whites, so that is not an issue here. I say the NAACP can keep on giving their awards. I just wish they’d stop trying to reward killers.

It is clear that Mr. Foxx said his statement in regards to skin-tone. He is happy to be in a room filled with people that are closer to his skin tone than George W. Bush. Foxx’s statement shows he feels Blacks are better to be in his company than Whites. It’s a totally bigoted statement.

The reaction to this shows that many folks are accustomed to having the double standard. Because when Trent Lott said Strom Thurmond should have been President, look who had a fit! (A whole lot of Black people.) Hey, old Strom just wanted to be around people that looked like himself . So Strom Thurmond was enacting Mr. Foxx’s thoughts as a Presidential campaign. I say Strom was wrong, Lott was wrong and Foxx is wrong.

Now what if a White man wins an award in education and says “White folks are eduction”?

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