TTC Protest
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Want your voice to be heard in opposition to the TTC? Local residents can go to Austin…… from around the state will gather at the corner of First and Red River in Austin and march to the Capitol to protest…include speakers and a musical performance by Jimmie Vaughn. Keep reading →
Just a few things of note concerning squawkboxnoise.com V2.1. There have been some changes that you may or may not have noticed.
Some todo things
1. Start an SBN blogroll and link exchange
2. finish graphics for SBN swag and open store
3. install super cool SBN logo to header
4. add links to Privacy Policy and Terms of Use to the footer
5. add links bar to header
6. redo contributors links
I still need a few more conservative contributors. If you or maybe you know someone that wants to blog without all the hassle of maintaining a blog feel free to contact me. Oh yeah did I mention that the cost to blog here is like ummm free. Yeah I tote the note and you are free to post whatever, whenever you want. There are some restrictions but nothing you can’t live with. CONTACT ME and let’s discuss it.
The events calendar is a place, a sort of clearing house, to post events of interest to conservatives. This includes but is not limited to political rallies, church functions, meet and greets, committee meetings, movies, fairs, rattlesnake roundups, motorcycle rallies, pig races you name it. Contributors to SBN contact me and I will explain the process. If you or your organization need a little more exposure and free space to advertise contact me.
Before the crash I noticed that SBN was loading pretty slow. That was because I had gotten away form the rule of keeping things simple. Hopefully that problem has been fixed on my end. The server seems to have worked out a few issues they had. A side note on Bluehost. Bluehost has to have the best support staff I have run into. They are patient with “noobs” like myself and have walked me through issues of my own making and beyond the realm of their responsibility.
I am going to get rid of a certain ad banner. I am tired of the same old tired “Should George Bush be Impeached” ad. Ok already enough is enough. There are many associate programs out there that offer better targeted ads. Besides legally covering my bases it is because of a couple ad program requirements that I added the privacy notice and terms of use pages.
Thanks to my contributors and thanks to those that stop by and check in. Oddly enough, through my recent illness and blog crash the number of unique hits have continued to climb. Go figure. I am humbled. My health is getting better so I hope to be back to my grouchy old blogging self real soon. Thanks y’all.
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  (UPDATE) Gilmer Hernandez sentencing date has been pushed up to March 19th, 2007. There will be a pre-sentencing hearing on the 16th. I spoke with Roy Cottle, one the organizers of the rally, and they have yet to decide which date is more important to attend. If you wish to attend the rally to show your support I would suggest you contact Tyne Lomax 830-683-3101 or you can call Roy Cottle 830-683-7266 for more information.
Gilmer Hernandez will be sentenced Monday, March 12th and the community of Rock Springs is coming together to show their support with a Free Gilmer Caravan to Del Rio .
- By Roy Cottle
The date Edwards County Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez will be sentenced is almost here and we need your support!! The date is set forMonday March 12th.Country Boys Feed and Supply has hired a charter bus, the Devil’s Sinkhole Society offered us their Batmobile and Rocksprings I.S.D. is going to let us use every single bus we need to get people to Del Rio on this date.Parking at the Federal Courthouse building is not good so we will not be able to park all the cars on the streets. If you would like to attend, please call Country Boys @ 830-683-3101 and give Tyne Lomax each name in your party so we will know how many buses are needed. A donation is not expected, but $5.00 per person will be greatly appreciated if you can to pay for driver’s and fuel. Money left in the Gilmer Hernandez Travel Expense Fund from the brisket plate sale will also be used.
We will meet at the Edwards CountyPark Building so you can park your cars and load the buses by 7:00 a.m. (This time could change, but we will let you know.)
RSVP: Tyne Lomax 830-683-3101 or you can call Roy Cottle 830-683-7266 for more information.
From Lonestartimes.com
We’ve previously reported on the case of Gilmer Hernandez, an Edwards County sheriff’s deputy who was busted after shooting an illegal alien who tried to run him over.
U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton (yeah, that Johnny Sutton) prosecuted Deputy Hernandez on the orders of the Mexican government, and he’s now awaiting sentencing. In the meantime, the Hernandez family has lost its breadwinner:
The deputy’s Dec. 1 conviction has enraged his hometown of Rocksprings, Texas, population 1,250, where “Free Gilmer” signs have been posted. The Baptist church is paying the deputy’s mortgage and others have come up with costs for the family’s truck, propane and water bills.Hernandez, 25, and his wife, Ashley, have a 4-month-old daughter.
Want to help? Send a couple bucks in this direction:
Hernandez Family Fund
Peoples State Bank
P. O. Box 437
Rock Springs, TX 78880
(UPDATE)
Gilmer Hernandez will be sentenced Monday, March 12th and the community of Rock Springs is coming together to show their support with a Free Gilmer Caravan to Del Rio .
- By Roy Cottle
The date Edwards County Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez will be sentenced is almost here and we need your support!! The date is set for Monday March 12th. Country Boys Feed and Supply has hired a charter bus, the Devil’s Sinkhole Society offered us their Batmobile and Rocksprings I.S.D. is going to let us use every single bus we need to get people to Del Rio on this date.Parking at the Federal Courthouse building is not good so we will not be able to park all the cars on the streets. If you would like to attend, please call Country Boys @ 830-683-3101 and give Tyne Lomax each name in your party so we will know how many buses are needed. A donation is not expected, but $5.00 per person will be greatly appreciated if you can to pay for driver’s and fuel. Money left in the Gilmer Hernandez Travel Expense Fund from the brisket plate sale will also be used.
We will meet at the Edwards CountyPark Building so you can park your cars and load the buses by 7:00 a.m. (This time could change, but we will let you know.)
RSVP: Tyne Lomax 830-683-3101 or you can call Roy Cottle 830-683-7266 for more information.
I will be making the road trip.
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Lone Star Times » Railroaded border deputy’s family needs help (UPDATE)
Technorati Tags: Austin, Illegal Immigration, News, Politics, Republicans, Texas, US News, Gilmer Hernandez, Rock Springs, Johnny Sutton
Here are the Republicans that don’t care about the lives of our troops:
This is my comment as originally posted at Lonstartimes.com
Sorry folks but the “republican party†is nothing more than the party of republicans. They have stopped being conservative if that is what you are alluding to a long time ago. Long before Bush came into power. And we have all known that Bush is no conservative.
Bush is just as responsible for this as the House is. He got us into Iraq and stopped fighting the terrorists and moved to defending cities instead of going to, dare I say, Syria and kick their butts for supplying weapons and men. He left in place the bad guys ability to re-arm and re-man.
IMO he fought this mess bass ackwards. He instituted a policy of things to do that are not normally started till after the “enemy†is conquered, destroyed and their will to fight removed.
The absolute worst thing Bush did was to abandon identifying the enemy. We were treated to words that spanned from Feadayeen Saddam to terrorists down to insurgents down to the nebulous “those that practice terrorismâ€. Words mean things and Bush stopped talking almost as quickly as he landed on the deck of that carrier. He let the Democrats define the war and did not fight back.
I could go on, suffice it to say the bottom line is great leaders stand and fight not only the enemy abroad but those at home too. Bush abdictaed his leadership role when he began to fight a politically correct war.
There comes a time when the prez has to stand call bullS**T on his detractors. Bush did not. So here we are blaming “Rinos†and Democrats when the problem began with Bush. Don’t forget the the Republicans had total control in numbers and Bush would not lead. The surge should have occured a long time ago.
As General Tommy Franks says (paraphrased)
“At any given time in American history we have exactly the government we deserve.â€
So I lay the blame for this mess further down on the food chain. The American Voter. We did not slap these Republicans around a long time ago and this is what we got now.
The days of elect and forget are gone.
Technorati Tags: Anti-War, Democrats, Iraq, News, Politics, Republicans, Soldiers, Terrorism, US News
As much as you have likely read and heard of the case of Compean and Ramos, you may not be as familiar with the case of Guillermo "Gilmer" Hernandez, deputy sheriff of Rocksprings, Edwards County, Texas who is currently in federal custody in Del Rio, awaiting sentencing, courtesy of Johnny Sutton, the same US Attourney for the Western District of Texas that oversaw the prosecution of Compean and Ramos.
The U.S. attorney, who won lengthy prison terms last year for two U.S. Border Patrol agents in the shooting of a drug-smuggling suspect, also prosecuted
Edwards County Deputy Sheriff Guillermo F. Hernandez, who is to be sentenced next month.[...]
Hernandez was convicted after a jury trial in U.S. District Court in Del Rio, Texas, 75 miles southwest of Rocksprings — found guilty of violating "under the color of law" the civil rights of Maricela Rodriguez-Garcia, a Mexican national.
Gilmer’s crime?
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I have been guilt-riddled that I have not had time to adequately blog about the developments in the strange case of Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos; but the untimely demise of Squawkboxnoise V2.0 would have erased all previous efforts anyway. So, I suppose I should take this opportunity to take a fresh look at the case, or at least at my opinions of the case, formed over weeks of following this story.
The case, as you may or may not already be aware, is an unfolding tale of two Border Patrol Agents, Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos, who had an encounter with a Mexican national near Fabens, TX on February 17, 2005, which resulted in an admitted illegal alien drug smuggler being shot , and two border patrol agents winding up in Federal prison. The best time line I’ve found, as I began my retrospective search into this case is at Sue Bob’s Diary. As a caveat, I only found Sue Bob’s Diary today, and do not have time to read everything on the site – but what I’ve had time to peruse appears to provide a ton of links to material that I’ve been hearing and reading throughout the period from last fall when morning talker Edd Hendee brought the case up on KSEV radio during my morning commute, and now.
As the weeks and months progressed and I heard more and more about the strange twists in the case, I became increasingly amazed that we have come to a place where two men who went to work one morning to protect and defend the borders of our country, in an ever-increasingly dangerous climate, now find themselves in federal prison but still have no complete transcript of the trial in which they were convicted, necessary to file the appeal that could have prevented their ever setting foot in prison.
Joe Loya, Monica Ramos’ father, told WND he attended the trial every day, but he has not seen a transcript either.
“The district court says the transcript isn’t ready yet. Besides, they tell me that it will cost $3 a page and that there are 3,000 pages. So, it’s going to cost about $9,000 to get a copy of the trial transcript, assuming the District Court ever does get finished typing it out.”
McCaul’s Jan. 19 letter confirmed Loya’s charge. The congressman wrote that the Investigations Subcommittee contacted the district court requesting the trial transcript but was informed no transcript was available.
Equally mind-boggling to me was the smoke-screen erected by members of the OIG, apparently in an effort to derail a movement by some congressmen to begin a Congressional oversight investigation into the handling of the matter:
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Well I crashed and sunk Squawkboxnoise V2.0. So hang in there with me as I restore this mess to its former glory. Please come back and visit just don’t be suprised if the look and feel changes from time to time.
Some of the changes that will be coming
