I’m calling BS on Obama is a loving grandson story

While on vacation this week in Hawaii, President-elect Barack Obama has scattered his grandmother’s ashes in his own “private” memorial service.

Obama is portrayed by our media as a loving grandson, jetting to his grandmother’s side in the last weeks of her life, tossing her ashes in the ocean in the same spot where he honored his mother.

Obama's grandmother died on November 2, just two days before he was elected the first African-American president of the United States. Obama had rushed to his grandmother's side two weeks before she died, fearing she would not witness
what became his victory.

"She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility," Obama said in a joint statement with his sister in November.

"She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances ... Our debt to her is beyond measure."

Sorry Obama-rama fans. I’m calling BS on this loving grandson story. I am appalled and disgusted that our commander-in-chief was incapable of being the comforter-in-chief for his own family in the weeks following his grandmother’s death.

Where was he during the memorial service held for her in November? The one attended by her friends and her community. The campaign was over, he was elected president, and he had no particular plans that week. He was, after all, the in-coming most powerful man in the western world. I think he could have cleared his schedule to help honor the woman who “poured everything she had into me."

When did we run out of dead presidents and patriots?

I heard a report this morning so obscene that had to be true. I live in the City of Angels, after all.

The daily fish-wrap is reporting that The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is selling the naming rights to the new downtown arts high school.

Here are the buildings available for naming, and the amount the school hopes to receive for each:

School - $25 million
Theater - $5 million
Dance program - $2 million
Drama program - $2 million
Music program - $2 million
Administration building - $2 million
Visual arts building - $2 million
Library - $3 million
Amphitheater - $1 million
Black box theater - $1 million

LAUSD has banned selling a can of cola, to protect the health of the children, but they do not seem to have a problem selling out the children a la Staples Center, Home Depot Center, Disney Concert Hall, etc.

Maybe I’m starting to show my age, but there was a certain pride in being a Hamilton Yankee, a Kennedy Cougar, or a Lincoln Tiger.

Who wouldn’t be excited to cheer for Roosevelt High – home of the Rough Riders?

So, what are they going to call these poor kids?

• The CitiBank Bailouts?
• The Wachovia Bankruptcies?
• The AIG Cash-Cows?
• The GM Money Grubbers?

Al Gore's '12 Days of Global Warming'

For your holiday pleasure. I have a feeling this will not make the anti-Christmas/Chanukah-songs-at-the-elementary-school-"Winter" Programs.

Al Gore's '12 Days of Global Warming'

What did Rahm Emanuel do and when did he do it?

Are we really surprised that Rahm Emanuel and the Office of the President-Elect might actually be tied to Chicagoland-style dirty politics?

The New York Times headline today screams: Emanuel Had Contact With Governor’s Office on Senate Seat

The Chicago Tribune reported that communications between Mr. Emanuel and the governor, both Democrats, had been captured on court-approved wiretaps, but Obama associates gave conflicting accounts of the interactions.

Obama aides have said privately that Mr. Emanuel did not engage in any deal-making with Mr. Blagojevich, whom federal prosecutors charged last week with conspiring to turn a profit from the appointment.

Well, I suppose time will tell what Emanuel knew and what his role was in the attempted sale of the Illinois Senate seat vacated by Mr. Obama, not to mention the president-elect himself.

But considering that Mr. Emanuel has already found his way to Cheney’s secret underground bunker, we might already know the answer.

If you lay down with dogs, you’ll wake up with fleas

The presidential inauguration is more than a month, and yet president-elect Obama is surrounded by more corruption, scandals and crooks than Bill Clinton was after 8 years in office.

The latest accuasations surround Governor Rod Blagojevich. Blago is accused of trying to sell Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat. Blago has ties to Tony Rezko, another cohort of President-elect Obama.

During the campaign, the Republicans (too late in my opinion) tried to raise the issue of character where Mr. Obama was concerned.

Character counts. Who you associate with, counts. Who you are friends with, counts. Where you attend church, and who your pastor is, counts.

It comes down to 7th grade algebra.

If A = B and B = C, than A = C.

President-elect Obama is a product of the Chicago machine. The Chicago political machine is corrupt. Therefore President-elect Obama is corrupt.

Just wait and see ......

Planned Parenthood is EVIL, EVIL, EVIL

Once again, Planned Parenthood has shown they true colors. Once again, Planned Parenthood is at the center of controversy. Once again, Planned Parenthood is willing to stand up for statutory rape. Lovely. Wonderful.

Not even worthy of dead fish

Every once in a while the fish wrap of record here in Los Angeles just out does itself. Sunday, November 30th was one of those days.

Front and center on Page 1 was this article, A quarter-century marriage to a man behind bars. Lucky us, it’s the first of a three part series.

I found the article a pathetic piece of journalism, and a waste of black and white that could have been better spent.

I am no feminist, but this piece, in my opinion, portrayed this woman as a heroine, and her relationship with this convicted criminal romantic and tragic.

In a physical exile, they would share the closest of bonds. Their correspondence would fill boxes, and they would chat on a prison phone through bulletproof glass for hours at a time.

(skip)

There was a kiss, but no dancing or cake. For her wedding night, she drove back down U.S. 50 to her apartment, made dinner and went to bed alone.

It is not romantic. It is, however, tragic, as is our “heroine.”

She was drawn to people who were different. She loved to debate a wannabe Black Panther in her dorm just to hear his ideas. But her interest in classes was haphazard, and she dropped out after her second year. She took a job at a bar and wondered where circumstances would take her next.

Our hero is a drug addict and a thief, who became a member of the Aryan gang in prison.

But outside the house, he was defiant and stirring a fury of trouble. He started smoking weed and popping barbiturates at 12. He first stuck his arm with a needle full of heroin at 14.

Arrests added up: narcotics, burglary, assault. In the 11th grade, he punched a teacher and was sent to a boys detention camp in Trabuco Canyon. When he got out and landed in more trouble, his probation officer gave him a choice between jail and the Marines. Robert made it through basic training, but was kicked out for twice going AWOL on drug jags.

By the late 1960s, he was robbing convenience stores to buy heroin.

Our heroine and hero meet. They can’t help it. She’s married to his brother. In June 1984, after she divorces brother #1, she marries brother #2 (the convict) in prison.

Her first letters were filled with idle chat and family news. Soon she found herself drawn to Robert in the way she was drawn to the wannabe Black Panther in the dorms at Kansas State. She found in Robert someone craving to express himself. Pam didn't realize how much she needed to do the same.

Oh, dear Lord … it goes on and on like this. How tragic. How romantic. How poetic.

How disgusting. How horrifying. How pathetic.

Give Thanks

As I write this I am so grateful for my home, my family and my country. I am also horrified at the attacks that took place today in Mumbai, India.

As I follow the news on Twitter, a couple posts caught my eye.

People are HORRIFIED that CNN claimed that the attacks looked like al Qaeda. How could they, CNN, accuse such an organization of such a horrible deed without proof?

What proof do we need? Westerners, particularly Americans and Brits, are once again under attack. Hmmm. Westerners. Coordinated bombings. If it’s not al Qaeda, it’s definitely al Qaeda inspired.

The group Deccan Mujahedeen, which has possible ties to Indian Mujahedeen, has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Mumbai. Only time will tell, and some good reporting, from where the inspiration, money, guns and bombs came.

The First Amendment and the No on 8 Bullies

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

California Proposition 8 – Protect Marriage Amendment

Do not live in denial, my fellow Americans. The First Amendment is under attack, and not by just the government, but by the No on 8 bullies.

Conservatives beware. If you contribute to pro-life political candidates or conservative causes, you are already under attack. Your religion, your freedom of speech, your right to peaceably assemble, your right to petition the government, all of these are being threatened. And while you might not have voted Yes on 8, do not be naïve to think that these bullying tactics will not be applied to your causes, your beliefs, or your passions.

Sacramento, CA – Scott Eckern, artistic director for the California Musical Theatre, resigned Wednesday as a growing number of artists threatened to boycott the organization because of his $1,000 donation to the campaign to ban gay marriage in California.

Los Angeles, CA –The manager at the El Coyote restaurant Marjorie Chrisoffersen's $100 donation to Yes on 8 leads to public protests.

Washington, DC – the Democrats are threatening to shut down conservative talk radio through the readopting of the Fairness Doctrine.

The U.S. Supreme Court has held that political contributions are protected speech; speech that is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

And now it’s not just enough to attack those who financially contributed to Yes on 8. The bullying tactics have been expanded to include membership in the Mormon Church. Church members are now collectively branded as hate mongers, and therefore deserving of a boycott.

Bill Marriott is having to defend his religion, and his company, here.

As many of you may know I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some might conclude given my family's membership in the Mormon Church that our company supported the recent ballot initiative to ban same sex marriage in California. This is simply untrue. Marriott International is a public company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and is not controlled by any one individual or family. Neither I, nor the company, contributed to the campaign to pass
Proposition 8.

My dear No on 8 bullies. It is not enough to protest the Mormons and Evangelical Christians (who are primarily Republicans). Be honest and true to your cause and go after those Democrats who voted overwhelmingly in favor of Yes on 8. 70% of African-Americans voted Yes on 8. 53% of Hispanics voted Yes on 8.

I would urge the No on 8 bullies to be equal and fair. Take your march to the African-American communities of South Central Los Angeles, North Long Beach, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.

Tony V Fiddles while LA burns

LA's own 11% solution, never one to miss a photo-op or his pictured on a jumbo-tron, spent last night at the Dodger game while LA burned:

Around the fourth inning of the National League Championship Series Monday night, as the hills north of Los Angeles continued to burn, Fox cameras panned
to the dignitaries sitting in the luxury seats.

With its usual host of celebrities and debutantes, the collection of upper crust was noteworthy for only one reason. Amongst the select crowd was Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who smiled as Derek Lowe was mowing down the Phillies; smiling as thousands in the San Fernando Valley were driven from their homes by two blazes that burned without care; smiling as thick smoke choked parts of four major freeways closed earlier in the day; smiling hours after 19 homes burned; smiling after two had died.

Just makes you feel warm and fuzzy knowing this guy wants to run for governor.

Misogyny & Sexism sets tone in Obama campaign

For those who don't know Tammy Bruce, she is a former feminist from left, former president of the LA chapter of NOW, who was shunned when she spoke out against Bill Clinton during his many sex scandals. Tammy is now feminist for the right!

A conservative in NYC

What would happen if ...

What would happen if a video of David Duke calling John McCain the Messiah surfaced??? Would CNN, MSNBC and FOX News find it newsworthy? Would Katie Couric, Tom Brokaw and Charlie Gibson not lead off with the story?

Well, Louis Farrakhan says that when "Obama talks 'the Messiah is absolutely speaking."

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, another powerful Chicago-based political figure Associated with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and other long-time associates of Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama, is leaving no doubt about what he thinks of the leader in the campaign for the White House.

He says when Obama talks "the Messiah is absolutely speaking."

Obama is LYING about ACORN

While the McCain camp keeps bringing up Ayers, it’s ACORN that we should be shining the spotlight on. I can understand why McCain hasn’t brought it up yet; he’d be branded a racist. But with the raids on the ACORN offices this week, which even CNN covered as voter fraud, I don’t think those types of charges will stick.

Read about Obama’s CURRENT ties to ACORN.

ACORN is tied to mortgage mess.

John Fund lays out the tactics of ACORN in his book, Stealing Elections. While ACORN is not the central focus of the book, you will find an eerily familiar story.

The Cleveland Leader: Barack Obama's Involvement with ACORN Unearthed, Missing Article Recovered

And then there is this MUST read article from Stanley Kurtz, NRO contributing editor.

Inside Obama’s Acorn: By their fruits ye shall know them.

What if Barack Obama’s most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you’d know what I was talking about. Acorn is at least as radical as these better-known groups, arguably more so. Yet because Acorn works locally, in carefully selected urban areas, its national profile is lower. Acorn likes it that way. And so, I’d wager, does Barack Obama.

This is a story we’ve largely missed. While Obama’s Acorn connection has not gone entirely unreported, its depth, extent, and significance have been poorly understood. Typically, media background pieces note that, on behalf of Acorn, Obama and a team of Chicago attorneys won a 1995 suit forcing the state of Illinois to implement the federal “motor-voter” bill. In fact, Obama’s Acorn connection is far more extensive. In the few stories where Obama’s role as an Acorn “leadership trainer” is noted, or his seats on the boards of foundations that may have supported Acorn are discussed, there is little follow-up. Even these more extensive reports miss many aspects of Obama’s ties to Acorn.

McCain takes on ACORN

Fight on McCain

Where's the Video??

I'm listening to Rush play McCain's rally in Wisconsin. McCain attacks on ACORN! McCain attacks Dodd and Frank.

I won't rest today until I have the video/audio files for us to circulate.

Primary Do Over

After last night's debate it is more than clear that neither Obama or McCain is capable of handling this nation's economic crisis.

OK. Let's admit it. We, as a collective, voted for the wrong guy during our respective primaries. Susan Estrich agrees:

Politico called it the worst debate ever. I can’t disagree. Frankly, I haven’t seen one that even came close. Two substantial men, and by the end of it (OK, close to the end), everyone watching with me in the hotel lobby was wondering how either of these guys managed to win his party’s nomination.

Socialism, which is what both campaigns are calling for, is not the answer.

So, I'm calling for a Primary Do Over.

Dems - you vote for Hillary.

Reps - we vote for Mitt.

Then, maybe, just maybe, we, as a collective, have a chance.

Why should I pay my mortgage?

With all the talk of buying up bad loans and bankruptcy courts lowering the principal owed on mortgages, I keep asking myself, “why am I still paying my mortgage?”

Even the Republican’s own, John McCain, has jumped onto this socialist idea:

"I would order the secretary of the Treasury to immediately buy up the bad home-loan mortgages in America and renegotiate at the new value of those homes — at the diminished values of those homes — and let people be able to make those payments and stay in their homes," he said.

McCain is calling this the “American Homeownership Resurgence Plan.”

AAugh!!!!!

Each month my mortgage company reaches into my checking account and withdraws $2200 for my 1250 ft condo on the Westside. Why do I continue to do this? If property values are down, maybe I can get my loan realigned and pay less. Why should my lazy, no-good, bums of neighbors who paid too much money for a house in our neighborhood (up to $1 million) be the lucky ones?

Oh, that’s right. I’m a responsible, law-abiding, bill-paying, tax-paying, voter. I don’t count.

Palin Rally - Carson, CA

On Saturday afternoon we faced down the perfect traffic storm to attend the Palin rally.

With our two daughters in tow, we stood in line with 20,000 other conservative. It was incredible standing on the floor of the Home Depot Tennis Center and know that you could speak freely to anyone standing around you. Meg Whitman and Jon Voight kicked things off and got the crowd excited. But, it was the chants of Sarah, Sarah, Sarah that really got crowd going.

Through it all I was most proud of my daughter, age 8. She made her way to the front of the crowd and was able to watch Mrs. Palin from steps away.

At her Westside public school she is proudly asserting that we are supporting McCain-Palin and, better yet, understands why. I am so grateful for this opportunity to talk to my daughter about conservative v. liberal ideals; how her daddy and I believe that all life has value; how we believe that government is more often the problem, than the solution; how democracy must be defended at all costs; how socialism is not our ideal.

We are teaching our children how to hold these ideals dear, but to respect others' opinions as well, for on November 5th we will all be neighbors.

Just Because ... Who doesn't like a little Kung Fu

www.kungfuelection.com

Burning Down the House: What Lead to the Economic Creisis

How Congress Failed to Protect Our Economy

Democrats defend and cover up Fannie Mae

In their own words.

Welcome to the Socialist States of America

Today I am stunned and watch in fear as my country moves from our democratic foundation to what can only be described as a socialist state.

Whatever happened to “Never Again?” after World War II? Yet, here we are, watching the beginning of the end as our country walks down the same path paved by the Socialist Party. I’m not talking about the Final Solution, but how the socialists rose up and took over Germany and Europe.

America today is in an economic crisis, as was Germany in the 1930s. While the German’s blamed the Jewish people, the Democrats are blaming “corporate America.” I don’t expect to see concentration camps set up, but I do promise, on day-one of an Obama presidency, freedom of speech will be the first casualty of our democracy via the Fairness Doctrine.

The redistribution of personal wealth and property will continue.

I predict that the government will continue to nationalize our corporations. It is clear that our elected officials no longer answer to the people, but to themselves, beginning with our own Senator Feinstein:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she has received 82,000 calls or e-mails from constituents opposed to the plan, and only 5,000 supporting it.

Yet she voted for the bill because we, the people, just do not understand. In reality, we, the people, do understand and we don’t like it.

Congress has already begun nationalizing our financial institutions. They will soon move to take over the insurance industry, especially with Senator Reid’s panicked comments today about a major insurer on the verge of bankruptcy. How long before the government nationalizes the oil, gas and energy industry? What’s next after that?

I feared when I saw the 200,000 Germans cheering for Obama. I am panicked about the school room of children singing his praises.



Whether you are a Christian or Jew, the Ten Commandments instruct us that “I am the Lord, your God. You shall have no gods before Me.” How can we sit idle and abide with this?

“Never again.” What does that mean? For me it means that my check book opens today to McCain/Palin. Our family’s time is volunteered at their campaign headquarters. I explain to my children the dangers of the cult of personality and socialism. We will be amongst the masses at the Sarah Palin rally on Saturday.

My vote will count. I will not give up hope. I believe in democracy. I believe in America.

Abortion Guilt and the Hatred for Sarah Palin

Life has been in session and no time to blog. But now’s the time to let go of my excuses and put fingers to keyboard once again.

I have been in NYC and DC for the past few days and have had several thoughtful discussions with the liberals-at-large as to why there is such hatred for Sarah Palin. I can sum it up in two words: abortion guilt.

As many Republican women, I once labeled myself as “pro-choice.” "I would never have an abortion, but I didn’t want to stand in your way either." That wasn’t true, but on the Westside of LaLa Land, you better not confess to your friends that you are pro-life. It is a sin against all things self-centered and botoxed.

In reading the Facebook and Twitter posts of some of my liberal colleagues and friends, and in further face-to-face discussions, along with all the back and forth between the talking heads, I believe it is guilt over abortion that is leading to the passionate hatred for Mrs. Palin. She CHOSE not to abort her child, against all odds, and some folks just can't abide by that. And, I’m not just talking about Trig.

Young pregnant women in our society are encouraged to abort their “unplanned” pregnancies. “You’re too young to have a baby.” “A baby will stand in the way of your career.” “There’s time for that later.”

Very rare these days is the shot-gun marriage before the baby arrives. And, when he does propose marriage, women are lead to believe that he's only marrying you because of the baby and he'll resent you and eventually leave you, so why even try. It’s only a clump of cells, anyway.

But Sarah and Todd Palin did not abort their child. Todd did not abandon Sarah to raise the baby alone. He married her, and they went on to have four more children and what appears to be a loving, compassionate, and passionate marriage.

Every woman who had an abortion in her early twenties, who was told that an abortion was the best thing she could do for herself, must look at Sarah Palin and think, “what if.” What if I didn’t abort my child? What if I had married him when he said he would marry me? What if I had made a different choice? Sarah Palin is the embodiment of their wrong decision. Their wrong choice.

And then there is Trig. Sweet, adorable baby Trig with the extra chromosome. I read recently that up to 90% of Down syndrome babies are aborted. Oh, my God. That is genocide in and of it self, but I’ll leave that to a separate post.

I have read so many vial comments about Mrs. Palin’s choice, and having babies with Down syndrome in general. I have a “friend” who is making a donation to Planned Parenthood in Sarah Palin’s name. How sick is that?

Around the time that Trig was born, friends of ours also had a Down syndrome baby. It was heartbreaking and challenging for them. I would be mortified if they heard the comments said about them behind their backs.

I beamed with pride when Sarah Palin summed it up in an interview with Sean Hannity, she prayed that God would open her heart to love this baby. And, upon first laying eyes on baby Trig, she realized that He did. What an example Sarah Palin is to all the parents who CHOOSE to have and love these babies.

Baby Trig will do more to end the slaughter of innocent lives than any prayer or protest ever will. With a little bit of hope, and a lot of get out the vote, we will watch Trig grow over the next eight-plus years on the world’s stage. We will come to learn the joy and love of a Down syndrome baby, along with the challenges. Sarah, Todd and Trig will help to end the fear over having a disabled child.

Sarah Palin is not the catalyst for the hatred that is spewed against her. Sarah Palin is the embodiment of a woman who made the right choice. She is a reminder that an unexpected pregnancy, or an unexpected genetic test result, is not just a clump of cells. It is a an adorable baby. It is a young man who is now off to war. It is God’s love.

The Unknown Criminal has struck again

A horrible stabbing last night in Century City. A Camarillo woman, Pamela Fayed, was brutally murdered. A mother of two, she deserves our thoughts and prayers today.

However, in our politically correct world, all we know from the fish wrap of record is that the police are looking for a

suspect, described as a slender man in his 20s wearing a black hooded sweatshirt.

Wow. A man in his 20s wearing a hoodie. That’s helpful. With all of the “eye witnesses,” why isn’t the LAPD releasing a racial description? As a frequent shopper and parker in the Century City Mall, should I be suspect of every slender young male in Los Angeles? Was he tall? Short? Dark hair? Blond? Was he white, black, Hispanic, Asian?

Are you hiding something, LAPD?

But there was a shining angel in all of this. Thank God for the unnamed Good Samaritan who removed his shirt in an attempt to stem the blood loss from Ms. Fayed. From my own personal experience, I want you to know that the family will find comfort in knowing that you were there.

My Boy is Back - Where are the bumber stickers?

Mitt Romney is back and he's looking good. Tan and well rested, he is the BEST choice for McCain. Articulate, brilliant, smart business man, good family guy and great teeth. In an image-based society, you cannot underestimate the importance of spewing a good sound-bite, and being photogenic.

I can see the bumper sticker now.

A McCain/Romney ticket will beat back anything the Dems can throw at us. Romney is everything that McCain is not. He was and continues to be my first choice for president. He recently sat down with CBS news:

The most obvious assets that Romney would bring to the Republican ticket include his economic expertise, fundraising prowess and potential to give McCain a boost in more than one battleground state. But a less talked about plus side to a Romney vice presidential candidacy is that despite his perpetually sunny demeanor, the former Massachusetts governor is not afraid to unleash razor-sharp political attacks against the opposition.

"This is not the time for an amateur," Romney said of presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama. "This is the time for a tested, proven professional to lead our country."

Romney brims with confidence and is almost always unflappable. The McCain
campaign has taken advantage of Romney's willingness to take the offensive by
encouraging him to make TV appearances on the senator's behalf.

No mercy for the merciless

Well, someone in California State government got it right. Perhaps they started reading the blogs, or took a poll and realized that Californians want Susan Atkins to die in prison, not in a hospital bed surrounded by her friends and family. The only thing better than Susan Atkins dying in prison is if her family is sitting behind some Plexiglas wall, outside her room, unable to touch her, hold her, pray over her as she dies what will hopefully be an extremely painful and protracted death.

She showed no mercy, she should get no mercy.

Los Angeles (KFI) - California's parole board has a denied a "compassionate release" request from Manson family killer Susan Atkins.

Atkins is serving a life sentence for eight murders in 1969, including that
of pregnant actress Sharon Tate. Atkins admitted to holding Tate down and stabbing her more than a dozen times.

But Atkins, now 60, is dying of brain cancer. Her husband, James Whitehouse, pleaded with the parole board Tuesday for her release.

“Compassion’s not something you earn,” he says, “it’s something that every single person should have merely by means of the fact that they’re human beings.”

He says Atkins can barely function and has only about three months to live.

Debra Tate says Atkins didn't show her sister Sharon any compassion and should die in prison.

“She should die in a hospital ward and fulfill her obligation to society,” she says.

L.A. County's District Attorney sent a letter to the board Monday asking the chairman to deny Atkins' request. D.A. Steve Cooley said letting her out would be an "affront" to Californians and to the families of those murdered by the Manson gang nearly 40 years ago.

Because you have converted to Christianity (or Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, or the religion of peace, Muslimism) does not absolve you of your crimes and your debt to society.

Ms. Atkins you lost your right to compassion when you picked up a knife and killed eight people, nine if you include Paul Richard Polanski.

As you lay in bed dying, reflect on the pain you have caused. The lives you took; the lives that never had a chance to breathe air. The destruction you caused in the lives of so many. Reflect and ask forgiveness … alone. That is the only compassion you deserve.

Kaman Really Got it Wrong

While Kobe gets that the Olympic dream is about representing your country, Clippers player Chris Kaman thinks it’s all about him. He wasn’t good enough to make the US team, so he’s gone off and become a German citizen so he can play for Germany. According to Kaman:

"Hey, the U.S. team didn't call me; this is my one chance to fulfill that Olympic dream every kid has," he said.

News flash, Chris, the dream is to represent YOUR country in the Olympics. Not your great-grandparents.

After all, didn’t we fight a war to stop the Nazis and prevent us all from becoming German citizens?

Didn't They Abolished Slavery?

In today’s fish wrap, Jonah Goldberg’s column has the provocative title of “Forced Servitude in America?” He uses the term to describe Obama’s compulsory volunteerism for educational dollars scheme:

In his speech on national service Wednesday at the University of Colorado, Obama promised that as president he would "set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year."

He would see that these goals are met by, among other things, attaching strings to federal education dollars. If you don't make the kids report for duty, he's essentially telling schools and college kids, you'll lose money you can't afford to lose. In short, he'll make service compulsory by merely compelling schools to make it compulsory.

Hearing the discussion on McIntyre in the Morning, without knowing the context of the Goldberg column, my mind went straight to “I thought we abolished slavery in this country?” If forcing students into volunteering for an education that SUCKS isn’t forced servitude, what is it?

I suppose we could alternately call Obama’s plan:

• A violation of child labor laws?


• Indentured servitude - a contract committing an apprentice or servant to serve a master or employer for a specific period of time


• Slavery - the practice of, or a system based on, using the enforced labor of other people

Kobe Gets it Right – It’s about pride … in America

Happy 4th of July to everyone. While I had to bash on Kobe for losing big in Boston, he got it right in the LATimes interview this week.

Q: After watching what happened in Athens, did it motivate you to play this year?

A: Absolutely. Absolutely. You're dealing with national pride. You never want to see the United States lose at anything. Water polo, soccer, whatever it is. You don't want the United States to lose ever. And in this case, even more so, because it's basketball and it's what I do.

Q: If they had won gold four years ago, would you still have been so eager to play this year?

A: I've been itching to play for our country for quite some time. Because like I said, this is what I do. I play basketball. And this is an opportunity for me to represent my country and show the appreciation that I have for everything this country is.

Q: What does it mean for you to actually play in these Olympics?

A: It's beyond words because whether it's playing for the Lakers or Carmelo [Anthony] playing for the Denver Nuggets, you're representing your market. When you put on the USA uniform, you're representing the country and it's more special. It's something I take a great deal of pride in.

Kobe, I’m proud of you too.

I'm Sorry, But I'm Not Sorry

In today's fish wrap there is another sob story of an immigrant family being torn apart by the big, bad immigration agency. Page 1 of the California section tells the story of Michael Campo, 10, and his father Carlos Alvarado. You gotta love the picture in the paper (missing in the on-line edition): Michael is holding hands with his dad's shadow, foretelling what the future holds for him.

What propaganda, and what a lie.

Read deep into the article carefully. What the story is really about is how a parent's selfish behavior is to blame for harming their child, not ICE.

Buried deep on page B6, (where the photo of dad isn't a shadow), is this line:

Alvarado, who has a work permit and has been with the same plastering company
for 13 years, also pays for Michael's health insurance.

Alvarado landed in immigration court after violating probation on prior convictions of
driving under the influence and driving on a suspended license.

Mr. Alvarado had a work permit. He wasn't illegal. He just chose to keep breaking the law; he was on probation! Deportation proceedings didn’t begin until he repeatedly broke the law.

Using the LA Times logic:

• Divorced fathers, who break the law, are put on probation, who then violate probation and are sent back to jail, shouldn't have to go because it will harm their parent/child bond.
• Criminal parents shouldn't be sent to prisons that are inconveniently located from where the kids live as it will cost the family time and money to visit.
• Criminal parents shouldn't have to take responsibility for their actions, after all, they need to be there for their kids.

How's this: Parents, be responsible and don't commit crimes. Put your children’s' welfare before your own and stay out of jail.

And, Michael, when your dad is deported to Mexico with his new girlfriend and kids, know in your heart that America didn't do this to you. Your dad did this to you and to himself. For that, I am sorry.

Scrapping the Bottom of the TV Barrel

I am one of the 12 people who still subscribes to TV Guide. Call it bathroom reading, but I admit it, I still like it.

This week’s cover makes me sick, as do all the advertising for the hideous new “FAMILY” show, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, brought to us by the makers of 7th Heaven.

My question is: Whose family is ABC attempting to attract with this show? What does ABC expect us to do? Gather ‘round the TV during the “family hour” from 8:00 – 9:00 pm and explain to our pre-teens all about sex and teenage pregnancy?? I predict those watching the show will be the girls from dysfunctional families looking to identify with a family that is definitely not their own. Pregnant teens wishing their moms were more like Molly Ringwald than Lynne Spears.

My favorite aspect of the show is that the pregnant girl is not the “stereotypical” knocked-up teen that we usually see in the real world: a poor girl raised in the hood by her single mother on welfare with no dad in the picture; a broken family where dad has moved on to his new family, and mom is more concerned about finding the next “him” than raising her kids; a dysfunctional “intact” family where there is sexual abuse or drug addiction/alcoholism that no one really talks about; or a family where the parents are so self-absorbed that no one is raising the kids.

In ABC’s fictional family, the daughter is the “good girl,” and while the family is not perfect, these parents are definitely not members of the Spears or Lohan clans either.

ABC wants to indoctrinate America that those of us who are the “nice” families are susceptible to teen pregnancies. Of course we are, but it is far from likely or typical. ABC wants us to accept that families like mine, where the mom and dad love each other, are affectionate and spend lots of times with the kids will end up with knocked-up teens. Really? Then what’s the use of parents who will actually raise their own kids rather than letting someone else raise them? Parents who provide the necessities, and more, but also instill core values that will aid their children in making their own good decisions in life? How about this is what we do to inoculate our kids against the garbage of ABC.

Come on, now. Is this what we need on TV today? With 17 girls pregnant at a Gloucester high school, whether they had a pact or not; with ex-USC student Holly Ashcraft, who keeps tossing her babies in the trash, getting off with only a slap on the wrist; with 70% of black children born out of wedlock. This is the best that ABC has to offer America?

According to the CDC:

In 2005, Washington, D.C., had the highest teen birth rate in the country (63.4 per 1,000), and states Texas and New Mexico with the highest rates (61.6 each); New Hampshire had the lowest teen birth rate (17.9).4 In 2006, the overall birth rate for 15– to 19– year-old females was 41.9, but— the rate was

• 83 among Hispanics (twice the overall rate),
• 63.7 among non-Hispanic blacks (however, blacks have a slightly higher
  teen pregnancy rate than Hispanics),
• 54.7 among American Indian or Alaska Natives, and
• 26.6 among non-Hispanic whites.

But back to ABC and their “family” television circa 2008. I just don’t know whose family they’re talking about.

I thank God that growing up I was exposed to the idealized families, whether it was Ozzie & Harriet, Leave it to Beaver, Little House on the Prairie or even the The Addams Family. They gave me hope that there was a different family structure than mine.

Oh, and don’t get me going on Swingers. As a child growing up in that part of the 70s, I can assure you that self-absorbed parents more concerned about “finding” themselves and doing whatever “felt” good at the moment, well, those are the families that end up with teenaged-pregnant daughters, drug addicted sons, and alcoholic pre-teens who are lost in the midst of it all.

I really challenge ABC to tell the true story of what teen pregnancy in America really means:

When teens give birth, their future prospects and those of their children decline. Teen mothers are less likely to complete high school and more likely to live in poverty than other teens. Pregnant teens aged 15–19 years are less likely to receive prenatal care and gain appropriate weight and more likely to smoke than pregnant women aged 20 years or older. These factors are also associated with poor birth outcomes.

Supreme Decision Barr None

Doug McIntyre had a great interview this morning with former Republican, and now Libertarian, presidential candidate Bob Barr. I respect Barr immensely and he is correct on his analysis of the current state of the GOP, especially the elitist attitudes and policies coming out of Washington DC, as well as the lack of true Republican leadership and ideals.

Listening to Barr I started contemplating breaking my vow to my DH to vote for McCain (I swore I'd vote for McCain in November if he voted for Romney in the CA primary over Rudy).

How apt that the interview was interrupted with the breaking news that SCOTUS ruled in favor of 2nd Amendment rights. Considering yesterday's affirmation for child rapists (we're we really surprised by that), I was shocked.

It also reinforced for me that while I am in complete support of Bob Barr and believe that he has the best ideas for moving our country forward and in the right direction, I cannot risk Obama appointing any judges, especially to the Supreme Court of this land.

I will ink stamp my name next to McCain on November 4th. I will not hold my nose while doing so. I might not put a bumper sticker on my car, but I will do my duty as a proud Republican.

Where For Art Thou, Walter Moore

According to the Daily News, prior to Doug McIntyre's program this morning, Tony V has no announced challengers in the upcoming mayoral elections.

The invitation-only champagne reception is expected to raise tens of thousands of dollars for Villaraigosa's re-election campaign next spring. As of now, the mayor has no announced challenger.

Hellllloooo, I think Walter Moore has been serenading me every morning for months now on KABC.

I tried all morning to locate the story in the Daily News. Thanks to Mayor Sam for posting the story of the story being cleansed and edited.

The Wild, Wild Westside

Well, here we sit waiting for the SCOTUS to rule on the 2nd Amendment. Now, this might be a product of my Westside upbringing, but I’m not a gun nut … yet I don’t hate them either. I’ve always felt that there need to be reasonable laws, training, etc. I don’t feel strongly for or against handgun registration. But, with Obama as a potential president I might need to rethink my position on that one.

The funny thing is chatting with a gal pal of mine over the weekend, she coyly brought up that her husband is newly into guns. HOORAY. I yelled. Now my DH has someone to go play with at the shooting range.

It also got me thinking about the phone call I received last week, “Hey, Westside Conservative, you’re a Republican, right?” She came out of the closet right then and there. Added her to my speed dial.

So it appears that I am not alone on LA’s Westside. There are three of us, lol. Shhh. Don’t tell anyone, we might not get invited to Obama’s next $30,000 per person fundraising event.

Obama's Seal of Disapproval

Barack, Barack, Barack. Who is running your campaign and making these decisions. I admit, what's bad for you is great for us ... McCain can use all the help he can. But really, plagiarizing the Presidential Seal?

Whoever, except as authorized under regulations promulgated by the President and published in the Federal Register, knowingly manufactures, reproduces, sells, or purchases for resale, either separately or appended to any article manufactured
or sold, any likeness of the seals of the President or Vice President, or any substantial part thereof, except for manufacture or sale of the article for the
official use of the Government of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

What's next, Airforce 1.0? The Ecru House? The First Babe?

Slow down buddy. It's only June 21st ... keep making mistakes like this and Hillary might rise out of the ashes. Afterall, she only SUSPENDED her campaign.

Jamiel Shaw Wasn’t Perfect

Wow. Turns out that Jamiel Shaw was an imperfect kid growing up in this screwed up City of Angels. Jamiel didn't grow up in my LA filled with pool parties, beaches and shopping in Century City. He grew up in the "drive by" areas of our city ... somewhere east of Robertson and before you hit downtown. You know, all those mile markers along the 10 Freeway where we used to get off to go to grandma's house, before grandma moved west of Robertson. La Cienega, Fairfax, La Brea, Crenshaw. Streets we cringe at when we have to get off there to go to The Grove or into West Hollywood for dinner at Gordon Ramsay's new restaurant. Neighborhoods we lock our doors, look straight ahead and pray that we hit Wilshire soon.

Jamiel’s parents were raising him right in the wrong place. Is anyone shocked that he had gang ties? Can anyone growing up East of Robertson and South of Olympic not have some relationship with the gangs? Does any of this take away from the fact that a young kid, a promising athlete, was murdered by an illegal alien gang banger with BK (Blood Killer) tattooed behind his ear?

When kicking back in our $500 Lakers seats, or watching any pro-football game on TV (because God forbid LA actually get a football team to fill some arena that has yet to be built), we’re just looking at the lucky kids … the kids that escaped from the same types of neighborhoods that killed Jamiel.

How many other Jamiels are out there? Good kids just trying to survive in a city that is so unforgiving.

Obama Rejects Public Financing

Once again, Obama shows how naïve he is when it comes to national politics. He is giving way too much fodder to McCain’s team (who needs as much fodder as they can get, so fine by me). It now appears that “he was for public financing before he was against it.”

Obama must believe he is capable of raising hundreds of millions of dollars to take on McCain in November, otherwise why would he risk this move? How in today’s economy, with $5.07 gas at the Shell station on the corner of Grand & Olympic, could his handlers even begin to THINK that this is a good idea?

Obama, will the underclass that you purport to represent, the same “victims” of the economy, bad home loans, lack of education, oppression by “Big Oil,” the same people you will be hitting up for these campaign contributions, stand up and say, “What the hell are you doing? How can you spend $100, $200, or $300 million to win an election when I have to pay $5.07 for premium gas?”

Really, Obama, who will you and your campaign target to raise this money? Corporate America? Elitist America? We “rich” Americans who should be paying more taxes? I think we're all planning on voting for McCain.

Please, Team-Obama, keep the good ideas coming ... we can use all the help you can give us.

Pass Me a Slice of Wedding Cake

In a couple hours gay marriage will be legal in California. Unlike most conservatives, I just have to say Mazel Tov.

Here’s where the libertarian in me comes out. I just don’t believe the government should be involved in issuing marriage licenses at all.

When my husband and I got married, in a church, we had the religious ceremony and the certificate we filed with the State of California. Two separate events. That state issued piece of paper means nothing. It was committing ourselves to one another, before God, our friends and family that had meaning. Having to get a certificate of marriage was just an additional pain-in-the-ass thing to do before the wedding.

I don't see how if the government issues me a certificate to marry a man, they can't issues Bill a certificate to marry a man. So Bill will be eligible for Sam's social security benefits. Wow. That hurt me and my marriage. Not really. But, then again, I don't believe in Social Security so that's probably a bad example.

At the end of the day, I believe that the government should confine itself to doing the least amount of harm possible. Police, Fire and Roads. I suggest that they start by paving the street in front of my daughter’s school.

But really, when it comes to the sanctity of marriage, heterosexuals have damaged the “sanctity” of it all by ourselves. When so many marriages end in divorce, who are we to take the higher ground on who can and cannot get married?

The divorce rate in America for first marriage is 41%
The divorce rate in America for second marriage is 60%
The divorce rate in America for third marriage is 73%

A more shocking, and sad, statistic comes from the US Census, which notes that between 1990-1994 only one in 10 black children conceived before marriage are born in wedded bliss.

For Black women under age 30, the percentage of first births either born or conceived before first marriage doubled from 43 percent during the 1930-34 period to 86 percent during 1990-94 (Table 2). In both periods, the majority of premaritally conceived first births to Black women were born out of wedlock. Only one in 10 Black women who had a premaritally conceived birth in 1990-94 was married by the time of the child's birth compared to one-quarter of these births in the 1930s (Figure 4).

And then there is my Westside family to consider: the Queen of 20st Century Fox has been married five times; Black Fox alum Dad has been married three. Grandpa was married three times, and grandma at least three, if not more. Other grandma had a long-term affair with a married man. Big brother’s been married twice, little sister just got divorced. Big sister is married 20+ years, a record for our clan. And, my other little sister refuses to get married to her longtime boyfriend before gays can … waiting for the invitation now!

Personally, I think my family has done more to harm my marriage than any gay marriage ever will. As for me, darling hubby and I are at 10.5 years and counting!

What a Nightmare

I fell asleep on the couch last night and dreamt that the Lakers blew their 20 point lead over the Celtics, and lost the fricken’ game.

Oh, wait, that wasn’t a dream.

Racking my brain, that had to have been the greatest comeback in Finals history, and beyond that, one of the few great mega-comebacks by a road team in playoffs history. I'm sure they'll have the complete list Friday, but I can't remember watching many ESPN Classic games where the road team made up a deficit that large. Home teams? Yes. Road teams? No. You'll see the road team come roaring back, but they never actually win. This time? They won.

There's a New Sheriff in Town

As mentioned in the past, I'm a third generation Angeleno, which means absolutely nothing other than I have three generations of opinions. My grandmother was born here in 1910 and graduated LA High. My grandfather graduated from Roosevelt. Granny’s parents were the first people on their block to own a car. She would tell stories of the couple hour drive from their house just south of Hancock Park to their summer place in Venice. Funny how that hasn't changed, but traffic isn’t the point of this rant.

What saddens me most about LA is how the racial divide continues to grow, especially on our school campuses.

"A lot of students are depressed because of the conditions in their school," said Anna Exiga, a junior at Jordan High School who was one of the organizers of the survey. "They see that their school is failing them, their teachers are failing them, there's racial tension and gang violence, and also many feel that their schools are not schools -- their schools look more like prisons."

When I was a teen coming of age on the Westside during the 80s, there were racial tensions everywhere we went: At Palms Jr. High, Hamilton High, cruising the streets of Westwood, the UCLA Mardi Gras. In those “good ol’ days” someone might come out a little bloody and bruised. Today, however, looking at someone the wrong way will kill you.

The LA political and MSM machines would lead us to believe that LA is as safe as it was in the 50s. My parents came of age here in the 50s. The only dangers they faced came from my grandfather, who set an alarm clock to make certain Mom made it home by curfew. Don’t really remember the 60s. But, in the 70s, living in the valley, we roamed the streets during the day until it was time to come home for dinner.

That, Tony V, was safe. The streets of LA are not safe for our kids. Just ask Jamiel Shaw Sr.

Now comes Sheriff Lee Baca. I don’t know if he’s getting ready to run for mayor, or if he’s finally decided to differentiate himself from the other drones of LA politics, but Sheriff Baca is admitting what no other LA politician will: racial tensions are killing the kids of our fair city.

Some people deny it. They say that race is not a factor in L.A.'s gang crisis; the problem, they say, is not one of blacks versus Latinos and Latinos versus blacks but merely one of gang members killing other gang members (and yes, they acknowledge, sometimes the gangs are race-based).But they're wrong. The truth is that, in many cases, race is at the heart of the problem. Latino gang members shoot blacks not because they're members of a rival gang but because of their skin color. Likewise, black gang members shoot Latinos because they are brown.

So, let’s tip one up to Sheriff Leroy D. Baca. Sounds to me like there’s a new sheriff in town.

Now, That’s a Murderer

I’m listening to Doug McIntyre’s program this morning and his interview with Vincent Bugliosi. Mr. Bugliosi is plugging his new book accusing George Bush of being a murderer and laying out the case for his prosecution. Talk about summer reading. Keith Olbermamn must be peeing in his pants waiting to get his hands on an advanced copy.

Throwing out the M-word where Bush and the Iraq War are concerned is like dropping the N-word in the middle of an Obama rally. Come on, we can’t have a political discourse if you begin by reducing the conversation to a point I, as a proud conservative, can never go.

I hate that our men and women have died in this war, in any war for that matter. But, war is hell and kids do die in combat. But they also liberated concentration camps and countries invaded by the devil incarnate during WWII. Not to mention freeing the slaves during our own Civil War, and liberating us from King George.

Did Bush lie? I don’t know. I don’t think her purposely “lied,” but I’m sure he was all too happy to believe “truths” that later turned out to be false. Is Bush a murderer? Absolutely not!

I came across this headline today that stopped me dead in my tracks and actually had my mouth agape at my computer:

"Robert Mugabe Militia Hacks, Burns Alive Opposition Leader's Wife"

THAT, Mr. Bugliosi is a murderer. Robert Mugabe, like Saddam Hussein, Hitler and Stalin before him, is a murderer.

George Bush, in our perfected 20/20 hindsight, did not make all the best decisions, had some bad assumption, and yeah, he won't make anyone's Top 10 US Presidents list. But George Bush is no murderer ... and Saddam Hussein had to go.

At the end of the day I hope we can all agree that the world, especially the Iraqi people, is better off without Saddam Hussein. Unfortunately, the underlying tribal hatred within Iraq is stronger than anyone believed possible, and has lead to more problems and issues than we had anticipated, and can deal with. Agreed, we did not handle the post-Saddam portion of the war well. But Bush is no murderer.

I look forward to history’s take on the Iraq War 50 years from now. W, to his credit, stopped the next "Hitler" in his tracks, but he will never be given credit for the lives that were not lost to the torture and rape chambers; to the bombs that will never be sold to terrorist groups and used against innocents; and to the ethnic cleansing that will never happen.

Maxine Waters + Socialism = Hugo Chavez

Wow. Sorry if you're the guy on the 10 I almost side-swiped after listening to Maxine "the word you're looking for is Nationalism" Waters. Obviously that "liberal" is just another Socialist. May I recommend emigrating to Venezuela?

Click here to see Maxine "Nationalism" Waters last night on Fox News: sevenload.com

Even the "liberals" surrounding her looks amazed and confused.

Oh, stop your whining already

Is it just me, or is everyone whining these days, and not just my kids.

People can't afford their mortgages.

• well, you shouldn't have bought a house to flip that you couldn't afford. Just ask Representative Laura "deadbeat" Richardson.

People can't afford health insurance.

• Get a job that provides it. Heck, Starbucks provides health insurance for goodness sake.

Gas is sooo expensive.

• Give up your double mochas, or cut back on eating out. I did the math. It's costing me $100 more a month to drive my Aviator. Guess what we're doing ... giving up eating out a couple times a month. Bam. Family of four saves $100. I don't see the headlines on that one.
• Move to Europe and sob to me about gas prices. Europe is paying 2-3 times what we are, always have, always will.

Be grateful that we don't live in China where the walls literally came tumbling down killing (officially) more than 41,000 people. and leaving more than 5 million people homeless. The Northridge earthquake we had in LA back in '94 killed 72 people, but the redevelopment turned Ventura Blvd. into a cool place to hang out.

Be grateful that we don't live in Myanmar where (officially) more than 134,000 people have died or are missing from the recent Cyclone, due mostly to the corruption of the Junta government and their inability to keep their grubby hands off the emergency aid. Hurricane Katrina took the lives of less than 2,000 across both Louisiana and the Gulf states.

Since when is life supposed to be pain and discomfort free. I believe that the "Greatest Generation" were those who grew up and came of age during the Great Depression. Maybe a little bit of pain will turn these whiners into men and women.

Victim Villified by DA

Listening to John & Ken who had Jamiel Shaw Sr. on the show to discuss how the D.A.'s office is threatening to paint his son as a gang-banger unless he drops his support for Jamiel's Law. Click here to see the awards that this "gang-banger" has won. He was an ATHLETE with a Spiderman backpack!!

We cannot allow this city and it's officials to turn their backs on the law-abiding citizens, all in the name of political correctness. It is our responsibility to show support for the Shaw family and be there to honor their son in a ceremony this Saturday, May 10th.

Please, Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater

LAUSD is up to their old shenanigans. Between the lead in the water fountains, transfering known assistant principals who are molesting our kids, and their inability to graduate kids ... now we find out that Tony V's shill is really running LAUSD.

Less than two years into the tenure of Los Angeles Unified Superintendent David
Brewer III, all responsibilities for day-to-day operations at the district
have quietly been shifted to a veteran educator who has been a key adviser to
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Under the shift, all of the LAUSD's top senior personnel now report directly to Ramon Cortines, who played a crucial role in the mayor's efforts to reform the district and who now will report on district operations to Brewer.

Please, let's just throw the baby out with the bathwater and start over.

Districts should be limited to 2-4 high schools, and the feeder middle and elementary schools. Pali & Uni, Hami & Venice, LA & Fairfax.

Maybe if parents had a tie to their community, a tie to their schools, if the busing stopped, maybe the parents and teachers would actually get to know one another, the principals and administrators would not be strangers. There would be REAL accountability. The red-tape would be cut (it will never be eliminated) and maybe, just maybe, the kids would get a chance to actually learn something.

Illegal Alien Street Closures

It’s bad enough that Sepulveda and Sawtelle at Culver have been turned into 4-way parking lots for the past few months on, I think, beautification projects that don’t appear to be making any progress … we’re now closing the streets of downtown for illegal alien marches on May 1st. A communist holiday if there ever was one.

When the immigrant-rights movement chose May Day for its big demonstrations last year, people shouldn't have been surprised. The worldwide workers' holiday was
"Made in the U.S.A."

We can be grateful that another generation of immigrant workers, demanding their rights, should have reminded us of that fact. Now we can all move to reclaim what is collectively ours.

What we need is an international “I Have a Job and I’m Not Whining" day. All the illegal aliens and communists can get off the roads so I can commute the 13 miles from the Westside to downtown, with no traffic, to trudge past the homeless hanging out in front of the Library, and all the different Farmers’ Markets that are taking up 2-3 lanes of 5th Street each week, to reach Al Quaeda Target #1, where I can put in my 8 hours so I can ensure my family gets health insurance.

Now, that would be a holiday.

The "Unknown" Gunman

Once again, there was a shooting in South (Central) LA over the weekend. Victims are described as two young Hispanics sitting in a car. The shooters were in a minivan, and, after killing the young couple in the car, shot at witnesses, who were all black. So far, no news. Just another weekend in L.A.

What I’m wondering is, how’s the LAPD going to find these men? Once again, for political correctness sake, and to avoid the perception (real or perceived) of a gang/race war on the streets of LA, LAPD appears to attribute the (alleged) crime to the “Unknown” Gunman. A man, driving a minivan ( race not released because it isn’t relevant to the story) is all we know. So, for any men driving a minivan in Los Angeles today … get ready to be pulled over whether you are white, black, Hispanic, middle-eastern, Asian or somewhere in between. We wouldn’t want to profile the criminals in the matter, after all, we are a civilized community.

I did check numerous stories today to see if the criminals being sought were described, it wasn’t here LA Times, or in any of these reports CBS2, NBC4, ABC7. KABC radio's Rob Marinko, on Doug McIntyre's program this morning, tried to get a profile of the shooter from LAPD, but to no avail.

All the other details of the shooting are out there, just not a description of the (alleged) shooters.

The woman, shot in the head, died at the scene, and the man, also shot in
the head, was later pronounced dead at a hospital, Lopez said. Both are believed
to have been the only occupants of the vehicle. Their names have not been
released, but police described them as Latino. Ed Winter, assistant chief of the
Los Angeles County coroner's office, said the man was age 20 and the woman
21.

After shooting into the car, the gunman then turned on three women who had
been sitting on a nearby porch, firing on them apparently for having witnessed
the attack, said Officer Ana Aguirre, an LAPD spokeswoman. Lopez said all three,
who are black, were shot in the legs and are in stable condition this
morning.