How to save California

Sup doods? Kay, check it. If I were Governor and wanted to save the state of California, this is the steps I would take to do it before Brown comes in and turns California in the hell it will become.

1. Declare insolvency.

I would stand up and just declare the whole state insolvent, meaning we declare Federal bankruptcy, dig? What effect would this have? For one, it would destroy the state economically. Tragic for most, but at the same time it instantly invalidates Union contracts, social programs, and everything that’s causing the state to lose so much money, dig? It also dissolves the Legislature. In a nutshell, it would turn the state of California into simply a United States territory. That would leave the state open to be purchased by another state like Nevada or, hopefully, Arizona.

In order to avoid this I would sit with the Unions and say kay doods, we cut spending for the Unions 15% across the board, including benefits and salaries, or I declare the state insolvent and nullify all the contracts entirely leaving every single Union worker without a source of income or benefits. What do you want to do? The same with the Legislature, right? We cut spending and social programs by 15% or the state goes bankrupt and the social programs come to an abrupt stop. What do you want to do?

2. Immediately affirm our bond holdings.

Affirming the bond holdings for the state of California would ensure that out of state investments would continue. This is basic economics. If you don’t affirm your bonds once you declare total insolvency, nobody would ever invest in the state again, right? No banks, no private investors, nobody. But check it, with the bond affirmation you ensure that the state would consider to be credited and show a positive return. That would entice investors and businesses back into the state.

The outcome would be a fiscal detonation, sure. But, check it. There would be a massive emigration of illegals. No jobs, no social programs, no damn handouts. Sux to be them. There’s 4 billion dollars in state funds saved right off the bat, which becomes credit for your affirmed bond holdings. Then, California gets reborn. The surrounding states of like Arizona, Oregon, and Nevada begin pouring investments into the state. A new legislature is voted in and hopefully, but unlikely, the new Legislature would be Conservative. If we’re bought by another state, then that state’s legislature becomes our state legislature, right?

Then maybe, just maybe, California could truly be the Golden State again, instead of being the state of TaxiMexifornia.

Pax

An open letter to veterans

Dear Veterans,

Whether you served in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan; thank you.

Thank you for your courage and for being a hero. Thanx for standing up and defending the policies and institutions that have made our United States the greatest nation on earth, right? Most of all, thank you for putting yourself in the line of fire so that I and my babies can go to bed every night knowing that we are safe, protected, and cared for.

I wasn’t born in the United States. I was born in Thessaloniki, Greece; and came over with my parents when I was seven years old. My mother and my father waited three years in Greece for permission for the United States government to give them permission to come over. When they got here, they waited another eight years to receive their citizenship. For eleven years, my parents raved about the United States, dig? They dreamed the American dream of prosperity, and freedom, and rights they didn’t have in Greece. Most of all, they honored the United States military because unlike Greece military enlistment isn’t mandatory. It’s voluntary, and my parents had the utmost respect for the men and women that would willingly fight and die to preserve their nation. It was that courage that inspired my dad for the rest of his life. It’s that courage that inspires me.

If I were to like be totally honest, I’m not as brave as you are. I couldn’t enlist. I’d be too terrified. I’m afraid to fight, and I’m afraid to die. But you, you are willing to take me in your arms and say it’s ok Alexandra, I’ll go fight for you and die for you if I have to. You say to me Alexandra, that’s what my nation was founded on. I’ll go fight and die so that you don’t have to.

How do you thank someone for that?

I can’t imagine the horrors you have seen. I can’t imagine the pain you must have felt for seeing your friends cut down all around you. I can’t imagine the nightmares you must have, right? You did all that, all of it, so that I and my friends, my family, and my babies can go through our lives untouched by the evil that lurks, dominates, and in some cases controls other countries. We get up, we play, we work, we eat, and we sleep without even thinking that our safety and our freedom is entirely because of your bravery and heroism, and like entirely because of your selflessness.

So to you, the defenders and protectors of freedom for everyone around the world, thank you. Thank you very much. I owe you everything. We all owe you everything.

Pax

Obama and the Nation of Islam

Kay doods, check it. Here’s portions of Obama’s speech in the Middle-East, which he threw out in Cairo, Egypt, titled "A New Beginning."

The italics are his, the normal typeface is mine.

“We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world - tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.”

So, in his second paragraph of the speech this man, the leader of the Free World and the most powerful man in the world, the President of the United States says that Islam is not the problem. America is the problem. Our President once again condemns The United States as being the evil of the world and the cause of the hostility between the West and Satanic evil.

“I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles - principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”

Tolerance and dignity for all human beings. What about the Fort Hood massacre, Mr. President? What about girls in the Middle-East being set on fire for going to school, Mr. President? What about women being stoned to death for saying no to their husbands, Mr. President? How about the Muslim Somalia gang taking prepubescent girls as sex slaves as a ‘cultural privilege’ in Minnesota, Mr. President? What about three thousand Americans dying on September 11^th, Mr. President? Tolerance and dignity for all human beings. Are you really that much of an idiot, Mr. President?

“I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America's story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, "The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims." And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, served in government, stood for civil rights, started businesses, taught at our Universities, excelled in our sports arenas, won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers - Thomas Jefferson - kept in his personal library.”

What about everything that America has done for Muslim nations? Are you too ashamed to mention us fighting in their wars? Defending their borders from foreign invasion, as in the Gulf War? Will you mention, Mr. President, how we pour billions into their economies, treat their sick with our medicines, feed their hungry, and send aid and assistance in time of calamity? Or does any of that matter, Mr. President?

You can't compromise with evil, doods. You can’t negotiate with evil. Ours is a nation under constant attack from the Nation of Islam, not just from extremists from all levels of the community. If we don’t allow a mosque at ground zero we are anti-Muslim. If we tell Muslim women that by law they can’t wear hajib’s out in public we are anti-Muslim. If we refuse to allow Muslims to pray in school we are anti-Muslim. If we exist as a nation that was founded on Christian beliefs and values we are anti-Muslim. I swear and I promise to be anti-Muslim for the rest of my life, which may be short when these Muslims who believe in tolerance and dignity for all human beings murder me for denouncing the evil religion of Islam, right?

Pax

Will you never learn, California?

Liberals today, and their union flunkies, are celebrating victories of Liberal candidates across the nation today. This makes me laugh, because we already know from news reports that Reid and Pelosi were committing voter fraud. It must be nice to have unions that program the machines to automatically check your name regardless of who is actually being voted for. Ha.

So. California has gone Liberal once again. You peeps totally had the opportunity to rework the state. You peeps complain about and get enraged about high taxes, businesses and jobs being destroyed, and illegal immigration. What did you do? You voted back into power a Senator that fights for those very things, and a Governor that has promised to enact legislation that will increases taxes across the board, introduce environmental legislation that will cost the state a million jobs, and promises to make it easier for illegals to enter and live in the state.

Are we all stupid?

Let's look at Boxer first. In 28 years in being in the Senate she's introduced one bill. One. Other than that she has done nothing but vote right down party lines. She voted yes for Obamacare, she voted yes for cap and trade, she voted yes for amnesty. She voted no for legislation that would decrease the tax burden on the California citizen. She voted yes for legislation that increases the tax burden. And you peeps put her back in power.* I just don't understand you.

Now, Brown. Brown openly promised to sign into legislation an environmental protection act that will cost the state one million jobs, increase the taxes of gasoline and other fuels, penalize smog emissions, and penalize individuals that don't buy 'carbon tax credits' whatever the fuck those are. He has promised drivers licenses for illegals, and he has promised to increase taxes in order to balance the state budget without decreasing spending. You peeps seriously voted for this guy on the basis that Meg Whitman couldn't change Federal Law and make her felonious housekeeper a citizen? Really? The fuck is wrong with you people?

All I can say to all of you peeps is that you no longer have the right to bitch. You made your voice heard, you voted for higher taxes, job killing bills, and surrender to illegal immigration. That's your choice, sit in it. Sucks to be you.

Pax

*source: Project Vote Smart

The voice of Conservatism

Doods. Read the following speech. It epitomizes not only Conservative values but also reflects the current state of our nation's affairs. This speech was given in 1981 by an newly elected President by the name of Ronald Reagan, dig?

January 20, 1981

Senator Hatfield, Mr. Chief Justice, Mr. President, Vice President Bush, Vice President Mondale, Senator Baker, Speaker O'Neill, Reverend Moomaw, and my fellow citizens: To a few of us here today, this is a solemn and most momentous occasion; and yet, in the history of our nation, it is a commonplace occurrence. The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every-4-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.

Mr. President, I want our fellow citizens to know how much you did to carry on this tradition. By your gracious cooperation in the transition process, you have shown a watching world that we are a united people pledged to maintaining a political system which guarantees individual liberty to a greater degree than any other, and I thank you and your people for all your help in maintaining the continuity which is the bulwark of our Republic.

The business of our nation goes forward. These United States are confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions. We suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained inflations in our national history. It distorts our economic decisions, penalizes thrift, and crushes the struggling young and the fixed-income elderly alike. It threatens to shatter the lives of millions of our people.

Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, causing human misery and personal indignity. Those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity.

But great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public spending. For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals.

You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?

We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow. And let there be no misunderstanding--we are going to begin to act, beginning today.

The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we, as Americans, have the capacity now, as we have had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem.

From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.

We hear much of special interest groups. Our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and our factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we are sick--professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, "We the people," this breed called Americans.

Well, this administration's objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy that provides equal opportunity for all Americans, with no barriers born of bigotry or discrimination. Putting America back to work means putting all Americans back to work. Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. All must share in the productive work of this "new beginning" and all must share in the bounty of a revived economy. With the idealism and fair play which are the core of our system and our strength, we can have a strong and prosperous America at peace with itself and the world.

So, as we begin, let us take inventory. We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.

It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the Federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government.

Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it is not my intention to do away with government. It is, rather, to make it work--work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.

If we look to the answer as to why, for so many years, we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on Earth, it was because here, in this land, we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on Earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price.

It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government. It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We are not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. So, with all the creative energy at our command, let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination, our courage, and our strength. And let us renew our faith and our hope.

We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don't know where to look. You can see heroes every day going in and out of factory gates. Others, a handful in number, produce enough food to feed all of us and then the world beyond. You meet heroes across a counter--and they are on both sides of that counter. There are entrepreneurs with faith in themselves and faith in an idea who create new jobs, new wealth and opportunity. They are individuals and families whose taxes support the government and whose voluntary gifts support church, charity, culture, art, and education. Their patriotism is quiet but deep. Their values sustain our national life.

I have used the words "they" and "their" in speaking of these heroes. I could say "you" and "your" because I am addressing the heroes of whom I speak--you, the citizens of this blessed land. Your dreams, your hopes, your goals are going to be the dreams, the hopes, and the goals of this administration, so help me God.

We shall reflect the compassion that is so much a part of your makeup. How can we love our country and not love our countrymen, and loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they are sick, and provide opportunities to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?

Can we solve the problems confronting us? Well, the answer is an unequivocal and emphatic "yes." To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

In the days ahead I will propose removing the roadblocks that have slowed our economy and reduced productivity. Steps will be taken aimed at restoring the balance between the various levels of government. Progress may be slow--measured in inches and feet, not miles--but we will progress. It is time to reawaken this industrial giant, to get government back within its means, and to lighten our punitive tax burden. And these will be our first priorities, and on these principles, there will be no compromise.

On the eve of our struggle for independence a man who might have been one of the greatest among the Founding Fathers, Dr. Joseph Warren, President of the Massachusetts Congress, said to his fellow Americans, "Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of.... On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important questions upon which rests the happiness and the liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves."

Well, I believe we, the Americans of today, are ready to act worthy of ourselves, ready to do what must be done to ensure happiness and liberty for ourselves, our children and our children's children.

And as we renew ourselves here in our own land, we will be seen as having greater strength throughout the world. We will again be the exemplar of freedom and a beacon of hope for those who do not now have freedom.

To those neighbors and allies who share our freedom, we will strengthen our historic ties and assure them of our support and firm commitment. We will match loyalty with loyalty. We will strive for mutually beneficial relations. We will not use our friendship to impose on their sovereignty, for our own sovereignty is not for sale.

As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; we will not surrender for it--now or ever.

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act. We will maintain sufficient strength to prevail if need be, knowing that if we do so we have the best chance of never having to use that strength.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors.

I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day, and for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each Inauguration Day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.

This is the first time in history that this ceremony has been held, as you have been told, on this West Front of the Capitol. Standing here, one faces a magnificent vista, opening up on this city's special beauty and history. At the end of this open mall are those shrines to the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

Directly in front of me, the monument to a monumental man: George Washington, father of our country. A man of humility who came to greatness reluctantly. He led America out of revolutionary victory into infant nationhood. Off to one side, the stately memorial to Thomas Jefferson. The Declaration of Independence flames with his eloquence.

And then beyond the Reflecting Pool the dignified columns of the Lincoln Memorial. Whoever would understand in his heart the meaning of America will find it in the life of Abraham Lincoln.

Beyond those monuments to heroism is the Potomac River, and on the far shore the sloping hills of Arlington National Cemetery with its row on row of simple white markers bearing crosses or Stars of David. They add up to only a tiny fraction of the price that has been paid for our freedom.

Each one of those markers is a monument to the kinds of hero I spoke of earlier. Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam.

Under one such marker lies a young man--Martin Treptow--who left his job in a small town barbershop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division. There, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire.

We are told that on his body was found a diary. On the flyleaf under the heading, "My Pledge," he had written these words: "America must win this war. Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone."

The crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that Martin Treptow and so many thousands of others were called upon to make. It does require, however, our best effort, and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds; to believe that together, with God's help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us.

And, after all, why shouldn't we believe that? We are Americans. God bless you, and thank you.