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	<title>Comments on: Property Assessments Arrive</title>
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		<title>By: manassascityresident</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83166</link>
		<dc:creator>manassascityresident</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anonymous said on 1 Apr 2009 at 1:18 pm: Flag comment 

Thanks for posting that link.....people have HAD IT with the two sets of rules in this country - what a flippin' joke!  
I only wish NOBAMA would read the comments....not that he would give a hoot.  He is, after all, our community organizer, I mean, President.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anonymous said on 1 Apr 2009 at 1:18 pm: Flag comment </p>
<p>Thanks for posting that link&#8230;..people have HAD IT with the two sets of rules in this country - what a flippin&#8217; joke!<br />
I only wish NOBAMA would read the comments&#8230;.not that he would give a hoot.  He is, after all, our community organizer, I mean, President.</p>
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		<title>By: Johnson</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83162</link>
		<dc:creator>Johnson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83162</guid>
		<description>The only plausible outcome is immediate deportation. POTUS is meddling. I hope she gets mugged by illegal aliens.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only plausible outcome is immediate deportation. POTUS is meddling. I hope she gets mugged by illegal aliens.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83161</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83161</guid>
		<description>From sea to shining sea...
...let's hear it for Auntie Z!

She decided she was staying... 
..and that all of us should be paying!

So let's hear it again for Auntie Z...
...who gets to stay in the good 'ol USA for free!!

Posted by poetman April 1, 09 01:53 PM</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From sea to shining sea&#8230;<br />
&#8230;let&#8217;s hear it for Auntie Z!</p>
<p>She decided she was staying&#8230;<br />
..and that all of us should be paying!</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s hear it again for Auntie Z&#8230;<br />
&#8230;who gets to stay in the good &#8216;ol USA for free!!</p>
<p>Posted by poetman April 1, 09 01:53 PM</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83160</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83160</guid>
		<description>Read the comments from people who are OUTRAGED about O's ILLEGAL ALIEN auntie being allowed to stay until at least 2010 at public expense.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/04/judge_allows_ob.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Read the comments from people who are OUTRAGED about O&#8217;s ILLEGAL ALIEN auntie being allowed to stay until at least 2010 at public expense.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/04/judge_allows_ob.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/04/judge_allows_ob.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Dave in PWC</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83152</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave in PWC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83152</guid>
		<description>So I'm reading that they just released all the illegal aliens that were found to be working at the engine plant in Washington State.  They gave them temporary work permits as well so they can be witnesses against the company who hired them in the first place.  How many do you think will show up for questioning and the trial?  The gov't just gave them a new document that they can forge.  What is going on with our gov't?

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News&#38;file=article&#38;sid=4092</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I&#8217;m reading that they just released all the illegal aliens that were found to be working at the engine plant in Washington State.  They gave them temporary work permits as well so they can be witnesses against the company who hired them in the first place.  How many do you think will show up for questioning and the trial?  The gov&#8217;t just gave them a new document that they can forge.  What is going on with our gov&#8217;t?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=4092" rel="nofollow">http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=4092</a></p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83150</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83150</guid>
		<description>TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY.........

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/04/judge_allows_ob.html

Of course, the Feds had nothing to with this decision.  She is just a poor woman (illegal alien who was told to leave the country in 2000) living on the dole in a public housing project at taxpayers expense, surrounded by a "bunch of men" in suits.  Are these men lawyers (who is paying for them as she apparently is so poor that she has to live in public housing) or are they part of Louis Farrakhan's  (Nation of Islam) thugs?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/04/judge_allows_ob.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/04/judge_allows_ob.html</a></p>
<p>Of course, the Feds had nothing to with this decision.  She is just a poor woman (illegal alien who was told to leave the country in 2000) living on the dole in a public housing project at taxpayers expense, surrounded by a &#8220;bunch of men&#8221; in suits.  Are these men lawyers (who is paying for them as she apparently is so poor that she has to live in public housing) or are they part of Louis Farrakhan&#8217;s  (Nation of Islam) thugs?</p>
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		<title>By: Karla H</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83148</link>
		<dc:creator>Karla H</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83148</guid>
		<description>"A Modesto police officer had to pull his gun to keep a hostile crowd at bay early Sunday.  Some members of the crowd told the officer that "he was not going to leave the scene alive," according to police. The crowd of as many as 60 people included some known gang members, Findlen said.  The dog apprehended one suspect, who police later identified as 18-year-old Alfredo Espinoza of Modesto.  William Rodriguez, 29, of Modesto was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer, false imprisonment of a police officer and lynching. Junior Suarez, 19, of Modesto was arrested on suspicion of resisting and delaying a police officer and lynching.  Gabriel Avila, 21, of Modesto was arrested on suspicion of possessing an assault rifle."</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;A Modesto police officer had to pull his gun to keep a hostile crowd at bay early Sunday.  Some members of the crowd told the officer that &#8220;he was not going to leave the scene alive,&#8221; according to police. The crowd of as many as 60 people included some known gang members, Findlen said.  The dog apprehended one suspect, who police later identified as 18-year-old Alfredo Espinoza of Modesto.  William Rodriguez, 29, of Modesto was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer, false imprisonment of a police officer and lynching. Junior Suarez, 19, of Modesto was arrested on suspicion of resisting and delaying a police officer and lynching.  Gabriel Avila, 21, of Modesto was arrested on suspicion of possessing an assault rifle.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83147</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83147</guid>
		<description>deJa Vu.....al over again!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/17/americans-canadians-among-11-dead-in-mexico-crash/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>deJa Vu&#8230;..al over again!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/17/americans-canadians-among-11-dead-in-mexico-crash/" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/17/americans-canadians-among-11-dead-in-mexico-crash/</a></p>
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		<title>By: Johnson</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83145</link>
		<dc:creator>Johnson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83145</guid>
		<description>I don't tea bag. I potato sack.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t tea bag. I potato sack.</p>
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		<title>By: Walter Kovacs</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83144</link>
		<dc:creator>Walter Kovacs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83144</guid>
		<description>Wow! There sure is a lot of tea-bagging going on in this thread. Who would have figured?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow! There sure is a lot of tea-bagging going on in this thread. Who would have figured?</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83143</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83143</guid>
		<description>Johnson said on 31 Mar 2009 at 8:01 am: Flag comment 

http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2009/03/30/immigration_reform_tough_during_crisis_biden_says/

I disagree. This is the best time to enforce immigration laws. It won’t take much more to get most of them to leave. Take away the education, medication and any benefits. Get them out now, build the fence tall and strong. When the jobs come back, citizens and lawful permenant residents will get them.

Most people would agree.  Cut off their lifelines (education, free emergency room treatment and food stamps for their 'lil darlings born here illegally) and they will leave.  As long as we taxpayers are supporting them they will never leave.  Just like cockroaches, as long as they find a warm place with plenty of food, you will never get rid of them.  Obamarama's aunt is scheduled for an immigration hearing today re her illegal status.  She is back in Boston utilizing public housing at taxpayer's expense.  Does anyone really think she will be deported?  She ignored the first deportation notice four years ago and nothing was done.  Now, since his majesty has become president he just may move her into the White House with the mother-in-law and maybe a few cousins, nephews and nieces to keep her company.  I can just picture it now!  NEWS NEWS NEWS ..... Obama demands massive extension be added to the White House and the White House lawn be gravelled over for extra parking.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Johnson said on 31 Mar 2009 at 8:01 am: Flag comment </p>
<p><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2009/03/30/immigration_reform_tough_during_crisis_biden_says/" rel="nofollow">http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2009/03/30/immigration_reform_tough_during_crisis_biden_says/</a></p>
<p>I disagree. This is the best time to enforce immigration laws. It won’t take much more to get most of them to leave. Take away the education, medication and any benefits. Get them out now, build the fence tall and strong. When the jobs come back, citizens and lawful permenant residents will get them.</p>
<p>Most people would agree.  Cut off their lifelines (education, free emergency room treatment and food stamps for their &#8216;lil darlings born here illegally) and they will leave.  As long as we taxpayers are supporting them they will never leave.  Just like cockroaches, as long as they find a warm place with plenty of food, you will never get rid of them.  Obamarama&#8217;s aunt is scheduled for an immigration hearing today re her illegal status.  She is back in Boston utilizing public housing at taxpayer&#8217;s expense.  Does anyone really think she will be deported?  She ignored the first deportation notice four years ago and nothing was done.  Now, since his majesty has become president he just may move her into the White House with the mother-in-law and maybe a few cousins, nephews and nieces to keep her company.  I can just picture it now!  NEWS NEWS NEWS &#8230;.. Obama demands massive extension be added to the White House and the White House lawn be gravelled over for extra parking.</p>
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		<title>By: Karla H</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83142</link>
		<dc:creator>Karla H</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83142</guid>
		<description>"BOSTON (AP) - Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt lost her bid for asylum more than four years ago, and a judge ordered her deported. Instead, Zeituni Onyango stayed, living for years in public housing.

Now, in a case that puts the president in a tough position both personally and politically, Onyango's request is being reconsidered under a little-used provision in U.S. immigration rules that allows denied asylum claims to be reheard if applicants can show that something has changed to make them eligible.

Such as the ascension of her nephew to the presidency of the world's most powerful country."</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;BOSTON (AP) - Barack Obama&#8217;s Kenyan aunt lost her bid for asylum more than four years ago, and a judge ordered her deported. Instead, Zeituni Onyango stayed, living for years in public housing.</p>
<p>Now, in a case that puts the president in a tough position both personally and politically, Onyango&#8217;s request is being reconsidered under a little-used provision in U.S. immigration rules that allows denied asylum claims to be reheard if applicants can show that something has changed to make them eligible.</p>
<p>Such as the ascension of her nephew to the presidency of the world&#8217;s most powerful country.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83140</link>
		<dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83140</guid>
		<description>That transformation will give the Democrats a solid hold in the exurbs--and that's what they've wanted for a long time. Don't think they didn't know that the CRA would result in this. They're not stupid, they're evil.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That transformation will give the Democrats a solid hold in the exurbs&#8211;and that&#8217;s what they&#8217;ve wanted for a long time. Don&#8217;t think they didn&#8217;t know that the CRA would result in this. They&#8217;re not stupid, they&#8217;re evil.</p>
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		<title>By: Big Dog</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83139</link>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83139</guid>
		<description>From today's Wall Street Journal 
 "In the Exurbs, the American Dream Is Up for Rent"

 "... observors believe the growth of rental property
 is the first in a series of steps that will transform today's
 exurbs into low-income housing. These communities
 have a low tax base made up of mostly property and
 sales taxes, both which are in decline.
   What is happening on the urban fringe is similar to the
 urban decay that plagued cities after WW II ...
 single family homes and townhomes in cities were
 broken into rental units."</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal<br />
 &#8220;In the Exurbs, the American Dream Is Up for Rent&#8221;</p>
<p> &#8220;&#8230; observors believe the growth of rental property<br />
 is the first in a series of steps that will transform today&#8217;s<br />
 exurbs into low-income housing. These communities<br />
 have a low tax base made up of mostly property and<br />
 sales taxes, both which are in decline.<br />
   What is happening on the urban fringe is similar to the<br />
 urban decay that plagued cities after WW II &#8230;<br />
 single family homes and townhomes in cities were<br />
 broken into rental units.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Johnson</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83138</link>
		<dc:creator>Johnson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83138</guid>
		<description>http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2009/03/30/immigration_reform_tough_during_crisis_biden_says/

I disagree. This is the best time to enforce immigration laws. It won't take much more to get most of them to leave. Take away the education, medication and any benefits. Get them out now, build the fence tall and strong. When the jobs come back, citizens and lawful permenant residents will get them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2009/03/30/immigration_reform_tough_during_crisis_biden_says/" rel="nofollow">http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2009/03/30/immigration_reform_tough_during_crisis_biden_says/</a></p>
<p>I disagree. This is the best time to enforce immigration laws. It won&#8217;t take much more to get most of them to leave. Take away the education, medication and any benefits. Get them out now, build the fence tall and strong. When the jobs come back, citizens and lawful permenant residents will get them.</p>
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		<title>By: Big Dog</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83136</link>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83136</guid>
		<description>FYI - Barbara Hollingsworth has an interesting op/ed
 in today's  Examiner - "Boarding House Reach".
 She calls a critic of newly elected Fairfax Supervisor
 John Cook(R) on the carpet for calling Cook a racist for
 seeking renewed support of the county's established
 Zoning Task Force and  county laws already on
 the books.   Cook had merely pointed out 
 "the need to close down the numerous illegal boarding
 houses in single-family neighborhoods that
 contribute to declining property values in Fairfax 
 County."</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>FYI - Barbara Hollingsworth has an interesting op/ed<br />
 in today&#8217;s  Examiner - &#8220;Boarding House Reach&#8221;.<br />
 She calls a critic of newly elected Fairfax Supervisor<br />
 John Cook(R) on the carpet for calling Cook a racist for<br />
 seeking renewed support of the county&#8217;s established<br />
 Zoning Task Force and  county laws already on<br />
 the books.   Cook had merely pointed out<br />
 &#8220;the need to close down the numerous illegal boarding<br />
 houses in single-family neighborhoods that<br />
 contribute to declining property values in Fairfax<br />
 County.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: DPortM</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83135</link>
		<dc:creator>DPortM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83135</guid>
		<description>Mexico's Fox touts EU-like integration for the Americas 

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox addresses the Future Leaders Conference at the UTSA Main Campus. 
By Elaine Ayala - Express-News 

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox was in San Antonio Friday, delivering a wide-ranging address about U.S.-Mexico relations that touched on trade, the drug war, comprehensive immigration reform and the United States' “mammoth” financial crisis that has spread worldwide.

Fox also delivered a message of hope — hope that someday Canada, the United States and Mexico, indeed the rest of Latin America, would function like the European Union. 

“It's an extremely successful model,” said Fox, whose wife, Marta Sahagún, accompanied him. “My vision is to speed up the process of further integration.” 

Fox was in town to address the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute's Future Leaders Conference, held at the UTSA Main Campus. He received four rousing standing ovations from the crowd, many of them student business majors. 

The event was hosted by the University of Texas at San Antonio's College of Business. 

Fox acknowledged the difficulty of establishing a European Union-like structure in the Americas, given those who'd oppose it. But Fox said, “Hope is back again,” referring to the new U.S. president and the United States' “capacity to fight for ideals.” 

“The border between Mexico and the United States is not as fluid, stable or open as the border with Canada,” Fox said. “This certainly is because there is a huge difference in the levels of development.” 

Fox hailed the success of the North American Free Trade Alliance even as a student in the audience questioned its societal impact and inability to create jobs for Mexican citizens. 

“It has happened,” Fox said of Mexico's job creation. Before NAFTA, annual “per capita income was $3,500. Today it is $8,500, three-fold growth.” 

Fox also spoke of Mexico's war against drug cartels and its impact on “perhaps the most dynamic border in the world.” He reiterated comments made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week, in which she said “insatiable” U.S. drug consumption drives the war. 

Indeed, Fox conceded that more of his own citizens are engaging in drug use as cartels look for new markets. 

And while he lamented how the terror attacks of 9-11 quashed potential plans for comprehensive immigration reform, supported by then-President George W. Bush, Fox expressed hope that President Barrack Obama would take up the charge.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mexico&#8217;s Fox touts EU-like integration for the Americas </p>
<p>Former Mexican President Vicente Fox addresses the Future Leaders Conference at the UTSA Main Campus.<br />
By Elaine Ayala - Express-News </p>
<p>Former Mexican President Vicente Fox was in San Antonio Friday, delivering a wide-ranging address about U.S.-Mexico relations that touched on trade, the drug war, comprehensive immigration reform and the United States&#8217; “mammoth” financial crisis that has spread worldwide.</p>
<p>Fox also delivered a message of hope — hope that someday Canada, the United States and Mexico, indeed the rest of Latin America, would function like the European Union. </p>
<p>“It&#8217;s an extremely successful model,” said Fox, whose wife, Marta Sahagún, accompanied him. “My vision is to speed up the process of further integration.” </p>
<p>Fox was in town to address the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute&#8217;s Future Leaders Conference, held at the UTSA Main Campus. He received four rousing standing ovations from the crowd, many of them student business majors. </p>
<p>The event was hosted by the University of Texas at San Antonio&#8217;s College of Business. </p>
<p>Fox acknowledged the difficulty of establishing a European Union-like structure in the Americas, given those who&#8217;d oppose it. But Fox said, “Hope is back again,” referring to the new U.S. president and the United States&#8217; “capacity to fight for ideals.” </p>
<p>“The border between Mexico and the United States is not as fluid, stable or open as the border with Canada,” Fox said. “This certainly is because there is a huge difference in the levels of development.” </p>
<p>Fox hailed the success of the North American Free Trade Alliance even as a student in the audience questioned its societal impact and inability to create jobs for Mexican citizens. </p>
<p>“It has happened,” Fox said of Mexico&#8217;s job creation. Before NAFTA, annual “per capita income was $3,500. Today it is $8,500, three-fold growth.” </p>
<p>Fox also spoke of Mexico&#8217;s war against drug cartels and its impact on “perhaps the most dynamic border in the world.” He reiterated comments made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week, in which she said “insatiable” U.S. drug consumption drives the war. </p>
<p>Indeed, Fox conceded that more of his own citizens are engaging in drug use as cartels look for new markets. </p>
<p>And while he lamented how the terror attacks of 9-11 quashed potential plans for comprehensive immigration reform, supported by then-President George W. Bush, Fox expressed hope that President Barrack Obama would take up the charge.</p>
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		<title>By: DPortM</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83134</link>
		<dc:creator>DPortM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here's a TEA party in Fairfax tonight!

Americans for Prosperity invites you to join fellow citizens, TONIGHT, at an ANTI-TAX RALLY in Fairfax County!
 
These citizen-driven rallies are sprouting up all around the Commonwealth as more and more Virginians realize how government is misusing the money we’ve given them in the past. Please join Jim Parmelee and many of your fellow citizens in Northern Virginia tonight, and tell the big spending politicians, “enough is enough!”

Who: Jim Parmelee and other citizen activists

When: March 30th, 6-7pm

Where: In front of the Fairfax County Government Center

For questions and further information, please contact Jim Parmelee at (703)502-0161.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a TEA party in Fairfax tonight!</p>
<p>Americans for Prosperity invites you to join fellow citizens, TONIGHT, at an ANTI-TAX RALLY in Fairfax County!</p>
<p>These citizen-driven rallies are sprouting up all around the Commonwealth as more and more Virginians realize how government is misusing the money we’ve given them in the past. Please join Jim Parmelee and many of your fellow citizens in Northern Virginia tonight, and tell the big spending politicians, “enough is enough!”</p>
<p>Who: Jim Parmelee and other citizen activists</p>
<p>When: March 30th, 6-7pm</p>
<p>Where: In front of the Fairfax County Government Center</p>
<p>For questions and further information, please contact Jim Parmelee at (703)502-0161.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83133</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83133</guid>
		<description>IT'S GOOD TO BE THE KING!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/29/obama-london-visit-uk-g20</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IT&#8217;S GOOD TO BE THE KING!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/29/obama-london-visit-uk-g20" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/29/obama-london-visit-uk-g20</a></p>
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		<title>By: Mr. Anon</title>
		<link>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83132</link>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Anon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2009/03/24/property-assessments-arrive/#comment-83132</guid>
		<description>Earthly law, that is.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Earthly law, that is&#8230;..</p>
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