Savage Republican

The title of the bill is innocuous enough. SB 1437, entitled “School Instruction: Prohibition of Discriminatory Content” passed in the California Senate easily enough last week. However, the content of the bill should frighten any Christian with a child in the public school system.

“This bill would revise the statutes prohibiting textbooks and other instructional material from containing material adverse to persons based on race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, or handicap, and add sexual orientation to this list of characteristics. These changes would make the statutes consistent with other statutes prohibiting discrimination based on specified personal characteristics, such as the Fair Employment and Housing Act and the Unruh Civil Rights Act.”

Under the heading “Need for the Bill” comes this explaination on why the bill is needed.

“The absence from our curriculum of positive images of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and their many contributions to California and the United States is a disservice to all children.”

The question I have for the gay activists is this….WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES A PERSON’S SEXUAL ORIENTATION MAKE? When my child is studying American history, what difference does it make if George Washington was gay, straight or otherwise? I thought we were not supposed to judge people by their race, creed, color etc? But isn’t that exactly what you are asking us to do? Judge these people by their sexual orientation?????

Dennis Prager asked (on his program today) why not mention the contributions of those who were married or single, by religion, whether they had children or not…and what about the bad guys? Do we want to know if Timothy McVeigh or Jeffrey Dahmer were gay or straight? How about Al Capone – do we list his ethnicity or his marital status? The bottom line is this – it is no longer good enough to be an American…you have to be a American!

Now apparently Governor Schwarzenegger has vowed to veto this bill should it clear both the California House and Senate. If that is the case, one wonders if the California Senate is sincere about the bill or if they are passing this just to mollify their base.

Michael over at MDE has been running a series of posts on some of the more outrageous things that Keith Ellison, DFL endorsed candidate for Congress in the 5th Congressional District, has said in the past and on some of the outrageous things that people he has been close to have said. Compare some of these quotes to the profile on Mr. Ellison that the Star Tribune printed today.

It will be interesting to see what the profiles of Mr. Ellison’s opponents look like. These are scheduled to print on the next couple of Tuesdays. I will definately be researching the others while waiting for their profiles to be published.

James Lileks translates the recent letter to GWB from the President of Iran and finds the true intent of President Ahmadinejad :
Dear Infidel Crusader Zionist sock-puppet Saudi-lackey depoiler of Mesopotamia woman-touching pigdog fiendish (293 words excised) Shah-licking son of a toad’s offal: I trust this finds you well. I have much on my mind, and have taken the pen to unburden my breast. I have enclosed a self-addressed stamped envelope should you wish to reply.

(429 words concerning Jewish penetration of the Postal System excised)

. . . Do you not realize you are beaten, as a donkey is beaten, but knoweth not his donkeyhood is cursed? Your comics have turned against you in your own lair, and mock you without mercy. We have seen the videos of the Meal of the Correspondents, and we know how your left regards the men of the laugh as prophets and seers. It is only a matter of time before Johnny Carson (applause be upon him) returns from occlusion to request that you, Mr. President, take the Slauson cutoff, get out of your car, and cut off your Slauson, Hi-yo, salaam. And a third part of the Slauson shall be stained with the tears of the womenfolk, and (9323 words excised)

(From Cox and Forkum)

And what was that quote from Ringo Starr-“Everything government touches turns to crap!” And demoncrats and RINO’s obviously think we enoy crap. Seems that most of us also enjoy crap in wholesale amounts as we keep returning these same people to power.
And now, we have the New and Improved Immigration Bill that will ensure more immigrants. Double the number in fact.
Yup. Sow and reap. Vote for lefties and lefty lites and we get all this. And more.
Lucy,Charlie Brown and a football.
Pogo was right:”We have met the enemy…and he is us.”

I can guarantee you that Hugh Hewitt will be talking and writing about this tomorrow!

“It is worth considering, moreover, that only newspapers have the will, resources and venues in which this sort of journalism can be accomplished on readers’ behalf. To an extent too little discussed, the future of the news media is the future of American democracy.”

Only newspapers have the “will, resources and venues” to do this. What arrogance! How typical of newspapers who feel that they are the only ones who “know stuff”!

I suspect that Hugh will be talking about this because the author, Tim Ruttan, has been taking many potshots at Hugh lately and this article is not lacking potshots.

“More interesting yet is the way in which these commentators’ worldview has slipped unexamined into the currents of the mainstream. Because their own motives are wholly partisan, they assume that everyone else doing journalism is similarly inclined. “

Yep….Hugh’s show tomorrow night is going to be entertaining, to say the least!

Rambix over at Rambix and the Red Star has done yeomans work documenting the breakdown of order in Amy Klobuchar’s Minneapolis*. The following has all of the earmarks of one of his posts, but it’s not.

“Mario Moreno should still have been behind bars the night he climbed into the passenger seat of a stolen car with two fellow gang members.He was carrying a rifle, some cartridges and, in his jacket pocket, a bag of marijuana. “Let’s go do this,” the car’s driver recalled Moreno saying as they headed into the turf of a rival black gang.

They drove by a liquor store at 89th Street and Central Avenue in South Los Angeles. Two older black men were standing outside.Moreno, 18, aimed his weapon out the driver’s-side window and fired. One bullet killed Darrell Dennard, 53, a grandfather who slept in an alley behind a nearby fish market and got by doing odd jobs. He had just bought a lottery ticket. It was about 9 p.m. on Oct. 11, 2004.”

This is from the Los Angeles Times today. Yahoo has this take on the story! Los Angeles officials are finally coming to the realization of a fact that many law enforcement officials have been trying to tell them for a long time…that catch and release – while fine for fishing – does not work well in law enforcement.

“City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo said. “I think criminals have learned from this that there is a way to beat the system. … For many, a few days in jail has become just a cost of doing business.”

Rambix has documented how a large portion of offenders in Amy Klobuchar’s Minneapolis* are also repeat offenders. If this is how Amy Klobuchar protects Hennepin County*, you have to wonder just how well she will do her job should she get elected to the Senate. However, KennedyVMachine gives you a hint about what she will do once she goes to DC…she will be fundraising and getting ready to run for her next elected position! Surely Minnesota deserves better than that…

* Hennepin County Attorneys Office Mission Statement – To protect the rights and safety of the people of Hennepin County.

One of the most subtle principles in the pursuit of liberty, freedom and a constitutional republic, which we used to have, are property rights. Frederic Bastiat, in his excellent tome “The Law” takes and proves the point that private property is a direct extension of life:

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.
But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. This process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.
Life, faculties, production—in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

From this premise, Bastiat goes on to prove that government is formed to protect the rights of each individual. That when government starts to recognize groups, then there are no longer individual rights, but group priviledges. And at that point, you have groups that raise up to either ensure that their interests are protected or to take more from another group. And we have the descent into democracy where the majority rules over the minority, or sometimes vice versa, and the subtle, and sometimes not so subtle erosion of your individual rights. And consequently property rights. Eminent domain is the hot property rights topic. And how did we get to that point? Slowly, easily… and steadily. What would have resulted in riots a century ago is now regarded as business as usual. When your land can not be developed, when you When your money is forcibly taken from you via taxes, you have had your time, your effort and your property taken from you. And on a larger scale, we have the disaster that the collectivists have forced on General Motors. And on a large scale, what you see happening to General Motors mirrors perfectly the state of the American dependency state (Katrina and the socialist, leftwing hellhole disaster called New Orleans as prima facie evidence). And it comes back to you. You are going to pay for it. All of it. Every penny. How do I know? From my radical lefty friend who admits that the unfunded liability of Social Security and Medicare exists. But he claims it’s ONLY $20,000,000,000,000 (not the $60,000,000,000,000-$80,000,000,000,000 that reputable economists tell). And this leftist’s solution to the problem? After much thought and reflection and many calculations? A 100% inheritance tax. Total estate confiscation (BTW, the elimination of all inheritance laws is one of the ten points of the Communist Manifesto .I’d also recommend reading down the article and comparing the ten points with the Democratic party platform. Also read how a goodly portion of the ten points has already been implemented). When the WWII generation dies, the government takes all their money. He tries to throw you off the trail by calling it “their childrens’ money”. So what? It’s still someone elses money. NOT the government’s.

General Motors doesn’t have the force of law behind it to force it’s customers to buy it’s cars and trucks to pay the huge burden of obligations that have been forced on it by it’s unions and with the collboration of the government. Government DOES have the force of law to force YOU to pay for it’s follies.

Now, what are you going to do about it?

Coleen Rowley (presumed candidate for Congress CD2) had an op-ed piece in today’s Star Tribune. In it she takes exception to an editorial that the Strib ran last week.

“Radsan’s piece began with the bold assertion that “no matter the jury’s final verdict in Virginia, Zacarias Moussaoui’s should be the last case in which the criminal justice system handles an operative in a major terrorist plot.”
I certainly hope not. Despite some egregious mistakes, official bungling, prosecutorial improprieties, and legal irregularities — e.g., Moussaoui not being allowed to call all witnesses, namely certain Al-Qaida operatives held under U.S. control, to testify in his favor — the case proved our regular adversarial-jury trial system works. “

She can’t be saying what I think she is saying, is she???? That we should be fighting terrorism in the courts???

“The mistakes that occurred in the Moussaoui case, however, do not support the proposition that we cannot use our criminal courts and their procedural and constitutional rights to combat terrorism. Instead, the Moussaoui trial proves we can. “

She is saying it!!!! She IS saying that we should be fighting terrorism in the courts.

“This is a huge issue, because if you fall into thinking that we cannot combat terrorism using our criminal justice system and all the rights and protections it affords, you open the door to all the extraconstitutional — or more bluntly, illegal — methods currently in vogue: the use of renditions, black sites and torture; lack of due process; and warrantless NSA monitoring on American soil. Enormous problems loom once we decide it’s OK as a blanket measure to go around the constitutional rules and down this slippery slope. “

Coleen, Coleen, Coleen….apparently someone who knows more about the law needs to educate you on the legality of the NSA monitoring. Maybe someone we can get someone with a little better sense of history to explain to you the precident that was set by FDR. Maybe she will believe the US Supreme Court!

“The Constitution gives the president the responsibility to act quickly and decisively to defend the national security. Congress, freed from such responsibility, could indulge other preoccupations. At one point, Jackson wrote Rep. John Coffee that “I am confident that if you and any of the other liberals in Congress sat in my seat and were held to some degree of responsibility for the perpetration of acts of sabotage and espionage in this country you would feel differently about the wire tapping bill.”

Let me repeat that for you Coleen….the Consititution gives the President the responsibility to act quickly and decisively to defend national security!!!

I really hate to be a “scare monger”, but we can not afford to sit at home in November. As I said here, staying home in November will hurt the country more than it will hurt the Republican Party leadership. Captain Ed nails it! Rather than stay home, we refuse to give the leadership a dime until they start acting more responsively to the base. Instead, direct your donations directly to individual candidates instead!

Once again, I read this article that posted today. And it deserves a separate post.
The diseases coming across the border are dangerous, infectious and deadly.And if they were carried here by Al Qaida, Homeland Security would be on it immediately. With alerts galore.
And yet we have coming over the border, every day, multi drug resistant TB, which was formerly only endemic to Mexico, an outbreak of hepatitis A in Pennsylvania, leprosy, Chagas Disease, T-Cruzi protozoan that destroys heart tissue, hemmorhagic fever just to name a few.
And GWB dawdles. Congress compromises. Both complain that oil companies make too much money. Democrats demagogue. Republicans demagogue. And hospitals close. And Americans suffer and die.
And again, why should any of them remain in office?

I get regular mailings from The Patriot Post and always read them. Today, I got their recent mailing. They take apart Republicans and the NYT. The NYT has a poll that screams GWB’s numbers are low. And then near the end of the article, they have a small piece of honesty (which I’m sure led to writer’s immediate firing) where they state that John Kerry and Al Gore enjoy even lower approval numbers than GWB. The Patriot concluded that even with all the kudos and huggy wuggy articles on these two lefty Presidential aspirants, they still poll lower than GWB.
And the Congress gets even lower numbers than that.
Wake up kiddies!