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So what’s going on here? Are we so fixated on legally operated, safe Mexican Cross Border trucks that we totally ignore the commercial bus industry in the United States?

On the heels of Friday morning deadly crash in Sherman Texas that killed 17 and injured more than 35 people when the recapped steering tire blew out on a charter bus being illegally operated by Angel Tours of Houston, we have two more incidents involving motor coaches.

A casino bus also was involved in an accident Sunday in Mississippi that killed three people and injured more than 30.

The bus belonging to Harrah’s Tunica was carrying 43 people when it overturned at an intersection in Tunica, authorities said. Rain was falling at the time but Mississippi Highway Patrol Sgt. Leslie White would not speculate on the cause of the wreck.

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Marco Antonio Solís is without question one of the most important figures in the rise of Mexican and Latin music to world prominence during the last two decades of the 20th century.

Born in Michoacan, Mexico, Solís was only 12 when he formed his first group, Los Hermanitos Solís, with brother Joel.

He was still a teenager when he formed Los Bukis in the early ’70s. Over the course of the next two decades, Los Bukis came to profoundly influence the norteño and tejano music of Mexico and the southwestern United States. Though Solís continued to work closely with Los Bukis, he also initiated a solo career that resulted in platinum certifications for mid-’90s LPs such as Quiereme, Inalcanzable, and Por Amor a Mi Pueblo. Trozos de Mi Alma followed in 1999.

Solís ushered in the millennium with a two-volume live set, En Vivo, and its companion, En Vivo, Vol. 2. His next studio album, Mas de Mi Alma, was released in 2001 and, like his previous solo albums, became a best-seller.

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The violations discovered in the bus belonging to Angel Tours that crashed in Sherman Texas Friday morning points to the stupidty and ignorance of a small percentage of people obsessed with ending the Cross Border Pilot Program, which has operated safely for the past 11 months, while ignoring American common carriers who flaunt and ignore the laws and rules thinking it does not apply to them, the bus crash Friday in Sherman Texas that claimed 16 lives is a prime example.

The owner of Angel Tours, 59-year-old Angel de la Torre, should be arrested and detained WITHOUT BAIL and charged with 16 counts of NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE! The idiot bus driver also!

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The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down it’s ruling yesterday in the case of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean and Justice was affirmed. US Judge Katherine Carbone was foud to have run a fair trial and the verdict hinged on who the Jury or 12 chose to believe. The Prosecution or the Defense. They chose the former.

Reaction to the ruling is about what one would suspect. but with a few surprises.

WND seemed to get the jump on everyone, not surprising since Jerome Corsi has been instrumental in having this case tried in the Court of Public Opinion, but a couple of hours after we broke the news here, WND relegated the story midways down their page. I guess since the ruling didn’t go their way, it didn’t have much importance to them.

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A federal appeals court refused today to throw out lengthy prison sentences for a pair of jailed U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted two years ago of shooting an unarmed illegal immigrant and lying about it.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld most of the convictions against former agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean.

But the appeals court threw out their convictions for tampering with an official proceeding, even the three-judge panel refused to reverse the convictions that resulted in their lengthy sentences.

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With all the vitriolic hatred being thrown about against Mexicans, whether legal or illegal and the celebration of the recent Supreme Court ruling concerning the Second Amendment and the NRA’s stated goal of unrestricted gun ownership, once again violence has been visited upon innocents.

In Knoxville Tennessee on Sunday, Jim D. Adkisson, 58, an unemployed truck driver, carrying a 12 gauge semi-automatic shotgun and 76 rounds of ammunition, entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville Tennessee during a childrens performance of the musical “Annie” and opened fire, apparently with no particular person targeted, before being tackled and disarmed by members of the congregation.

2 people were killed including an usher who used his body to shield others from the attack. 5 remain in area hospitals in serious to critical condition.

Church members praised Greg McKendry, 60, who died as he attempted to block the gunfire. Barbara Kemper said that McKendry “stood in the front of the gunman and took the blast to protect the rest of us.”

Kemper said the gunman shouted before he opened fire.

“It was hateful words. He was saying hateful things,” she said, refusing to elaborate.

“Greg McKendry was a very large gentleman, one of those people you might describe as a refrigerator with a head,” said church member Schera Chadwick. “He looked like a football player. He did obviously stand up and put himself in between the shooter and the congregation.”

Adkisson is being held in the Knox County Jail under “suicide watch” and $1 million dollar bail.

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