Demo-Dope vision: America the welfare state to the world

While America faces real problems, not the least of which is a 22 trillion dollar debt, Demo-Dopes are offering free everything to everybody.  When faced with the very real and in convenient truth about the national debt, Dopes either go all Crazy Bernie supporting a 70% tax rate or go Bill de Blasio stating that “there’s plenty of money.  It’s just in the wrong hands.”  WARNING:  First the Dopes will take your guns.  Then they will take your stuff.

Ignoring a 22 trillion dollar debt, at last night’s debate, when asked for a show of hands of which candidates on stage supported free healthcare for ILLEGAL immigrants, nary a Dope though it was a bad idea.  The Dopes are now in favor of offering free healthcare to the world, or at least any part of the world that can manage to wander across an unsecured American border that the Dopes actively advocate for.

With the memory of the picture of the negligent ILLEGAL immigrant father and his infant daughter drowned trying to break into the country, Dopes are willing to wave more taxpayer favors at ILLEGAL immigrants to draw them to the Dope run state welfare gravy train.  Some wise guy once said you cannot combine open borders with a generous welfare state. It’s crazy.  It’s irresponsible, and because it is a conscious plan by Dopes to draw the ILLEGALS en mass into the country, issue them driver’s licenses and ultimately allow the ILLEGALS to vote, it is treason.

Grand Nan from San Fran Peloser feigned tears for the illegal alien father who drowned while abusing his child to death.  This is the same callous b*tch who refused to meet with American Angel Moms and Dads of children killed by illegal aliens.  Not a single tear was shed by this political whore for American victims of murder and mayhem visited upon them by illegal aliens. 

NOTE:  Much is being made of this BS “father” using his child as a pawn to break into the country.  He was just trying to give his daughter a better life, whine the usual idiots.  BS. Try this thought experiment:  A man decides to walk across Texas to attend a Trump rally.  He decides to drag his infant daughter along with him.  He leaves home with no money, no food, no water and heads to the rally hundreds of miles away with his infant daughter in tow. Somewhere along the way the father and daughter are found face down in stream.  Do you think Demo-Dopes would have one compassionate word for that father?  No, and to my way of thinking they shouldn’t.  What that POS “dad” in the photo did to his little girl amounts to the same thing.  In both cases it is reckless endangerment of a child. 

While the Dopes turn their backs on American victims, they actually held a moment of silence for illegal aliens who died trying to break into the country.  AOC had a photo op of her weeping at child detention center that actually turned out to be a chain link fence around an empty lot.  In true Dope fashion, it’s better to have people think you are compassionate than to actually be compassionate.

Here’s the problem I see for the Dopes.  PDJT will frame them as being pro illegal alien while being hostile to American victims.  The victims are not just the Angel Moms and Dads.  The victims include American children whose classrooms are being overrun by illiterate kids who cannot speak English.  The victims are the towns whose social welfare resources are being depleted by a mob of illegals.  The victims are the American workers whose wages are being suppressed by a glut of unskilled labor willing work for next to nothing. 

What is a total disaster for the Dopes is that this a relatively easy issue for the average American to understand.  PDJT = America first.  Dopes = illegal immigrants first. Okay now let’s vote.

Dopes more than PDJT are responsible for what's depicted in the photo

Demo-Dopes nation-wide are claiming that PDJT is responsible for death of the two people in the photo above.  BS.  The character on the left is responsible for his and his little girl’s death.  

What responsible man travels hundreds of miles, presumably on foot, with a small child in the hope of breaking another country’s laws to gain illegal access to that country? Who makes their unknowing child an accessory to a crime?  Pretty much a low life scoundrel in my book.

The little girl for this delinquent parent was nothing more than a fashion accessory.  The little girl was like a belt buckle, a nice pair of boots or a stylish hat for this for this poor excuse of human being that planned to use her for nothing more than a better chance at breaking into America and gaining access to the promise of a plethora of Demo-Dope social welfare programs.

PDJT had nothing to do with anything going on in the picture.  Nothing.  In fact he’s Lone Ranger trying to stop/prevent such tragedies.

Here’s my list accessories to the crime of what is depicted in the photo.  In no particular order:

Any Demo-Dope who mocked PDJT by saying there was no crisis at the border or that the crisis was manufactured.  

The corrupt Mexican government that allows (hopefully now had allowed) people free access and transit of their country in order to invade ours.

Paulie walnuts Ryan a loathsome worthless pimple on a swine’s butt who didn’t do one darn about the border when the worthless Rat establishment Republican Speaker of the House had the chance.

Slow Joe Biden who is now advocating for making any minor that crosses the border an automatic American citizen.  That won’t draw many cases like photo and what to do about chain migration when literally 1,000 upon 1,000 of minors start to arrive at our boarder to take advantage of Slow Joe’s generosity of your tax dollars.

Mayors of every sanctuary city in America who offer a draw to lawlessness and encourage parents to risk drowning their children in the hope of arriving safely at the gravy train in an American sanctuary city.

60 years of Dope social welfare programs that encourage the type of risky behavior the leads to the results shown in the photo.

With regard to the photo, it looks a bit unnatural and staged to me, but what do I know.

The debate

I don’t know.  Didn’t watch.  My guess is that it was pretty much a PDJT hate fest long on demagoguery and short on anything that resembles policies that don’t involve looting one American’s bank account in order to transfer the content to Dope "victim" groups.  Perhaps an occasional shot at front runners Slow Joe Biden and Crazy Bernie.  That’s it.

Boob Nifong Mueller to take the hot seat

Horse faced sometime patriot Boob Nifong Mueller is going to testify before the House of Representatives.  If Nifong Mueller is an honest man – big if – his testimony cannot stray from the four corners of his BS report.  That report found insufficient evidence for a collusion indictment and in true cowardly Caligula, D.C. form punted on obstruction deferring to a new standard for justice in America – we can’t prove you are innocent of all crimes, so you must be guilty of something.

So after Nifong Mueller makes it clear that there will be no Perry Mason moment when he backtracks on the findings found in the report and says PDJT is in fact a Russian bought and paid for spy, Dopes will be left to endlessly parse the obstruction charge.  So PDJT is going to be accused of obstructing an investigation into a crime that Nifong Mueller will be forced to admit never occurred.

PDJT’s team can then ask Nifong Mueller the Lindsey Graham questions like, did PDJT obstruct your investigation by limiting you the necessary funds to conduct it?  Did PDJT obstruct your investigation by limiting the necessary time to conduct it?  Did PDJT obstruct your investigation by limiting the necessary cooperation among White House employees?  Did PDJT obstruct your investigation by endlessly invoking “executive privilege” claims?  Did PDJT obstruct your investigation by limiting the number of pages that the White House documents turned over? And on, and on, and on.  Conclusion?  No obstruction.  No collusion.

Once the basics of the Nifong Mueller report are established…again…PDJT’s team will be free to ask Nigong Mueller a long list of embarrassing questions that could prove that Nifong Mueller’s team was in fact engaged in a witch hunt or worse – a coup.  After Nifnog Mueller’s 9 minute presser, I’m not sure this guy is up to hours of close questioning by people who know what a POS he is. 

The key question will be, “Nifong, when were you convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that PDJT’s campaign did not collude the Russians?”   The answer to that question will lead to a long list of other questions about the reliability of the fake dossier and its origination, the FISA warrants and renewals, military type raids on Manafort’s and Stone’s homes, his exclusive hiring of angry Demo-Dopes for his team including Shrillda the Hutt lawyer disgraced attorney Andrew Weismann.  I’m sure fat Jerry Nadler and pencil neck Adam Shiff think that are finally “going to get PDJT.”  Hmm, cue the Acme TNT barrel, because close questioning of Nifong Mueller could cause the entire thing to explode in the Dopes’ faces a la Wiley E. Coyote.   

I don’t see how this ends well for the Dopes.  That said, the MSM in this country is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Demo-Dope Party.  So whatever the best side of this for the Dopes will be run non-stop by the MSM like when Nifong Mueller sh*t himself during his 9 minute statement saying DOJ policy didn’t allow him to indict PDJT – then Nifong had to walk that piece of BS back in a statement – but only after the MSM went nuts for hours after his F-up.

Wayfair we’ve got just what you need

Apparently Wayfair has beds DHS needs.  So a group bought beds from Wayfair for illegal aliens to sleep on in our overrun border detention centers.  The ever woke Wayfair work force is staging a walk out because a Wayfair is supplying beds to keep children from sleeping on the floor.  WTF?

How does that make sense?  Well Dopes want the detention centers shut down so that the illegals have to immediately be released into the interior of the country where they will not be seen again until Election Day when they show up with their illegally issued driver’s license and demand the right to vote – thank you MotorVoter same day voter registration - which is all any of this is about. 

So Demo-Dopes are on record stating that they prefer children sleeping on the ground.  Perfect.

Until they run out of your money, Demo-Dope's vote buying schemes will never end

Crazy Bernie and Fauxcahontas are engaged in a bidding war to buy votes.  That’s nothing new for the Dopes.  The demographics of the latest effort by the Dopes to buy votes is the college debt crowd.  

Fauxcahntas wants taxpayers to buy out the college of loans on a means tested basis.  Crazy Bernie has one upped the fake Indian offering that the American taxpayer will buy out all college debt – to the tune of a trillion plus dollars.  

No doubt Fauxcahntas will come back with a plan that not only will forgive the college debt but will offer each student mired in debt of their own making a $1,000 taxpayer stipend for pain and suffering inflicted on the snowflakes by their own bad decisions.

This of course is a transparent vote buying scheme using your hard earned Yankee dollars.

Lex has pointed out the unfairness of this plan by suggesting that students that paid their own way without debt are being cheated for acting responsibly.  But it occurs to me that’s not the worst of it.  The worst of it is the kid that could not afford college.  He foregoes college so as not to go into debt.  Instead he takes a job in the real world right after high school. Now this kid is expected to pay for the poor decisions of his high schools classmates.

Also this occurred to me.  What about a kid who goes deep into debt to obtain a Harvard degree in puppeteering, women’s transgendered Social Justice environmental studies focused on dwarfism and fear of citrus fruit or Chinese opera? 

Whose fault is it exactly that dumbazzes go deep into debt to peruse worthless degrees likely never to result in  meaningful employment?  Seriously, should anyone but the culprit or the culprit’s family have to pay for such worthless and whimsical degrees?  Why in the hell is a kid who leaves high school and goes to work in the family plumbing business be expected to subsidize a poor decision by a classmate?

Also consider this, Dopes are all in for free everything for everyone  -- in the world.  The Dopes are all in for open borders and once anyone crosses the border, it’s free everything for anyone able to get across the border.  Crazy Bernie wants free medical care.  Sleepy Joe wants immediate citizenship for any minor who wonders across the border.  Now ask him about chain migration.  Will the minor be able to bring in his parents, grandparents, 137 siblings, 27,000 cousins and 147,000 extended family members?  So literally, under the Dopes, everyone in the world will be eligible for free everything if they can just wonder across a a border that Dopes want to be totally open.

How long can America survive as founded under such a plan? 

Why the hell are taxpayers expected to pay off colleges for BS degrees?  Seems to me if anyone other than the dumbazzes who perused worthless degrees is going to pay up it ought to be the institutions that the offered the BS degrees in the first place.  How about raiding college endowments that run into the billions of dollars to pay for this BS?  That would make sense to me.

Repartitions an endless road to Dope vote buying

Dopes are all in for reparations to blacks.  The Indian who isn’t an Indian wants to expand reparations to the LGBTQADSDFFHYGHJKLM community.  Of course Dopes will eventually be offering reparations – free government money – to all Dope designated aggrieved victim groups in good standing.

Lex predicted that if Shrillda the Hutt won in 2016 she’d offer reparations in 2020.  Turns out it was Dope strategy writ large for 2020 all along.  Once we go down this road where does it end?  Today it blacks and LGBTQASWDRFTGH.  Where does it end?  The short answer is, it doesn’t.  Women were denied the vote.  What sort reparations are they owed for that indignity?  Native Americans – not Big Chief Lizzy – have been wronged since Columbus.  What’s their share of reparations?  Criminals have been tarred for their past since the beginning of time and are a solid Dope voting bloc.  What’s their share? 

Purple haired Social Justice Warrior campus know-nothing howler monkeys, who by all that is holy, ought to be saddled with a lifetime of debt for their poor decisions are going to be bought off by the Dopes along with all Dope victim groups under the guise of righting past wrongs with taxpayer funded reparations.

Is there a point that we can say, the past is the past?  No. Not according to Demo-Dopes.  If there are votes to be bought, you can be sure that Demo-Dopes will be there with your money to buy them. 

Today’s JG rant – the ugly side of the Democrat Party – Hint: it’s pretty much any side of the Democrat party

Oddly enough I concur with the headline over Chester Baran’s letter “America's 'ugly side' came to fore in 2016” of June 25, 2019.  I am glad that Baran decided to use personal pronouns like “we” and “our” in his anti-American diatribe.  As a supporter of the Democrat Party, the inconvenient truth is that Bran’s party of choice – Democrats - were and are the party of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation and incarceration.

Check the tape.  Anytime a politician in is standing in the school house door that politician is a Democrat.  Anytime a politician is standing against the 13th, 14^th, and 15^th Amendments that politician is a Democrat.  Anytime a politician is referring to a race as inferior it’s a KKK supporting Democrat Party.  When Joe Biden says he worked across the aisle with segregationists – he’s lying.  The segregationists were all within his own caucus – Democrats.

I concur with Bran that this country has marked with great stains.  Stains that are difficult to remove.  Most of them are as a result of the Democrat Party.  

I suppose if you’re crazy enough to mire yourself in the hatred for one man and by extension any American who supports him for 2 ½ years – you’re crazy enough to focus solely on America’s stains most of which were produced by your own party of choice – Democrats.

To the Barans of the world capitalism equals greed.  To free thinking men capitalism equals liberty.  Capitalism is the means by which the America government has become the most generous in the history of the world.  The American government’s contribution to charity is dwarfed by the American people’s willingness to give until it hurts to worthy causes world-wide.

But hey, because there are a few bad apples on Wall St. let’s scrap the entire system that has lifted more people out of poverty than anything in the history of the world.

Baran claims that America’s war on terror after 9-11 was a “no-holds-barred campaign.”  That’s just plain ignorant.  Baran obviously knows nothing of military history, strategy or operations.  Here’s a hint:  There was never anything known as “the Carthaginian liberation front.”  Wonder why?  Look up the Punic Wars.  Those were no-holds-barred campaigns.

After 9-11 restrictive rules of engagement were/are a lot of things – stupid chief among them – but they are anything but no-holds-barred.

I agree again with Baran about the 2016 election.  The 2016 election is “the most recent expression of [the} ugly side” but not of “our nature” rather the “ugly nature” of the Democrat Party.   

The most flawed candidate in the history of American politics called half of America “deplorable” and “irredeemable,” colluded with foreign governments and their intelligence agencies to compile a fake dossier against a political opponent and 2 ½ years later – driven by sheer hatred -  have yet to accept the results of the 2016 election. That’s pretty ugly.

America's 'ugly side' came to fore in 2016

Our Founding Fathers proclaimed that all men are created equal, yet many of them were slave owners. Their inability to resolve this contradiction resulted in racism's worming itself into our foundational documents.

Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation and incarceration became steps in the process of assimilation for peoples of races we regarded as inferior. Our westward advance was considered our manifest destiny. We were to enlighten and civilize the new world. However, native populations were displaced and virtually annihilated as we fulfilled this mission.

The excesses of capitalism – greed, corruption and environmental devastation – were considered elements of a filtering process, survival of the fittest. The winners would enjoy the fruits of their victory, while the losers were expected to purchase bootstraps with the earnings that trickled down to them.

In the aftermath of the attack on the Twin Towers, we declared war on terrorism. A no-holds-barred campaign was waged; domestic freedoms were constricted, international law was disregarded and methods of torture were employed.

America may indeed be the cradle of liberty and a light of inspiration and hope for the world, yet racism, violence and hatred are a large part of our national experience. Political pundits have analyzed the results of the 2016 presidential election as a repudiation of a do-nothing Congress and a draining of the D.C. swamp.

I consider the election to be the most recent expression of the ugly side of our nature. How else could a vile creature such as Donald Trump be chosen to be our leader? When we are true to our ideals, we are an example for humanity; when we betray them, America is just “one of the guys.”

Chester Baran

Fort Wayne

Today's JG rant; Studying women's rights a total waste of money

Re: JG editorial “Today’s realities” of June 20, 2019

I’m having trouble figuring it out - what’s the point of the editorial?  If it’s to inform readers about the plight of Indiana women it leaves out some very inconvenient realities. With regard to the “gender pay gap” the OpEd skips over the realities that men statistically work more hours than women, are more willing to travel for work than women, have a higher acuity for science, technology, engineering and math than women, accept more dangerous and risky positions than women, and are more likely to be killed or maimed at work than women.  For all of that men may be a bargain for a mere 27 cents an hour extra.

The bits about “maternal mortality” and “infant well-being” could be taken seriously if the JG’s editorial page and the Democrat Party wasn’t defending late term abortion – where there is a substantial risk to the mother’s health – and infanticide – which, to be clear, is the murder of a baby born alive.  Faced with these inconvenient realties, the same people feigning concern about “maternal mortality” and “infant well-being” try to hide their duplicity behind the Orwellian term “women’s health.” 

Seriously, how can people who advocate for late term abortion and infanticide pretend to be concerned about “maternal mortality” and “infant well-being”?

With regard to the 1974 report that found 72% “said there should not be more female firefighters,” Hoosiers were prescient.  If you take the time to peruse the list of firefighters killed on 9-11, you’ll find that the overwhelming majority – nearly 100% - of the names on the list are males.  Could that be because women, on average, are less capable of scaling scores of flights of steps under a heavy load?

The rest of the piece, in true Lefty form, is a study about studies.  These sham “studies” will be accomplished via the usual Lefty methodology.  Find a “study group” with an established bias toward the desired results then grant the study money.  The group then proceeds to establish the results of the study before the first bit of research is conducted.  The group then sorts through the data using only the pieces that confirm their biased results while burying anything that does not conform.

Thursday, June 20, 2019 1:00 am

EDITORIAL

'Today's realities'

Study can offer welcome update on women's views

We know Indiana women don't fare well compared with females in other states. The state ranks 49th for gender pay gap. Its maternal mortality rate is third-highest in the nation. A 2018 national health survey ranks Indiana dead last for the effect of community and environment on infant well-being.

We also know Allen County trails the state overall on important economic measures, including average wages.

What we don't know is how local women and girls, who make up 51% of Allen County's population, are faring. But a just-announced study will provide some answers, and likely some ideas for how the community can help women and girls prosper. The $70,000 study, funded through the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne, is the first such effort in 45 years.

A 1974 report, undertaken by the administration of Mayor Ivan Lebamoff, revealed some startling findings about attitudes toward women and girls. A survey asked respondents whether they would feel comfortable with a female mayor – and 38% of those respondents said no. Seventy-two percent said there should not be more female firefighters. Fifty-four percent agreed that girls should “be taught how to be feminine as early as possible.”

A survey of credit and lending practices conducted as part of the original study concluded: “Overt intent would not appear to be so much the problem in this form of economic inequality as is the attitude toward women that continues to pervade our institutions, the traditional stereotype that women are supported by men – regardless of the circumstances of the lives of individual human beings which testify that old patterns are overdue for alteration to fit today's realities.”

We hope the new study, conducted by the Community Research Institute at Purdue University Fort Wayne, will find views have changed since 1974. More important, it should find ways to support women and girls in Allen County, as the original study did in setting the groundwork for the Rape Crisis Center and the Women's Bureau. 

Alison Girardot, the Community Foundation's vice president of philanthropic services, said the need for a new study emerged in discussions about establishing a women's fund, a valuable tool in other communities in marshaling resources to help women and girls reach their potential. Girardot said the discussions showed strong support for starting with research, which will be patterned after a 2005 study by the Women's Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation.

That report became a road map for addressing issues affecting women and children, including child care, housing, a living wage, domestic violence and financial literacy.

The Community Foundation served as host last fall for a listening tour by the Indiana Commission on Women. As we noted then, the statewide group has listened but accomplished little in improving the lives of Indiana women and girls. A local initiative is a more promising approach. The wealth of data produced from the new study will benefit existing nonprofits and public agencies in attracting grants and targeting resources. 

The study aligns with the Community Foundation's new strategic plan, according to Brad Little, the foundation's president and CEO. Its focus on prosperity and well-being is aimed at helping more residents benefit in the community's growth. When the needs of 51% of residents are recognized, all residents undoubtedly will prosper.

Iran and LGBTQSDFGBN victim status

Iran
I think it’s safe to say that there will soon be some kinetic response to Iran’s shoot down of our drone.  News today shouts, “PDJT ordered attack, then pulled back.”  That’s very Machiavellian in my opinion.  It gives PDJT the appearance of being the measured and war cautious adult in the room.

When he does unleash hell on Iran, which I think he certainly will, PDJT can say we carefully weighed all of the options and this was the least worst option with credibility.

In the meantime this allows PDJT time to bring our so-called allies on board and maybe get an international response this BS.

As far as a proportional response, I’m fine with that as long as proportional is 10 to 1.  First I’d allow Iran the opportunity to pay for the drone.  That’s about as likely to happen as you spotting Bigfoot in your backyard today.  Then I’d hit the missile site that launched the missile - which has probably already been cleared out, ports shipping Iranian oil, IRG coastal sites, and I’d turn out the lights in Tehran.  Then I’d send a note, “If anything like this happens again, we’re going to take it seriously.”

Holding off on the attack also has to have a debilitating psychological on Iran’s civilian and military leaders as well any forces who might think they are going to be a target.  It’s difficult to stay on “high alert” for any extended period of time.  Hitting them when they expect it should be rejected for hitting them when it extends us the most advantage - and dare I say it – get the most bang for our buck.  Hit them at time and place of our choosing and allow them stew in their own fear and misgivings for a while.     

Potential JG rant
Streaming thoughts on the load of crap under that showed up in the local fish wrap.  Will translate into a rant that will immediately be deleted by the said local fish wrap as soon as it hits the ether.

Any group that has a “month designated” for their cause/group is whining bunch of babies.  Who the hell settles for one month out of 12?

Months are assigned by Demo-Dopes to create groups in order to allow them to gain victim status, “hate crime protection” and government funding for their perceived or even very real difficulties navigating society based on their crybaby attitude, purple hair, nose ring, SJW ranting and never ending search for something to be offended by azzbag poulation.

The census is by the constitution a means to count the population every 10 years in order to apportion how many representatives should be allotted to each state in the House of Representatives.  Any question on the census that goes beyond that objective should be viewed with suspicion.  Questions outside constitution’s stated goal are probably designed to redistribute your hard earned Yankee dollars to groups the Dope party is courting for votes.  I will answer how many people reside in my home.  I will exercise my right to remain silent on all of the other questions.

It is not the government’s job to promote LGBTQSDFGHJKL life styles.  Particularly since these life styles promote increased suicides, depression and mental illness.  Why in the world would the government promote such life styles?

I’m a fairly regular guy in church.  Never once have I heard anything from the pulpit other than we should love the sinner and pray for their redemption. 

Wednesday, June 19, 2019 1:00 am

Actions speak louder

Trump no friend of LGBT community

David Placher

David Placher is a Fort Wayne resident.

President Donald Trump's two-faced message to the LGBT community creates a national June gloom as Pride Month winds down and Trump shows no signs of stopping his wrecking-ball strategy.

His gee-this-makes-me-feel-good supporters argue that the mere fact that Trump recognizes Pride Month shows he supports the LGBT community.

At first glance, Trump's recognition does paint a progressive picture, but a closer look reveals that Trump's rhetoric is more sparkle than substance.

This is the first June of Trump's presidency that he has recognized Pride Month, and with his polling numbers on the downward slide, his recognition appears disingenuous.

• Trump does not support the much needed Equality Act, a bill that passed the House in May that prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation in decisions affecting credit, employment, federal funding, gender identity, housing, public accommodations and public education.

The Equality Act provides the LGBT community with nationwide protections. States' laws are inconsistent; they range from wonderful to warlike. The act would also prevent some states from being downright selfish. They happily accept tax payments and enjoy economic contributions from the LGBT community but lack consideration for that community.

• Trump does not want an improved population count of the LGBT community.

The U.S. Census Bureau gathers population data using the American Community Survey, an ongoing survey that tracks shifting population demographics. During the Obama administration, some federal agencies requested that sexual orientation and gender identity questions be added so they could track their programs to learn whether they are fulfilling their diversity missions. When Trump entered the White House, that request fizzled.

• Trump doesn't even want to add gender identity and sexual orientation in Census 2020, mandated by the U.S. Constitution.

This census is not only used to determine the number of seats each state has in the U.S. House, it is also used to distribute federal funds. Areas with high LGBT populations may require more federal funds for programs that help the LGBT community.

• Trump does not support transgender students.

Trump ordered Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to rescind nondiscrimination protections. These protections allowed transgender students to use the bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity. This was yet another campaign reversal for Trump; in 2016, he said transgender people should “use the bathroom they feel appropriate.” School years aren't easy for a vast majority of students, and Trump has made it painfully more difficult for transgender students.

• Trump removed information specific to the LGBT community from federal government websites.

Soon after Trump was sworn in, government websites, including the White House's, were scrubbed of links to websites referencing LGBT information. For example, the Office of Women's Health in the Department of Health and Human Services no longer has information about lesbian and bisexual women's health. Information is less easily accessible.

Trump's Christian conservative defenders often argue that Trump is protecting religious beliefs from being trampled on because some Christian conservatives don't believe in LGBT equality and they even fear that certain Christian beliefs are at risk of being considered discriminatory.

If crisis sells, apocalyptic warnings sizzle.

Religion is a tricky subject: the right to believe is rooted in the same concept as the right not to believe or simply to believe in something else. The Constitution contains no mention of Christianity, and the First Amendment bars laws “respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

As some Americans use religion as both a sword to try and cut down the LGBT community and a shield to protect themselves from discrimination claims, and while Trump buys into their arguments, the LGBT community can only expect more problems in the near future.

Non-combat ops Iran and gun grabbers at it again

Today is infusion #10. Woo Hoo we're into double digits!  This could effect posting over the next few days.  Hang in there gang.  I'll be back!

Non-combat operations in Iran
I hope we do not go to war with Iran.  The ball on that decision is totally in the Iranians’ court.  Short of an attack on US forces or interests, I do not think that the US military will attack Iran. 

That said non-combat operations are on the table.  My hope is that we still have clandestine CIA and special operation forces that can play havoc with the Iranian government and military.  My hope is that the US Navy can make it clear that they are done f-ing around with the Iranian “navy” and those Iranian assents will start to have unexplained difficulties operating near tankers and US Navy assets.

My hope is that US allies in the area - Israel, NATO, Saudi Arabia et al - will step up non-combat ops that will make life for the Iranians more and more difficult in Tehran and in the gulf.

If war does come, it would be a good excuse to level Iran’s nuclear sites, sink their navy in total and destroy their ability to pump and refine oil.  I think that can be accomplished without putting boots on the ground in Iran.  Of course Iran will try to target US ground forces in Iraq or wherever else they might be able to reach out to try to draw us into a ground war in Iran.  We should not take the bait.  The goals should be clearly stated at the outset and the troops should come home when the stated goals are met.  No more endless open-ended wars.

My sense is that PDJT will get sound military advice and follow it.

Today's JG rant - Gun grabbers challenge  

Re: JG editorial “Threat of inaction” of June 18, 2019.  As always, gun grabbing constitution ignoring Lefty Libs target the wrong crowd.  All of the “remedies” contained in the JG piece target law abiding citizens, blatantly violate the 2^nd amendment, use silly undefinable terms or would rely on police-state action for enforcement.  It’s Obamacare for guns.  Lefty Libs would have to concoct thousands of pages of undecipherable gobooldygook and then have to pass the nonsense to find out what’s in it.

Whenever Lefties start this foolishness, I have offered this challenge to ignorant gun grabbers:  The 2nd amendment is 27 plain words that have withstood challenge after challenge in the Supreme Court.  Repeal the 2^nd amendment and write a new one that captures all of the Lefty Lib goals with regard to the people’s right to keep and bear arms.  Put it to a vote. So Paul Helmke, I offer the challenge to you.

Lefties complain that the amendment process is just too cumbersome.  That’s Lefty Lib shorthand for: The American people want nothing to do with our anti-American gun grabbing proposals.

The Left will NEVER accepted the challenge. Here’s why.  The Left never targets one their largest most reliable voting blocs – criminals.  Instead they propose laws that only affect law-abiding citizens.  If the left was truly worried about lawless gun violence, they’d propose laws that required a 10 year minimum sentence for any crime committed with gun.  They’d propose equally harsh sentences for theft of a firearm for the purpose of committing a crime or transfer of a firearm to a felon. They don’t.  Instead the Left only targets law-abiding gun owning citizens with their onerous freedom crushing laws.

The left relies on undefinable terms like “assault-style weapons.”  Sounds good until one discovers that there’s no such thing as an “assault-style weapon.”  What the left is really targeting are popular semi-automatic sporting rifles that operate no differently than common hunting rifles that do not have black composite stocks.  The Left is too stupid or willfully ignorant to understand that targeting weapons for how they look rather than how they operate is a fool’s errand.

The left relies on police-state policies like registration so the government can track gun owners.  They call for “safe storage laws” that would allow the police to enter your home to check for compliance - and thanks to extra constitutional gun registration - the government now knows exactly where you live.

The Left continually whines about “the gun lobby.”  That’s the NRA, I suppose.  The NRA has approximately 6 million members.  Here’s a bit of bad news for the Left, NRA membership grows every time Lefty starts up their gun grabbing stupidity.  NRA membership was up 350,000 for 2018. 

“The gun lobby” is nothing compared to gun owners.  Estimates are that 43% of American households own at least one gun.  That percentage is almost certainly on the low end.  The number of gun owners pales in comparison to the total number of guns in America.  No one knows exactly how many guns there are in America.  The estimates run from 311-317 million.

Now, Lefty will tell us that there is no way government can control 12 million illegal aliens who break our laws, but it can control 150 million plus law abiding American citizens in possession of 300 million plus firearms.  Good luck with that one. 

Last, how stupid is it to warn that “[t]he threat is no longer distant” and then try to limit the ability of the people to defend themselves?

Tuesday, June 18, 2019 1:00 am

EDITORIAL

Threat of inaction

Weekend shootings drive home urgency

Gun death rates by State

Indiana had the nation's 20th-highest firearm death rate in 2017, based on deaths per 100,000 people. 

Kentucky.......................................................16.39

Indiana...................................................15.24

Ohio...............................................................13.63 Illinois............................................................12.05 Michigan.......................................................11.42

Source: Violence Policy Center, based on figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

When gun violence rocks a neighborhood miles from your own or a business you don't patronize, it's easy to dismiss it as not a threat. But it can't be dismissed when the gunshots break out in a shopping plaza on a quiet summer evening, at a busy intersection or at the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo on a sunny afternoon.

Two gun-related incidents in three days – one deadly – drive home the growing danger of guns in our midst. Either one could have resulted in tragic consequences for bystanders. What level of risk must we reach before elected officials act?

Friday afternoon, the threat was to families visiting the zoo and to anyone near the busy Lima Road-Fernhill Avenue intersection. That's when two vehicles were involved in a chase, with passengers exchanging gunfire. Police said a driver in a stolen vehicle crashed into a pole on Wells Street, near Franke Park Drive, and two men jumped from the car and climbed the zoo fence. One of the men was hit with a Taser next to the sea lion and penguin area, according to a woman visiting the zoo with her children. Thankfully, no one else was hurt. Three men were arrested on multiple charges, including criminal recklessness.

Sunday evening, shoppers at ColdwaterCrossing Shopping Center were at risk when 20-year-old Andre Paris Leslie was shot to death in the parking lot of the Walmart store. A witness told The Journal Gazette her car, about 50 feet from where Leslie fell, was struck by a bullet. No arrests have been made.

“The stories are very disturbing. I think it should be obvious that there are too many guns out there in the hands of people who should not have them,” writes Paul Helmke, former president and CEO of the Brady Center/Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, in an email. “Solutions to the problem are not easy, but we need to be debating the issue and the different proposals that have been made (such as universal background checks; restrictions on 'assault-style' weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines; increased use of “red flag” laws; licensing and registration; safe-storage laws; tougher laws against gun trafficking; allowing lawsuits and stronger enforcement steps against negligent and 'bad apple' gun sellers; etc.).”

Helmke, now director of the Civic Leaders Center at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington, noted the U.S. House recently passed legislation to expand the background-check window from three days to 10, and to require the checks for sales at gun shows. U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, R-3rd, and all other Republican members of the Indiana delegation voted no on the bills. The legislation is going nowhere in the GOP-controlled Senate, Helmke noted. 

“The Indiana Legislature has preempted local governments from doing anything directly on guns,” wrote the former three-term Fort Wayne mayor. “What do our local candidates think of that? Are they willing to push for more local control, or at least stronger state gun laws?”

Helmke noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has made it clear that stronger gun regulations do not run afoul of the Second Amendment. Justice Antonin Scalia, in the Heller decision 11 years ago this month, wrote that the right to bear arms is “not unlimited.”

“Failure to act is a political choice by our elected officials, not a constitutional requirement,” Helmke wrote. “Failure to debate and discuss the proposals that have been suggested means that those candidates/officials either feel that gun violence is not a problem, or they don't want to do anything about it for one reason or another.”

If elected officials won't act, voters must choose candidates prepared to take on the gun lobby. The threat is no longer distant.