Canales News Briefs

August 22, 2009

To All,

Well, it's starting to look like all those who went "long on lead" have made a wise investment.

In other news:

When Words Fail:

Those of us who try to fight the "Little War" of preserving constitutional rights are often confronted with the sacrifices of real people in real situations.

In this case, one is called to the story of Lance Corporal Richard Weinmaster, whose heroism jumping on a grenade thrown at his fellow Marines cost him shrapnel for life, but at the same time saved lives.

A Navy Cross seems small reward for such actions. But it is indicative of the kind of fortitude and courage that is out there among common Americans doing uncommon jobs.

Heroes come from all walks of life. But it is a pre-eminent duty of the rest of us to recognize them when they come along and teach us the lessons of what is truly important. So, here is the link to his story-

http://omaha.com/article/20090821/NEWS01/708209834

Meantime, Out Among Those Who Obama Plucked For Campaign Dollars (Also Known In Some Circles As The Land of 'Fruits and Nuts'):

"...California's unemployment rate climbed to 11.9 percent in July, the highest number in modern-record keeping..."

- Quotation from an AP News Story by Sudhin Thanawal,

August 21, 2009.

Kind of makes one wonder who is really "...all wee-wee'ed up..." out there. After all, it was a Democrat campaign adviser who coined the motto "It's the Economy, Stupid...".

In other words, tell it to the farm-workers of Fresno.

Link at:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090821/ap_on_bi_ge/ca_california_jobs

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1734

Rage Against The Machine:

What drives the citizen-activist? Why would someone tilt at the entrenched windmills of those who currently claim authority, whose collective arrogance would leave them nothing? What would cause someone to make it their life's passion to defeat those in opposition to real American values, to their traditional way of life?

Rage.

We are talking about the kind of rage that comes from when even common folk realize that they are being spoken to like they were incapable of understanding when they are being deceived by slick-talking so-n-so's. Where even the arrogance of urbanized hucksters stands out like the proverbial sore thumb. When even laypersons can defeat them in the court of unbiased science, or make them "tap out" in the Octagon of Debate.

And that can be some kind of rage. It's the kind of rage that builds movements, wiping out well-heeled opponents whose idea of relationships with citizens is that of imposing the yoke, padlocked to supine forms. Removes tenured politicians, even. The rage that supplants false change, and false prophets of change, to return an American system that has served us so well for so long.

Such rage, properly focused on these false prophets, need not reduce American cities to the plight or the condition of a Sarajevo or even a Groznyy (though the current gaggle of city political machines seems to be doing just that with their spendthrift ways). The genius, so far, of the American system is that of the political revolution in the form of frequent elections, not the stagnancy and hopelessness of privileged aristocracy and technocracy.

It was the mantra of a generation swindled by pop-Brahmanism to say "Question Authority". Perhaps its time now for a new generation to adopt this same outlook in reaction to this Reign of Nihilism emanating from such cities as Washington D.C. and Sacramento. For if we do not question authority now, when it is at it's most inane, we may not have the chance again for quite a long while. And our grand children will curse us for the cowards we would be.

When It's Fiesta Time, In Guadalajara...:

Breitbart.com has an AP story noting that, on the advent of a US healthcare plan that would provide for the subsidized treatment of undocumented "visitors" to this country, the Mexican government has decided to decriminalize possession of "small quantities" of illegal narcotics.

Some of these are identified in the article as marijuana, cocaine, heroin and LSD.

Now some might point out that it might be an interesting new wrinkle in the balance of trade situation with our neighbor south of the border. We are currently getting their folks whose willingness to work transcends patrolled geographic boundaries. Hypothetically in return, they would be getting our junkies and petty criminals (talk about your "ugly Americans"...) who could quickly relocate to pursue their chemical dependency under more "tolerant" conditions.

But given the lack of concern by certain Powers That Be as to the porosity of the current southern border, one can just as easily envision hordes of Latin Americans enslaved by narcotics looking for medical treatment underwritten by Obamacare in El Norte.

One cannot believe that the seniors who voted for this Boob-In-Chief thought that Obama was going to trade their past co-payment of Medicare taxes for the additional votes of non-citizen addicts. But given the latest rantings of Lady Pelosi, that is apparently just what he intends.

Links at:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A763HO0&show_article=1

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aFIyTVjB3cX0

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/democrats-face-increasingly-uphill-battle-in-2010-2009-08-21.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/health/policy/21seniors.html?_r=3&ref=politics

The San Francisco Treat:

KCBS- San Francisco reported that an unpleasant odor was detected yesterday afternoon in parts of that town's districts.

One Public Utilities Commission spokesperson even went so far to say that he smelled "...something unusual..." in the Civic Center area of the town (to those who have never had the opportunity, or have been overcome by the desire to visit Frisco, the Civic Center is where Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris work and fundraise).

One can only wonder as to what new levels of putrefaction from Civic Center were such that KCBS was finally obliged to report them. Suffice it to say that if Civic Center were a Nummi factory or a sourdough bakery, instead of Ground Zero for a political machine, moon-suited technicians would be roaming the halls with sniffer probes until the source of the offending odor was found.

Oh, well, rank doth have it's privileges...

Link at:

http://www.kcbs.com/Odor-Across-San-Francisco/5057765

Drug Growers Threaten California Condors?:

Let me get this straight- Junk science was used to support a ban on lead ammunition, when it now has been proven that it cannot be distinguished scientifically that the source of lead in the blood of condors comes from ammunition.

Yet the media and various groups point the Fickle Finger of Fanaticism at hunters and blame them for the decline of a species whose heyday was a time when the Tar Pits were young.

Then comes along a Time Magazine article which points out that the voracious appetite of the drug consumers in California is resulting in the drug cartels' use of State Park lands to grow marijuana. In doing so, the cartels steal water and other resources that were set aside for the animals and plants in those same state parks, some of which (like the condor) are listed under the Endangered Species Act. They are even illegally dispensing pesticides claimed by the environmental movement to be a hazard to protected raptors and other living things.

What is more, Time notes that the employees growing the pot for the Cartels who are selling the marijuana to the Dope Smokers are poaching game illegally as a cost offset to bringing in food by backpack. One can only wonder whether criminals violating literally hundreds of laws regarding the environment, use of state land, harassing endangered species, and causing fires ( at least 4 condors have died due to fire-related mortalities since 1992 in California, roughly comparable to all lead-related mortalities) are at least using the ammunition designated by the Fish & Game Commission for use in Condor Country when hunting big game and non-game animals.

So, the challenge to Graham Chisholm, Gary Langham, and the rest of the folks over at California Audubon is the following- Will all of you campaign as stridently to ban dope growing in Condor Country, potentially to the level of a state-wide ban on illegal dope growing, as much as you have dedicated yourselves to other causes you claim threaten birds and other endangered species? Can't you folks campaign just as easily, to save the condor, by just telling the druggies "Get The Dope Out"?

We'll be waiting, though surely not holding our collective breath....

Link at:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1917547,00.html?xid=rss-fullnation-yahoo

Respectfully,

Anthony Canales

SFVMC-NRA

except as noted.