Shocking

This is shocking.  Re-printed from 'The Catholic League' newsletter, by Bill Donahue.  This is for my American readers, were you aware of this disgrace?  I sure wasn't.  I have listed them to give you an idea of the magnitude of the issue:

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 December 9, 2024 

 Surveys show that the majority of Americans want illegal immigrants deported, especially those who have been convicted of crime. If they were asked exclusively about those convicted sex crimes, that number would surely be greater. But many in Congress disagree—they want to keep them right here in America. 

 

In the last year, a total of 158 Congressmen voted not to deport migrants convicted of sex crimes, and 140 of them were reelected in November. Every one of them were Democrats. 

 

Here are the names of those who were re-elected and voted to keep illegal migrants convicted of sex crimes in the United States: 

 

Rep. Alma Adams, North Carolina  

Rep. Pete Aguilar, California  

Rep. Gabe Amo, Rhode Island 

Rep. Jake Auchincloss, Massachusetts 

Rep. Becca Balint, Vermont 

Rep. Nanette Barragán, California 

Rep. Joyce Beatty, Ohio 

Rep. Ami Bera, California 

Rep. Donald Beyer, Virginia 

Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr., Georgia 

Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, Oregon 

Rep. Shontel Brown, Ohio 

Rep. Julia Brownley, California 

Rep. Salud Carbajal, California 

Rep. André Carson, Indiana 

Rep. Troy Carter, Louisiana 

Rep. Greg Casar, Texas 

Rep. Ed Case, Hawaii 

Rep. Sean Casten, Illinois 

Rep. Kathy Castor, Florida 

Rep. Joaquin Castro, Texas 

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Florida 

Rep. Judy Chu, California 

Rep. Katherine Clark, Massachusetts 

Rep. Yvette Clarke, New York 

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri 

Rep. James Clyburn, South Carolina 

Rep. Steve Cohen, Tennessee 

Rep. Gerald Connolly, Virginia 

Rep. Luis Correa, California 

Rep. Jim Costa, California 

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Texas 

Rep. Jason Crow, Colorado 

Rep. Danny Davis, Illinois 

Rep. Madeleine Dean, Pennsylvania 

Rep. Diana DeGette, Colorado 

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut 

Rep. Suzan DelBene, Washington 

Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, California 

Rep. Debbie Dingell, Michigan 

Rep. Lloyd Doggett, Texas 

Rep. Veronica Escobar, Texas 

Rep. Adriano Espaillat, New York 

Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, Texas 

Rep. Bill Foster, Illinois 

Rep. Valerie Foushee, North Carolina 

Rep. Lois Frankel, Florida 

Rep. Maxwell Frost, Florida 

Rep. John Garamendi, California 

Rep. Jesús "Chuy" Garcia, Illinois 

Rep. Robert Garcia, California 

Rep. Sylvia Garcia, Texas 

Rep. Dan Goldman, New York 

Rep. Jimmy Gomez, California 

Rep. Al Green, Texas 

Rep. James Himes, Connecticut 

Rep. Steny Hoyer, Maryland 

Rep. Valerie Hoyle, Oregon 

Rep. Jared Huffman, California 

Rep. Glenn Ivey, Maryland 

Rep. Jonathan Jackson, Illinois 

Rep. Sara Jacobs, California 

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Washington 

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, New York 

Rep. Henry "Hank" Johnson, Georgia 

Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, California 

Rep. Bill Keating, Massachusetts 

Rep. Robin Kelly, Illinois 

Rep. Ro Khanna, California 

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Illinois 

Rep. Greg Landsman, Ohio 

Rep. Rick Larsen, Washington 

Rep. John Larson, Connecticut 

Rep. Summer Lee, Pennsylvania 

Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, New Mexico 

Rep. Ted Lieu, California 

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, California 

Rep. Doris Matsui, California 

Rep. Lucy McBath, Georgia 

Rep. Jennifer McClellan, Virginia 

Rep. Betty McCollum, Minnesota 

Rep. Morgan McGarvey, Kentucky 

Rep. James McGovern, Massachusetts 

Rep. Gregory Meeks, New York 

Rep. Rob Menendez, New Jersey 

Rep. Grace Meng, New York 

Rep. Kweisi Mfume, Maryland 

Rep. Gwen Moore, Wisconsin 

Rep. Joseph Morelle, New York 

Rep. Seth Moulton, Massachusetts 

Rep. Kevin Mullin, California 

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, New York 

Rep. Richard Neal, Massachusetts 

Rep. Joe Neguse, Colorado 

Rep. Donald Norcross, New Jersey 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York 

Rep. Ilhan Omar, Minnesota 

Rep. Frank Pallone, New Jersey 

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, California 

Rep. Scott Peters, California 

Rep. Brittany Pettersen, Colorado 

Rep. Chellie Pingree, Maine 

Rep. Mark Pocan, Wisconsin 

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts 

Rep. Mike Quigley, Illinois 

Rep. Delia Ramirez, Illinois 

Rep. Jamie Raskin, Maryland 

Rep. Deborah Ross, North Carolina 

Rep. Raul Ruiz, California 

Rep. Linda Sánchez, California 

Rep. Mary Scanlon, Pennsylvania 

Rep. Janice Schakowsky, Illinois 

Rep. Bradley Schneider, Illinois 

Rep. Robert "Bobby" Scott, Virginia 

Rep. David Scott, Georgia 

Rep. Terri Sewell, Alabama 

Rep. Brad Sherman, California 

Rep. Darren Soto, Florida 

Rep. Melanie Stansbury, New Mexico 

Rep. Haley Stevens, Michigan 

Rep. Marilyn Strickland, Washington 

Rep. Mark Takano, California 

Rep. Shri Thanedar, Michigan 

Rep. Mike Thompson, California 

Rep. Bennie Thompson, Mississippi 

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Michigan 

Rep. Jill Tokuda, Hawaii 

Rep. Paul Tonko, New York 

Rep. Norma Torres, California 

Rep. Ritchie Torres, New York 

Rep. Lori Trahan, Massachusetts 

Rep. Lauren Underwood, Illinois 

Rep. Juan Vargas, California 

Rep. Marc Veasey, Texas 

Rep. Nydia Velázquez, New York 

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida 

Rep. Maxine Waters, California 

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, New Jersey 

Rep. Nikema Williams, Georgia 

Rep. Frederica Wilson, Florida 

 

 

Too much coffee?

Is that the reason the Middle East is always in turmoil?  Maybe they should sneak a little illicit booze in now and then to calm themselves down, instead of consuming endless cups of that syrupy, caffeine-laden goop they guzzle all day.  

All hepped up on caffeine and waging another war.

After 53 years of the al-Asaad family's brutal regime in Syria, Bashar has finally been deposed and fled to Moscow.  Will it change anything?  No.  You can be sure that the usual and much-entrenched patterns of group dominance, religious dogma and rule through fear will prevail.  Afterall, the leader of the coup is a Mujahideen fighter whose sole objective is to wage jihad for Islam.  He's not a democratic leader who will encourage law and order and elections.  The notion would be laughable, if it weren't so dangerous.  

Except for Israel, there is no such thing as a democracy in any country in the region.  And the only reason Israel is a democracy is because it is an interloper, not native and not susceptible to regional and tribal rigidity. 

Frankly, the only countries that (sort of)follow rules of war are those in the British model set down centuries ago.  Elections are how governments are changed.  Wars are waged only when a country's safety is threatened.  I know that's an exaggeration, but it's generally true.  

Every country in Africa is the same:  Civil wars depose corrupt governments and are replaced by "democratic" liberation armies, that quickly themselves become corrupt dictatorships.  This necessitates another civil war and the whole thing starts all over.  Look at Cuba.  Castro was supposed to usher in democracy, but he quickly became a brutal dictator. 

Look at Nigeria.  When the British were in charge, there were two states:  the North and the South.  When the British were kicked out, 36 states sprang up along tribal lines and chaos and corruption emerged as per usual.  Look at Zimbabwe.  Robert Mugabe was a saint who quickly became one of the most brutal tyrants in history.

And so on and so forth.

But if you want to know what happened in Syria, ask Barack Obama.  Remember when he announced his famous red line?  If Syria crossed it and used chemical weapons on its people, the US avowed it would invade militarily immediately.  al-Asaad crossed it, killing thousands of people, and what did Obama do?  Backed down.  That's where it all got out-of-control.  

So a big shout-out to Barack for this unholy mess! 

   

After 20 years of lawsuits.....

 ....The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and Indigenous Services Canada finally reached a whopping settlement of $48 billion -- yep, that's billions, folks -- for on-reserve child-care and welfare reform.

This transpired because the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, headed by an enthusiastic activist named Jennifer Khurana, ruled that Ottawa discriminated against on-reserve services through under-funding.  So, the remedy was $48 billion, up from the original $23 billion awarded in 2022.  But true-to-form, it's not enough.

The ever-financially-vigilant Cindy Blackstock, director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, has publicly intervened, calling for the agreement to be re-negotiated.  For more money.  Of course she did.  Then AFN chief Cindy Woodhouse-Nepinak decided to make a real cat fight out of it at the recent AFN conference in Calgary and piled on.  "There's no getting around the fact that this agreement was too much of a threat to the status quo of the industry built on taking First Nations children from their families."

Bingo.  That's what Blackstock does.  That's how she gets her funding.  Taking kids from their families.  "Stop the discrimination against First Nations children now and forever.  Canada should not hurt children ever again," railed Blackstock.  But Cindy, if it all stopped, you'd be out of a job.

Cindy's gang gets $3.8 million a year -- 40 percent of which goes to administration and fund-raising.  It doesn't all go to helping children, so let's get that straight. 

Ms. Blackstock with a teddy for the kids.

Discrimination?  Hurting children?  I'd say the ones hurting children must be the parents who have their kids taken away, no?  Wouldn't they be the ones to blame?  I mean, kids aren't taken from their families for no reason because it's very expensive.  But of course, no one ever mentions this inconvenient fact.  Except me.

I'm with minister Patty Hajdu, who said she was disappointed the deal was rejected because the final, 20-years-in-the-making settlement would have provided transformational change.  Now they'll just start all over.  And who benefits from the re-do?  Rhetorical.  What a colossal waste of time and money.  Will any amount ever be enough for natives on any file?  The chiefs themselves weren't even in agreement.  My question is, what's the AFN for if chiefs question everything its elected leaders negotiate on their behalf? 

And then we have the demonstrations about natives being killed while in police custody, or while violent and dangerous in the public thoroughfare.  They want a public inquiry into the whole thing.  Led by supporters of Edith Wells, whose son was killed during a fight in the lobby of a Calgary hotel, the group says the inquiry must be held "immediately".  Really?  To what end?  

The facts are already on the table.  Jon Wells was out-of-control on drugs and alcohol.  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team was called and Wells died at the scene.  We don't even know from what at this point, but apparently it's all racist and unfair.

Perhaps these women and mothers could look in the mirror to learn how their kids go so wrong.  Perhaps they might also shed a tear for the female victims of intimate partner violence killed or injured by an Indigenous male partner.  The Supreme Court ruled that trial judges must take into account the offender's "background, intergenerational trauma, systemic discrimination and the residential school system" when passing sentence.  

This has meant that appeal judges have overturned, or greatly reduced, sentences in Indigenous cases.  In one, the BC Supreme Court gave the offender just five years after he pled guilty to killing his partner.  Five years because he was Indigenous.

In another, an Indigenous man who brutally abused his Indigenous partner, who had to have her teeth extracted and jaw wired shut, was given no jail time at all.

Perhaps the mothers decrying the fates of their sons could spare a moment to consider that it is Indigenous women paying the price for a particular effort to right historical wrongs.

Frankly, if you're out-of-control in public and threatening the lives of police and others, you can expect anything to happen -- regardless of your race.