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.

Wives & Motherhood -- The New Thought Crimes

How is it, in a country wrought with teen pregnancies and gang members, we are so consumed with the idea that a sect (religion) is preparing their daughters to become wives and mothers?

But state authorities are supposed to keep the children in their homes unless "a person of ordinary prudence and caution" believes there's a continuing and immediate danger to their safety.
"There was a systematic process going on to groom these young girls to become brides," said CPS spokesman Darrell Azar, noting that the state had no way to protect from possible future abuse if they stayed on the ranch.
"Removal is always the last option," he said. "In this case, there was no other choice."
CPS officials have conceded there is no evidence the youngest children were abused, and about 130 of the children are under 5. Teenage boys were not physically or sexually abused either, according to evidence presented in a custody hearing earlier last week, but more than two dozen teenage boys are also in state custody, now staying at a boys' ranch that might typically house troubled or abandoned teens.

This is a story that cannot be allowed to fade into the background because we collectively find the FLDS to be weird, strange or freakish. Are they a cult? Most likely, but so are the strange folks living on communes growing organic food and raising organic sheep; and what about those airport loving, pastel sheet wearers who shave their heads and bang their tambourines while passing out brownies.

Many religions oppose one another to the point of war. The fundamentalist Muslims want to convert us Christians, or allow us to die. Sounds pretty freakish to me, yet we allow them to practice their religion in America, even when it is inconvenient to our 21st Century lifestyle. Take the Somali cab drivers in Minnesota. They don't want to transport passengers who have been drinking, or who might be carrying alcohol (so much for the 'don't drink and drive' slogans). The first thing the government tried was compromise.

"It is expressly stated," said Kahlid Elmasry of the Muslim American Society.
"Transportation of alcohol for Muslims is against the Islamic faith, and
therefore forbidden."

Last September, airport officials sought a compromise, and suggested that
distinctive lights could be put on the roofs of cabs operated by drivers who
will not transport alcohol. That way, taxi starters -- airport staff who direct
people into cabs -- could send passengers with alcohol to those drivers who have
no objection.

While that issue still has yet to be resolved, why is the government, in the case of the FLDS, first move designed to destroy the group's fundamental beliefs at their core, with the children. It will be interesting to see how the children are corrupted in foster care. Will they be exposed to all the glory that America has to offer? McDonald's, MTV, Jamie Lynn Spears?

All of which begs the question: don't we all have the right to practice our religion, no matter how weird, in peace?

How's That "Safe Sex" Working For You?

I'm an 80s girl raised by a couple of Rat Pack 60s parents. Safe sex for me was not getting caught. Yet, when STD rates continue to rise, and my pediatrician wants to inoculate my 8-year old daughter against HPV, I have to ask, "how's that 'safe sex' working for you?" According to the CDC, in a first of its kind study,

• At least one in four teenage girls in the United States has a sexually
  transmitted disease, amounting to 3.2 million youth.
• About half of the girls admitted ever having sex, and among them, the
  rate of STD infection was 40 percent, researchers found.
• Even among girls reporting only one lifetime partner, one in five (20.4%) had at least one STI. Girls with three or more partners had a prevalence of over 50 percent. The predominant STI was HPV.

So, what is the CDC's #1 recommendation? Abstinence. Shock. The CDC recommends abstinence.

CDC supports a comprehensive approach to STD prevention that includes the
promotion of abstinence as the surest way to prevent getting an STD, being
in a mutually monogamous relationship with a partner known to be uninfected,
and the consistent and correct use of condoms for sexually active people to
reduce the risk of acquiring many infections. Condoms (used all the time and
the right way) may lower your chances of passing HPV to a partner or
developing HPV-related diseases.

Why does the message continued to be buried? Why do the schools and Planned Parenthood insist on teaching "safe sex" and not focusing on abstinence?

• Comprehensive sex education arms young people with the knowledge to act
  safely and responsibly. The federal government must stop funding dangerous
  abstinence-only education programs.
• The spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) can be reduced through
  comprehensive, medically accurate information and responsible public health
  policies for prevention, screening, and treatment.
• The best way to prevent cervical cancer is to ensure that young women get
  vaccinated with the HPV vaccine and that all women get regular Pap tests.
• Among sexually active people, the risk of HIV/AIDS can be reduced by
  practicing safer sex and using condoms correctly every time.

The message in sex education is focused on pregnancy prevention, but how good of a job is Planned Parenthood doing if the United States continues to have the highest teen pregnancy rates of the industrial world? Could the message not be the right one? Oh, that's right, according to Planned Parenthood, it's the ultraconservative whack jobs' fault:

Sadly, ultraconservative opponents of reproductive health care continue to put
up roadblocks against sound public health policies — including access to the HPV
vaccine, use of condoms, and ensuring access to comprehensive sex education for
all young people — even though more than half of Americans will have an STI at
some point in their lives.

If sex with condoms is so "safe," how come we still have the high pregnancy and STD rates? And really, we're going to trust the schools to teach this? LAUSD can't seem to graduate more than 44% of the kids, but we're going to trust them to teach these kids how to use a condom correctly? Yeah, right.

One thing we know is clear, abstinence prevents pregnancy and STDs 100% of the time. No math test or hyperlinks needed for that fact.

OMG. I Support the ACLU!

This might make my card-carrying-member-of-the-ACLU Dad cry, but I think I actually support the Texas ACLU.

Well, not the ACLU, per se, but their monitoring of the FLDS hearings.

While we acknowledge that Judge Walthers' task may be unprecedented in Texas judicial history, we question whether the current proceedings adequately protect the fundamental rights of the mothers and children of the FLDS,” said Terri Burke, Executive Director of the ACLU of Texas.

As this situation continues to unfold, we are concerned that the constitutional rights that all Americans rely upon and cherish – that we are secure in our homes, that we may worship as we please and hold our places of worship sacred, and that we may be with our children absent evidence of imminent danger – have been threatened,” Burke said.

I feel as if I am the only one on the Westside, conservative or liberal, who is fundamentally concerned with the government coming in and taking these children. At this time, there is no proof of abuse other than the wearing of 19th century clothing, and abstinence from 21st century life (television, processed foods, drugs, graffiti, stds).

Polygamy aside (personally, I don't share and I'm not into sloppy seconds), at the end of the day, is the "abuse" of these children the concept of obedience and family and rejection of the "me-first" culture of 21st Century America? Whose religion, creed, ethos is next? The Hasidic Jews or Muslims? I don't personally like the way they dress women either. What about the Hindus? Are we going to force them to eat at In-n-Out?

We might not all agree with one another, believe in the same God, but in America we have the Constitutional right to practice our religions free from government interference.

If we are to follow the argument in the FLDS case, that a pregnant underage girl is legal cause to tear a family apart, can we please begin with Jamie Lynn Spears?

Wake Up City Hall - LA is a Third World Country

It is amazing how London can recognize that Los Angeles has turned into a Third World Country, yet our political leaders, Tony V and friends included, refuse to recognize the obvious.

Perhaps their limosines are blocking out the graffiti? How's the mentoring of the tagger working out, Tony V?

What will it take to Wake Up City Hall? Will all the law-abiding tax payers have to emigrate to Orange County, Texas and Oregon for you to see that LA has gone to hell.