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Growing Up in California

Burt Prelutsky

 

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

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 A.G. nominee to advance today -   The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to endorse today the confirmation of President nObama’s nominee to replace Eric Holder as attorney general. Former U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch is likely to receive some bipartisan support from the committee, but her embrace of nObama’s executive amnesty for illegal immigrants will set up a contentious vote in the full Senate.  -Fox News 

 

 

 HOUSE GOP TO CHALLENGE ADMINISTRATION CLAIMS ON nOBAMACARE BACKUP   PLAN 
Health Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell will face tough questions today about her claim that the administration has no plan to deal with a federal lawsuit that could eviscerate the nObamaCare. In a letter earlier this week, Burwell said her agency had no backup plan if the Supreme Court strikes down nObamaCare subsidies in states that did not establish exchanges. But according to a preview provided to Fox News by House Republicans, Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on health, has reason to believe those claims may not be true.  -Fox News 

 

 

 Sasse offers plan to use ‘Cobra’ coverage -   “First, in the event that the court strikes down the subsidies as illegal, Congress must be prepared to offer immediate, targeted protection to those hurt by this administration’s reckless disregard for the rule of law. nObamaCare took these patients hostage. Conservatives have a duty to save them. So within a week I will introduce legislation that uses the 1985 ‘Cobra’ law as a temporary model to protect those harmed by nObamaCare…Second, Republicans need to unify around a specific set of constructive, longer-term solutions, and then turn the 2016 presidential election into a referendum on two competing visions of health care. Simply opposing nObamaCare isn’t enough. Republicans must address this country’s health-care crises, cost and uninsurance, both of which have been exacerbated chiefly by excessive federal meddling.” --Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., in WSJ op-ed.  -Fox News 

 

 

 VETS GROUP RELEASES REPORT ON HEALTH CARE TODAY 
Concerned Veterans for America is releasing today its report and recommendations for improving veterans’ health care. The group previewed the findings in this online video. The group is also hosting a summit today in Washington. Expected participants include Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. and House Veterans Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla.  -Fox News 

 

 

 HIGH DRAMA AS nOBAMA INTERNET REGS DEBUT 
Fox News: “The Federal Communications Commission is driving toward a landmark vote Thursday on a sweeping plan that critics warn would impose a new era of regulation for how Americans use and do business on the Internet, even as eleventh-hour appeals inject added drama behind the scenes. The so-called net neutrality proposal has been the subject of fierce debate, in part because the 332-page plan is being kept from public eyes. President nObama’s vocal push for aggressive Internet rules also has raised questions on Capitol Hill over undue influence by the White House -- but House Republicans who had planned a hearing on that very subject said Wednesday they would postpone after Chairman Tom Wheeler allegedly refused to testify.”  -Fox News 

 

 

 

 

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 IMF Seeks to Bypass U.S. Veto in Bid to Empower Self, Tyrants  

(Alex Newman) - Right now, the International Monetary Fund is trying to forward controversial “reforms,” changes that are strongly supported by the nObama administration and most IMF member regimes, that would massively expand the institution’s power and the burden it imposes on taxpayers...particularly American taxpayers — by doubling IMF resources. The scheme would also diminish U.S. influence in IMF decisions while boosting the voice of the communist dictatorship ruling mainland China, Putin’s Kremlin, the pro-Castro Brazilian government, and various other regimes that the UN refers to as “emerging markets.” As it stands, however, the U.S. government has veto power because it controls more than 15 percent of the voting shares, and 85 percent approval is required to adopt the reforms. And the International Monetary Fund is facing a U.S. Congress that has refused to do its bidding — so far at least.       http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/item/20223-imf-seeks-to-bypass-u-s-veto-in-bid-to-empower-self-tyrants?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=4d136d5238-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-4d136d5238-289778381

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 DHS Fails to Cite Any Law Authorizing nObama to Give SS Numbers  

(Lauretta Brown) - When asked to do so at a Thursday press briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson failed to cite any law that authorized President Barack nObama to give Social Security Numbers to illegal aliens...CNSNews.com asked Johnson: “A federal court in Texas v. United States has said giving an illegal alien a Social Security Number is not an act of prosecutorial discretion. What specific law gives the president the authority to give a Social Security Number to a foreign national in the country illegally?” Rather than answer the question, Johnson instead noted that the administration has appealed the court’s injunction against the administration’s unilateral action on immigration.       http://cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/dhs-secretary-fails-cite-any-law-authorizing-obama-give-social-security

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 Netanyahu Knows A Secret, About What nObama Is Doing With Iran  

(rickwells.us) - Information revealed by an aid travelling with Prime Minister Netanyahu upon his arrival in the United States is shedding light on what may be the actual reason upturned nObama nose seemed excessively bent out of shape by the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit...It seems nObama’s got a secret. He’s “negotiating” a bad deal with his BFF pen pals in Tehran, and he doesn’t want Netanyahu to mess things up for him by letting the word slip out to Congress. The “Times of Israel” reported that a senior Israeli official traveling with the Israeli Prime Minister confirmed that Netanyahu will be revealing, to a limited degree, information about a nuclear deal which is yet unknown to the American lawmakers in his Tuesday speech.       http://www.rickwells.us/netanyahu-knows-a-secret-its-about-what-obama-is-doing-with-iran-and-hes-going-to-tell-congress/

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 Hatred as an Article of Faith  

(Mark Durie) - The Islamic State sent me a letter this week, in the form of a short film produced by ISIS's Al-Hayat Media centre. This was not addressed to me personally, but to all Christians everywhere. Its title was A Message Signed with BLOOD to the Nation of the Cross...This was a video of the ritual slaughter of the 21 Egyptian Christians. Their blood flowing in the ocean waves was the 'signature' at the end of the video. As I write this it is Ash Wednesday. This is the start of forty days of Lent, a period of fasting and contemplation for Christians all over the world. For many centuries it has been a custom of Christians to receive a mark of the cross in ash upon the forehead as a sign of repentance. As I received this mark of the cross today I was thinking of the 21 Egyptian Christian martyrs. Copts permanently bear the sign of the cross, tattooed on their wrists, as a sign that they will refuse to renounce their beliefs.       http://www.meforum.org/5060/hatred-as-an-article-of-faith

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 Texas Report Shows Terrorists, Cartels Using Mexican Border  

(rickwells.us) - The Texas Department of Public Safety has no reason to sugar-coat the border situation for the Marxists in the White House. As a source for the real situation on the border...we can choose to either believe a report by those who are engaged on their own soil in the fight against foreign invaders or the empty proclamations of the distant regime which is enabling it. A recently leaked report headed Border Surge Report and marked Unclassified/Law Enforcement Sensitive tells the story. The report notes successes that Texas has seen as a result of their increased State-funded operations which fill the vacuum left as a result of DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson’s refusal to allow effective federal border security operations. The report, which reveals much about the border situation, recommends as the “Foremost Priority” the security of the Texas-Mexico border, zone by zone, beginning with the areas of greatest cartel traffic. They recommend a mixture of technology and personnel to accomplish the objective.       http://www.rickwells.us/texas-report-shows-terrorists-cartels-and-gangs-using-mexican-border-as-a-high-speed-super-highway-into-u-s/

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 Trey Gowdy Introduces States’ Rights, Immigration Enforcement Bill  

(rickwells.us) - Rep Trey Gowdy (R-SC) has a solution for the current problem America faces with a lawless “president” who bends the law and rewrites it to his own political ends, at least to the extent that White House criminality is applied in the circumvention of immigration law...He’s authored a bill that contains specific language which prevents the very methods through which the law is currently being violated by the Obama regime. It also allows states the rights which should already be theirs under the Constitution, to defend their own sovereignty and enforce immigration law in the absence of or as a supplement to federal enforcement. The bill, “The Michael Davis, Jr. in Honor of State and Local Law Enforcement Act,” is named after the brave Placer County California Sheriff Deputy Michael Davis, Jr, who was killed in October of last year by a twice deported illegal alien who had returned across the wide-open southern border with Mexico. Oddly, Deputy Davis’ father was a police officer who was also killed in the line of duty, on the same date, exactly 26 years before.       http://www.rickwells.us/trey-gowdy-introduces-states-rights-undo-obama-destruction-and-liberal-idiocy-immigration-enforcement-bill/

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 Arabs: Why is nObama Siding with Supporters of Terrorism?  

(Khaled Abu Toameh) - Many Arabs and Muslims see the meeting between nObama and Qatar's al-Thani as a gift to Qatar for its continued support of Islamic radical groups across the Middle East, including Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip...On the eve of nObama's meeting, Egyptian sources revealed that Qatar was providing weapons and ammunition to members of the Islamic State in Libya. The sources said that 35 Qatari aircraft were involved in transferring munitions. Arab political analysts are also concerned about nObama's ongoing attempts to appease Iran, which continues to expand its presence in Arab countries such as Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon -- as well as in Syria, where it is deeply involved in backing Hezbollah and operating along the border with Israel. A Reuters report revealed that Iran also has hundreds of advisors in Iraq.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5269/terrorism-supporters-Obama

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 Democrat Senator Saw The Incriminating Question Coming  

(rickwells.us) - It seems awfully obvious. The word has gone out among Democrats to use the decision by Judge Hanen to issue an injunction against the lawbreaking of their party and its top leadership as protective cover to hide behind and avoid answering even the most simple questions...The horrific condition of what still is referred to as our government, which is bordering on our overlords, is something that must be addressed. The current situation, in which the supposed representatives of the people have become nothing more than pillaging parasites, pilfering and exploiting their way to personal enrichment and power at the expense of the nation, cannot continue. The Democrats know what they are doing is illegal, in violation of the Constitution and a violation of their oaths of office, otherwise they wouldn’t be trying to conceal their actions. Were they private citizens, the common variety of white collar criminal, they would have already been targeted by the FBI for RICO violations. In this case, the Attorney General is part of the cabal leadership, they their mob criminality continues.       http://www.rickwells.us/she-wasnt-injured-democrat-senator-saw-the-incriminating-question-coming-ducked-just-in-time/

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 Documents: Relationship between bin Laden, al-Qaeda and Iran  

(shoebat.com) - In a stunning development, some of the documents recovered from Osama bin Laden’s compound by Navy SEALS were introduced by federal prosecutors as evidence in the trial of a terrorism suspect...The documents reveal and confirm an actual working relationship between Iran and al-Qaeda. That same memo reveals that Abu Anas al-Libi, a terrorist wanted in connection with the 1998 Kenya / Tanzania bombings who was apprehended by U.S. officials in Libya in 2013, traveled to Pakistan from Iran. While the documents introduced into evidence by the prosecutors don’t indicate collaboration between al-Qaeda and Iran relative to the 9/11 attacks, this new development does indeed bolster the case that there was a relationship.       http://shoebat.com/2015/02/27/explosive-revelation-documents-show-working-relationship-between-osama-bin-laden-al-qaeda-and-iran/

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 Republicans Who Defied backstabber Boehner to Defund nObama  

(conservativetribune.com) - Barack nObama is about to have a very bad day. Over 50 House Republicans just voted to KILL the bill to fund nObama’s DHS because his amnesty plan is illegal and they refuse to sign their names to his unconstitutional acts...This is the stand off we’ve been waiting for. The GOP controls the House AND the Senate, so the idea they should immediately cave and refuse to even negotiate with the president is not only hideous strategy, but is also a rejection of the original purpose of the three branches. Here are the 52 congressmen and congresswomen who have defied both backstabber Boehner and nObama by doing their jobs:       http://conservativetribune.com/house-defies-dhs/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0

Growing Up in California

Burt Prelutsky

 

     (burtprelutsky.com) - Shortly after I turned six, my family left Chicago and moved to L.A. Because even at that age, the smell of wet woolens hanging in the kindergarten cloakroom was already a stench I found as unappealing as my mother’s Friday night special, barley soup, I was happy to move to the land of eternal sunshine.

     In those days, California was the state that was to be the model for America’s future. Its schools were the best, industry was booming, the San Joaquin Valley produced most of the nation’s fruits and vegetables, Hollywood was still a magnet for the most talented people in the world and Republicans were winning most of the statewide elections.

     Over the decades, all of that changed, but it is still a template for much of the nation. The problem now is that the schools are indoctrination centers for the Left; there is no industry; thanks to the environmentalists, the San Joaquin Valley is now the San Joaquin Desert because the water has been cut off from the farmers for the sake of a two-inch inedible fish known as the delta smelt; Hollywood has become a magnet for zombies spewing left-wing talking points; and no Republican can even come close to winning a statewide election.

     On top of all that, we now have about 40 million people, many of them here illegally, tying up traffic, overcrowding schools and jails, and pushing up tax rates.

     The state legislators, 70% of whom are Democrats, naturally believe that feeding and clothing illegal aliens is more important than jailing criminals and has adopted the fishing technique known as catch-and-release. Only instead of releasing fish too small to catch legally, they’re releasing car thieves, drug dealers and child molesters, by simply declaring certain felonies to be misdemeanors.

     In their endless search for ways to decrease the prison population, one fully expects that the next logical step will be to simply decriminalize bank robberies, rapes and homicides.

     • When you see how casually nObama and Hanoi Kerry are carrying on negotiations with Iran, refusing to even threaten increased sanctions as a means to apply pressure, one might assume they don’t see any reason to fear a nuclear Islamic theocracy. Pushed for an explanation, they might argue that nuclear bombs have been with us for a long time and so far nobody has dropped one in anger. And when you realize that among the nations that have nuclear bombs – the U.S., the U.K., Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea – four are vile and one, North Korea, is pathological, they might seem to have a point.

     However, the reason that none of the nine, however sorely tempted, has done so is out of fear. No matter how Kim Jong-un may feel about South Korea, he’s not about to drop the bomb because he doesn’t want to risk having one dropped on his head. In diplomatic circles, it’s called the nuclear deterrent.

     But Iran is a whole different can of worms. Its leaders are as crazy as Kim Jong-un, but it’s a different sort of crazy. Kim Jong-un wants to continue living, if only to keep having Dennis Rodman over to talk basketball. But as we’ve seen after decades of suicide bombings, including 9/11, Islam is not a religion whose practitioners place a great deal of value on life -- their own or anyone else’s.

     Perhaps because nObama and Hanoi Kerry never had reason to learn that you don’t bring a knife to a gun fight, they don’t understand that you never let the guy who doesn’t mind dying for his religion, get his hands on a nuclear bomb. As policy, the rule in such a case is that you nuke him first and send a condolence card later.

     • Because Scott Walker not only stood up to the unions in Wisconsin, but has sprinted to the lead in a great many polls, the Democrats have already begun attacking him. But if the attacks are going to gain any traction with most Americans, they’ll have to do better than point out, as they recently did, that he dropped out of Marquette University before graduating and that his worst subject was French. For some of us, those are two additional reasons to vote for the guy.

     • Sometimes even I am taken aback at the stupidity of liberals. For instance, how is it that so many of them continue to promote socialism as a way of life? I mean, if it was merely a theory, I can see how it might appeal to some. However, we have not only seen how it inevitably morphs into communism, but we have seen the ugly results in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Cambodia and Cuba. Even in places that started out with socialism, such as China and Israel, the leaders eventually saw the error of their ways and converted to capitalism.

     But, then, leftists simply aren’t very bright. Otherwise, they would have asked themselves just how was it possible to provide health care for 40 million uninsured Americans and still manage to save the average family $2,500.

     • Because I take baseball more seriously than I take a great many other things, I was disgusted when I found out that the Little League baseball team from Chicago had cheated its way to the national title by using out of the district ringers on the team. Furthermore, the fact that the team was named after the great and courageous Jackie Robinson made it even more shameful.

     But, as often happens when politicians and the media get involved with any story, it only got worse. I was hearing TV news people and Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel spinning the story as only they can. The conclusion they came to was that the coaches should have been punished, but it was wrong to take the title away from the kids because they had done nothing wrong.

     Of course they had. They had stolen the thrill of honest victory from the teams they had defeated. I can assure you that every single kid was aware of the fact there were players on their team who had no business being there. They knew they had cheated in order to win, and they were just fine with it.

     Then, compounding the problem, instead of being chastised for cheating, the grown-ups, including their parents, essentially told them that their only mistake was getting caught. But, then, that’s the same message that San Francisco Giants fans sent Barry Bonds when they cheered him for breaking home records they knew were tainted, and just as fans of the Cubs, Cardinals and Yankees, did when they rooted for Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Alex Rodriguez.

     • Finally, when I heard that without warning, Jon Stewart suddenly announced he was leaving his show, my initial thought was that the man who had been born Jonathan Leibowitz had belatedly come to his senses, and decided that he could no longer, in good conscience, spend his life ridiculing conservatives.

     But after thinking about it, I realized that he would be leaving his show at Comedy Central at just about the same time that Brian Williams would be ending his six month suspension at NBC. Wouldn’t it make sense that Williams, who regards himself as a born comedian, and Stewart, who takes himself very seriously as a political pundit, would simply swap jobs?

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