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Horrible shooting at that Christian school in Wisconsin. We must do more than just focus on that 15-year-old shooter and her family. We must also look at the unintended consequences of other things we are doing. The open borders and countless problems caused by illegal migrants. Allowing criminals to run free. Allowing drug addicts and the mentally ill to take over our streets and sidewalks. The massive waste and corruption at all levels of government. Our schools . law enforcement are overwhelmed. They can’t keep track of kids that are lost and turning violent. Both parents are often working more than one job to support a family. They are busy. They are overwhelmed. They are stressed. We shouldn’t be surprised that so many of our kids are often falling through the cracks. . .
The mainstream headline news just reported a tragic “car accident”. It said that in Germany, a car just happened to drive through a crowded Christmas festival in German and mowed down dozens of people trying to enjoy the holiday. Many are hurt. Some are crippled and maimed. Some are dead. The news did not report that was no accident. It was premeditated murder.
It was done by a Saudi Arabian doctor named Taleb Abdulmohsen who was living in Germany. He deliberately drove his car at full speed into a crowd of people trying to celebrate the Christmas holiday.
Why Saudi Arabia? Saudi Arabia is the center of this cult of Islam known as the Wahabi or Salafi cult. Most people in the West think that the Golden Age of Islam was wonderful when you had Jews, Christians, Persians, and Muslims all living peacefully in Baghdad with literature, and science, and algebra and astronomy. However, the Wahabis and Salafis claim that this age of Islam was horrible and corruption of Islam. It was an age of tolerance of non-believers. To them, that was awful.
The Salafis want to go back to the “pure” Islam of Mohammad and the first three generations of his followers in Arabia 1400 years ago, what we call the Dark Ages. They suppressed women, they did not allow music or entertainment, and they wanted constant war and killing of anyone who didn’t agree with them.
For years, this was a fringe cult. But after they found oil in Saudi Arabia, this fringe cult is now the mainstream of the Islamic World.
Under this doctrine, jihad is the “pinnacle” of Islam. If you get killed while doing jihad, that is killing non-believers, you are instantly forgiven for all sins, and you get to spend eternity in Paradise with your 72 virgins.
This is a very dangerous doctrine. Somebody could be perfectly normal and friendly. A family can be completely normal and just like any other Americans. However, if their kid gets into this cult, and has a problem in life, watch out. Maybe they fail in school, or sports. Or they fail in business or in their job. If they sin. If they get dumped by their girlfriend. If anything goes wrong in their life, or if they feel guilty.
If someone like this is Jewish, they would go to Chabad or the Lubavitchers and start doing Mitzvahs and study Torah. If they were Catholic, they would go into the Priesthood. If they were Protestant, they would become a born-again Christian. If they were Hindu or Buddhist they would chant or meditate. That is how anybody else would find redemption and turn his life around. But if you are a Wahabi or Salafi Muslim, you redeem your failed life by going out and murdering non-believers. These people are walking time bombs. They can explode at any moment.
We saw that in Atlantic City a few years ago with Zulfi Hoxha. He grew up in Margate. Graduated Atlantic City High School in 2011. His parents owned a well-known Pizza Restaurant on Washington Avenue in Margate. He had a tough situation in life. And then in 2015, four years after graduation from high school, he shows up in Syria with the Islamic State or ISIS. He makes these horrible videos of him cutting the heads off of helpless Kurdish prisoners.
Even worse, he made these other videos aimed at young Muslim men in America. He said “Avoid hellfire”. Get yourself eternal life like I did by killing non-believers. He said it’s easy to do. Just push one off a building. Just run one over with a car. Just stab someone. Those videos may still be on YouTube. I wonder with that Saudi doctor who killed those people in Germany saw that video.
Meanwhile, in other news, I think Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami did us all a big favor last week. He forced Trump to do more to fix the government in just one week, than Trump did during his whole first four years as President. He said you can’t fix the government unless you cut the spending, and you can’t trust Congress to cut government spending. It was messy for the past few days. However, Trump fired a much-needed warning shot across the bow of Republicans and Democrats in Congress. It’s going to be messy for a while. But we are going in the right direction.
This is just like what Javier Milei did in Argentina. Milei cut lots of spending there. He was viciously attacked. There were big protests against him. But he stuck with the program. Now the Argentine money is good again, and most of the inflation is gone. The country is getting back on its feet. The problem is that when government does the right thing, there is pain for at least a year before good things start to happen.
We went through this with Ronald Reagan. Reagan did the right thing in 1981 and 1982, and there was real hardship. But then Republicans came up with the slogan “Stay the course”, and we did. And things got better for everyone two years later.
By the way this reminds me of what happened at the City Council meeting in Atlantic City last night. I was there to talk about the ocean wind turbines. But first, City Council was talking about what was going in a public housing project in Atlantic City called Stanley Holmes Village.
And it’s a real disaster. For two years, you had problems with no heat, no hot water, bugs, rodents. It’s a horrible situation. One of the Council Members, Latoya Dunstan made a dramatic presentation. She said, “Can you imagine what it’s like to live with this”. But what surprised me was how three of the Black council members responded to this. They were Sporty Randall, Kaleem Shabazz and Stephanie Marshall. They were the adults in the room. They said we don’t have the money to fix every single problem. They also pointed out that this particular public housing project was built by the federal government to deal with an emergency during the Great Depression in the 1930s. It was never built to still be around 90 years later. When that housing crisis was over after World War 2, that public housing project should have been torn down. There was no need for it. And that’s the real problem. Every dollar making these temporary fixes is money down the drain. A 90-year-old pipe breaks and you fix it. And then another 90-year-old pipe breaks. Every time they crank up the steam to heat the buildings, another pipe breaks.
But something else is obvious. If you are living in a place that is so horrible, why don’t you move somewhere else? Of course the tenants say the rents are too high in other places. But why are rents so high in other places? Is it because taxes are too high? Or do the zoning and building codes make everything too expensive? Do the landlord tenant and rent control laws make it impossible to evict bad tenants who don’t pay their rent and trash the property? I know a lot of good landlords who were forced out of business and who shut down their properties.
And then we have another issue. Why can’t so many people earn enough to pay for better housing? Are open borders driving down wages? Are high taxes and too many regulations forcing good businesses to go out of business?
Whenever you have a problem, and you say too many people can’t afford to pay rent. You have to identify what is causing that problem and you have to fix it. If you say, “We’re going to raise taxes and debt so the government can be the landlord”, you are fixing the symptom, but not the cause of the disease. It’s like a doctor saying, the patient has a high fever. So let’s put him in a bathtub filled with ice cubes. That will bring down the fever, but it will also kill the patient. Because the high fever is a symptom of the disease. You need to get rid of the germs that are causing the disease. . .
Open borders depress wages.
We need mass deportations.
Unions were weak and in effective in the 1920’s. They didn’t make Americans the best paid and most productive workers in the world. We got that in the 1920’s because Republicans made new laws that limited immigration to 100,000 per year. Companies had to pay more to get good workers. And they invested in new machines to make those workers more productive.
Wind Companies are collapsing in Europe. Do a Google search on this German word “Dunkelflaute”
Dunkelflaute is a period of time in which little or no energy can be generated with wind and solar power.
We can’t be dependent on wind. Currently, NJ energy consists of 8% wind. So if the wind doesn’t blow enough for a few weeks, it’s not a big deal. But if you tear down your gas and oil and nuclear generators so that 30% or 40% of your electricity comes from wind, you have a big problem when there’s not enough wind. That’s what’s happening in Germany right now. President Biden and Governor Murphy want to put New Jersey in that same situation.
Christmas and Hannukah. Very closely related. The show had Judaism and Christianity are brother-sister religions, not parent-child.
Kwanzaa. Invented by Ron Karenga, a Black Power activist in Los Angeles in 1966, after the horrible race riots in Watts in 1965. He did not want whites and blacks to enjoy the same holiday of Christmas. Read the details. Use our search engine on home page to look up previous articles on Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
