Ted Cruz Can Run for President

The suspicion of Obama's citizenship is not "far-fetched."  Many of his close relatives in Kenya said they were there when Obama was born.  Immigration officers are suspicious of almost any "perfect" birth certificate coming out of Hawaii. Every block entry was perfectly centered, no type-overs, no erasures or corrections, etc.  In spite of the meticulous preparation there was that little error that shows "country of birth" as "Hawaii," not an error usually made, even by the most careless county clerk.   Then there is the issue of Title 8 USC 1401 (g)—wherein it appears that Obama would have been ineligible for derivative U.S. citizenship through his mother at birth due to her irregular and limited U.S. residency.  Ted Cruz clearly qualifies under that law, and the international principle of "jus sanguinis."  Arnold Schwarzenegger's aspirations to run for president are not feasible under any existing law.  He is a naturalized citizen, not natural-born,  and he is not likely to become eligible with a Constitutional Amendment in the near future.  If he did become President, he'd probably then want German to become our national language, since he still struggles with English. 

Obama's  English pronunciation is okay, though he does not fully grasp many idiomatic expressions, often resulting in malaprop.  However, it is Obama's conduct that arouses most suspicion.    Why did he alone among presidents seal his college records?  Master's theses and doctoral dissertations of students are usually proudly published in their college libraries and are reference sources for the study by other students on the many subjects delved into in the writings, especially if the author rises to the presidency.   These writings are always autobiographical to a certain extent, and they nearly always deal with social issues related to one's birthplace and one's roots. Critics use the biographical approach perhaps more than any other in literary criticism.  The fact is, we know very little about Obama's roots and much of what we think we know may not be true. 

The liberals who like to excoriate the doubters as “birthers,” fear the dreaded truth: Our immigration laws are so loosely enforced that almost anyone in the world who can successfully commit immigration fraud (thousands do), can also become president if they are astute politicians. 

Anti-mimesis

I have always been fascinated by the mystery of inspiration.  I find it strange that other writers are often simultaneously working on a project similar to mine, with a very similar theme.  One reason that I do not do much research for precedents in fiction is that I fear that I might be influenced by someone else's writing on a project similar to mine.  Most readers can recognize plagiarism when they see it if they have read the same thing from two different writers.  Different versions of a subject are okay, but not copying and pasting, with a word processor, something someone else has said and publishing it as one's own work. Plagiarism and literary theft are running rampant in the world with the advent of the cyber age where theft of intellectual property has been made much easier.

“Anti-mimesis is a philosophical position that holds the direct opposite of Aristotelian mimesis. Its most notable proponent is Oscar Wilde, who opined in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying that, "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life". In the essay, written as a Platonic dialogue, Wilde holds that anti-mimesis "results not merely from Life's imitative instinct, but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression”

Sometimes, life imitating art can be very dangerous when warped ideas are put into print and given credible characters to carry out those ideas.  Timothy McVey's bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building was an imitation of an act he'd read about in William Pierce's (Pen name, Andrew McDonald) novel, The Turner Diaries.

With those thoughts in mind, I recently read a story in a Juarez, Mexico newspaper about a female who is riding commuter buses and killing drivers to avenge sexual assaults and murders of women assembly factory commuters.  This was a prominent theme of my novel, The Border Body Dumps.  See the "Sample Text" lifted from the novel further below.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imitating_artsion,”

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“Olga, and later hire, Rocio Davis, an Iraq War widow and Mexican native, have some serious scores to settle with machismo-driven, border men.

SAMPLE TEXT

"You mean I gotta go in drag?"

 "That's a crude and cynical way of putting it Ross. ...We will...make ourselves bait for some of the maquila commuter bus drivers they call ruteros, and other targets."

 "A man could get seriously killed that way."

ISBN 978-0-9785687-2-6

©2007

The female bus-driver assassin in Juarez was motivated by the same events that motivated the female assassin characters in my novel, The Border Body Dumps. You can read the story in its entirety at this web address:

http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_24005251/juarez-bus-drivers-idle-after-revenge-killings

Change Waxes but Hope Wanes in North Chicago

Until recently, the liberal media has led us to believe that rampant black crime in Chicago was restricted to South Chicago where blacks preyed on blacks.  However, in recent times, there have been more and more "sketchy" looking blacks moving into the upscale River North area of Chicago.  Whites are becoming more and more apprehensive and no longer feel safe in North River.  Four days ago a black man boldly, sexually assaulted a white book store clerk as she was closing up for the night.  He husband arrived too late to stop the attack but chased the assailant with a baseball bat unable to catch him. As a result, the book store management has shortened the hours to begin closing at 6:30 p.m., before dark, instead of the usual 10 p.m.

The Guardian Angels have started patrolling the area after hours and now offer escort service to women that must be alone on the streets after hours.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?id=9198112

Will Obama Start WWIII?

Many think that Barack Hussein Obama is a closet Muslim.  His decision to send our best weapons and military technology to Egypt, a country now run by the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical group hostile to the existence of Israel, will start WWII.

In the Six-Day-War of 1967, Obama was five years old.  When the intended invasion and destruction of Israel began, the Egyptians had a huge superiority of weapons.  It took Israel 6 days to destroy them all while still headed toward Israel in the Sinai Desert.

No one doubts that Israel will use nuclear weapons against Egypt this time, if necessary.  They believe that they are God’s chosen people, and many Gentiles believe likewise.  Many think that the final war between good and evil will fulfill the Biblical prophesies in the “End Days,” and those days may come with the second modern invasion of Israel by Egypt.  Another attempt by Egypt to destroy Israel will be the beginning of WWII as evil empires across the world, some armed with nuclear weapons, like Pakistan, North Korea and possibly Iran and Russia, retaliate against Israel, and eventually against the U.S.  Russia will not stay neutral, and they will continue their support of America's enemies in the Middle East. 

Obama showed his contempt for America's military preparedness in that whispered message to the Russian leader Medvedev, which he asked Medvedev to convey to Vladimir Putin, when he thought the microphones were turned off.  He said that "after his re-election" he would have more "flexibility" in weakening our defenses against Russian missiles.

“Obama’s remarks, caught on an open microphone at a summit in Seoul, South Korea, drew sharp criticism from Republicans who suggested that the president was too soft on Russia and not honest with the U.S. public about his intentions for missile defense…”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/11/kremlin-cheers-obamas-re-election/

For Obama’s plan to go forward with sending planes and tanks, with cutting edge military technology to Egypt see:

http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/31/rand-paul-no-fighter-jets-tanks-for-egypt/

The Caliche Pits of West Texas

The Caliche Pits of West Texas

When I was born during the Great Depression, my dad had a part-time job guarding a “caliche pit” just east of the nearby town of Wellman, TX.  There was heavy equipment in the pit, used for digging and crushing a soft rock called “caliche.” During those hard times, theft was rampant as people struggled to survive the depression.

Although Caliche layers keep the surface of West Texas soil limited in the types of vegetation that can grow upon them, the substance was invaluable in surfacing country roads before the more expensive asphalt became more affordable.  Although surfacing a road with caliche made it smooth and impermeable to rains, roads surfaced with it became as slick as greased glass in rainy weather.   A motorist had to be careful not to slide off it and get stuck in what was called “the bar ditch,” a depression off each shoulder used to collect runoff water.  

How caliche subsurface in West Texas affects the type of vegetation that can grow there:

“Caliche beds can cause many problems when trying to grow plants. First, an impermeable caliche layer prevents water from draining properly, which can keep the roots from getting enough oxygen. Salts can also build up in the soil due to the lack of drainage. Both of these situations are detrimental to plant growth. Second, the impermeable nature of caliche beds also prevents plant roots from going through the bed, which means the roots have a limited supply of nutrients, water, and space, so they cannot develop normally.”  (From Wikipedia definition).

So, the low, tough vegetation one sees on the Texas plain is influenced more by the subsoil than the 18 inches or so of rain that is normal for the area.

On the Texas plains, abandoned caliche pits became substitutes for “lover’s Lanes.”  As a beginning writer some forty years ago, I wrote a short story (titled “The Caliche Pit,”) about a small West Texas town, manned by a two-man police force, one of them the “chief” and the other a new rookie, who had more to learn about small town policing than the criminal code teaches.  While patrolling outside the perimeter of the town, the “chief” decided to check out the local caliche pit.  There was one car parked in the pit, and the chief drove to the bottom of the pit and circled it.  He did not stop to check out the occupants of the car.  When queried by the rookie  as to why they did not check out the occupants of the car, the chief replied that, in a small town, the first thing one must learn is to be blind to some things. The chief had noticed a prominent, local, married couple in the car, married to someone other than each other.

When I queried the below link on caliche pits, I found the first answer, by “steve’o”  interesting, and not inconsistent with my image of the “local caliche pit,”  one of which seems to be near all  small West Texas towns.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090610201355AAmVR8K

Dubya Rears His Ugly Head Again

The last thing the GOP needs now is to listen to Dubya.  The first election of Obama was revulsion against this brain-dead Cheney/Rove puppet.   If the GOP had nominated Ron Paul instead of McCain in 2008, Paul would still be President.

Dubya is, and always has been, in the hip pockets of the old "plantation politicians" who call amnesty something else and who cannot see beyond the first stage of the four cycles of illegal immigration: illegal-to-legal-to-welfare are the first three; and in less than ten years, they reach the fourth stage:  citizens with Democrat voter ID cards. The cycles are kept alive and well by the bilingual education lobby who are totally dependent on illegal immigration.  Eliminate OBEMLA and you have reached the first stage of bringing this country back to sanity.

Approaching the Financial Cliff

As we approach the “financial cliff,” ostensibly debating which entitlements to cut, as a quid pro quo for increases in taxes, few of us expect the liberals to be swayed to give up a single entitlement or even reductions in their costs. Nobody thinks Obama is serious about allowing any entitlements to be cut; he is going to continue, in the words of the late, great Darrell Royal, to  “dance with what brung him;” that is, continue to pander to the entitlement class that elected, and re-elected, him. Some conservatives believe that Obama is willing to “go over the cliff,” and that he will brazenly let the country fall into bankruptcy rather than concede any meaningful cuts in entitlements.  There are no Reagan-like negotiators among the  Republican politicians in Congress today, not like the one that walked out of the meeting with Gorbachev and refused to give up his “Star Wars” defense, in preparation for escalation of the Cold War ahead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk_Summit 

That Reagan coup inspired Russian dissenters, like Boris Yeltsin, to stand up to Gorbachev, and it most certainly precipitated events that eventually led to the fall of the Iron Curtain.  Obama is trying to portray the image that Nikita Khrushchev did: that of a dictatorial, maniacal leader, willing to “go over the brink” to get his way.  Khrushchev’s tactic worked against Reagan’s predecessors:  JFK gave up three overseas missile bases to get Khrushchev to take his missiles out of Cuba in that “crisis.”  JFK also made a treaty to allow Communist Cuba to exist in perpetuity, and to never invade it again.

Liberals downplay it, but Reagan’s “walk-out” was the greatest diplomatic coup of modern history.  Unfortunately, there are no Republicans with the spine that Reagan had, willing to play brinkmanship with Obama—the way Ragan did with Gorbachev.  Most conservatives believe that Boehner has the spine of a jellyfish.

CUTTING THE FAT:

 One of the biggest and most counterproductive Government wastes is OBEMLA, a Washington bureaucracy dedicated to promulgation of bilingual education.  Bilingual education has been debated ad nauseam, and many Americans still do not even know what it is.  Many, if not most, think it is the practice of teaching foreign languages in public schools.  Almost everyone agrees that learning at least one foreign language is a good thing.  However, bilingual education DOES NOT teach a foreign language to native English speakers.  Not at all.  What it does is teach core public school subjects in the language of a child’s ethnic origin.  It is therefore an obstacle, not an aid, to learning English.  Many bilingual education teachers are themselves not native speakers of English and teach students “English” in a foreign language, inevitably with a foreign accent.  English is simply one of the core courses, including social studies, math, etc., that bilingual educators teach the students in their foreign tongue.

Activists who advocate bilingualism could care less about handicapping students in public schools.  Those of us who, over the years, have observed firsthand what they have wrought, have no doubt that bilingual education retards and impedes the learning of English, the tool they need most in securing meaningful employment (outside the bureaucracy of bilingual education). The advocates’ primary interest is their own job security, growing the bureaucracy, OBEMLA, and creating thousands of more teaching jobs, especially for minorities who cannot compete on an even keel with native English teachers in subjects other than foreign languages. Illegal immigration, therefore, is the “sine qua non” of the perpetuation of bilingual education.  These activists are among the stronger forces behind demands for “immigration reform,” and essentially, open borders. They will pay lip service to immigration control, but they know that the borders will never be controlled without the magnets that bring illegal aliens here: no, not jobs, but mainly, “entitlements.” The bilingual education activists, and their corrupt allies in Congress, also know that immigration cannot be controlled without a national identity card and vigorous enforcement of sanctions against employers and those who harbor illegal aliens for self-serving reasons.  They include subversive pseudo religious and political organizations who want to increase their membership with groups beholden to them for their “assistance” in aiding and abetting them to evade immigration laws.