The Bill Keith Report
News And Commentary
March 28, 2014
Greetings to our readers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and 40 foreign countries.
Welcome to our new readers throughout the United States and around the world.
An (Associated Press )poll shows that only 26 percent of the American people favor the Affordable Care Act.
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Another poll (Rasmussen) reveals that 78 percent of the American people favor proof of U. S. citizenship before being allowed to vote.
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Patrick Henry: An American Hero
Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the American Revolution, is still remembered for his words, “Give me liberty or give me death.”
But in current school textbooks the context of these words is deleted.
Here is the full text of what he said:
“An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not of the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.”
A Dallas, Texas, Ordinance — At Last, Something that Works!
The City of Dallas passed an ordinancestating that “if a driver is pulled over by law enforcement and is not able to provide proof of Insurance, the car will be towed (away).”
To retrieve the car, after it is impounded, the owner or operator “must show proof of insurance to have the car released’.”
This new ordinance has made it much easier for the City of Dallas to get uninsured vehicles off the streets.
Shortly after the ordinance was passed, the Dallas impound lots were full after only nine days. And, city officials learned that more than 80 percent of the impounded cars were driven by illegal aliens.
Now, the illegals must provide proof of insurance to have their car released and also pay the towing cost, a $350 fine, and $20 for every day their car is kept in the lot.
Guess what? Accident rates have gone down 47 percent and Dallas’ solution gets uninsured drivers off the road WITHOUT making them show proof of nationality, or I.D.
Comment: I wonder how Attorney General Eric Holder will handle this situation in Dallas in his ever-increasing efforts to protect the illegal aliens?
Once a Thief, Always a Thief
Police say a man walked out of a New Jersey prison after serving 15 years for robbing a children’s shoe store, headed straight back to the same store and robbed it again, NBC-New York reports.
Employees told police that he entered the store and demanded cash, and ordered the workers — a teenage boy and 43-year-old woman — to go to the back room. When they refused, he became agitated, took the cash register drawer — which had $389 — and workers’ cell phones and fled on foot
Police found him a few blocks away from the shoe store but he had stashed the cash in a gutter and the phones in a garbage can, according to NBC.
A police spokesman says he wonders if the ex-prisoner considers prison his home for he’s on his way there — again.
Jack Daniels Riding High on the Potomac
There’s a whole lot of drinking going on in Washington, D.C. — at the taxpayers’ expense!
According to Newsmax, the U.S. government booze tab for 2013 totaled $1.3 million. That’s a lot of Jack Daniels in anybody’s book.
The seven-figure bar tab of $1.3 million is more than quadruple the $315,000 spent in 2005, the Washington Times reports. And the spending on beer, wine and liquor in 2013 is up $400,000 over 2012.
“You could say that Washington’s quite literally drunk on other people’s money,” Jonathan Bydlak, president of the Coalition to Reduce Spending, told the Times.
According to the Times, the biggest purchases are made by the State Department to stock the liquor cabinets of U.S. embassies around the globe and to use as “gratuities” for foreign officials and others. The Times also pointed out the State Department spent $5 million on items such as champagne flutes, brandy snifters, red-and-white wine glasses, sherbet glasses and finger bowls etched with the State Department logo to give to the foreign officials.
Comment: With all the booze floating around Washington and our foreign embassies, there must be a lot of plastered politicians and bureaucrats. No wonder they seldom get anything done.
Deportation of Illegals, Smoke and Mirrors?
Well-known and often controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the administration’s deportation of illegal immigrants is nothing but “smoke and mirrors.” The Sheriff says his officers arrest the same illegals and bring them to jail “six, seven, eight times,” the Daily Caller reports.
According to Arpaio, when he turns the illiegals over to federal authorities for deportation “they’re being let out the back door.”
Although the administration claims they have deported two million illegals, Arpaio contends the feds are “playing around with statistics” and haven’t deported nearly that many.
“I always had a feeling that a lot of these people that we put on hold — turn over to ICE — really were not being deported,” he said. “I did a survey in the last three months and found out that of the over 1,200 illegal aliens in our jails, one-third, or about 400 that were released in the past, have criminal records.”
“They’re rounded up, they’re booked into my jails for criminal violations, we put holds on them, they’re turned over to ICE,” he explained. “And how come they keep coming back in the last several years? They should be back where they came from, or they’re being let out the back door! You can’t have it both ways.”
“If you’re talking about the interior of the United States which is enforced by ICE, when you take the 11 million allegedly here, ICE has locked up one percent when you look at the figures,” he declared. “So it’s smoke and mirrors going on, that has been going on.”
Last week, the head of the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that a large number of the so-called “deportations” counted by the administration are in fact “turn-backs” at the border.
Comment: This is unconscionable for government officials to keep telling the American people of mass deportations of the illegals in this land. In fact, there are few deportations, only so-called “turn-backs” at the border. This means that illegals with multiple criminal charges are being turned loose back on the American public.
Still Proud to Be an American
Does anyone remember Dean Rusk? He was Secretary of State under President John F. Kennedy. Once when he was in France in the early 1960s, he learned that President DeGaulle of France had decided he wanted all U.S. military personnel out of France ASAP.
Rusk responded, “Does that include those who are buried here?”
DeGaulle did not respond.
You could hear a pin drop.
There are 66,033 American soldiers buried in 11 cemeteries in France.
Years later when in England attending a large conference, Secretary of State Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if the U.S. plans for Iraq were just an example of “empire building” by President George W. Bush?
Secretary Powell replied, “Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.”
You could hear a pin drop.
There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers said, “Have you heard the latest dumb stunt (President George W.) Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?”
An American engineer with the Boeing Company quietly replied: “Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?”
You could hear a pin drop.
An American gentleman of 83 arrived in the Parish airport. At customs he took a few minutes to locate his passport.
“You have been in France before, monsieur?” the customs official asked sarcastically.
The old gentleman said, yes he had been in France before.
“Then you should know enough to have your passport ready.”
The Old man replied, “The last time I was here, I didn’t have to show it.”
“Impossible, Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France!”
The elderly American gave the Frenchman a long, hard look. The he quietly explained, “Well, when I came ashore on Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn’t find a single Frenchman to show a passport to.”
You could hear a pin drop.
Homosexual Rape in the Military — a Commentary
On Sept. 20, 2011, the U. S. Congress repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell” in all branches of the military and homosexuals, lesbians and bisexuals were allowed to join (or serve openly in) and welcomed into the military.
Years earlier, the powerful homosexual/lesbian leaders had put pressure on President Bill Clinton to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Clinton wanted to enact the repeal but then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell and other generals and admirals convinced him it was a bad idea that wouldn’t work in the military.
Fast-forward to 2011, the homosexuals/lesbians had an enthusiastic president and Congress and they easily passed the repeal.
Now, these three years later, it appears the Congress made a tragic mistake. Although throughout history there has been rape in the military — men assaulting women — now we learn that in 2012 there were 14,000 rapes by homosexuals in the various branches of the military.
Even in light of these alarming rape statistics, those who passed the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” work feverishly to bring more homosexuals into the military and take steps to insure all branches of the military are more homosexual-friendly. But military observers believe this will only lead to more homosexual rapes.
When the Congress opened up the military to homosexuals/lesbians and transgenders — over the protests of many top military admirals and generals — they apparently did not consider the consequences. They just wanted to promote the homosexual agenda throughout all of society and the military was the last bastion of defense against allowing homosexuals in their ranks.
Perhaps those in Congress who were obsessed with getting the homosexuals in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps never took into consideration that many of the recruits in all branches of military are young men right out of high school. Nor did they consider the fact that these young men and the homosexuals would be living in the same barracks, using the same showers, sleeping together on bivouacs, and living in close quarters on naval vessels.
All of the above-mentioned conditions exacerbate homosexual lust for the younger men.
Some believe that the 14,000 reported homosexual rapes are only a portion of the rapes committed for most go unreported.
“It appears that the DOD (Department of Defense) has serious problems with male-on-male sexual assaults… and the Pentagon doesn’t want to talk about,” said Elaine Donnelly, who heads the Center for Military Readiness.
Daniel Greenfield, writing for Frontpage magazine says, “The problem will now only get worse as the gay agenda dominates the military. There was a reason that gay men were kept out of the military.” He added that the homosexualization of the military will have “ugly results.”
“The Pentagon’s definition of unwanted sexual contact ranges from rape to ‘abusive sexual contact’ and ‘involves intentional sexual contact that was against a person’s will or occurred when the person did not or could not consent,” The Washington Times reported.
After the annual report revealed an increase in rape and other unwanted sexual contacts, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hegel and his senior officers at the Pentagon met with President Obama to discuss what he calls “this huge problem.”
“There wasn’t anybody in that room who wasn’t disappointed and embarrassed and didn’t recognize that we’ve in many ways failed,” Hegel said. “But we all have committed to turn this around, and we’re going to fix the problem.”
Comment: Really, Mr. Hegel, under the status quo there is no way to fix the problem. The homosexuals in the military feel they are untouchable since the Commander of Chief is their advocate and many homosexual and lesbian officers are being promoted to positions of leadership. In addition, the homosexual/lesbian lifestyle is being accepted by large numbers of the American people and continually promoted in Hollywood films and network television.
The only way ever to resolve this problem of 14,000 homosexual rapes in the military — and possibly thousands more that go unreported — is to change the leaders in Washington who repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell.” And that is a long shot for most of the people who believe in traditional marriage and romance between a man and a woman who probably will keep silent and won’t even vote to make the changes in Washington that would be necessary to solve the problem.
THE BILL KEITH REPORT – Friday, March 28, 2014