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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Leftist Family Values Schizophrenia: Thanksgiving vs. Christmas

Every Thanksgiving, Leftists magically become champions of Family Values, of the importance of spending time at home with family rather than at work. The weeks preceding Thanksgiving see countless media stories bemoaning the sacrilege of businesses open on Thanksgiving Day.  Unions organize protests at workplaces open on Thanksgiving, write finger-wagging articles and bash heartless corporations who “can afford to give employees this holiday to spend with their families.”

But Leftists’ concern for family values mysteriously vanishes weeks later at Christmas, when they no longer care if businesses force employees to work.  So why are “family values” important on Thanksgiving but not Christmas?

One prominent business operating on Christmas Day is Hollywood, which commonly uses the holiday to release important films. In the process, Hollywood profits billions of dollars from movie theaters that pay some of the lowest wages in the United States. Why are Liberals outraged at Walmart for holiday work days but not at Hollywood?

Originally published December 24, 2014 at Politichicks, where cool conservative women blog.

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Patriot Eric Garner and the Certainty of Death and Taxes

Eric Garner died a patriot.  Yes, you read that right. Eric Garner has more in common with the colonists at the Boston Tea Party than he does with Michael Brown.  Eric Garner died while being arrested by New York City police last July.  His crime?  Selling untaxed cigarettes.  Garner’s actions were premised on the same notion that spurred the colonists to sabotage tea shipments in protest of England’s Stamp Act of 1765.

In a City where you may not be arrested for marijuana possession or violating immigration laws, where illegal alien criminals will not be deported, you can be certain that the sacred lifeblood of Big Government – taxes – will always receive aggressive criminal enforcement, regardless if those taxes make the poor poorer or kill husbands and fathers like Eric Garner.

Just four weeks ago Mayor De Blasio proudly announced that New Yorkers would no longer be arrested for low level marijuana offenses because it would allow police to put “more time and energy into fighting more serious crime.”  Apparently he meant “more time and energy into fighting” the victimless but “serious” crime of untaxed cigarettes. Bilious liberal hypocrites like Mayor De Blasio know who the real criminals are in New York City.   It’s those like Garner who Just Say No to tyrannical taxation.



Originally published on December 5, 2014 at Politichicks, where the cool conservative women blog.

Voter Turnout: The Silver Lining in California’s Liberal Cloud

The low voter turnout in California’s midterm elections presents a golden opportunity for conservatives to influence state and local politics through the initiative process.  Because the number of signatures required to qualify an initiative for the ballot in California is determined by the number of votes cast in the midterm elections, the recent low turnout makes it easier to qualify government-limiting, tax-cutting initiatives over the next four years.  Presented correctly, these coming initiatives could invigorate discouraged conservative voters and drain bloated bureaucracies.

Local grassroots groups are already organizing strategies to bypass the Democrat Party’s far left stranglehold on California politics. For example, TeaPAC, a grassroots tea party organization in Pasadena, California, is organizing initiative campaigns in cities to cut certain local taxes and, in the process, “suck tens, even hundreds of millions of dollars out of the system.” It would also force Democrats and, indirectly, unions “to defend against dozens of efforts to repeal local taxes”, which in turn would divert their time and money from local, state and national political campaigns.

Read more HERE.

Originally published on December 3rd, 2014 at Politichicks, where the cool conservative women blog.

Twisted Truth-o-Meter: PolitiFact gives bumbling defense of Liz Warren Puff Piece

Recently, PolitiFact targeted me when it publicly labeled “Mostly False” a social media Meme I created that mocked Senator Elizabeth Warren.  My PolitiChicks article exposed PolitiFact’s dishonest smear against the Meme and me.  I then sent a detailed letter to PolitiFact’s editors explaining why I was right and PolitiFact was wrong.  That letter (reproduced below) provoked a condescending and huffy response from PolitiFact (read it for yourself below) doubling down on its misrepresentations and sloppy journalism, using small words in hopes little women like me might understand true journalists’ factual finesse.

What was especially dumbfounding was PolitiFact’s response that “we would have been happy to respond to your concerns” but for the fact that “11 days” had passed since publishing the article.  Spoken in Elizabeth Warren parlance, PolitiFact won’t smoke-em peace pipe with Paleface PolitiChick.

In Bizzaro-PolitiFact-world, fact checking my six month-old Meme is timely, but fact-checking its own 11 day-old article is not timely.  Odd too is that PolitiFact emailed me about its article just five hours before publishing it, as if that were sufficient notice to respond (sorry, PolitiFact, but Wednesday afternoons I have three separate school pick-ups followed by kids’ karate lessons).


Originally published on November 14, 2014 at Politichicks, where the cool conservative women blog.

Saturday, November 8, 2014

PolitiFact Circles Wagons Around Elizabeth Warren with a Pants-On-Fire Smear

In my latest article published at PolitiChicks, I reveal how and why PolitiFact targets me - instead of major leftwing media sites - for repeating an embarrassing fact about the Cherokee Princess, Elizabeth "Paleface" Warren:

"Days before the Democrat Party’s anticipated electoral scalping, PolitiFact has published a shameless rehab article on Senator Elizabeth Warren. That article attacks a FaceBook meme I published over six months ago that mocks the DNC’s chief Cherokee who “lives in a $5.4M mansion, claimed ‘Native American’ status to score a Harvard gig paying $350,000 to teach one class, and now lectures us that ‘the system is rigged to benefit the rich.’ “ Of those 5 or so facts, PolitiFact cherry picks the first one and, violating its own written policy, proclaims the entire Meme “mostly false” based solely on a flawed analysis of that one cherry picked fact.



Yes, Politifact is helping Senator Elizabeth Warren reapply her war paint in time for a 2016 challenge against presumptive Democrat nominee Grandma Hil-Billy...."

READ MORE HERE

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Susan's 2014 Midterm CA Voting Guide

Here is how I cast my ballot for the all-important 2014 Midterm Election.
While the top of the ticket is a foregone conclusion here in the People's Republik of Kalifornia, you must vote if only to retain your right to complain later.  No excuses.

Very few people will bother to vote for the judges because many do not know much about them.  Below I list who I think will do a good job wearing a black robe.

This year's voting guide list is dedicated to my friend, Melissa B. who called to tell me that she relies on my voting guide every election cycle.  I wouldn't have done it but for her encouragement.

Governor:           Neel Kashkari
Lt Gov:               Ron Nehring
Sec of State:       Pete Peterson
Controller:          Ashley Swearengin
Treasurer:           Greg Conlin
Atty General:     Ronald Gold
Ins. Commis:     Ted Gaines
St. Bd of
  Eqaulization:    G. Rick Marshall

U.S. Representative 28th District:          Steve Stokes
Member State Assembly 43rd District:  Todd Royal

Judicial --- Supreme Court Justices.  These are "YES" or "NO" Votes.

NO - Goodwin Lu
NO - Marianio-Florentino Cuellar
NO - Kathryn Mickle Werdegar

Judicial --- Court of Appeal Justice

YES - Frances Rothschild
YES - Jeffrey W. Johnson
YES - Brian M. Hoffstadt
NO --  Lee Anne Edmon
NO --  Audrey B. Collins
YES - Nora M. Manella
YES - Paul A. Turner
YES - Kenneth R. Yegan
YES - Dennis M. Perluss
YES - Laurence D. Rubin
NO -- Madeleine I. Flier

Judicial - Judge of the Superior Court

Office No. 61:  Dayan Mathai
Office No. 87:  Tom Griego

School Superintendent:  Marshall Tuck
County Assessor:  John Morris
County Sheriff:  Jim McDonnell

STATE MEASURES (I voted "NO" on every one).

No. 1:  NO
No. 2:  NO
No. 45:  NO
No. 46:  NO
No. 47:  NO
No. 48:  NO

County Measure P:  NO


Below is TEAPac's recommendations.  TEAPac is a grassroots conservative organization I trust.  If you don't live in Glendale, this will provide you with information about your particular local races:

"TEAPAC recommends naval military officer and law enforcement veteran, Dr. Paul Chabot for the 31st Congressional Seat.  We apologize for not including him in our initial recommendations."


Congressional Candidates

District 23
Kevin McCarthy
District 25
Steve Knight
District 26
Jeff Gorell
District 27
Jack Orswell
District 28
Steve Stokes
District 29
William Leader
District 30
District 31 
Mark S. Reed
Dr. Paul Chabot
District 32
Arturo Enrique Alas
District 33
Elan Carr
District 34
No Recommendation
District 35
No Recommendation
District 37
R. Adam King
District 38
Benjamin Campos
District 39
Ed Royce
District 40
No Recommendation
District 43
John Wood, Jr.
District 44
No Recommendation
District 47
Andy Whallon


Statewide Candidates

Governor
Neel Kashkari
Lieutenant Governor
Ron Nehring
Secretary of State
Pete Peterson
Controller
Ashley Swearengin
Treasurer
Greg Conlon
Attorney General
Ronald Gold
Insurance Commissioner
Ted Gaines
State Board of Equalization, District 3
G. Rick Marshall


State Senate Candidates

District 18
Ricardo Antonio Benitez
District 20
Matthew Munson
District 22
Marc Rodriquez
District 24
No Recommendation
District 26
No Recommendation
District 30
No Recommendation
District 32
Mario A. Guerra
District 34
Janet Nguyen


State Assembly Candidates

AD 36
Tom Lackey
AD 38
Scott Wilk
AD 39
No Recommendation
AD 41
Nathaniel Tsai
AD 43
Todd Royal
AD 44
Rob McCoy
AD 45
Susan Shelley
AD 46
Zachary Taylor
AD 48
Joe Gardner
AD 49
Esthela Torres Siegrist
AD 50
Bradly S. Torgan
AD 51
Stephen C. Smith
AD 52
Dorothy Pineda
AD 53
No Recommendation
AD 54
Glen Ratcliff
AD 55
Ling-Ling Chang
AD 57
Rita Topalian
AD 58 
No Recommendation
AD 59
No Recommendation
AD 62
Ted J. Grose
AD 63
Adam J. Miller
AD 64
No Recommendation
AD 66
David Hadley
AD 70
John C. Goya


County Offices/Measures

Superintendent of Public Instruction
Marshall Tuck
County Assessor
John Morris
Sheriff
Paul Tanaka (NP) or
Jim McDonnell (NP)
LA County Supervisor, District 3
No Recommendation
County Measure 
NO



Wednesday, October 22, 2014

World War E: Obama’s Political Strategy of Appeasement


With potential World War E looming over the Ebola outbreak, Obama has adopted a Neville Chamberlin appeasement approach.  Obama now declares Ebola under control and that the U.S. will lead the global response in Africa.  Peace in our time.  Simultaneously, however, WHO has sounded the alarm and admits it has already botched the global Ebola response.  The biggest danger of appeasement, of Obama’s political dithering over the Ebola outbreak, is with the math, and I’m not talking Common Core.  We may witness a global Ebola death toll rivaling total deaths in WWII.

According to the CDC, the number of infected victims in this Ebola epidemic doubles every 2-3 weeks.  One great worry is the virus spreading to Southeast Asia.  But in apparent appeasement to potentially angry foreign governments, the CDC and President Obama tell us that air travel bans will not work because they hinder the ability to track disease carriers who would otherwise sneak across borders.  Air travel bans might work in the U.S. with its highly sophisticated healthcare system, but how can we expect poor, primitive public health systems to “track” Ebola carriers internationally?  In the U.S. over 800 people are being tracked from a single passenger flight taken by the second infected nurse in Dallas.  How can third world nations to do such comprehensive tracking when there are dozens, hundreds or thousands of patients?  It’s all in the numbers, and they don’t look good.

The doctor who helped originally identify the Ebola virus is "especially worried" about its spread to the 1.2 billion inhabitants of India, describing it as “a particularly dreadful scenario” because of the primitive state of public health in India where, for example, “doctors and nurses often don’t wear protective gloves.”  WHO expects Ebola infections to rise to 10,000 cases per week in West Africa.  What happens when Ebola travels to a poor nation like India with 300 times the population of Liberia?  Could that 10,000 weekly number in West Africa be multiplied by 10, 50, 100 or more in densely populated India?  Crunching the numbers is terrifying.

As WHO says, “Ebola does not respect borders.”  Neither does Obama for political reasons. It has been suggested that Obama won’t force travel restrictions out of Ebola hot zone countries because he fears it would endanger his Africa political legacy.  Appeasement.  Obama won't protect our borders from Ebola carriers because he fears alienating critical voting blocs.  Appeasement.  After his political manipulations led to disaster in Benghazi, Obama dismissed American deaths as mere “bumps in the road”.  Will thousands or more Ebola deaths in India, Asia and other parts of the third world be so many more bumps in Obama’s road to political legacy?

With just two weeks until critical midterm elections, Obama seems to approach Ebola less as a medical crisis and more as a political crisis.  If Ebola’s worst damage occurs outside the U.S., will Obama depict himself as another FDR who successfully led America through a global Ebola crisis, to spin a “World War E” scenario in the most favorable political light possible?  Is that what’s behind Obama’s appointment of Ebola Czar Ron Klain, the veteran Democrat political hack with absolutely no medical training?  Obama’s political appeasement strategy throws Americans under the bus, and perhaps the world along with us.

Originally published at PolitiChicks.com October 21, 2014.

Ebola Invasion Across Our Borders: The 5,000 Pound Elephant in the Immigration Reform Room

“Porous borders!”  CDC Director Tom Friedan warned Congress that porous borders threaten to spread Ebola into America.  But Friedan later said he meant only the porous borders between African nations, not between United States and Mexico.  Translation: our southern border will remain - deliberately - a gaping hole in America’s hazmat suit, as Obama bitterly clings to his political obsession to impose mass amnesty aka “immigration reform”, and to hell with Ebola and spreading death to Americans.

Friedan explained his logic to Congress: shutting down air travel from Ebola hot zones - and thereby preventing infected people from traveling by air - will cause them to travel over land, which makes it more difficult to track the disease.  Never mind that Thomas Duncan’s case highlights the folly of that model.  The CDC approach portends disaster for the our country.

Within the past year alone, Americans witnessed as President Obama lured tens of thousands of desperate Central American families to send their children into the U.S. and then promptly spread them throughout all 50 states with NO medical or criminal screening.  Enterovirus is the suspected result and a foreshadowing of things to come.  Who needs a Typhoid Mary when we have Typhoid Barack recklessly depositing potential disease carriers in every corner of our country?  Worse, just think what would happen if Ebola spread from Africa to Central America, for example, an outbreak of Ebola in Mexico City.  A mass migration to America for health reasons would dwarf these numbers.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is predicting that new Ebola cases will climb to 10,000 a week.  “When […] a million people are in quarantine in West Africa right now, and 10,000 people leave West Africa a day, it’s just a matter of time before [Ebola] gets to every third-world country, and it’s going to devour them,” Dr. Gil Mobley said.  Our troops in Benghazi had similar warnings to act, to escape, to mitigate the crisis, 

For weeks President Obama and the CDC have been assuring the public that the chances of Ebola actually to the United States was exceptionally low.  When America’s best and brightest in the medical community cannot prevent the accidental spread of the disease using best known protocol, protection and medical devices currently available, the average John Q. Public doesn’t stand a chance when Ebola victims wade across the Rio Grande.

The CDC classifies Ebola as a “category A biological agent”.  In laymen’s terms, this means the CDC considers Ebola as far more deadly than either tuberculosis or AIDS because Ebola is much more infectious that other diseases, requiring many fewer organisms to transmit to disease to another person.  The CDC actually prioritizes Ebola’s unique characteristics as a “potential…biological terrorism agent” requiring “intensive public preparedness efforts due to the potential for mass causalities, public fear, and civil disruption” precisely because Ebola has no known cure or reliable effective treatment, a very high mortality rate, and can be easily disseminated.  

In the face of Ebola, President’s Obama’s political duplicity on the issue of immigration will lead to the deaths of Americans.  As the President himself has said, “if there’s even one thing we can do, if there's just one life we can save, we've got an obligation to try.”   To save American lives, we must close the border now and secure it with military troops with orders to kill any who attempt to cross.  Fortuitously, Homeland Security already has a massive stockpile of ammunition for such purpose. 

Once we have secured the southern border from an Ebola invasion, for humanitarian reasons, the President could coordinate with the Mexican government and FEMA to create a massive Ebola buffer zone within Mexico with temporary housing and portable triage centers where Dr. Friedan’s special traveling CDC protocol experts can provide training and medical care to the dying.   

Absent swift and decisive military action to close our southern border to all immigrant traffic, illegal or otherwise, it’ll be too late.  We won’t know it is coming until we see the blood dripping from their eyes.  

Originally published at Politichicks.com on October 18, 2014.