why oh why

Why are so many plagues hitting the United States all of a sudden?  Yes, one can always point out bad stuff that is happening somewhere in the country, but right now we are facing a nightmarish combination of crippling drought, devastating wildfires, disastrous viruses, dying crops and superbugs that scientists don’t know how to kill.  And as you will see, we even have a plague of flies down in Mississippi.  So what in the world is going on?  Is this just a case of bad luck, or is something else happening?  At the conclusion of this article, please feel free to tell me what you think.  The following are ten plagues that are hitting America right now…

#1 The Plague Of Flies In The Upper Mississippi River Valley

This is perhaps the least dangerous plague, but it is also one of the most interesting.  Just recently, a plague of flies was so thick in the upper Mississippi River valley that it showed up on radar…

The mayflies were detectable on radar around 845 pm and reports in the towns and cities began rolling in of the swarming and piles of mayflies. Numerous videos and pictures were circulating on social media, some of which are posted below as well.

The radar detected the flies about 845 pm, emanating from the river (the source) with echo values similar to that of light-moderate rain (35-40 dBZ). With a general south-to-north wind flow above the surface, the mayflies quickly moved north once in the air. As the flies dispersed moving north-northeast, they also gained altitude with some of the echo being detected as far north as Black River Falls and as high as 2500 feet above ground.

By late evening, mayflies were swarming in La Crosse, La Crescent, Stoddard and points up and down the river. While the emergence of mayflies from their river bottom mud dwelling can occur at various times through the warm season depending on the species, this particular emergence was that of the larger black/brown Bilineata species.

Here is one photo of the flies that was posted by the federal government…

Plague Of Flies In Mississippi - Government Photo Public Domain

#2 The Chikungunya Virus

As I wrote about the other day, down in Florida health officials have discovered the very first confirmed cases of the chikungunya virus to be transmitted locally.  In other words, it is now being passed to people that have not even traveled out of the country.

An epidemic of the virus has already been declared down in Puerto Rico, and authorities are deeply concerned about the possibility of one up here as well.

Already, cases of the virus have been reported in 30 different states and the total number of cases in the U.S. is more than five times higher than in any other recent year.

If you live in an area that has a lot of mosquitos, you might want to be very, very careful right about now because this is a virus that is exceedingly painful…

With illness onset, the person develops high fever, chills, and joint pain, followed in some by a rash on the trunk, limbs and face lasting 3-4 days. Muscle and joint pain last about one week. Joint pain is often severe and in some people lasts longer, up to several months.

#3 The Wildfires Out West

The massive wildfires in Washington, Oregon and western Canada have spread clouds of smoke over vast areas of the northwest United States in recent days.  The following excerpt comes from a recent CNN report…

Wildfires spanning almost 170,000 acres are driving hundreds of people from their homes in Washington state and across the border in Canada, officials said.

Washington authorities say the fires surged overnight to 168,713 acres in the state. The flames have encroached on towns.

Janet Pearce of the Washington state Department of Natural Resources said the four fires had not been contained as of Friday morning. An estimated 80 homes were destroyed and cell phone service was knocked out.

#4 The Drought In California

The nightmarish multi-year drought in the state of California just continues to get even worse.

This week it was reported that 81 percent of California is now experiencing “extreme drought” or worse.

Three months ago, that number was just 68 percent.

And we are being told that downtown Los Angeles is now the driest that it has been since rain records began in 1877.

For much, much more on this, please see my recent article entitled “20 Signs The Epic Drought In The Western United States Is Starting To Become Apocalyptic“.

#5 The Virus That Has Killed Millions Of Our Pigs

A horrific pig virus known as porcine epidemic diarrhea came over from China a little over a year ago.

Since then, it has killed about 7 million pigs, and approximately 100,000 more are dying each week.

#6 Citrus Greening

Have you ever heard of citrus greening disease?

Perhaps not, but it has gotten so bad down in Florida that experts are now saying that the entire citrus industry in the state “could be destroyed”…

“It’s horrible — it’s a disaster,” says Fred Gmitter, a professor of horticulture science at the University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center.

It might be time to kiss your OJ goodbye, unless science steps in to save the day.

At least 70% of Florida’s citrus trees are already infected by the disease, known as citrus greening, huanglongbing, or occasionally just with an ominous “it,” as in “It’s here.”

Florida’s citrus crop this year is the lowest it’s been in 30 years, and agricultural authorities have continued to lowertheir production estimates. Orange-juice prices are up nearly 20% this year alone and will continue to rise. The disease was a major factor in the lime shortage that made the price of a box of Persian limes jump from $18 to $85 last December. Prices could jump higher for oranges. Researchers and growers say that if a cure isn’t found, the entire $9 billion Florida citrus industry could be destroyed.

#7 Bananas Going Extinct?

You bananas are not safe either.

According to CNBC, the TR4 fungus is spreading so rapidly that it could eventually totally wipe out the variety of bananas that we find in our grocery stores today…

Banana lovers take note: The world’s supply of the fruit is under attack from a fungus strain that could wipe out the popular variety that Americans eat.

“It’s a very serious situation,” said Randy Ploetz, a professor of plant pathology at the University of Florida who in 1989 originally discovered a strain of Panama disease, called TR4, that may be growing into a serious threat to U.S. supplies of the fruit and Latin American producers.

“There’s nothing at this point that really keeps the fungus from spreading,” he said in an interview with CNBC.

While there are nearly 1,000 varieties of bananas, the most popular is the Cavendish, which accounts for 45 percent of the fruit’s global crop—and the one Americans mostly find in their supermarkets.

#8 The Number Of Earthquakes Is Increasing

For a long time, scientists tried to deny that the number of earthquakes is increasing.

But now, the USGS is finally admitting that the number of big earthquakes has doubled…

If you think there have been more earthquakes than usual this year, you’re right. A new study finds there were more than twice as many big earthquakes in the first quarter of 2014 as compared with the average since 1979.

“We have recently experienced a period that has had one of the highest rates of great earthquakes ever recorded,” said lead study author Tom Parsons, a research geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Menlo Park, California.

Fortunately, most of the earthquakes in the U.S. so far this year have been relatively small or have been in isolated areas.

But they have been popping up in very unusual areas (such as Oklahoma), and as seismic activity along the Ring of Fire continues to increase, it is probably only a matter of time before one of our major cities gets hit with a major tragedy.

#9 Superbugs

Thanks at least in part to the massive overuse of antibiotics, a new generation of superbugs is arising.  Scientists have no way to kill these superbugs, and according to experts they are finding their way “into healthcare facilities nationwide”…

Drug-resistant superbug infections have reached near-epidemic levels across U.S. hospitals, with an alarming 500% increase now documented in a study just published in the August issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology(the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America).

Lead author of the study, Dr. Joshua Thaden, warned “This dangerous bacteria is finding its way into healthcare facilities nationwide… A CRE epidemic is fast approaching… Even this marked increase likely underestimates the true scope of the problem given variations in hospital surveillance practices.”

The study also found that an astonishing 94 percent of CRE infections were caused by healthcare activities or hospital procedures.

#10 Fukushima

The Fukushima nuclear disaster is the gift that just keeps on giving.

Hundreds of tons of radioactive water are being released into the Pacific on a continual basis, and this could potentially affect our oceans and our food chain for generations to come.

But it is a “slow motion disaster” that is already “old news”, so most Americans don’t think about it anymore.  But the truth is that there is a lot of evidence that it should be taken very seriously in this country.  For much more on this, please see this article.

In Japan, of course, things are even worse.

In fact, one Japanese doctor that was working in Tokyo says that radiation sickness is rampant in that city…

Since December 2011, I have conducted thyroid ultrasound examinations, thyroid function tests, general blood tests and biochemical tests on about 2000 people, mostly families in the Tokyo metropolitan area expressing concerns on the effects of radiation. I have observed that white blood cells, especially neutrophils, are decreasing among children under the age of 10. There are cases of significant decline in the number of neutrophils in 0-1 year-olds born after the earthquake (<1000). In both cases, conditions tend to improve by moving to Western Japan (Neutrophils 0–>4500). Patients report nosebleed, hair loss, lack of energy, subcutaneous bleeding, visible urinary hemorrhage, skin inflammations, coughs and various other non-specific symptoms.

And this Japanese doctor believes that things are so dire that he says that the entire city of Tokyo should be evacuated…

Residents of Tokyo are unfortunately not in the position to pity the affected regions of Tohoku because they are victims themselves. Time is running short. I took an earlier step forward and evacuated to the west. My fellow doctors of medicine, I am waiting for you here. And to the people in Eastern Japan still hesitating, all my support goes to facilitating and enabling your evacuation, relocation, or a temporary relief in Western Japan.

Just like with Chernobyl, this radioactive material is going to silently make people sick and kill people all over globe for years to come, and most of them will never have any idea what is really happening to them.

So what do you think about all of this?
I think the wicked witch of the white house should relocate to Russia and plague the Russians for a  while.
And she should take her stupid do nothing incompetent husband with her. They deserve each other

WHY BECOME A SUICIDE BOMBER

They're not happy in Gaza,

They're not happy in Egypt

They're not happy in Libya

They're not happy in Morocco

They're not happy in Iran

They're not happy in Iraq

They're not happy in Yemen

They're not happy in Afghanistan

They're not happy in Pakistan

They're not happy in Syria

They're not happy in Lebanon

SO, WHERE ARE THEY HAPPY?

They're happy in Australia

They're happy in Canada

They're happy in England

They're happy in France

They're happy in Italy

They're happy in Germany

They're happy in Sweden

They're happy in the USA

They're happy in Norway

They're happy in Holland

They're happy in Denmark

Basically, they're happy in ANY COUNTRY THAT IS NOT MUSLIM,
and UNHAPPY in EVERY COUNTRY THAT IS!

WHO DO THEY BLAME?

Not Islam.
Not their leadership.
Not themselves.

THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES IN WHICH THEY ARE HAPPY!

THEN - They want to change the happy countries to be like
THE COUNTRY THEY CAME FROM WHERE THEY WERE UNHAPPY!

Excuse me, but I can't help wondering,
How dumb can you get?
Everyone seems to be wondering why Muslim
Terrorists are so quick to commit suicide.
Lets have a look at the evidence :
- Constant wailing from some idiot in a tower
- No Christmas
- No television
- No nude women
- No football
- No pork chops
- No hot dogs
- No burgers
- No beer
- No bacon
- Rags for clothes
- Towels for hats
- You can't shave
- More than one wife
- More than one mother-in-law
- Your wife is picked by someone else for you
- Your wife can't shave
- Your wife smells worse than your donkey
- You can't wash off the smell of donkeys
- You cook over burning camel shit
- Then they tell them that "when they die, it all gets better"???
Well it is no lie Sherlock! DEATH IS BETTER.
It's not like it could get much worse!

Broke????

The biggest factor of why Seniors are losing more and more benefits. They are getting blamed for the country
going broke.

This has gone out to almost two million people .

It's easy to dismiss individual programs that benefit non-citizens until they're put together and this picture emerges. Someone did a lot of research to put together all
of this data. Often these programs are buried within other programs making them difficult to find.

A Real
Eye Opener


WHY is the USA BANKRUPT? Read this:

We have been hammered with the propaganda that it was the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.

I hope the following14 reasonsare forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the readers gets sick of reading them. I also have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.

1.  $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare
To illegal aliens each year by state governments.

Verify At: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8
<http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8>
 2. $22 Billion dollars a year is spent on food
Assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free
school lunches for illegal aliens.
 Verify  At: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML
<http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML>
 3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
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 4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on
Primary and secondary school education for children here
illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
 Verify  At:
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5.

$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for
Education for the American-born
Children of illegal aliens, known as
Anchor babies.

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 6.

$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate
illegal aliens.

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7.

30% percent of all Federal Prison
Inmates are illegal aliens.


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8.

$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on
Illegal aliens for Welfare & social
Services by the American taxpayers.

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9.

$200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are
caused by the illegal Aliens.

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13.

In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to theirCountries of origin.


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14.

The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration:
Nearly One million sex crimes committed
By Illegal Immigrants In The United States .


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The total cost is a whopping


$ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS $338,300,000,000.00 WHICH
WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE
ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENSOF THIS
COUNTRY.

Are we THAT Stupid?

YES, FOR ALLOWING THOSE IN THE U.S.. CONGRESS TO GET AWAY WITH DOING THIS YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!!!



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The Great Society

If the U.S. Gov. spent as much time, money and resources on solving our national debt, as it has on trying to implement the ACA., we would be on our way to solvency again. Five years of research, 20,000 pages of regulations Who wrote it? Unknown. Where was it written? Behind closed doors. For what purpose? To provide further entitlements. For whom? Those who cannot afford it. At what benefit? To increase the burden of those who can afford it. At what cost? Well over two trillion dollars. Does it work? Not yet. Why doesn’t it work? The websites are down. That’s it? It will work. When? We do not know. Will more money have to be sucked into this money pit? Yes. Why? So we can get it going. Why? To provide healthcare for the nation. Does the nation have healthcare now? Yes. How could we improve on something that is already working? Provide entitlement for the uninsurable and the needy. How?  By giving them healthcare. How? By taxing the working man, and fining those who don’t participate, and cutting the care for those who can afford it. Do we not already do that? Yes, we need to raise more money for the budget. Why? So congress can have a 35% raise each year. So we just impoverish the middle class? Yes. Why? So we can conceal a tax hike and give a community organizer something to do.

Obama, the Ventriloquist's Dummy

 Wall Street Journal Calls Obama a Dummy


A "deadly" article regarding Obama, at the Wall Street
Journal, which today is the most widely circulated newspaper in America.

Article from the Wall Street Journal - by Alan Caruba:
"I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's led a
kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened
because at some point early on somebody or some group (George Soros anybody?)
took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with
an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in
politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White
House.

In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry.
Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? "Dreams
of My Father" was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The
"Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself.
There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who
calls himself a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author.

His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that
might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois
legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of
having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at his disposal.

He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the
presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some
greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the
Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at
the Democrat convention that nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had
ever even heard of him before?

He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by
storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black
population, he oozed "cool" in a place where agriculture was the
antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers
drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.

And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans
select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And
then John Mc Cain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female
governor from the very distant state of Alaska. It was a ticket that was
reminiscent of 1984's Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down
to defeat.

The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a
schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and
now over the man. The venom directed against Mc Cain and, in particular, Palin,
was extraordinary.

Now, 5 full years into his presidency, all of those gilded years
leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to
his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong
time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of
statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.

Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish
away" some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist
intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows
how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having
gained a foothold in Spain.

The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign
"world tour" were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp
of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really
bad intentions.

Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a
cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party's hold on power in
Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about
his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college
professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues.

Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston
police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard
professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to
conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu
Akbar." The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded
this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated extremist" only to
have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.

He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility
at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the
battlefield against America. He could even instruct his Attorney General to
afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even
consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before
having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on
Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his
first statement was so lame.

The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the
Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.

Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama exists only
as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and
manufactured this pathetic individual's life.

When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth
certificate, this man spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most
other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been
sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts
remain hidden.

We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you do when the
dummy is President of the United States

We get no “Merry Christmas” from our president

We get no “Merry Christmas”  from our president, But we are insulted with this, his nit wit comments about the Muslims.

On behalf of all American people, Michelle and I extend our best wishes to Muslim communities here in the United States and around the world on the beginning of the blessed month of Ramadan.

A time for self-reflection and devotion through prayer and fasting, Ramadan is also an occasion when Muslims around the world reaffirm their commitment to helping the less fortunate, including those struggling because of economic hardship and inequality.

Here in the United States, we are grateful to the many Muslim American organizations, individuals, and businesses that are devoted to creating opportunity for all by working to reduce income inequality and poverty, not only through their charitable efforts, but also through their initiatives to empower students, workers and families with the education, skills and health care they deserve.

 Ramadan also reminds us of our shared responsibility to treat others as we wish to be treated ourselves and the basic principles that bind people of different faiths together: a yearning for peace, justice, and equality. At a moment when too many people around the world continue to suffer from senseless conflict and violence, this sacred time reminds us of our common obligations to pursue justice and peace and to uphold the dignity of every human being.

As I’ve done every year as President, I look forward to welcoming Muslim Americans from across the United States to the White House for an iftar dinner. It will be another opportunity for me to convey America’s appreciation for the contributions of Muslim Americans to our country and to wish Muslims around the world a month blessed with the joys of family, community, peace and understanding.

Ramadan Kareem. ####

Please Stop Helping Us

Fred Siegel
The Poverty of Benevolence
Fifty years of the Great Society have made things worse for blacks, not better.
2 July 2014

Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed, by Jason Riley (Encounter Books, 205 pp., $23.99)
A half-century ago, the Great Society promised to complete the civil rights revolution by pulling African-Americans into the middle class. Today, a substantial black middle class exists, but its primary function has been, ironically, to provide custodial care to a black underclass—one ever more deeply mired in the pathologies of subsidized poverty. In Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed, Jason Riley, an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal who grew up in Buffalo , New York , explains how poverty programs have succeeded politically by failing socially. “Today,” writes Riley, “more than 70 percent of black children are born to unwed mothers. Only 16 percent of black households are married couples with children, the lowest of any racial group in the United States .” Riley attributes the breakdown of the black family to the perverse effects of government social programs, which have created what journalist William Tucker calls “state polygamy.” As depicted in an idyllic 2012 Obama campaign cartoon, “The Life of Julia,” a lifelong relationship with the state offers the sustenance usually provided by two parents in most middle-class families.
Riley’s own life experience gives him powerful perspective from which to address these issues. His parents divorced but both remained attentive to him and his two sisters. His sisters, however, were drawn into the sex-and-drug pleasures of inner-city “culture.” By the time he graduated from high school, his older sister was a single mother. By the time he graduated from college, his younger sister had died from a drug overdose. Riley’s nine-year-old niece teased him for “acting white.” “Why you talk white, Uncle Jason?” she wanted to know. She couldn't understand why he was “trying to sound so smart.” His black public school teacher similarly mocked his standard English in front of the class. “The reality was,” Riley explains, “that if you were a bookish black kid who placed shared sensibilities above skin color, you probably had a lot of white friends.”
The compulsory “benevolence” of the welfare state, borne of the supposed expertise of sociologists and social planners, undermined the opportunities opened up by the end of segregation. The great hopes placed in education as a path to the middle class were waylaid by the virulence of a ghetto culture nurtured by family breakdown. Adjusted for inflation, federal per-pupil school spending grew 375 percent from 1970 to 2005, but the achievement gap between white and black students remained unchanged. Students at historically black colleges and universities, explained opinion columnist Bill Maxwell, “did not know what or whom to respect. For many, the rappers Bow Wow and 50 Cent were as important to black achievement as the late Ralph Bunche, the first black to win a Nobel Peace Prize, and Zora Neale Hurston, the great novelist.”
“Why study hard in school,” asks Riley, “if you will be held to a lower academic standard? Why change antisocial behavior when people are willing to reward it, make excuses for it, or even change the law to accommodate it?”
In the 50 years since the start of the Great Society and the expenditure of more than$20 trillion to alleviate poverty, millions of newcomers have entered America from Asia and from Africa . They generally arrived in poverty and have improved themselves by dint of self-help and hard work—those boring middle-class values that President Obama’s mentor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, denounced so strenuously. But if, as Riley demonstrates, the Great Society programs have failed in conventional terms, they have been an overwhelming political success. Together, government workers and the recipients of government benefits make up a formidable voting bloc. Yet their very political success may also prove their undoing: President Obama’s share of the African-American vote increased between 2008 and 2012, but during that period, blacks’ share of the national income declined and their unemployment rate increased.
“Everybody has asked the question,” Frederick Douglass said in an 1865 speech, “‘What should we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are worm-eaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall. . . . And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs!” A century and a half later, Jason Riley echoes that advice.
Fred Siegel is a City Journal contributing editor and the author of The Revolt Against the Masses.

POLITICAL SUCCESS IS WHAT?

Subject: Cochran. Our key to success.

Brief autopsy regarding last weeks disappointing elections results.


A group of establishment republicans is trying to organize candidates to unseat TEA Party members such as Cruz, Lee, Paul, and all the rest.  We think the time is right to get rid of those nasty supporters of the constitution, Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, liberty, freedom, free speech, freedom of religion and all of those other outdated, passé dusty old traditions.  Just think, it's not only lefty democrats and the media fighting to get rid of the right wingers, we've now got all those magnificent RINOs workings for us.  I know it's hard to believe but we have republicans who are so focused on "numbers" rather than saving the country that we're almost assured of a landslide victory.   This skirmish shouldn't take more than a month of two.

You may be wondering who we're going to run against these right wing incumbents.  Well, as luck would have it we've found several old retired bureaucrats (past 70) who are still able to tie their shoes and eat without slobbering...at least not very much.  We've also already got pledges of support from McCain, Lindsay, McConnell, Boehner, Chris Matthews, Harry Reid, Carl Rove, Barney Sanders and several other patriotic socialists.

We owe this brilliant idea to Thad Cochran of Mississippi.  He proved that with the RINOs, the Marxist media, (the propaganda wing of the democrat party), the millennials, the "victimized minorities" and the Xers, willing to fight for us for free, how can we lose.  Before you know it the democracy we've come to hate will be replaced by a fair and equitable form of socialism that only we elitists can run effectively.  Only we can hold all the power in our hands without going down the drain like all the other socialist nations have done.  It'll be utopia!

I hope we can count on you for your generous support.  Just mail your contributions to:   "Bye Freedom!" at #38871006, US Federal Corrections, Leavenworth KS.