Dear Editor,
In Utah, a "non-white" (black) police officer shot and killed an unarmed, twenty-year old white youth . The media isn't interested. In Texas, a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed, white teenager. The media isn't interested. There were no riots, no looting, and no stores were burned down. Furthermore, the President offered no sympathy and DOJ did not dispatch an army of FBI investigators. Sharpton, Jackson, and out of state protestors and opportunists were nowhere to be seen. The funeral will not be live streamed nor will it be attended by celebrities, charlatans or presidential representatives.
In the meantime, a black Muslim named Ali Muhammed Brown has mercilessly murdered one person in New Jersey and three people in Seattle in the name of jihad. The media, the President, and the attorney general have all failed to take note or comment. So my question for you, Attorney General Holder, is who are the real cowards when it comes to race and religion?
Respectfully,
Bill Garvin
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Monday, August 25, 2014
Evil is Winning
By William L. Garvin
After Nazi atrocities were exposed at the end of World War II, there was a solemn and universal vow that “Never again!” would another holocaust be permitted on this planet. Today, nation after nation stands mutely by as another “cleansing” sweeps across our continents. It is evil and it is winning.
While it may not be politically correct to speak of “evil” or an “axis of evil” or an “evil empire” in a morally relativistic universe, there is no other way to describe the horrors marring our human experience today. It is equally disheartening to see how many are inured to and even sympathetic of this burgeoning evil. For instance, the Muslim radical group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly three hundred young girls last April in Nigeria. There was a brief flurry of hashtag involvement (that was inherently futile) and nothing else in terms of results achieved. The girls have now apparently been sold as sex slaves. Boko Haram continues to kidnap and slaughter Christians but it barely makes news even when they make videos with their mocking “kill Christians” mantra. There was virtually no media attention when they stormed a secondary school for boys, locked the doors and set it afire. The boys that tried to escape were murdered and the rest were burned alive. The boys didn’t even merit a hashtag.
The Islamist government in Sudan either condones the rape and murder of Christian women or actively participates in them. Reports from southern Sudan indicate that while the military was raping women, Arab women stood by singing and praising the pillage. Christian churches have been bombed by government aircraft while neighboring mosques stand unscathed. Some estimate that as many as two million Christians have been murdered in Sudan by Muslim armies over the last twenty years.
In Egypt, there have been 500 reported cases of young women being attacked by Muslim men since 2011. Who knows how many went unreported. “The girls are often assaulted, raped, kidnapped, forced to change their faith and sometimes killed…yet nothing is being done by local authorities to prevent it” according to the Clarion Project, a U.S. based nonprofit think tank and advocacy group.
The precedent for government impotence was reinforced in Serbia and Kosovo when Christians were indiscriminately slaughtered but it has escalated to a new level in the Middle East. Some people may think that al Qaeda is”on the run” or that ISIS/ISIL is the “junior varsity”, but the facts beg to differ. ISIS, al Qaeda, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and their myriad affiliates are expanding their reign of terror in animalistic fashion. How do you describe cutting children in half, beheading babies, burying families alive, cutting off heads and placing them on stakes for display? What sort of depraved human would have his seven-year old son hold a severed head aloft and brag “that’s my boy!”? An Australian jihadist fighting for ISIS, that’s who!
As for Hamas, they deliberately launch rockets against civilians and cravenly hide themselves, their rockets and mortars behind the skirts of women and children. They cherish the opportunity to have those women and children sacrificed for the photo opportunities. They strap bombs to their youngsters and send them into crowded areas where they are detonated along with other innocent victims. Yet throughout the Middle East, Europe, and even in the United States, anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas rallies proliferate. Let there be no doubt, if the “Little Satan” of Israel is conquered, the next target of Hamas and other jihadists will be the “Great Satan” of the United States.
There was a time when the “iron fist in the velvet glove” of the USA held evil in check and kept the beacon of democracy alive. Now however, “pax Americana” has evaporated along with American leadership. When the USA chooses to “lead from behind,” a void is created. How will it be filled? From which mountaintop will the chimes of freedom ring? Which country will step forward to declare liberty for all? Or will the New World Order be directed by Russia, China, or Iran?
History shows that Muslim armies are only defeated by sheer, overwhelming force. Until that happens, Jews, Christians, minority tribes, and anyone unwilling to accept the brutal, savage subjugation of ISIS and sharia is at risk. That includes you and me. Wake up America!
After Nazi atrocities were exposed at the end of World War II, there was a solemn and universal vow that “Never again!” would another holocaust be permitted on this planet. Today, nation after nation stands mutely by as another “cleansing” sweeps across our continents. It is evil and it is winning.
While it may not be politically correct to speak of “evil” or an “axis of evil” or an “evil empire” in a morally relativistic universe, there is no other way to describe the horrors marring our human experience today. It is equally disheartening to see how many are inured to and even sympathetic of this burgeoning evil. For instance, the Muslim radical group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly three hundred young girls last April in Nigeria. There was a brief flurry of hashtag involvement (that was inherently futile) and nothing else in terms of results achieved. The girls have now apparently been sold as sex slaves. Boko Haram continues to kidnap and slaughter Christians but it barely makes news even when they make videos with their mocking “kill Christians” mantra. There was virtually no media attention when they stormed a secondary school for boys, locked the doors and set it afire. The boys that tried to escape were murdered and the rest were burned alive. The boys didn’t even merit a hashtag.
The Islamist government in Sudan either condones the rape and murder of Christian women or actively participates in them. Reports from southern Sudan indicate that while the military was raping women, Arab women stood by singing and praising the pillage. Christian churches have been bombed by government aircraft while neighboring mosques stand unscathed. Some estimate that as many as two million Christians have been murdered in Sudan by Muslim armies over the last twenty years.
In Egypt, there have been 500 reported cases of young women being attacked by Muslim men since 2011. Who knows how many went unreported. “The girls are often assaulted, raped, kidnapped, forced to change their faith and sometimes killed…yet nothing is being done by local authorities to prevent it” according to the Clarion Project, a U.S. based nonprofit think tank and advocacy group.
The precedent for government impotence was reinforced in Serbia and Kosovo when Christians were indiscriminately slaughtered but it has escalated to a new level in the Middle East. Some people may think that al Qaeda is”on the run” or that ISIS/ISIL is the “junior varsity”, but the facts beg to differ. ISIS, al Qaeda, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and their myriad affiliates are expanding their reign of terror in animalistic fashion. How do you describe cutting children in half, beheading babies, burying families alive, cutting off heads and placing them on stakes for display? What sort of depraved human would have his seven-year old son hold a severed head aloft and brag “that’s my boy!”? An Australian jihadist fighting for ISIS, that’s who!
As for Hamas, they deliberately launch rockets against civilians and cravenly hide themselves, their rockets and mortars behind the skirts of women and children. They cherish the opportunity to have those women and children sacrificed for the photo opportunities. They strap bombs to their youngsters and send them into crowded areas where they are detonated along with other innocent victims. Yet throughout the Middle East, Europe, and even in the United States, anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas rallies proliferate. Let there be no doubt, if the “Little Satan” of Israel is conquered, the next target of Hamas and other jihadists will be the “Great Satan” of the United States.
There was a time when the “iron fist in the velvet glove” of the USA held evil in check and kept the beacon of democracy alive. Now however, “pax Americana” has evaporated along with American leadership. When the USA chooses to “lead from behind,” a void is created. How will it be filled? From which mountaintop will the chimes of freedom ring? Which country will step forward to declare liberty for all? Or will the New World Order be directed by Russia, China, or Iran?
History shows that Muslim armies are only defeated by sheer, overwhelming force. Until that happens, Jews, Christians, minority tribes, and anyone unwilling to accept the brutal, savage subjugation of ISIS and sharia is at risk. That includes you and me. Wake up America!
Monday, August 18, 2014
Not So Golden State of Affairs!
By William L. Garvin
Things are not so golden in our Golden State nor throughout the rest of our country. Despite rhetoric and repeated promises, many can’t keep their doctor and many more will see health insurance costs go up. Dave Jones, the California State Insurance Commissioner ( D) reported the states four largest insurance companies have raised their premiums between 22 and 88 percent with more increases to come next year! Naturally he wants more regulatory power as if California didn’t have enough regulatory issues. Does he think that more government “oversight” will attract insurance providers to this state?
United Health Group, the nation’s largest provider of health insurance coverage declined to participate in the California exchange as did Aetna. Anthem Blue Cross reduced their California participation and Aetna will no longer even sell policies to individuals in California in or out of the exchange!
In other health news, California has added a million new people to the Medi-Cal rolls under expanded definitions of Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Unfortunately for them, nearly 25% fewer doctors are now participating in the program. In the spring of 2013, there were 109,000 doctors participating in Medi-Cal, but in the spring of 2014, only 82,605 physicians are willing to assist. Some relief may be on the way as Marilyn Tavenner of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that as many as 310,000 “enrollees” in Obamacare may lose coverage over their failure to resolve their “immigration status.” As to how many of these “legitimate” new enrollees have actually paid premiums, those numbers are as elusive as Lois Lerner emails! Wouldn’t you think that after spending nearly $80 million on a website, this basic information could be provided to American taxpayers?
Meanwhile, California’s Democrat legislature and governor continue to pick private sector winners and losers by doling out special favors to favored enterprises rather than uniformly reducing red tape and confiscatory tax rates as “equal justice for all.” For instance, they generously bestowed a $420 million tax break package for Lockheed Martin and “battery manufacturers.” Obviously, the latter is an attempt to sweeten the pot for Elon Musk, Tesla, and their “giga-factory.” Musk recently announced he would build an $85 million spaceport in Texas, not in California, for his SpaceX business. Who’s playing hardball? Another bill headed to the Senate floor will grant $400 million in tax breaks to California’s movie industry. Isn’t this all reminiscent of the “crony capitalism” that liberals in Hollywood, the legislature, and other Democrats decry when it’s done by Republicans? Politics is so situational, isn’t it?!
The California legislature is also scrambling to find a way to keep gasoline and fuel from coming under its scheduled carbon tax requirements of January, 2015. A 2010 study by the California Air Resources Board said that it could add as much as 76 cents per gallon to the price of each gallon of gasoline. Today they see the cost as “no discernible increase.” Maybe Californians should ask why Australia recently repealed their carbon tax. It was estimated that it cost Aussie economy $15.4 billion and added $11 million to household power bills every day.
Naturally, fuel and energy increases impact low and middle income families in California the most. California has approximately 12 percent of the U.S. population but still has 34 percent of the nation’s welfare recipients. Obviously they will be hurt hardest by projected increases but the cost to business and industry will also be reflected in a lack of jobs. As of last month, California’s unemployment rate was still 7.4 percent and we’re tied as the 44th highest unemployment rate in the fifty states.
California also has over 100,000 illegal aliens housed within its prison system which brings us to a final note that is not California specific. Based on the tragic shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, it is popular among racial agitators to speak of police “executions” and to say that police “gun down” young African-American boys every day. While African-Americans represent 13% of our population, they unfortunately represent 50% of the homicide victims. However, ninety percent of those murders are committed by other blacks! In comparison, police officer fatalities by firearms are up 61% over last year. This isn’t to say the Ferguson shooting was justified, but please reserve judgment until the facts are in and the investigations are complete. In a similar non-pc vein, stop referring to mobs that are burning and looting stores as “militant protestors.” Stop making excuses for criminals, whether police or protestor. Don’t gild your partisan lily!
Things are not so golden in our Golden State nor throughout the rest of our country. Despite rhetoric and repeated promises, many can’t keep their doctor and many more will see health insurance costs go up. Dave Jones, the California State Insurance Commissioner ( D) reported the states four largest insurance companies have raised their premiums between 22 and 88 percent with more increases to come next year! Naturally he wants more regulatory power as if California didn’t have enough regulatory issues. Does he think that more government “oversight” will attract insurance providers to this state?
United Health Group, the nation’s largest provider of health insurance coverage declined to participate in the California exchange as did Aetna. Anthem Blue Cross reduced their California participation and Aetna will no longer even sell policies to individuals in California in or out of the exchange!
In other health news, California has added a million new people to the Medi-Cal rolls under expanded definitions of Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Unfortunately for them, nearly 25% fewer doctors are now participating in the program. In the spring of 2013, there were 109,000 doctors participating in Medi-Cal, but in the spring of 2014, only 82,605 physicians are willing to assist. Some relief may be on the way as Marilyn Tavenner of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that as many as 310,000 “enrollees” in Obamacare may lose coverage over their failure to resolve their “immigration status.” As to how many of these “legitimate” new enrollees have actually paid premiums, those numbers are as elusive as Lois Lerner emails! Wouldn’t you think that after spending nearly $80 million on a website, this basic information could be provided to American taxpayers?
Meanwhile, California’s Democrat legislature and governor continue to pick private sector winners and losers by doling out special favors to favored enterprises rather than uniformly reducing red tape and confiscatory tax rates as “equal justice for all.” For instance, they generously bestowed a $420 million tax break package for Lockheed Martin and “battery manufacturers.” Obviously, the latter is an attempt to sweeten the pot for Elon Musk, Tesla, and their “giga-factory.” Musk recently announced he would build an $85 million spaceport in Texas, not in California, for his SpaceX business. Who’s playing hardball? Another bill headed to the Senate floor will grant $400 million in tax breaks to California’s movie industry. Isn’t this all reminiscent of the “crony capitalism” that liberals in Hollywood, the legislature, and other Democrats decry when it’s done by Republicans? Politics is so situational, isn’t it?!
The California legislature is also scrambling to find a way to keep gasoline and fuel from coming under its scheduled carbon tax requirements of January, 2015. A 2010 study by the California Air Resources Board said that it could add as much as 76 cents per gallon to the price of each gallon of gasoline. Today they see the cost as “no discernible increase.” Maybe Californians should ask why Australia recently repealed their carbon tax. It was estimated that it cost Aussie economy $15.4 billion and added $11 million to household power bills every day.
Naturally, fuel and energy increases impact low and middle income families in California the most. California has approximately 12 percent of the U.S. population but still has 34 percent of the nation’s welfare recipients. Obviously they will be hurt hardest by projected increases but the cost to business and industry will also be reflected in a lack of jobs. As of last month, California’s unemployment rate was still 7.4 percent and we’re tied as the 44th highest unemployment rate in the fifty states.
California also has over 100,000 illegal aliens housed within its prison system which brings us to a final note that is not California specific. Based on the tragic shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, it is popular among racial agitators to speak of police “executions” and to say that police “gun down” young African-American boys every day. While African-Americans represent 13% of our population, they unfortunately represent 50% of the homicide victims. However, ninety percent of those murders are committed by other blacks! In comparison, police officer fatalities by firearms are up 61% over last year. This isn’t to say the Ferguson shooting was justified, but please reserve judgment until the facts are in and the investigations are complete. In a similar non-pc vein, stop referring to mobs that are burning and looting stores as “militant protestors.” Stop making excuses for criminals, whether police or protestor. Don’t gild your partisan lily!
Friday, August 15, 2014
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
In reading recent LTEs, there are many interesting conclusions that could be drawn. First, there is no difference between legal and illegal immigration; they are moral equivalents. Second, if you believe laws should be followed and borders should be secure, then you cannot be a Christian and are automatically a racist, even if you are a minority and a legal immigrant. Third, it's fashionable to call Republicans in the House, cowards and do nothings, but it's perfectly okay for Harry Reid and his Senate to refuse to address the 352 bills the House passed and sent to him. Fourth, despite the fact that national debt has increased from $10.6 trillion to over $17.5 trillion during the five plus years of the Obama Administration, it's still "Bush's Fault." Fifth, Bowe Bergdahl served with "honor and distinction" but his fellow soldiers and the previous Army investigation that labeled him a deserter are the true villains. Finally, 71% of Americans think the US is "on the wrong track" but the remainder must live in the Delta and wear rose colored glasses when it comes to Democrat scandals and policy failures.
Sincerely,
Bill Garvin
In reading recent LTEs, there are many interesting conclusions that could be drawn. First, there is no difference between legal and illegal immigration; they are moral equivalents. Second, if you believe laws should be followed and borders should be secure, then you cannot be a Christian and are automatically a racist, even if you are a minority and a legal immigrant. Third, it's fashionable to call Republicans in the House, cowards and do nothings, but it's perfectly okay for Harry Reid and his Senate to refuse to address the 352 bills the House passed and sent to him. Fourth, despite the fact that national debt has increased from $10.6 trillion to over $17.5 trillion during the five plus years of the Obama Administration, it's still "Bush's Fault." Fifth, Bowe Bergdahl served with "honor and distinction" but his fellow soldiers and the previous Army investigation that labeled him a deserter are the true villains. Finally, 71% of Americans think the US is "on the wrong track" but the remainder must live in the Delta and wear rose colored glasses when it comes to Democrat scandals and policy failures.
Sincerely,
Bill Garvin
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Political Punts and Pratfalls
By
William L. Garvin
“The only people who don’t want to
disclose the truth are people with something to hide.” President Barack
H. Obama, August 21, 2011
It
seems that private citizens and organizations must initiate lawsuits as the
only viable alternative to get necessary information from the “most transparent
administration” in history. The Fifth
Amendment, continual stonewalling, “misspeaking” (which used to be knows as
LYING!), crashing hard drives and continual interruptions and obfuscation from
sympathetic legislators are tactics employed by Democrats to carry out their
strategy of delay, delay, and delay some more.
It is their fondest hope that time and “scandal fatigue” will outlast
the search for truth. It is a war of
attrition and a tactic to exhaust patience and memory in a short-term memory
world. As Eleanor Holmes Norton, the
esteemed Democrat from D.C. proclaimed: “You don’t have a right to know everything
in a separation-of-powers government, my friend.” At the time, she was talking to the House
and Government Reform Committee that is supposed
to insure our system of checks and balances!
Thankfully,
a federal judge has ordered that all the “Fast and Furious” documents
previously hidden behind “executive privilege” be produced. Eric Holder was held in contempt by the court
for his previous refusals. Another has
ruled that the Affordable Care Act means what it says and only those who enroll
in state exchanges are eligible for federal subsidies. Another has ordered all the emails in the IRS
targeting of conservatives be delivered. Not too surprisingly, as they trickle out we
find that Lois “Latrine Lips” Lerner has referred to conservatives as “whackos,” “terrorists,” and (rhymes with) “glassbowls.” Do you think the aforementioned Holder will
ever appoint a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this? Of course not because his boss has already
told him there’s not a “smidgeon of corruption.” If you believe he will then you’ll also
believe Harry Reid when he says “The
border is secure.”
By
the way, the IRS has also reached a secret agreement with the Freedom From
Religion Foundation to monitor church sermons to see if preaching Biblical
principles (such as opposition to gay marriage and abortion) violates their tax
exempt status. And who will do the
monitoring and render the subsequent decision…why Lois Lerner’s old IRS unit of
course! It’s just another chink in our
constitutional armor.
That
goes along with CIA Director John Brennan and his months of angry denials that
he had never spied on Senator Diane Feinstein or other members of the Senate
Intelligence Committee. Now he admits
that in fact he did…but once again, it was a couple of low level
employees. Wasn’t it just a couple of
“rogue agents” in the first of many IRS cover stories that emerged over the
last year? Hopefully everyone is now wise
to that tired old playbook. In the next
chapter, we’ll hear about all the CIA hard drives crashing for everyone
involved in the “investigation.” No one
actually believes that the Department of Justice will actually investigate AND
PROSECUTE another member of the Obama administration. It is also unlikely that Brennan will resign
despite his constitutional crimes.
But
what’s the Constitution even mean in this day and age? To Steny Hoyer, the Number Two Democrat in
the House, it means little. “What the president can in fact do, however,
is implement the laws as he believes they should be implemented,” said
Hoyer. Representative Luis Gutierrez
from Illinois says the president has promised him that he will grant amnesty to
five or six million illegal immigrants.
What Constitution? What law? What border?
If you voice any opposition, expect Rep. Gutierrez to channel his inner
Al Sharpton and spout the same old tired racial polemics. “They
want to punish our community…” said Gutierrez. “It is
almost as if they despise and hate all our children.” He was quickly joined by Nancy Pelosi who
thought the unaccompanied minors (sic) are “just
like Baby Jesus” who was also a “refugee
from violence” and sending them back to their countries of origin is
similar to “throwing them back into a
burning building.”
Then again, she thinks natural gas is a “…clean, cheap alternative (LOL!) to fossil fuels,” and accepts Qatar’s belief that Hamas is a “humanitarian organization.” And Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee proclaims with a straight face that Democrats did not “seek an impeachment of President Bush” when she co-sponsored the bill! Rep. Anna Eshoo calls those who lost their health care plans “whiners” and “untruthful”…at least she didn’t call them “liars” as did Harry Reid.
The
only time this administration actually needs a cover-up is when Joe Biden goes
skinny dipping! Sometimes there’s just
too much information!
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