Enigmas

(1) Isn't it weird that in America our flag and our culture offend so many people, but our benefits don't?

(2) How can the federal government ask U.S. citizens to pay back student loans, when illegal aliens are receiving a free education?

3) Only in America are legal citizens labeled "racists" and "Nazis" but illegal aliens are called "Dreamers."

(4) Liberals say, "If confiscating all guns saves just one life, it's worth it!"  Well then, if deporting all illegals saves just one life, wouldn't that be worth it?

(5) I can't quite figure out how you can proudly wave the flag of another country but consider it punishment to be sent back there.

(6) The Constitution: It doesn't need to be rewritten; it needs to be reread.

(7) William F. Buckley said: "Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other points of view and are then shocked and offended when they discover there are other points of view."

(8) Joseph Sobran said: "'Need' now means wanting someone else's money.  'Greed' means wanting to keep your own.  'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

(9) Florida has had 119 hurricanes since 1850, but some people still insist the last one was due to climate change.

Do You Really Own Your Property?

Since the founding of our nation Americans have prided themselves on their freedoms and liberties.

In the nation's first one hundred and fifty years, or so, any individual who paid for their property they'd settled on owned it outright.

Over the last one hundred years, or so, this is no longer true. Anyone who doesn't pay their county property taxes can have their land taken from them.

But now, more recently there's a new trend being implemented by counties. It has to do with the growing resistance by many property owners more recently who are paying their property taxes, but are disregarding the county's enforcement of codes.

I read an article and watched a video the other day about how a county in the Los Angeles area of Southern California has passed a new measure which will make any property owners who are served with a code violation have to pay all the fees related to the processing of their court case about their violation of county code.

This article/video asserts that Agenda 21 is behind this trend. I was dubious, but wondered if there was anything to this, and thought this was a result of the crazy things going on in that state with their liberal policies on immigration, homelessness and gun laws. 

However, I was surprised that the next morning, I came across a local article listed on one of my subscription services for daily news which addressed the same issue in my state.

It's important to note what's said in the second article under the heading, "County Changes". If you read the first article and watch the video, it becomes rather obvious that the same process is beginning to take place in the local county of my state.

Apparently, there is some validity to this move by counties around the country to impose such measures on property owners. While many will deny that Agenda 21 has anything to do with this, it causes one to stop and think about what's going on. Are we losing our freedoms and liberties to bureaucrats at the local level of government too?

I can relate to the need for addressing issues which the  latter article addresses when it comes to code enforcement, but when some of those codes are clearly absurd or ridiculous ones, and the shift of costs for property owners to fight them becomes outlandish, then it appears our local governments are becoming tyrannical.

The Real Consequences of Immigration

When the "caravan" was headed north the Media (D) told us that these people were just fleeing their country to seek asylum in the U.S. Then, we heard some of those who were marching north say, "We're just going to the U.S. to get a good job."

When claims were made about the "caravan" including many criminals and questionable individuals from place other than Latin America, the leftist-liberals began to use their well worn strategy of name calling; "racist, bigot, nazi" were the labels used to try and intimidate us, or make us feel guilty.

When they arrived at the border in Tijuana, Mexico the Media (D) told us that we had a moral obligation to let them into the country and that they would make our country stronger. Who appointed these people to tell us what our moral obligations are?

But after Pres. Trump gave the directive to the Border Patrol to not allow them to come across the border by shutting it down and they had to remain in Tijuana, that city began to experience the impact of their presence.

Crime went up, arrests increased, and their trash amidst the "camps" grew into small mountains of major health concerns; compounding the concern of the various health issues they were bringing with them already.

Now, the leftist-liberals are implementing their intimidation against those who are revealing the truth about these "caravans" by organized boycotts of those shows who present any opposing view than the one they want shared with the public viewer in the U.S.

Tucker Carlson Tonight on FOX News is one which is featured in this article at NeedtoKnow News.

And, for your convenience, here's the Arizona Border Trash site Tucker Carlson mentions in the must watch video in the article above. And now, a comment from our President.

The Impact of the Janus Decision

You may recall the U.S. Supreme Court decision last spring, known as the Janus decision, which allows union members who do not wish to be forced to pay union dues to tell the union to "take a hike" and not suffer any consequences.

As a retired teacher who's been a life-long conservative, it was frustrating to be forced to pay union dues which supported candidates in both mid-term and general elections who were always Democrats. Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, Obama; everyone was endorsed by the N.E.A.

While there were always those who said, or told me, that the dues never went to political campaigns to support their liberal candidate choices, I know from having spent several years as an active member in my local, state, and national union activities that this was simply not true.

Here's one example which has been vivid in my memory. I was an alternate delegate to the N.E.A.'s national convention in July of '82. While on the floor of the huge convention hall, one morning session was spent debating whether the union should send a letter to President Reagan chastising him for funding the Contras in Nicaragua who were fighting the Sandanistas, a socialist/communist backed faction trying to take over the government there.

Being a new teacher I went to the convention thinking I would be spending time discussing, debating, and getting training in how to be a more effective teacher in my classroom. It was quite the shock when I learned that the national union was all about political power and had plans to keep liberal politicians in office as much as their clout of numbers allowed them through raising massive amounts of funds through their dues collection.

Near the last few years of my career I was very disappointed to learn that the local union, despite what they had repeatedly told their gatherings of members at various rally events to vote on striking, was not interested at all in "going to bat" for a dues paying member who expressed their frustration at its support of consistent liberal candidate choices.

As a result, and because a more local court case had an outcome in favor of a state teacher being able to decide which charity their union dues would go after resigning, but still having their dues deducted from their monthly salary, I too resigned because I refused to allow them to send it to Planned Parenthood, or some other nefarious entity they favored, and continued teaching my last year before retiring from my full-time position.

Now, just this week, the Washington Policy Center's Liv Finne, an associate who specializes in education, wrote an article on their site regarding the impact of the Janus decision on the Seattle School District's membership and funds collected.

I invite you to read it with special attention to the first line's opening statement. Why? Because it seems to espouse what I know to be incorrect; that one could have been fired if I, or anyone else, ceased being a member.

I've emailed Ms. Finne asking her to explain how this could be, when I know it is not true. Should I receive an explanation which clarifies any misunderstanding I may be under, then I will add a footnote to this post.

Why You Should Be A Nationalist

The Media (D) is doing their best to skew the understanding of the public by creating their own meaning or definition of certain words in order to paint the president as some horrible person, or wanting to appear as promoting some terrible idea.

But, if we watch this most recent video released by PragerU, we learn what a nationalist really stands for.

Check it out! It may surprise you.

If You've Live Long Enough

"One thing I've found out about old age is, if we've studied history long enough, we can usually rebuff any of the dramatic bovine scatology disseminated by the news agencies, which I tend to discount anyway because I just don't have time to be misled or lied to."

 These words of wisdom by my friend Richard express the sentiments of those of us in the "senior" category of life. In other words, we who've paid attention and know the facts about an issue can see an attempt to revise history in some way.

The recent passing of another "senior" who had far more experience and insight into the threat our nation has faced for the past 18 years since 9/11 is shared here at this link to an article about it.

I urge my readers to check it out.

The Study Shows...

I came across this article about California's snow pack in the Sierra Nevada range reportedly decreasing drastically over the next several decades.

But the more I read it, the more I wondered how this "study" could make such projections implying that snowfall would continue to shrink causing diminishing runoff into the San Juaquin Valley which runs north and south to the central portion of the state.

I like to think that our advancements in science are providing us with more accurate and reliable information, but the article simply fails to explain adequately to the reader how those who conducted the study can project rainfall in the mountain range so far into the future.

I say this because I get the sense that there are various factors which play into such studies. For starters, the article cites data for weather back to the 1880s. Is that really sufficient length of time to determine so far out into the future; 2100?

Also, what are the driving factors influencing the study's findings? Are they biased by the funding source? We've already learned that climate change data was manipulated to improve the accuracy of the predictions. I just read recently that 10 years ago Al Gore predicted that the north polar ice cap would be completely gone in only five years, yet the ice is still there. Oops!

Do the scientists take into account the possibility of weather cycles which we have no data on to give us any insight into whether cooler, or wetter, periods occurred? Wasn't the front page of Time magazine in the '70s warning us about scientific studies which predicted a coming ice age which could threaten our future prosperity?

But what really confused me was the paragraph near the bottom of the article which stated one suggestion to deal with future water shortage was to encourage farmers to flood their fields in wetter years to allow the groundwater table to replenish. Does this make sense to you?

If water runoff from the mountain range is going to be declining over the next several decades, why would they want to not conserve water more carefully when natural processes already cause the underground water table to replenish from percolating into the ground during runoff from higher elevations?

And then there's the documented fact that the state's utility company, PG&E, falsified records which contributed to the recent wildfires which killed nearly 100 people, as well as the government's actions, or failure to act in the proper way to deal with their already existing water shortage, has added immensely to the problem.