The German American Bund and The Muslim Brotherhood

Before WWI, the Nazis embarked on the Nazification of America by helping to organize the German American Bund, a group which promoted Nazi principals, indoctrinated children and tried to create a favorable impression of Nazism here in the United States. Today we have the Muslim American Society.  The MAS seeks the Islamization of America.  It is not secret about its goals.  It seeks the adoption of Sharia law in the United States.  That it claims to do so by democratic means does not make it not a threat.  It becomes necessary to expose Sharia law for the brutal system that it is.  Sharia law is not compatible with decency, civil rights or freedom.  To oppose it is may be intolerance but it is the intolerance of the uncivilized that we all should hold.

Jimmy Carter Made Me a Republican

When I was growing up, my single divorced mother of two then three, who worshipped at the altar of liberalism taught me that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the greatest POTUS ever.  EVER.  Not Lincoln.  Not Washington, the two names I had offered in my 10 year old naivete.  Roosevelt, to be distinguished from his cousin, who was, shudder, a Republican.  In the 60's when it was on the cutting edge she would drive me to places where I could participate in demonstrations against nuclear weapons, for integration and for civil rights.  I picketed Woolworths ( an out of business 5 and 10 cent store) because they had segregated lunch counters in the south.  So I was, if not a red diaper baby, at least a pink diaper baby.  So how did I become a Republican?  Jimmy Carter made me one.  In retrospect I think it was one of his greatest accomplishments.

In 1977, I achieved what seemed like a great dream for a liberal like me, I became an attorney for the EEOC and, in 1979, managed to snag a job in Washington D. C.  Woohoo.  Not only an attorney for truth justice and righteousness, but one who was going to be paid for it.  It was great.  OMG as they say today.  What an education in government.  It is one thing to read about government waste.  It is quite another to be part of it.  When I worked at the EEOC they had one of the worst attendance records of any agency in the government.  I mean, people literally failed to come to work a good deal of the time and when they did they certainly didn't intend to waste their time actually working.  No, not everyone.  There were still a large number of employees who were dedicated and concerned.  But there were also a large number of lazy people who didn't care and didn't show up.  And everything was about race.  I won't go on.  I still remember the expressions of jubilation when some of my fellow employees heard that President Reagan had been shot and their fervent hopes that he would die.  It was chilling.

Then the Reagan appointees began to show up at the EEOC and one of them hired me to be his attorney adviser.  One day when we were talking, he said to me, Susan, its not a religion.  That was the first time I realized that I had been treating politics as a religion, a creed that I was somehow morally obligated to be loyal to, instead of a practical worldly affiliation.  He went on, "you should be loyal to the political party that gives you the most of what you want."  No political party will give you all of what you want, but, for the sake of practicality, you pick the one who will give you the most.  It can be a complicated calculation, but it is a guiding star. I wanted to reward hard work, preserve freedom, keep more of my money, reduce government interference in my life.  I learned from that conversation that I am a Republican at heart so I became a Republican in registration as well.  What I saw of Washington up close was enough to make me understand that bureaucrats are, for the most part, completely out of touch with people who hold productive jobs and work for a living.  They should never be allowed to make decisions for other people because they will almost always be not only wrong but destructive.

Most bureaucrats are liberals.  That is true partly because they tend to be people who don't like the competitive ethic of the private sector.  They also tend to be people who don't like to have to do what nearly every private business has to do: cater to the customer.  That's why they should be allowed to run your lives.

Deja Vue All Over Again-- Now I Understand the Thirties

Well, not exactly.  But yes.   A million people follow the antics of Charlie Sheen while the Middle East burns.  They can't do anything about either situation but at least when Charlie Sheen crashes it will affect a minimal number of lives.  The situation in the Middle East, on the other hand is almost too frightening to contemplate.  That is if you are willing to look at it realistically.  Fortunately, Neville Chamberlain has been reincarnated and elected President of the United States so we don't have to.  For those who are too young to know and learned history at the average college or university in the United States, Neville Chamberlin was the prime minister of Britain who made a deal with Hitler and proclaimed he had achieved Peace In Our Time.  Hmpf.  It wasn't even peace in his time.  The only difference is Chamberlain labeled himself a conservative and Obama labels himself a liberal.  For those who are wondering, that is why Obama sent the bust of Winston Churchill back to Britain.  He didn't want it staring at him and reminding him of his prior venture in appeasement.  No wonder the royals didn't invite him to the wedding.  So I end this post with a great quote from the great Winston Churchill--"An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat him last." Here are some other great quotes

Yes on 23

Another reason you should vote yes on 23, besides getting rid of the legislature's gifts to its friends who can't compete in the real market or the real world is that the existing law spends billions of dollars for a premise that still hasn't been proved-- that is the theory that carbon dioxide causes global warming.  This is the next biggest boondoggle to cap and trade.  It will bankrupt California.  Ask yourself this important question-- why are all these billionaires spending millions of dollars to persuade you this is a bad deal?  Not because they are altruistic, because they intend to benefit from your taxpayer dollars.  When was the last time Bill Gates, lowered the price of a MIcrosoft product so you could afford it?  Never?  Yeah.  They are spending these millions of dollars in advertising because they want your billions of taxpayer and consumer dollars.  They are the same people who want to make you give up your car, export your job to China where they don't have these kinds of environmental laws, and force you to live in a cubbyhole in a 50 story building while they rope off the wilderness and keep you out.  These are the same people who despise and detest every day ordinary citizens, blue collar workers, truck drivers and all the other people who will be put out of work unless Proposition 23 passes.  By the way.  No I am not paid by the oil companies.

            

            California's irrepressibly beautiful state flower is, in my humble opinion, the proof that God exists.  They are utterly useless other than to make our hearts happy.  They are beautiful.  They are beyond beautiful, they are full of life and joyous.  They are, in a gross display of bad taste, totally bright fluorescent orange.  You can see the bright orange stripes from miles away when they are in bloom.  They grow on their own without being planted, right in the middle of pastures and under power lines and everywhere they have a chance.  And they are mind numbingly gorgeous.    So, whenever it rains here in Southern California, I say thank you God.  Because rain in December means poppies in March.  We have had a few days of rain in October just getting them ready.  The little seed waiting for the right time to bloom are undoubtedly happy to receive these little drops to keep them alive.

Shouting Back == Yes on 23

The airwaves are saturated with Anti=Proposition 23 ads.  Almost all of them are filled with lies.  First of all what the proposition would do:  it would suspend the insane anti-carbon dioxide law until unemployment in California is below 5%.  So people who are concerned about lung disease say it will hurt them NONSENSE.  Carbon Dioxide has nothing to do with causing or exacerbating lung disease. So why are all these people doing this.  Because the law that proposition 23 would suspend is a gift of billions of dollars to high tech companies who want to force you to buy their products.  This is about reducing the level of carbon dioxide in the air.  Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.  Everytime you breathe out you are breathing out carbon dioxide.  Carbon dioxide feeds plants.  If you really want the level of carbon dioxide to decrease plant more plants.  They eat it up.  This is nothing more than a big scam, like so many others, that will push California over the brink into bankruptcy.  It will destroy California Trucking Companies, it will  give a gift of billions of consumer and taxpayer dollars to the favored few companies.  Vote YES YES YES on 23.