Four of the seven Morton, Illinois District 709 School Board members voted to support transsexual sexual delusions. The “Four Pretenders” are:
Shaun Bill elected term ends in 2017
Clint Heinold elected term ends in 2017
Kelly Scarfe elected term ends in 2017
Michelle Bernier elected term ends in 2019
Note: [ ] = my additions
Petition: Pro-Life Petition
https://lifepetitions.com/petition/trump
“To: Donald J. Trump
Congratulations on winning the presidency! After eight years of the most pro-abortion [Murder] presidency in U.S. history, I am thrilled that the highest office of the land will now be used to defend the right to life of all U.S. citizens—including the innocent unborn. As such, I encourage you to follow through on the pro-life promises that you made during the campaign without delay. I also want you to know that you will have my support for any and all pro-life initiatives that you take as president, particularly when the going gets tough and you face opposition.
In particular, I encourage you to sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, to defund Planned Parenthood [Murderhood], and—if and when the opportunity arises—to nominate staunchly pro-life Supreme Court justices [All federal court appointments].
I would also strongly encourage you to follow through on your pro-life convictions by: re-enacting the Mexico City Policy, thereby banning U.S. funding from paying for or supporting abortions [Murders] overseas; repealing the oppressive HHS mandate; attending in person the annual March for Life in Washington D.C.; banning government funding of destructive research on human embryos; ensuring that judicial appointments at all levels of the court system are pro-life; and re-evaluating [Change] your personal support for abortion [Murder] in the cases of rape and incest [and when the “mother’s life is endangered” which is a false line of reasoning.].
In addition, I will stand with you as you to take steps to defend religious freedom, which has been under continuous assault these past 8 years, by repealing the Johnson Amendment, and protecting the conscience rights of civil servants, teachers, businesses, and all others.
Finally, I pledge to pray for you, that you may be given the strength, conviction, and courage to fight for the right to life of the unborn and for religious freedom despite the strenuous opposition that you are likely to face in the coming months and years.”
Call to action: Defund Planned Murderhood
https://www.sba-list.org/defund-planned-parenthood
“In 2016 the Pro-Life Movement took action, voting to keeping our pro-life majorities in the House and Senate and electing a pro-life president. We did our part. Now it’s their turn to take action and remove all tax dollars from America’s abortion giant, Planned Parenthood [Murderhood].
We, the undersigned, people of all backgrounds, creeds, and party affiliations, call on our elected officials to Defund Planned Parenthood [Murderhood]. Taxpayers should not be forced to fund America’s largest abortion [Murder] business with their tax dollars. Abortion [Murder] is not healthcare. We call for these funds to instead be directed to life-affirming community health centers.
President-Elect Trump and the Republican Party platform have called for taxpayer dollars to be stripped from the abortion [Murder] giant. We therefore call on The House and Senate to send legislation defunding Planned Parenthood [Murderhood] to the president’s desk at the earliest opportunity.”
Petition: No Physician assisted Suicide
http://www.citizengo.org/en/39184-tell-us-congress-no-physician-assisted-suicide?dr=4611658::7f7bb99f165b41387e6b94ba4e27cb2f&utm_source=email&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURVNU5tTTVabVk0T0dReSIsInQiOiIwcm9hckpuUHRRTWptdkgzOVgyR3lLSGZuSFJWNE5jSklDcFVGcUU0YldGbUZ2aE1GZDY0akx1RnprN0FHK1ZHRFdWdmFZV3d0MFpyVTlmU05RK01pemhyaWtvNlVuS0k1UGxib1JQRDJZTT0ifQ%3D%3D
“As you know, physician-assisted suicide is unnecessary, unethical, and unsafe. In short, allowing physicians to take part in killing their patients fundamentally changes the role of the doctor. A doctor must preserve life, not end it. [We already allow them to murder unborn babies! This is another extension of the immoral agenda of the Left! All one has to do is observe who is pushing this act of murder!]
Please join us in urging the U.S. Congress to wholeheartedly oppose physician-assisted suicide in our nation’s capital by voting against making the unnecessary ‘Death with Dignity Act’ law.”
I’m posting three articles on Fidel Castro and his control over Cuba. Because of the length, I’ve made few comments.
http://www.selfreliancecentral.com/2016/11/26/communist-murderer-dies-idiots-praise-mourn-miami-rejoices/?utm_source=161128SRCDBSTOPKNEEPAIN3&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=161128SRCDBSTOPKNEEPAIN3
“Communist murderer dies, idiots praise and mourn, Miami rejoices!
By Kelly | November 26, 2016
Praise for a Communist Murderer from a Rogue’s Gallery of Politicians
by Dan Mitchell
Do politicians celebrate the life of Osama bin Laden? Or fondly remember the supposed contributions of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Workers Party [I hate to remind the Left of this since they misuse the term, fascism/Nazism is Leftist in nature!]? Or wax poetic about the memory of Pol Pot?
Maybe in some backwater of the third world, but no politician from a civilized nation would be remotely tempted to say anything nice about these evil people.
Yet there are people with this perverse degree of moral blindness.
Including the head of the European Commission.
Jean-Claude Juncker ✔ @JunckerEU
With the death of #FidelCastro, the world has lost a man who was a hero for many [What? Why?]. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-16-4042_en.htm …
6:34 AM - 26 Nov 2016
And the Prime Minister of Canada, who actually referred to the former dictator as Cuba’s ‘longest serving President.’ I guess the boy wonder of Ottawa doesn’t understand that you can rule for a long time when you don’t allow free elections. Now you can understand why I am so quick to believe that he’ll say really stupid things.
CanadianPM ✔ @CanadianPM
Statement by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro: http://ow.ly/5oUS306xx4A
6:42 AM - 26 Nov 2016
Almost nobody in the world would recognize the President of Ireland. But since he didn’t like the fact that Ireland’s economy boomed, it’s understandable that he is despondent about the death of a man who did so much to keep Cuba mired in poverty.
Jeffrey Guterman ✔ @JeffreyGuterman
President of #Ireland Michael D. Higgins: ‘I have learned with great sadness of the death of Fidel Castro [He was 90 years old. At that age, it happens sometimes!].’ http://www.president.ie/en/media-library/news-releases/statement-by-president-michael-d.-higgins-on-the-death-of-fidel-castro …
7:56 AM - 26 Nov 2016
And, of course, Jimmy Carter couldn’t resist showing why he was a one-term blunder [1976-1980].
The nutjob leader of the British Labour Party predictably fawned over Castro with a series of laughably inaccurate assertions.
I’m relieved, by the way, that Barack Obama resisted the temptation to say anything overly vacuous about Castro (even if he did say something stupid about Cuba’s totalitarian regime earlier this year). His statement is mostly mush. And even though I have my doubts about Trump, his statement hit the nail on the head.
But let’s set aside Castro’s brutal treatment of dissidents and denial of basic human rights. Let’s ignore the fact that tens of thousands of people have risked their lives to escape his island prison. And let’s instead look at the economic misery of Cuban communism [Socialism only works for the elites in the society; not for anyone else!].
In a column back in 2014, I noted that living standards in Cuba and Hong Kong were identical in the 1950s.
But the two nations then conducted an experiment. Hong Kong chose laissez-faire capitalism while Cuba chose communism.
The result, as you can see in the graph, is that Hong Kong has enjoyed decades of strong growth while Cuba has stagnated.
I’m not alone in noticing the onerous economic cost of Cuban oppression.
This academic article has a devastating summary.
‘We examine Cuban GDP over time and across space. We find that Cuba was once a prosperous middle-income economy. On the eve of the revolution, incomes were 50 to 60 percent of European levels. They were among the highest in Latin America at about 30 percent of the United States. In relative terms, Cuba was richer earlier on. Income per capita during the 1920s was in striking distance of Western Europe and the Southern United States. After the revolution, Cuba slipped down the world income distribution. Current levels of income per capita appear below their pre-revolutionary peaks.’
Now let me make a new contribution to the discussion.
I went again to the Angus Maddison database and decided to compare historical numbers for per-capita GDP, looking at Cuba, Chile, and the world average.
As you can see, Cuba has been a disaster for ordinary people. Living standards used to be near the world average. Now the average Cuban is at half the world average.
Meanwhile, Chileans also had a period of stagnation during their era of statism. But once free-market reforms were adopted, the notion started a lengthy boom and per-capita GDP is now almost twice world average.
That’s the real-world consequence of statism. Deprivation and hardship.
To get an idea what it’s like in a communist prison nation, slaves in the 1800s actually got more food than what Castro allowed when the government took control of food production and distribution.
The good news, so to speak, is that the rationing has moved from starvation levels to hunger-and-misery levels.
The Guardian has a summary of the current system.
‘Every Cuban family registers with a local supply store, where they can use a libreta or ration book. This typically provides about 10kg (22lb) of rice, 6kg of white sugar, 2kg of brown sugar, 250 millilitres (1 cup) of cooking oil, five eggs and a packet of coffee per person per month, along with 2kg of meat (usually chicken) every 10 days, a bun every day and a bag of salt every three months. Milk is provided for pregnant women and children under seven years of age. The basic libreta products are guaranteed, but they are not enough—so people often have to travel to several places on several different days to make up the shortfall.’
Not as bad as 1962, but still a miserable life.
Here are portions of a very appropriate obituary in the Washington Post by a Yale professor.
‘One of the most brutal dictators in modern history has just died. Oddly enough, some will mourn his passing, and many an obituary will praise him. Millions of Cubans who have been waiting impatiently for this moment for more than half a century will simply ponder his crimes and recall the pain and suffering he caused. … deceit was one of Fidel Castro’s greatest talents, and gullibility is one of the world’s greatest frailties. … Many intellectuals, journalists and educated people in the First World fell for this myth, too—though they would have been among the first to be jailed or killed by Castro in his own realm—and their assumptions acquired an intensity similar to that of religious convictions. Pointing out to such believers that Castro imprisoned, tortured and murdered thousands more of his own people than any other Latin American dictator was usually futile. His well-documented cruelty made little difference.’
He highlights 13 reasons to despise Castro. Here are the one that stood out to me.
● He was responsible for so many thousands of executions and disappearances in Cuba that a precise number is hard to reckon.
● He brooked no dissent and built concentration camps and prisons at an unprecedented rate, filling them to capacity, incarcerating a higher percentage of his own people than most other modern dictators, including Stalin.
● He condoned and encouraged torture and extrajudicial killings.
● He forced nearly 20 percent of his people into exile, and prompted thousands to meet their deaths at sea, unseen and uncounted, while fleeing from him in crude vessels.
● He outlawed private enterprise and labor unions, wiped out Cuba’s large middle class and turned Cubans into slaves of the state.
● He persecuted gay [homosexual. It seems that “homophobia” is OK if practiced by the correct individual?] people and tried to eradicate religion.
● He censored all means of expression and communication.
And the Caracas Chronicles also summed it up nicely.
‘Has any other Latin American done as much damage in a single lifetime as Fidel Castro? It’s… not even close. From his roots as a student gangster and two-bit murderer in Havana in the 40s, through a succession of catastrophes on four continents, Fidel Castro punched far, far above his weight. The guy who pleaded with Khrushev to start a nuclear holocaust, who sent tens of thousands of Cuban farm kids to dole out lead in a crazy, murderous war in Angola, thousands to attack Israel in the Yom Kipur War, thousands more to stand with the genocidal communist Mengistu regime in Ethiopia, who tried and failed to destabilize Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela, el Salvador, Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, Guatemala, who tried and succeeded in destabilizing Nicaragua, Chile, Granada and—alas—Venezuela is finally, finally dead at 90.’
Keep all this in mind the next time you hear some leftist says something nice about Castro. Or the racist murderer Che Guevera.
P.S. For what it’s worth, Castro did have a late-in-life epiphany about the failure of communism.”
“Fidel Castro’s death sparks celebrations in Miami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SLgGxD-6Ak
Published on Nov 25, 2016
Celebrations erupted in Little Havana in Miami, Florida on early Saturday morning upon the news that former Cuban leader Fidel Castro had died at the age of 90.”
http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/26/the-lefts-appalling-whitewashing-of-castros-legacy/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURNM09XSXlZV1UyWkdFMyIsInQiOiJ4TUZhRjA5YlBFSDFvRnNwS05HcWI3SWRYVVl4WUloNWRLMFJCQWZ1cGJwbWQ4NGlNZmtSXC9scWRWa3B0elU2VTVcL0ZSN0JFS1d4Q1JqVk9BM1hnZ0NYZmNNdVhYVVROcm1VM1dmSGM2UktJPSJ9
“The Left’s Appalling Whitewashing of Castro’s Legacy
Mike Gonzalez / @Gundisalvus / November 26, 2016
You will hear some people today excuse Fidel Castro’s crimes by begging that he accomplished social goals. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have already beclowned themselves on that front. They were merely the first.
Our own President Barack Obama opted for washing his hands, choosing to neither praise Castro after his death Friday, nor to condemn the tragedy his communist dictatorship has inflicted on the Cuban people for 57 years.
‘History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him,’ said Obama, playing Pilate.
No social accomplishment, to be sure, could justify keeping an entire people hostage, denying them the right to elect their own leaders or exercise any human rights for half a century. But there weren’t any accomplishments.
On the contrary, Castro destroyed a thriving society and imposed penury, either out of Marxist dogma or out of resentment that his out-of-wedlock birth had left him with a stigma among Cuba’s middle classes.
Cuba had problems in 1958, as many societies do. But on a number of fronts, it was the lead country in Latin America, or among the very top. Its social indicators were not just ahead of Asia and Africa, but also ahead of many European countries.
Many Europeans, including half of all my great-grandparents, immigrated to Cuba in the 20th century—barely a century ago—seeking to improve their lives economically. They did, and their granddaughter, my mother, went to law school.
After 57 years of communism it is risible to think of a single European immigrating to Cuba to improve his fortunes. Risible in a dark, macabre way.
That’s anecdotal, but the numbers back up what 2 million Cuban-Americans today (i.e., Cuban-born people who can speak freely) know to be true.
A study by the State Department’s Hugo Llorens and Kirby Smith shows, for example, that in infant mortality, literacy rates, per capita food consumption, passenger cars per capita, number of telephones, radios, televisions, and many other indicators, Cuba led when Castro took over on New Year’s Eve 1958.
The United Nations statistics leave no doubt. In infant mortality, Cuba’s 32 deaths per 1,000 live births was well ahead of Japan, West Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain (40, 36, 39, 33, 34, 50, and 53 respectively), and many others.
In food consumption, in terms of calories per day, Cuba was ahead of all of Latin America except cattle-rich Argentina and Uruguay. In automobiles per 1,000 inhabitants, Cuba’s 24 was ahead over everyone in Latin America expect oil-producing Venezuela (27).
As for literacy rates, Cuba’s 76 percent in the late 1950s put it closely behind only Argentina, Chile, and Costa Rica. Giant Brazil’s percentage, by comparison, was 49 percent.
And Cuba’s gross domestic product per capita in 1959 was higher than those of Ireland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, most of Latin America, Asia, and Africa, again according to U.N. statistics.
In most vital statistics, therefore, Cuba was on a par with Mediterranean countries and southern U.S. states.
And today? Castro’s communism has not just left Cubans economically pauperized, but politically bereft, a situation that Obama’s unilateral concessions to Castro’s little brother, the 85-year-old Raul, Cuba’s present leader, has only made worse.
According to the Cuban Committee for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, which is recognized by Amnesty International and Freedom House, so far this year there have already been over 8,505 political arrests during the first eight months. This represents the highest rate of political arrests in decades.
Meanwhile, we are in the midst of a new Cuban migration crisis. The United States is faced with the largest migration of Cuban nationals since the rafters of 1994. The number of Cubans fleeing to the United States in 2015 was nearly twice that of 2014.
Some 51,000 Cubans last year entered the United States, and this year’s figures will easily surpass that. The numbers of Cuban nationals fleeing Cuba have now quintupled since Obama took office, when it was less than 7,000 annually.
President-elect Donald Trump has promised he will reverse Obama’s opening unless Raul Castro opens up Cuba politically. This Castro won’t do and there were reports today that dissidents are being rounded up and carted off.
And so far, Trump’s statement on the ‘brutal dictator’ Castro has been the moral one and the one closest to the mark: ‘Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.’
Today, therefore, will be a day for clarity. What world leaders say about the departed tyrant will reveal whether they have an inner moral compass or not.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/un-may-hold-special-general-assembly-session-honor-fidel-castro?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRnMllUUXpPR1EyTURCbCIsInQiOiJBOUxVZDVZWWMrSVkxcE1BVEJDYmd0Wm1KeFZWanMxcU1cL3dlTk1vY0NVYXYwcUxWV3BZQllOYW9QMUNoajVSbGQzaVFZUkxaRmtZOUVmOXBnUGRMYWZTWVArZnJUUUhrOWxwYXdHXC9YWkdjPSJ9
“U.N. May Hold Special General Assembly Session to Honor Fidel Castro
By Patrick Goodenough | November 29, 2016
(CNSNews.com) – As the United Nations continues to eulogize Fidel Castro, some of Cuba’s closest allies are pressing for a special U.N. General Assembly session to honor [What honor?] the communist dictator.
Representatives of more than 60 nations have visited Cuba’s mission to the U.N. in New York City to express ‘condolences and solidarity,’ the state news agency Prensa Latina reported.
‘Several governments have supported Bolivia’s initiative to hold a special session of the General Assembly in tribute to the leader, who defended social justice, peace, anti-imperialism and human progress in harmony with the environment at the United Nations [What? A murderous dictator is in harmony with the environment at the UN? Time for the US to get out of the UN and to get the UN out of the US!],’ it said.
The Bolivian mission to the U.N. did not respond to queries about its proposal by press time.
Bolivia and Cuba are allies in the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), a leftist bloc set up by the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2004.
Bolivian President Evo Morales earlier responded angrily to President-elect Donald Trump’s criticism of Castro, who died on Friday aged 90.
Trump had described him as ‘a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades.’
‘Nearly the whole world is mourning and posthumously paying a tribute of respect to Fidel, but the U.S. president-elect and a group of people are celebrating,’ Morales said Sunday in a comment aired by Hispan TV, a Spanish-language broadcaster operated by the Iranian government. Morales added that only ‘fascism [Fascism is Leftist! National Socialist Workers Party]’ and ‘cynicism’ celebrate Castro’s death.
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, another ALBA member, called Trump ‘ignorant,’ saying in a tweet that his comments about Castro were ‘an example of what Latin America can expect’ under the next U.S. president.
Meanwhile the head of the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has joined other U.N. figures in paying tribute to Castro.
Writing in a book of condolences at the Cuban Embassy in Paris, Bokova expressed her ‘deepest condolences for the passing of Commander Fidel Castro Ruz, who for more than half a century was a tireless advocate of the disinherited and a promoter of education as a key factor in the cultural, social and human growth of peoples [What?].’
Separately, in a letter to President Raul Castro, Bokova recalled his brother’s ‘leadership in steering his country through difficult times, fighting for the right to education, harnessing the power of achieving free and inclusive education for all through his initiative ‘Yo si puedo’ [‘Yes I can’].’
UNESCO’s [UNESCO is a propaganda machine!] declared mission is ‘building peace in the minds of men and women’ through culture, education and science.
In 2013, the agency decided to include the writings of Castro’s fellow Marxist revolutionary “Che” Guevara in its ‘Memory of the World Register,’ which honors some of mankind’s most significant heritage. The then-U.S. ambassador to UNESCO, David Killion, criticized the decision to honor someone who ‘tortured and killed countless innocent people [Time to get out of the UN! Get the UN out of the US!].’
U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon at the weekend expressed his condolences, describing Castro as ‘a strong voice for social justice in global discussions at the U.N. General Assembly and international and regional forums.’
But Ban—unlike President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, Canada’s prime minister and others—also included in his statement a reference to human rights, expressing the hope that ‘Cuba will continue [continue?] to advance on a path of reform, greater prosperity and human rights.’
During a press briefing at the U.N. in New York Monday, Ban’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric pointed to the references to reform and human rights.
‘I think no-one is turning a blind eye to the issues of human rights that have been faced in Cuba,’ he said. ‘The U.N.’s human rights mechanisms over the years have made their position clear, and I think the secretary general very much hopes that the current leadership in Cuba will continue on this path of reform, which includes human rights.’
In fact, Cuba has held a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council for the almost the full decade of the council’s existence, with terms in 2006-2009, 2010-2012 and 2014-2016. It was re-elected last month to a new three-year term.
In all that time, the Geneva-based HRC has not passed a single resolution critical of Cuba’s human rights record [Of course not!]. (Israel has been targeted in 67 resolutions over that period.)
Asked Monday whether Ban had been in touch with Raul Castro regarding ‘rights abuses and violations in Cuba,’ Dujarric told the briefing, ‘If there is a contact, I will share that with you [In other words, NO!].’”
Socialism is wishful dreaming on steroids! It is only successful for the elite of the society, if then. From Animal Farm: “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” No better description of socialism in practice!
That’s “peacefully” imposed socialism. When imposed quickly, it takes a reign of terror to impose it and keep it as in Nazi/fascist Germany, the Soviet Union, Communist China, and Cuba. Praise Fidel Castro and you are praising totalitarian dictatorship established and maintained by force of arms AFTER DISARMING the people of the country. Which is why we will NOT allow the Left to disarm us!!!
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Don L. Vance
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