Super Bowl, & Land Of Opportunity

I have to admit that Super Bowl LI was exciting. This was the first time in ten years that I watched. I must admit, however, that I didn’t see the entire game. Atlanta was winning 21-0 when I tuned in. I watched the half-time shows and then kept watching to see if the Pats would come back. I felt certain that if they could score quickly in the second half they would win. I saw the Pats score one touchdown. That’s about the time I noticed my wife Peg beginning to fall asleep in the wheelchair.I turned the tv on mute and we put peg to bed. It has been my habit to hold her hand and to say my prayers while she falls asleep. This can take anywhere from fifteen minutes to forty-five minutes.  The idea of living with regrets doesn’t appeal to me, so I made myself follow the ritual even though the game was not over.

I finished my prayers, Peg was fast asleep and I covered her with a second blanket then dressed down into my PJs. I emerged from the BR to see the score was at 28-28. Oh well. I watched the overtime and thought the Pat’s deserve the win for such a remarkable comeback. They are certainly a model for positive thinking and that it ain’t over till it’s over attitude.

Everyone always remarks about the fabulous commercials during the Super Bowl. I want to comment on two that stood out. The first was a picture story about a mother and daughter from a Central American country who leave home to find a better life. The story ends too soon with a message to go to the sponsors website for the conclusion. Someday, I may do that. There is no doubt that this mother-daughter team prevailed some awful hardships to make it to America. I was near tears watching them overcome the hardships of their journey. The message was they are willing to undergo tremendous hardship to get to the land of opportunity, except for one thing, they didn’t bother to get a proper entry VISA. I’m sure no one ever told them they needed such a document, but someone else must have told them to just walk in because America’s doors are wide open.

The second commercial was also about immigration. This one involves a young man with big dreams and proper credentials who journeys from Germany to Saint Louis, Missouri. There, he meets a fellow immigrant and the two of them team up to form the Anheuser-Busch brewery. The immigrant is not well accepted in this story. He is different, and people tell him so, but he overcomes the hardships and he prevails. His story is not different than those of my father and the many immigrants I lived with growing up. My dad was called  Hunky, others were called Dago, Kraut, Kyke, Pollack, Chink. There was a degrogatory name for every ethnic group in America. My parents and the parents of my many childhood friends all overcame the slurs and prevailed. They worked hard, they  learned the language the best they could, and became citizens. Their safe space was America, and they did not need the ACLU protecting them. They didn’t want to change America into their home country with their ethnic culture, but they didn’t give up celebrating in their howetown garb, or to play their failiar music, or to dance the dances they left behind. When their clebrations ended they reverted to being Americans.

Both stories are compelling. They tell the story of America. They show that America has a huge heart. The M-D  story, however, told me that we seem to have forgotten that our responsibility to immigrants is to give them a key to enter the house, i.e. a proper VISA. With the VISA the laws permit free and equal opportunity, but breaking into the house without an invitation marks them as unwanted criminals.

The immigration laws of the United States are very fair and well drafted. However, over the years our leaders from both sides have decided to ignore them. Instead of asking Congress to revise the law to allow free entry, they have opted instead to disregard the laws, and to complain that the system is broken. The system is not broken, it is a sensible workable law. If we want to accept more immigrants we should change the law to raise, or to remove the limit. Evidently, we don’t pay our Congress enough to work very hard on writing law. They spend more time worrying about becoming reelected than they do about keeping America viable, and strong.
Congress has invented many ways to circumvent the laws to allow more immigrants in. One way is the add-on to allow family members of those who are already here to come without vetting. Another is a law called DOCA passed to allow children without adult accompaniment to enter and to stay. There are many more ways.
So, instead of changing we continue to allow free entry and then complain about illegals spreading about the country.
Refugees are another exception. We have taken huge numbers of Vietnamese, Cuban, and Syrians. The Cubans and Vietnamese have assimilated, we are not yet certain about the Syrians. Maybe they will, and maybe they won’t only time will tell. If they don’t I am sure we will pass laws to change our ways. Except, the horse will be out of the barn when we finally close the door.

My Feelings Exactly

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From the American Thinker

The Angry Man Election

For all the interest group pandering that shapes modern American politics, the group that may well have decided the election has come down to the demographic of “The Angry Man.”
The Angry Man is difficult to stereotype. He comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America , from sophisticated urbanite to rural redneck, Deep South to Yankee North, Left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.

No matter where he’s from, Angry Men share many common traits; they aren’t asking for anything from anyone other than the promise to be able to make their own way on a level playing field. In many cases, they are independent businessmen and employ several people. They pay more than their share of taxes and they work hard. Damn hard, for what they have and intend to keep.

He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the Christmas party for the employees at his company, three sets of braces, college educations or a beautiful wedding or two. Not because he was forced to, but because it’s the right thing to do.

The Angry Man believes the Constitution should be interpreted as it was written. It is not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of appointed judges and political winds.

The Angry Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun and use it in defense of his home, his country and his family. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone if necessary to achieve those goals gives him only momentary pause.

The Angry Man is not, and never will be, a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina. He got his people together and got the hell out. Then, he went back in to rescue those who needed help or were too stupid to help themselves in the first place. He was selfless in this, just as often a civilian as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter. Victimhood syndrome buzzwords; “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” don’t resonate with The Angry Man. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him.

His last name, his race and his religion don’t matter. His ancestry might be Italian, English, African, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, Russian, Hispanic or any of a hundred others. What does matter is that he considers himself in every way to be an American. He is proud of this country and thinks that if you aren’t, you are whole-heartedly encouraged to find one that suits you and move there.

The Angry Man is usually a man’s man. The kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, go hunting, play golf, maintain his own vehicles and build things. He coaches kid’s baseball, soccer and football and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, design a factory or work the land. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant so that you can keep the lights on while never knowing everything it took to do that. The Angry Man is the backbone of this country.

He’s not racist, but is truly disappointed and annoyed, when people exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their ethnicity. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they’re willing to work hard and play by the rules. He expects other people to do the same. Above all, he has integrity in everything he does.

The Angry Man votes, and he loathes the dysfunction now rampant in government. It’s the victim groups being pandered to and the “poor me” attitude that they represent. The inability of politicians to give a straight answer to an honest question. The tax dollars that are given to people who simply don’t want to do anything for themselves. The fact that, because of very real consequences, he must stay within a budget but for some obscure reason the government he finances doesn’t. Mostly, it’s the blatantly arrogant attitude displayed implying that we are too stupid to run our own lives and only people in government are smart enough to do that.

The Angry Man has reached his limit. When a social justice agitator goes on TV, leading some rally for Black Lives Matter, safe spaces or other such nonsense, he may bite his tongue but, he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement.
But when government officials are repeatedly caught red-handed breaking the law and getting off scot-free, The Angry Man balls-up his fists and readies himself for the coming fight. He knows that this fight, will be a live or die situation, so he prepares fully. Make no mistake, this is a fight in which he is not willing to lose and he will never give up.

Obama calls him a Clinger
Hillary Calls him Deplorable
Bill calls him Redneck
BLM calls him a Racist
Feminists calls him Sexist
ISIS calls him an Infidel
Donald Trump calls him an American

Does She Go Home or Stay?

It is very hard to discern fiction from fact when you receive unsolicited e-mail with stories like the one below. If this story is false, it is still entertaining. If it is true, it is a horrific situation to live in. You be the judge of whether it is true or false. I believe it to be true because I have friends in Germany who relate similar incidents.

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A female physician in Munich, Germany sends a message to the
World………..

‘Yesterday, at the hospital, we had a meeting about how the situation here and at the other Munich hospitals is unsustainable. Clinics cannot handle the number of migrant medical emergencies, so they are starting to send everything to the main hospitals.

Many Muslims are refusing treatment by female staff and we women are now refusing to go among those migrants!

Relations between the staff and migrants are going from bad to worse. Since last weekend, migrants going to the hospitals must be accompanied by police with K-9 units.

Many migrants have AIDS, syphilis, open TB and many exotic diseases that we in Europe do not know how to treat. If they receive a prescription to the pharmacy, they suddenly learn they have to pay cash. This leads to unbelievable outbursts, especially when it is about drugs for the children. They abandon the children with pharmacy staff with the words: So, cure them here yourselves!

So the police are not just guarding the clinics and hospitals, but also the large pharmacies.

We ask openly where are all those who welcomed the migrants in front of TV cameras with signs at train stations? Yes, for now, the border has been closed, but a million of them are already here and we will definitely not be able to get rid of them.

Until now, the number of unemployed in Germany was 2.2 million. Now it will be at least 3.5 million. Most of these people are completely unemployable. Only a small minimum of them have any education. What is more, their women usually do not work at all. I estimate that one in ten is pregnant. Hundreds of thousands of them have brought along infants and little kids under six, many emaciated and very needy. If this continues and Germany re-opens its borders, I am going home to the Czech Republic. Nobody can keep me here in this situation, not even for double the salary back home. I came to Germany to work, not to Africa or the Middle East!

Even the professor who heads our department told us how sad it makes him to see the cleaning woman, who has cleaned every day for years for 800 euros and then meets crowds of young men in the hallways who just wait with their hands outstretched, wanting everything for free, and when they don’t get it they throw a fit.

I really don’t need this! But I am afraid that if I return home, at some point it will be the same in the Czech Republic. If the Germans, with their systems, cannot handle this, then, guaranteed, back home will be total chaos…..

You – who have not come in contact with these people have absolutely no idea what kind of badly behaved desperados these people are, and how Muslims act superior to our staff, regarding their religious accommodation.

For now, the local hospital staff have not come down with the diseases these people brought here, but with so many hundreds of patients every day this is just a question of time.

In a hospital near the Rhine, migrants attacked the staff with knives after they had handed over an 8-month-old on the brink of death, who they’d dragged across half of Europe for three months. The child died two days later, despite having received top care at one of the best pediatric clinics in Germany. The pediatric physician had to undergo surgery and the two nurses are recovering in the ICU. Nobody has been punished – what ???

The local press is forbidden to write about it, so we can only inform you through email. What would have happened to a German if he had stabbed the doctor and nurses with a knife? Or if he had flung his own syphilis-infected urine into a nurses face and so threatened her with infection? At a minimum he would have gone straight to jail and later to court. With these people so far, nothing has happened – WHY?

And so I ask…… where are all those greeters and receivers from the train stations? Sitting pretty at home, enjoying their uncomplicated, safe lives. If it were up to me I would round up all those greeters and bring them here first to our hospitals emergency ward as attendants! Then in to one of the buildings housing the migrants, so they can really look after them there themselves, without armed police and police dogs, who, sadly today, are in every hospital here in Bavaria’.

Is this “situation” coming to your country ??? YOU BET IT IS!!!!

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Don’t Say It Can’t Be Done

What did Presidents Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower, and Carter have in common?
(This is something that should be of great interest for you to pass
around. I didn’t know of this until it was pointed out to me.)

Back during the great depression, Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work.

Harry Truman deported over two million illegal aliens after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans.

In 1954 Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million illegal Mexicans. The program was called Operation Wetback. It was done so WWII and Korean War veterans would have a better chance at jobs. It took two years, but they deported them!

Jimmy Carter deported 15,000 Iranians and didn’t let any enter!

Now, if they could deport the illegal aliens back then, they could surely do it today. If you have doubts about the veracity of this information, enter Operation Wetback into your favorite search engine and confirm it for yourself.

Why, you might ask, can’t they do this today? Actually the answer is quite simple. Hoover , Truman,  Eisenhower, and Carter were men of honor, not untrustworthy politicians looking for votes!

And Reminder: Don’t forget to pay your taxes – 12 to 20 million illegal aliens – are depending on it.

How long are we going to be so STUPID about our Government?

In today’s world we have a President who does the opposite. He smuggles illegal aliens into the country from Syria at night on commercial air carriers then busses them to cities all across the United States to let them loose.

Borders Or No Borders?

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What is a country without boundaries? Imagine if each of the States within the USA had no boundaries, and the United States of America was just America. Most likely we would have one set of laws, not fifty-one. I say fifty-one because now each State has laws, and the Federal Government also has laws. I suppose one could argue that having so many laws requires thousands if not millions of people to manage. If we look at Illinois we have a Governor, State Legislature, Supreme Court, State Police, etc. Breaking it down further we have counties and townships within counties, then villages, towns, and cities. Each of these entities have boundaries, and each defined area has government. When I think about it a country without internal boundaries and ruling governments puts us back to the time when only Indian tribes wandered North America, a place where there were no rules and everyone was happy. That is until one tribal chief decided his neighboring chief had better horses, and he would even things out with some horse redistribution.

President Obama and the leaders of the European Union are proponents of countries with out boundaries or borders. They promulgate free migration of tribes within the continent and the world. Think about that one, a world without any boundaries separating peoples and cultures. we would be free to happily room about anywhere we want without any fear of law enforcement coming down upon us asking embarrassing questions like “what are you doing here?” My guess is that peoples around the globe would live tribally, if for no other reason than to protect themselves from marauding wanderers. Personal weapons would be necessary to keep your way of life. We would be free! Or would we?

What I have omitted to this point is the King factor. In large expanses of territory inhabited by millions of indigenous people there arises one individual who by force rises to the top to rule. This happens because that one person decides he wants to live a better life than all those beneath him. The King appoints favorites to help him administer the throngs of ungoverned free people. Soon, the king and his advisors begin drawing regulations to control the free people. If there is no control the King does not get his way. The free people have no say in the rule nor any say in changing the rule.

Our government has become the ruling élite and they are surely regulating free people into non-thinking humanoids who live to serve the king. We have a president who believes his rule is above the law and Supreme court rulings are meaningless to his edicts. We have a House of Representatives who is our voice in government, but they are too preoccupied with re-election and personal gain to care about what the president decrees. In recent years they rubber stamp Presidential decrees without any debate or concern for the American people.

The European Union began as an idea to unify currencies and trade opportunities within member nations. The first thing they did was agree to open their borders to allow travel around Europe without unnecessary border guards checking  visas and passports. The unified currency allowed people to travel throughout the EU without concern about currency exchange rates, and the acceptance of different monies. At first it sounded good, but as the years passed the system evolved into more than just that. The ruling élite began regulating members. Slowly, the different cultures of Europe began to give in to the elites for the sake of harmony within the union. What the EU really wanted to do was to become   the United States of America. They encouraged immigration by spreading the doctrine of multiculturalism. That is where the great social experiment failed. Each member country became dotted with tribes of immigrants living in every member country. None of them learn to speak the language of the host nation, nor learn the host country customs and cultures. It is the opposite, The tribes expect the host to bend to the immigrant by speaking their language, bending to their dietary needs, their religious beliefs and so on. The European Union is dotted with these tribes across the continent. Slowly the tribes grow from tiny specks into dots, and eventually they will cover the host countries until  the hosts become the minority, and they lose their identity; they become slaves to the visitors.

The EU tries to be like the USA but fails miserably. There is no assimilation, why? There is no need for the immigrant to learn a new language. There is no single European culture to assimilate into. Immigrants do not migrate with the intention of becoming German or Dutch, Spanish, French, or British they migrate for two reasons, social programs, and to get away from war-torn areas. They have no intention of becoming German, French, Spanish, Italian, or any other nationality. In fact, the laws of many countries make becoming citizens extremely difficult.  They come to stay the same people they have always been, except in a new environment. The EU lacks an army to defend its people. They rely on the United Nations, and the United States to do the work. Immigrants have no opportunity to serve in the military as a way to show their patriotism to their new-found country.

Obama, his Administration, the Congress, the Supreme Court, and fifty percent of the country look to Europe as the Utopian model. What they don’t realize is that the American model is what the Europeans are struggling to emulate. We have the standard language, we have cultures which are regionally different yet nationally allegiant to a single Constitution. We have learned that having borders within borders is helpful in keeping peace without limiting personal freedom. We are a great nation of immigrants. In the beginning, immigration was wide open; get on a boat, and step into the country. As the country grows and labor opportunities slow down the need to control the flow of people coming in becomes necessary. Immigration laws were written to smooth the flow into the country to cut the chance for mass migrations that would be a disservice to the people coming here for opportunity. What we have done wrong in the USA is to stop enforcing the existing immigration laws. A very simple fix is to keep the existing laws but to increase the number of people we allow in every year. If we want to get fancy we can add a work permit to cover migrant workers entry to do seasonal work.

The freedoms we have  work against us. Organizations like LaRaza routinely promote disregard for the borders and control of immigration from Central America. They should be classified as subversives, and denied existence. The same hold true for Mosques and Muslim lobby groups like CAIR. Since Islam is a religion, and a political ideology it should be classified by law as one or the other. As it is, Islam can not co-exist with our Constitution. If it is a religion then we must treat it like any other religion. We must require that they pledge to follow our laws, and if they follow Sharia then they lose their right to stay in this country. Mosques that teach radicalism must be closed under the rule that radicalism is a political system and not a religious one. Political Correctness must be abandoned. We are an exceptional nation. That doesn’t mean people in other countries are not exceptional in education, or thought, it means our country is built on an idea that all men are created equal. We are made up of immigrants that have embraced that concept and love being here. If you can’t adjust to that simple rule the door is open for you to leave. Immigrants must understand history, and let go of the fact that once upon a time there were slaves in North America. There were a lot of things that happened many years ago, and that is no longer a reason to complain about your miserable life. Racial discrimination can not be eliminated over night. It will take many generations to even out the difference between races. Leaders like Obama who divide the country on racial issues have only served to retard any progress made by a hundred years.

America is an idea sought by all people in the world, even Europe. The problem is that America did not become exceptional over night. It was a process, combined with evolution. We can not expect to package the idea in a big box and send it to places around the world to become America upon opening. Our Founding fathers did not invent this system overnight. Their ancestors migrated to North America to flee persecution in Europe. They started their colonies with the background of law abiding countries in Europe beginning with the Magna Charta. Pilgrims modified those laws and practices to make things work for them on this soil. The Founders also had that background and the back ground of the great thinkers of Europe to learn from when they began the process to declare independence and to establish the country. It took another ten years of operation to realize they needed more change, and appointed a select group of men to write the Constitution. It is that document which has carried our proud nation forward, and will continue to carry us forward for centuries to come. What we don’t need are people who call themselves progressives to rewrite the rule book on how to run the greatest country in the world.

My last thought on borders is this. If we want to return to the caveman era let us erase every border in the world. If we want to move forward as a civilization let us draw the borders and build walls if necessary to control the flow of peoples from country to country. If we really want to move forward as a world, let us standardize on a language before we undertake the more complicated issue of government. It is my opinion that even if we get people speaking the same language in every country, it will be a thousand years before we all understand each other speaking the same. If you don’t believe me try listening to a speech in English given by someone from a non-english speaking country. Of course there are exceptions, but the average person from another country speaking English will be burdened with the dialect of his birth language.

Obama’s and Hillary’s New World Order will take a lot longer than eight years to evolve. Every time I hear of the New World Order I envision the Earth Senate convening in the science fiction movie Star Trek. It is a UN on steroids. It represents the people of planet Earth yet mysteriously they still don’t speak the same language and all need interpreters. It’s not going to work folks.

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