The Illogic of Democrat Ebola Logic

Healthcare professionals who are compassionate enough to travel halfway around the world, live in 3rd world conditions and risk their own lives to work with Ebola patients will be discouraged from doing that in the future by a 21-day quarantine requirement? Do Democrats really think that makes sense?

You have to be in direct contact with someone infected with Ebola to contract the disease, right? So healthcare workers who will be up to their elbows, so-to-speak, in the blood, vomit, and feces of infected patients, don't need to be quarantined but our military personnel who won't be in direct contact with infected patients do? What???

Requiring a 21-day quarantine for healthcare worker returning after treating Ebola patients in west Africa, would be disrespectful to them but it isn't disrespectful to our returning troops. Really?

Calling for travel restrictions to affected countries and quarantines for those coming from those countries is anti-science, right? It is also implied that it is racist. So I guess all these countries and organizations are backward, racist, anti-science types.  
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Chad
Côte d'Ivoire 
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon 
Gambia 
Kenya 
Mauritania
Mauritius 
Namibia
Nigeria
Rwanda 
Senegal 
Seychelles
Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states – Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe South Africa on 21 August restricted entry for all non-citizens travelling from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The government subsequently clarified that this was not a blanket ban and could be waived for 'absolutely essential travel'.
South Sudan 
Antigua and Barbuda
Belize
Colombia
The Dominican Republic  
Guyana
Haiti
Jamaica
Panama
St Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
St Maarten
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
North Korea
Australia 
Air France
The Togo-based carrier Asky Airlines
Arik Air (Nigeria)
Gambia Bird
Kenya Airways  
British Airways  
Emirates Airlines  
Korean Air
Senegal Airlines
Royal Air Maroc 
Brussels Airlines.
Racist, anti-science bastards ALL!

Appointing lawyer, non-doctor and political fixer, Ron Klain, as Ebola Czar makes perfect sense, right? By the way, has anyone seen him lately? He hasn't been to any of the meetings.

Democrat Open Border Policy Pushes Black to Back of the Bus

I have never been able to understand why the overwhelming majority of African Americans support the Democrat Party. After all, this is the party of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow laws, a welfare system that has systematically destroyed the black family and abortion on demand that has resulted in the alarming statistic that today 50% of black pregnancies end in abortion. These last two issues have been the most insidious.

In 1965 when President Johnson outlined his "Great Society", only about 24% of African American children were born out of wedlock. Today, that number is more than 70%. According to the US Census Bureau, the African American population was 10.5% of the US total in 1960. Today it is only 13%. During the same period, the birth rate for African Americans plummeted from 4.2 births per women to only 2 births per women. The high rate of abortion among black women is obviously a major contributing factor. In fact, the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, often said in her writings that two of the main goals of birth control are weeding undesirables from the population and eradicating the Negro race. It is obvious that Democrat welfare and abortion policies have had a particularly deleterious effect on America's black citizens. Although not eradicated, the African American population in America has suffered under Democrat policies.

The Democrats' most recent scheme to keep African Americans at the bottom of the principle minority groups in the U.S. is their open borders policies and the attempt to legalize millions of illegal aliens. Since they take their African American constituents for granted, they are going to buy the Latino vote and American Blacks will be the ones who pay the bill. Blacks will still be 13% of our population and Hispanics will suddenly be more than 20%.

When I was in high school, I worked as a laborer in construction during the summer. There were a few other white high school kids and the rest African Americans.  Today, if you walk past a construction site, you won't see any white or black laborers. They have all been replaced by Hispanics. That would be fine if white youth and African American workers were finding other employment and the Latinos were working here legally. However, that simply isn't the case.

After the mid-term election, President Obama has vowed to grant amnesty to millions of illegals - the majority of them from Mexico and Central America. What the president will in essence be saying is, "Rosa get on to the back of the bus. Jose gets your seat!"

The Next Facebook Name Game

We've all seen them - the "What is your _______ name?" game on Facebook. You know, "What is your old lady name?", "What is your gangster name?", "What is your superhero name?" or whatever. You take the name from one list based on the month you were born and the second name from a second list based on the day you were born.  If our leaders in the West don't dislodge their collective heads from the tight, dark, fetid, place where they have them wedged, we better all be thinking about "What is your Islamic name?" which we will have to take when we are forced to convert. These ISIS devils are serious evil incarnate and they mean business. We are all at risk. Christians will be forced to convert or die. Moderate Western Muslims need not worry. No, not because you are already Muslims. No, you don't need to worry because you won't be around. What? Yes that's right. You will be some of the first to be killed because the Islamists will label you not Muslim enough, or decide you are from the wrong branch of Islam, or a Zionist collaborator, or some other trumped up excuse. Why? Because that's what tyrants do! And if you are Jewish? Well you know you needn't bother either. It's always the same story for you, right? Dangerous days are ahead for the civilized world - Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Atheist, Druid, Pagan, Cult of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or whatever, unless we wake ourselves from our politically correct slumber/stupor!

Thought on the Border Crisis

So according to the Left, the current border crisis is the result of the poverty, drugs, and gang violence in Honduras and Guatemala. Things are so bad that parents are willing to spend thousands of dollars to have coyotes (human traffickers) take their children unaccompanied, hundreds of miles, across dangerous terrain, on the top of the "Death Train" where they are dumped off by themselves on our southern border. So why aren't the parents from south Chicago loading up their kids and sending them to safety? Do Honduran parents love their children more than the parents in south Chicago? Are Guatemalan parents smarter than Chicagoan parents? Maybe the parents of kids from south Chicago should load up a bus with their children and send them to let's say Bethesda, MD and then have them just dumped off. They could create a crisis there and demand the good, caring residents of Bethesda house, clothe, and feed their kids. Or maybe they could send them to Honduras or Guatemala. I'd be willing to bet there was less murder and mayhem there last weekend than on the South Side!

Your thoughts are invited.

A Few Thoughts on Sgt Bergdahl Situation

1. As a policy, the US military doesn't try to apprehend AWOL service members or those who desert yet we tried to find Bergdahl who seemingly was either a deserter or AWOL - there is a disconnect here. 2. With all the evidence that he willingly left his post, the news media compulsively questions the honor of the soldiers who did their duty but who are critical of Bergdahl. They also speculate about the leadership of Bergdahl's commanders without any hint of there being a problem. 3. Susan Rice says Bergdahl served with honor and distinction. Really? He left his guard duty post endangering his fellow soldiers. He willingly sought out the enemy. The enemy's effectiveness suddenly increased after Bergdahl disappeared. Coincidence? Maybe. Who did he served with honor and distinction? Certainly not the US! 4. Two of the Taliban prisoner released were accused of crimes against humanity by the UN for killing thousands of people. Do you think the media would let a Republican president get away with that? 5. If Osama bin Laden had been taken to GITMO rather that turned into fish food, would the Obama administration have traded him as one of those returned for Bergdahl? Think about it. Honestly think about it you liberals out there!!! 6. This administration couldn't even track the guns they illegally sold to Mexican drug cartels in the Fast and Furious fiasco. Do you really think they can track those 5 released terrorists? 7. The Taliban immediately released a statement saying they would make abducting Americans to use as bargaining chips for other prisoners a priority. Surprise!!!! 8. The story about why the trade was made, in typical Obama administration fashion, seemed to change every other minute. All parents recognize this as an indication of lying. These are just a few thoughts. I could go one but why bother. This scandal has already been replaced by another.

Underserved High Self-esteem + Reality = Elliot Roger

Once again we have had a young man who has gone on a murder spree. Unlike our dishonest media, I say murder spree instead of shooting spree because Elliot Roger killed some of his victims with handguns but he killed an equal number with a machete and attempted to kill still others with his expensive European sports sedan. The media won't tell you this because they have an agenda but that is another discussion. For now, I'd like to propose what is wrong with our society that causes young men in their teens and early twenties to go on these murderous rampages. This was nearly unheard of 40 years ago when I was a young man and guns were just as plentiful then if not more so. What has changed? I blame the shift in American parenting techniques. Over the last 40 years, prompted by PhDs in psychology, sociology, education, etc. Americans have stopped allowing their children to fail, prevented them from competing, kept them from doing anything that might end up causing them to scrapping their precious little knees, placed developing their children's self-esteem above achievement, prevented any and all playground scuffles, and stopped spanking their kids when they do something wrong. It is easy to tell your child, regardless of what they do, how wonderful and special they are but that is the lazy, easy way of being a parent. Never having to deal with a child who is disappointed because their team lost; telling your child that it is unacceptable to get poor grades instead of worrying about boosting their self-esteem; avoiding ever having to put Merthiolate and a band aid on a cut or scrape or ice on a bruise, and avoiding the guilty feeling after giving them a well-deserved swat on the butt when they misbehaved is laziness on the part of American parents. Moreover, it is neglect and it is costing us dearly. Our children are unable to deal with reality. They never learn to deal with disappointment in a responsible way. They never learn to empathize with others especially when it comes to someone else's pain because they have never experienced even the most minor of injuries or corporal punishment. Bullying is now an epidemic because those being bullied are never allowed to give their tormentors the bloody nose they deserve and as a result, bullies continue abusing others. Life doesn't give us timeouts. Conflict resolutions techniques might be fine for John Kerry but they don't work with children because they aren't intellectually or emotionally equipped to approach problems that way. Children need to learn how to vent their frustrations in a controlled manner. They need to learn the world isn't going to end because they struck out and that the sun will rise in the east tomorrow even though they got a couple less Valentine's Day cards than some of the other kids. Elliot Roger needed to be told by the other kids in grade school that he was kind of a creep and maybe by the time he got into high school, he would have started acting appropriately. Today parents treat their children like little adults - they are not! Childhood is an incremental process to prepare kids to be adults. It is when disappointments can occur; mistakes can be made, and failures can happen but without severe consequences. It is a time to learn how to deal with setbacks and persevere and build self-esteem through success as a result of hard work not from being told, regardless of our lack of achievement, how wonderful we are. With all the newfangled child-rearing techniques, our kids are reaching adulthood ill-prepared for the harsh realities of being a grown-up. When they face their first real-life, major set-back like being fired, being rejected by a member of the opposite sex, not getting all A's, their Starbucks order isn't right or whatever, they snap. Today we teach our kids that anything that goes wrong is someone else's fault and none of their own. Unearned, undeserved high self-esteem plus reality equals Elliot Roger and Adam Lanza and James Holmes and Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold...It's easy for American parents to blame guns for all the violence - especially when it is the parents' fault.

Do Nothing House or Do Nothing Senate? You Decide!

Amid the growing Veterans Administration scandal where allegedly veterans were placed on secret waiting lists and at least 40 reportedly died before receiving treatment, the highly partisan, do nothing, obstructionist, Republican-lead House of Representatives (paraphrasing President Obama here) passed a bill 390-33 to give the Secretary of Veterans Affairs the power to fire anyone found responsible for gross violations. Perhaps something like, oh I don't know, creating secret waiting lists to get the number of those awaiting treatment down in order to meet department goals and receive bonuses? The bill was passed yesterday with both Democrat and Republican support. It was only 3 pages long but when it went to the US Senate, it was immediately tabled. The Senate didn't have the time. Understandably, Senators are very busy and have many issues competing for their time so they have to use their judgement to prioritize what they act on. So what was a higher priority for the US Senate than fixing the Veterans health care crisis? Well for 50 of the 100 Senators (all Democrats), it was writing a letter to the NFL urging them to force Washington Redskins owner, Dan Snyder, to change the name of his football team. Keep in mind, Congress has no say or responsibility for dealings with a private business like the Redskins. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and a self-proclaimed socialist who caucuses with the Democrats, explained that they didn't have time to hold hearings or read the bill - the 3 page bill! That didn't stop them from passing the Affordable Care Act without reading it. So have the Democrats learned their lesson or are their priorities just out of whack or both? I'll leave it to the reader to decide for themselves. I think you can guess my position. In the meantime, perhaps some money should be invested in Evelyn Wood Speed Reading courses for all the Senate Democrats so they can get through those pesky 3-page Republican bills coming from the House. But that's just me!