99 RED BALLOONS

 I think it was in the 1970s when a German song came to the US, "99 Luft Ballons," which became a hit here as "99 Red Balloons,"  Now we can sing it as "99 Red Party Balloons," as the new balloons are white, but unleashed by the Chinese Communist Party government.

NEW EXCUSE

 To All,  Sorry I have been too lazy or something.  Rather than leave this blank, I suggest you visit the other side of the blog - Hugh 2 Murray.  There is a list of most of my previous publications, going back decades.  Some you might like to read, some you might hate.  I tend to write controversial pieces.

I will be back to this site soon.  Now that we're in the year of the Rabbit, a new year.  Hugh Murray

HELLO 2023! A Personal Note

 To All,  I took a trip outside the US for the first time in several years, thanks to the virus making things too uncertain.  They were still uncertain for me.  I am 20th century in many ways.  If I text, on a phone, it takes me forever because unlike kids, my fingers hit the wrong keys on the small key-board.  Then I must erase and try again.  With poor eyesight, I often repeat the error.  Frustration.

       Though I had never been to the Philippines, I decided not to try a new place at age 84 and alone.  I love Saigon (officially now Ho Chi Minh City), but I no loner know anyone there.  Hanoi in December is NOT 90 F, so I was less inclined for that or Taiwan.  I still have a friend in Bangkok, so that is where I went.  My friend was working full time, and after work, had liver problems, so we were not together too often this trip.  We did phone and had a few meals together, but some of the restaurants near my hotel had closed during the virus, so we ended one night just eating at my hotel.  We did have a tasty meal at another restaurant after some wandering.

    The hotel had not travel and tourist brochures.  I was told many of the businesses that had supplied them had succumbed to the virus.  Told to try the hotel's computer.  Did so and found several notices about tourism in Bangkok, but when I phone the numbers listed, got the message that that number no longer existed.

      Happily I had brought a tour book with me, borrowed from my local American library, and at the back, it had a general map of Bangkok and a map of the subway system.  That was most helpful.  I had hoped to have a side trip to a nearby beach resort, but as nothing seemed certain, decided simply to use the hotel's lounge area and swimming pool - which is always so cold, even in the sun.

     The World Cup provided entertainment, even tho some of the games were shown beginning at 2am BKK time.  Most were shown at 10pm, so I could enjoy most.  In some bars chatted with other tourists from many parts of the world.  Amazed to see the locals still wearing masks, while most Americans and Europeans went everywhere without them.

    I did not travel there using America's Southwest Airline, but had trouble on the one I did, and got stuck in a part of the Tokyo air terminal, not allowed into the city or the larger part of the airport, and plane cancelled, and had to sleep on a bench there over night.  When told the next day's flight could be cancelled too, I made other arrangements and left Tokyo to return to the good old USA.

      I seem to have suffered more jet-lag this time and am still overly tired.  I do hope to return to finishing my book soon.  The big question today: will America be able to survive two more years of President Biden's policies? ---------Hugh Murray

CHINA PROTESTS; IRAN PROTESTS; and the US IS STUCK WITH BIDEN INSTEAD OF TRUMP

 I just posted this on a Newser site that discussed the many protests now occurring in mainland China.

And the globalist elite assert that Communist China is the role model for the future of the world! They think that because they favor slavery for most of us.
The tragedy is that Biden (who has received millions from Chinese Communist fronts) is in the White House. If Trump were President with all the protests in Iran and China, we might have been on the threshold of a truly free world. Sadly, Biden is in the White House instead.
We sorely miss Trump because of the scandal election of November 2020.

Hugh Murray

On Whose Tax Returns Should Be Scrutinized

 

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION & THE U.S. SUPREME COURT - NOV. 1, 2022

               by Hugh Murray

      It was good to see that America's High Court finally took another look at affirmative action policy.  My views are clear - for every one who is aided through affirmative action, another person is hurt by its related negative action.  I see it as racist, sexist, ethnist, helping one race at the expense of another; helping one sex at the expense of the other, etc.  I was involved in the early days of the civil rights movement, and then the demand was for equal rights for all citizens, for what Pres. John Kennedy said in his speech on the subject that our Constitution was color-blind, and what Martin Luther King, Jr. declared at the March on Washington in 1963 about judging people by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.  Affirmative action is the denial of all that.  It rejects the color-blind approach, and demands that people be treated differently depending on their race, ethnicity, sex, etc.

     Some are pleased by some of the comments by members of the Supreme Court in the presentation of the cases by the attorneys on both sides.  I am pleased to hear such judges criticize the policy.  As in 2003 major corporations will submit friend of court briefs urging continuance of affirmative action.  So has the high brass of the US military, contending diversity is our strength and universities must continue affirmative action so the military may have people of color officers.  This occurred in 2003 when the issue was previously before the court.

     My point in this posting - even if we win, even if the Supreme Court declares affirmative action un-Constitutional, it will not be the end of the struggle for equal rights.  Over the past decades, the believers in quotas, in diversity, in affirmative action, have been hired in every personnel office, every human resources office, and their purpose was to impose quotas.  Will they quite because of mere Supreme Court decision?  Of course not.  They will rally their base, especially the unqualified students admitted to universities, the unqualified workers hired and promoted because of these policies.  This empire of the ill-qualified exists throughout America, ready tp defend its turf.

     The military.  During WWII, the armed services were generally segregated.  It has sometimes been called the greatest generation.  The American armed services certainly did their part in Europe, and led the victory over Japan in the East.  After WWII, the American armed services became diverse.  After WWII, America stopped winning wars.

     Eleanor Holmes Norton led the fight agaisnt objective testing (on which blacks and Hispanics often did poorly as groups)   Most such exams were banned by judicial decrees as "racist" in that they showed the real abilities of the exam takers.  Norton pressed for lower standards, tests that almost everyone could pass, and then the government could force hiring by quota.  Norton said all the new hires would be "basically qualified."  But they would NOT be the BEST QUALIFIED.  So the American workforce has become ever more mediocre in a more competitive world.  Why not return to seek the best, not the bottom of the barrel?

     Even if we win in the Supreme Court. all the commissars of diversity will still have jobs, with one intent, restoring racist, racial favoritism for their particular group.  Their main job is to insure that the lesser qualified, the ill qualified, and the unqualified are hired, promoted, admitted to university, awarded scholarships, etc.  The truly qualified minorities will be admitted without them.  The positions of the diversity officers will be on the line.  Expect protests, rallies, violence - a long and dirty fight.  We must fight them for equal rights and the promotion of the best, the best worker, the best student, the best for America.

ANN COULTER ON CRIME IN NEW YORK CITY - NO BAIL MEANS NO JAIL

This comes from VDARE site.  10/26/2022 

ANN COULTER: If You're Enjoying The Crime Wave, Thank A Democrat! (Oh, And US Immigration Officials)

Ann Coulter

10/26/2022

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Earlier, March 2022: Unequal Justice: Frank Abrokwa, Ghanaian Subway Poop Perp, Out On Bail Again

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Last week in New York City, career criminal Argenis Rivera punched a woman who was pushing her 2-year-old in a stroller, then began choking her, screaming that she was a “white bitch.” He let go only to attack another woman, sitting on a bench, reading—apparently, also a “white bitch”—until he was scared off by a man with two dogs who came to the women’s rescue. This happened at around 1 p.m. in Hudson River Park, a nice area.

A few months earlier, Rivera had been arrested for punching a doorman in midtown Manhattan, the latest of about a dozen arrests. But under the law, he was immediately released.

In February, Frank Abrokwa, 37, was arrested for the 45th time. (Thanks, U.S. immigration officials! Another job well done.) Among Abrokwa’s most recent arrests:

• On Jan. 7, he was arrested for hitting a 30-year-old man, a complete stranger, on a subway. Released without bail.
• On Feb. 5, he was arrested for punching a 53-year-old man, also a stranger, at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Released without bail.
• On Feb. 21, he was arrested for smashing his own feces into a woman’s face as she sat in a subway station. Released without bail.
• On Feb. 22—the very next day!—he was arrested for shoplifting at a hardware store and threatening employees with a screwdriver. Released without bail. 

All in all, New York’s no-bail law is working great! The law is called “no bail” but really means “no jail, not ever, no matter how many times you’re arrested.” How did such a dangerous policy become law? It seems that in 2020, Democrats finally gained total control of state government, the first time that’s happened since World War II, except for a single year in 1964.

And what was the first item on the Democrats’ agenda, literally the moment after they were sworn in? Crack down on Wall Street? Fill potholes and creaking bridges?

NO! They passed a law to ensure that no criminal ever spends a night in jail!

True, a lot more people are getting raped, stabbed, slashed, mugged and shoved onto subway tracks on account of the no-bail law.   But for Democrats, protecting New Yorkers from violent attack is not the goal of law enforcement. The main objective of the criminal justice system is to ensure that it does not “worsen racial disparities,” as explained by the New York Times’ Mara Gay.

The law certainly achieved that! “Black bodies” are being kept out of jail like nobody’s business. SUCCESS!

As one of Rivera’s strangling victims exclaimed with relief, Thank God this black man was not already in jail when he attacked me. The possibility of my daughter growing up without a mother is a small price to pay to safeguard the self-esteem of any black person who happens to look up the racial composition of New York jails.

No, actually, that wasn’t her response at all. She said, “I thought I was going to die ... I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t get out... I don’t want to be here anymore. I want to leave. This doesn’t feel safe.”

By now, the word is out that if you commit a crime in New York, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO YOU.  Rivera told his strangling victims, “Call the cops, I don’t care.” During one of his assaults, Abrokwa also taunted his victim, saying, “Call the police.” After the feces attack, he posted on Facebook, “I’m not posting Bail. Never Been Up North Never Will.”

Frank Abrokwa all smiles after arrest for feces attack

Even if you’re caught dead-to-rights, at worst, maybe you’ll have to waste a couple hours of your afternoon getting arraigned. And then you’ll be right back on the street.

But as the Times primly reminds us, people who are arrested are “presumed innocent until proven guilty.” 

Liberals act as if we have absolutely no idea if the people the police arrest are guilty. Maybe he did it, maybe he didn’t. Who knows? I guess we’ll have to wait for the trial to see! 

No, if the police make an arrest at all, they’re pretty sure the guy did it—that crime as well as five others. The trial, if there is one, is merely to confirm that he did it, not discover whether he did it.

Street muggings aren’t like murder investigations, requiring months of painstaking DNA analysis by forensic experts. If a criminal punches you and steals your purse, there isn’t going to be an “investigation.” The police either catch the guy, or they don’t.

If they catch him, it’s usually because the perp is on camera. There are witnesses and people who recognize him—his hat, his shirt, his face. Or he has the victim’s blood or property on him. Often, he’s still standing 20 yards away—as with the attack in the park, when the victims and witnesses watched as the police arrested Rivera at a nearby bus stop.

Democrats: You never know! Maybe he’s innocent!

Another career criminal, Lamale McRae, shoved a stranger onto the subway tracks last week. He was quickly arrested thanks to the exceedingly clear photos of his face, build and clothing captured by subway cameras as he takes a running leap to push a man onto the tracks. When McRae was arrested a few days later, even a child could see that it was absolutely, 100%, positively the same guy. He was even wearing the same distinctive bright yellow sweatshirt.

Articles about McRae’s arrest repeatedly refer to New York’s amazing facial recognition cameras as “controversial.” Huh. I wonder who they’re “controversial” with.

Liberals think public safety should be like a sporting event: The Police v. The Criminals. Unless the guilty have a decent shot at getting away with it, where’s the fun? The rules have to be modified to make the game more thrilling. High-tech subway cameras are like spitballs. Hey, no fair! It’s cheating to have cameras.

If that’s what you like, watch sports. But if you don’t want criminals controlling the streets, destroying neighborhoods and committing violent crimes in parks and subway stations, please vote Republican on Nov. 8.