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SEPTEMBER 26,  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

SOMETHING ELSE THAT WILL MAKE BIDEN POPULAR – FROM GATEWAY PUNDIT:  Christian children in California aren’t allowed to pray in schools, but Muslim refugees are given halal food and provided prayer rooms.  California schools in Sacramento are preparing for a huge influx of Afghan refugee students.  Joe Biden purposely turned Afghanistan over to the Taliban and packed evacuation planes with tens of thousands of unvetted Afghans and flew them to the US.  The Afghans are being dispersed all over the country and California agreed to take in at least 5,000 refugees.  The majority of Afghans being brought to California will live in Fremont and Sacramento.  The San Juan Unified School District where more than half the population is Afghan, hired a team (with the help of state grants) to help with the influx of refugees.  Elk Grove Unified School District is preparing halal food and providing prayer rooms during Muslim holidays.  No disrespect meant to Muslims at all, but shouldn't children of all faiths be given such sensitive consideration? 

COMMON SENSE – FROM DAILY CALLER:   Former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said Saturday that President Joe Biden “needs to apologize to the American people” for falsely accusing border patrol agents of “strapping” illegal immigrants from Haiti.  “I consider Joe Biden a friend. But he’s absolutely wrong and he needs to apologize to the American people for saying what he said,” Gabbard told Fox News’s 'Watters’ World.' “And here’s why. He’s somebody who’s been very outspoken about being against autocrats and dictators. But what he essentially did was act as judge, jury and executioner for these customs and border patrol agents on horseback,” the former Democratic presidential candidate continued.  “How can they expect to have a fair outcome to an investigation when the president of the United States has already declared their guilt and that they will be punished,” Gabbard said, noting that if America is no longer a country of laws where people are presumed innocent until proven guilty, then “we don’t have a democracy. And that’s an increasing feeling a lot of us have is we’re losing our democracy and moving closer and closer to what is essentially is an autocracy.”  I wish other Democrats would speak out like this, but they're frightened.  The Democratic Party is turning into a typical socialist institution, with an official party line.

September 26, 2021       Permalink

OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT – OVERNIGHT:  This is starting to  look like the old Soviet Union.  All we need is a Gulag, and everything will be complete:  From bizpacreview.com: 

The Biden administration’s purge of appointees to various government advisory boards by prior presidents — mostly Republicans — is continuing with the dismissal of country music great Lee Greenwood from the National Council on the Arts.

During an interview last week with “Fox & Friends,” Greenwood explained that he was initially appointed to the board by President George W. Bush then served throughout President Barack Obama’s two terms and President Donald Trump’s single term, adding he was shocked to get the letter advising him he was being replaced.

Greenwood, who wrote the country anthem “God Bless the USA,” which was a favorite of the late President Ronald Reagan and has become a fixture at Trump’s rallies, suspects that politics may be behind the decision to remove him from the arts council.

“As you know, [Trump] used my song…which is unilateral for me — it’s meant for all people, not just for a particular political party,” Greenwood explained. “So here’re we now now under the Biden administration, and he’s cleaned house. And finally, he’s fired a patriot.

“I was quite shocked, to tell you the truth. I didn’t get a phone call or letter, it was just an email,” Greenwood, who released his ‘USA’ anthem in 1984, added.

Co-host Ainsley Earhardt noted that during his campaign and after he was elected, President Joe Biden said he wanted to “unite the country,” adding that Greenwood’s song “united us during” the Sept. 1, 2001, terrorist attacks “and has ever since.”

“I would like to think that it is,” the award-winning country artist responded. “I have to tell you in all of our shows, I don’t care where they are, we always honor our veterans. And I want to particularly point out that fact.”

He went on to say that he has a show coming up Oct. 12 in Huntsville, Ala. and that he has “set aside a block of tickets” for veterans and “caregivers” to attend, which he says he does at most events.

“This is very special. It’s a television production,” he said. “It’s gonna be star-studded with 40 different” performers, he added, noting that people can “adopt a vet” at his website ahead of the show, LeeGreenwood.com.

Greenwood is just the latest advisory board casualty replaced by the Biden administration.
Former Trump White House spokesman Sean Spicer was fired from a military advisory board along with several others appointed by the former president; Spicer lashed out at current White House press secretary Jen Psaki after she questioned the Naval Reserve officer’s qualifications.

“Don’t you dare ever minimize or question my service to this nation. You got it?” the Newsmax TV host railed on his show earlier this month. “This move has taken partisanship to a new level.”

“I’m a proud graduate of the U.S. Naval War College. I’ve done multiple tours, and politics has never entered into my service. I’ve served under five different presidents of both parties. When you’re wearing the uniform, you serve the commander in chief. We take an oath as officers to the Constitution, not to a party,” Spicer added.

COMMENT:  I will add one comment about the Biden administration:  No class.

September 26, 2021       Permalink

SEPTEMBER 25,  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

THE MIDEAST IS CHANGING – FROM TIMES OF ISRAEL:    In an unprecedented plea for regional reconciliation, over 300 prominent Iraqis called for their country to normalize ties with Israel on Friday night.
“We demand full diplomatic relations with the State of Israel…and a new policy of normalization based on people-to-people relations with the citizens of that country,” said Wissam al-Hardan, who commanded Sunni tribal militias that aligned with the United States to fight al-Qaeda in 2005 in response to the power vacuum that followed the 2003 American invasion.  Iraq has officially been at war with Israel since the Jewish state was founded in 1948. Iraqi soldiers have fought in three successive Arab wars against Israel. Saddam Hussein’s secret nuclear weapons program alarmed Israel, which ultimately destroyed the Osirak reactor in Iraq in 1981, and in 1991, the Iraqi dictator fired dozens of Scud missiles at Tel Aviv and Haifa in an attempt to draw Israel into the Gulf War.  At Friday’s conference in the Kurdistan region, Iraqi participants called on their country’s leaders to end the state of war and join the so-called Abraham Accords. The agreements, formulated by the administration of former US President Donald Trump, were signed on the White House lawn in September 2020 between Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Morocco and Sudan signed normalization agreements with Israel in the ensuing months.  This is a major advance, and a tribute to the diplomacy of the Trump administration, which initiated the Abraham accords.  Compare please with the anti-Israel lunacy of the left wing of the Democratic Party.  No mention of peace.  No mention of the Abraham Accords.  Only relentless assaults on Israel.  These radicals are from a different time, and history has passed them by.

September 25, 2021       Permalink 

NEWSOM IS BACK TO OLDSOM – OVERNIGHT:  The governor, fresh from his recent defeat of an attempt to recall him, apparently learned nothing from the experience.  From Fox: 

Reform California" chairman Carl DeMaio on Saturday criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom's signing of a bill that allows some illegal immigrants to serve on county central committees -- one of a number of bills signed to benefit those who entered the country illegally.

"These bills are not just symbolic wokeness, this is a fundamental redefinition of who gets to be elected to office in California, and they're starting small but this is absolutely the first step," DeMaio told Fox News.

The bill, was one of a number of bills that Newsom’s office described as "expanding the state’s humane immigration policies by protections and support for immigrants" and included a law ending the use of "alien" to describe non-citizens.

Included was a bill that amends California election code to allow what Newsom's office described as "aspiring citizens" to be appointed and elected members in a county central committee. Proponents have specifically mentioned "DREAMers" or recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) -- which protected illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children from deportation.

The bill says it will "permit a person who is not a United States citizen, but who would be eligible to register to vote if the person were a United States citizen, to serve as a member of the committee."
Those committees are governing bodies of county parties and involves budgetary matters and other business at county level for those parties.

"This is a election that's on the official ballot that every voter receives, so illegal immigrants' names will be printed on ballots with all the other offices, all the way from president to school board," DeMaio said.

COMMENT:  The concept of "citizenship" is turned upside down.   Citizenship should be an aspiration, earned through time and lawful effort.  This new Newsom initiative strikes me as still another attempt to build the rolls of the Democratic Party, and it might well succeed.

September 25,  2021     Permalink