Local news and opinon

http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2010/03/08/terrorists-at-fla-atlantic-u-are-o-k-young-americans-for-freedom-verboten/

I live in Florida, on the west coast.  You couldn’t get me on the east coast at gunpoint.  They are all crazy over there.  The guys over at stoptheaclu finds that lefties are ruling with an iron (hammer?) fist over there.  Here is the passage.

“We send our young adults to university to be educated in the ways of the world, we all know. Following that well-worn path, young James Schackleford decided on the publicly funded Florida Atlantic University for his edification and boy did he learn a lesson about modern education last week. Mr. Schackleford learned that the FAU administration prefers on its campus Islamic terrorist supporters over representatives of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom organization. He also learned that it’s open season on all conservatives at our American universities.

At the Boca Raton campus Mr. Schackleford determined that his school needed a chapter of YAF, a 40-year-old conservative student organization, and so gathered a few like-minded students to meet with YAF State Director Daniel P. Diaz to discuss how they should proceed on organizing a chapter in the school.

As the few gathered were meeting, university administrator *David Blank burst into the room and demanded that they cease their meeting and vacate the room. According to the YAF press release, Mr. Schackleford asked for an additional 15 minutes to finish and Blank acquiesced to the request. But the 15-minute grant was short lived.”

The article goes on to say that the campus police harassed the group, following them to the car and making comments-

“Police told Diaz that they were investigating a “possible trespassing charge,” and then loudly joked that Diaz “probably had tea bags hanging out the back of his car” as Diaz prepared to leave.”

I’m personally disappointed in the officers.  They don’t have a right to have a political opinion while wearing the uniform.  Off duty they can sleep in their commie red jammies.  But on duty, they cannot favor one side or the other.  If they do, they are one step closer to being like Hitler’s SA.

Here’s hoping that our future is not reflected in people like Blanks.  Educated idiots who would deny free speech.

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/26/goodbye-charlie

This is the type of article that hits the target between the eyes without an apology.  Crist, left the party, stopped by the tanning salon, and then went left.  Because of this, he was jettisoned by the fairly conservative Republican Party in Florida.  Good.  See ya’, wouldn’t want to be ya.

The more I see Rubio the more I like the guy. He is intelligent, well spoken, and seems to grasp the basics of limited government.  He seems to be a Paul Ryan in development.  I wish him the best and I think he’ll trounce any democrat that comes along.

The American Spectator opens there article with this-

“Crist, a formerly conservative politician who “grew in office” after becoming governor in 2007, went through a 50-point lead over conservative former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio faster than Sherman went through Georgia. Polls released this week by Rasmussen and the Florida Chamber of Commerce both show Rubio with an 18-point lead over Crist in a race for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate seat Mel Martinez resigned from last summer.”

The man lost a total of 68 points in less than a year.  He may have broken a record.  A politician can’t lose that much even if he was found with a live boy AND a dead prostitute in his bed (credit to Edwin Edwards of LA.).   I’m glad we’ll at least have one more serious thinking representative in the Senate next year.  We need clear voices and solid thinking.

I’ve caught him on television a number of times. Tonight he spoke about how his grandfather and father came from Cuba in the late fifties.  He also talked about how his grandfather would sit on the porch and tell young Marco about how he was lucky to live in the greatest nation ever.  His grandfather said because he was born in Cuba, his limits were already set by his birth place.  But Marco could be anything he wanted to be if he worked hard enough.

This is the story of many of the Cubans who came here after Castro took over.  These are what I call the “good Cubans.”  (verses the criminal minded “bad Cubans” we see in the news all the time and represented by the family I ran off from my neighbor’s house after they broke in.)  I hope Rubio wins and then stays the course.  I also hope he realizes as much as he would like to keep open borders, that time has passed.  We need to control the borders in order to control the worker pool.  As the recession eats up discretionary jobs, we are going to need every job for our citizens, even those low paying jobs “Americans won’t do”.

(cross posted at www.truthandcommonsense.com)

Homeschooling vs. indoctrination of young minds. Progressives are pulling out all the stops.

Posted February 5th, 2010 by admin

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/indoctrination-disguised-as-education-reform/

This is an important article to read if you have children or if you have friends who have children.  With Obama in charge this type of program will jump into hyperdrive.   The idea is simple teach the children knowledge that allows the elite to control children.   How do I know this?  Here is a passage that proves the point.

“You’ll also find pages and pages of entries about teaching global warming to the students, but no lesson plans discussing Ronald Reagan, the Boston Tea Party, or the Second Amendment.”

You need more?  Here is a post from a TFA teacher talking about taking role.

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Obama Fever

“My kids say “Barack Obama!” rather than “Here” when I take roll now…haha. Or they might even reply with “First Black President!”

They’re pretty pumped.

Obama fever is on the rise, and I hope and pray he can meet the expectations of so many.

Let us not forget during this time who is ultimately in control We are mere mortals.”

For those of you who care I know the same goosebumps running down your arms are running down many parents as we speak.  Progressives/socialists/communists come in many different forms, some progressive-lite some not so light.  These guys are like hammers and chisels hacking away at the hearts and minds of YOUR kids!

Here is another:

If You’re Out There

“Ahhhhh, this may have been the only weekend I wanted to end (and tomorrow may be the only tuesday that I anxiously await.) Besides the fact that my students boo every time John McCain is mentioned, I am planning on reading a book written by Amnesty International. My goal is to tell my kids that other places besides America have (and deserve) the right to vote, among several other rights that are detailed in the articles of the universal declaration of human rights. I am pumped to point out my Buddha quote and talk about politics and generally put my karma-love and liberalism to good use.

In other news, I did a day of observations today and it was….not what I thought. I thought for sure I’d go into other classrooms and have some great epiphany about how to fix my own. Instead, I found myself wishing I could just hear teachers plan out their days, their behavior plans, and their incentives systems. Not only that, but every teacher I observed didn’t have an extrinsic motivation system, which made me feel pretty worthless.”

Sound familiar in tone?  It should.  In a diary of a young Chinese girl she laments how she is doing her level best to be a good communist a follower of Mao.  There are a number of diary entries quoted in the book all young people seeking a reason for living and a leader to follow.  This is human nature.

http://truthandcommonsense.com/2009/12/16/harassing-the-families-of-political-leaders-who-are-no-longer-in-favor-democrats-no-maos-cultural-revolution/

This link has some good passages as to a number of others at my blog.  To say that is dangerous to all of us AND the nation is an understatement.  You, as parents and citizens, must refuse and resist this type of re-education.  It will kill America forever.

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/30/3006.asp

The unseemly act of photographing people running red light may be a thing of the past.  Especially if the class action lawsuits start building up.  This whole red light deal was all about the money anyway.  I think, and I may be wrong, but I think a recent study should it had little affect on traffic crash anyway.  So if it is not about traffic safety why are cities jumping on this bandwagon.  Easy- cash.   It is another example of us following the statist Europeans by attempting to not only spy on citizens, but make money at the same time.  Like I said, just unseemly.

Here’s a good question for the lawyers, is running a toll booth and the cameras getting a photo of a tag number along the same lines?  Again, no police witness, no verification that owner was the driver.  Just a picture.  Hmmm….

Americans have one common trait, we can find humor even in the darkest times.  Here Doug Powers finds humor in the recent attempted bombing.  I’m callous enough to find the humor too.

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/12/29/marco-rubio-get-this-man-elected/

I’m not an expert on Rubio, yet.  But everything I’ve seen and heard tends to make me think he is a good pick for the U.S. Senate.  He is running against Charlie Crist and he need money and support.  I saw a video of a floor speech he gave a while back and was struck by his straightforward view on America.  Boiled down it goes pretty much along the line of the video linked here.  Small government getting out of the way of good people trying to make a living by working hard.  This is not the view Crist shares.  He has shown himself a professional politician willing to do about anything to advance himself, and gather a few votes.  Here is the “hug” moment:  (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29519.html)

As much as Politico wants to limit the damage to Crist to the hug, it is more than that. First- never trust a politician who has a deeper tan than a supermodel, he has issues.   Second- Crist has wobbled around the middle of the political spectrum far too long, hoping to catch the moderate/liberal vote, rather than to stake out a position most conservatives feel comfortable with.  That means it is all about his continued power and not his desire to serve the public good.  He made a number of “Gee, I love Obama” statements along with the hug, showing he has little interest in standing for anything other than himself.  Now that Obama has gone south like a lead filled runaway train plunging off a cliff, Crist is walking around saying how he didn’t even know the guy and he was just trying to be nice.   Riiiight.

Rubio seems to have stayed the course.  Is is a politician?  Sure, it is the business he is in.  Are there exceptions to the rule that politics corrupts people to the point they love only themselves?  Yes, and I think Rubio is still in that arena.  Mike Pence from Indiana reminds me of the Rubio, as do several others both in the Senate and in the House (Michelle Bachman from Minnesota is another- http://www.michelebachmann.com/).   So good people do serve.  They are just hammered by the majority of those who serve only to serve their own self-enrichment.

There are people who know me who say, “But he’s Cuban!”  Yes, I spent a good deal of the last years of my work in law enforcement dealing with the Criminal Cubans (the CC’s as I like to call them).  But I always put a caveat on my dislike for them and our nation’s bad habit of giving political asylum  to any that could get a dry foot.  That caveat was this:  “I grew up around Cubans.  The old school Cubans who fled Castro’s oppressive regime.  They were a proud and noble people who held freedom and free will above almost all other things.  They KNEW what it was like to have a government come in and take everything they owned.   They LIVED it!  Unlike the boiling frog method employed by our Statist type of government, Castro just seized it all of it at once.  So, don’t argue about communism with a Cuban, he understands better than you will ever understand the horror and widespread destitution it breeds.   Now there are a number of new Cubans, the Mareil boatlift veterans brought on by Carter and Clinton’s mid nineties “dry foot” policy, that are criminals.  They fled because as one put it- In Cuba to survive you have to steal.  Everybody steals.  My sister, my wife, my mother, my father, everybody.  But in Cuba there are no rights, no lawyers. It was tough finding things to steal and if you got caught you went to jail or worse.  Here it is like picking gold off the streets!  This is America!  The land of the free!  Which is why you are going to get me a lawyer and he is going to get me off of these charges!  (I swear that’s a quote!)  One study that you will never hear about in our PC country revealed that eighty percent of the non-professional Cubans that make it to our shores commits a felony within a year.   That is non-professionals.   The professionals?  They live a good life, work hard and are the best citizens you could hope for because they are vigilant.  They KNOW what a government out of control can do to its people.  Most come here to make good with the talents God gave them.

Marco Rubio is that kind of man.  He must have listened to his father and his father’s father.  He understood and learned.  For that I find him the kind of man I’d support in Congress.  Not the other guy with the tanning bed look and the sole desire to remain in power.  Lord knows we have enough of them already.

http://www.news-press.com/article/20091220/CRIME/91220004/Cape-Coral-shooting-suspects-identified–charged-with-felony-murder

Rumor has it the dead bad guy had a long rap sheet and a number of recent felony arrests that he had managed to post bail on.   Here’s the question that should be asked and if a local newspaper reporter has the time and energy, they could run a insightful series of articles about this very problem- How did bad guys who are accused of robbing someone and on current probation manage to post bail??  Which judge set it? What bondsman posted it?  Who paid for it?

http://www.sheriffleefl.org/about/jaildetention/arrestbk.aspx?id=225751&bk=616763

That’s the story.  Much like the shooter in the killings of the police officers in Seattle, these guys should have been in county jail with three hots and a cot, unable to continue their home invasion, drug stealing spree.  If that happened, none of this would have happened.  Simple. In life, EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED!

Now several of the officers are having to go through the trauma of being involved in a shooting.    The victims were also traumatized.  The community is shocked.  All because somebody somewhere thought it was a good idea to let them go.  A good reporter would fill in the blank- Judge ______?

Hold them responsible.  Ask the questions.  Demand acountability.

Death, taxes and Obama telling me it was our fault- the three things that never end.

I figured the County and the State would get theirs.  It is the nature of the business.  Long after we are all gone, all the businesses are gone, all the people that can leave have, government will survive.   Just ask Detroit, which long ago should have shuttered its windows and gave back the key to someone who knew had to run a city other than into ground.  But they still survive.  How is another question.

In Cape Coral, we are suffering, not as bad, but suffering.  The answer for government when it suffers is to take a bigger chunk of you so it feels better.  Good for them, not so for us.   It will be a slow bleed.  The death of a thousands cuts.  Today is the first slice as I got the bill from the State for my truck, car and small jon boat.   My truck is now $112.00, the car $57.00 and the boat with no motor $31.00!  A hundred and twelve dollars? From about fifty?  AAGH!!

Like I have two hundred dollars to throw out for the State to take.  What is worse is that the damage done to the economy by Wall Street, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd,  Fannie and Freddie, the Cubans, bad actors in banking/real estate was not my fault, nor yours.  But who is going to get it in the end (literally and figuratively)?  Us.   This is the first step of many as the government defends its life with your life blood.  It will starve your kids, take your land,  ruin your credit as it struggles to survive.

Good or bad, it will happen and all we can do is vote in people who may decide to do the right thing from now on.   Good luck on that as we suffer the Crists/Obama/Dodd/etc professional politicians.

You know why they fear somebody like Palin?  She wouldn’t kill off her friends to keep a government going.  She would restrain the government first, a no-no in our current environment.

I posted this over at Hot Air and thought I would share it.

If the voters of NY23 cannot see the writing on the wall, put there by the left running Pelosi and choose to vote for a Dem or for Dede, then that is what it is. What Newt thinks, what the vaunted Republican establishment thinks is of no consequence. Why is it they back a liberal in sheep’s clothing in a day and time like this? Why are they fighting the same failed “last war” strategy like most old generals always do?

What happened to the Republican party? Why is it that the old guard, who have failed us time and again, get to chose? In Florida, a solid young conservative (Doesn’t Newt remember when he was that man?) is going against an Obama hugging professional compromised “old guard” Republican. He could win and be the next Newt. But no, Crist’s people are pulling stunts like they were liberal, corrupt democrats and possibly violating the law. Why?

In truth, if it takes this cycle to send a message to the old guard for next cycle that enough is enough, then so be it. They picked poorly the candidates who do not represent our views. They did it with a failed theory and a failed strategy. Now they are caught and are whining.

Too bad. Suck it up and learn. The radical left took over the Dems and see what they did. We need to take over the Republicans and make it our party. Send the message.

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Enough is enough. Our nation cannot take the stress of another cycle of “me too” Republicans.  This is not about politics, this is about survival.  The Reagan revolution took eighteen years to complete, but at least we were fighting the good fight in the meantime.  We are no longer going to be able to hide from the fact that our nation is going to go through some very hard times brought on by the left’s socialization campaign.  It is far worse than Newt’s theory of politics as usual.

Please take the time to read this post from my other website and follow the link to the American Spectator article by Codevilla.  It will explain so much of what you see.

http://truthandcommonsense.com/2009/10/15/i-hate-being-right-especially-on-this-american-spectator-outlines-our-future-not-good/