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.

The Obama Browbeat is Back

In Monday’s debate, Obama used the old “ACORN Browbeat” against Romney, but Romney was not intimidated.  The browbeat consists of craning the neck extremely forward toward the target and staring at him with an intense frown.  

Another word for the Obama Browbeat was the”get in their faces” tactic espoused by Obama and used by many of his agitators during the election of 2008.  Now that Americans have awakened, at least to some degree, its usefulness is currently about the same as (to use another Obama cliché) “horses and bayonets.”

Obama has had some practice at browbeating and filing lawsuits against banks--as a representative of ACORN.  One lending institution that Obama filed charges against was Citibank.  See:

http://iusbvision.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/obama-sued-citibank-under-cra-to-force-it-to-make-bad-loans/

There has been much controversy regarding the economic impact of the CRA. The current Administration, of course,  claims that the CRA is not to blame for so many bank failures   See The Subprime Mortgage Crisis at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis

An excerpt:

 “Conservatives and libertarians have also debated the possible effects of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), with detractors claiming that the Act encouraged lending to uncreditworthy borrowers,[134][135][136][137] and defenders claiming a thirty year history of lending without increased risk.[138][139][140][141] Detractors also claim that amendments to the CRA in the mid-1990s, raised the amount of mortgages issued to otherwise unqualified low-income borrowers, and allowed the securitization of CRA-regulated mortgages, even though a fair number of them were subprime.[142][143]

“Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Sheila Bair have stated their belief that the CRA was not to blame for the crisis.”

Seeing Through The Obama Fog

We have heard much Obama rhetoric about the 14% tax rate that Governor Romney pays--for most of his income. Obama has demagogued that issue incessantly and the average citizen has no real clue as to what it's about.

Governor Mitt Romney is what is known as a "capital investor." Almost every capital asset in Ohio and all the U.S., was built by capital investors (yes, they, not the Government, DID build them). That includes nearly all the factories that used to provide an abundance of jobs in Ohio.

The tax rate for capital investors runs anywhere from 5% to 15%, depending upon the amounts invested and the length of time of the investments. There is no secret society of the super rich involved here. To use a common Obama cliché, everybody "has a shot" at the 15%, or lower tax rate. It is right there on every one's IRS Form 1040, Item No. 13. To determine the exact rate on capital gains, Item 13 refers you to IRS schedule D.

Until a few days ago, Obama demagogued the fact that Governor Romney had not submitted all of his tax returns. The tax returns of large capital investors is complicated and involves a lot of bookkeeping. When Romney submitted his 2011 tax return, it had 144 pages. How many of the agitators, including Obama, has knocked themselves out reading all 144 pages? I'll bet none. Romney also submitted summaries of tax returns for the past 20 years, each showing the source and amount of incomes and the taxes paid.

The lower tax rates for capital investors is a traditional incentive for those willing to risk their private funds to create jobs for others and to grow the national economy. Obama has never had a job in the private sector and one can see why he thinks that only the Government can create jobs. He thinks that any wealth outside the Government should be "redistributed" to all the people. Capital gains are, in fact, "redistributed" by creating jobs.

Obama has said that he wants to kill the 15% capital gains tax break for investors. If he does that, he will kill the incentive intended for capital investors, and the economy will stagnate more.

Bankruptcy is not a disgrace nor the end of a corporation like GM. Bankruptcy laws lead those industries back to solvency under the oversight of a receivership--designated banks or entities, assigned by the bankruptcy court.  Obama's Government bail-outs defeat the purpose of bankruptcy, passes the bill on to the tax payers and causes more national debt and more inflation. Moreover, Obama's bail-outs keep his same, incompetent, union-loyal CEOs in place--guaranteeing the need for another bailout a few years down the road.